Tuesday, 31 December 2024

CNN's Scott Jennings: 'Jimmy Carter Was Anti-Semitic'

CNN MAGA contributor Scott Jennings lowered the bar of decency after the passing of President Jimmy Carter. Jennings did the job CNN pays him to do, when he claimed the former president dabbled in anti-Semitism and sidled up to dictators.

Donald Trump sends love letters to dictators and has meddled in US foreign policy throughout Russia's immoral attack against Ukraine. To Jennings, since Trump did it, he's a hero.

Jimmy Carter helped broker the peace between Israel and Egypt, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his humanitarian work, but Jennings wasted no time in smearing his name a day after he died at 100.

JENNINGS: That having been said, he was a terrible president.

That's why he lost in a landslide after his one term.

And if it's possible, I think he was even a worse ex-president because of his meddling in US foreign policy, because of his saddling up to dictators around the world, because of his vehement views, anti-Israel views, and more than dabbling in anti-Semitism over the years.

He often vexed Democrats. Obama didn't even have him speak at his 08 convention.

He put Bill Clinton in a terrible foreign policy box on a North Korea nuclear issue.

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A look back on my favorite episodes of TechCrunch’s Found podcast

TechCrunch’s Found podcast, which has brought listeners the stories behind the startups since April 2022, released its final episode today. I’ve been one of the hosts of Found since November 2022 and in that time have spoken to more than 75 founders about the startups they are building. These founders hail from many different backgrounds […]

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Investigation exposes pedophilia in the child-influencer industry 

A New York Times investigation found that dozens of potential pedophiles have prolifically exploited the child influencer industry.

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Monday, 30 December 2024

Blue Origin looks to take on SpaceX dominance with New Glenn launch days away

Nearly a quarter century after its founding, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is gearing up to launch an orbital rocket for the first time — and finally enter the competitive launch industry that is currently dominated by SpaceX.  Company executives have maintained that they are planning to launch the towering rocket, called New Glenn, before the […]

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Volkswagen leak exposed precise location data on thousands of vehicles across Europe for months

The data was found exposed on an Amazon cloud server, and contained precise location data on thousands of vehicles.

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Sunday, 29 December 2024

Russians Share Video Of Missile Taking Down Santa Claus

A Russian propaganda video has their version of Santa Claus, a Father Christmas figure, gloating as a Russian missile takes out Santa Claus. Especially sick, since it was released just days after the Russians took down an Azerbaijani passenger plane over Kazakhstan, killing many onboard. Ironically, all passengers were Russian citizens. Putin apologized for the "mishap."

Source: Moscow Times

Pro-Kremlin Telegram channels on Friday circulated a New Year’s video depicting Russian air defense systems shooting down Santa Claus’ reindeer sleigh.

The video, first shared by the Pul N3 Telegram channel, begins with Santa flying over central Moscow to the tune of “We Wish You a Merry Christmas.”

“Hi, Russians! Here are your presents,” says Santa Claus, sipping a Coca-Cola as the camera zooms in on his sleigh, which is loaded with rockets bearing NATO logos.

“Happy New Year,” Santa says before a missile shoots into his sleigh, causing it to explode mid-air.

The scene then shifts to a military control room where a Russian serviceman and Ded Moroz — Russia’s version of Santa Claus — monitor the action on a screen as a traditional Russian folk tune plays.

“Is it done?” Ded Moroz asks the headset-wearing serviceman.

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AI data centers could be ‘distorting’ the US power grid

The proliferation of data centers aiming to meet the computational needs of AI could be bad news for the US power grid, according to a new report in Bloomberg. Using the 1 million residential sensors tracked by Whisker Labs, along with market intelligence data from DC Byte, Bloomberg found that more than half of the […]

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India’s mobile payments dilemma

India’s payments regulator is set to decide as early as Monday whether to curb the dominance of Walmart’s PhonePe and Google in the nation’s fast-growing mobile payments market, a move that could reshape how its billion-plus population moves money. The decision centers on UPI, or Unified Payments Interface, a network backed by more than 50 […]

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Crypto industry groups sue IRS over broker reporting rule

Three crypto industry groups — the DeFi Education Fund, the Blockchain Association, and the Texas Blockchain Council — are suing the Internal Revenue Service to block new regulations that require decentralized finance (DeFi) entities to report customer information. The IRS has been finalizing crypto tax regulations as part of the Biden Administration’s Infrastructure Investment and […]

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Saturday, 28 December 2024

2024 Crookie Awards: Hire Of The Year (Not Trump's Cabinet)

So much has happened this year, it's hard to believe it was just last March that NBC hired and fired former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel.

