NEWS AROUND US: November 2024

Saturday, 30 November 2024

Lil' White Boots Slows His Roll On Filling Rubio

The nomination of Marco Rubio to the Secretary of State position opens up his senate seat, so there's lots of speculation about whom DeSantis would pick and how involved Trumpy Bear will be in the process. Via NBC News:

Roughly two weeks after the Rubio announcement, however, DeSantis’ team is still working through its options and does not plan to show its hand for at least a month, according to five people familiar with the process. “The governor will be conducting a thorough vetting process and interview process in December that will involve several candidates,” a DeSantis adviser told NBC News. “He’s not in a hurry to make an important decision.”

The governor has said he plans to make his selection by the beginning of January. In the immediate aftermath of the Rubio pick, two schools of thought emerged: DeSantis could appoint a placeholder who would serve until the terms ends and then run for the Senate himself in 2026 ahead of a likely 2028 presidential bid, or pick someone to serve in the seat for the long term.

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Bluesky promises more verification and an ‘aggressive’ approach to impersonation

As more celebrities and popular influencers join Bluesky, the fast-growing social media service has been facing more concerns around impersonation and verified identity. The Bluesky Safety team posted Friday that the company has updated its impersonation policy to be “more aggressive,” adding that “impersonation and handle-squatting accounts will be removed.” The company said it should […]

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Elon Musk files for injunction to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit

Attorneys for tech billionaire Elon Musk have filed for a preliminary injunction against OpenAI, several of its co-founders, and its investor and close collaborator, Microsoft, to prevent OpenAI and other named defendants from engaging in what Musk’s counsel claims is anticompetitive behavior. The motion for an injunction, which was filed late on Friday in the […]

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Friday, 29 November 2024

Hospital Funding Threatened By Greg Abbott Over Doc's TikTok

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has threatened a children’s hospital with “consequences” after a doctor posted a viral TikTok telling patients they’re not legally obligated to tell a hospital their citizenship status. Via the Independent:

On November 1, a new executive order went into effect requiring Texas hospitals that accept Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Plan to ask patients if they’re US citizens. The question now appears on intake forms at hospitals across the state, the San Antonio Express-News reports.

Dr. Tony Pastor, a cardiologist at Texas Children’s Hospital and assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine, went on to post a TikTok on November 11 telling patients they’re not obligated to answer the question. The video went viral, garnering more than one million views.

“Hey Texas Children’s Hospital & Baylor College of Medicine this doctor is putting your Medicaid & Medicare funding at risk,” Abbott wrote on X, sharing a link to an Express-News article that reports on Pastor’s video.

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As the year draws to a close, startups don’t pause

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. With only so many days left in the year, there was plenty of startup news to round up since last Friday, despite a short workweek in the […]

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Study of ChatGPT citations makes dismal reading for publishers

As more publishers cut content licensing deals with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, a study put out this week by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism — looking at how the AI chatbot produces citations (i.e. sources) for publishers’ content — makes for interesting, or, well, concerning, reading. In a nutshell, the findings suggest publishers remain at the […]

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Thursday, 28 November 2024

Zomato raises $1 billion in first major fundraise since 2021 listing

Zomato has raised $1 billion through a so-called qualified institutional placement, completing its first major fundraise since its 2021 IPO. The $30 billion food delivery and quick-commerce giant, which leads both those categories, issued approximately 336.5 million shares at ₹252.62 each ($3), according to a stock exchange filing on Friday. The placement, which opened on […]

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Early Thanksgiving online sales numbers are up 7% YoY to $15.6B, on par with pre-pandemic trends

Thanksgiving weekend has long been seen as the traditional start to the most important sales period for retailers, and so far, the indication is that we’re in for a strong holiday season for e-commerce. Salesforce is tracking activity in real time and has just put out its first figures for the day. It says that […]

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Carving It All Up

Happy Thanksgiving to you all! I hope you're having a lovely day and we'll be back tomorrow.

