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Economy
FCC has approved $6 billion in broadband grants despite rejecting Starlink
Enlarge Several US government agencies are having a busy week for doling out broadband deployment funding to ISPs and state…
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Economy
AI wins state fair art contest, annoys humans
Enlarge / The winning entry, Théåtre D’opéra Spatial. (credit: Jason Allen) A synthetic media artist named Jason Allen entered AI-generated…
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Economy
Chrome extensions with 1.4M installs covertly track visits and inject code
(credit: Chrome) Google has removed browser extensions with more than 1.4 million downloads from the Chrome Web Store after third-party…
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Economy
Microsoft EU cloud revisions just so happen to exclude Google, Amazon
Enlarge / Microsoft says its latest cloud licensing terms are meant to give customers more flexibility and cost control—just not…
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Economy
Japan declares war on floppy disks for government use
Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Getty Images) Japan’s newly appointed Minister of Digital Affairs, Taro Kono, has declared war on…
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Investing
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 21: Happy Days
By the start of 1948, there could no longer be any doubt: the Great Depression wasn’t coming back. Instead of…
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Economy
Organizations are spending billions on malware defense that’s easy to bypass
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Aurich Lawson) Last year, organizations spent $2 billion on products that provide Endpoint Detection and…
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Economy
France reveals hidden swimming pools with AI, taxes them
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Using an artificial intelligence computer vision system developed by French IT firm Capgemini, the French tax…
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Investing
Stop Lionizing Paul Volcker and Villainizing Arthur Burns
In a recent Bloomberg column, former New York Fed President Bill Dudley echoes a conventional Fed narrative, contrasting Fed interest…
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Economy
FTC sues data broker that tracks locations of 125M phones per month
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The Federal Trade Commission on Monday sued a data broker for allegedly selling location data culled…
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