Europe’s big new regulatory regime for big tech. More fallout from what looks like the biggest hack our government has ever seen. The FTC asks basically everyone in tech how they get their data. A ‘faraday fabric’ that can serve as an invisibility cloak for radio waves. An interesting raise to make exoskeletons. And a review of the new all electric Ford Mustang.

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Links:

• Tech Giants Face New Rules in Europe, Backed by Huge Fines (WSJ)
• FTC orders Amazon, Facebook and others to explain how they collect and use personal data (CNBC)
• U.S. Homeland Security, thousands of businesses scramble after suspected Russian hack (Reuters)
• Experimental "Faraday fabric" blocks almost all electromagnetic waves (New Atlas)
• German Bionic raises $20M led by Samsung for exoskeleton tech to supercharge human labor (TechCrunch)
• Ford’s New Mustang Mach-E Owes a Lot to Tesla (Debugger)

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