Here is a cartoon and open thread for y'all. - Karoli

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Wednesday, 27 November 2024

DIY and synth-curious? Try putting together the analog POM-400 from Teenage Engineering

The Pocket Operator Modular 400 from Teenage Engineering is an analog modular synthesizer that you put together yourself. If you’re at all interested in DIY kits or synths, this might be a great weekend project. You bend the bright yellow chassis into shape to start, mounting the various modules into place with tiny little screws. […]

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Threads now lets you swipe between different feeds right from the home screen

Threads is rolling out a redesign that keeps your feeds visible on the home screen, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Wednesday. The redesign allows you to quickly swipe between different feeds just like you can on X. The change is rolling out on Android on Wednesday, and will launch on iOS in the coming […]

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Tuesday, 26 November 2024

This Mexican fintech isn’t too worried about Trump’s tariff threats

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re taking a look at: If you’d like to receive the Fintech newsletter in your inbox every Tuesday, sign up here! The big story Trump’s tariff threats don’t scare this Mexican fintech Mexico’s economic development has made it a fertile ground for startups. But the trend is under threat […]

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Monday, 25 November 2024

Volkswagen slashes the value of its stake in Northvolt, the beleaguered battery manufacturer

The write downs occurred throughout the current fiscal year as the situation at Northvolt deteriorated.

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Threads tests the ability for users to choose their preferred default feed

Since Threads’ launch last year, users have asked for the option to set their “Following” feed as their default feed. Now, more than a year later, Threads is finally testing the ability for users to do so. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Monday that the social network is now testing the option for users […]

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Sunday, 24 November 2024

Apple will never stop thinking about making a TV

It’s not exactly a secret that Apple has explored the possibility of building a television. Before his death in 2011, co-founder Steve Jobs famously told biographer Walter Isaacson that he’d “finally cracked it,” but no full-fledged Apple TV (as opposed to the Apple TV set-top box) has emerged in the years since. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman […]

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Fox News Pundit: Matt Gaetz 'Unqualified To Be Your Babysitter'

Fox News pundits Ben Domenech and Leslie Marshall agreed that former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was unqualified to be a babysitter or drive teenage girls in an Uber because he had been accused of having sex with a 17-year-old girl.

During a Sunday panel discussion on Fox News, Domenech agreed with Gaetz's decision to withdraw as President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general.

"Matt Gaetz is someone who is not just unqualified for this job," he told Fox News host Howard Kurtz. "He's unqualified to do any job."

"This is a man who has proven himself time and again to be someone who is not qualified to do these things in any trustworthy manner because of the past actions that he's done repeatedly and boasted about on the House floor to other members," he continued. "That's why it was a mistake for Donald Trump to name him."

Marshall, a Democratic strategist, agreed.

"I hear 17-year-old girl, I mean this is disgusting, Democrat or Republican, we should have more of a moral compass than this in our nation," Marshall said.

"I think about my daughters, and I think about just the fact that when it comes to Matt Gaetz, I would not trust this person to do anything in terms of babysitting my daughters, taking care of them, in terms of your situation," Domenech opined. "Would you trust him to take her to the movies?"

"I would not trust him to drive her in an Uber, which might be his next job," Marshall added.

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Saturday, 23 November 2024

‘Wolfs’ sequel canceled because director ‘no longer trusted’ Apple

It may be hard to remember, but George Clooney and Brad Pitt co-starred in a movie, “Wolfs,” that Apple released just two months ago. On Friday, the film’s writer and director Jon Watts said Friday that a sequel is no longer happening; in a follow-up interview with Deadline, he explained that he “no longer trusted […]

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DOJ tells Google to sell Chrome

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re exploring the DOJ telling Google to sell off Chrome to break up its monopoly, OpenAI accidentally deleting potential evidence in The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against it, and how AI companies are using TikTok brainrot for study tools. Let’s do this. The U.S. Department of […]

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MAGA Apologist Tries To 'Both Sides' Hegseth Sexual Assault With Russian Disinfo On Biden

This has to be one of the more pathetic attempts to pretend to "both sides" the sexual assault accusations against Hegseth and Trump that I've seen in quite a while.

I'm not sure why CNN thought they were doing their viewers any sort of favor by bringing on Trump apologist Tricia McLaughlin for this segment, and they really do need to get their act together with who is invited on as a guest.

Trump employees who are willing to lie for him as part of their job, or in the hope of future employment do nothing but misinform the public.

Sadly, that was once again the case during the segment above. Here's the back and forth where Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky had to remind McLaughlin about why Hegseth isn't qualified for the job Secretary of Defense, along with the fact that the accusations of rape or sexual assault aren't his only problem:

ROGINSKY: Pete Hegseth has many problems in addition to what you just said. Pete Hegseth, when he was at Princeton, published an article that said that women who are raped while they're passed out, actually, that's not really rape, because if they can't consent, if they're not aware of what's happening to them, that's not rape.

