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Pat Toomey (R-PA) speaks during a news conference to introduce the Republican infrastructure plan, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., April 22, 2021. REUTERS/Erin Scott A leading GOP senator is threatening to draft “transparency and accountability” laws directed at the nation’s independent central bank after accusing four of the Federal Reserve’s regional banks of dodging Congressional requests for documents. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, the top ranking Republican of the Senate… Source link

NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Jigsaw, a unit within Google that forecasts and confronts emerging digital threats, announced that Perspective, a free, open source API that uses machine learning to spot toxic comments, is now processing 500 million requests daily and is measurably reducing toxicity to make conversations online better at scale. The third issue of the company’s online research magazine, The Current, which was published today, details the persistent and damaging… Source link

If you ask Chrome to delete all cookies and site data whenever you quit the browser, it’s reasonable to expect that this policy applies to all websites. Recently, though, a bug in the browser meant data wasn’t being removed for two sites in particular: Google and YouTube. This problem was first documented by iOS developer Jeff Johnson on his blog. Johnson found that in Chrome version 86.0.4240.75, “local storage” data for Google.com and YouTube.com stuck around even after… Source link