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Placeholder while article actions load Happy Thursday! I’ve never been superstitious, but writing about spam filters in a newsletter again has me on edge. Anything for you, dear reader.  A quick programing note: The newsletter will be on a limited Tuesday to Thursday schedule through Aug. 25.  Below: The FCC rejects subsidies for SpaceX’s Starlink service, and new data shows what platforms teens use. First: FEC greenlights Google plan to loosen spam filters, overcoming Democratic challenge

PayPal has only known a growth, growth, growth mindset under long-time CEO Dan Schulman. That mindset officially ended as of August 2 as PayPal switches tactics to appease activist investor Elliott Management, which has disclosed a $2 billion stake in the payments giant. Late Tuesday, the company outlined $900 million in cost cuts — mostly through layoffs, real estate consolidation, and project cutbacks. PayPal also uncorked a new $15 billion stock buyback plan. Investors cheered the about… Source link

The 2022 WNBA All-Star Game is this weekend at Wintrust Arena in Chicago, home of the 2021 champion Chicago Sky. The All-Star weekend started with the New York Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu winning the Skills Challenge and Chicago Sky star Allie Quigley winning a record fourth 3-Point Contest on Saturday. No NBA or WNBA player had ever won a 3-Point Contest more than three times. The All-Star Game is at 1 p.m. ET Sunday (ABC). The two teams are captained by Seattle Storm forward Breanna… Source link

A teen charged with setting a fire that killed five members of a Senegalese immigrant family in Denver, Colorado, has become the first person to challenge police use of Google search histories to find someone who might have committed a crime, according to his lawyers.   The pushback against this surveillance tool, known as a reverse keyword search, is being closely watched by privacy and abortion rights advocates, who are concerned that it could soon be used to investigate women who search… Source link

Once Aaron Rodgers decided, with the help of a monstrous contract, to return to the Green Bay Packers it seemed the NFC North race was already over. The Packers have won three NFC North championships in a row. The Packers might not be quite as good as previous years, but it’s not like the rest of the division is positioned to beat them. The Packers are the third biggest favorite to win their division in BetMGM’s odds, behind only the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Buffalo Bills. That speaks to the… Source link

Sam Burns had to sit in the clubhouse and wait for several hours Sunday afternoon. Yet when he finally stepped back onto the course, it was as if he’d never left. Burns, after posting a 5-under 65 early in the afternoon, sank a wild birdie putt from just off the green to overtake top-ranked Scottie Scheffler and win the Charles Schwab Challenge. Sam Burns drained a huge birdie putt to beat Scottie Scheffler in a playoff on Sunday afternoon. (Carmen Mandato/Getty Images) Burns has won three… Source link

When Tesla (TSLA) reports earnings on Wednesday, all eyes won’t be on whether Elon Musk comments on his bid for Twitter on the earnings call (or if he is even on the call) but rather how big of a hit the company will experience due to a Shanghai factory production shutdown. “With Berlin and Austin key factories now online and producing Model Y’s in a quickly ramping pace, the main question for tomorrow is just how bad the China production issues are and what that means for deliveries in 2Q… Source link

Starting against the Boston Red Sox on opening day is enough of a challenge, but New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole had another obstacle in front of him as he took the field: Billy Crystal. Friday’s game against the Boston Red Sox saw some minor and perplexing drama to open the game when Cole was visibly displeased by the delay caused by the legendary actor/comedian and diehard Yankees fan’s ceremonial first pitch. Per MLB.com’s Bryan Hoch, a collection of pregame festivities, culminating in the… Source link

Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer is using the platform of March Madness to promote Ukrainian humanitarian efforts. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar) Tara VanDerveer has seen the images of once-beautiful cities reduced to rubble. Of destruction in the Ukrainian capital she once visited, and throughout the country that women she once called her “cousins” call home. It was “really, really, very hard” to watch Russian forces bombard Ukraine, VanDerveer, the Stanford women’s basketball coach, said. It… Source link

Google parent Alphabet Inc. headed toward a couple of elusive marks Tuesday evening, after disclosing earnings and plans for a stock split: A $3,000 share price and $2 trillion market cap. Alphabet shares gained more than 9% in the extended session, which ended with Alphabet’s class A shares GOOGL, +1.73% selling for $3,005 apiece and the class C shares GOOG, +1.61% going for $3,013.83. The class A shares have never… Source link