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Tesla says it has reached a ‘conditional’ settlement in Rivian trade secrets lawsuit

Tesla and Rivian may have resolved a lawsuit in which Tesla accused Rivian of poaching employees and stealing trade secrets. Bloomberg reports that Tesla told a California statement judge that the companies have reached a “conditional” settlement, and that it expects to seek dismissal of the lawsuit by December 24. Tesla filed the suit, which […]

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Friday, 22 November 2024

Rachel Maddow Takes $5 Million Pay Cut From MSNBC

Maddow is taking a $5 million pay cut amid growing uncertainty about MSNBC's future, The Ankler reported yesterday. Via the Daily Beast:

Maddow, who currently makes $30 million a year at the network, renegotiated for $25 million a year for the next five years.

“This is a difficult time and they needed to keep her. No one else can do what she does. You can’t build a brand like it overnight,” one executive told The Ankler.

Comcast, the owner of NBCUniversal, plans to spin off several NBC channels— like MSNBC and CNBC— into its own company. NBCUniversal Chairman Mark Lazarus is currently heading the effort, expected to be completed by the end of 2025, called SpinCo.

The channel is currently at a crossroads following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory. According to Nielsen data, ratings dipped to 40 percent less than they were this time last year— though execs are counting on viewers to come back the way they did in 2016 once Trump’s administration gets underway.

But wait! They don't know how to cover the news anymore! What to do?

“We were so Harris propaganda that when she lost, viewers were shocked,” one on-air pundit said. “It turned into one giant circle j--k and echo chamber. If MSNBC wants to be of service to its viewers, they can’t keep them in fantasy land.”

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Thursday, 21 November 2024

Battery unicorn Northvolt files for bankruptcy, upending Europe’s industrial plan

The company chose Chapter 11 in an effort to right its listing finances.

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Uh Oh! Mediaite Has Pete Hegseth's Rapey Police Report

Mediaite obtained full police report of the 2017 rape charges brought about by an Jane Doe she leveled against one of Trump's insane cabinet selections.

The alleged rape occurred in Monterey, California, and took place at a Republican women's conference.

No formal charges went through after the two parties worked out a settlement. However, if you read this account, it's damning all on its own.

According to the report, the police were first made aware of the alleged assault when Doe, who was 30 at the time, submitted for a rape-kit exam at a local hospital. A nurse from the hospital called an officer at the Monterey Police Department and reported the assault claim. Days later, police spoke with Doe as part of their investigation.

Doe said she spoke with Hegseth on the final night of the conference, during which attendees were drinking in a suite and at a bar in the hotel. Doe told police that Hegseth was flirting with women and putting his hand on their legs at the conference, and this prompted her to tell Hegseth she did not appreciate how he treated women.

This rape allegedly took place not at the Democratic Ladies of the Socialist, Marxist, gender-swapping, anti-American, liberal coalition, but for Republicans. ( I made them up) A person with his TV visibility might think he was safe from recrimination at this conference.

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Wednesday, 20 November 2024

Orange Felon Names Sean Duffy For Dept. Of Transportation

Continuing with his WTAF tour of cabinet nominees, The Orange Felon has named former reality star and fake lumberjack Sean Duffy as his Secretary of Transportation:

I am pleased to announce that former Congressman Sean Duffy, from the Great State of Wisconsin, is nominated to serve as the Secretary of Transportation. Sean has been a tremendous and well-liked public servant, starting his career as a District Attorney for Ashland, Wisconsin, and later elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District.

During his time in Congress, Sean was a respected voice and communicator in the Republican Conference, advocating for Fiscal Responsibility, Economic Growth, and Rural Development. Admired across the aisle, Sean worked with Democrats to clear extensive Legislative hurdles to build the largest road and bridge project in Minnesota History.

As a member of the House Financial Services Committee, Sean played a key role in shaping and strengthening Economic policies, and ensuring Transparency and Accountability in Government programs. Sean’s leadership extended to championing the needs of families, farmers, and small businesses, especially in rural communities.

