NEWS AROUND US: November 2023

Thursday, 30 November 2023

Threats To MSNBC, Typical Of Trump, Are Weird And Dangerous

Donald Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, which he launched to allow him to rage against his successor and perceived enemies daily, to lash out at MSNBC for daring to be critical of the former President. You can't make this stuff up. On top of that, Trump falsely claimed that MSNBC "uses FREE government approved airwaves."

"MSNBC (MSDNC) uses FREE government approved airwaves, and yet it is nothing but a 24 hour hit job on Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party for purposes of ELECTION INTERFERENCE," he wrote. "Brian Roberts, its Chairman and CEO, is a slimeball who has been able to get away with these constant attacks for years."

"It is the world's biggest political contribution to the Radical Left Democrats who, by the way, are destroying our Country," he added. "Our so-called "government" should come down hard on them and make them pay for their illegal political activity. Much more to come, watch!"

The guy who wants back in the White House wants the government to come down on a network "hard" because they hurt his tender feelings.

MSNBC's Chris Hayes said he doesn't know what "triggered" Trump's post and noted that Trump doesn't understand the difference between broadcast and cable. Hayes warned viewers that Trump is speaking of his intent and that he should be taken seriously because Trump's "whining" could turn "into real punitive action."

Brian Stelter, who has been the brunt of attacks from Trump supporters during his time with CNN, weighed in.

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Wednesday, 29 November 2023

Netflix gets a major win with GTA: The Trilogy coming to its mobile games roster

With a Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer on the horizon, Netflix just got its hands on Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy — The Definitive Edition, the company announced today. GTA: The Trilogy was released in 2021 and is a compilation of three games in the popular GTA series– GTA III, featuring protagonist Claude […]

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Tuesday, 28 November 2023

TC+ Roundup: The venture downturn isn’t the end for Australia and New Zealand

Australia and New Zealand are facing the same challenges as the rest of tech: valuations have come back down, early-stage funding is up, and investors want their businesses to focus on sustainable long-term growth and a clear path to revenue. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% […]

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Hunter Biden: I'll Testify, But Let's Make It Public, Mkay?

The President's son, Hunter Biden, is like crack to Republicans. Amazingly, they think they have something because of Hunter's past as a drug addict. Nothing from that sort of life looks pretty; ask Donald Trump Jr., although he won't admit to his past—all signs on my drug-ometer point to Junior still partaking in blow.

Biden has offered to testify publicly before Congress in response to a subpoena from Republicans investigating nearly every aspect of his business dealings as they pursue an impeachment inquiry into his father, as they vociferously try to tie Hunter's past misgivings to his father. Hunter Biden did not grant Republicans with a closed-door meeting as requested. This will be public, and it will take place in December.

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) really doesn't want Hunter to testify publicly.

🚨STATEMENT ON ABBE LOWELL LETTER🚨

"Hunter Biden is trying to play by his own rules instead of following the rules required of everyone else. That won't stand with House Republicans.

"Our lawfully issued subpoena to Hunter Biden requires him to appear for a deposition on…

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Monday, 27 November 2023

Rivian launches leasing program for its all-electric R1T pickup in 14 states

Rivian kicked off Monday a limited program that will give customers in select U.S. states the option to lease an all-electric R1T pickup truck. For now, customers living in 14 U.S. states can access the leasing program via the R1T configurator page on its website. The states, a list that includes Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida […]

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Kevin McCarthy Says The U.S. Never Gained Territory Through Wars

Republicans recently ditched the terminally stupid McCarthy as House Speaker because he couldn't navigate in the MAGA-infested waters, replacing him with a relatively unknown Theocrat in Mike Johnson who advocates on behalf of the primacy of God's will over the mundane world of politics.

And they somehow expect things to get better.

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Kevin McCarthy, who rarely passes on an opportunity to display what an idiot he is, posted to Twitter yesterday a video of himself speaking to an audience and forcefully asserting that “In every single war that America has fought, we have never asked for land afterward.”

Yes, that would be the same Kevin McCarthy whose own district, the California 20th, was ceded to the United States – along with the rest of California, Utah, Nevada, and large chunks of Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico – by Mexico in 1848 at the conclusion of the Mexican-American War. And of course that is only the most obvious of contradictions to McCarthy’s rediculous and historically ignorant assertion, the U.S. also acquired territories from Britain after the Revolutionary and 1812 wars, from Spain after the Spanish American conflict and, well, Native Americans would also like a word with the former Speaker…

What a clown.

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Contrary to reports, OpenAI probably isn’t building humanity-threatening AI

Has OpenAI invented an AI technology with the potential to “threaten humanity”? From some of the recent headlines, you might be inclined to think so. Reuters and The Information first reported last week that several OpenAI staff members had, in a letter to the AI startup’s board of directors, flagged the “prowess” and “potential danger” […]

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Sunday, 26 November 2023

Tom Cotton Pushes US Troops As A 'Viable Solution' To Invade Gaza

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Sunday suggested U.S. troops could be deployed into Gaza during Israel's war with Hamas.

During an interview on Fox News, host Shannon Bream asked Cotton about the possibility of using U.S. special forces to extract hostages.

"Well, we should certainly be open to that," Cotton insisted. "I mean, we have elite special operations forces who are specifically trained in hostage rescue. I do think we have to be deferential to Israelis to the Israeli government and Israeli defense forces about the tactical situation on the ground."

"But if American military forces are called upon and provide a viable solution to get out American citizens and the citizens of Israel or other nations, and we have to be open to that," he said. "But again, it's not just those small special operations units that we have trained. We also have aircraft carriers in the region."

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Leftovers

I hope you’ve all had a wonderful holiday and have some leftovers stashed for the games today. Here is your Sunday morning cartoon.

