Smithsonian Magazine

Elizebeth Smith Friedman Was the U.S. Government’s First Woman Codebreaker. She Cracked Nazi Secrets, Saved 8,000 Lives and Pioneered Modern Cryptography

For decades, Elizebeth Smith Friedman worked in near-total secrecy, cracking codes that shaped the outcome of two world wars.

Interpol arrests 5,811 people, seizes $293 million in global scammer crackdown

Interpol has wrapped up its biggest anti-fraud sweep of the year, reporting 5,811 arrests and the interception of $293 ...

Police arrests 5,800 suspects in global anti-fraud crackdown

Law enforcement agencies have arrested 5,811 suspects and seized $293 million in illicit assets in a global anti-fraud ...

The FTC Settlement With John Deere Is a Huge Win for the Right-to-Repair Movement

After more than a decade of pushback, farmers and repair advocates have won access to equipment and services John Deere had ...
The New York Times

Fired F.T.C. Commissioner Warns of Potential for Presidential Abuse of Power

Rebecca Slaughter said independent agencies like the Federal Trade Commission were created as watchdogs of powerful corporations and that presidents shouldn’t interfere with that. By Cecilia Kang ...

Let him cook: How Weber Blackstone CEO Roger Dahle went from upstart to the biggest name in grilling

After taking over Weber, Blackstone founder Roger Dahle’s new job is integrating his griddle empire with what used to be his biggest competitor.
Digi Times

Skymizer launches HTX301 decode-first accelerator to bring large-model inference on-premises

Skymizer said it unveiled HTX301, a decode-first accelerator chip for on-premises AI inference, at COMPUTEX 2026, to shift large-model serving away from cloud GPU racks and onto single PCIe cards that ...
techtimes

Cox Media Group Fined $930K by FTC: Claimed AI Listened to Phones, Sold Email Lists

The Federal Trade Commission reached a $930,000 settlement on May 21 with Cox Media Group and two partner firms over an advertising service that claimed to intercept consumers' phone conversations in ...
Law

FTC Fires First Warning Shots at 'Nudify' Sites Under New Federal Deepfake Law

Warning letters threatening civil penalties of up to $53,088 per violation arrived just one day after the Take it Down Act took effect. The Federal Trade Commission sent warning letters Wednesday to ...
techtimes

FTC Investigates Whether Arm’s First Chip Launch Lets It Squeeze the Licensees It Now Competes Against

On March 24, 2026, Arm announced the Arm AGI CPU, a 136-core data center processor co-developed with Meta — the first production silicon in the company's 35-year history. arm.com The U.S. Federal ...
The New York Times

Hantavirus Response Shows How Trump Cuts Have Compromised U.S. Preparedness

The Trump administration has slashed funding for infectious disease research and has far fewer employees, including disease detectives, to respond to outbreaks. By Apoorva Mandavilli Apoorva ...
Wired

The FTC Is Ramping Up to Target Transgender Rights

The Federal Trade Commission appears to be targeting transgender rights, going beyond its usual ways of operating to do so, according to experts and federal employees who spoke to WIRED. Since July ...