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- Amazon Fires Back After FTC Claims Its Hidden Reserve Price Auctions Inflate Ad Costs
FTC alleges Amazon's reserve-price ad auction system inflates ad costs, a claim Amazon denies. Yet courts have sided with regulators in recent Google AdTech rulings.
- How AI And Peter Gabriel Changed Junie Lau’s Path To Directing
Filmmaker Junie Lau used generative AI to break into directing, win Peter Gabriel’s backing and turn childhood memories into Goldfish Mayhem.
- Tesla’s Launch Of Self-Driving Cybercab Rides Sparks Federal Probe
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is probing Tesla’s safety procedures a day after it launched a ride service in Austin using the new model.
- Cyclospora outbreaks expose a U.S. food safety system that’s been crumbling for decades—and Musk’s DOGE cuts are ‘only going to make that worse’
“None of this is efficiency,” one food safety expert said of DOGE’s government personnel and research cuts. "This is all whatever the opposite of efficiency is.”
- Vogue’s “September Issue” Rejects ‘Monopoly’ Charges Lobbed At Google
What’s dominant can’t last in a free market. Antitrust is excess.
Technology
- Rocket Report: Engines installed for Artemis III; Long March 6C breakup in LEO
Two of Europe's leading launch startups announced new fundraising this week.
- The Download: selling battlefield drone data and AI reshaping language
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace —Cory Alpert, a researcher at the University of Melbourne studying AI’s impact on democracy, who previously served in the…
- Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+.
Fairphone's CTO explains how and why the Dutch company builds a different kind of smartphone.
- Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace
Battlefields in Ukraine are littered with the remnants of drones, which are now firmly established as a critical weapon of modern warfare. But behind all that wreckage, there’s a new gold mine for the defense sector. The data drones generate will far outlast the wars in which they are used to fight, increasingly becoming part…
- Reports: RFK Jr. ordered measles deaths deletion; CDC still secretly counts them
CDC staff had already accepted the measles death reports when RFK Jr. meddled.
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