Policy

A US military GPS jamming exercise blinded civilian aircraft across New Mexico. What that had to do with a fatal medevac crash near Ruidoso.

An Xbox outage locked players out of disc games they owned. Here is why the plastic in the tray no longer guarantees you can play.

Hungary's Paks nuclear plant is shutting down entirely because the Danube has fallen below its cooling intakes — during a heatwave that spikes demand.

Norway invented global demand for farmed salmon. Now its fjords are losing oxygen — and the industry is too valuable to slow down.

Crews in St. Mary's, Newfoundland are removing 900,000 litres of fish sauce abandoned in 2001 — and with it, an accidental chemistry experiment.

Wikimedia Foundation rejected fast-track union recognition for Wikipedia's staff, demanding an NLRB election and hiring law firm Littler Mendelson.

Why 2,000 negative cyclospora tests cannot clear a recalled lettuce product, and what Taylor Farms has left out of five rewritten statements.

Brussels is forcing Alphabet to share eleven Android features, including low-power wake word detection, with rival voice assistants by August 2027.

What hardware-bound attestation would mean for EU age verification, and why the specifics of the reported mandate cannot yet be verified.

eBay staff stalked a newsletter couple with live insects, a funeral wreath and threats. Seven were sentenced; the civil case settled for a reported $56m.

Video rental stores lasted about 25 years. What replaced them changed not just how we watch films, but who is allowed to keep a copy.

Export controls once treated encryption code as munitions. The same legal machinery is now being pointed at AI model weights, with familiar consequences.

Canada signed the UN cybercrime treaty in July after years opposing it. Critics call it a cross-border surveillance pact, not a crime convention.

An investigation counted 239 court challenges to food labels, soda taxes and ad rules since 2010 — 595 years of litigation, most of it in Mexico.

Gambling firms are off the front of all 20 Premier League shirts for 2026-27. Banks and airlines moved in — and betting brands moved to the sleeve.

UEFA and its 55 national associations say their teams will skip FIFA competitions unless a plan to open them to private ownership is dropped entirely.

Google's Play Age Signals API goes global by end of 2026, letting apps see an age bracket, not a birthday. What it fixes, and what it misses.