Getty Images | artas reader comments 221 with 113 posters participating Share this story People who buy or sell guns on Facebook can violate the social network’s ban on gun purchases 10 times before they’re kicked off the service, The Washington Post reported Thursday. Facebook’s 10-strikes rule is detailed in “internal guidance obtained by The ..
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Aurich Lawson | Photo by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images reader comments 301 with 127 posters participating Share this story Twitter now plans to comply with Elon Musk’s demand for user data that he says is needed to determine whether the company’s spam estimates are accurate, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. “After a weeks-long impasse, ..
Enlarge / Seizure notice on ssndob.ws. reader comments 34 with 28 posters participating Share this story Federal law enforcement agencies say they shut down a group of websites that made over $19 million selling Social Security numbers and other personal data. A Justice Department press release yesterday announced “the seizure of the SSNDOB Marketplace, a series ..
Getty Images | Alan Schein reader comments 55 with 40 posters participating Share this story The US Treasury Department has started approving broadband grants to states from a $10 billion fund created to expand access to Internet service and other digital connectivity tools. The Treasury Department’s announcement on Tuesday said the first approved projects would ..
Enlarge / Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks to reporters in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on April 26, 2022. Getty Images | Stefani Reynolds reader comments 297 with 140 posters participating Share this story Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday stepped into the Elon Musk/Twitter battle by launching an ..
reader comments 78 with 53 posters participating Share this story On Monday, the Biden administration announced a suite of policy changes intended to boost the use of solar power within the US. While each individual policy change is relatively minor, combined, the changes address everything from manufacturing and importing to installation and integration with the ..
picture alliance | Getty Images reader comments 153 with 70 posters participating Share this story Lindsay Krall decided to study nuclear waste out of a love for the arcane. Figuring how to bury radioactive atoms isn’t exactly simple—it takes a blend of particle physics, careful geology and engineering, and a high tolerance for reams of ..
Getty Images | Andriy Onufriyenko reader comments 64 with 37 posters participating Share this story New York’s state legislature approved a bill that would prevent fossil fuel power plants from being revived to power cryptocurrency mining operations. If signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, the proposed law would prevent new permits from being issued for two ..
reader comments 60 with 38 posters participating Share this story The fight for the right to repair scored a huge win Friday with New York state passing a bill that requires digital electronics manufacturers, like laptop and smartphone manufacturers, to make diagnostic and repair information available to consumers and independent repair shops. The bill, which ..
Enlarge / A Tim Hortons in Toronto in May 2022. Getty Images | Roberto Machado Noa reader comments 121 with 74 posters participating Share this story Canadian investigators determined that users of the Tim Hortons coffee chain’s mobile app “had their movements tracked and recorded every few minutes of every day,” even when the app ..
