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Court orders Meta to pay $567M to address kids’ mental health online 0
- Gear / Gear News and Events, General, News, Newsletters, Security / Security News, US
- August 7, 2026
SANTA FE, N.M. — A New Mexico court has ordered Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta to pay $567 million to address harms to young people from its platforms in the second phase of a landmark trial the social media giant lost in March. In a late Thursday ruling, Judge Bryan Biedscheid said the bulk
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Federal judge lets Utah enforce its anti-gambling laws on the prediction market Kalshi 0
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- August 6, 2026
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah can enforce its strict anti-gambling laws on prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket, a federal judge ruled in a win for states seeking to rein in the popular betting platforms. Utah has been on the front lines of a battle between states and the federal government over who regulates
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James Bond, not Bond James: why scientific publishing must respect name order 0
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- August 6, 2026
Until nearly the end of the twentieth century, most papers indexed in the Science Citation Index — a database of scientific papers — were written by researchers from Europe and North America. In keeping with the usual naming conventions on those continents, the index puts the given name first and the family name last. Journals,
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US faces new pressure to build weapons without China’s rare earth magnets 0

EXETER, N.H. — A giant American flag hanging on the wall of a warehouse in New Hampshire hints at the national importance of the elements bound inside the mining waste stored in 1-ton bags. The company uses electrolysis to separate the key critical elements President Donald Trump’s administration desperately wants to produce domestically from the

Strong iPhone sales propel Apple’s fiscal Q3 results past Wall Street’s expectations 0

Apple posted a solid fiscal third quarter on Thursday, climbing past Wall Street’s expectations thanks to strong sales of the iPhone and MacBook computers. Apple raised the prices of its Macs and iPads last month, citing a memory-chip shortage brought on by the artificial intelligence boom. The company had called the demand spike an “unprecedented