NBC News has hired former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel to serve as an on-air commentator, meaning that NBC News just hired a key figure in former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, according to NBC News.

McDaniel left the RNC after losing Trump’s favor, only to be welcomed into the warmer waters of television punditry. NBC News’ Carrie Budoff Brown announced the hiring of the former RNC chair to the network, writing in a memo to staff, “It couldn’t be a more important moment to have a voice like Ronna’s on the team."

The hire was SO BAD even Chuck Todd condemned it, saying on the air to Kristen Welker (who had to "interview" McDaniel AFTER finding out about the hire):

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Google CEO says AI model Gemini will the company’s ‘biggest focus’ in 2025

CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly told Google employees that 2025 will be a “critical” year for the company. CNBC reports that it obtained audio from a December 18 strategy meeting where Pichai and other executives put on ugly holiday sweaters and laid out their priorities for the coming year. “I think 2025 will be critical,” Pichai […]

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Friday, 27 December 2024

Tom Homan Demands $86 BILLION Down Payment For Deportations

When Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail that he’d deliver mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, he never mentioned charging taxpayers for it. He didn’t even lie promise that Mexico would pay for it!

Turns out, we will.

Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, confirmed on Christmas Eve how much the war on migrants will cost. “Eighty-six billion [dollars] is a start,” Homan said without mentioning an end. “We need at least that.”

Which is weird because Trump has deployed two billionaires to figure out how his government can spend less. Like, two trillion less.

In his appearance on Fox, Homan said the investment will save Americans money in the long run because they’ll no longer be paying for flights and medical care. The roundups and deportations, however, will require paying for flights and medical care.

Also, Homan’s concept of paying for things now to invest and save later runs counter to Republican philosophy. They want, for instance, to cut spending on IRS agents, even though IRS salaries pay for themselves every April 15.

And none of Trump’s people have even started to talk about the costs from the supply-chain and production disruptions being caused by just the threat of mass deportations.

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Thursday, 26 December 2024

Watch this robotic ‘Superman Suit’ rotate around a gymnastics bar

Scientists at the Suzumori Endo Robotics lab in Tokyo have developed the Superman Suit: a suit powered by hydraulic artificial muscles that allows it to perform superhuman tasks. In this video, the suit demonstrates the ability to complete 15 rotations around a bar, making anyone into a great gymnast.

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ChatGPT Search can be tricked into misleading users, new research reveals

ChatGPT's new search feature can be told to generate entirely positive product summaries thanks to hidden code, new research finds.

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ChatGPT and Sora are down for the second time this month

ChatGPT, Sora, and OpenAI’s developer-facing API went down Thursday for an hour and counting. OpenAI says it started experiencing a major outage at 11 AM PT, and the services still appear to be down at the time of publishing this article, around 12:40 PM PT. Frequent users of ChatGPT may recall that the service went […]

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DeepSeek’s new AI model appears to be one of the best ‘open’ challengers yet

A Chinese lab has created what appears to be one of the most powerful “open” AI models to date. The model, DeepSeek V3, was developed by the AI firm DeepSeek, and was released on Wednesday under a permissive license that allows developers to download and modify it for most applications, including commercial ones. DeepSeek V3 […]

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Wednesday, 25 December 2024

Merry Christmas From Karoli And The Granddogs!

How is it already the end of 2024? Yet here we are and my 14th year here at C&L is just about done, so I figured I'll wish you all a MerryChristmasHappyHanukkahHappyHolidays message from me and my granddogs.