It’s the last day of a pretty chill 4-day weekend for me. No crazy talk at Thanksgiving dinner, the chance to see my kid living far away, and some new friends and faces. No crazed shopping sprees or other silly things. How was your weekend?

- Karoli

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What startup founders need to know about AI heading into 2024

Now that the OpenAI leadership saga has died down, startup founders building with AI can get back to work building the future. If that’s you, TechCrunch+ has a pile of notes, opinion pieces and forward-looking stories with your name on them. Sure, TechCrunch+ is a lot more than AI-related coverage, but we are also going […]

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Saturday, 25 November 2023

Late Night Music Club: Heart - Barracuda

Some things don't need a lot of talking, just enjoying. One of those is Barracuda by Heart, aka Ann and Nancy Wilson, live from the Royal Albert Hall in London. This video was recorded in June 2016 and released on November 25, 2016.

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Sam Altman returns to OpenAI, Apple adopts RCS, and Binance’s CEO pleads guilty to charges

Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular recap of the past few days in tech. The headlines have been dominated — nay, overwhelmed — by the drama unfolding at AI startup OpenAI, but plenty else happened in the half-week leading up to Thanksgiving. So much for a sleepy pre-holiday! In this edition […]

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Friday, 24 November 2023

Damn, Mother Nature! You Scary!

About a month ago, Scotland was getting slammed by Storm Babet. The storm brought torrential rainfalls and high winds. The rains absolutely saturated the ground. Then the high winds worked the trees to the point of affecting their entire root systems and threatening to topple them over. As a result of these two conditions, the ground began to "move like the sea" and to "breathe deeply." A man walking his dog caught both of these effects on video. If you ask me, the man and the dog are either brave or totally mad, because I know that not one of my dogs would go onto a patch that was moving like that and would probably join me in just saying nope and moving to someplace a little more sane, like Antartica.

The earth was breathing deeply this morning #StormBabet pic.twitter.com/HhSvI2AaJt

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'Dutch Donald Trump' Makes Gains In Netherlands

National election results in the Netherlands on Wednesday sent shockwaves across Europe as "hateful far-right Islamophobe" Geert Wilders and his party have won the most seats in parliament and positioned Wilders himself to become the nation's next prime minister.

Wilders, a xenophobic nationalist who is regarded as the "Dutch Donald Trump—but worse" by many of his critics, has for years spewed anti-immigrant rhetoric and speaks openly about making the Netherlands a home only for those he considers pure Dutchmen.

In his victory remarks to supporters following the results, Wilders vowed to end the "tsunami of immigration" he claims is ruining the country and make sure "the Netherlands is for the Dutch again" as his Party for Freedom (PVV)—which won 35 seats in the 150-seat lower house of parliament—would deliver "hope" once again to Holland.

Dutch anti-EU far-right populist Geert Wilders will start looking for coalition partners after a massive election win that is set to have wide repercussions in the Netherlands and Europe.

"The Dutch will be No. 1 again," Wilders said. "The people must get their nation back." pic.twitter.com/5g13aDuk5w

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Ukrainian Drone Catches Russian Occupier With His Pants Down

Russian soldiers continue to die in staggering numbers every day in Ukraine but that doesn't seem to matter to their command as they are just more disposable men to fight, and usually die quickly, for nothing. Ukrainian forces call them bio-waste as Russians don't often claim their dead, just leaving them to fertilize the Ukrainian soil.

With those grim facts in mind, you see a lot of these drone attack videos on social media, often made for comedic effect. Whether you find them funny or not is up to you. The video above is probably not safe for work (NSFW) and wouldn't be allowed on YouTube.

Source: New Voice of Ukraine

Ukrainian drones continue to hunt down Russian military personnel who have "strayed from the herd," catching them in the most inopportune moments.

A video surfaced on social media showing a drone strike on a Russian soldier who was unexpectedly caught in a rather embarrassing situation somewhere near Avdiivka.

While having a "moment of privacy" behind a piece of damaged equipment, the invader did not take into account that he would hardly be able to calmly carry out his "mission" without the constant supervision of the air reconnaissance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and quickly paid the price for his mistake.

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Thursday, 23 November 2023

Nominations Open For The 2023 Crookie Awards!

It's time to nominate folks and events for the 2023 Crookies! From December 24 through January 1, we'll be highlighting the highs and lows, greats and awfuls, of the political year.

One caveat: We will not give one. single. award. to Donald Trump. He deserves nothing. He's a loser. So hey Donald:

The awards will go to Good Guys as well as the Bad... and we need input from our readers!

Leave your suggestions in comments. What was the biggest surprise of the year for you? The worst public figure? Best Cable News moment? Favorite Crooks and Liars post? (yes, we're partial to this blog and we prefer nominees for whom we have videos in our amazing archives.)

Let us know your nominees in comments, and thanks!

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Did The Media Just Wake Up And Smell The GOP Fascism?

A funny thing happened on the way to the 2024 horserace. The mainstream media brought Hitler into the conversation.

Trump gave them no choice. He kept amping up his rants in terms that were so explicitly Nazi, so lifted — practically verbatim — from Hitler’s speeches, that it was hard for them to keep ignoring what they’ve willfully ignored for so long.

When Trump used the word ‘vermin’ in his Veteran’s Day speech, he was taking a whole chapter from the fascism playbook. Whether he knew it or not.

Dehumanization — the art of equating human beings with insects — is a classic stochastic terrorism technique, beloved of dictators the world over. In Rwanda in the nineties, the Hutu tribe openly called its rival Tutsis “cockroaches” on the radio, inciting its members to exterminate them with machetes, which they did.

We’ll probably never know who actually wrote the Vermin speech — Stephen Miller or Steve Bannon are likely suspects — but we can be sure it wasn’t Trump. Not that he doesn’t totally embrace Nazi philosophy, it’s just that any philosophy at all is outside his skill set. I’m not sure he has either the cognitive wherewithal or the attention span, let alone the vocabulary, to articulate Nazism. Or anything else.

