Meta Platforms agreed Wednesday to pay up to approximately $18 billion and rebuild how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram, ending a federal trial in Oakland eight days after it began and before Mark Zuckerberg ever took the stand. The deal resolves claims by a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general that Meta engineered its platforms to hold the attention of...
September 1, 2026
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The Best Argument for Ballot Barcodes Is the One Nobody Is Making
Intro On June 29, 2026, the Supreme Court decided Watson v. Republican National Committee and made a single piece of paper evidence enormously consequential. The Court upheld Mississippi’s law counting mail ballots postmarked by Election Day and received up to five business days afterward. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, writing for a 5-4 majority joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and...
Ordinary Wi-Fi Routers Identified People With 99.5% Accuracy. Is 6G Next?
A German research team has shown that a passive listener sitting within range of an ordinary Wi-Fi network can recognize individual people walking through that network’s signal field, without a camera, without the target carrying a phone, and without ever joining the network. The finding is real, it is peer-reviewed, and it was presented at one of the most competitive...
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Meta Settles for Up to $18 Billion and Ties Nearly a Third of It to What Its Competitors Do Next
Meta Platforms agreed Wednesday to pay up to approximately $18 billion and rebuild how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram, ending...
The Best Argument for Ballot Barcodes Is the One Nobody Is Making
Intro On June 29, 2026, the Supreme Court decided Watson v. Republican National Committee and made a single piece of...
Ordinary Wi-Fi Routers Identified People With 99.5% Accuracy. Is 6G Next?
A German research team has shown that a passive listener sitting within range of an ordinary Wi-Fi network can recognize...
At Least One in Four: New CTE Study Reopens the Question of Whether Football’s Equipment Is Part of the Problem
A study published Tuesday, Aug. 25, in The BMJ found that at least one in four former NFL players who...
126 Million Retirement Accounts, $9 Trillion in Assets, and No Regulator Who Says It’s Their Job
A federal watchdog report examining how the companies that run America’s 401(k) plans handle participant data found that most of...
The Lenders Say the Consumer Is Fine. The Consumer Says Otherwise.
Five of the largest credit card lenders in the United States told investors this summer that American consumers are paying...
Caspian: Iran’s Limited Gateway to Unencumbered Trade
The U.S. naval blockade of Iran is frequently described as a total maritime cutoff. By the U.S. military’s own definition,...
Political Polling: How Do They Keep Getting It Wrong?
With 73 days until the November 3 midterm elections, the country is heading toward the polls with less reliable information...