Tech
Google will turn off Search for school accounts that refuse its AI features
Gemini and Search go dark for K-12 student accounts until administrators opt in. Schools that want no AI may lose Search too, though Google disputes that.
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Health
A child in Lewis County, N.Y., dies of measles, the seventh U.S. death this year
New York announced its first measles death in 30 years. The CDC's public count still lists three deaths nationally, and a clinician alert on measles in pregnancy was reportedly blocked.
Politics
Colorado's Catholic preschool case is at the Supreme Court: what is at stake
The justices heard argument in St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy on Tuesday. A Q&A on the funding rule, the two lower court losses and the narrow questions the court is actually deciding.
Alphabet and Amazon spent $127 billion on capex in one quarter. Wall Street punished one far harder
The Fed Held at 3.75-4% on a 10-2 Vote, With Two Officials Wanting a Hike. Core CPI Is 2.6%
Income Tax Receipts Rose $189 Billion in Fiscal 2026, Corporate Fell $71 Billion. Paychecks Explain 57 Percent
Mistral's open-weight Large 4 comes with a catch for anyone reselling access
The trillion-parameter model's weights are public under a modified MIT license that requires a commercial deal for hosted services. Mistral's own post concedes its cyber guardrails still need work.
A Leak of 41,000 DHS Staff Records Blames Okta. Okta Says It Has No Evidence of a Breach
The Icepick archive lists names, phone numbers and internal permission groups. Two outlets reviewed it, but they got it from the same sources, and the cause is unexplained.
A 9.5-Rated Server Firmware Bug Had Its Fix Posted in Public 24 Days Before the Advisory
CVE-2026-97631 sits in the network-boot code behind most server UEFI firmware. The advisory still says "Not patched currently," and no firmware vendor has given a ship date.
U.S. Colorectal Cancer Rate Rose in 2023 for the First Time in 20 Years
An NEJM Evidence analysis finds incidence climbing in every age group up to 65 to 69, including heavily screened ones. The authors have not identified why, and one year of data is not a trend yet.
