Adi Robertson

T-Mobile is invoking the major questions doctrine, which the Supreme Court strengthened in 2022, to explain why the FCC shouldn’t make companies unlock phones within 60 days of activation for use with other carriers. These are just comments, not a lawsuit — but they’re not hard to read as a signal of a potential future legal fight.

The Twitter that spawned it may no longer really exist, but the absurdist US Consumer Product Safety Commission account is still going strong on X. Of course it’s getting in on Moo Deng.

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The Kids Online Safety Act has passed out of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, despite a last-minute amendment that removed specific mental health-related rules among other changes. It’s significantly different from the Senate version, and we’re likely to see more debate before a full House vote.

Inspired by the American remake of Speak No Evil, Verge alum Tasha Robinson fixes all your favorite films’ sad endings with a new, happier replacement. It should go without saying that spoilers abound.

It wasn’t clear the House would take up KOSA after its Senate passage, but the legislation — along with the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act — is midway down the list of 16 bills slated for consideration by the House Committee on Energy & Commerce starting at 10AM ET today. You can find the committee stream below.

Wired weighs in against the theory that pager batteries were overheated by a cyberattack to cause today’s fatal explosions, concluding an electronics shipment was more likely compromised and packed with explosives — and noting it wouldn’t be the first time that’s happened.

Attorney Daniel Tenny frames the government’s objection to TikTok. “It gathers a lot of information” and “it uses that information to try to assess what sorts of videos and other content is going to be of interest,” Tenny says. “That same data is extremely valuable to a foreign adversary.”