The agency’s two Republicans, Chair Brendan Carr and Commissioner Olivia Trusty, voted to end the ownership cap, which restricts broadcast owners from holding stations that reach a combined more than 39 percent of US TV households, while Democratic Commissioner Anna Gomez dissented. It formalizes a policy Carr has long criticized, and which he announced last ..
The parasitic fungi in the Cordyceps genus are a favorite subject of nature documentaries. They’ve also infiltrated popular culture via the zombie-apocalypse video game The Last of Us (2013) and its TV adaptation, in which a parasitic fungus mutates to infect humans. Scientists are keen to study Cordyceps to learn more about the origins and ..
The Federal Communications Commission voted 2–1 today to eliminate the National Television Ownership Rule, claiming authority to repeal a limit that was set by Congress over 20 years ago. The rule prohibits any single broadcast station owner from reaching more than 39 percent of all TV households in the US. Under Chairman Brendan Carr, the ..
Remaining uncertainty At the FDA advisory committee’s June meeting, experts expressed optimism about an mRNA-based flu vaccine. The platform—the same used in the company’s COVID-19 vaccines—is agile, easily allowing tweaks and updates to vaccine design, and it offers swifter vaccine production at scale compared to existing flu vaccines. Traditional flu vaccines are grown in fertilized ..
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted to repeal a longstanding rule, in a 2-1 vote, that restricted local station ownership to 39% of the U.S. television audience. The cap, which had been in place for the past 22 years, will be replaced by one that looks at station consolidation on a case-by-case basis. Voting ..
Enterprise AI is transitioning from the “does it work” phase to the “how can we adopt it safely” phase, creating an unprecedented and complex mix of opportunities and challenges for business leaders. Most AI pilots today fail due to misalignment between leaders, departments, individuals and one often-overlooked but critical piece: their data ecosystem. Without a ..
Bing is testing a new section on its search results page called “Top Source.” Based on what we’re seeing, this section appears to group together multiple pieces of content whether individual pages or news articles from a single site. Here is the screenshot of how it looks. Here is the X post. We’ve noticed Bing ..
Google recently rolled out a preferred sources feature on the search results page. When a user selects a website as a preferred source, that site’s content is more likely to show up in Top Stories and gets highlighted as a preferred source within AI Overviews and AI Mode. Here is a screenshot of how it ..
The Belarusian creator and administrator of the Ransom Cartel ransomware was sentenced to 16 years in prison in the US. Maksim Silnikau, 40, built the ransomware operation and recruited other individuals through cybercrime forums, according to documents presented in court. Silnikau provided Ransom Cartel conspirators with stolen credentials and other information on compromised computers, as ..
A constantly shifting geopolitical landscape underscores the importance of protecting U.S. national security, especially as the private sector has been elevated and increasingly relied upon to combat threats to U.S. interests in partnership with government. For more than 28 years, Paul Abbate worked at the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a variety of roles, most ..
