Enlarge / Discarded plastic bottles made of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) are bundled at a recycling center. (credit: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg ) The recycling symbol—those three arrows stamped on myriad plastic items—doesn’t mean what most people think it does, and a California bill wants to change that. The California Legislature passed a bill yesterday that would ban […]
Enlarge / Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes collects her belongings after going through security at the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building with her defense team on August 31, 2021 in San Jose, California. (credit: Ethan Swope | Getty Images) Elizabeth Holmes’ failure to make her blood-testing technology startup Theranos a viable business was not a crime, […]
Enlarge / Artist’s impression of low Earth-orbit satellites like those launched by SpaceX and OneWeb. (credit: NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / P. Marenfeld ) In the ongoing battle between the two companies, Amazon . com fired back at SpaceX today at the Federal Communications Commission, claiming that the Starlink operator refuses to obey the rules […]
Enlarge (credit: Chesnot / Getty Images) The US Securities and Exchange Commission has warned that it will sue Coinbase if it launches a new digital asset lending product, and also issued subpoenas to the cryptocurrency trading platform to provide it with more information, according to executives. Paul Grewal, Coinbase’s chief legal officer, said in a […]
Enlarge / Pro-choice protesters march outside the Texas State Capitol on Sept. 1, 2021, in Austin, Texas. (credit: Getty Images | The Washington Post ) Epik, the domain registrar for controversial sites such as Gab and Parler, says that the Texas abortion-whistleblower website violates its terms of use. The Texas Right to Life group’s prolifewhistleblower. […]
Enlarge / The Texas state capitol. (credit: Getty Images | Bo Zaunders) The Tx Right to Life group will have to find a new hosting provider for its website that encourages people to report violations of the state’s restrictive new anti-abortion law. GoDaddy took action after Gizmodo reported that Texas Right to Life’s new website, […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Oscar Wong) Apple said Friday that it will make some changes to its plan to have iPhones and other devices scan user photos for child-sexual-abuse images. But Apple said it still intends to implement the system after making “improvements” to address criticisms. Apple provided this statement to Ars and other […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | stockcam ) Apple company has made another concession related to its restrictive App Store rules, saying that it will let several types of media apps link to their own websites, where users can purchase subscriptions without Apple getting its usual commission. Apple was forced to make the change to settle […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | stockcam) Reddit yesterday banned r/NoNewNormal, a hub of anti-mask and anti-vaccine posts, after a protest against the platform’s refusal to take more aggressive action against COVID misinformation. In a post titled ” COVID denialism and policy clarifications , ” Reddit said it also quarantined “54 additional COVID-denial subreddits. ” While […]
Enlarge (credit: Stan Honda / Getty Images) WhatsApp has been fined €225 million for breaking the EU’s data privacy law by not telling its users how it was sharing their data with its parent company Facebook. In one of the biggest fines relating to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Irish data regulator applied […]