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Judges tell Meta that Section 230 provides a defense, not immunity from lawsuits.

I first heard the term “censorship-industrial complex” on April 15, 2025. That’s when I got the tip that a small office in the U.S. State Department, which focused on monitoring and countering foreign disinformation from the likes of Russia, Iran, and China, was facing imminent shutdown—the next day. And the reason? R/FIMI, as the office…

Scaleup Europe, a public-private fund with a $5.7 billion target, made its first investment by backing Finnish satellite company ICEYE.

Trump has resisted urge to fire FCC Democrat despite recent Supreme Court win.

Fusion power startups are turning to Kyoto Fusioneering to supply components for future power pants. The Japan-based startup just received a grant to build a part of the fuel system.

Anthropic has pledged to start marking Claude-generated text and images with machine-readable data, in an effort to comply with European rules for AI transparency. "Generated text will carry embedded watermarks, and generated files will include digitally signed provenance metadata where supported," Anthropic says on a new Claude support page. The changes are invisible to human […]

California's Prop 40 would impose a one-time 5% tax on the net worth of the state's billionaires.

Battery materials startup Sila will use a $1.4 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Defense to scale production at its factory in Washington State.

Solar energy, at any time of day or night - that's the dream of space mirror projects. Futurists have been imagining satellite mirrors that could reflect the sun's light onto the Earth's surface for over a century. Russian scientists experimented with the concept in the '90s with the Znamya project. The idea is to put […]

The AI policies across the Linux ecosystem are very heterogeneous, ranging from the GCC’s restrictiveness, the Linux kernel’s pragmatism, to the more open disclosure-based utility model of Kubernetes' landscape. From core infrastructure to high-level orchestration, these distinct approaches highlight a shared commitment: ensuring the human maintainer remains the indispensable guardian of the code. By Olimpiu Pop

A draft rule reviewed by WIRED would prevent the census from counting undocumented immigrants. To protect against “distortions,” it would also bar questions about race and sexual orientation.

New Mexico judge orders $567M fund to help address youth mental health crisis.

DOGE's inflated "Wall of Receipts": 96% of grant savings unverifiable, GAO says.

The Trump administration has now convinced developers to abandon 12 offshore wind leases. The latest will cost taxpayers $1.2 billion.

This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations, with support from the Wayne Barrett Project. One morning in April 2025, employees of a small office in the US State Department got the email many of them had been dreading. For months, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency had been cutting a wide swath through…

Clinicians and researchers say AI companies need to open up their safety data.

A court rules that a hold on all wind projects clearly violates the law.

Meta has been ordered to pay $567 million in the second phase of New Mexico's landmark child safety case, bringing total charges to nearly $1 billion for being a "public nuisance." In a ruling published on Thursday, the Santa Fe district court found that Meta's platforms are a "significant contributing cause" of a teen mental […]

Musk continues appeal despite court loss and settlement with advertiser group.

The era of set broadcast ownership limits is officially over, after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted Thursday to end the national ownership cap rule. The agency's two Republicans, Chair Brendan Carr and Commissioner Olivia Trusty, voted to end the ownership cap, which restricts broadcast owners from holding stations that reach a combined more than […]