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🏃 Fitness Tracker Privacy Fails | EFFector 38.14

Watches, bands, and rings—if you want to digitally monitor your fitness, more companies than ever are selling devices to do it. And more Americans than ever now own at least one wearable health device. But what are the companies that make fitness trackers doing to protect our

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Smidley – “Love In Every Direction”

Last year, Foxing announced an indefinite hiatus and played their goodbye show . Last month, frontman Conor Murphy revived his old solo side project Smidley and announced the new album Murphy Horse . Lucy Dacus appeared on lead single " Capstone ," and now Murphy's got another

Mills declines to endorse Jackson in Maine Senate race

Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) on Tuesday declined to endorse Troy Jackson, the state's Democratic nominee for Senate, months out from the general election. “We haven’t spoken, but clearly Susan Collins is vulnerable, and she should be — she should be defeated,” Mills said in an

Full school day cellphone bans are more popular than ever

As schools across the country continue to implement cellphone bans, a new Pew Research Center survey shows they continue to gain support. Seventy-seven percent of US adults support banning cellphones in middle and high school classes, and 48 percent support banning them for the

Some Interesting Apples

Something that still blows my mind is that every apple seed produces a new variety. Every single one. This is a lovely short documentary about a project called Some Interesting Apples , which aims to find apples growing in unusual places (i.e. not commercial orchards but in

Paul says Senate panel to vote on holding Fauci in contempt

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said Wednesday he would push to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after the former head of the U.S. COVID-19 pandemic response invoked his Fifth Amendment right at

Zuckerberg knocks AI development centralization, control

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticized the centralization of AI development on Tuesday, arguing the future of the technology should not be controlled by a limited group of major players. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, the tech mogul focused on the prospect of superintelligence,

Fauci metaphorically put his face mask back on

🥊 Plus: Trump vows to ‘beat the f—ing s—’ out of Iran {beacon} It’s Wednesday. Can you believe it’s almost August? July flew by! In today's issue: Fauci invokes the 5th in Senate GOP showdown Rand Paul removes Fauci attorney from hearing room Iran launches surprise

US-Saudi strikes in Iraq kill 20, including Iranians

US-Saudi strikes on Iraq killed at least 20 militants, including several Iranians, on Wednesday, according to the Hashed al-Shaabi, an armed Iraqi alliance that includes pro-Iran groups. The United States and Saudi Arabia said they had struck Iran-backed armed militants in

Deportation helps make affordability possible

Mass deportation is not just border policy. It is affordability policy — and more fundamentally, it is a restoration of the basic bargain between the American government and American families. For the past half century, immigration enforcement typically has been treated as a

Kilmeade says Trump told him Iran war 'not that popular'

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on Tuesday said President Trump told him the U.S.-Israeli conflict in Iran is "not that popular." Kilmeade spoke with fellow Fox News host Lisa Kennedy Montgomery on her podcast "Kennedy Saves the World" about speaking with Trump on the phone during