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"Something's coming. Something we may not be able to deter."

"Something's coming. Something we may not be able to deter."

Governments look at banning ransom payments in face of increasingly sophisticated threats.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is asking a federal appeals court to wipe out the $243 million verdict a Miami jury handed Tesla over a fatal Autopilot crash.

The attorneys general of Alabama and Georgia joined the July 9 brief, which asks the 11th Circuit to throw out the judgment entirely — or, failing that, cut the $200 million punitive award down to three times compensatory damages.

We’ve released Epilogue 2.5 for Android. This adds a new screen for showing an author’s books, and a better context menu design.

My next book project doesn’t simply interrogate the hyperindividualist cultural norms of our current moment; it waterboards them. It attaches electrical nodes to them and shocks them into submission. It commits every act of intellectual violence against them. All in furtheri...

A Houston animal shelter has received 26 dogs and puppies that were going to be adopted out-of-state, then barred from leaving Texas due to New World Screwworm restrictions.

“Last week’s dramatic showdown over cutting U.S. aid to Israel offered a glimpse into just how profoundly progressive anger is reshaping Democratic politics,” Axios reports. “It’s not just that the left is winning seats — they’re ousting incumbents and instilling panic among House Democrats, who fear they may be next if they don’t take a […]

“Iran has been stepping up its missile and drone attacks on U.S. forces in Jordan as it seeks to produce American casualties and deter Washington from escalating its test of wills with Tehran, current and former officials say,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The weekend Iranian missile strikes at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, which killed […]

Tennessee vs. Meta trial starts this week:

The state alleges founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was repeatedly ​warned by some Meta employees about research that found a negative impact on teens, but declined to fund efforts to minimize those harms and made misleading ​public statements about the amount of harmful content on the platforms.

There’s really no fixing Meta’s business model. It is hard to take an ad-based business hell-bent on engagement and align it with users’ best interests.