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Judge orders Trump admin. to restore CDC and FDA webpages by midnight
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China responds to tariffs with antitrust investigations of Google, Nvidia
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UK demands Apple break encryption to allow gov’t spying worldwide, reports say
The United Kingdom issued a secret order requiring Apple to create a backdoor for government security officials to…
DOGE can’t use student loan data to dismantle the Education Dept., lawsuit says
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”Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed
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DeepSeek is “TikTok on steroids,” senator warns amid push for government-wide ban
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DOJ agrees to temporarily block DOGE from Treasury records
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Robocallers posing as FCC staff blocked after robocalling real FCC staff
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Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals
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$42B broadband grant program may scrap Biden admin’s preference for fiber
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“Zero warnings”: Longtime YouTuber rails against unexplained channel removal
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Senator Ted Cruz is trying to block Wi-Fi hotspots for schoolchildren
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Trump admin rescinds controversial funding freeze after two days of protest
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Trump cribs Musk’s “fork in the road” Twitter memo to slash gov’t workforce
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Copyright Office suggests AI copyright debate was settled in 1965
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Dell risks employee retention by forcing all teams back into offices full-time
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FCC demands CBS provide unedited transcript of Kamala Harris interview
The Federal Communications Commission demanded that CBS provide the unedited transcript of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala…
Treasury official retires after clash with DOGE over access to payment system
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Trump’s FCC chair investigates NPR and PBS, urges Congress to defund them
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OpenAI teases “new era” of AI in US, deepens ties with government
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Democrat teams up with movie industry to propose website-blocking law
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Science at risk: The funding pause is more damaging than you might think
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AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
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Google goes gaga over the Gulf of Mexico
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FCC chair helps ISPs and landlords make deals that renters can’t escape
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Elon Musk complains about China’s ban on X
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Trump admin fires security board investigating Chinese hack of large ISPs
“Effective immediately, the Department of Homeland Security will no longer tolerate any advisory committee which push agendas that…
UK opens probe into Google’s and Apple’s mobile platforms
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Trump’s FCC chair gets to work on punishing TV news stations accused of bias
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Trump can save TikTok without forcing a sale, ByteDance board member claims
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Couple allegedly tricked AI investors into funding wedding, houses
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ISP failed to comply with New York’s $15 broadband law—until Ars got involved
“Our materials have been updated, including all internal documents and trainings, in addition to our external website,” Optimum…
All federal agencies ordered to terminate remote work—ideally within 30 days
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Court rules FBI’s warrantless searches violated Fourth Amendment
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Apple must face suit over alleged policy of underpaying female workers
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Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht pardoned by Trump 10 years into life sentence
On Truth Social, Trump confirmed that he called Ulbricht’s mother to let her know that her son’s “full…
Anthony Fauci granted preemptive pardon in the last hours of Biden’s term
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What Can a Barrister for Divorce Help With My Case?
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Trump issues flurry of orders on TikTok, DOGE, social media, AI, and energy
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Trump orders US withdrawal from the World Health Organization
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After chaotic weekend, TikTok remains in limbo
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FCC chair makes one last stand against Trump’s call to punish news stations
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European Union orders X to hand over algorithm documents
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GM faces ban on selling driver data that can be used to raise insurance rates
The FTC said its complaint alleged that “GM used a misleading enrollment process to get consumers to sign…
Has Trump changed the retirement plans for the country’s largest coal plants?
