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TikTok owner has strong First Amendment case against US ban, professors say

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto) TikTok owner ByteDance is preparing to sue the US government now that President Biden has signed into law a bill that will ban TikTok in the US if its Chinese owner doesn't sell the company within 270 days. While it's impossible to predict the outcome with certainty, law professors...

Fri Apr 26, 2024 21:03
Microsoft open-sources infamously weird, RAM-hungry MS-DOS 4.00 release

Enlarge / A DOS prompt. Microsoft has open-sourced another bit of computing history this week: The company teamed up with IBM to release the source code of 1988's MS-DOS 4.00, a version better known for its unpopularity, bugginess, and convoluted development history than its utility as a computer operating system. The...

Fri Apr 26, 2024 21:03
Tesla’s 2 million car Autopilot recall is now under federal scrutiny

Enlarge / A 2014 Tesla Model S driving on Autopilot rear-ended a Culver City fire truck that was parked in the high-occupancy vehicle lane on Interstate 405. (credit: Culver City Firefighters Local 1927 / Facebook) Tesla's lousy week continues. On Tuesday, the electric car maker posted its quarterly results showing precipitous...

Fri Apr 26, 2024 21:03
Switch 2 reportedly replaces slide-in Joy-Cons with magnetic attachment

Enlarge / The slide-on Joy-Con connection point shown in the center of the image may be a thing of the past on the Switch 2 The iconic slide-in "click" of the Switch Joy-Cons may be replaced with a magnetic attachment mechanism in the Switch 2, according to a report from Spanish-language gaming news site Vandal. The...

Fri Apr 26, 2024 20:02
20% of grocery store milk has traces of bird flu, suggesting wider outbreak

Enlarge (credit: Getty | Jeffrey Greenberg) The Food and Drug Administration reported late Thursday that about 20 percent of retail milk samples from around the country tested positive for genetic fragments of the bird flu, aka highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus H5N1. While retail milk is still considered to...

Fri Apr 26, 2024 19:02
Nixon administration could’ve started monitoring CO2 levels but didn’t

Enlarge / A newly revealed research proposal from 1971 shows that Richard Nixon’s science advisors embarked on an extensive analysis of the potential risks of climate change. (credit: Oliver Atkins/National Archives) In 1971, President Richard Nixon’s science advisers proposed a multimillion dollar climate change research...

Fri Apr 26, 2024 18:03

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