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Sep 24, 2026

Tuesday

·The Verge

A cut cable disrupted hundreds of flights across the US

Construction crews in New Jersey accidentally cut a Verizon fiber cable used for air traffic control, triggering a circuit failure that disrupted FAA operations. The outage caused...

A cut cable disrupted hundreds of flights across the US
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·TechCrunch

The man who built Apple’s stores doesn’t buy Silicon Valley’s bet on AI shopping

Ron Johnson, who built Apple’s retail store strategy, says AI will improve online shopping but is unlikely to change how people buy high-consideration products. He argues that cons...

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·The Verge

Amazon wants to help the Colorado River, but we still don’t know how much water the company uses

Amazon will spend $20 million on conservation projects in the Colorado River Basin, a strained water source for about 40 million people in the Western US. The move supports its goa...

Amazon wants to help the Colorado River, but we still don’t know how much water the company uses
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·dataprotection.ie

Ireland’s DPC fines Google €403M over GDPR violations tied to location data settings and retention practices

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission fined Google €403 million after finding GDPR violations in how it processed location data across Web & App Activity, Location History, and Loca...

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·blog.colinbreck.com

AI-generated workplace writing is flooding docs, PRs, and messages with detail but little context or human judgment

The author argues that AI has made it easier for people to generate long design docs, tickets, pull request summaries, and messages, but much of it is unreadable because it lacks p...

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·personalimportation.org

US indefinitely suspends de minimis duty exemption for low-value mail imports worth $800 or less

A Federal Register notice announces the indefinite suspension of the de minimis exemption for mail shipments valued at $800 or less. Low-value imports that previously avoided dutie...

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·The Verge

California tightens rules on AI data center energy and water use

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed seven bills aimed at preventing AI data centers from shifting utility costs onto households. The laws require a new data center rate classificat...

California tightens rules on AI data center energy and water use
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