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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Personalized smart guns, which can be fired only by verified users, may finally become available to U.S. consumers after two decades of questions about reliability and concerns they will usher in a new …

Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, told lawmakers on Tuesday that a rapidly healing economy no longer needed as much help from the central bank and that keeping inflation in check — including by raising interest rates — would be critical fo…

Whether its Pokemon cards, swords, or gift cards, the USPS Mail Recovery Center can accommodate all your shopping needs. From a report: Every year, the United States Postal Service auctions millions of dollars worth of undeliverable mail, an amount tha…

The omicron-driven surge has sent COVID-19 hospitalizations skyrocketing across the U.S., reaching a new pandemic high this week with 145,982 patients hospitalized. From a report: This exceeds the previous high recorded in January last year, according …

mmell shares a report: The Cyber Ninjas firm that oversaw the problem-plagued review of the 2020 results in Arizona’s Maricopa County is shuttering. Rod Thomson, a representative for the Cyber Ninjas, confirmed to CNN that company is shutting down. Tho…

米国ミズーリ州で昨年秋、州が管理するウェブサイトのソースコード上に学校教師、学校管理者、カウンセラーの社会保障番号の約10万人分の個人情報が平文で記述されている
トラブルが起きていたという。この問題を発見して同州に報告し、被害を抑える立役者となったジャーナリストのジョシュ・ルノー氏が、なぜかミズーリ州から起訴されそうになっているらしい（Engadget）。

記事によれば、ミズーリ州のマイク・パーソン知事はルノー氏を「ウェブサイトをハッキングした」として犯罪者扱いしているそう。同州教育委員会のマギ…

米国で3日、COVID-19の新規感染者数が108万2549人に達し100万人を突破したそうだ。米国ではその4日前に世界最多の約59万人を記録していたが、その後もハイペースで増加、その2倍近くにまで達してしまった。米国では変異株「オミクロン株」が猛威を振るっている。ただ1日と2日は年末年始に検査を受ける人が少なかったり、検査機関の処理件数が減少したなどの要因もあり、3日の感染確認数が一気に増えたとの指摘もある模様（Bloomberg、毎日新聞）。

AFPによると1月3日午後8時にまとめられた統計…

In the days before Christmas, U.S. officials in Boston unveiled insider trading charges against a Russian tech tycoon they had been pursuing for months. They accused Vladislav Klyushin, who’d been extradited from Switzerland on Dec. 18, of illegally ma…

“AT&T and Verizon on Sunday rejected the U.S. Department of Transportation’s request that they delay this week’s scheduled launch of a new round of 5G wireless service,” reports Politico, adding that the carriers “instead pledged to take enhanced m…

An anonymous reader shares a report: Somehow CES 2022 is still happening in a little over a week, despite the single-largest surge in COVID-19 cases ever recorded in the United States. The electronics show will be far less enormous than usual, but not …