Commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC reviewed the company’s megamergers Published August 4, 2026 6:00AM (EDT) FCC Chairman Brendan Carr testifies before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government on May 21, 2025. (John McDonnell/Getty Images)) This article originally appeared on ProPublica. Two government watchdog groupsContinue Reading
Rhythmbox is one of those applications that you will find lurking on a GNOME-equipped desktop. If you are someone who has fully moved on to streaming music/podcasts online, then it doesn’t have much purpose for you. Even with the rise of streaming, many people do prefer hosting media locally, andContinue Reading
I have argued this in the past as well. RSS feeds are the simplest way to get out of the algorithm’s web. Every platform wants to decide what they think you should read. RSS feed is the resistance. You have a list of your own favorite websites that you trustContinue Reading
This is a MedPage Today story. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s statements before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday revealed a concerning lack of knowledge about the major health programs he’d oversee, should he be confirmed as HHS secretary. On several occasions during the 3.5-hour hearing, Kennedy seemed to conflate Medicare,Continue Reading
A US federal appeals court says EPA likely acted unlawfully in trying to cancel Biden-era clean energy grants., A US federal appeals court says EPA likely acted unlawfully in trying to cancel Biden-era clean energy grants. A United States federal appeals court has ruled that the The Traitor administration likelyContinue Reading
Rapidly spreading blazes are scorching the continent., Europe is still burning. From Spain to France, and from Italy to Greece, wildfires are destroying everything in their path. Crews work around the clock to contain them, but the fight is far from over. Rising temperatures and prolonged droughts create ideal conditionsContinue Reading
Fans of the the Papirus icon theme will be pleased to hear there a new update – the first since May 2025. Papirus’s first update in 2026 (the tardiness of which its maintainer, Serhii Yeremenko, apologises) brings over 80 new or updated icons spanning apps, games and user-interface icons, plus newContinue Reading
In an open letter, OpenAI this week turned to the court of public opinion in its existential war against Apple with a public notice in which the company refutes the iPhone maker’s claims concerning wholesale use of confidential information. You can detect the depth of enmity between both firms in OpenAI’s opening linesContinue Reading
AI agents are performing roughly 1 in 3 actions in enterprise IT workflows (but that share is rising quickly), while human analysts are rejecting about one-quarter of AI-proposed actions (but that rate is falling), according to a new study of tens of thousands of human-AI interactions. Operational data, rather thanContinue Reading
Despite being declared less than three months ago, the outbreak has already become the largest ever recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Continue Reading
Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this August 4th, 2026 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.Continue Reading
More than 70 years after the kidnapping, torture and lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi, a major new photography exhibit and companion book ask how the world would be different “If Emmett Till Lived.” The Black teenager’s brutal murder, as well as his open-casket funeral that displayed his mutilatedContinue Reading
Using continuous imagery from NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, scientists predicted the near-Earth arrival of a solar eruption to within 30 minutes in an initial proof of concept test. The results, presented Tuesday at the Committee on Space Research Scientific Meeting and under review atContinue Reading