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TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, have reached a $400 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to resolve allegations that the social media platform violated federal laws designed to protect children’s online privacy. The case stems from a lawsuit first filed in 2024 by the
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The surface facility for IceCube, with the rest being below the ice.Credit: IceCube Neutrino Observatory Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy have announced new research suggesting that neutrino detections at the Arctic IceCube Neutrino Observatory could be explained by dark matter lensing of readings from blazars.
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* Beyerdynamic has announced the MMX 100 wireless and MMX 130 wireless * The MMX 100 wireless launches on September 1 for £89 * The MMX 130 wireless arrives in October for £109 German audio specialist beyerdynamic has announced two new wireless headsets, the closed-back MMX 100 wireless and the open-back MMX 130
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Today’s Connections puzzle features some fun options. As a pop-culture junkie, I loved the purple category. Read on for hints and today’s Connections answers. Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre)
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Today’s Strands puzzle describes some pretty scenic locations. If you need hints and answers, read on. Hint for today’s Strands puzzle Today’s Strands theme is: Peak Americana. If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: Time to climb. Clue words to unlock in-game hints Your
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* India-based developer Kuber Mehta uses Claude Code to create a macOS driver for the HP Laser 1008a * Previously, only the official drivers for Windows and Linux were available for the relatively obscure 2023 laser printer * The AI-generated driver was created over a series of meticulous prompts, and is now available
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Anthropic has made Claude Mythos 5 available for code scanning in Claude Security and is integrating it into partners’ defensive products, with users receiving outputs rather than direct access to the model. It is also committing $35mn in credits to open-source security work. Anthropic is widening access to its most
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The new $225 Pebble Time 2 smartwatch feels like a toy, and we mean that in the best sense of the word. The refreshed version of the indie smartwatch brand, rebooted by its original founder, feels casual, fun, and playful, — not like a mini-computer on your wrist. Its quirky watchfaces
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Jarmo Piironen/Getty Images ByAlexandra Kelley, Staff Correspondent, Nextgov/FCW August 21, 2026 03:33 PM ET Legislation introduced this week seeks to police the use of algorithmic price-setting for home rentals and rein in how the federal government influences new data center construction. * Tech Bills of the Week Monitoring
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Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Apple is laying off staff on the Siri and the Vision Pro teams, according to Bloomberg. The cuts include “largely shutting down” a Vision Pro gaming team
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