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Under new law, cops bust famous cartoonist for AI-generated child sex abuse images
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Supreme Court rules TikTok can be banned
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Girl strangled by her own wheelchair as bus monitor texted, checked Instagram
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With Bitcoin near $100,000, even pension funds are buying cryptocurrency
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Texas defends requiring ID for porn to SCOTUS: “We’ve done this forever”
“You can use VPNs, the click of a button, to make it seem like you’re not in Texas,”…
SEC sues Elon Musk, says he cheated Twitter investors out of $150 million
The lawsuit was filed in the waning days of the Biden administration, and the next administration is less…
FBI forces Chinese malware to delete itself from thousands of US computers
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Elon Musk could be China’s pick to buy TikTok, report says
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Mastodon’s founder cedes control, refuses to become next Musk or Zuckerberg
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Supreme Court lets Hawaii sue oil companies over climate change effects
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Google loses in court, faces trial for collecting data on users who opted out
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US selling 69K seized bitcoins could mess with Trump plans for crypto reserve
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Judge ends man’s 11-year quest to dig up landfill and recover $765M in bitcoin
A British judge ruled against a man who wants to excavate a landfill where he says a hard…
Meta kills diversity programs, claiming DEI has become “too charged”
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Microsoft sues service for creating illicit content with its AI platform
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Elon Musk wants courts to force OpenAI to auction off a large ownership stake
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Coal likely to go away even without EPA’s power plant regulations
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Misconfigured license plate readers are leaking data and video in real time
In just 20 minutes this morning, an automated license-plate-recognition (ALPR) system in Nashville, Tennessee, captured photographs and detailed…
After embarrassing blunder, AT&T promises bill credits for future outages
“All voice and 5G data services for AT&T wireless customers were unavailable, affecting more than 125 million devices,…
Dirty deeds in Denver: Ex-prosecutor faked texts, destroyed devices to frame colleague
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US sues six of the biggest landlords over “algorithmic pricing schemes”
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“I’m getting dizzy”: Man films Waymo self-driving car driving around in circles
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It’s January, which means another batch of copyrighted work is now public domain
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Anthropic gives court authority to intervene if chatbot spits out song lyrics
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Do Kwon, the crypto bro behind $40B Luna/Terra collapse, finally extradited to US
The US government finally got its metaphorical hands on Do Hyeong Kwon, the 33-year-old Korean national who built…
Siri “unintentionally” recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M
Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that its voice assistant Siri routinely…
Appeals court blocks FCC’s efforts to bring back net neutrality rules
“The key here is not whether Broadband Internet Service Providers utilize telecommunications; it is instead whether they do…
Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub
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Trump told SCOTUS he plans to make a deal to save TikTok
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Power company hid illegal crypto mine that may have caused outages
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OpenAI defends for-profit shift as critical to sustain humanitarian mission
OpenAI has finally shared details about its plans to shake up its core business by shifting to a…
Tech worker movements grow as threats of RTO, AI loom
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YouTuber won DMCA fight with fake Nintendo lawyer by detecting spoofed email
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FTC launches probe of Microsoft over bundling
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T-Mobile users can try Starlink-enabled phone service for free during beta
“While not yet ready for full commercial service, T-Mobile Starlink was turned on temporarily to provide a critical…
Amazon facing strike threats as Senate report details hidden widespread injuries
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Hackers seek ransom after getting SSNs, banking info from state gov’t portal
Hackers trying to extort the Rhode Island government infiltrated the state’s public benefits system, causing state officials to…
Facing ban next month, TikTok begs SCOTUS for help
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China’s plan to dominate legacy chips globally sparks US probe
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Big loss for ISPs as Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to $15 broadband law
The Supreme Court petition was filed by the New York State Telecommunications Association, CTIA-The Wireless Association, NTCA-The Rural…
TP-Link faces possible US ban as hijacked routers fuel Chinese attacks
Chinese hackers use botnet of TP-Link routers Microsoft warned on October 31 that hackers working for the Chinese…
Supreme Court to decide if TikTok should be banned or sold
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$2 per megabyte: AT&T mistakenly charged customer $6,223 for 3.1GB of data
An AT&T customer who switched to the company’s FirstNet service for first responders got quite the shock when…
Automakers excoriated by Senators for fighting right-to-repair
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Man who claims he invented bitcoin faces prison after filing $1.1 trillion suit
Wright’s lawsuit names a defendant he calls “BTC Core,” which apparently doesn’t exist. Wright alleges that BTC Core…
US temporarily bans drones in parts of NJ, may use “deadly force” against aircraft
The Federal Aviation Administration temporarily banned drones over parts of New Jersey yesterday and said “the United States…
Crypto scammers posing as real brands on X are easily hacking YouTubers
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Amazon faces holiday strike after refusing to bargain with warehouse workers
Amazon workers at seven warehouses walked out Thursday morning, launching a strike ahead of the holidays after Amazon…
How does a workplace harassment lawyer prove retaliation claims?
