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Lawsuit: Facebook recommendations helped extremists meet and plan murder

Enlarge / Members of the Boogaloo Bois gather for the 12th annual Second Amendment March sponsored by Michigan Open Carry Inc. and Second Amendment March outside of the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, on September 23, 2021. (credit: Getty Images | Jeff Kowalsky) The sister of a slain federal security officer has filed a […]

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France fines Google and Facebook €210M for making cookies hard to reject

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Sean Gladwell) French regulators today ordered Google and Facebook in order to make rejecting cookies as simple as accepting them and fined the companies a total of €210 million for failing to be able to comply with France’s Data Protection Act. The CNIL (Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés) […]

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FAA agrees not to seek any more 5G delays from AT&T and Verizon

Enlarge / Verizon store front near Grand Central Terminal in New York City. (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images /) The Federal Aviation Administration tentatively agreed not to seek any more 5G delays from AT& T and Verizon, potentially ending a battle over the aviation industry’s unproven claim that 5G transmissions on C-Band frequencies will […]

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Nevermind baby’s child-porn lawsuit against Nirvana dismissed by judge

Enlarge / Nirvana’s Nevermind album cover. (credit: DGC Records) A federal judge yesterday dismissed the complaint filed against Nirvana by the man who appeared on the band’s Nevermind album cover when he was a baby. The plaintiff, Spencer Elden, will have one more chance to file an amended complaint. Elden’s August 2021 lawsuit alleged that […]

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Judge blocks Navy vaccine rule: “No COVID-19 exception to the First Amendment”

Enlarge / A Navy nurse prepares a syringe. (credit: Getty Images | petesphotography) US Navy Seals who objected to COVID vaccination on religious grounds yesterday won a preliminary injunction that prohibits the Navy from enforcing its vaccine mandate. “Thirty-five Navy Special Warfare service members allege that the military’s mandatory vaccination policy violates their religious freedoms […]

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Elizabeth Holmes found guilty on 4 of 11 charges

Enlarge / Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans, right, leave the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building on November 23, 2021, in San Jose, Calif. (credit: Ethan Swope/Getty Images) Elizabeth Holmes was convicted today of two counts of criminal wire fraud and one count of criminal conspiracy to commit wire […]

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AT&T/Verizon reject plea for 5G delay; airlines threaten mass flight cancelations

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Marco Bottigelli) AT& T and Verizon yesterday rejected a Federal Aviation Administration request to further hold off a 5G rollout on C-Band frequencies but said they will adopt one of the world’s “most conservative” power limits near airports for six months after the planned January 5 deployment. This is in […]

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Jury in Elizabeth Holmes trial deadlocked on 3 of 11 counts

Enlarge / Former Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes goes through security after arriving for court at the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building on September 17, 2021, in San Jose, California. (credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images ) Jurors in the Elizabeth Holmes criminal trial have been unable to reach a verdict in three of the 11 […]

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Twitter permanently suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s account over COVID disinfo

Enlarge / Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga. ) answers questions in front of the House steps on November 17, 2021 in Washington, DC. (credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images) Tweets permanently suspended the personal account of Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga. ) yesterday, though her professional account remains active. Greene has been an outspoken opponent of COVID-19 […]

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China upset about needing to dodge SpaceX Starlink satellites

Enlarge / A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in May 2021 carrying the 29th batch of approximately 60 satellites as part of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband Internet network. (credit: SOPA Images / Getty Images ) Earlier within December, the Chinese government filed a document with […]