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FCC chairman Ajit Pai gave up on his legally dicey attempt to ‘clarify’ internet law

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But that didn’t stop Pai from claiming the FCC did have the authority to do it, a political tactic that’s become so common in the Trump administration that my colleague Russell Brandom coined a phrase for it : “stunt legalism.”.

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How activists should be thinking about cybersecurity

The Verge

In this week’s edition of our Vergecast interview series , Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and policy editor Russell Brandom talk with cybersecurity expert and founder of CryptoHarlem Matt Mitchell. Russell Brandom: This is what’s so interesting about this side of cybersecurity. Image: Signal. Look at that thing.

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The Boogaloo movement has successfully hijacked social networks to spread

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In the delightfully dry phrasing of Wikipedia authors, “ 2: Electric Boogaloo became a verbal template appended to a topic as a signal of pejorative parody.”). Russell Brandom / The Verge ). The name derives from the camp classic breakdancing movie Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo. Industry. ?

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Processor: Google Pixels are coming, OnePlus Buds are seized, and LG is making weird phones again

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The CBP doubled down and said that no, it didn’t make a mistake and the OnePlus Buds did count as counterfeit and the CPB does, in fact, have the legal authority to seize them. Russell Brandom nails it. Except the CBP didn’t laugh. It’s probably free to retcon too, in today’s America). Oracle’s TikTok deal accomplishes nothing.

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Is Google finally managing its messaging mess?

The Verge

Russell Brandom talked to eight Instacart workers who got sick, yet despite promises from the company only three of them got sick pay. I came away a believer in the transformative power of the electric cargo bike to replace both diesel-gulping delivery vans and family cars in the world’s cities. More from The Verge. ?

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Three takeaways from a visit to TikTok’s new transparency center

The Verge

TikTok felt compelled to design these guided tours amid fears that the app would be used to share data with Chinese authorities or promote Communist Party propaganda to Americans. But the effort does have an undeniably impressive and redundant official name: a “monitoring, response and investigative fusion response center.”

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Why no one knows which stories are the most popular on Facebook

The Verge

The policy is part of a package of bipartisan amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act, which the Senate is expected to vote on later this week. Russell Brandom / The Verge ). The House voted to ban federal employees from downloading TikTok on government-issued devices.