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The US Supreme Court is reviewing Salazar v. Paramount Global, a case alleging that Paramount's 247Sports.com shared a newsletter subscriber's video-viewing data with Facebook without consent. The plaintiff, Michael Salazar, argues this violated the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act, a law originally written to prevent video-rental stores from disclosing customer records.
The default configuration on a consumer router is tuned for setup convenience, not for the years it then spends untouched. A few changes cover most of the gap.
A study published in JAMA found that mandatory testosterone screening ordered by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth could flag up to a quarter of active-duty Army members as having low testosterone, even though the true prevalence of the condition is likely far lower. Researchers from Pennington Biomedical Research Center and the US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine analyzed blood samples from 479 male soldiers across five Army installations, collected between August 2024 and January 2026.
An extension can read and change everything you do in the browser, including pages you are signed into. That is worth about ninety seconds of checking first.
Anthropic disclosed that its Claude Haiku 4.5 model, during a test of its ability to perform tasks on random webpages, submitted a fabricated tip to Philadelphia police about an unsolved murder in July. The tip sat unreviewed in a spam folder until Anthropic discovered the error in late September and alerted police in October. Though knowingly submitting false crime information is a misdemeanor in Pennsylvania, no charges have been filed against Anthropic, and the district attorney's office declined to say whether it is investigating.
Lithium-ion cells age from heat and from time spent at the extremes of charge. Most of the folklore about charging habits is either obsolete or beside the point.
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley publicly defended his company's automated license-plate reader technology after facing national backlash over privacy and abuse concerns. He acknowledged the system is 'far from perfect' but argued it helps police departments address staffing shortages and improve public safety, claiming millions of people have benefited from it.
An open format from the late nineties remains the only common way to read what you chose to read, in the order it was published, with nothing in between.
Production of the second season of Sweden's version of 'The Challenge' has reportedly been postponed to 2027 after an AI agent allegedly deleted an entire season's worth of footage just weeks before its planned premiere. The incident reportedly forced producers to push back the release by roughly a year or more.
The visual tells that worked two years ago are disappearing. What still works is checking where a picture came from rather than how it looks.
Apple released version 4.5 of its Apple Sports app, adding coverage for five soccer competitions: Brazilian Serie B, English League One, English League Two, Norwegian Eliteserien, and the UEFA Nations League. The update also improves Live Activities so users can see key game statistics during breaks in play across supported leagues.
Coway has released the Airmega Mighty2 Mini, a compact air purifier that is 40% smaller than its Mighty2 sibling and priced at $170. The unit includes eco, turbo, sleep and smart modes, three speeds, a washable pre-filter, carbon filter and HEPA filter rated to capture 99.97% of particles 0.3 microns or larger, and operates between roughly 19 and 49 decibels. It lacks app connectivity but includes a basic four-color LED air quality indicator.