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  • TikTok execs thought the US was mostly over banning the app after Biden joined, per WSJ.
  • Then, the House introduced a bill that could result in a US ban on the social media app.
  • TikTok and free-speech groups argue the ban violates First Amendment rights.

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An 80-year-old man in Montana pleaded guilty Tuesday to two felony wildlife crimes involving his plan to let paying customers hunt sheep on private ranches. But these weren’t just any old sheep. They were “massive hybrid sheep” created by illegally importing animal parts from central Asia, cloning the sheep, and then…

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Frontier Airlines is offering a new seating upgrade.
  • Frontier Airlines is giving passengers the option to pay for an empty middle seat.
  • The airline announced it will allow customers to pay extra to sit in rows with only two passengers.
  • The "UpFront Plus" seating upgrade starts at $49 and will be available on April flights. 

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Bluesky, the open-source Twitter alternative, is about to start testing out one of its more ambitious ideas: allowing its users to run their own moderation services. The change will allow Bluesky users to and developers to work together to create custom labeling tools for the budding social media platform.

The new moderation tools arrive as Bluesky is seeing a surge in growth after it got rid of



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Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas tells The Verge that many people are using chatbots like regular search engines. It makes sense to offer information on things they look for, like restaurants, directly from the source. So it’s integrating Yelp’s maps, reviews, and other details in responses when people ask for restaurant



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Hello! It’s been a bit since we checked in on the news. Today, I’ve got a look at the ongoing financial troubles at NPR member stations, the shutdown of Rooster Teeth, and the new season of Serial.

Woes mounting at NPR member stations: “Sponsorship



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When you think of the most important people in Star Trek history, in terms of actors at least you might look to the legacies of people like William Shatner or Patrick Stewart. But the real answer to that question is probably Jonathan Frakes, who has been a part of pretty much all televised Trek since the ‘70s—and when …

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  • An illegal trade in greenhouse gases is threatening US climate goals.
  • Refrigerant smuggling has persisted since the 1990s, when regulations arose to close the ozone hole.
  • Unprecedented charges for driving greenhouse gases over the border show the US is cracking down.

Plenty of legitimate business drives the climate crisis — any industry that runs on fossil fuels or cow



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Bluesky will soon let users customize how content is moderated in their feeds. The social platform announced that it’s open-sourcing its moderation tool, called Ozone, to let developers create additional moderation services that can be selected by users.

Bluesky already has a team dedicated to content moderation, along with its own set of rules users have to



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Marvel Studios has fired Beau DeMayo, the creator of the upcoming animated Disney Plus series X-Men ’97, according to The Hollywood Reporter. De Mayo previously produced and wrote for another Marvel show, Moon Knight, and has also worked on The Witcher, The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The firing reportedly



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I was in town for the premiere of "MoviePass, MovieCrash."
  • I went to Austin for the opening weekend of the annual music, film, TV, and tech festival South by Southwest.
  • Netflix, Amazon, Paramount+, and Disney competed for attention with premieres and eye-catching installations.
  • I got my teeth "pulled" at an Amazon installation and got a scorpion-filled lollipop in return.

I flew to



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Aaron Rodgers.
  • RFK Jr. is eyeing two unconventional names for his running mate.
  • According to The New York Times, Kennedy has talked to Jets QB Aaron Rodgers.
  • Kennedy has also spoken with former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura.

Longshot presidential hopeful Robert Kennedy Jr. told The New York Times that he is considering both Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers and former Minnesota Gov


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