A U.S. federal program run by the USDA that provides low-income households with monthly electronic benefits to buy food, commonly known as food stamps.
Harvard Pilgrim researchers found 54.9% of LGBTQ+ adults in Massachusetts were food insecure in 2024, against 33.3% of other adults. The authors attribute the part income cannot explain to stigma and access barriers, a link their survey documents but does not test.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required recording lights on smart glasses and other wearables from 2028. His letter said the bill's definition of a wearable was too broad, so any second attempt would have to say which devices count.
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Apple CEO John Ternus wants faster launches and more kinds of devices at the $4.8 trillion company, funded by cost cuts, Bloomberg reports. The added risk is in Apple's product range, and a leaner staff pays for it ahead of next year's crowded launch slate.
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SNAP's work requirement now covers adults up to 64 under the OBBBA, cutting off jobless people like a Wisconsin social worker waiting to turn 54. Older applicants still looking for work now keep food aid by logging monthly hours, where they once could wait for a birthday.
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A federal jury in Oakland is hearing that Meta built addictive products for children. After a $6m bellwether loss, retention design now sits in the same risk register as privacy.
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The deal binds only Meta, yet it puts hard numbers on age signals, notification defaults and overnight lockouts, and Meta collects about $5.3 billion less if TikTok and YouTube decline to match them.
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A judge signed off on the payout, but the enforceable part is a list of product defaults only a parent can undo. Meta's rivals had the terms written for them.
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The cash amortises over a decade. The enforceable part is a short list of numbers with an independent auditor attached, agreed by 29 attorneys general without any finding of liability.
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Fifty-one attorneys general did not just extract a payment; they wrote a testable product specification and hired someone outside the company to check it. The open question is what the age checks may look at.
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A former Google XR researcher told Gizmodo the stigma on smart glasses traces back to the camera they were built around. Bars and courts are already acting on that, and Meta's answer so far is a small indicator light.
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The penalty starts in fiscal 2028, but FY2025 and FY2026 performance sets each state's tier, and Elastic is selling ingest-time flagging into that window. The national error rate was 10.93 percent in FY2024.
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Snap launched consumer Specs with an operating-system pitch but did not say when they ship, into a smart-glasses category that IDC says has cooled sharply since the first quarter and where Meta holds 70 percent. Spiegel said most of the show would be live demos.
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Snap's CEO told Tom's Guide that smart glasses disguised as ordinary frames end up feeling creepy. Specs answer with iridescent lenses and a 130-gram, all-in-frame build that sells for $2,195.
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Gizmodo wore Snap's Specs at the launch event and looked at dozens of other wearers, finding chunky glasses that were noticeably heavy in a short session and mostly left ears alone.
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At a Los Angeles event Snap wired its $2,200 glasses to HBO Max, Spotify, an NBA shooting drill and enterprise partners including Amazon, Salesforce and Nvidia. The demo that explained the pitch featured a repair job.
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IDC's second-quarter figures put display-less audio glasses at 70.3% of head-worn shipments and Meta at roughly nineteen times the share of its nearest rival, while the products that could supply a second platform are still unlaunched.
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California's new 13-bill minors package allows damages of up to $1 million for each child a large social platform is found to have harmed. Matching Meta's $18 billion settlement would take 18,000 of them.
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Lightspeed co-led a $550 million Series E on September 14th, seven months after Temporal's $5 billion Series D. The operating metrics behind the markup are Temporal's own: 4,300 paying customers and 1.9 trillion billable actions in August.
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The GAO counted 12,346 Amazon workers on SNAP across eleven states, close to triple its 2020 finding, over a stretch in which the company's annual profit went from $11.6bn to $77.7bn. Labor's share of output is 52.8%.
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The agent returns layers, keyframes and timing that a designer can revise inside Adobe. Running it means paying for Higgsfield credits, a ChatGPT plan and After Effects at the same time. The runtime figures are Higgsfield's own.
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