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FCC Clears a Giant Mirror Satellite to Beam Sunlight to Earth
1+ hour, 16+ min ago (315+ words) Reflect Orbital's E'rendil-1 launches in 2026 with FCC radio approval, but no agency has reviewed the mirror's environmental impact Engineers with NASA JPL experience designed the reflector to unfold in orbit and deliver a controlled beam of sunlight to specific targets…...
DEFLOCK: The Proposed New Law Would Make It a Felony For City Officials To Install AI Cameras Without a Public Vote
1+ hour, 48+ min ago (249+ words) Flock's rapid spread relied on permit shortcuts, bypassed hearings, and a centralized database nobody's elected officials ever formally approved. "State lawmakers must pass comprehensive LPR legislation," ACLU analysts have argued, pointing directly to that accountability gap. The Automated License Plate…...
ICE Is Showing Up at Critics' Doors " and No One's Being Charged
2+ hour, 35+ min ago (369+ words) ICE opened 131 cases against online critics in 15 months, using admin subpoenas and surveillance tools " but made zero arrests The machinery turning a critical Reddit post into a doorbell ring requires zero judicial approval. The documented cases reveal a consistent pattern:…...
Millions Lost Money. Cash App Had No One to Call. Now 46 States Are Demanding Answers.
23+ hour, 19+ min ago (190+ words) Block agreed to overhaul fraud response and live customer support after 46 state AGs documented failures affecting 59 million users Here's what investigators found: This settlement doesn't exist in isolation. In January 2025, the CFPB ordered Block to pay up to $120 million in…...
The Data Center Boom Is Pushing Into Native American Land
1+ day, 5+ min ago (205+ words) Seminole Nation's moratorium signals growing Indigenous resistance as 37-plus data center projects target tribal water, land, and power grids Amazon, Google, and federal agencies see tribal lands as ideal sites " large parcels, renewable energy, and sovereign permitting pathways. Some Nations…...
AI Data Center's Endless Hum " The Unchecked AI Nightmare Forcing a Michigan Town Into Federal Court
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (267+ words) Dowagiac residents sue Alliance Cloud Services as a planned 340-megawatt expansion threatens to worsen round-the-clock industrial noise Chronic 6070 d B noise from cooling fans has triggered a federal lawsuit and forced Dowagiac to rewrite its noise rules. Porch measurements near…...
The Premium Gas Price Gap Is Now Nearly a Dollar. Here's Who Should Actually Care.
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (472+ words) For cars that only "recommend" premium, switching to regular could save drivers up to $680 a year That flinch at the pump is backed by hard data. The U. S. Energy Information Administration reports that premium gasoline averaged about 93 cents more per gallon…...
Living Next to a Freight Train 24/7: Why the Neighborhood Around Microsoft's AI Data Center Is Suing.
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (272+ words) Three Sturtevant residents sued Microsoft in federal court on July 1, two weeks after the company declared its Wisconsin AI campus noise "fully resolved" Most data-center noise originates from outdoor cooling infrastructure, not the quiet chip clusters humming inside sealed halls....
UN Chief Sets 2026 Deadline to Ban 'Killer Robots"
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (207+ words) Guterres warns that without a binding 2026 treaty, over 120 nations face an autonomous weapons arms race with no accountability Guterres wants a two-tier treaty that bans some autonomous weapons outright and regulates the rest " with a ticking clock. "Machines that have…...
The Biggest Data Center Project Ever Killed by a Newspaper Schedule
4+ day, 50+ min ago (330+ words) QTS and Blackstone abandoned their 2, 100-acre Virginia campus after courts voided the rezoning over a missed six-day notice window Virginia's Court of Appeals voided the entire rezoning because the county failed to follow its own public notice rules. The project's…...