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Uncanny Valley

The Hottest Topic at This Year's Pornhub Awards? Censorship

Lawmakers’ ongoing attempts to ban pornography in the US didn’t stop Pornhub from hosting its annual awards show last week. On Uncanny Valley, we discuss the fate of the porn industry.

Lauren Goode and Manisha Krishnan

PFAS

The EPA Is Giving Some Forever Chemicals a Pass

Molly Taft

Free for All

CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers

Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

Latest

Inhumanity

US Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for Pregnant Women and Infants

Dhruv Mehrotra

Say Cheese

US Border Agents Are Asking for Help Taking Photos of Everyone Entering the Country by Car

Caroline Haskins

Energy

Trump’s Policies Are Creating Uncertainty for Fossil Fuel Companies

Molly Taft

Meltdown

States and Startups Are Suing the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Molly Taft

Turn Signal

In a Boon for Tesla, Feds Weaken Rules for Reporting on Self-Driving

Aarian Marshall

Search Terms

How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border

Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess

Heat Stress

As Summer Approaches, Federal Cuts Threaten Program to Keep Vulnerable People Cool

Naveena Sadasivam

ICE'd Out

ICE Is Paying Palantir $30 Million to Build ‘ImmigrationOS’ Surveillance Platform

Caroline Haskins

Raise The Alarm

Labor Leaders Fear Elon Musk and DOGE Could Gain Access to Whistleblower Files

Caroline Haskins

Under the Influence

Spyware Maker NSO Group Is Paving a Path Back Into Trump’s America

Vas Panagiotopoulos

Miner Harm

Donald Trump Wants to Save the Coal Industry. He’s Too Late

Molly Taft

Chips Down

Trump’s Tariffs Are Threatening the US Semiconductor Revival

Will Knight and Zeyi Yang

Waddle It Be

Trump Tariffs Hit Antarctic Islands Inhabited by Zero Humans and Many Penguins

Caroline Haskins and Leah Feiger

Takeover

Federal Judge Allows DOGE to Take Over $500 Million Office Building for Free

Brian Barrett

Rare Earth

Beneath Greenland’s Ice Lies a Climate Solution—and a New Geopolitical Battleground

Matt Simon

It's a Journey

How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact

Andy Greenberg and Matt Burgess

Education

The Chaos of NIH Cuts Has Left Early-Career Scientists Scrambling

Maggie Chen

Cut and Run

Trump’s Aggression Sours Europe on US Cloud Giants

Matt Burgess

Clean Break

How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To

Violet Blue

Crypto Wars

A New Era of Attacks on Encryption Is Starting to Heat Up

Matt Burgess