Enlarge / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai says goodbye to members of a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee afters testifying during a hearing on June 16, 2020, in Washington, DC. reader comments 200 with 144 posters participating Share this story In one of his last acts as Federal Communications Commission chairman, Ajit Pai decided to stick with the ..
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Enlarge / Florida’s handling of the pandemic has been… a mixed bag. This beach was hopping on May 20, around the same time Jones publicly claimed the state fired her for refusing to manipulate Florida’s COVID-19 data. reader comments 150 with 88 posters participating Share this story Florida police have arrested former state data scientist ..
Enlarge / DUNKIRK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES – 10/09/2016: A NRG-owned coal-fired energy facility that plans to convert to a natural gas facility. reader comments 82 with 60 posters participating Share this story Today, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia vacated the Trump administration’s attempt to take a minimalist approach to ..
Getty Images | Andrzej Wojcicki reader comments 84 with 75 posters participating Share this story Charter Communications has withdrawn a petition seeking government permission to impose data caps on broadband users this year. Unlike other ISPs, Charter is subject to the prohibition on data caps and overage fees until May 2023 because of seven-year conditions ..
Enlarge / A person browsing Parler in early January, back when it had content up other than vague promises to overcome being thrown off the whole Internet and return louder than ever. reader comments 191 with 114 posters participating, including story author Share this story Right-wing social media platform Parler, which has been offline since ..
Enlarge / Trump-incited mob tries to breach the US Capitol building in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Getty Images | Bloomberg reader comments 352 with 143 posters participating Share this story GitHub Inc. yesterday apologized for firing a Jewish employee who had urged colleagues to “stay safe” and avoid “Nazis” on the day ..
Elena Lacey | Getty Images reader comments 88 with 60 posters participating Share this story In October 2019, Idaho proposed changing its Medicaid program. The state needed approval from the federal government, which solicited public feedback via Medicaid.gov. Roughly 1,000 comments arrived. But half came not from concerned citizens or even Internet trolls. They were ..
Enlarge / Airbnb said it will refund guests who had booked stays in DC next week and reimburse hosts for lost income. reader comments 103 with 52 posters participating Share this story On January 9—three days after supporters of President Trump started a riot at the US Capitol—Sean Evans decided it was time for action. ..
Getty Images reader comments 73 with 53 posters participating Share this story Last month, the makers of one of the most promising coronavirus vaccines reported that hackers stole confidential documents they had submitted to a European Union regulatory body. On Friday, word emerged that the hackers have falsified some of the submissions’ contents and published ..
Enlarge / Former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum addresses an audience on March 20, 2019 in Miami Gardens, Florida. Gillum’s campaign was targeted by racist robocalls in 2018. Getty Images | Saul Martinez reader comments 69 with 45 posters participating Share this story A neo-Nazi, white-supremacist robocaller who spread “xenophobic fearmongering” and “racist attacks on ..
