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The Supreme Court justices who struck down Roe v. Wade didn’t make an effort to address the potential collateral damage of their decision.

Human smugglers frequently misrepresent immigration policies and conditions along the US-Mexico border in Facebook and WhatsApp social media posts targeting US-bound migrants, according to a report released Wednesday by a tech transparency group.

The Lummis-Gillibrand bill amounts to a regulatory overhaul that would classify the vast majority of digital assets as commodities.

The correction was filed days after Sens. Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley accused the firm’s founders of filing “incomplete and misleading information with the Department of Justice.”

Apple joined other industry associations that are “fighting efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” according to a report from Tech Transparency Project

Former President Barack Obama said on Thursday that tech “platforms seems to be tilting us in the wrong direction.”

The Federal Reserve has hired five executives from the stablecoin issuer Circle and at least one employee of Ripple since 2019 as part of its technology-focused recruiting efforts. It plans to do more hiring in the years ahead to aid its work on faster payments and central bank digital currencies.

Apps and oranges: Behind Apple’s ‘bullying’ on trademarks

The company has opposed singer-songwriters, school districts and food blogs for trying to trademark names or logos featuring an apple — or a pear or pineapple.

When Genevieve St John started a sex-and-life coaching blog in 2019, she designed a logo for the business of a neon green and pink apple, which was cut open to resemble female genitalia. Not long after applying to register the logo with the US Patent and Trademark Office that year, St John received an unpleasant surprise. Her request had been challenged — by Apple.