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- One Million Concurrent TCP connections http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2011/09/one-million/ 65 comments
- One Million Database Connections https://planetscale.com/blog/one-million-connections 50 comments
- [Fowler] Ted Karras to Miami on a one-year, $4-million deal, per source. Another Patriots connection. https://twitter.com/jfowlerespn/status/1240310744639574018?s=21 122 comments nfl
- Muslim prayer app called "Muslim Pro" with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people's personal data to US military and intelligence https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqm5x/us-military-location-data-xmode-locate-x 92 comments pakistan
- How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps - A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people's personal data to brokers, contractors, and the military. https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/jgqm5x/us-military-location-data-xmode-locate-x 16 comments technology
- How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps: "A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people's personal data to brokers, contractors, and the military." [United States of America] https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqm5x/us-military-location-data-xmode-locate-x 5 comments economy
- The daughter of former Uzbekistan president Islam Karimov was charged Thursday in New York in connection with a decade-long scheme to pay her more than $865 million in bribes. It is one of the largest schemes ever charged under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act https://www.france24.com/en/20190308-us-charges-daughter-ex-uzbek-leader-near-1-bn-scheme 66 comments worldnews
- "The Clinton Foundation is under IRS investigation in connection with two companies, Uranium One and Laureate Education. Both companies have paid tens of millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation and have greatly benefited from the government as a result." http://endingthefed.com/irs-now-investigating-clinton-foundation.html 37 comments politics
- Governor Deval Patrick announced on Wednesday a $10 million pledge towards a swifter solution to one of its major hurdles: delivering high-speed broadband connections to the homes of people in the state's 45 most unserved and underserved communities. http://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/ci_24658320/patrick-pledges-10m-speed-up-pace-getting-broadband 4 comments politics
- Indigenous leaders and specialists working with Brazil’s nearly one million tribal people have been stunned and disconcerted by the appointment of a federal police officer with strong connections to agribusiness as the new head of the country’s indigenous agency. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/21/bolsonaro-funai-indigenous-agency-xavier-da-silva 25 comments worldnews
- NJ newspaper has obtained documents that meticulously outline how one politically connected firm parlayed campaign donations into millions of dollars in government contracts. It's the ultimate pay-to-play handbook http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/06/secret_files_reveal_how_pay-to-play_works_in_nj.html#/0 3 comments politics