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Signal Finally Lets You Skip the Phone Number, but Now Google Is Involved
A $2.99 Google Play billing fee leaves hardened, Play-free Android phones out for now.
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Unknown number of Texas voter registrations went unprocessed due to DPS error
What happened
Article URL: https://www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/09/22/voter-registration-applications-unprocessed-dps-error/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49831175 Points: 36 # Comments: 25…
Key facts
- Article URL: https://www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/09/22/voter-registration-applications-unprocessed-dps-error/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49831175 Points: 36 # Comments: 25…
- Reported by Hacker News and published Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:32:12 UTC.
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Netanyahu faces new depths of isolation ahead of address to U.N. — and Israeli voters
Israel’s prime minister arrives in New York on Thursday at a critical moment for his country and his political future.
Brief by WorldPing · Original reporting by Washington Post