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The European Union is once again at the center of a privacy fight. Lawmakers are reportedly pushing forward with Chat Control legislation in closed-door sessions, a proposal that would require scanning private messages for illegal content. Critics argue that negotiating surveillance policy away from public scrutiny sets a dangerous precedent for encrypted communication across the continent.
Closer to home, Michigan may be on the verge of giving workers a meaningful boundary. A proposed bill called the Workplace Boundaries Act would prohibit employers from requiring employees to respond to communications after their scheduled hours. With over a hundred comments already circulating on Hacker News, it's clearly striking a nerve among workers who feel the workday never really ends.
And in a story that sits right at the intersection of finance and the AI boom, Wall Street investors are increasingly betting that memory chip maker Micron could be the next Nvidia. The logic is straightforward: as artificial intelligence workloads explode, demand for high-bandwidth memory follows. Whether Micron can actually deliver on that scale remains the open question.
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