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Members of the Senate Commerce Committee accused FCC Chairman Brendan Carr of making "mafia threats" and encroaching on broadcasters' First Amendment rights (Steven Portnoy/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fcc-ch

FCC Chair Brendan Carr clashes with Democrats in Senate hearing
Sen. Markey calls him "chairman of the 'Federal Censorship Commission.'"

Cohere releases Tiny Aya, a family of 3.35B parameter open-weight models supporting 70 languages for offline use, trained on a single cluster of 64 H100 GPUs (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/cohere-launches-a-family-of-open-mu…

Cohere launches a family of open multilingual models | TechCrunch
Cohere's Tiny Aya models support over 70 langauges

Ukrainian crew begins 'crucial' repairs on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant backup line under IAEA-brokered ceasefire: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/18/ukrainian-crew-begins-crucial-repairs.html

Derek Carr Shares Thoughts on Raiders' New OC Andrew Janocko https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-derek-carr-shares-thoughts-new-oc-andrew-janocko

Rückzieher bei Meta: Konzern will VR-Brillen nun doch allein entwickeln
Meta überdenkt seine Pläne und pausiert ein Partnerprogramm für VR-Brillen. Andere Hersteller sollten sie auf Basis des Quest-Betriebssystems entwickeln.

Samson Nacua, brother of Puka Nacua, arrested for alleged theft of Lakers forward Adou Thiero's car

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/puka-nacua-samson-brother-…

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr tells a Senate committee the FCC "is not an independent agency"; the agency removed "independent agency" from its site as he testified (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/17/brendan-carr-fcc-independent-se…

FCC chair suggests agency isn't independent, word cut from mission statement
The statement speaks to a broader trend of regulatory agencies losing power to the executive branch during the Trump era.

Brendan Carr confirms the FCC is investigating The View for potentially violating its equal-time rule and he was "highly entertained" by the Colbert/CBS drama (Corbin Bolies/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/busin…

FCC Chair Confirms ‘View’ Probe, Says He’s ‘Entertained’ by Colbert-CBS Drama
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr confirmed the agency was investigating “The View” for potentially violating its equal-time rules over its interview with U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico.

Russian drone hits civilian car in Odesa Oblast, killing mother and injuring 3 children, governor says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/18/russian-drone-hits-civilian-car.html

FCC Chair Brendan Carr says, "We're going to be moving forward" with Nexstar's acquisition of Tegna, a merger that requires lifting the station ownership cap (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/federal-c