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The SEC Just Quietly Surrendered in Its Biggest Crypto Battle

The SEC Just Quietly Surrendered in Its Biggest Crypto Battle

The crypto world’s biggest and most consequential legal war is finally over. Ripple Labs, a fintech giant, has just closed the book on its nearly five-year battle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, ending a fight that had become a proxy for the future of cryptocurrency regulation in America. The surprise settlement is being hailed as a landmark victory …

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Tencent quietly updates “slavish Horizon clone” Light of Motiram’s Steam page

Tencent quietly updates “slavish Horizon clone” Light of Motiram’s Steam page

Tencent has quietly removed, edited, and/or replaced key art on the Steam page of its upcoming adventure game, Light of Motiram, just days after Sony filed a copyright lawsuit. Towards the end of last year, Tencent’s development studio, Polaris Quest, revealed Light of Motiram, a post-apocalyptic open-world survival crafting game featuring mechanised animal-like creatures that bore a remarkable resemblance to …

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RFK Jr. Quietly Endorses Flu Vaccine for Kids and Adults – MedPage Today

RFK Jr. Quietly Endorses Flu Vaccine for Kids and Adults  MedPage Today RFK Jr. accepted flu shot recommendations for children  The Hill RFK Jr. signs off on thimerosal-free flu vaccines, despite no evidence of harm from preservative  FOX 13 News Utah Kennedy quietly endorses this fall’s flu vaccine  statnews.com Department of Health and Human Services Announces Removal of Thimerosal From All US Flu Vaccines  Contemporary …

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Republicans quietly fret about ‘disturbing’ Cory Mills allegations – Politico

Republicans quietly fret about ‘disturbing’ Cory Mills allegations  Politico GOP Rep. Cory Mills accused by ex-girlfriend of threatening to release sexually explicit images, videos of her  CNN Miss United States accuses Rep. Cory Mills of threatening to leak intimate images  yahoo.com Congressman Cory Mills accused of threatening to expose private photos of Miss United States  WKMG Allegations surrounding GOP’s Cory Mills go from bad …

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Jury rules Meta violated California privacy laws by quietly collecting Flo users’ menstrual health data

Jury rules Meta violated California privacy laws by quietly collecting Flo users’ menstrual health data

A California jury has found Meta in violation of state user privacy laws in a class-action suit brought by users of period tracking app, Flo, who alleged that the tech giant collected private menstrual health data without users’ consent and used it for ad-tracking purposes. The plaintiffs, claiming to represent millions of Flo users, had accused Flo and Meta of …

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How Florida quietly surpassed California in solar growth

How Florida quietly surpassed California in solar growth

Solar energy is booming across the U.S. and, for the first time, Florida is catching up to industry powerhouses Texas and California. Despite removing climate change from its official state policy in 2024, Florida added more utility-scale solar than California last year, with over 3 gigawatts of new capacity coming online.  “This is not a fluke,” said Sylvia Leyva Martinez, …

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How Boeing is quietly betting on a ‘brilliant’ 39-year old engineer—and setting the stage for a turnaround

How Boeing is quietly betting on a ‘brilliant’ 39-year old engineer—and setting the stage for a turnaround

As an aeronautics grad student at MIT in the 2010s, Brian Yutko was obsessed. He’d work deep into the night mining “black box” data and destination codes buried in antiquated computer languages like Fortran for obscure flight stats. He wowed his thesis advisor with his work on fuel efficiency. Among Yutko’s findings: Airlines could reduce pollution by 7% by flying …

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Under RFK Jr, CDC skips study on vaccination rates, quietly posts data on drop

Under RFK Jr, CDC skips study on vaccination rates, quietly posts data on drop

Vaccination rates among the country’s kindergartners have fallen once again, with coverage of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination dropping from 92.7 percent in the 2023–2024 school year to 92.5 percent in 2024–2025. The percentage changes are small across the board, but they represent thousands of children and an ongoing downward trend that makes the country more vulnerable to …

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