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FCC approves Verizon’s $20 billion merger after it commits to ‘ending’ DEI
Verizon’s $20 billion deal to acquire the fiber internet provider Frontier is officially happening. On Friday, the Federal Communications Commission signed off on the merger, which will allow Verizo...
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The State Department reportedly pressured African countries to adopt Elon Musk’s Starlink
After The Washington Post earlier this month revealed that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had instructed the State Department to help Starlink expand in order to fend off Chinese technological influen...
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Thanks, Trump tariffs, now I gotta replace my phone battery
After five years, I was still happy with my phone, even though its battery had started the inevitable process of slowing to a stop. But Donald Trump's tariff nonsense pushed me to make a decision: buy...
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Nvidia’s flattery of Trump wins reversal of AI chip limits and a Huawei clampdown
Nvidia’s efforts to suck up to the Trump administration have seemingly paid off, with the US now lifting export limits on US-made AI chips and cracking down on anyone using Huawei’s emerging alter...
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PayPal launches iPhone NFC payments in Germany after EU forced Apple to open up
German iPhone users are starting to report that they’re now able to use PayPal’s tap-to-pay feature at in-store payment terminals, according to German tech site iPhone Ticker. The new capability, ...
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Why one obscure app could help crumble Meta’s empire
If the question, "Who is Meta's biggest rival?" were on a Family Feud survey, TikTok would likely be the winning answer. In the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust case against the Facebook and Insta...
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Indigenous scientists are fighting to protect their data — and their culture
Every month, a group of Indigenous scientists from around the world gathers on Zoom. They never have an agenda. They meet as colleagues to catch up and commiserate about the challenges of being Indige...
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Did Apple get too big for its own good? With Daring Fireball’s John Gruber
We’re doing something a little different on today’s episode of Decoder. I asked my friend John Gruber, of the website Daring Fireball, to come on the show and talk about the future of Apple — an...
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Apple is looking at adding Perplexity and other AI search engines to Safari
Apple is “actively looking at” bringing AI search options to Safari. Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of services, made the statement during Google’s antitrust trial on Wednesday, sayin...
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DOJ asks court to split up Google’s ad tech empire
The US Department of Justice filed a plan in court to make Google divest its advertising marketplace and ad management platform, part of a proposal to address the company’s “decade-long campaign o...
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