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I’m trying so hard not to gush over Teenage Engineering’s latest gadget

Teenage Engineering’s new $300 groovebox has no business being this cute. That’s the whole point. The EP–133 K.O.II (we’ll just call it Knock Out II) is a combination drum machine, synthesizer and sampler. It’s a supersized upgrade to Teenage Engineer’s pint-sized PO-33 K.O, which offers many of the same features for a fraction of the price. […]

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Wednesday, 22 November 2023

No, you can’t lie to your board of directors

If there’s anything I’ve learned from building companies, it’s that you’ve got to be straight and honest with your board.

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Voter Fraud Found In Iowa

Voter fraud has been found in Iowa:

Kim Phoung Taylor — wife of Iowa Republican Jeremy Taylor — was found guilty of 52 criminal counts of false voting information, fraudulent registration, and fraudulent voting linked to the 2020 primary, the Justice department said.

Phoung Taylor, 49, stuffed ballot boxes with election forms she coerced Vietnamese immigrants with limited English to complete, local news outlets report.

Trial evidence included testimony from two Iowa State students who discovered someone else had cast ballots in their names when they tried to file absentee, according Iowa Public Radio.

In a way, it's really hard not to feel a little sorry for Mr. Taylor. His wife loved him so much that she was willing to commit voter fraud to support him. Now she is facing five years in prison on each charge.

But perhaps the hardest blow for Taylor is that despite his wife's trying to rig the election for her husband, he still lost the primary. That's really got to hurt.

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Tuesday, 21 November 2023

OpenAI’s board may be coming around to Sam Altman returning

OpenAI’s board of directors is reportedly in talks with Sam Altman, ex-Y Combinator president and an OpenAI co-founder, to return to OpenAI as CEO as soon as this week. That’s according to Bloomberg, which in a brief this morning — citing sources close to the matter — said that discussions are happening between Quora CEO […]

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TC+ Roundup: AI folks fall into one of two camps

With the OpenAI drama continuing to deliver exciting headlines on the company’s uncertain future, Thanksgiving week is anything but slow.

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China’s EV upstart Li Auto hunts for chip talent in Singapore

Li Auto, a electric vehicle maker adored by young Chinese families, is stepping up its endeavors to build in-house automotive chips and has gone abroad to seek talent for the course. The eight-year-old company is currently hiring five positions in Singapore to develop silicon carbide (SiC) power modules, an electrical component that uses SiC semiconductors […]

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Watch Fox News Host Lie To Your Meemaw About The Price Of Turkey

#BreakingNews #YouHeardItHereFirst

President Joe Biden is forcing your Nana and Meemaw to buy a $90 turkey this year to celebrate the holiday with your hard-ass-working family. There is a problem: Where do we find $90 BIDEN INFLATION turkeys? Jason Chaffetz said his family bought one of these fancy pants turkeys, but I'm not seeing any out there. Where are they, Jason?

"I mean, we went to go buy a turkey today," Chaffettz's lyin' piehole said. "It was $90 for a turkey. The price of stamps is up 32% in the last four years."

"But it's all a choice by Joe Biden," he added. "That is what Bidenomics is."

Wrong, sunshine. This is what Bidenomics is:

According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, the average cost of a dinner for 10 people will be $61.17, down 4.5% from last year's record of $64.05, and gas prices are down, meaning that you can visit Nana and Meemaw in person this year without putting those costs on your credit card. Airfares are down, too, in case you want to fly to Nana's. Forget Meemaw. She's mad at Nana for telling her she had to buy Inflation-Turkey. And the family fight is now all Jason Chaffetz's fault.

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Monday, 20 November 2023

The best podcast, streaming gear to gift in 2023

If you’re among people as you read this, look to your left. Now look to your right. Statistically speaking, those on either side of you probably have their own podcasts. Odds are you have several people in your life that also fit the bill. The good news is that the prevalence of podcasts means better […]

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Newsmax Pundit Kicks Trump's Jan 6 Hail Mary Motion: 'Doomed To Fail'

Constitutional attorney Bruce DelValle said Donald Trump's attempt to remove language about Jan. 6 from his election subversion case was always "doomed to fail."

Newsmax asked DelValle to comment on Sunday, just days after U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled that language about Jan. 6 would not be stricken from Trump's indictment.

"I think it is a very difficult, in fact, I know it is a very difficult thing to get information stricken from an indictment in a criminal case, and it's difficult in a civil case," the attorney said. "It was a long shot motion. It was a motion that I think that had more PR dressing than legal dressing. I don't know that they ever thought that they would win."

"Everyone knows it's about January 6th," he added. "And the issues will be whether they can prove President Trump was involved in a culpable manner. I don't think they're going to be able to prove that. But I think President Trump's effort, this legal effort, was doomed to fail at the beginning."

"You simply can't strike out language that the prosecutor thinks is important, because that's what the trial's about."

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Sunday, 19 November 2023

Backlash Growing Against Univision Over Sucking Up To Trump

The backlash against Univision, the nation’s largest Spanish-language media company, continues to grow for its handling of a recent interview with Trump, as major Latino advocacy groups delivered a letter of protest to the network’s executives and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus prepared to request a meeting with the network. Via the Washington Post:

Actor and comedian John Leguizamo, who recently took a turn as host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” also posted a video on Instagram on Thursday night calling for a boycott of the network until it stopped its rejection of Biden ads, some of which were canceled just before the Trump interview aired.

