It looks like the DOJ isn’t going to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster

The DOJ and Live Nation agreed to a tentative settlement, but dozens of State Attorneys General don't want to drop the lawsuit.

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Will the Pentagon’s Anthropic controversy scare startups away from defense work?

On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we discussed what the controversy means for other startups seeking to work with the federal government.

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Mike’s Blog Round-Up

If you're a fan of 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, World War Z, The Walking Dead or any other zombie apocalypse movie or TV show, you can thank prolific science fiction and horror writer Richard Matheson for getting the modern, zombie apocalypse genre kick started with his 1954 novel, "I Am Legend". Like zombies themselves, the core ideas of the novel -- a global zombie plague, hordes of infected creatures threatening the last survivors, a quasi-scientific explanation for the disaster -- keep right on mutating and rising again to scare the crap out of audience, and the very first adaptation of the novel hit theaters on this day in 1964. It starred Vincent Price and Emma Danieli.

Matheson said the idea came when he was thinking about vampire stories like Dracula and wondered: what if there were just one vampire left in the modern world? Then he flipped the idea: what if there were one normal man left in a world full of vampires?

Free Thought Blogs: The rot is everywhere.

Washington Monthly: With Iran, Obama Displayed “The Art of the Deal.” Trump Didn’t.

Politicus USA: Trump Runs Away And Ignores Questions When Asked About Kristi Noem Firing.

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OPEN THREAD: Trump Supporter Flips Out As He Sees Gas Prices

With crude oil up over $25 a barrel since Trump and Israel attacked Iran, this guy's gas woes are only going to get exponentially worse in the coming days and weeks. Maybe next time, don't vote for the sociopath. Just a thought.

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Trump supporter flips out as he sees gas prices, proceeds to rip Trump sticker off of his vehicle and curse out the administration.

“How the f-ck can we take America back when these c-ck suckers don’t even support us?”

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OpenAI robotics lead Caitlin Kalinowski quits in response to Pentagon deal

Hardware executive Caitlin Kalinowski announced today that in response to OpenAI's controversial agreement with the Department of Defense, she’s resigned from her role leading the company's robotics team.

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Trump Already Planning His Next Regime Change

Donald Trump is already over his head in the dangerous Middle East war he just began and, when not dreaming about his $300 million Marie Antoinette Ballroom, he is dreaming of his next foreign adventure.

On Friday, CNN’s Dana Bash seemed more than a little surprised as she reported that Trump, “without being asked,” had “quickly turned to Cuba” after a statement about the current war. The New York Times called that statement “the latest in the shifting goals Mr. Trump has laid out for the war.” For those of you who have lost count, The Times was referring to the war with Iran, not Trump’s military attacks on Venezuela, Ecuador, Caribbean fishing boats, or party balloons over El Paso.

Planning a new military adventure barely a week into the current one seems a tad reckless, doncha' think? It hardly inspires confidence in the military team of Commander Bone Spurs Trump and TV-host-turned-Secretary of Defense Pete “WhiskeyLeaks” Hegseth. To put it mildly.

“Cuba is going to fall pretty soon, by the way,” Trump reportedly remarked. Like it was a little detail he almost forgot.

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Anthropic’s Claude found 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox over two weeks

In a recent security partnership with Mozilla, Anthropic found 22 separate vulnerabilities in Firefox — 14 of them classified as "high-severity."

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