Are UN Security Council sanctions enough to end North Korea's nuclear ambitions?

Are UN Security Council sanctions enough to end North Korea's nuclear ambitions?

An anonymous reader quotes Reuters: Bitcoin exchange Coinbase Inc. is in talks with potential investors on a new round of funding at a valuation of more than $1 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. It is not clear which investors are committing to the round, which was described as targeting around $100 million or more, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter... Demand for crypto-assets has soared with the creation of new tokens to raise funding for start-ups using blockchain technology. Coinbase said in January it raised $75 million from several major financial institutions including the New York Stock Exchange, USAA Bank and Spanish banking group BBVA. Though Bitcoins were selling for $892 in January, they've nearly tripled in value over the last five months. Despite the fact that Coinbase "suffered outages" last week, the price of Bitcoin still rose 13.6% over the next nine days to $2561.

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An anonymous reader quotes CNN: Twitter is not good enough at removing hate speech from its platform. That's the judgment of Europe's top regulator, which released data on Thursday showing that Twitter has failed to meet its standard of taking down 50% of hate speech posts after being warned that they include objectionable content. Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and Google have all agreed to do more, promising last May to review a majority of hate speech flagged by users within 24 hours and to remove any illegal content. A year into the agreement, the European Commission said that Facebook and YouTube, which is owned by Google, have both managed to remove 66% of reported hate speech. Twitter's rate, meanwhile, was 38%. That's below the commission's standard but a major improvement from December, when the service was removing only 19% of hate speech... Twitter was also slightly slower than rivals Facebook and YouTube when it came to reviewing content. The regulator said that Facebook reviewed flagged content within 24 hours in 58% of cases. YouTube did the same 43% of the time, while Twitter met the 24-hour benchmark in 39% of cases. European lawmakers are considering laws mandating the blocking of online hate speech, so they're carefully watching what happens when social media companies self-regulate. "Tackling illegal hate speech online is a contribution to the fight against terrorism," argued the EU Commission's top justice official.

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Protocol abstraction for App::EvalServerAdvanced

Protocol abstraction for App::EvalServerAdvanced

Neighbours to meet on cricket field for the first time since March 2016 as relations remain frozen on government level.

Neighbours to meet on cricket field for the first time since March 2016 as relations remain frozen on government level.

An anonymous reader quotes InfoWorld: Java 9 won't be released on July 27 after all. Oracle has proposed that Java 9 Standard Edition be delayed until September 21 so the open source community that is finalizing Java 9 can address the ongoing controversy over a planned but later rejected approach to modularity, said Georges Saab, vice president of software development in the Java platform group at Oracle and chairman of the OpenJDK governing board... The [Java Platform Module System] measure was sent back to the proposal's expert group for further discussion. Since then, the group has reached consensus on addressing the modularity concerns, Saab said. But they cannot rework Java 9 in time for the original July 27 release date... If the revised JSR 376 approved, as expected, work can proceed on implementing it in the official version of Java 9 SE. This setback for Java 9s upcoming upgrade, however, should just be temporary, with Oracle expecting a more rapid cadence of Java SE releases going forward, Saab said.

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An anonymous reader quotes InfoWorld: Java 9 won't be released on July 27 after all. Oracle has proposed that Java 9 Standard Edition be delayed until September 21 so the open source community that is finalizing Java 9 can address the ongoing controversy over a planned but later rejected approach to modularity, said Georges Saab, vice president of software development in the Java platform group at Oracle and chairman of the OpenJDK governing board... The [Java Platform Module System] measure was sent back to the proposal's expert group for further discussion. Since then, the group has reached consensus on addressing the modularity concerns, Saab said. But they cannot rework Java 9 in time for the original July 27 release date... If the revised JSR 376 approved, as expected, work can proceed on implementing it in the official version of Java 9 SE. This setback for Java 9s upcoming upgrade, however, should just be temporary, with Oracle expecting a more rapid cadence of Java SE releases going forward, Saab said.

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I don't use the N-word. Never. And I wouldn't have made the joke Maher made. And I totally don't like the guy.

But this gives me a chance to say something I've wanted to say. The way he used the N-word is the same way it's used in pop culture. It's on TV, in some of the best shows. The N-word is a regular on The Wire, imho the best series ever. So the word gets into our minds. Our white minds. In the way blacks use it. Not in a negative way. In the voice of characters of all kinds, some of whom we love and admire, like Omar for example.

I'm not saying what the answer is and I don't like Maher, but I think it was inevitable this was going to happen, and I'm pretty sure it's not fair to blame him.

Thanks for listening.

Following Brexit and now growing calls for a second independence referendum, how will the Scots vote in next weeks's election?

Following Brexit and now growing calls for a second independence referendum, how will the Scots vote in next weeks's election?

Cairo meeting of foreign ministers from the two countries fails to achieve tangible progress to patch up differences.

Cairo meeting of foreign ministers from the two countries fails to achieve tangible progress to patch up differences.