That little black and white one at the top is Tako, my northern California granddog. He's clearly starting the party early, if that champagne glass toy is any indication.

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Violet in her new domain

Violet and Sully, my other two granddogs, moved to Michigan this summer after their parents got married in September. They live in a lovely house with a back yard dogs only dream about. I was concerned about Violet making that drive all the way back, but she did well!

Her parents are busy getting ready to bring my first grandchild into the world next year!

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From Our Home To Yours, Merry Christmas! We Love The Sh*t Out Of Y'all.

It’s Christmastime, and while you might think we don’t have much to celebrate this year because of you-know-who, you’d be wrong! When Karoli allowed me to play with y’all in the C&L sandbox over two years ago, I got much more than a job. I have a family; all commenters and readers are included. I feel so grateful for that. I sneak and read some of the comments when I can, even those hating on me for what I wrote (insert laughing emoji).

This past year has been challenging for me and so many others, but let’s manifest 2025 to be a good year despite you-know-who; while he will likely wish everyone a Merry Christmas (we couldn't say that before, don’tchaknow), including his “haters,” (hey, that’s us!) we can take revenge by having a wonderful holiday.

I’m grateful to have a warm home, an unbelievably wonderful partner, my cat, Whisper, my 3 stepcats, and my Honey’s two children.

When we (and by we, I mean my Honey, Gerry. I didn't do shit.) started decorating the tree, I cooked some chili in the kitchen.
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Merry Christmas From The Driftglass And Blue Gal Gang

Above: Driftglass has discovered woodworking! He made this cat-proof Christmas tree for our living room.

Driftglass and I are so grateful to be a part of the C&L family.

2024 will log ONE HUNDRED episodes of our Professional Left Podcast.

Year in review: We'll record Episode 100 for the year next week! Happy Holidays. xoxo

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Here's our latest episode:

This is the year we deleted our Twitter accounts and moved primarily to BlueSky. Follow us at

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Happy Holidays From Red Painter!

Buckle up, friends...it is going to be a bumpy one. 2025 is not going to start off the way we had hoped, but I want to share some of my thoughts (and a personal reflection) as we enter this tumultuous year.

Many of you got to know me in The Bad Place...starting about 10 years ago...when my son was 8. I called him "8" when tweeting about him. Then 9. Then 10...well, guys, he is almost 18. Yes, he is almost legally an adult. Which means that 2025 will be one filled with a huge change for MY HOME:

COLLEGE.

Yes, my tiny little child (he is actually 6 feet tall) who still needs rides (he actually has his own car) and needs my money (ok, that is partly still true) is going to be LEAVING ME IN AUGUST for college. Which college is still TBD - he got into 2 already (his safety and his dream school). We are still waiting on 4 more decisions to come in. But his dream school is 8 LONG HOURS AWAY (I could drive there in 6 hours if I needed to - do not tell the police that, thanks bestie).

I am processing how to deal with this. For 18 years my home has just been my kid and I...and a lot of plants. And soon it will just be me and my plants. And that is a huge shift. I am not sure what that means for me - do I move? Do I get a dog? Do I join a walking club (no, I will not do that).

Anyhow, here is my advice (to myself and you all) about how we will collectively get through the next year (or 4):

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Tuesday, 24 December 2024

C-SPAN Caller: 'Sexual Abuse Is So Much Better Than Rape'

A caller named Joshua from California called into C-SPAN and was talking with host Mimi Geerges about the incoming squad of sexual predators and rapists, such as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Pete Hegseth, and even the Orange Felon himself. Geerges, who was probably warned about the overly litigious Felon, had to cover her and the station's ass by correcting the caller (emphasis mine):

GEERGES: There's Joshua in Los Angeles, Democrat. Hi, Joshua.

JOSHUA: Hello, I just wanted to say one thing about the incoming Trump administration, right? Well, I am really concerned that I look at Trump, especially as cronies that's coming along with him, and they all seem to be accused of sexual assaults in one form or another. Think like Robert Kennedy and Pete Heigseth, especially Trump himself, who was found civilly liable for rape, I believe, in the E. Jean Carroll case, and especially-

GEERGES: For sexual abuse, yep.

