The Supreme Court will hear social media cases with immense free speech implications

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On Friday, the US Supreme Court agreed to take on two landmark social media cases with enormous implications for online speech, as reported by The Washington Post. The conservative-dominated court will determine if laws passed by Texas and Florida are violating First Amendment rights by requiring social platforms to host content they would otherwise block. …

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Knots are untied as The Wheel of Time season two approaches its end

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Enlarge / Egwene abides. Amazon Studios reader comments 15 with The Wheel of Time season two View more stories Andrew Cunningham and Lee Hutchinson have spent decades of their lives with Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson’s Wheel of Time books, and they previously brought that knowledge to bear as they recapped each first season episode …

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Report: Google’s money was “key” factor in Apple rejecting Bing purchase

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Getty Images reader comments 8 with A few years before Microsoft went all-in on a ChatGPT-powered Bing search engine, the company had another idea for its perennial, also-ran search engine: sell it to Apple. A report in Bloomberg, sourced from people familiar with the early theoretical sales talks, states that Microsoft pitched Bing as a …

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US agency sues Tesla as Black workers report “swastikas, threats, and nooses”

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Enlarge / Cars parked at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California, on February 10, 2022. Getty Images | Josh Edelson reader comments 38 with The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued Tesla yesterday, alleging that the electric carmaker violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by subjecting Black employees at its manufacturing facilities in …

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Microsoft will stop old Windows product keys from activating new Windows installs

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reader comments 41 with RIP to one of my favorite loopholes: Microsoft quietly announced earlier this month (via Neowin) that users will no longer be able to install and activate Windows 10 or Windows 11 with old Windows 7 and Windows 8 product keys. At least for now, though, it seems like this change will …

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