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Daily Tech News Roundup - 2025-12-23
1. The FCC’s foreign drone ban is here Source: The Vergehttps://www.theverge.com/news/849460/fcc-foreign-drone-ban-dji-congress-deadline Summary: The Federal C...
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FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign UAS and UAS Critical Components [pdf]
Article URL: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-416839A1.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46362275 Points: 23 Comments: 4...
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The FCC’s foreign drone ban is here
The Federal Communications Commission has banned new drones made in foreign countries from being imported into the US unless the Department of Defense or the De...
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TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/19/tiktok-deal-done-and-its-somehow-the-shittiest-possible-outcome-making-everything-worse/ Comments URL: https://...
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Dismantling Defenses: Trump 2.0 Cyber Year in Review
The Trump administration has pursued a staggering range of policy pivots this past year that threaten to weaken the nation’s ability and willingness to address...
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Brendan Carr is a dummy
All year on The Vergecast, we've been tracking the many bizarre and problematic actions of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. There has been a lot to discuss! Then, thi...
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Apple age verification with a privacy focus would solve two problems
While Apple is currently lobbying against being given a legal responsibility for age verification when it comes to downloading apps, I think the company’s custo...
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Communities are rising up against data centers — and winning
If there's one thing Republicans and Democrats came together on in 2025 - at least at the local level - it was to stop big, energy-hungry data center projects....
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Apple faces revived App Store antitrust class action at U.S. appeals court
Following U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’ reversal of her own certification of a class action suit accusing Apple of monopolizing the iPhone app mar...
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TikTok ban: all the news on the app’s shutdown and return in the US
After briefly going dark in the US to comply with the divest-or-ban law targeting ByteDance that went into effect on January 19th, TikTok quickly came back onli...
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TikTok agrees to deal to cede control of US business to American investor group
The deal closes a long-running drama in which U.S. authorities have sought to compel ByteDance to divest....
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Democratic lawmakers are investigating data centers’ impact on electricity costs
A Meta data center in Ashburn, Virginia. | Photo: Getty Images Sens. Elizabeth Warren D-MA, Chris Van Hollen D-MD, and Richard Blumenthal D-CT fired off a lette...