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Tuesday, 19 November 2024

Nuclear startups face new competition as energy giant Enel enters the ring

The new endeavor could put additional pressure on small modular reactor (SMR) startups that have struggled to build power plants.

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Google ships first developer preview Android 16 to speed up feature roll outs

Google is releasing the first developer preview of Android 16 to speed up feature rollouts in devices. This is a major change in the Android rollout schedule as, over the past few years, Google released its first Android developer beta around Q2, with a stable release coming out post-July. With the new schedule, Android 16’s […]

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Monday, 18 November 2024

Venture capitalists continue to play musical chairs

From Keith Rabois to Ethan Kurzweil, a lot of VCs have switched firms or spun out of storied VC institutions to launch their own funds this year. These employment changes are surprising because unlike in many other fields, venture capitalists don’t traditionally move around very much — especially those who reach the partner or general […]

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Trump’s pro-fracking energy secretary pick has also invested in geothermal and nuclear startups

Chris Wright has been a big booster of oil and gas, but he's also no stranger to climate tech.

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Sunday, 17 November 2024

What's On A Donkey's Mind?

Here is your Sunday morning cartoon and open thread. We have survived this week of bizarro cabinet appointments. Yay.

What's catching your eye this morning?

- Karoli

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World of Warcraft turns 20

Blizzard Entertainment first released World of Warcraft in November 2004, so The New York Times celebrated the anniversary by outlining the many ways we can still see the massively multiplayer online roleplaying game’s influence’s 20 years later. For one thing, while multiplayer games and early social networks such as MySpace already existed, WoW provided a […]

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What is Bluesky when it’s not the underdog?

Bluesky is having a moment — a moment that’s already stretched on for nearly three months. Over the summer, the social media app saw a wave of new signups in Brazil after X (formerly Twitter) was temporarily banned there. And in the United States, unhappiness with changes at X, and with owner Elon Musk’s close […]

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Saturday, 16 November 2024

Disgraced Michael Flynn Would Accept A Position With Tulsi Gabbard

Pardoned felon Michael Flynn said he would work in the Trump administration if Tulsi Gabbard asked him to.

Flynn spent his time with his evangelical extreme religious right group called ReAwaken America, spouting crap like Christianity should be at the center of American life and institutions.

Frontline reports,"The tour serves as a traveling roadshow and recruiting tool for an ascendant Christian nationalist movement that’s wrapped itself in God, patriotism and politics and has grown in power and influence inside the Republican Party."

Flynn joined Steven the traitor Bannon on his sedition podcast.

BANNON: Would you be open to be her deputy or some sort of special assistant, at least for the first year, to make sure that she goes through the wilderness of mirrors?

FLYNN: Yeah, because part of, you know, so the answer is yes, but the part of this too, and this is what I told Vivek, okay, just briefly, that these people, government, they know how to hide, right?

Flynn then launched into a bizarre description of those working in the intelligence agencies.

FLYNN: And I call them wall walkers because they keep their eyes against the wall because they don't want anybody to actually engage them.

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Friday, 15 November 2024

Think you need a VPN? Start here.

Not everyone actually needs to use a VPN. This simple guide will help you decide if you need a VPN for your situation.

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Bartiromo Chokes As Guest Calls Gaetz 'Brilliant Legal Mind'

Friday on Mornings with Maria, Congressman Ralph Norman engaged in the most ridiculous description and promotion anyone has ever uttered on Matt Gaetz's behalf.

It was so strikingly bad that even MAGA Queen Maria Bartiromo had trouble swallowing it.

Bartiromo sounded very down when she asked if Gaetz "can actually get confirmed, or is it not? He's not getting confirmed, and everybody knows that."

"Look, Matt Gaetz is a brilliant legal mind," fawned Rep. Norman. "Matt Gaetz will, he will be the left-winging socialist's worst enemy when he, I think he will get confirmed."

The US Attorney General is not supposed to play political games or attack the left, but we are dealing with Norman.

Rep. Norman is the only person on the planet to claim Gaetz has a brilliant mind.

The WSJ writes that Gaetz's nomination is already doomed and from twelve to thirty Republican Senators are already a no.

That didn't stop Norman from slobbering all over Matt.

NORMAN: Matt can handle himself. He has nothing to hide.

The DOJ dismissed all the charges. The political witch hunt, and Matt knows this, the political witch hunt on the ethics reports have been done by House members, and we know who pushed that against him.

