Enlarge / Pro-choice protesters march outside the Texas State Capitol on Sept. 1, 2021, in Austin, Texas. Getty Images | The Washington Post reader comments 15 with 12 posters participating Share this story Epik, the domain registrar for controversial sites such as Gab and Parler, says that the Texas abortion-whistleblower website violates its terms of ..
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Enlarge / The Texas state capitol. Getty Images | Bo Zaunders reader comments 403 with 170 posters participating Share this story The Texas 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 ..
reader comments 316 with 174 posters participating Share this story 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 ..
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | stockcam) Apple 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 an investigation by ..
reader comments 72 with 41 posters participating Share this story The major broadcast networks have won a big copyright ruling against Locast, a nonprofit organization that provides online access to broadcast TV stations. Although it’s a partial summary judgment, the ruling by a federal judge rejects Locast’s primary defense against claims of copyright infringement. Locast ..
reader comments 112 with 63 posters participating Share this story The chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission is warning that cryptocurrency trading platforms are putting their own survival at risk unless they heed his call to work within the nation’s regulatory framework. Gary Gensler told the Financial Times that while he remained “technology ..
Enlarge / Even though this stream bed is dry much of the year, it still may qualify for regulation under the Clean Water Act. reader comments 44 with 36 posters participating Share this story The latest legal decision in a years-long fight over how to implement the Clean Water Act has set rules back to ..
Getty Images | SOPA Images reader comments 257 with 133 posters participating Share this story Over 135 subreddits have gone dark this week in protest of Reddit’s refusal to ban communities that spread misinformation about the COVID pandemic and vaccines. Subreddits that went private include two with 10 million or more subscribers, namely r/Futurology and ..
Enlarge / Elizabeth Holmes, founder and former CEO of Theranos, arrives for motion hearing on Monday, November 4, 2019, at the US District Court House in San Jose, California. reader comments 168 with 113 posters participating Share this story Nearly a decade ago, Theranos touted a revolutionary diagnostic device that could run myriad medical tests ..
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 350 with 173 posters participating Share this story A county judge in Ohio has ordered a hospital in Cincinnati to administer ivermectin to an intensive care patient, a move raises questions about the role of the courts in the medical system. “It is absurd that this order was ..