[...]The pushback comes after a Nov. 7 interview with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida that was arranged with the help of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and attended by a trio of senior executives at Univision’s parent company. The interview was notable for its gracious tone, lack of follow-up questions and Trump’s assertion in the first minutes about owners of the network

[...]“This was Mexican-style news coverage, a repudiation of the concept of separation of business and news,” Blaya said of the Trump interview. “What I saw there was batting practice, someone dropping balls for him to hit out of the park. I think it was an embarrassment.”

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Saturday, 18 November 2023

OpenAI fires CEO Sam Altman, Airbnb acquires GamePlanner.AI, and Epic battles Google over antitrust

Howdy, folks, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter that recaps the major tech industry happenings over the past week (or so). Microsoft’s Ignite conference, where the tech giant pitched its vision of a “copilot”-powered future, flooded the channels midweek. But there was plenty of note besides. In this edition of WiR, we […]

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CO Judge: Trump Engaged In Insurrection But Can Stay On Ballot

The judge seemed to be asking for a higher court ruling in her decision and there's little doubt that will happen.

The Washington Post called the Colorado ruling “a rebuke” to Trump even as it provided a legal victory:

Denver District Judge Sarah B. Wallace wrote that Trump “acted with the specific intent to disrupt the Electoral College certification of President Biden’s electoral victory through unlawful means; specifically, by using unlawful force and violence.” And, she concluded, “that Trump incited an insurrection on January 6, 2021 and therefore ‘engaged’ in insurrection.”

The ruling goes into great detail about why Section 3 of the 14th Amendment excludes Trump. The Post summarizes:

Wallace determined those who wrote Section 3 “did not intend to include the President as ‘an officer of the United States.’”

The judge also determined that the amendment’s provision technically applied to those who swear an oath to “support” the Constitution. The oath Trump took when he was sworn in after he was elected in 2016 was to “preserve, protect and defend” the Constitution.

Wallace wrote she did not want to disqualify someone from office “without a clear, unmistakable indication” that that was what those who wrote the 14th Amendment intended.

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A timeline of Sam Altman’s firing from OpenAI — and the fallout

In a dramatic turn of events late Friday, ex-Y Combinator president Sam Altman was fired as CEO of AI startup OpenAI, the company behind viral AI hits like ChatGPT, GPT-4 and DALL-E 3, by OpenAI’s board of directors. Then, the company’s longtime president and co-founder, Greg Brockman, resigned — as did three senior OpenAI researchers. […]

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Grim Reaper Of Penal System Finally Comes For George Santos

Finally, George Santos has run into trouble he can't lie, steal or cheat his way out of. The House Ethics Committee unanimously--yes, both Democrats and Republicans, but the latter for self-preservation reasons--voted to refer numerous charges against him to the Justice Department.

It's easy to laugh at him--and of course we do!--as he spent doltish GOP donor money on OnlyFans and Botox. But there's a more general moral (a word he knows not) to the story: Republicans were cool with him when they needed his vote to elect McCarthy Speaker on like the147th try. They knew all of this, Santos was indicted in Brazil, had many charges here and lied about everything from his college to his name.

There was no mystery as to whether he was a sleazy con man or not, just a mystery as to whether they could get ole Kev elected Speaker without him. So they kept this ethical scourge around, ignoring all the people he hurt by conning, robbing and more. But now they'll pretend they're outraged (!) by him.

That's because he'll go to prison, and they need him gone from their caucus pronto, so his stink doesn't rub off on the rest of the criminally corrupt GOP. Because the truth is they're him, and he's them. Most of them are just a bit smarter about hiding it than he is.

Cliff Schecter has a great video breaking it all down. Watch it and SUBSCRIBE to Cliff's YouTube channel for more commentary like this!

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Friday, 17 November 2023

Who knows what GamePlanner does, but Airbnb just bought the company

Who knows what GamePlanner does, but Airbnb just bought the company. Let's dive in to this and other news from startup land.

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies for more wide-ranging needs. While there is a more…nefarious side to ChatGPT, it’s […]

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Thursday, 16 November 2023

Microsoft brings Copilot to Windows 10

Copilot, Microsoft’s AI-powered chatbot experience, is heading to Windows 10 in preview Starting with Windows 10 version 22H2, which will be available soon to users participating in Microsoft’s Windows Insider program, Windows 10 will gain more or less the same Copilot capabilities as Windows 11. Users will be able to ask Copilot questions and for […]

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Why Did Ethics Committee Nix George Santos Expulsion?

It sounds like the Ethics Committee Chair, Michael Guest (R-MS) was too afraid and/or corrupt to arrive at the obvious conclusion, that Santos deserves at least some kind of punishment.

Fran Langum reported earlier today on the Ethics Committee report. It was scathing but did not make any recommendations for how to punish Santos.

Here’s how The New York Times reported the news that the committee wouldn't recommend any penalty for the New York congressman:

Mr. Guest, a Republican of Mississippi, would not characterize the committee’s findings in its report, which is expected to be released as early as Thursday. But he said that the panel would refrain from making a recommendation as to Mr. Santos’s fate, saying that such a process would have carried out “well into next year.”

Nonetheless, Mr. Guest said that the report should offer members the information they need to make a decision on whether a penalty — be it expulsion or something less severe, like a censure — is appropriate.

The panel has been investigating a range of alleged criminal and ethical violations including accusations that the congressman fraudulently obtained unemployment benefits, failed to properly file financial disclosures, sexually harassed an employee and violated conflict of interest laws.

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Wednesday, 15 November 2023

Moskowitz: Comer Needs To Take A Mental Health Day

Representative Jared Moskowitz joined Chris Hayes to talk about James Comer's meltdown on Tuesday when Moskowitz dared to ask about Comer's own dealings with his brother.

Moskowitz points out that the GOP has been showing a steady decline in their vision, their ability to lead and their own mental stability since January 6th and they aren't showing any signs of trying to pull out of their downward spiral.