He pushed back, DOJ dismissed it, and so, but he has nothing to hide.

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Thursday, 14 November 2024

‘Hawk Tuah’ girl launches Pookie Tool, an AI-powered dating advice app, and it’s fine?

Haliey Welch, the 22-year-old who went viral for her “Hawk Tuah” video, has managed to turn her brief moment of fame into a full-fledged career. In just a few months, Welch has rapidly risen to fame, amassing around 5 million followers across various social media platforms. After recently releasing her own podcast titled “Talk Tuah,” […]

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Tuberville Abdicates Position: Threatens GOP Senators For Matt Gaetz

The nomination process limits the power of the presidency, but MAGA wants a fascist dictator.

HOST: Matt Gaetz gets the votes in the Senate?

TUBERVILLE: I don't know. You're finding all the swamp creatures coming out right now.

Everybody's got an opinion up here, but at the end of the day, President Trump was elected by an enormous vote, and he deserves a team around him that he wants.

It's not us to determine that.

It is YOU, US Senators, who advise and consent to Trump's nominations.

How stupid is this man?

Within the US Constitution, we have a nomination process for cabinet positions. I'll even use the Heritage Foundation for lamebrain Tommy, so he may better understand his actual fucking job.

The appointments clause of the Constitution specifies that the president shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law.

Tuberville had no problem unilaterally blocking President Biden's appointees, which disrupted the military, and Biden won by an actual landslide.

Tuberville continued with his nonsense.

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Wednesday, 13 November 2024

This generative AI startup is strapping cameras to people’s backs

A startup is training an AI system that it claims will enable creators to generate cinematic worlds, with complete control over the scenery, characters, lighting, and motion. How? By having humans strap cameras to their backs and hike around the world. Odyssey, founded by self-driving pioneers Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke (Cameron was previously the […]

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Stepful raises $31.5M to address healthcare staffing shortage with AI-powered training

Carl Madi spent a chunk of the last decade working for Uber and Handy, an online marketplace for cleaners. “I spent a lot of time convincing drivers, handyman and cleaners, to join the gig economy,” he told TechCrunch. But when the pandemic struck, he saw many people lose their jobs overnight. He noticed that there […]

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Spotify teases a ‘super premium’ tier for superfans and upcoming video expansion in Q3 earnings call

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has once again teased the company’s long-delayed HiFi or “super premium” tier, a higher-qualify subscription offering the streaming service first announced in 2021 and then failed to roll out. In the company’s third-quarter earnings call with investors on Wednesday, the exec suggested that such a product was still on the way, […]

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This Week in AI: Anthropic’s CEO talks scaling up AI and Google predicts floods

Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. On Monday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei sat in for a five-hour podcast interview with AI influencer Lex Fridman. The two covered a range of topics, from timelines for superintelligence to progress on Anthropic’s next flagship tech. […]

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Tuesday, 12 November 2024

What is Bluesky? Everything to know about the X competitor.

Is the grass greener on the other side? We’re not sure, but the sky is most certainly bluer. It’s been two years since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, now X, leading people to set up shop on alternative platforms. Mastodon, Post, Pebble (two of which have already shuttered operations) and Spill have been presented as potential […]

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FTC alleges neobank Dave misled customers

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at neobank Dave’s “misleading marketing” according to a new FTC complaint, Affirm’s launch in the U.K. amid regulatory overhaul, and how Equal aims to combat India’s growing cyberfraud problem. The big story The FTC comes after Dave for “misleading marketing” The FTC is taking action against online […]

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Monday, 11 November 2024

Russian State TV Celebrates Trump's Win By Showing Melania's Nudes

Speculation is that this is Putin's way of sending Trump a message in a way that Trump would understand. Putin has not called to congratulate Trump. As Julia Davis notes, "Meanwhile in Russia: this is how the most watched state TV channel in the country welcomed Melania Trump's upcoming return to the White House."

Not exactly subtle these Russians. And Putin was right. Trump called Putin today.

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A Russian state television network congratulated Melania Trump on her husband's reelection as president of the United States by showing nude photographs of her on live television, according to a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.

On the show 60 minutes, Russian television presenters, husband and wife Yevgeny Popov and Olga Skabeyeva, spoke about Donald Trump's reelection and showed numerous photos from Melania Trump's modeling days on screen, including nude photographs from a GQ profile in 2000.

