Net Neutrality Was Back, Until It Wasn't
January 01, 2026 at 03:10AM
January 01, 2026 at 03:10AM
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Net Neutrality Was Back, Until It Wasn't
The fight over net neutrality saw another turbulent year in 2025, as federal protections that seemed poised for a comeback in 2024 were first struck down by a court and then preemptively removed by the Trump administration's FCC without a chance for public…
JPMorgan Says Javice Firms Billed Millions Just for 'Attendance'
January 01, 2026 at 03:51AM
January 01, 2026 at 03:51AM
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JPMorgan Says Javice Firms Billed Millions Just for 'Attendance'
JPMorgan Chase is now fighting to avoid paying $10.2 million in disputed legal charges racked up by Charlie Javice, the convicted founder of student-finance startup Frank, after court filings revealed her defense team billed more than $5 million simply for…
NASA Craft To Face Heat-Shield Test on Its First Astronaut Flight Next Year
January 01, 2026 at 04:30AM
January 01, 2026 at 04:30AM
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NASA Craft To Face Heat-Shield Test on Its First Astronaut Flight Next Year
An anonymous reader shares a report: Getting to space is hard. In many ways, getting back is even harder. NASA soon aims to pull off the kind of re-entry it last conducted more than 50 years ago: safely returning astronauts to Earth after they fly to the…
NJ's Answer To Flooding: It Has Bought Out and Demolished 1,200 Properties
January 01, 2026 at 05:15AM
January 01, 2026 at 05:15AM
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NJ's Answer To Flooding: It Has Bought Out and Demolished 1,200 Properties
New Jersey has found its answer to the relentless flooding that has plagued the state's coastal and inland communities for decades: buy the homes, demolish them and turn the land back into open space permanently. The state's Blue Acres program has acquired…
France Targets Australia-Style Social Media Ban For Children Next Year
January 01, 2026 at 05:50AM
January 01, 2026 at 05:50AM
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France Targets Australia-Style Social Media Ban For Children Next Year
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: France intends to follow Australia and ban social media platforms for children from the start of the 2026 academic year. A draft bill preventing under-15s from using social media will be submitted for…
Trump Administration Removes Three Spyware-Linked Execs From Sanctions List
January 01, 2026 at 06:30AM
January 01, 2026 at 06:30AM
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Trump Administration Removes Three Spyware-Linked Execs From Sanctions List
Reuters reports that the United States Department of the Treasury under the Donald Trump administration has lifted sanctions on three executives linked to the spyware firm Intellexa. Reuters reports: The move partially reverses the imposition of sanctions…
OpenAI Is Paying Employees More Than Any Major Tech Startup in History
January 01, 2026 at 07:10AM
January 01, 2026 at 07:10AM
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OpenAI Is Paying Employees More Than Any Major Tech Startup in History
OpenAI is paying employees more than any major tech startup in history, with average stock-based compensation hitting roughly $1.5 million per worker in 2025. "That is more than seven times higher than the stock-based pay Google disclosed in 2003, before…
DarkSpectre Hackers Spread Malware To 8.8 Million Chrome, Edge, and Firefox Users
January 01, 2026 at 07:50AM
January 01, 2026 at 07:50AM
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DarkSpectre Hackers Spread Malware To 8.8 Million Chrome, Edge, and Firefox Users
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Cyber Press: A newly uncovered Chinese threat group, DarkSpectre, has been linked to one of the most widespread browser-extension malware operations to date, compromising more than 8.8 million users of Chrome, Edge…
Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity
January 01, 2026 at 08:30AM
January 01, 2026 at 08:30AM
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Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity
The Wall Street Journal reports that a growing number of tech startups are stocking offices with free nicotine pouches as founders and employees chase sharper focus and stamina in hyper-competitive AI-era work environments. The Wall Street Journal reports:…
Stewart Cheifet, Computer Chronicles Host, Dies At 87
January 01, 2026 at 08:50AM
January 01, 2026 at 08:50AM
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Stewart Cheifet, Computer Chronicles Host, Dies At 87
Pibroch(CiH) writes: According to the obituary linked, Stewart Cheifet of Computer Chronicles fame has died. The obituary states he passed Dec 28, 2025. Cheifet and Digital Research founder Gary Kildall hosted the public television show The Computer Chronicles…
Warren Buffett Retires As Berkshire Hathaway CEO After 55 Years
January 01, 2026 at 09:10AM
January 01, 2026 at 09:10AM
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Warren Buffett Retires As Berkshire Hathaway CEO After 55 Years