If the Chairman is listening, I think he needs a mental health day. They have such thin skin. These Republicans, they like to dish it out, but, man, they just cannot take it. You know, he's been going on TV day in and day out about the brother, about the President, and they did business together, when he wasn't in office by the way. And as soon as there's an article written that the Chairman is doing the exact same thing, All I did was ask the Chairman to explain it and he just totally lost it.

I needed Bernie Sanders to be like, "Sit down, Mr. Chairman!" and put him in his seat. But you saw it. He's been running hearings all year and his own witnesses have said that there's nothing there on Joe Biden, there's nothing for impeachment. And yet, they want to continue this day in and day out. So I'm glad the Chairman exposed himself today..

I would add that Moskowitz does a fairly passable imitation of Sanders.

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Tuesday, 14 November 2023

Online pet goods retailer Chewy lays off 200+ employees

Chewy, the online pet supplies company that sold to PetSmart in 2017 for $3.35 billion, but then split off a few years later, is the latest company to undergo layoffs, TechCrunch has learned. According to multiple sources, the pet supplier has laid off over 200 employees — a figure Chewy confirmed — including those in […]

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Elie Mystal On SCOTUS 'Code Of Conduct': Weak Sauce

As soon as I heard yesterday that SCOTUS had released a fake "code of ethics," ...

...I told my colleagues at C&L, "I hope Joy-Ann Reid is gonna have Elie Mystal on this afternoon."

Got my wish.

JOY ANN REID, HOST: Further proof that sunlight is the best disintectant, earlier today the Supreme Court announced for the first time in its 200-plus year history, it has adopted a code of ethics... well, sort of. The fourteen-page document broadly lays out five canons of conduct on issues such as when justices should recuse themselves and what kind of outside activities they can engage in. However, it fails to mention how it will be enforced or who will enforce it. This is a clear effort by the high court to short-circuit an increasing pressure campaign from Senate Democrats to impose a binding ethics code for justices, especially after reports from ProPublica that Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito did not disclose free trips from wealthy right-wing donors. That was turned up last week when the Senate Judiciary Committee debated issuing subpoenas to one of those donors, Harlan Crow, as well as Leonard Leo. Joining me is Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation. How seriously should we take this ethics code? Let me read a little before I let you answer that. It says here, the absence of a code, however, has led in recent years to the misunderstanding that the justices of the court, unlike all other justices in the country, regard themselves unrestricted by the ethics rules.

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Monday, 13 November 2023

Use LinkedIn to raise a Series A

Not every request will result in a new connection, but with patience and consistency, your pool of investors will begin to grow.

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QAnon Shaman Files Paperwork For Congressional Run

Because a guy needs a fresh start after being sentenced to Federal prison for his role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, and what better way is there than to run for Congress to serve in the place you attacked, right?

Chansley has no hope of winning, of course, but that's only because it will be a crowded field of far-right Republicans to succeed Debbie Lesko in AZ-08, each one crazier than the last.

Source: Forbes

Jacob Chansley, the man dubbed the “QAnon Shaman,” plans to run for Congress in Arizona, according to filed paperwork, just months after being released from jail for his role in the January 6, 2021, attack, where he was memorably filmed shirtless, wearing horns and wandering through the Capitol building.

Chansley filed paperwork to run in Arizona's 8th Congressional District as a Libertarian.

The representative who currently holds that seat, Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) announced last month she was not running for reelection after serving for more than five years in Congress.

Images of Chansley’s unique appearance—he was wearing a horned fur hat and had his face painted with the American flag— became synonymous with the January 6 attack.

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Joby, Volocopter fly electric air taxis over New York City

Joby Aviation and Volocopter gave the public a vivid glimpse of what the future of aviation might look like this weekend, with both companies performing brief demonstration flights of their electric aircraft in New York City. The demonstration flights were conducted during a press conference on Sunday, during which New York City Mayor Eric Adams […]

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Sunday, 12 November 2023

Trump Goes 'Off Teleprompter' Then Things Go Terribly Wrong

Speaking to a crowd in Claremont, New Hampshire, former President Donald Trump once again seemed confused by who the current President of the U.S. is- also his opponent since he will likely secure the GOP nomination. Trump said he was "going off teleprompter," and then things got even worse.

But before that, Trump, who previously misdentified Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán as the 'leader of Turkey," told his crowd of lint-licking supporters that the Hungarian leader had pushed for former President Barack Obama's resignation just a few weeks ago.

Trump described Orbán as "very powerful" and added that they were interviewing him [Orbán] two weeks ago, and they said, 'What would you advise President Obama? The whole world seems to be exploding and imploding?' And he said, 'It's very simple. He should immediately resign, and they should replace him with President Trump, who kept the world safe.'"

For our Trump-supporting readers: The current President is Joe Biden. Biden's predecessor is Bloaty McBatshit. Barack Obama is the President who lives in Trump's mind 24/7. You're welcome!

But sure, do go off about President Biden's mental acuity while Trump is one week away from walking around with a drool cup.

The H/T goes to Meatball:

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Maria Bartiromo Urges Jim Jordan To Impeach Biden Before Election

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday urged House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) to move forward quickly with an impeachment of President Joe Biden before he is re-elected.

"Tell us what your expectations are in terms of this investigation, and will it lead to an impeachment of Joe Biden?" Bartiromo asked Jordan during a Sunday interview.

"I believe we will get the depositions and the interviews done in this calendar year and then make a decision early next year whether there are actual evidence warrants going to articles of impeachment and moving to that stage of the investigation," Jordan replied.

Bartiromo suggested Biden should be impeached before he can participate in the 2024 presidential election.

"Well, the timing is important," she said. "We've got an election next year. President Trump is facing four indictments, and you've got this dereliction of duty."

Jordan responded by quoting Donald Trump.

"He said they come after him because he's fighting for us," he explained. "That is true. That's what the swamp does. They're going after President Trump because he kept his word, and he's fighting for us."