Julia Davis, founder of the Russia Media Monitor watchdog group, posted video of the broadcast alongside the caption: "Meanwhile in Russia: this is how the most watched state TV channel in the country welcomed Melania Trump's upcoming return to the White House. Olga Skabeeva is trying not to laugh. This was probably her idea."

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Lightspeed doubles down on Wheelocity as it pivots to rural India commerce

Lightspeed has led Wheelocity's $15 million round as the startup pivots to rural India commerce.

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Vivek Ramaswamy Tells DREAMers To Pound Sand On Mass Deportations

The cruelty is the point with these disgusting excuses for human beings. Maybe they can do something about illegal immigrant Elon while they're at it. The incompetent first Trump administration got their rear ends handed to them during their last attempt to deport all of the DREAMers who were living in the United States under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, otherwise known as DACA.

Now they're ready to do it again with Trump's plans for mass deportations, that would destroy the United States' economy.

Trump supporter Vivek Ramaswamy, who could end up with a job in the Trump administration, made an appearance on ABC's This Week, and was asked about whether Trump would actually follow through with his threat or not, and when host Jonathan Karl brought up the DREAMers, who were brought here as children, Ramaswamy basically told them all to pound sand.

KARL: Now, obviously, Trump's promised --and you've talked a lot about this, the -- you know, mass deportation of undocumented immigrants.

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Trump's New Immigration Czar Tom Homan Will Go Hog Wild

The first Fox News contributor tapped to be part of the Trump administration is former acting director of ICE, Tom Homan.

This is the first of possibly many right-wing media operatives being put into key positions in the federal government under Donald Trump.

During a 60 Minutes interview aired on October 27th, 2024, Homan was asked about the astronomical coasts of carrying out Trump's plans and how families could be torn apart. Homan's answer sums up the Trump administration and its xenophobic policies perfectly.

HOST: We have seen one estimate that says it would cost $88 billion to deport a million people a year.

HOMAN: I don't know if that's accurate or not.

HOST: Is that what American taxpayers should expect?

HOMAN: What price do you put on national security? Is that worth it?

HOST: Is there a way to carry out mass deportation without separating families?

HOMAN: Of course there is. Families can be deported together.

These deportations are going to be a huge sh*t show. We remember the suffering children separated from their families under Homan's preview.

The scum-sucking pea-head Stephen Miller must have an orgasm after watching Homan's response.

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Sunday, 10 November 2024

'He Committed A Bunch Of Crimes': Dem Rips Fox News Pundit For Whining Over Trump Cases

Fox News pundits battled Sunday over whether prosecutions of Donald Trump's alleged crimes should continue after he won the 2024 election.

During a Fox News Sunday panel discussion, Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway dismissed Democrats who are concerned about the cases against Trump "going away" after his presidential election.

"The abuse of law was one of these underrated issues that motivated a lot of people to vote for Donald Trump," Hemingway claimed. "Having Democrat prosecutors up and down the eastern seaboard trying to imprison their political opponent, bankrupt their political opponent, remove him from the ballot."

"And he committed a bunch of crimes, Mollie," contributor Marie Harf interrupted.

"No more of these political prosecutions designed to go after not just Donald Trump, but people who were challenging school boards, pro-life activists," Hemingway said.

"The reality is that Donald Trump was credibly accused of dozens of felony charges, was convicted of many of them," Harf said. "And Donald Trump has stood on the campaign trail this campaign cycle and said he wants to go after his political opponents and put them in jail."

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It’s the Senate’s last chance to pass the PRESS Act

The PRESS Act would protect a journalist's sources, and gained unanimous bipartisan support when passed by the House in January.

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Equal has a plan to fight India’s growing cyber fraud problem

Equal, an Indian startup founded by Keshav Reddy, has raised $10M in its maiden funding round led by Prosus Ventures to scale identity verification and financial data sharing.

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Saturday, 9 November 2024

Who Will Replace Mitch McConnell?

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky—who infamously stole two Supreme Court seats and refused to convict Donald Trump after the Jan. 6 insurrection—isn't leaving Congress.

But McConnell won't be Senate majority leader when the new GOP majority is sworn in in January, announcing in February that he was stepping down from the role when the new Congress is sworn in.

