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Fubo pays $3.4M to settle claims it illegally shared user data with advertisers

July 7, 2025 Blogmaster

Fubo has agreed to pay $3.4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the sports-streaming service provider of unlawfully distributing customers’ personally identifiable information (PII) without their consent. In…

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Trump and Congress finalize law that could hurt your Wi-Fi

July 7, 2025 Blogmaster

The Federal Communications Commission has regained its authority to hold spectrum auctions and could use that power to take spectrum away from Wi-Fi networks and license it to mobile carriers…

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Measles cases reach 33-year high as RFK Jr. pursues anti-vaccine agenda

July 7, 2025 Blogmaster

Over the weekend, the tally of measles cases reached 1,281, setting a new case record since the highly contagious viral disease was declared eliminated from the country in 2000. The…

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Warning: NY & Minnesota’s Social Media Warning Label Laws Are Unconstitutional

July 7, 2025 Blogmaster

Both New York and Minnesota just passed laws requiring social media platforms to slap warning labels on their sites—warning labels based on zero scientific evidence, likely to be struck down…

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Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse”

July 7, 2025

In a memo to employees earlier this week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a vision for a near-future in which “personal superintelligence for everyone” forms “the beginning of a new…

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Judge: You can’t ban DEI grants without bothering to define DEI

July 7, 2025

In mid-June, a federal judge issued a stinging rebuke to the Trump administration, declaring that its decision to cancel the funding for many grants issued by the National Institutes of…

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Provider of covert surveillance app spills passwords for 62,000 users

July 7, 2025

The maker of a phone app that is advertised as providing a stealthy means for monitoring all activities on an Android device spilled email addresses, plain-text passwords, and other sensitive…

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Rocket Report: Japan’s workhorse booster takes a bow; you can invest in SpaceX now

July 7, 2025

Welcome to Edition 8.01 of the Rocket Report! Today’s edition will be a little shorter than normal because, for one day only, we celebrate fake rockets—fireworks—rather than the real thing.…

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The curious rise of giant tablets on wheels

July 7, 2025

Over the past few years, LG has set off a strange tech trend that’s been rolling onto devices sold across Amazon and other online electronics retailers. In 2022, the company…

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Figuring out why a nap might help people see things in new ways

July 7, 2025

Dmitri Mendeleev famously saw the complete arrangement of the periodic table after falling asleep on his desk. He claimed in his dream he saw a table where all the elements…

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