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Saturday, 11 November 2023

GOP: We Lost On Tuesday Because Of Money, Not Abortion

Scott Walker took a break from freeloading at the Ray Gun Ranch to pen an op ed in the right wing rag Washington Times. You can tell he wrote it himself by the fact that it makes no damn sense, grammatically or logically. In the article, Walker claims that the Republicans got their asses handed to them on Tuesday wasn't because of abortion but because the Democrats had more money:

Money, money, money.

Money, not abortion, was the deciding factor in the elections this past Tuesday. Liberals had a financial advantage in five of the six states where major races took place this week. Not surprisingly, they won in five of those six states.

The Republicans have tried similar arguments before. For example, they would justify their right to work laws or Citizens United by claiming that unions spent just as much money, if not more, than businesses. Studies showed that the reality was that companies spent exponentially more than the ten biggest unions combined.

Walker also seems to have conveniently forgotten that the GOP is the party of the wealthy. They have people like the Kochs,, Diane Hendricks and the Bradley Foundation that will give them millions of dollars above and below the table like it was nothing.

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OpenAI hosts a dev day, TechCrunch reviews the M3 iMac and MacBook Pro, and Bumble gets a new CEO

Hey, folks, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter covering the past week (or so) in tech industry happenings. This week marked OpenAI’s first-ever dev conference, where the Microsoft-backed AI startup announced a host of new products. But that was far from the only item of note. In this edition of WiR, we […]

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It's Veterans Day! Thank You For Your Service, Go Get Some Free Food

Thank you for your service!

In honor of Veteran's Day, go make the rounds of all these fine establishments that are offering freebies to veterans today.

Check your area papers to find additional local businesses taking part.

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Friday, 10 November 2023

Addressing The White Nationalist Elephant In The Room

It was striking how violent Republican candidates were at Wednesday's debate.

DeSantis gets applause after he promises to shoot dead people bringing drugs across the border pic.twitter.com/FOyxlMXm2J

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 9, 2023

On topic of Israel-Hamas war, Haley says that she urged Netanyahu to "finish them" pic.twitter.com/j75QhlNiCl

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 9, 2023

Vivek Ramaswamy proposes building a wall along the border with Canada.

"So we gotta just skate to where the puck is going, not just where the puck is. Don’t just build the wall, build both walls!" pic.twitter.com/cwrdcWu406

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) November 9, 2023

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Fox's Watters Baselessly Accuses Biden DOJ Of Blackmail Following Brothel Bust

Fox's Jesse Watters used the bust of a "high-end profile brothel network" to attack the Biden DOJ and accuse them of blackmail, and to take some more cheap shots at Hunter Biden. As CNN reported this week, the DOJ announces arrests in ‘high-end brothel network’ used by elected officials, military officers and others :

Three individuals have been arrested on charges of operating a “high-end brothel network” in Massachusetts and Virginia with a clientele that included elected officials, military officers and government contractors with security clearances, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.

“Pick a profession,” Joshua Levy, acting US attorney for Massachusetts, said of the sprawling client list during a press conference in Boston. “They’re probably represented in this case.”

Levy did not identify any of the brothel’s clients and noted that multiple search warrants are being executed in the case in Massachusetts, California and Virginia. [...]

“This case goes back to the summer of 2022 when investigators identified several buyers through surveillance phone records and interviews,” Levy said. “The buyers who made up this ring hail from an array of professions.”

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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg details Tumblr’s future after re-org

This week, WordPress.com owner Matt Mullenweg confirmed his company would be shifting the majority of Tumblr’s workforce to other areas at parent company Automattic in light of the social blogging site’s continued financial woes. After acknowledging and explaining the meaning behind a leaked internal memo detailing the staff changes, Mullenweg then went on to field […]

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TC+ Roundup: Know your goals before taking the plunge

It’s not enough to just know your business model and potential TAM. You also have to consider your personal goals.

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Thursday, 9 November 2023

OpenAI wants to work with organizations to build new AI training data sets

It’s an open secret that the data sets used to train AI models are deeply flawed. Image corpora tends to be U.S.- and Western-centric, partly because Western images dominated the internet when the data sets were compiled. And as most recently highlighted by a study out of the Allen Institute for AI, the data used […]

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Ivanka's Day In Court Was Hugely Awful For Her Daddy

The morning session of Ivanka Trump’s testimony in the New York fraud trial ended with a series of objections from her attorney that temporarily had Ivanka sent off to wait in chambers while Judge Arthur Engoron listened to the two sides bicker. Despite this, most of the morning was spent with Ivanka responding to documents, answering questions, and generally being a more cooperative witness than her father and her brothers.

Donald Trump spent his testimony on Monday railing against Engoron, attacking New York Attorney General Letitia James, and sneering about the injustice of it all. But Ivanka smiled at the prosecutors, laughed along with Engoron’s jokes, and appeared to study documents with the scrutiny of a student taking the SAT—even if her response after many of these high-scrutiny sessions was “I don’t recall.”

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Wednesday, 8 November 2023

Sumo Logic urges customers to reset API keys following security breach

Sumo Logic, a U.S.-based cloud data analytics and log analysis company, is urging users to reset API keys after discovering a security breach. In a security notice published this week, Sumo Logic confirmed it had discovered evidence of a potential security incident on November 3. The incident involved an attacker using compromised credentials to access […]

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Proptech startup Zeus Living, which was backed by Airbnb, reportedly shuts down

Startup Zeus Living is the latest casualty in the proptech world. The Airbnb-backed startup is reportedly “winding down operations,” as reported by The Information. TechCrunch has reached out to the company for comment but not heard back at the time of writing. Zeus Living has raised $150 million in debt and equity (about $125 million […]

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A comprehensive list of 2023 tech layoffs

Last year’s techwide reckoning continues. The tech industry has seen more than 240,000 jobs lost in 2023, a total that’s already 50% higher than last year and growing. Earlier this year, mass workforce reductions were driven by the biggest names in tech like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, Meta and Zoom. Startups across many sectors also […]

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Ask Sophie: What should we know about the next H-1B lottery?