JOSHUA: Oh, sexual abuse, yeah, that's what, ABC got sued over, correct?

GEERGES: Correct.

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GOP Florida Rep. All-In On Trump's Idiocy With Panama

Florida GOP Rep. Carlos Gimenez called Trump's idiotic threat to reclaim the Panama Canal "legitimate" during an interview on Fox Business Network this Monday.

No mention, of course, of The Trump Organization's business disputes with the country.

WEBSTER: Congressman, is Donald Trump right? Are we being ripped off on the Panama Canal? What do you think?

GIMINEZ: He very well could be right that that we're getting ripped off, but, what's most concerning is China's influence on Panama and the Panama Canal Authority. China has a way of trying to either buy or coerce, different influencers or politicians,, to do their bidding.

And a couple of years ago we had we had concerns and we had reports that some of the members of that Panamanian Canal Authority had in fact been been coerced or co-opted by the Chinese Communist Party and so yeah he has, he has legitimate concerns when it comes to the Panama Canal.

WEBSTER: Fascinating, could we take it back, do you know?

GIMINEZ: I don't know. I haven't read the fine print, but apparently he has, and there has to be provisions there that say that they have to treat the United States a certain way.

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A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs

A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024.

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Onyx Motorbikes is back, one year after its owner died leaving the company in shambles

A year after Onyx Motorbikes owner James Khatiblou died suddenly, leaving customers with unfulfilled orders and millions in unpaid debts, the brand has been revived by its original founder. “I’m excited to announce I have resurrected my original brand Onyx with incredible backers!” founder Tim Seward wrote in a LinkedIn post on Monday. “Onyx is […]

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Monday, 23 December 2024

Venture capitalists continue to play musical chairs

From Keith Rabois to Matt Miller, a lot of VCs have switched firms or spun out of storied VC institutions 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 partner level. VC funds have […]

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Nvidia’s CES 2025 keynote: How to watch

Nvidia will no doubt have the biggest CES 2025. After all, the company has pretty much the biggest everything nowadays. The chip giant is sporting a $3.4+ trillion market cap, due largely to its foundational position in the ongoing AI boom. Companies like OpenAI and Meta have purchased Nvidia processors by the boatload, and that’s […]

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AI startups attracted 25% of Europe’s VC funding

Venture funding into Europe is heading for a flat year, but this may obfuscate the fact that European AI startups are thriving. According to VC firm Balderton Capital and Dealroom, 25% of VC funding into the region — approximately $13.7 billion — went to AI startups this year, compared to 15% four years ago, resulting […]

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Sunday, 22 December 2024

X jacks up Premium+ prices 37.5%, hits some markets harder

X is raising prices for its top-tier subscription service by 37.5%, marking the largest price increase since the platform’s acquisition by Elon Musk in 2022. The Premium+ service will cost $22 monthly in the U.S., up from $16, effective December 21, according to a company statement. Annual subscriptions will increase to $229 from $168. X […]

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Palantir and Anduril reportedly building a tech consortium to bid on defense contracts

Two big defense tech players, Palantir and Anduril, are talking to tech companies including SpaceX, OpenAI, Saronic, and Scale AI about forming a consortium to bid on Pentagon contracts, according to a report in the Financial Times. The goal, the FT says, is to challenge the dominance of “prime” defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, […]

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Trump says he wants to keep TikTok around ‘for a little while’

With a US TikTok ban scheduled to take effect in less than a month, President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that he’d like to keep the app around, according to Reuters. “We’re going to have to start thinking because, you know, we did go on TikTok, and we had a great response with billions of views, […]

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Saturday, 21 December 2024

Thank You, Pramila Jayapal

After six years at the helm of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, dedicated to "building the infrastructure" necessary to effectively fight for key policies on Capitol Hill, term-limited Rep. Pramila Jayapal is determined to ensure that the CPC's incoming leaders "are as successful as possible."

