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Google is reinventing the product that made it one of the richest companies in history: search.

Emboldened by its successful wartime blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is turning to one of the hidden arteries in the global economy: subsea cables beneath the waterway that carry vast internet and financial traffic between Europe, Asia and the Persian Gulf. The Islamic Republic wants to charge the world’s largest tech companies for using the subsea internet cables laid under the Strait of Hormuz, and state-linked media outlets have vaguely threatened that traffic could be disrupted if firms don’t pay.

In a major loss for the nation’s music industry, the Supreme Court ruled that a major internet service provider is not liable for copyright infringement because it failed to kick known copyright violators off its network. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the opinion for a unanimous court.

A new X feature revealed that several pro-Trump accounts with large followings are not US-based, despite content and some bios suggesting otherwise. On X account profiles, clicking on an account’s date of creation reveals the country or region where the account is based.

There is a man sitting in jail in Tennessee right now over a Facebook meme he posted in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination. Free speech lawyers say Larry Bushart's incarceration makes no sense.