19+ hour, 53+ min ago   (434+ words) The ruling simultaneously tells states what they can and cannot do: they may require platforms to confirm users' ages before granting account access, but they cannot compel those same platforms to screen, rank, or remove content based on its subject…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (600+ words) The Great Divide Act works on three fronts. The bill would also ban resale websites that falsely imply affiliation with artists or venues, and prohibit misleading claims about ticket availability or scarcity. NIVA's statement on the bill from Executive Director…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (490+ words) An Adelaide-based quantum startup confirmed on Tuesday that a Nobel Prize-winning laser technology had operated successfully in space for the first time — a milestone that clears the last major technical barrier between today's meter-accurate GPS and tomorrow's centimeter-accurate navigation systems....

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (701+ words) San Diego Comic-Con 2026 kicks off this evening with Preview Night at the San Diego Convention Center — the event's traditional early-access opening reserved for badge-holders and credentialed press, running Wednesday from 6 to 9 p.m. PT. The full convention follows Thursday through Sunday,…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (700+ words) As of mid-July 2026, approximately 1,720 individual wildfires had ignited in California alone, burning more than 53,000 acres. Nationally, roughly 4 million acres had burned — about 33% above the 10-year average for this point in the year, according to National Interagency Fire Center spokesman Stanton…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (789+ words) Three people are dead, 74 are sick, and eight remain hospitalized after the Upper East Side's worst Legionnaires' disease outbreak in years claimed its third consecutive daily fatality on Sunday evening — even as the rate of new cases has fallen to…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (539+ words) This is a classic instance of client-side security assumption failure: the filtering logic that was supposed to suppress sensitive entries existed only in the JavaScript front-end, not enforced by the server. Anyone with basic command-line tooling — the reports note a…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (444+ words) Four days before the International Congress of Mathematicians opens in Philadelphia, the world's most prestigious mathematics prize appears to have been spoiled by a front-end coding error. In February 2025, Hong Wang, a professor at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (733+ words) The scale and persistence of the enforcement failure underlying this outbreak is documented in a Bisnow analysis of NYC Health Department records published July 16: since 2017, 70% of all inspections of the city's approximately 5,000 registered cooling towers have resulted in violations. The…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (409+ words) The 42-state $18 million settlement announcement represents the culmination of a multistate investigation launched immediately after the October 2023 disclosure. Investigators concluded that 23andMe had engaged in unreasonable data security practices — a finding the company contested. The company did not launch a full…...