John Ruich
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Once you change your username, Google says the old one will still be there as what they call an alternate account.
In other words, you'll still get emails sent to your old Gmail address.
This will come as a relief to some.
The inability to change usernames has been a source of frustration for a slice of the 3 billion users Google says rely on Gmail, like people who may have signed up years ago with usernames that are inaccurate now, or inappropriate, or just cringeworthy.
The case stems from a dispute between Anthropic and the Pentagon over how the military can use the company's artificial intelligence.
Anthropic doesn't want it used for autonomous weapons or mass surveillance of Americans.
The Pentagon says it's up to the military, not the company, to decide how to use a product.
Last month, President Trump ordered all government agencies to stop using Anthropic, and the Pentagon later labeled the firm a supply chain risk.
That's a designation that's been reserved for foreign adversaries.
Now, a federal judge in Northern California, Judge Rita F. Lynn, says the supply chain risk label was likely contrary to law.
And she says if fixing that label to a U.S.
company for expressing disagreement with the government was Orwellian.
The FCC says it's added consumer grade routers made overseas to a list of telecoms equipment prohibited from being imported into the United States.
The rule applies to new devices, not routers already in the U.S.
It says the move follows findings from an interagency body that such routers pose unacceptable national security risks.
That includes a severe cybersecurity risk it says could be leveraged to disrupt critical infrastructure or harm Americans.
The FCC says the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security can grant conditional approval for routers to be imported if they're determined not to pose a security risk.