Monday, January 18, 2021

News Roundup: Twitter ditches Trump, Intel gets a new CEO, and Parler gets binned

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	• We look at the Australian government’s efforts to end-to-end encryption and Facebook’s resistance to it

	• How can businesses measure and reduce their carbon footprint?

	• A roundup of this week’s technology news focusing on President Trump’s permanent Twitter ban and a new line-up of Samsung phones

Following on from last week’s social media bans on US president Donald Trump as a result of the riots in Washington D.C. , one of the biggest stories this week has been Twitter’s decision to permanently ban the outgoing commander in-chief. The social media company had previously suspended the president for 12 hours before allowing him back, but then decided to drag him off again in a more permanent fashion.

Read the rest of this week’s tech news roundup here.

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Laying a foundation for dynamic software architectures

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Reducing energy use in neural networks

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Facebook, Google, and the Seven Eyes: implications for privacy

A look at the Australian government's efforts against end-to-end encryption: Facebook is oddly found among the good guys.

Putting the digital economy’s emissions house in order

In a world plagued by climate change, it's vital that the digital industry's carbon footprint is reduced. So how can businesses measure and reduce their carbon footprint?