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Wrote Doughty, “Defendants ‘significantly encouraged’ the social-media companies to such extent that the decisions (of the companies) should be deemed to be the decisions of the government.”Doughty’s ban, which is now on hold as the White House appeals, attempts to set the bounds of acceptable conduct for government IRUs. It provides an exemption for officials to continue notifying social media companies about illegal activity or national security issues. Emma Llansó, director of the Free Expression Project at the Center…

Credit: Shutterstock These days it's necessary to have at least a basic level of English proficiency in most research contexts. But at the same time, our collective emphasis on English places a significant burden on scientists who speak a different first language. In research published today in PLOS Biology, my colleagues and I…

It is now harder to accidentally delete characters in Destiny 2, thanks to some UI and input changes.If you select the option to delete a character, a new prompt will appear. The pop-up warns that this action will "Delete your character completely, including all items that are equipped or in your inventory. It will also delete any level boost applied to this character." However, to mark that you've understood, you will input a set of key selections or button presses, rather than merely selecting yes or…

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It’s beating a dead horse at this point to call The Flash a bomb; everybody knows the movie hyped by James Gunn as one of the greatest superhero blockbusters of all-time is an unmitigated financial catastrophe that stands to lose Warner Bros. hundreds of millions of dollars. However, what continues to make it such a fascinating tale is the way in which it’s been bombing, with the Scarlet Speedster’s long-gestating solo debut continuing to check off unwanted records and unfortunate milestones with each passing week, and…

OpenAI's ChatGPT has already become an integral tool for many professionals when it comes to streamlining workflows and saving time. However, there is more to learning to use ChatGPT than simply entering prompts and revising what the AI feeds back. If you want to use ChatGPT to craft high-quality text, support ideation, and more, then you may want to enroll in this online training that gives you a solid foundation and upskills you on AI for just $30 (reg. $52). Become a more advanced ChatGPT user in four hoursThis online…

From a distance, the sun may seem calm and steady. But zoom in, and our home star is actually in a perpetual state of flux, transforming over time from a uniform sea of fire to a chaotic jumble of warped plasma and back again in a recurring cycle.  Every 11 years or so, the sun's magnetic field gets tangled up like a ball of tightly wound rubber bands until it eventually snaps and completely flips — turning the north pole into the south pole and vice versa. In the lead-up to this gargantuan reversal, the sun amps up its…

Thanks to the latest patch, players have yet another roadblock in the quest to find the secret cow level in Diablo 4.Thanks to PCGamer, we know that the 1.0.3 patch removed a quest called "The Oxen Gods," where players had to turn in a series of items that would give them access to a hidden room. This was considered a vital puzzle piece to a group called Not Finding A Cow Level Discord. As the name suggests, it's a Discord server dedicated to discovering whether the cow level is real.…

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court made prosecuting online harassment more difficult. In a 7-2 ruling on Tuesday, SCOTUS determined that a lower court’s decision to convict and imprison a Colorado man for stalking was flawed. The majority opinion in the case (Counterman v. Colorado), authored by Justice Elena Kagan, clarifies limits on what sorts of digital communication can be considered criminal and raises the bar for assessing online threats.Teenage Cybercrime Gang LAPSUS$ Strikes AgainBilly Raymond Counterman, the…

A house for sale, in escrow, in Laguna Woods, California.Scott Mlyn | CNBCAnyone out shopping for a home on the resale market knows the pickings are slim. They're about to get slimmer. The number of homes for sale this month was actually 7% higher than June of last year, according to Realtor.com. But, in just the last week, that comparison went negative, with the number of homes for sale falling below year-ago levels for the first time in 59 weeks.New listings in the last week of June were down 29% from the same week a…