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The UK government hopes to update the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) 2016. In fact, it will be debated soon in the House of Lords, which has Apple hot under the collar.Why? New updates to that act seek to give the UK government new powers to pre-approve "new security features introduced by tech firms," according to a new BBC report.  It goes on to note that "Under the proposed amendments to existing laws," meaning the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) 2016 "if the UK Home Office declined an update, it then could not be…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The United States House of Representatives held more than 700 votes in 2023, but fewer than 30 bills were signed into law. Partisan politics may explain why, with polarization potentially causing enough friction to slow down the legislative process and make the passage of fewer, farther-reaching public laws likelier, according to researchers. …

Vince McMahon attends a press conference at MetLife Stadium on February 16, 2012 in East Rutherford, New Jersey.Michael N. Todaro | Getty ImagesWWE boss Vince McMahon was accused Thursday of sexual assault, trafficking, and physical and emotional abuse in a graphic lawsuit by a woman who previously worked for the pro wrestling giant.The suit by Janel Grant — which alleges McMahon directed her to have sex with a WWE "superstar" and other men — seeks to void a nondisclosure agreement that Grant said she reached with McMahon…

Credit: Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels Within most countries, businesses operate under the notion that their property rights are stable. A set of operational rules and a political system that protects those rules are firmly entrenched, right? Not necessarily. "According to organization and management theory, mostly we assume the external…

Representing Xenovia, the Leiden team took full responsibility for the explosion but said their client repossessed Candidia’s satellite in full accordance with the Outer Space Treaty. Having given notice to the Candidian company that it was late on payments, they argued, the Xenovian creditor had satisfied the treaty’s requirement for “appropriate international consultations.”Katsande felt as if she was hearing a rough version of her own winning argument thrown back at her. After about 15 minutes of deliberation, the…

As the entrepreneurial world eagerly awaits the Interim Budget of 2024, the gaming industry, a prominent player in…

Brothers Matt and Scott Krisiloff — allies of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — were deeply involved in Rep. Dean Phillips’ presidential campaign before leaving to launch a super PAC in support of the Minnesota Democrat’s longshot 2024 bid, as well as a dark money group that is running ads in New Hampshire, according to interviews, internal documents, and public records obtained by Rolling Stone.  Campaign finance lawyers say the Phillips campaign and We Deserve Better, the super PAC, are testing the limits of federal…

It’s a common refrain heard from drivers everywhere, “Those dang cyclists don’t respect the rules of the road!”. But how do bike riders and car drivers actually compare when it comes to obeying traffic laws? That’s exactly what one scientific study set about to discover. The study isn’t exactly new, coming to us from the before times of 2019 when the Danish government contracted consulting firm Rambøll to study the issue with video cameras set up at intersections around the country. In the study,…

In 1859, French astronomer and mathematician Urbain Le Verrier detected something strange: Mercury deviated in its dance around the Sun, defying the orderly precession predicted by Newtonian physics.This odd anomaly couldn't be explained by unknown planets tugging at Mercury's orbit; only by physicist Albert Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity, which describes how gravity creates curves in the fabric of space-time.Einstein's general theory has held strong in the century since, but there are a few things about…

Sun Yu / Financial Times: Sources: the Cybersecurity Administration of China approved only ~25% of data export applications since data security laws came into effect in September 2022 — Delays come amid slowing economy and increased tensions between Washington and Beijing — China has approved only about a quarter … Sun Yu / Financial Times: Sources: the Cybersecurity Administration of China approved only ~25% of data export applications since data security laws came into…