Jayapal (D-Wash.) spoke with Common Dreams on Wednesday about her time leading the caucus of nearly 100 lawmakers whose legislative priorities include "comprehensive immigration reform, good-paying jobs, fair trade, universal healthcare, debt-free college, climate action, and a just foreign policy."

She was elected first vice chair of the CPC in June 2017, just months into her freshman term in Congress. Explaining her foray into leadership, Jayapal affectionately said, "I blamed it all on Keith Ellison," a Minnesota Democrat who was then a congressman and caucus leader and is now his state's attorney general.

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Madison Students March To The Capitol For Gun Safety

On Friday afternoon, hundreds of students from Madison East and Madison West High Schools walked out and marched to the state capitol to protest the lack of gun safety laws and to express the fear they have for their own lives:

Canadian MP Lays The Orange Felon Out Cold

Charlie Angus, Canadian Member of Parliament in the House of Commons was asked about the Orange Felon's threat of a trade war with Canada and he did not waste the opportunity to let the Felon and President Musk know exactly what he thinks about that:

HOST: Mr. Angus, what's the latest? What do you want to say to Donald Trump?

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Friday, 20 December 2024

VCs pledge not to take money from Russia or China, and Databricks raises a humongous round

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 was full of news, likely because it is also the last “real” week of 2024. Which is another way for us to say goodbye for […]

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Nvidia clears regulatory hurdle to acquire Run:ai

Chip company Nvidia gets the green light from the European Union to complete its acquisition of Run:ai. The EU came to a unanimous decision today that Nvidia could go ahead with its acquisition of Israeli GPU orchestration platform Run:ai, according to reporting from Bloomberg. The European Commission determined that if the merger went through, other […]

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Trump Dementia: Government Shutdown Is Biden's Problem

With Republicans failure to pass a spending bill after Elon Musk and Donald Trump destroyed the bipartisan deal from the government Thursday, the Demented One is now claiming it's Biden's problem because he's president.

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Oh, and the MAGATs will help President Biden pass it if they can? Suuure, we believe you.

Trump destroys things and then blames others for the problems he causes. That's always been his MO.

Outside of the MAGA cult, nobody believes this for a second. Speaker Johnson came out after the Thursday vote failed and blamed Democrats for his issues because speaking the truth would get him thrown out of the leadership position sooner rather than later.

Fox News and others will follow traitor Trump's lead and blame the Democrats for not bowing down to Donald's demands, while excusing all 38 Republicans who voted against the Trump-backed spending bill

Republicans don't know how to govern. Mandate? Are you kidding me?

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Thursday, 19 December 2024

Backed by a16z and NEA, Backflip raises $30M Series A to turn text into AI-generated designs

Led by Markforged veterans and backed by a16z, Backlip has raised $30M to democratize product design thanks to AI.

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VP Trump Gives Democrats A Road Map To Keep Government Open

Now that President (non-elect) Musk has blown up the carefully negotiated continuing resolution to keep the government open, VP-Elect Trump is doing is best to preserve what little power he has by imploring Democrats to get rid of the debt ceiling entirely.

Writing on his money laundering site Truth Social site, Trump called for Democrats to end the "mess of the debt limit" entirely for his four years.

If Republicans try to pass a clean Continuing Resolution without all of the Democrat “bells and whistles” that will be so destructive to our Country, all it will do, after January 20th, is bring the mess of the Debt Limit into the Trump Administration, rather than allowing it to take place in the Biden Administration. Any Republican that would be so stupid as to do this should, and will, be Primaried. Everything should be done, and fully negotiated, prior to my taking Office on January 20th, 2025.

So to be clear, nothing can be done in the House without some Democrats. And even Jared Golden and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez aren't going to raise the debt limit for 4 years because Trump said so.

There is absolutely no way to negotiate a four-year budget anyway, so that's just stupid. But if Trump truly doesn't want to deal with the debt limit, which is an artificial construct Republicans use as a cudgel to beat Democrats into submission over their shitty poison pill budget items, then by all means, let's accommodate that.

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Wednesday, 18 December 2024

Tracker firm Hapn spilling names of thousands of GPS tracking customers

A security researcher found customer names and workplace affiliations spilling directly from Hapn's servers.

