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In a significant move towards a more equitable financial system, President Biden has proposed a new policy aimed at limiting credit card late fees to an $8 maximum, a stark reduction from the current $32 median. This initiative is intended to lessen financial strain on consumers, many of whom are grappling with economic instabilities.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Across Uzbekistan, a network of about a hundred banks of high-resolution roadside cameras continuously scan vehicles' license plates and their occupants, sometimes thousands a day, looking for potential traffic violations. Cars running red lights, drivers not wearing their seatbelts, and unlicensed vehicles driving at night, to name a few. The driver of one of the most surveilled vehicles in the system was... Read more ›
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The same Supreme Court that ruled that President Donald Trump is allowed to use the powers of the presidency to commit crimes finally placed a meaningful limit on Trump’s authority on Tuesday. In Trump v. Illinois, three Republican justices joined all three of the Court’s Democrats in ruling that Trump violated federal law when he […] Read more ›
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A judge ruled that Trump's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications is legal and rejected the US Chamber of Commerce's effort to overturn the fee. Read more ›
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By most measures, it’s been a sensational year for SpaceX. The American spaceflight company will finish 2025 having notched up a record-breaking 165 launches using its trusty Falcon 9 rocket, with the final lift-off of the year targeting Saturday, December 27. SpaceX’s last flight of 2025 is the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation mission for the Italian ... Read more ›
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Jeffrey Epstein's wills named figures like Larry Summers and Jes Staley as possible executors, DOJ files show. Read more ›
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The chances of winning the Powerball Grand Prize is much smaller than being struck by lightening, killed in a shark attack, or born on a Leap Day. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: CBS cannot contain the online spread of a "60 Minutes" segment that its editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, tried to block from airing. The episode, "Inside CECOT," featured testimonies from US deportees who were tortured or suffered physical or sexual abuse at a notorious Salvadoran prison, the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism. "Welcome to hell," one former inmate was told upon arriving,... Read more ›
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A group of authors led by John Carreyrou has filed a new lawsuit against Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Perplexity, accusing the AI firms of training models on pirated copies of their books. TechCrunch reports: If this sounds familiar, it's because another set of authors already filed a class action suit against Anthropic for these same acts of copyright infringement. In that case, the judge ruled that it was... Read more ›
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Chinese regulators have been slow to approve the mass production and sale of more advanced self-driving tech. Read more ›
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In her new docuseries, "The End of an Era," 36-year-old Taylor Swift says she feels "very depressed" about pop culture's obsession with youth. Read more ›
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European public institutions are quietly migrating away from American cloud providers and office software, driven less by policy ambitions in Brussels than by the mundane legal reality that GDPR-mandated risk assessments keep flagging the US CLOUD Act as an unacceptable threat to citizen data. Austria's Federal Ministry for Economy, Energy and Tourism moved 1,200 employees to the open-source platform Nextcloud in four months. Germany's Schleswig-Holstein has already transitioned 24,000 of... Read more ›
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Kai Murakami and Thomas Jane will play 'Star Trek' legends Hikaru Sulu and Leonard McCoy in the final episode of 'Strange New Worlds'. Read more ›
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Snowflake is in talks to buy app monitoring startup Observe Inc. for around $1 billion, which would likely be the biggest deal in Snowflake’s history, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. Observe, based in San Mateo, Calif., sells so-called observability tools that help developers to understand how their applications are performing and allows them to spot disruptions and outages. The deal would bring Snowflake into closer competition with... Read more ›
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On Tuesday, the Trump Administration followed through on a threat of retaliation targeting foreigners who are involved in content moderation. The State Department announced sanctions barring US access for former EU commissioner Thierry Breton, as well as four researchers, while issuing an intentionally chilling threat to others, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio claiming, "The […] Read more ›
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About 1,000 defaulted student-loan borrowers will receive wage garnishment notices the week of January 7 with more to come as the year progresses. Read more ›
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Tim Schultz won the Powerball in 1999 as a 21-year-old gas station attendant. Here's what he thinks lottery winners should do — and his one regret. Read more ›
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The great return-to-office battle has effectively concluded and a clear pecking order has emerged, according to Sander van 't Noordende, the CEO of Randstad, a staffing giant that places around half a million workers in jobs every week. Remote work is becoming a status symbol reserved for star performers and those possessing rare skills. "You have to be very special to be able to demand a 100% remote job," van... Read more ›
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