Republicans are now jockeying to replace him, with Sens. John Thune of South Dakota, John Cornyn of Texas, and Rick Scott of Florida all running for the role.

And the race is already getting ugly, with Scott working hardest to cozy up to Trump and his vile allies—including racist 9/11 truther Laura Loomer—in an effort to try to come out on top.

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Friday, 8 November 2024

What does Trump’s election mean for the TikTok ban?

As TikTok stares down an impending federal ban, Donald Trump’s win in the presidential election could be a lifeline. It’s a plot twist for the embattled, Chinese-owned social media company. During Trump’s last presidency, the president-elect had been the one to initiate the calls to ban TikTok, which only petered out because he didn’t win […]

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Startup land wasn’t as quiet this week as you might’ve expected

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here! This week probably wasn’t the best one to make any type of big announcement. But when it comes to startups, there are quite a few contrarians, leaving us […]

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Supersonic aircraft startup Exosonic is shutting down

Exosonic, a startup developing supersonic commercial air travel and UAV tech, is winding down after five years of operation. In an update posted to its website, Exosonic said it was unable to find the traction necessary to continue operations. “Although the founders and team still believe in the need/desire for quiet supersonic flight and supersonic […]

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Thursday, 7 November 2024

Rivian takes major revenue hit as supplier problem persists

Rivian reported Thursday revenue of $874 million in the third quarter — more than 12% lower than analysts estimates — as the EV startup struggled to resolve a component shortage that disrupted production of its recently overhauled flagship R1S and R1T vehicles. Last month, Rivian lowered its annual production guidance to 47,000 to 49,000 vehicles […]

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Wednesday, 6 November 2024

The other election night winner: Perplexity

On Tuesday, two AI startups tried convincing the world their AI chatbots were good enough to be an accurate, real-time source of information during a high-stakes presidential election: xAI and Perplexity. Elon Musk’s Grok failed almost instantly, offering wrong answers about races’ outcomes before the polls had even closed. On the other hand, Perplexity offered […]

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Trump Now Gets His Tiny Hands On At Least Two SCOTUS Seats

"A republic, if you can keep it," Ben Franklin is alleged to have said.

Spoiler alert: We didn't keep it.

And now Trump will finish his makeover of the Supreme Court by replacing the two justices who want to retire (Alito and Thomas) with younger, meaner versions. Who will live forever-- or, at least, it will seem like it.

And they will rubberstamp Project 2025, every step of the way.

There's no silver lining here. This won't "heighten the contradictions."

Frank Luntz in The Hill:

During his first term in the White House, Trump appointed three justices: Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett. With their addition to the bench, Roe. v. Wade was overturned in 2022, ending the federal right to abortion and punting it back to the states.

The pollster argued that with a majority in the Senate, Trump will have an easier time implementing some of his policy proposals.

“If he has the Senate, it becomes easier for him to put forward his economic policies and some of it doesn’t even require a vote of Congress, but if you’re looking for that, that tariff policy is more likely than not to come into play,” Luntz said.

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What Trump’s win might mean for Elon Musk

Elon Musk — the billionaire CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, and the owner of The Boring Company, Neuralink, and X — took a sharp swing to the right this election to support President-elect Donald Trump, using his vast wealth, influence, and megaphone on X to influence the outcome of the election. Musk’s support came […]

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Tuesday, 5 November 2024

Substack is giving out free subscriptions to boost app installs

Publishing platform Substack is now pushing users to install its mobile app by offering gifted subscriptions. While Substack itself is available across platforms, including the web, those who want to take advantage of the free subscription offer can only do so after downloading the mobile app to their device. The free subscription offer is being […]

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Loser Trump's Campaign Prepares Staffers For Possible Loss

It may be time for Trump to get to the DJ booth and play Ave Maria again. We've seen his low-energy rallies, which pale in comparison to 2016. Vice President Kamala Harris's rallies are packed with enthusiastic crowds. In contrast, Trump has been giving rally speeches to a lot of empty seats, though he denies that. However, our eyes don't lie.

Axios reports that Lumpy's campaign is readying staff members to wind down the operation while privately acknowledging that Trump could lose the election. Of course, we all know that Trump will try to claim victory before the votes are counted, but this time, Americans are sick of his bluster and gaslighting.

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Why it matters: It's unusual for Trump or his campaign to portray anything but rosy scenarios. But an email to staff on Friday offered a clear-eyed view of what could happen in this coin-flip election.