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Democrats Elect Old Guard Over AOC On Oversight Committee

Democrats went with the old guy with experience over AOC to lead them in the House Oversight Committee after Jamie Raskin went to Judiciary. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez had been Vice Ranking Member, or Raskin's #2. Some Democrats aren't happy about this, but it's more or less how things in Washington work. Loyalty and experience get rewarded.

MSNBC's Chris Hayes certainly didn't hold back, "The refusal of older members of the Democratic Party to let go of power is “genuine madness” Chris Hayes said Tuesday following Rep. Gerry Connolly’s election to head of the Oversight Committee."

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WASHINGTON — Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia on Tuesday defeated Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York in the race to be the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee as rank-and-file lawmakers favored a more senior member of the party’s caucus to take on the second Trump administration rather than a young progressive star.

In a closed-door Democratic caucus meeting, the secret-ballot vote was 131 to 84, according to a lawmaker in the room.

After the vote, Connolly told reporters the most “capable” candidate won.

None too gracious, but Connolly has been on that committee for the past 15 years and twice failed to lead it before.

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Perplexity acquires Carbon to connect AI search to your work files

Perplexity acquired a small Seattle-based startup called Carbon which specializes in connecting AI systems to external data sources, the companies announced on Wednesday. CEO Aravind Srinivasan says this will allow Perplexity to search through your files and work messages in Notion, Google Docs, Slack, and other enterprise applications sometime in early 2025. Carbon specializes in […]

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Tuesday, 17 December 2024

Grubhub to pay $25M for ‘deceptive’ practices against customers, drivers

Grubhub will pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul over unlawful practices, including misleading customers about delivery costs, deceiving drivers about potential earnings, and listing restaurants on its platform without their permission. The agencies claim that Grubhub hid the true cost of its delivery […]

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Trump Lunatic Presser: 'We Had No Problems' When I Left Office

Donald Trump went off on a raving diatribe during a Monday Palm Beach, Florida press conference, claiming he left the country in perfect shape when he left office in 2021, right after his disastrous handling of COVID and an insurrection.

Demented Donald wears so much make-up he looks like the logo from Red Devil paints.

Nothing is ever Trump's fault in his maggot-nfested brain.

TRUMP: Like, out of nowhere came the China virus. Out of nowhere came other things. We don't want to have.

You know, when I left, we had no wars. We had no problems. The Middle East was good. We did the Abraham Accords.

We did things that nobody thought were even possible.

But think of it. Four years ago, we had no wars.

You didn't have Russia going into Ukraine. They wouldn't have done it. They weren't even thinking about it.

When they saw what happened in Afghanistan, I think they gave them an idea. But they wouldn't have done it.

They would have never gone in. President Putin would have never gone in.

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Commonwealth Fusion Systems just picked its first commercial site partly because of its proximity to Washington, D.C.

The fusion startup intends to hook the power plant up to the grid in the early 2030s.

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Monday, 16 December 2024

Called your doctor after-hours? ConnectOnCall hackers may have stolen your medical data

The hackers stole names, phone numbers, dates of birth and information related to health conditions, treatments and prescriptions.

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56 US startups have become unicorns so far in 2024: Here’s the full list

The list includes Elon Musk’s xAI, which is already valued at a staggering $24 billion, as well as a good number of other AI startups.

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Sunday, 15 December 2024

'Sex Crime!' Fox News Panel Explodes Over 'Womanizer' Pete Hegseth

Fox News pundit Lucy Caldwell called out OutKick founder Clay Travis after he called Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary nominee, an alleged "womanizer" instead of acknowledging sexual assault allegations.

During a Sunday panel discussion on Fox News, Travis condemned media coverage of Hegseth's nomination.

"Look, they've come after Pete Hegseth with everything they got," Travis complained. "They started with, oh, he's a womanizer. You can't trust him. His wife's fabulous. They have a fantastic family. He's doing really well."

"Not a womanizer!" Caldwell interrupted. "Accused of a sex crime! Not a womanizer! Accused of a sex crime! That's totally not the same thing. There's a police report about it."

