Broadband is Critical Infrastructure
Kansas joins Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee in classifying broadband networks as critical infrastructure and making it a crime to interfere with or damage telecom networks
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Meta's move on AI bias raises risk, eyebrows
Meta's move set off alarm bells for researchers and human rights groups
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News Distortion: The New Fake News
Given the political value of the fake news concept for the first Trump administration, it should come as no surprise that the second Trump administration has figured out how to add some new wrinkles to its assault-on-journalism playbook
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President Trump Endorses Covid ‘Lab Leak’ Theory on Government Websites About the Virus
Updates to Covid.gov lay out the president’s view that virus originated in laboratory in Wuhan, China
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How Mark Zuckerberg is flipping the script on kids’ safety online
The Facebook founder is lobbying Congress to leave his firm alone — and making headway.
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The federal ‘5 things’ emails have fallen apart, as Elon Musk readies exit
After the DOGE leader demanded federal workers list accomplishments, agencies applied an inconsistent patchwork of policies.
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