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The Senate Judiciary Committee is about to debate multiple bills that will lead to peoples' private messages being scanned and reported to the government.We oppose these bills, and we have sent a urging the Committee to vote No.
On Thursday, May 4, 2023, the committee will consider S. 1207, the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2023 (EARN IT Act), and S. 1199, the Strengthening Transparency and Obligation to Protect Children Suffering from Abuse and Mistreatment Act of 2023 (STOP CSAM Act).

Maybe you've faced this same dilemma: You have an item that's come to the end of its life-say, a string of holiday lights-but you're wavering between tossing the tangled mess into the trash (after all, it's got all sorts of electronic bits) or the recycling (still, it has quite a bit of plastic).There's a person who can help you with that dilemma: Charlotte Dreizen.

Royal fans are being urged to plan ahead amid warnings strikes could stir up parking chaos on the day of the coronation.A strike by traffic wardens in Westminster is to go ahead after a new pay offer was rejected.Members of the GMB union employed by the council's contractor, NSL, will walk out on 2, 4 and 6 May, and plan to take other forms of industrial action for a week from 1 May.

A strike by traffic wardens in Westminster including on the day of the coronation is to go ahead after a new pay offer was rejected.Members of the GMB union employed by the council's contractor NSL will walk out on May 2, 4 and 6 and take other forms of industrial action for a week from May 1.The union said an improved pay offer was overwhelmingly rejected by its members.

A strike by traffic wardens in Westminster including on the day of the coronation is to go ahead after a new pay offer was rejected.Members of the GMB union employed by the council's contractor NSL will walk out on May 2, 4 and 6 and take other forms of industrial action for a week from May 1.The union said an improved pay offer was overwhelmingly rejected by its members.

A fifth more drivers caught committing road offences were allowed to take retraining courses to avoid prosecution last year.Some 1.8 million motorists completed a course in 2022 as an alternative to fines and possible penalty points, according to figures from UK Road Offender Education seen by the PA news agency.

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There are essentially three areas in the world where clusters of private companies have started to develop small launch vehicles.The first such cluster emerged in the United States nearly two decades ago with SpaceX, which was then followed by Rocket Lab and about a dozen other serious companies.Next came China, with a profusion of quasi-private companies leveraging technology from the country's state-owned launch enterprises with private funding.

China on Friday denied pressuring companies to collect information abroad on behalf of the government, rebuffing claims made by American lawmakers about the viral video app TikTok, which is at the center of an escalating dispute between Washington and Beijing over politics, technology and economics.

After trying to raise the national retirement age, French President Emmanuel Macron's government faces a no-confidence vote while uncollected trash piles up throughout Paris.Weeks of protest preceded Monday afternoon's proposed vote, where Macron's critics are unlikely to get enough support to wrestle power away from the French leader re-elected in April, according to CNBC.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal conducts a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center on April 7, 2022.Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Progressive lawmakers on Thursday voiced dismay that President Joe Biden is requesting a nearly $30 billion increase in U.S. military spending just months after the Pentagon failed its fifth consecutive audit, admitting it could not properly account for more than half of its trillions of dollars in assets.

Transport Secretary Mark Harper has pledged to enhance the role of the private sector in Britain's railways, which he described as not fit for purpose and financially unsustainable.The Cabinet minister said he wants private companies to be involved not just in running services but in maximising competition, innovation and revenue growth right across the industry.

Mental health continues to be a top concern for millions of Americans.That includes children's mental health, which is the single most concerning topic for U.S. parents, according to recent data from Pew Research.Evidently, investors and entrepreneurs have taken notice.Mental health is prominently featured on this year's a16z Marketplace 100 list, an annual ranking of hot startups and private companies, published by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

FRANCE IN TURMOIL Issued on: 17/03/2023 - 17:22 Parisians meet up next to overflowing trash bins as the amount of uncollected garbage surged to 10,000 tonnes, said city authorities on March 17, 2023.Pascal Rossignol, Reuters The amount of trash uncollected on Paris streets due to a waste workers strike has surged to 10,000 tonnes, despite efforts to force them back to duty, authorities said Friday.

Zara Aleena, a bright, vibrant law graduate, was walking home from a night out on 26 June when she was brutally murdered in a random, misogynistic and sexually motivated attack.Ever since that night, her friends and family have been tormented by the what-ifs the painful sense that Aleena's death was preventable.

CARINA JOHANSEN/NTB/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk is wondering if Apple hates free speech in America after the company pulled most of its advertising from Twitter.He also accused Apple of threatening to remove Twitter from their App Store.Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter.Do they hate free speech in America?

China said it would oppose efforts by the United States to force a sale of TikTok, in a public rebuke of the Biden administration's stance against the app's Chinese ownership.The comments, made by China's commerce ministry on Thursday, came hours before TikTok's chief executive was scheduled to testify before Congress for the first time, addressing American lawmakers' distrust of the popular short-form video app's handling of U.S. user data.

An Illinois-based club of amateur balloonists says one of its small balloons is missing in action after last reporting its location over Alaska on Saturday, the same day the US military shot down an unidentified object in the same region.While the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade (NIBBB) has not blamed the US government for taking out one of its 32-inch-wide Pico Balloons, the group of hobbyists notes in a post on its blog that its last transmission near a small island off the west coast of Alaska occurred after the balloon had been airborne for more than four months and circled the globe seven times.