The U.S. tech industry is facing an unprecedented talent shortage. There's a dire need for high-skilled immigration.

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Tuesday, 7 November 2023

Astra secures new debt agreement with assets as collateral

Astra has been thrown a critical lifeline in the form of new debt financing, which provides the company with a little more time to find funding to stave off catastrophe. The company said on Monday that it had closed $13.4 million in initial debt financing with JMCM Holdings LLC and Sherpa Venture Funds II, connected […]

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Trump Gripes: 'The Court Was The Fraudster Of The Case'

Former President Donald praised himself for what he called "conclusive" evidence after he testified at his $250 million fraud trial.

During his contentious appearance on the witness stand, prosecutors grilled Trump to prove damages in the fraud case. The witness repeatedly gave them the ammunition they were looking for.

But following his testimony, Trump claimed to have the upper hand.

"This is a case that should have never been brought," he ranted outside a New York courthouse. "It's a case that should be dismissed immediately. The fraud was on behalf of the court."

Trump repeated his claim that the court had found his Mar-a-Lago home was worth "only $18 million."

"They had no idea what the numbers were when they said $18 million for Mar-a-Lago. And it's 50 to 100 times that amount by any estimation. It's a terrible thing that's happened here. We're taking days and days and weeks and weeks, and it goes on, and then you look at the outside world and what's happened," he said, trailing off.

Trump then referred to his own testimony.

"And this is a case that should have never been brought, and it's a case that now should be dismissed. Everybody saw what happened today," he said. And I think you saw what I had to say today and it was very conclusive."

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TC+ Roundup: Many Black founders are rooting for SVB

Before being known as the bank that collapsed, Silicon Valley Blank made a name for itself as a bank that helps support underrepresented founders.

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Monday, 6 November 2023

InfoWars J6er Lawyer Cries About Prosecutors 'Having Thumb On Scale'

Those poor, poor mistreated January 6th insurrectionists. As we discussed here back in August of 2021, InfoWars host Owen Shroyer was none too happy when he informed his audience that he had until the following Monday to turn himself into authorities:

A host for the far-right conspiracy website InfoWars was charged in connection with the January 6 Capitol riot this week – with federal prosecutors alleging he broke the terms of a deal to avoid charges from a January 2020 arrest.

[...]

Shroyer is in even more legal jeopardy than most, as he also interrupted a House Judiciary Committee hearing in December 2019. Part of his sentencing was 32 hrs of community service, which Shroyer never did.

In mid-September, Shroyer was finally sentenced to two months in prison.

Now his lawyer Norm Pattis is running to Steve Bannon's network to whine about how terribly unfair it is that his client has been put in solitary confinement for a second time, and claiming that "the D.C. prosecutors office has their thumb on the scale for punishment of J6ers."

Here's more on that from the Independent:

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Sunday, 5 November 2023

President Zelensky Calls Putin A ‘F--ing Terrorist’

This war comes down to whether we stop the terrorist Putin in Ukraine or we don't. And if we don't he'll keep coming. For the Ukrainians this war is simple: Fight or die.

Source: Daily Beast

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky did not mince words when discussing his Russian opponent Vladimir Putin during a Meet the Press interview on Sunday. “I have a lot of power, back even feeling strong. And I have a lot of energy,” he said when asked what kept him going. “It doesn’t mean that we want to fight all our lives because the price is high, like I said. Because the war takes the best of us, the best heroes, the best men, women, children. That’s it. But we are not ready to give our freedom to this f—ing terrorist, Putin. That’s it. That’s why we are fighting. That’s it.”

Zelensky brings some truth to mainstream American television.

"We're not ready to give up our freedom for this fucking terrorist Putin".@MeetThePress pic.twitter.com/yumqYhmwQI

— Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) November 5, 2023

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Trump Promises 'Ideological Screening' For Immigrants During Florida Rally

During a rally in Kissimmee, Florida this Saturday, Trump promised an even more extreme version of his 2017 travel ban. As The Daily Beast reported, this is something he rolled out last month not long after the Hamas attack in Israel.

Donald Trump’s travel ban is back and more extreme than ever.

The former president rolled out a new and more ideologically-driven version of his 2017 policy at a rally in Iowa on Monday, first revealed in excerpts released by the Trump campaign.

He called for “strong ideological screening” for all immigrants entering the United States, in addition to suspending refugee resettlement by reinstating the Trump administration’s 2017 travel ban, which was targeted primarily at majority-Musilm countries. Trump pegged the new travel ban to the recent Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel.

Trump listed several ideologies that would “disqualify” someone from immigrating to the United States.

“If you empathize with Radical Islamic terrorists and extremists, you're DISQUALIFIED—if you want to abolish the state of Israel, you're DISQUALIFIED,” Trump’s prepared speech read. “If you support Hamas or the ideology behind Hamas, you're DISQUALIFIED—and if you're a Communist, Marxist, or Fascist, you are DISQUALIFIED.”

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Only The Best People, Part Infinity Plus One

Federico Klein, a former Trump appointee who participated in the J6 insurrection, was sentenced to 70 months in prison:

Federico Klein, 45, was convicted in July on 12 charges, including assaulting officers and obstructing an official proceeding.

Prosecutors said Klein was in the first wave of rioters to enter a Capitol tunnel on 6 January 2021.

"You can't stop this!" he said, wedging open doors with a stolen police shield.

The former Marine spent more than an hour pushing against the line of officers and encouraged others to attack police, according to evidence at trial.