Zoom in: The internal "Donald J. Trump Administrative Update," from co-campaign manager Susie Wiles, outlines post-election plans. It uses the phrases "should we be victorious," "regardless of the outcome of the election" and "God willing" — acknowledging that the race may or may not turn out in Trump's favor.

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Monday, 4 November 2024

Perplexity CEO offers to replace striking NYT staff with AI

The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross a virtual picket line and provide services during a strike by New York Times tech workers. The NYT Tech Guild announced its strike Monday, after setting November 4 as its deadline months earlier. The workers represented provide software support and data analysis […]

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Sunday, 3 November 2024

Dana Bash Loses Patience With Tim Scott For Defending Trump's Election Lies

Sen. Tim Scott's pandering to Donald Trump while aiding and abetting his election lies was a bridge too far for CNN's Dana Bash. Scott made an appearance on State of the Union this Sunday, and was pressed by Bash over and over again on whether he would urge Trump "not to prematurely declare victory and allow the process to play out" while the votes are still being counted "so the American people can trust the final outcome” of the election.

Scott, of course, refused to answer, telling Bash instead “Dana, we are looking forward to a good day on Tuesday night without any question. I’m excited to see the battleground states we talked about are all leaning towards Trump. So the good news is we will have a fair election and Donald Trump will be our next president.”

After Scott rambled on about how well things are going for them so far in some of the swing states, Bash tried again to get Scott to respond to her question. “I appreciate your optimism, that's your job on the eve of the election but what I’m asking about is, what if he doesn’t win? And the fact of the matter that is that Trump is already spreading false claims about cheating in Pennsylvania. He has repeatedly predicted a massive victory even though polls show that race is very close. He’s setting the stage for his supporters not to believe the results if he loses. Do you want him to stop doing that?”

Scott again refused to answer, saying he would "never tell any candidate on the ballot to talk about what happens they lose."

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OpenAI has hired the co-founder of Twitter challenger Pebble

Gabor Cselle, the former CEO and co-founder of X challenger Pebble, has joined OpenAI to work on a secretive project. Cselle, who according to LinkedIn has been employed at OpenAI since October, announced the news in a post on X yesterday. “Will share more about what I’m working on in due time,” he wrote. “Learning […]

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Saturday, 2 November 2024

Snowflake Hugh Hewitt Storms Off Set And Quits Washington Post

In a weird moment, conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt ripped off his headset and stormed off the set of the Washington Post First Look podcast because Jonathan Capehart didn't care for being lectured over journalistic integrity by the right wing blowhard.

Ruth Marcus is also a member of the podcast team as the discussion turned to Trump and voting in Pennsylvania where Trump has been littering the grounds with voter fraud allegations already.

Capehart said it appeared Trump was laying the groundwork for election fraud nonsense by claiming cheating was already happening in Pennsylvania.

Hugh Hewitt used a Republican victory to extend voting for another day in Bucks County and claimed that proved Trump had a right to complain.

That was not the case. The Trump campaign sued over long lines and unpreparedness, not cheating. After Hewitt's diatribe about opinion and journalism had stopped, Capehart told Hewitt he didn't like to be lectured.

That was it. It was as soft a push back as one could make.

Hewitt used a mild rebuke to create a scene as if he had been molested on air. He cried that what Capehart and Marcus were doing was a terrible injustice to Trump an unfair election ad.

CAPEHART: In Pennsylvania by suing Bucks County for alleged irregularities. And this is on top of his continual assertion that if he loses, it's because of cheating.

MARCUS: Yeah, that's what he's been laying the groundwork for this just not in the last week, but in the last umpty-ump months.

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Friday, 1 November 2024

Perplexity launches an elections tracker

Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine, might hallucinate from time to time. But the company wants to show that it’s trustworthy enough to use for election results tracking. Today, Perplexity announced a dedicated hub for U.S. general election information. Populated by data from The Associated Press and Democracy Works, the company described it in a blog […]

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When to sell your company? Look for these signals

Startups are 16-times more likely to get acquired than to IPO. Here's how to decide when o cash out.

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New funding rounds confirm that money attracts money

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. Money attracts money, as the saying goes. This week seemed to confirm it, with a couple startups announcing new rounds of funding only months after their previous […]

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