DOJ Reinforces Demand to Break Up Google’s Search Monopoly
In a court filing on Friday, the government signaled a continuation of tough regulatory pressure on the search giant.
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The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome
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Is Google Search Cooked? + We’re Getting a U.S. Crypto Reserve? + What You’re Vibecoding
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Search continues for college student who vanished during spring break in Dominican Republic
The search for missing University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki, who vanished last week while on a spring break trip in the Dominican Republic.NBC News - 2d -
University of Pittsburgh student missing on spring break trip to the Dominican Republic
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Search intensifies for missing Pitt spring breaker. Here's what we know.
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Search continues for Pitt student who went missing in Dominican Republic
Authorities in the Dominican Republic are searching for a University of Pittsburgh student, 20-year-old Sudiksha Konanki, who went missing last week while on spring break. CBS News Pittsburgh ...CBS News - 2d -
FBI involved in search for missing Pitt student in Dominican Republic
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Amazon, Google and Meta support tripling of nuclear capacity by 2050
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FBI joins Dominican Republic search for missing University of Pittsburgh student, police say
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Reality Games raises $4.7M for location-based Monopoly World
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FBI joins search for missing American college student in Dominican Republic
An American college student has been missing in the Dominican Republic for nearly a week. She was last seen heading to the beach in the spring break destination town of Punta Cana. Manuel Bojorquez ...CBS News - 1d -
Microsoft is open to using natural gas to power AI data centers to keep up with demand
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Big Tech's big bet on nuclear power
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Big Tech's big bet on nuclear power to fuel artificial intelligence
Faced with the need to cut carbon emissions, and an increasing energy demand to power AI, companies like Microsoft, Google and Amazon are investing in nuclear, from restarting Three Mile Island, to ...CBS News - 3d -
States Shift Policy, Create Financial Incentives to Draw Power Plants
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March Madness: Breaking down the race for NCAA men's tournament No. 1 seeds
Auburn remains the clear-cut No. 1 overall seed and Duke seems like a lock, but the other two spots are up for grabs heading into conference tournament week.Yahoo Sports - 3d -
Video shows Pakistan police breaking up Karachi protest, not beating Jamia Hafsa students
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Wales must not be 'chewed up' by losing run
Interim head coach Matt Sherratt says Wales must not fixate on breaking their record losing sequence after a 35-29 Six Nations defeat to Scotland.BBC News - 4d -
From an Alpine meadow to a Greek island: five of the best spring breaks in Europe
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DOJ weighs plan to slash public corruption unit
The Justice Department (DOJ) is weighing a sizable reduction in a division designed to handle public corruption cases, a move that comes after the department dropped charges against New York City ...The Hill - 16h -
Washington state sues rural county for helping ICE round up undocumented immigrants
The Washington attorney general claims in a new lawsuit that the sheriff in Adams County has been breaking state law by helping federal immigration officers round up undocumented residents.NBC News - 1d -
Google's DeepMind says it will use AI models to power physical robots
Google is taking its DeepMind artificial intelligence technology models into the physical world to power robots.CNBC - 19h -
2025 NFL free agency: Joey Bosa reportedly agrees to 1-year, $12.6 million deal with Bills
The Bills found quite a defensive-line reinforcement.Yahoo Sports - 1d -
Top Trump advisers get involved as the fight to win his presidential library site heats up
The search for President Donald Trump’s post-administration presidential library site is intensifying in South Florida, with Trump's son Eric and a top Trump administration adviser, Steve Witkoff, ...NBC News - 4d -
Google unveils open source Gemma 3 model with 128k context window
Google's Gemma 3 is multimodal, comes in four sizes and can now handle more information and instructions thanks to a larger context window.VentureBeat - 1d -
Google’s Gemini Robotics AI Model Reaches Into the Physical World
Google has developed an AI model that gives humanoids and other robots more intelligence—and a tool designed to give them a moral compass too.Wired - 22h -
Suns' Mason Plumlee, Rockets' Steven Adams ejected after fight breaks out early in matchup in Houston
The two centers locked up while jostling for position in the paint before suddenly throwing each other down to the court at the Toyota Center.Yahoo Sports - 12h -
Missing college student was last on beach with people she met on trip, authorities say
As the nearly weeklong search for the University of Pittsburgh student who vanished while on spring break in the Dominican Republic continues, Virginia authorities said she was last seen on the ...NBC News - 1d -
DOJ pardon attorney says she was removed after dispute over Mel Gibson's gun rights
A top official at the DOJ was fired one day after refusing to recommend that Mel Gibson's access to firearms be restored, according to a statement provided to ABC News.ABC News - 1d -
DOJ lawyers decline to let OMP's acting director testify about mass firings
The Trump administration could be sanctioned after the DOJ declined to make a top administration official available for sworn testimony regarding the recent mass firings.ABC News - 1d -
Search for ship collision crew member called off
The search for a missing crew member has ended after a ship hit an oil tanker in the North Sea.BBC News - 2d -
Do these 3 things before a job interview to stand out, says ex-Google exec: They ‘keep you top of mind’
Ex-Google executive Jenny Wood recommends jobseekers write a LinkedIn post about their prospective company within days of their interview.CNBC - 2d -
Inside Google’s Investment in Anthropic
The internet giant owns 14% of the high-profile artificial intelligence company, according to legal filings obtained by The New York Times.The New York Times - 1d -
Delta Says Economic Worries Are Hurting Travel Demand
The airline lowered its financial forecast for the first quarter as economic anxiety hurts demand for tickets.The New York Times - 2d -
Airline CEOs warn domestic travel demand is slowing
Airline CEOs say economic uncertainty and a drop in government travel is driving down domestic travel demand.CNBC - 1d -
DOJ official says she was fired after opposing the restoration of Mel Gibson's gun rights
The U.S. Pardon Attorney was terminated last Friday after she opposed restoring actor Mel Gibson’s rights to carry a gun, her spokesperson and two DOJ officials told NBC News.NBC News - 2d -
DOJ official says she was dismissed after not recommending Mel Gibson's gun rights be restored
The head of the Department of Justice (DOJ) office that makes pardon recommendations to the president said she was fired after refusing to sign off on a recommendation to restore gun rights to ...The Hill - 1d
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Eric Schmidt Joins Relativity Space as C.E.O.
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How Generative A.I. Complements the MAGA Style
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Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee’s Scathing Memoir
An arbitrator has prevented the employee from promoting her book and disparaging the company until private arbitration concludes.The New York Times - 9h -
How to Spend Less Time on Social Media (or Leave It Altogether)
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