At the time, Klein was working as a South America specialist at the state department, a post he was appointed to by the Trump administration in 2017.

There's speculation that Klein felt he needed to commit these crimes to keep his job. That sure didn't work out for him.

Well, at least he'll have lots of time to become friends with the other cockroaches.

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Saturday, 4 November 2023

Judge Luttig Explains Why Trump Is Disqualified From Presidency

Jordan Rubin also interviewed Judge Michael Luttig for Deadline's Law blog. Luttig has been at the center of the biggest legal and democracy issues of our time, and explains how Donald Trump is disqualified from retaking the White House under the 14th Amendment, why the former president is not immune from prosecution, and what a second Trump term would mean for the country.

Jordan Rubin: Judge, you’ve been thinking a lot lately about this 14th Amendment issue. Why is it so important to democracy, in your view?

J. Michael Luttig: Section 3 of the 14th Amendment ... disqualifies any person who, having taken an oath to support the Constitution of the United States, thereafter engages in an insurrection or rebellion against the Constitution of the United States, disqualifying that person from holding high public office in the future, including the presidency.

So it’s more than just a proscription and disqualification for anti-democratic conduct by an individual, but, in this circumstance, it is that and it would apply in this instance to disqualify the former president from holding the presidency again, because of his effort, plan and attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, knowing that he had lost that election to then-candidate Joe Biden.

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Tech layoffs return with a vengeance, Gaza internet collapses and Apple hosts a Halloween event

Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering the past week in happenings around the tech sphere. Winter’s finally arrived, judging by the NYC weather outside my window — and a winter of a sort might be descending on the tech industry, too, as it unfortunately turns out. This edition of […]

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Speaker Mike Johnson: 'I Refuse To Put People Over Politics'

A typo or a Freudian slip? Whatever it was, new House Speaker Mike Johnson's first fundraising e-mail did not go according to plan.

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) appeared to get his words mixed up in one of his first fundraising emails since taking the top House job last week.

Johnson capped a standard fundraising message Friday with a new turn on a familiar phrase: “I refuse to put people over politics.”

That apparent mix-up garnered jeers from House Democrats and their allies, eager to go after the new leader.

The unfortunate e-mail.

spotted in a Speaker Mike Johnson fundraising email: "I refuse to put people over politics" pic.twitter.com/Li9MdeX7RS

— Nicholas Wu (@nicholaswu12) November 3, 2023

The reaction was as you'd expect.

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Friday, 3 November 2023

Boox’s latest e-readers combine quiet, compact styles with big customization

Boox has a confusingly wide array of devices to choose from, but the latest make a good case for themselves as powerful, compact alternatives to Kindle and Kobo. The delightfully small Poke 5, even smaller Palma, mid-range Page, and larger, color Tab Mini C are all worth your consideration if you’re looking to upgrade. Boox, […]

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If your startup doesn’t seem impossible at first, it’s not hard enough

The key to a successful startup lies in its team and their ability to answer pivotal questions about the startup's purpose and challenges.

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm. It’s able to write essays, code and more given short text prompts, hyper-charging productivity. There is a more…nefarious side to ChatGPT, but it’s clear that AI tools are not going away anytime soon. ChatGPT has expanded dramatically since its initial launch, with major brands […]

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A comprehensive list of 2023 tech layoffs

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Thursday, 2 November 2023

PagerDuty scoops up incident management startup Jeli.io

PagerDuty announced this afternoon that it intends to acquire Jeli.io, an early stage incident management startup. The companies did not share the price. Jeli was founded in 2019 by Nora Jones, a chaos engineering veteran, who had previously worked at Netflix and Slack. Jones went to work building a company that could help customers figure […]

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Musk: SpaceX’s Starlink “has achieved breakeven cash flow”

SpaceX’s Starlink has “achieved breakeven cash flow,” CEO Elon Musk said Thursday, a milestone achievement for the rocket company’s four-year-old satellite internet business unit. He announced the news in a post on X, the social media platform that he also owns. He added that Starlink “is also now a majority of all active satellites and […]

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SBF’s trial is coming to a close – here’s what you missed

Welcome back to Chain Reaction. It’s week five of the Sam Bankman-Fried trial and a lot has happened for the former CEO of FTX.

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Wednesday, 1 November 2023

Ford snaps up EV power startup to boost its charging tech

Ford is buying and burying Auto Motive Power, or “AMP” for short. The secretive energy management startup once claimed to power “most of the world’s top electric OEMs,” though as far as we can tell it never disclosed its customers publicly. Following the deal, Los Angeles-based AMP will cease to exist. Instead, Ford will scoop […]

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WATCH: Cop Flashes White Power Sign At Don Jr. On Courthouse Steps

I sure hope the cop didn't want to keep his job after flashing Donald Trump Jr. the white power sign as he arrived at the court to testify Wednesday. That looks like the three-finger salute to me, and people on the Internet picked that up quickly, too. Now, does that mean that it's Junior's fault? No.

But I've never had someone flash me a racist sign, so I'm just saying that the Trumps attract disgusting individuals. If someone flashed that sign to one of us, we'd be asking what the fuck he's doing instead of acting as if it's normal.

He did it directly to Don Jr. Too. He needs to be fired today! https://t.co/oloUSnNVnX

— WeThePeople🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@PrincessBravato) November 1, 2023

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pic.twitter.com/VVuiQDAqh9

— Carolyn Holmes (@holmes_62) November 1, 2023

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India-made iPhones to top 20% of global shipments by 2024, Kuo says

The India-made iPhone is projected to account for 12-14% of Apple’s global iPhone shipments in 2023, according to a leading analyst, who further anticipates that the importance of the South Asian market to Apple will notably rise in the coming year. Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities said Wednesday that Apple, contingent on favorable conditions, […]

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