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Prediction markets: Odds are Washington claims supremacy

Prediction markets have wandered into the middle of a fresh constitutional fight. Minnesota just passed the nation’s first outright ban, classing these markets as gambling and putting them under the state’s usual authority to police public morals and protect consumers. Washington didn’t wait long to weigh in. The federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission promptly sued, […]

Monica Lewinsky Has Always Hated Notifications

The writer and anti-bullying activist is on social media, but to protect her nervous system, she prefers not to be alerted.

Texas voters split 50-50 on stopping voter fraud vs. protecting access: Poll

A new survey shows that Texas voters are split between stopping voter fraud and protecting access to the polls. The Barbara Jordan Public Policy Research and Survey Center at Texas Southern University released findings on Tuesday showing that voters were evenly split when asked whether ensuring eligible citizens aren’t denied the right to vote is...

Order Shielding Trump Family From I.R.S. Audits Will Remain, Blanche Says

The acting attorney general said the administration was preserving a broad order protecting the president and his family from audits of already filed returns, despite dropping a $1.8 billion payout fund.

Here’s how investors can protect their portfolios from the next stock-market crash

It might not be today, it might not be tomorrow, but at some point, this bull market is going to end.

Trump still protected from tax enforcement, but anti-weaponization fund is dead, Blanche says

Meta expands safety features to limit harmful content for teens

Meta is rolling out a new feature to limit harmful content shown to teenagers as part of a broader push to better protect kids online in the wake of two landmark verdicts against the company. The setting, called Limited Content, will limit specific types of content, such as posts about weightlifting, nutrition and anxiety coping...

Court Issues Temporary Restraining Order Protecting Group Flying "8647" Flag

The flag, in context, likely doesn't fit within the First Amendment exception for true threats of illegal conduct or incitement of illegal conduct. [UPDATE: I had originally called this a preliminary injunction, but it is technically a temporary restraining order.]

Court Issues Preliminary Injunction Protecting Group Flying "8647" Flag

The flag, in context, likely doesn't fit within the First Amendment exception for true threats of illegal conduct or incitement of illegal conduct.

Muralist Robert Wyland Files $25 M. Lawsuit Over Dallas Whale Mural Destroyed For World Cup

The artist says his work was protected by the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990.

Netflix’s Emily Feingold Out as Comms Chief After 9 Years

Emily Feingold, Netflix’s longtime communications chief, is exiting the streaming giant after nine years. Feingold was hired as communications director in 2017 and was promoted to VP of Communications. It’s unclear why the well-respected Feingold is leaving Netflix, a company whose profile she helped raise and whose reputation she protected fiercely. Neither Feingold nor Netflix […]

Commodity Markets Are Living on Borrowed Time

Commodity markets have spent the past three months performing an extraordinary balancing act. Despite one of the most significant disruptions to global energy flows in decades, the global economy has continued to function remarkably smoothly. After an initial spike, prices for several key commodities have stabilised or even eased. Yet this apparent calm is deceptive. The reason the system has held together is due to governments, producers and consumers drawing down the buffers that normally protect the global economy from disruption. Those buffers…

Google’s Phone app will tell you if a scammer is impersonating one of your contacts

Google is launching a new feature for its Phone app that aims to protect you from AI impersonation scams. Now, when you receive a call from a scammer that appears to be coming from the same number as one of your contacts, Phone by Google will flag the call as suspicious so you can hang […]

Google rolls out fake call detection to protect against AI deepfake impersonation scams

As people increasingly refuse to answer calls from unknown numbers, scammers are shifting their tactics by spoofing trusted phone numbers and using AI deepfake technology to sound like authority figures, family members, or employers.

I tested a bunch of Switch 2 screen protectors, and these are the best

A glass screen protector is one of a few essential accessories that I strongly recommend to every Switch 2 owner. In fact, it should be a priority to stick one onto the console’s screen as soon as possible to avoid accidental scratches. To test the candidates below, I installed and removed Switch 2 screen protectors […]

The Protect College Sports Act Trades NCAA Chaos for Federal Overreach

Against a blue background with the NCAA logo, a collage image with photographs of Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Maria Cantwell, a hockey player, and a basketball player.

Rubio says Iranian Navy is just ‘a bunch of Boston Whalers with machine guns’

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that the destruction of Iran’s military has prevented the country from using a “conventional shield” to protect its nuclear program in the future. Rubio suggested that if the United States had not launched Operation Epic Fury earlier this year, Iran would have produced “so many missiles, so many […]

The speech America’s founders didn’t protect

The First Amendment doesn’t protect what most people think it protects. The Founding Fathers wrote it to defend a specific thing: political speech directed at government. Not offensive art. Not commercial advertising. Not the content moderation disputes on a social media platform. Two centuries of doctrinal expansion have broadened the amendment’s formal coverage considerably and, […]

Cisco is rolling out new tools to protect company IT systems from AI agents

The networking giant unveiled Cisco Cloud Control at its annual Cisco Live conference, with security features designed to defend infrastructure at machine speed

Great-grandmother stabbed to death on MARTA train carried a knife but ‘didn’t have time protect herself’

"She didn't have time to even try to protect herself."