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Robinhood was hit with new $45 million in fines from the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, the latest rebuke the beloved crypto brokerage has received from regulators.The violations determined by the Securities and Exchange Commission span from 2019 to 2023 and included failure to protect sensitive customer data, employee use of encrypted messaging apps and errors in basic bookkeeping. The agency also said Robinhood had failed to fulfill its obligations to report suspicious customer transactions to authorities.The allegations announced Monday involved a November 2021 incident in which a hacker obtained millions of Robinhood customer email addresses and names, along…

The State of Texas sued Allstate on Monday, accusing the insurer of illegally tracking drivers on their phones through a subsidiary called Arity that claimed to have the “world’s largest database of driving behavior.””Allstate and Arity paid millions of dollars to mobile apps to install Allstate’s tracking software,” Ken Paxton, the state’s attorney general, said in a statement. “The personal data of millions of Americans was sold to insurance companies without their knowledge or consent in violation of the law. Texans deserve better and we will hold all of these companies accountable.”Allstate and Arity did not respond to requests for…

Most American parents hardly think about polio beyond the time their child is immunized against the disease. But there was a time in this country when polio paralyzed 20,000 people in one year, killing many of them.Vaccines turned the tide against the virus. In the past decade, there has been only one case in the United States, linked to international travel.That could change very quickly if polio vaccination rates fell or the vaccine became less affordable.Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic who may become secretary of Health and Human Services, said the idea that vaccination has nearly eradicated…

Traveling off-season, booking early, playing around with flexible dates, and going somewhere off the beaten path are tried and true budget travel strategies.But each year brings traffic patterns and perennial sales that can tell savvy travelers when to book and when to travel.Whatever the timing, it pays to shop for travel to low-demand spots on the calendar well in advance. This means you typically book domestic flights 30 to 60 days and international travel three to five months in advance. Book accommodations in advance, but make sure they’re refundable so that if prices drop, you can rebook at a lower…

High-level talks on a ceasefire appeared to gain momentum on Monday as Arab and US mediators pushed for an agreement to end fighting in Gaza and release hostages held by Hamas before President-elect Donald J. Trump on January 20.It was not yet clear whether the parties had reached a resolution to central differences that proved insurmountable in previous rounds of negotiations, but officials briefed on the talks expressed cautious optimism in recent days about the possibility of a deal.For months, repeated rounds of talks have seen hopes rise only to be dashed days later, with Israel and Hamas blaming the…

In June 1972, Judge Roth ordered a broad integration plan, which included affluent suburbs such as Grosse Pointe and Bloomfield Hills in the same “metropolitan” school district as Detroit. That is, he instituted a system of “busing” — a word that was as politically incendiary at the time as “trans” is today. The suburbs recoiled in terror and the politicians got involved.On May 16, 1972, George Wallace, the secessionist governor of Alabama, had driven an anti-busing platform to a landslide victory in the Democratic primary in Michigan. (He had been shot and paralyzed in Maryland the day before.) Re-election candidate…

In December, Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, donated $1 million to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inaugural fund, joining a number of other tech executives working to improve relations with Mr. Trump. Trump.Now, he and his company are laying out their vision for the development of artificial intelligence in the United States, hoping to shape how the next presidential administration handles this increasingly important technology.On Monday, OpenAI released what it calls its financial plan for “AI in America,” suggesting ways policymakers can encourage the development of artificial intelligence in the United States, minimize the risks posed by the technology and…

The Biden administration issued sweeping rules on Monday governing how artificial intelligence chips and models can be shared with foreign countries, in an effort to create a global framework that will guide how artificial intelligence spreads around the world in the coming years.With the power of artificial intelligence growing rapidly, the Biden administration said the rules were necessary to keep a transformative technology under the control of the United States and its allies and out of the hands of adversaries who could use it to strengthen their armies. cyberattacks and otherwise threaten the United States.The rules put various limits on…

To address this, a major HEAL-funded project is focused on studying the nervous systems of people with chronic pain, in part by restoring dysfunctional dorsal root ganglia and trigeminal nerves from patients undergoing surgery for chronic pain. pain, as well as from cadaveric donors. These samples are then cultured and examined using a range of new technologies – things like proteomics, spatial transcriptomics and metabolomics – to see how they differ from normal tissue. The goal, Gereau explained, is to identify what changes occur at the cellular level when pain becomes chronic and to create an atlas of these mechanisms…

As Western diplomats probe ties with the rebels who seized power in Syria, a religious minority is making its own diplomatic push to secure protection for its members as the country rebuilds.A representative of the group, the Druse, recently went to Washington to meet with lawmakers, members of the Biden and Trump administrations and diplomats to make their case.”We are very worried about the future,” Sheikh Muwafak Tarif said in an interview in Washington, where he urged US officials to prioritize protecting Syria’s 1.2 million Druse as part of their engagement with the country’s new government.In December, after a long…