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Saturday, June 5, 2021

As Nigerian ISPs comply with government's Twitter ban blocking the service, the country's AG threatens prosecution of those trying to circumvent the ban (Dennis Erezi/The Guardian Nigeria News)

Dennis Erezi / The Guardian Nigeria News:
As Nigerian ISPs comply with government's Twitter ban blocking the service, the country's AG threatens prosecution of those trying to circumvent the ban — Nigeria's attorney general Abubakar Malami Saturday said the country will prosecute those who flout the government order to deactivate operations …

Facebook says it could pay more tax after G7 deal

UK-G7-FINANCE-Facebook says it could pay more tax after G7 deal https://ift.tt/3yXVYxM

Google says supports work to update international tax rules

Google said on Saturday that it supports the work being done to update international tax rules after G7 finance ministers agreed to pursue a global minimum corporate tax of at least 15% and to reallocate taxing rights for large, profitable multinational companies. https://ift.tt/34TX2Ff

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey now plans a Bitcoin wallet

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has announced to consider making a hardware wallet for Bitcoin for the customers of its digital payments services company Square. https://ift.tt/3wWKxog

Sources: Apple to announce better multitasking and widget placement for iPadOS, status-based notification alerts, an improved Messages app, and more at WWDC (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple to announce better multitasking and widget placement for iPadOS, status-based notification alerts, an improved Messages app, and more at WWDC — - Company pitching to developers amid uproar over App Store — Messages, Health apps among those gaining new capabilities

Finance ministers of G7 countries, the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan, agree to back a new global minimum corporate tax rate of at least 15% (Matthew Karnitschnig/Politico)

Matthew Karnitschnig / Politico:
Finance ministers of G7 countries, the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan, agree to back a new global minimum corporate tax rate of at least 15% — The agreement by seven of the world's largest industrial nations is seen as an important step toward changing the global tax structure.

Apple, Google, Amazon Likely to Pay Higher Taxes After G7 Nations Pact

Apple, Google, Amazon among other multinational businesses could be subjected to more taxes as G7 nations reach a deal to pursue higher global taxation. https://ift.tt/3x0lVeg

You Can Now Block Your Exes or Anyone Else Before They See You on Tinder

Tinder users can now block people using their phone numbers to avoid seeing exes, friends, colleagues, relatives, or anyone else they might not want to on a dating app. https://ift.tt/3yYz8WZ

US-Based Artist Resurrects Universal Monsters With Life-Like Paintings

Ashton Gallagher, an Illinois-based artist, has created life-like paintings of Universal Monsters and other iconic pop-culture characters. His third mini-portraits show at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles... https://ift.tt/34PmwU3

Samsung Galaxy M21 Prime Edition India Launch May Be Forthcoming

Samsung Galaxy M21 Prime Edition India launch may take place soon as the phone has appeared on the company's India site and also received Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) certification. https://ift.tt/3pmIs2t

Survey of ~400 open-source code maintainers reveals poor pay, with 46% saying they go unpaid and, of those who were paid, only 26% say they earn $1K+ annually (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNet)

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet:
Survey of ~400 open-source code maintainers reveals poor pay, with 46% saying they go unpaid and, of those who were paid, only 26% say they earn $1K+ annually — Maintaining open-source code is a vital but stressful job. Despite that, a recent Tidelift survey found that almost half of code maintainers aren't paid at all.