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Who needs the dark web? Drug sales flourish on social media
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Companies issuing RTO mandates “lose their best talent”: Study
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US businesses will lose $1B in one month if TikTok is banned, TikTok warns
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Don’t use crypto to cheat on taxes: Bitcoin bro gets 2 years
A bitcoin investor who went to increasingly great lengths to hide $1 million in cryptocurrency gains on his…
Elon Musk slams SEC as agency threatens charges in Twitter stock probe
An SEC spokesperson told Ars today that the commission’s policy is “to conduct investigations on a confidential basis…
Report: AT&T, Verizon aren’t notifying most victims of Chinese call-records hack
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Following a pair of lawsuits alleging that chatbots caused a teen boy’s suicide, groomed a 9-year-old girl, and…
Report: Google told FTC Microsoft’s OpenAI deal is killing AI competition
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Photobucket opted inactive users into privacy nightmare, lawsuit says
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Location data firm helps police find out when suspects visited their doctor
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Micron’s $6B CHIPS funding should have more strings attached, critics say
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Chatbots urged teen to self-harm, suggested murdering parents, lawsuit says
A loss could lead to heavy fines for Character Technologies and possibly Google, as the families have asked…
Apple hit with $1.2B lawsuit after killing controversial CSAM-detecting tool
When Apple devices are used to spread CSAM, it’s a huge problem for survivors, who allegedly face a…
US blocks China from foreign exports with even a single US-made chip
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Elon Musk asks court to block OpenAI conversion from nonprofit to for-profit
OpenAI provided a statement to Ars today saying that “Elon’s fourth attempt, which again recycles the same baseless…
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Booking.com says typos giving strangers access to private trip info is not a bug
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Teen creates memecoin, dumps it, earns $50,000
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AT&T says it won’t build fiber home Internet in half of its wireline footprint
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Judge rejects Boeing plea deal that was opposed by families of crash victims
The compliance monitor is supposed to ensure that “Boeing implements a program designed to prevent and detect violations…
Amazon secretly slowed deliveries, deceived anyone who complained, lawsuit says
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US recommends encrypted messaging as Chinese hackers linger in telecom networks
An unnamed FBI official was quoted in the same report as saying that phone users “would benefit from…
China hits US with ban on critical minerals used in tech manufacturing
Although China’s response to the latest curbs was swift and seemingly strong, experts told Ars that China’s response…
US plan to protect consumers from data brokers faces dim future under Trump
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Two decades after Enron’s bankruptcy, the company is back as a crypto firm?
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Elon Musk loses bid to reinstate massive Tesla pay plan, now worth $101B
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Supreme Court to review 5th Circuit ruling that upends Universal Service Fund
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OpenAI blamed NYT for tech problem erasing evidence of copyright abuse
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DOJ wraps up ad tech trial: Google is “three times” a monopolist
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Supreme Court wants US input on whether ISPs should be liable for users’ piracy
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Child safety org launches AI model trained on real child sex abuse images
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Discord terrorist known as “Rabid” gets 30 years for preying on kids
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Earlier this week, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. used a Zoom call to tell his supporters that Donald Trump…
If Trump dismantles the NOAA, it will affect wildfires and food prices
Project 2025 did not mention NOAA’s work with wildfire. Its authors did not respond to questions about whether…
AT&T praises itself after getting caught taking too much money from FCC program
AT&T improperly obtained money from a government-run broadband discount program by submitting duplicate requests and by claiming subsidies…
“I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock
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TSA silent on CrowdStrike’s claim Delta skipped required security update
“Microsoft continues to investigate the circumstances surrounding the CrowdStrike incident to understand why other airlines were able to…
Don’t fall for AI scams cloning cops’ voices, police warn
AI is giving scammers a more convincing way to impersonate police, reports show. Just last week, the Salt…
Google accused of shadow campaigns redirecting antitrust scrutiny to Microsoft
On Monday, Microsoft came out guns blazing, posting a blog accusing Google of “dishonestly” funding groups conducting allegedly…
18-year prison sentence for man who used AI to create child abuse images
Nelson in August admitted to creating and selling bespoke images of child sexual abuse tailored to customers’ specific…
Missouri AG claims Google censors Trump, demands info on search algorithm
In 2022, the Republican National Committee sued Google with claims that it intentionally used Gmail’s spam filter to…
X Payments delayed after Musk’s X weirdly withdrew application for NY license
X Payments unlikely to launch without New York It seems possible that X has gone silent on X…
Are Boeing’s problems beyond fixable?
As Boeing’s latest chief executive, Kelly Ortberg’s job was never going to be easy. On Wednesday, it got…
Video game libraries lose legal appeal to emulate physical game collections online
In an odd footnote, the Register also notes that emulation of classic game consoles, while not infringing in…
US Copyright Office “frees the McFlurry,” allowing repair of ice cream machines
Manufacturers opposed the exemption, but it received support from the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, the Federal Trade…