NASA got its giant Space Launch System off the ground for the first time in 2022, lighting up the night in Florida with an incredible stream of flame as it carried the Artemis I mission toward the moon.That shifted attention to SpaceX, which is building a next generation rocket, Starship, that is also central to NASA's crewed Artemis III moon landing attempt.

NASA got its giant Space Launch System off the ground for the first time in 2022, lighting up the night in Florida with an incredible stream of flame as it carried the Artemis I mission toward the moon.That shifted attention to SpaceX, which is building a next generation rocket, Starship, that is also central to NASA's crewed Artemis III moon landing attempt.

FBI Director Chris Wray believes TikTok poses threats to national security as a Chinese-owned app that doesn't share our values and could manipulate content.The popular video-sharing app, owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance, boasted more than 1 billion active global users last year, a majority of which are American.

The European Union agreed on Saturday to impose new sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine targeting more officials and organisations accused of supporting the war, spreading propaganda or supplying drones, as well as restricting trade on products that could be used by the armed forces.he EU's Swedish presidency said the sanctions "are directed at military and political decision-makers, companies supporting or working within the Russian military industry, and commanders in the Wagner Group.

The US has recently begun seeing disturbing trendlines in China's support for Russia's military and there are signs that Beijing wants to creep up to the line of providing lethal military aid to Russia without getting caught, US officials familiar with the intelligence told CNN.The officials would not describe in detail what intelligence the US has seen suggesting a recent shift in China's posture, but said US officials have been concerned enough that they have shared the intelligence with allies and partners at the Munich Security Conference over the last several days.

The U.S. military said Friday that recovery teams have concluded the search for debris of the suspected Chinese spy balloon that American fighter jets destroyed earlier this month as it flew off the South Carolina coast.Recovery operations concluded Thursday after the U.S. Navy successfully located and retrieved the wreckage, according to a U.S. Northern Command statement.

UK councils issued an average of nearly 20,000 parking fines each day last year, according to new analysis.Figures obtained by Churchill Motor Insurance suggest fines were handed out by local authorities at a daily rate of 19,631 in 2022.That is a 12% rise from the previous year.We would encourage drivers to always check parking signs carefully Nicholas Mantel, Churchill Motor Insurance This increased revenues for councils to an estimated 777,287 per day last year, up 35,113 from 2021.

More than 19,600 parking fines a day were handed out by local authorities in the UK in 2022, new figures reveal.Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) are issued when motorists break regulations, such as by parking on double yellow lines or on a single yellow line at a prohibited time costing up to 130 in London or 70 outside the capital.

Dozens of security flaws that have likely been exploited in the wild are missing from the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog maintained by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), according to vulnerability intelligence company VulnCheck.VulnCheck recently conducted an analysis of the vulnerabilities added by CISA to its catalog in 2022.

Brexit will shake Britons out of their comfortable torpor, turn them into risktakers and put the UK at the forefront of the digital revolution that was Jeremy Hunt's message in his much-trailed speech on growing the UK economy.The chancellor came to Bloomberg's HQ in the City of London on Friday seeking to raise the country's spirits, hail the split with Brussels and dispel the declinism he says saps Britain's energy.

Explosive devices concealed in postal packages target the US and Ukrainian embassies, a weapons manufacturer and three Spanish government institutions.The United States' embassy in Madrid has received a letter similar to the five letter-bombs sent to the Ukrainian embassy to Spain and other targets in the country, according to La Sexta TV station.

Drivers have been hit by a 50 per cent increase in the number of parking tickets issued by private companies.A record 2.7 million tickets were handed out between April and June, analysis of Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) data by the PA news agency found.That is an average of nearly 30,000 every day and is up from a total of 1.8 million during the same period last year.

Drivers have been hit by a 50% increase in the number of parking tickets issued by private companies.A record 2.7 million tickets were handed out between April and June, analysis of Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) data by the PA news agency found.That is an average of nearly 30,000 every day and is up from a total of 1.8 million during the same period last year.

Russia is seeking an official explanation from its ally Serbia about reports that the Balkan country has delivered thousands of rockets to Ukraine for its fight against Russia's invasion.ussian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova expressed "deepest concern" about the reports, which first came from pro-government Russian media last month.

An H3 rocket lifts off from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima, southern Japan on Tuesday.(Tanegashima Space Center/AP)Japan was forced to blow up and destroy its flagship space rocket minutes after it blasted off on Tuesday, after one of its engine ignitions failed to properly operate.The embarrassing and costly action occurred during the debut launch of the country's new heavy-lift H3 rocket, which took off from the Tanegashima Space Center and hurtled toward the Pacific Ocean moments later.

8 minutes ago8 minutes ago The newly passed equality act aims to tackle the massive imbalance between men and women in positions of power.It also guarantees at least 14 weeks of maternity leave.Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio signed into law the Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Act on Thursday.

Integral Ad Science announces the appointment of Khurrum Malik as chief marketing officer (CMO) effective immediately.Malik will accelerate market growth initiatives for IAS and lead its global marketing strategy.Malik is a technology marketing leader with a broad range of experience driving growth for public and private companies.