Daily News Roundup
AI + Robotics
My SSN was exposed in a breach at Columbia—a school I have no connection with [BC Task 1 Verification]
Columbia admits last year’s data breach exposed victims beyond its students, staff. A weird text from my dad in February sent me on a months-long quest to solve a mystery that has been troubling an odd group of victims from a Columbia University data breach last year.
Space
Rocket Report: Blue Origin explosion still making headlines; Impulse raises money [BC Task 1 Verification]
NASA expects to begin stacking the SLS rocket this summer for next year’s Artemis III launch. Welcome to Edition 8.44 of the Rocket Report! The news this week is decidedly weighted in favor of heavy-lift rockets, largely due to the fallout from last Thursday’s explosion of Blue Origin’s New Glenn on its launch pad in Florida.
Technology
AT&T and Verizon lose Supreme Court case over fines for selling location data [BC Task 1 Verification]
FCC did not violate carriers’ right to jury trial, court says in 8-1 ruling. AT&T and Verizon lost an attempt to overturn fines for selling users’ real-time location data without consent, as the Supreme Court ruled today that the Federal Communications Commission process for issuing financial penalties did not violate the right to a jury trial.
🔧 Technical Data (for developers)
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