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FCC approved Nexstar's $6.2B Tegna acquisition with a waiver to operate at 80% US household reach versus the 39% cap
State attorneys general are challenging the merger in court, arguing only Congress can waive the statutory limit
The combined company will operate 200-plus stations in 100-plus markets reaching a majority of US TV households
Critics warn consolidation will accelerate elimination of local news staff and substitution of centralized content

DT Editorial Team·Mar 22, 2026·via arstechnica.com

Stolen credentials allowed force-pushing malicious dependencies into nearly all trivy-action and setup-trivy tags
Force-pushing replaces commit history silently while tag names remain unchanged, evading developer detection
Compromised actions had access to all CI/CD secrets including production deployment credentials
Experts recommend pinning Actions to immutable commit SHA hashes rather than mutable tag names

DT Editorial Team·Mar 22, 2026·via arstechnica.com

DFKI prototypes navigate via spoken natural-language commands using ROS2 Nav2 and multi-sensor fusion
Semi-autonomous shared-control mode lets users drive while AI prevents collisions without removing their agency
Cost, insurance gaps, and real-world reliability remain primary barriers to commercialization
Researchers emphasize augmenting user skill rather than replacing it — many users already navigate with exceptional ability

DT Editorial Team·Mar 22, 2026·via spectrum.ieee.org

TRISO fuel reactors produce bulkier waste because graphite cannot easily be separated from spent fuel
Molten-salt reactors treat entire coolant volumes as high-level waste, far more than conventional designs
Fast reactor spent fuel generates more heat per unit, constraining how tightly it can be packed in a repository
Sodium-cooled reactors require special sodium removal before spent fuel can enter standard cooling pools

DT Editorial Team·Mar 22, 2026·via technologyreview.com

Goldman Sachs identifies a flight-to-quality shift toward data center and hardware companies over early-stage AI software
AI workloads could represent 30% of data center capacity within two years based on hyperscaler capex plans
Data center power demand may rise 175% by 2030, equivalent to adding a top-10 global economy's electricity use
Transformer lead times of 2-plus years and grid bottlenecks are already constraining where AI can scale

DT Editorial Team·Mar 22, 2026·via artificialintelligence-news.com

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