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Trump FCC lets Nexstar buy Tegna and blow way past 39% TV ownership cap

March 22, 2026 Blogmaster

The Federal Communications Commission yesterday approved Nexstar Media Group’s $6.2 billion purchase of Tegna, granting a waiver that lets the broadcast giant go way past the national limit on station…

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NASA issues draft request for moving space shuttle Discovery—or Orion capsule

March 22, 2026 Blogmaster

NASA has taken a step forward to moving an undetermined spacecraft of a various size on an indefinite date to a yet-to-be-decided location. Or to put it another way: NASA…

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Widely used Trivy scanner compromised in ongoing supply-chain attack

March 22, 2026 Blogmaster

Hackers have compromised virtually all versions of Aqua Security’s widely used Trivy vulnerability scanner in an ongoing supply chain attack that could have wide-ranging consequences for developers and the organizations…

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Writer denies it, but publisher pulls horror novel after multiple allegations of AI use

March 22, 2026 Blogmaster

Shy Girl, a horror novel by Mia Ballard, was one of those buzzy books that leapt from self-published prominence into full-on trade publication. Until yesterday, that is, when publisher Hachette…

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Microsoft keeps insisting that it’s deeply committed to the quality of Windows 11

March 22, 2026 Blogmaster

If you were eating in a restaurant and the head chef came out from the back multiple times to loudly proclaim that the kitchen was deeply committed to the quality…

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Once again, ULA can’t deliver when the US military needs a satellite in orbit

March 22, 2026 Blogmaster

For the fourth time in a little more than a year, the US Space Force needs to send up a new satellite to replenish the military’s GPS navigation network. And…

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You’re likely already infected with a brain-eating virus you’ve never heard of

March 22, 2026 Blogmaster

There’s a virus you may have never heard of before that is estimated to infect up to 90 percent of people and lurks quietly in your cells for life—but if…

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Jury finds Musk owes damages to Twitter investors for his tweets

March 22, 2026 Blogmaster

On Friday, a jury in California determined that Elon Musk had misled investors in Twitter via public statements that depressed the price of the company’s stock ahead of Musk’s purchase…

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DOGE goes nuclear: How Trump invited Silicon Valley into America’s nuclear power regulator

March 22, 2026 Blogmaster

Last summer, a group of officials from the Department of Energy gathered at the Idaho National Laboratory, a sprawling 890-square-mile complex in the eastern desert of Idaho where the US…

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We keep finding the raw material of DNA in asteroids—what’s it telling us?

March 22, 2026 Blogmaster

On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines. But many of the headlines omitted a key word…

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