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A brief spat between Elon Musk and the news organization Politico is making something quite obvious: The nation’s governance is increasingly at the whim of online conspiracy theorists. This incident began with two unrelated events: On Tuesday, staffers at Politico reported that the company had missed payroll. Those issues were resolved later that day. Separately, […]
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Huawei’s revenue hit $118.3 billion in 2024, a 22% year-over-year increase amid US sanctions. Consumer business and smart car solutions drive impressive performance. Profit margins show pressure from R&D investments. Chinese tech giant Huawei shattered market expectations on Wednesday, announcing a staggering 860 billion yuan ($118.3 billion) in revenue for 2024 – its fastest growth... Read more » Read more ›
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Some evangelical leaders are pushing back against President Donald Trump's push to dismantle USAID and cut foreign aid. Read more ›
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Marko Elez â the 25-year-old Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer who has reportedly been combing through the Treasury Departmentâs payment systems â resigned from his position after the Wall Street Journal uncovered an old social media account linked to him with numerous posts promoting racism and eugenics. â99% of Indian H1Bs will be replaced […] Read more ›
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The US government’s primary foreign aid organization is losing the vast majority of its staff, forcing the agency's lifesaving work to screech to a halt. Read more ›
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The massive insurer hired a lawfirm that specializes in defamation to force a public apology from a doctor in Texas following a post on social media. Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is moving fast and breaking the law — lots of laws. The scope of Trump and Musk’s sweeping effort to purge the federal workforce and slash government spending has shocked the political world — in part for its ambition, but also in part because of its disregard for the […] Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Boston Dynamics Wednesday announced a partnership designed to bring improved reinforcement learning to its electric Atlas humanoid robot. The tie-up is with the Robotics & AI Institute (RAI Institute), earlier known as The Boston Dynamics AI Institute. Both organizations were founded by Marc Raibert, a former MIT professor who served as Boston Dynamics' CEO for 30 years. The Institute, founded in 2022,... Read more ›
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Old ICE press releases have a little piece of new HTML that’s doing a lot of work. Read more ›
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Information on new "SparkCat" malware infesting a small number of iOS apps was shared yesterday by Kaspersky, and shortly after the report came out, Apple pulled the apps from the App Store. Some of the apps that had hidden malware included ComeCome, WeTink, and AnyGPT. 11 apps were removed in total, but when removing the apps, Apple found another 89 with the same code that had been previously rejected or... Read more ›
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won plaudits from critics for saying her congressional salary is her only income and she doesn't trade stocks. Read more ›
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The Slayer herself revealed that a Buffy revival has been in the works for a while ahead of this week's announcement. Read more ›
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The company is leaning into hybrids and EVs that incorporate small gas engines that extend their range. Read more ›
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Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems. Read more ›
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Elon Musk may be working for the White House, but no one will say what his job is — and records show his position as "unlisted." Read more ›
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Thirty years ago today, 'Phage' introduced us to the Vidiians, giving Star Trek one of its best body horror scares wrapped in layers of tragedy. Read more ›
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Apple's defenses that protect data from being sent in the clear are globally disabled. Read more ›
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The Boys' Antony Starr, Obi-Wan Kenobi's Rupert Friend, and Avatar's Sam Worthington auditioned too. Read more ›
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A Trump administration spokesperson said more than 40,000 federal employees had taken the buyout and the number is "growing." Read more ›
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A leader who voters rejected several years ago returns to power, largely thanks to discontent with the incumbent party’s economic performance. Almost immediately upon taking office, the leader launches a blitzkrieg designed to strengthen his personal grip on power. He claims unprecedented power over the budget, fires the leaders of government oversight agencies, and places […] Read more ›
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On Friday afternoon, a federal judge in Rhode Island temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to halt a simply enormous amount of domestic federal spending. Chief Judge John McConnell Jr., who issued the order, is the second federal judge to do so. McConnell’s order is significant not only because it puts a second court order […] Read more ›
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Things that, just a few years ago, would have been thought impossible in the American system of government are now happening. Trump is asserting the president’s power to remake the executive branch as he sees fit — empowering Elon Musk to push aside civil servants, wind down entire agencies, and generally strike terror into the […] Read more ›
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Billionaire Elon Musk and his band of young Silicon Valley engineers have gained access to IT systems controlling critical functions of the federal government, from the Treasury Department to the Small Business Administration. The problem is no one outside of the Trump administration really knows what Musk and his team at the newly created Department […] Read more ›
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Just over two weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump has already thrown American democracy into crisis. On his first day in office, the president pardoned those who had violently stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in a bid to obstruct his removal from power. He then fired more than a dozen federal prosecutors […] Read more ›
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President Donald Trump recently attempted to fire Gwynne Wilcox, a member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and its former chair. This attempted termination is just one of many similar actions Trump has taken, but it is also a singularly important move by Trump because it could trigger a legal fight that could significantly […] Read more ›
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Donald Trump has incoherent and unhinged beliefs about trade policy. He also has a penchant for pretending to be a “crazy guy” for the sake of increasing his leverage in negotiations. This made it difficult to tell whether his proposal for an across-the-board 25 percent tariff on Canadian and Mexican imports was sincere. That policy […] Read more ›
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In January 2017, Sergey Brin rallied beside progressive activists at San Francisco International Airport to protest Donald Trump’s travel ban. Eight years later, the Google co-founder sat with right-wing nationalists at Trump’s second inauguration. Brin is far from the only tech mogul who has (apparently) warmed to Trump in recent years. Mark Zuckerberg once bankrolled […] Read more ›
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This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to member-exclusive stories every month, join the Vox Membership program today. It has now been more than 15 years — though it might feel a lot longer — since then-President Barack Obama gave a landmark speech in Prague pledging that […] Read more ›
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This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to member-exclusive stories every month, join the Vox Membership program today. Donald Trump’s return to the presidency will mark an end to eight years of his critics’ hopes that he could be taken down through the legal process. The Russia […] Read more ›
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