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Biden admin wants Europe to reject forced payments from Big Tech to ISPsvar abtest_1942584 = new ABTest(1942584, 'click');

The Biden administration urged Europe to reject the telecom industry plan to make Big Tech companies pay for Internet service providers' network expansions and upgrades. In comments submitted to the E...

May 2023

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Minn. Gov. vetoes pay raise for drivers after Uber, Lyft threaten price hikes

Days after Minnesota Uber and Lyft drivers celebrated the passing of ridesharing legislation that would have increased their pay and protections, the state's governor, Tim Walz, vetoed the bill. Now M...

May 2023

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DeSantis/Musk event didn't break the Internet, but it did break Twitter

Yesterday, Florida's Republican governor Ron DeSantis became the first presidential hopeful to announce his campaign on Twitter Spaces, which Elon Musk had touted as a "smart move" for "any candidate"...

May 2023

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OpenAI CEO raises $115M for crypto company that scans people's eyeballs

A company co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has raised $115 million for Worldcoin, a crypto coin project that scans users' eyeballs in order "to establish an individual's unique personhood." In addi...

May 2023

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The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season forecast is 'near-normal' -- but there's a wild card

After a few years of heightened risk, the Atlantic hurricane season is shaping up to look pretty average for 2023. That's thanks to an unusually long-lasting weather pattern called La Nina finally end...

May 2023

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More and more Americans are skipping medical care due to money woes

The percentage of American adults who say they skipped medical care due to costs rose significantly last year, hitting 28 percent. That's up from 24 percent in 2021 and 23 percent in 2020, according t...

May 2023

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Google announces new topic authority system to better surface news content

Google has announced a search system named "topic authority" to help surface relevant, expert, and knowledgeable content in Google Search and Google News. Google said this "helps determine which exper...

May 2023

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Montana is first state to ban TikTok over national security concerns

Montana became the first state to ban TikTok yesterday. In a press release, the state's Republican governor, Greg Gianforte, said the move was a necessary step to keep Montanans safe from Chinese Comm...

May 2023

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Meta starts refunding advertisers for overspending glitch

Meta is starting to issue refunds to advertisers impacted by a glitch last month that resulted in overspending and higher than usual CPAs.Why we care. Meta needs to make this right fo...

May 2023

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Logitech taps iFixit to sell mouse parts for DIY repairs

Logitech has joined the likes of Google and Samsung in tagging iFixit to help build a self-repair program. iFixit will sell spare parts for Logitech's MX Master and MX Anywhere series of mice and prov...

May 2023

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Samsung and LG have finally settled on an OLED TV deal, report says

After years of resisting the move from LCD to OLED and reportedly going back and forth with LG Display about a potential OLED panel deal, Samsung Electronics has finally decided to buy OLED TV panels ...

May 2023

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Twitter sued over Saudi spying that allegedly landed popular user in prison

While based in the United States from 2008 to 2014, human rights activist Abdulrahman Al-Sadhan tweeted critically about the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to more than 160,000 followers. After he retu...

May 2023

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Microsoft is scanning the inside of password-protected zip files for malware

Microsoft cloud services are scanning for malware by peeking inside users' zip files, even when they're protected by a password, several users reported on Mastodon on Monday.Compressing file contents ...

May 2023

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Cargo, passengers, even campers--Mercedes-Benz has a new EV van platform

Mercedes-Benz Vans is on the verge of launching its next big thing. On Tuesday, the luxury carmaker's Vans division detailed a new fully scalable electric vehicle architecture, called Van.EA, which is...

May 2023

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Meta advertisers will soon get access to generative AI tools

Meta has introduced the AI Sandbox, which will bring generative AI to its advertisers.Meta's three new generative AI features. Select Meta advertisers can now create text variations, ...

May 2023

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Northvolt to build gigafactory in Germany after state aid pledge

Northvolt, Europe's biggest battery maker, has confirmed that it will build its next gigafactory in Heide, Germany, following the federal government's pledge to provide state aid.The announcement come...

May 2023

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Right-wing Twitter worried Musk's CEO pick could return Twitter to its roots

After a cryptic tweet from Elon Musk indicating that he'd chosen his successor at Twitter, The Washington Post revealed that sources had confirmed that Twitter's next CEO will be Linda Yaccarino.Yacca...

May 2023

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More evidence emerges that Saturn's rings are much younger than the planet

Astronomers had long assumed that Saturn's distinctive rings formed around the same time as the planet some 4.5 billion years ago in the earliest days of our Solar System. That assumption received a s...

May 2023

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What two-thirds of car dealerships are missing in the US

Electric vehicles just aren't easy to find in American car dealerships, a survey by the environmental group Sierra Club confirms. Two-thirds of car dealerships surveyed across the US didn't have a sin...

May 2023

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Ex-Ubiquiti engineer behind "breathtaking" data theft gets 6-year prison term

An ex-Ubiquiti engineer, Nickolas Sharp, was sentenced to six years in prison yesterday after pleading guilty in a New York court to stealing tens of gigabytes of confidential data, demanding a $1.9 m...

May 2023