California AG Rob Bonta sues 23andMe, alleging it failed to protect sensitive user data in a 2023 breach that affected ~7M people across the US (Jaimie Ding/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/23andme-lawsuit-data-breach-geneti…
A US judge stays Cumulus Media's antitrust lawsuit against Nielsen, following Cumulus' filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week (Cameron Coats/Radio Ink)
https://radioink.com/2026/03/12/cumulus-nielsen-fight-goes-dark-as-bankruptcy-sta…
👏 to the NYT Games team for this banger of a puzzle within a puzzle! 🧩
#NYTConnections #puzzles #wordplay #AprilFools
Thunderbolts and lightning.
In Switzerland.
In effing April.
At 4 o'clock.
https://kachelmannwetter.com/ch/blitze/schaffhausen/20260419-0210z-20260419020388000007096.html
Update: we found my wife's servi…
How BuzzFeed went from a $1.7B digital-media darling in 2016 to the brink of bankruptcy, as an early investor blames mismanagement following a 2021 SPAC merger (Lukas I. Alpert/MarketWatch)
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-buzz
Outgoing Republican senator
Thom Tillis has vowed to block any nominee to permanently replace Pam Bondi as attorney general
if the candidate excuses the January 6 attack on the US Capitol
– a threat that could deprive the White House of a crucial vote.
“The threshold for somebody following Pam Bondi ends the moment I hear they said one thing that excused the events of January 6,”
Tillis said in an interview with CNN.
The North Carolina lawmaker, who is ret…
That feeling when you think your management portal must be broken because the numbers are too high and you drill down and check and no, people just sold that many tickets today.
Shane Smith relaunches Vice News as a social-first outlet for his podcast and news reports and a brand partnership vehicle, following its 2023 bankruptcy (Kevin Dolak/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/busines…