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Oregon’s landmark right-to-repair law is nearly here — today, SB 1596 passed the Oregon legislature, and is headed to Governor Tina Kotek’s desk to sign or veto within the next five days. It’s a big deal, because the Oregon law would be the first to ban “parts pairing,” a practice where companies can keep you from using components (someti



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A civilian employee of the U.S. Air Force has been arrested and charged with sharing highly classified military information on a dating app, according to an announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice on Monday. And it’s pretty clear from the indictment that whoever this man was talking to knew what she was after.

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A group of former Twitter executives, including former CEO Parag Agrawal, are suing Elon Musk and X over millions of dollars in unpaid severance benefits. The claims date back to the chaotic circumstances surrounding Musk’s takeover of the company in October 2022.

When Musk took control of the company, his first move was to fire Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde and general



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L: People visit the CVS pharmacy store at Times Square on March 1, 2024, in New York City.
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  • CVS and Walgreens will start selling mifepristone in some US states, Reuters reported.
  • The move follows a 2023 FDA decision to allow certified pharmacies to sell the abortion drug.
  • President Joe Biden, who has supported increased access to abortion, hailed the news.

CVS and Walgreens are set to begin selling the abortion pill mifepristone in



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EU regulators have just hit Apple with a whopping $2 billion fine over its App Store policies. 

And Apple is calling out the company that filed the complaint in the first place: Spotify.

On Monday, Apple released a fairly long statement acknowledging a $2 billion fine levied against the iPhone-maker by the European Commission. The massive fine is the result of an investigation by the EU into a



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MethaneSAT is the first of a new wave of satellites designed to pinpoint sources of methane emissions.
  • Monday, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Environmental Defense Fund's MethaneSAT satellite.
  • The satellite will track leaking methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from oil and gas companies. 
  • Google will use MethaneSAT data combined with AI to map

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The French multirole fighter Rafale F3R Marine lands on the tarmac of the Lann-Bihoue French Navy airbase in western France on January 12.
The French multirole fighter Rafale F3R Marine lands on the tarmac of the Lann-Bihoue French Navy airbase in western France on January 12.
  • France's Dassault Aviation may not be able to meet demand for its Rafale fighter jet.
  • The Rafale has become popular with India and several Middle Eastern nations.
  • It's a national fighter jet limited by French resources, an aviation expert



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OpenAI’s new Read Aloud feature for ChatGPT could come in handy when users are on the go by reading its responses in one of five voice options out loud to users. It is now available on both the web version of ChatGPT and the iOS and Android ChatGPT apps.

Read Aloud can speak 37 languages but will auto-detect the language of the text it’s reading, and



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Elon Musk fired a lot of people after he took over Twitter, but the first ones to go were several of its top executives. Now former CEO Parag Agrawal, former CFO Ned Segal, former chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, and former general counsel Sean Edgett are suing Musk and the company now known as X, saying they’re owed