On January 19, 2025, ByteDance shut down access to TikTok and other owned/operated apps for US users, causing an 85% traffic plunge and a rapid shift to alternatives like RedNote.
Hamas blames list delay on ‘technical’ reasons
> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday the Israel-Hamas ceasefire set to go into effect at 8:30 a.m., local time, would not start as scheduled unless Hamas provided a list of hostages set for release Sunday.
The Israeli Cabinet approved the much-anticipated ceasefire agreement early Saturday
The Team Canada approach to Trump’s tariffs sounds good but evokes a fragile spirit of unity and missing intergovernmental structure.
Nearly six million kids fear family separation as Donald Trump’s administration prepares for the largest deportation operation in American history.
> Nearly six million kids fear family separation as Donald Trump’s administration prepares for the largest deportation operation in American history
Asif William Rahman, 34, of Vienna, Virginia, faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison on each of two charges
In the last week we've seen the emergence of the true Meta — and the true Mark Zuckerberg — as the company ended its fact-checking program, claiming that (and I quote) "fact checkers have been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created" on both Instagram and Facebook, ...
The maker of the video game Genshin Impact has agreed to pay $20 million and to block children under 16 from making in-game purchases without parental consent to settle Federal Trade Commission all
Donald Trump and the Texas attorney general have forged a friendship over the years, one that has been cemented in their shared political and legal struggles and their willingness to come to each other’s aid at times of upheaval.
Stanislaw Szypowski, convicted for spying for Russia's military intelligence (GRU), stole a classified report on an LNG terminal, helped select informants for recruitment, and promoted pro-Russian narratives in Polish media. After seven years in prison, he re-emerged as a businessman.
> Stanislaw Szypowski, convicted for spying for Russia’s military intelligence (GRU), stole a classified report on a gas pipeline, helped select informants for recruitment, and promoted pro-Russian narratives in Polish media. After seven years in prison, he re-emerged as a businessman attending numerous events, including embassy gatherings and conferences on Ukraine and FinTech, meeting regularly with state officials, without intelligence services raising alarms. His current activities resemble his pre-arrest GRU operations.
> Google seems to be testing an AI-generated version of What People Are Saying in Google Search. This shows a similar video or social media type of search results but it says generative AI is experimental.
A Japanese adult entertainment rightsholder successfully sued the operators of pirate website MissAV in a U.S. court
> This week, several domain names of the Japanese adult pirate website MissAV were redirected to seizure banners. The legal basis for these confiscations wasn't initially clear, but new information ties the action to a U.S. court order. In addition to losing their domain names, the MissAV defendants must pay $4.5 million in damages.
Scientists studying the impact of accents on prejudices find that people associate accents they consider more working-class with more criminal behavior.
As the latest climate-related crisis unfolds in Los Angeles, Treasury releases most comprehensive data on homeowners insurance in history, along with report detailing higher costs to homeowners and insurers of elevated climate perils. WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Federal Insur...
The analytical framework and accompanying toolkit will help the FSB in assessing climate-related vulnerabilities in the global financial system, particularly from a cross-border and cross-sectoral…
The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against General Motors (GM) and OnStar over allegations they collected, used, and sold drivers’ precise geolocation data and driving behavior informati
> Under proposed order, GM and OnStar will be banned for five years from disclosing geolocation and driver behavior data to consumer reporting agencies > > The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against General Motors (GM) and OnStar over allegations they collected, used, and sold drivers’ precise geolocation data and driving behavior information from millions of vehicles—data that can be used to set insurance rates—without adequately notifying consumers and obtaining their affirmative consent.
Huh? Who reported on this before Public Citizen?
Apparently, MissAV didn’t lose full control over its domain names. While writing this article, they started to redirect to
Website Link
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, which provides the same unrestricted access to the site as before.
