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Is the Trump phone finally here? Here are six things we’ve learned about Trump Mobile

Is the Trump phone finally here? Here are six things we’ve learned about Trump Mobile: The box says “proudly assembled in the USA”. There’s also the original claim that the Trump phone would be made in America. At some point, Trump Mobile changed its website to remove that language, replacing it with “American-proud design.” (That… Continue reading Is the Trump phone finally here? Here are six things we’ve learned about Trump Mobile

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Ted Cruz says GOP senators were ‘screaming’ at Todd Blanche during ‘anti-weaponization’ fund briefing

Ted Cruz says GOP senators were ‘screaming’ at Todd Blanche during ‘anti-weaponization’ fund briefing: Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., called the fund a “payout pot for punks,” referencing the fact that the Trump administration had not ruled out the possibility that people convicted of participating in the Jan. 6 riot could be compensated by the fund.

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CEO Walks Back Comment About Replacing ‘Lower-Value Human Capital’ With AI

CEO Walks Back Comment About Replacing ‘Lower-Value Human Capital’ With AI: Speaking to journalists before the presentation on Tuesday, Winters said: “It’s not cost cutting. It’s replacing in some cases lower-value human capital with the financial capital and the investment capital we’re putting in.”

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Meta cuts 8,000 jobs in sweeping global layoffs | Technology News | Al Jazeera

Meta cuts 8,000 jobs in sweeping global layoffs | Technology News | Al Jazeera: “The way to think about the investment is that we’re making a bet [on] the individual things that people care about, and that people are going to be more important in the future,” Zuckerberg said in an earnings call in April.

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Musk’s failed court attack on OpenAI could leave lasting scars on Altman’s reputation

Musk’s failed court attack on OpenAI could leave lasting scars on Altman’s reputation: “This verdict removes the single largest legal threat to a public offering,” said James Rubinowitz, a trial lawyer and AI specialist. “That said, even in victory, OpenAI walks away with the worst documentary evidence about its governance now permanently in the public… Continue reading Musk’s failed court attack on OpenAI could leave lasting scars on Altman’s reputation

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PowerMate Driver

John Gruber’s post on DaringFireball about the Griffin PowerMate reminded me that I still own one. I had more or less given up on it after Griffin stopped supporting newer versions of macOS, but his write-up got me curious again. Unfortunately, the repository Gruber linked to targets the original USB version of the PowerMate, while… Continue reading PowerMate Driver

Apple Quietly Just Gave Your Mac an Unexpected New Feature

Apple Quietly Just Gave Your Mac an Unexpected New Feature: With the new Power Control setting turned on, your iMac, Mac Mini or Mac Studio will automatically turn on when reconnected to power. So if it’s off, you can just unplug and replug it into a power outlet and it’ll automatically turn on. It’ll also… Continue reading Apple Quietly Just Gave Your Mac an Unexpected New Feature

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A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure

A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure: “We get this notification from Fayette County water system saying you need to stop watering your lawns to help conserve water,” said James Clifton, an attorney and property rights advocate who obtained and shared the 2025 letter to… Continue reading A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure

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Utah’s data center could create a massive heat island that could devastate the Great Salt Lake, scientists say

Utah’s data center could create a massive heat island that could devastate the Great Salt Lake, scientists say: equivalent of about 23 atom bombs worth of energy dumped into this local environment every single day The professor predicts dumping that much heat and energy into Hansel Valley will raise local temperatures by five degrees Fahrenheit… Continue reading Utah’s data center could create a massive heat island that could devastate the Great Salt Lake, scientists say

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Trump official boasts that Americans’ credit card spending is ‘through the roof.’ That’s far from a good thing

Trump official boasts that Americans’ credit card spending is ‘through the roof.’ That’s far from a good thing: And just as Secretary [Scott] Bessent said, credit card spending is through the roof. They’re spending more on gasoline, but they’re spending more on everything else, too. The gaslighting continues…

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Elon Musk offers warning following reports of Amazon meeting to address AI-related outages | Fortune

Elon Musk offers warning following reports of Amazon meeting to address AI-related outages | Fortune: Dave Treadwell, Amazon’s senior vice president of e-commerce services, reportedly wrote in an email that the team’s weekly “This Week in Stores Tech” (TWiST) meeting would in part be used to implement additional guardrails on how AI is used by… Continue reading Elon Musk offers warning following reports of Amazon meeting to address AI-related outages | Fortune

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