Warren Buffett is retiring as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway at age 95, ending a 55-year run that reshaped how generations of Americans think about investing. "The 95-year-old, often referred to as the 'Oracle of Omaha' and the 'billionaire next door,' will relinquish…
Heart Association Revives Theory That Light Drinking May Be Good For You
January 01, 2026 at 11:30AM
January 01, 2026 at 11:30AM
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Heart Association Revives Theory That Light Drinking May Be Good For You
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: For a while, it seemed the notion that light drinking was good for the heart had gone by the wayside, debunked by new studies and overshadowed by warnings that alcohol causes cancer. Now the American…
NASA's Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
January 01, 2026 at 03:00PM
January 01, 2026 at 03:00PM
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NASA's Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
NASA is closing its largest research library at the Goddard Space Flight Center amid budget cuts and campus consolidation, putting tens of thousands of largely non-digitized historical and scientific documents at risk of being warehoused or discarded. The…
UK Company Sends Factory With 1,000C Furnace Into Space
January 01, 2026 at 06:00PM
January 01, 2026 at 06:00PM
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UK Company Sends Factory With 1,000C Furnace Into Space
A UK-based company has successfully powered up a microwave-sized space factory in orbit, proving it can run a 1,000C furnace to manufacture ultra-pure semiconductor materials in microgravity. "The work that we're doing now is allowing us to create semiconductors…
Waymos Are Now Coming For Your Coveted San Francisco Parking Spots
January 01, 2026 at 09:00PM
January 01, 2026 at 09:00PM
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Waymos Are Now Coming For Your Coveted San Francisco Parking Spots
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the San Francisco Chronicle: A long stretch of curb in San Francisco's Mission District might contain a whole menagerie of parked vehicles: hatchbacks, SUVs, dusty pick-ups, chic Teslas. And recently, Waymo robotaxis.…
You Can't Trust Your Eyes To Tell You What's Real Anymore, Says Instagram Head
January 01, 2026 at 10:00PM
January 01, 2026 at 10:00PM
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You Can't Trust Your Eyes To Tell You What's Real Anymore, Says Instagram Head
Instagram head Adam Mosseri closed out 2025 by acknowledging what many have long suspected: the era of trusting photographs as accurate records of reality is over, and the platform he runs will need to fundamentally adapt to an age of "infinite synthetic…
The Man Taking Over the Large Hadron Collider
January 01, 2026 at 11:00PM
January 01, 2026 at 11:00PM
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The Man Taking Over the Large Hadron Collider
Mark Thomson, a professor of experimental particle physics at the University of Cambridge, takes over as CERN's director general this week, and one of his first major decisions during his five-year tenure will be shutting down the Large Hadron Collider for…
European Space Agency Acknowledges Another Breach as Criminals Claim 200 GB Data Haul
January 02, 2026 at 12:01AM
January 02, 2026 at 12:01AM
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European Space Agency Acknowledges Another Breach as Criminals Claim 200 GB Data Haul
The European Space Agency has acknowledged yet another security incident after a cybercriminal posted an offer on BreachForums the day after Christmas claiming to have stolen over 20GB of data including source code, confidential documents, API tokens and…
Public Domain Day 2026 Brings Betty Boop, Nancy Drew and 'I Got Rhythm' Into the Commons
January 02, 2026 at 01:12AM
January 02, 2026 at 01:12AM
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Public Domain Day 2026 Brings Betty Boop, Nancy Drew and 'I Got Rhythm' Into the Commons
As the calendar flips to January 1, 2026, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 are entering the US public domain alongside sound recordings from 1925, making them free to copy, share, remix and build upon without permission or licensing fees. The literary…
DHS Says REAL ID, Which DHS Certifies, Is Too Unreliable To Confirm US Citizenship
January 02, 2026 at 02:11AM
January 02, 2026 at 02:11AM
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DHS Says REAL ID, Which DHS Certifies, Is Too Unreliable To Confirm US Citizenship
An anonymous reader shares a report: Only the government could spend 20 years creating a national ID that no one wanted and that apparently doesn't even work as a national ID. But that's what the federal government has accomplished with the REAL ID, which…
'IPv6 Just Turned 30 and Still Hasn't Taken Over the World, But Don't Call It a Failure'
January 02, 2026 at 02:40AM
January 02, 2026 at 02:40AM
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'IPv6 Just Turned 30 and Still Hasn't Taken Over the World, But Don't Call It a Failure'
Three decades after RFC 1883 promised to future-proof the internet by expanding the available pool of IP addresses from around 4.3 billion to over 340 undecillion, IPv6 has yet to achieve the dominance its creators envisioned. Data from Google, APNIC and…