A French Court Asked America for Help With X and Was Told No
DOJ told Paris prosecutors Friday it would not assist a criminal probe of X. The summons for Musk and Yaccarino stands for Monday. The First Amendment is now a foreign-policy instrument.
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Ohio Data Center Ban Needs 413,000 Signatures by July 1
A volunteer drive now has 74 days to collect 413,487 valid signatures from 44 counties to put a data-center ban on November's ballot.
Virginia Appeals Court Voids Prince William Digital Gateway Rezone
A unanimous appellate ruling on March 31 voided 2,000 acres of data-center rezoning in the largest data-center complex ever proposed.
FDA Opens Ninety-Day Comment Window on CRISPR Safety Framework
Comments on the FDA's first genome-editing off-target safety guidance close July 14; the four listed gene-editing firms have said nothing.
Anthropic Ships Opus 4.7 With the 4.6 Mutiny Still Unresolved
Opus 4.7 launched Thursday as a coding upgrade while the 4.6 token-inflation and plan-mode complaints remain open.
Three Antarctic Species Now at Risk From Two Different Mechanisms
The April 9 IUCN listing framed one physical driver; the data for southern elephant seal is disease — H5N1 killed 90 percent of pups at some colonies.
ThermoCas9 Reads Methylation Like an Address and Cuts Only Tumor Cells
A bacterium from a Wageningen compost heap turned out to carry the first CRISPR enzyme that can tell a tumor cell from a healthy one by its chemistry.
Neural Crest Cells Commit to Their Jobs Weeks Before the Textbook Says They Should
A CRISPR lineage-tracing paper from Utah and UC San Diego rewrites a basic page of developmental biology — and the childhood cancers it implicates look different in that light.