"Let's not use the term womanizer," she continued. "Defend it. But don't say womanizer. That's not what's at issue here. An alleged sex crime is what's at issue here."

"Hold on, Lucy!" Travis exclaimed. "What you are doing is everything that's wrong with the way these are covered. You said accused of a sex crime. He was actually cleared of a sex crime. They investigated. The woman lied. There was no basis for it."

"He wasn't prosecuted," Fox News host Howard Kurtz noted.

"He was cleared!" Travis repeated.

"No! Wrong!" Caldwell argued. "Incorrect!"

"100% true!" Travis said. "They investigated him in Florida — I mean, in California. They found there was absolutely no crime that had occurred at all. That is the truth."

"That's not what happened!" Caldwell insisted.

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The 2025 Lucid Air Pure is a luxe ride at $69,900 with room for tech tune-ups

The all-electric 2025 Lucid Air Pure is a dreamy, sexy car that’s no less luxurious for being the cheapest trim in Lucid’s Air lineup. I felt fancy and discerning driving around, but in an understated way – as if I were wearing designer sweatpants.  But does fancy equal value? I spent about 10 days driving […]

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What exactly is an AI agent?

Regardless of how they're defined, the agents are for helping complete tasks in an automated way with as little human interaction as possible.

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Saturday, 14 December 2024

GM ‘blindsides’ Cruise by giving up on robotaxis

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re looking at GM’s decision to pull out of the robotaxi business, Google alluding to the existence of multiple universes, and how you can make some serious cash by getting an AI bot to fall in love with you. Let’s get into it. General Motors will no […]

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Ontario Premier Threatens U.S. Over Trump's Tariffs: 'We Will Cut Off Their Energy'

If Ontario carries through on its threats, millions of Americans would be without electricity and major oil pipelines would be shut off.

Trade wars between neighbors are the dumbest wars.

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ONTARIO, Canada (WWNY) - Canada appears ready to fight back if President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threat becomes real.

Premiers from all over the country met in Ottawa this week, and Ontario Premier Doug Ford came out of the meeting and didn’t mince words.

Ford emerged from the meeting where Canadian leaders talked about tariffs he’s certain are coming from the U.S. on Canadian goods.

“This is coming. It’s not ‘if it is’. It’s coming. And it’s coming January 20th or 21st. And we need to be prepared,” said Ford.

Ford is referring to President-elect Trump’s inauguration in January. And if a promised 25% tariff on Canadian goods into the U.S. happens, Ford confirmed this week that Ontario is contemplating restricting electricity exports.

“We will go to the full extent depending on how far this goes. We will cut off their energy down to Michigan, over to New York State, and over to Wisconsin. I don’t want this to happen,” said Ford.
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“Canadians will get hurt - but I assure you one thing, Americans are going to feel the pain as well,” said Ford.

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Friday, 13 December 2024

What failed before might succeed now — or fail again — and other startup bets

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 in startup news, we have some contrarian bets, funding rounds from all around the world, new VC funds, and a final word of warning. Most […]

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These startups have fascinating new technologies, business models, founder stories or are pushing an industry forward in exciting ways.

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Thursday, 12 December 2024

Yahoo cybersecurity team sees layoffs, outsourcing of ‘red team,’ under new CTO

Yahoo laid off around 25% of its cybersecurity team, known as The Paranoids, over the last year.

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ServiceTitan’s IPO is a big winner that could inspire fintechs

ServiceTitan, which offers financial and customer management software for the trades, went public in a big way on Thursday, much to the delight of retail investors. The stock quickly popped from its opening IPO sales price of $71 million to $105 a share in modest trading volume. It is currently maintaining an above-$100 price. ServiceTitan’s […]

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Threads rolls out its own version of Bluesky’s ‘Starter Packs’

Meta’s Threads is rolling out its own take on Bluesky’s “Starter Packs,” which are curated lists of suggested accounts that help new users find people to follow. Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Thursday that the social network is testing a way for users to find and easily follow collections of profiles that post about […]

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Wednesday, 11 December 2024

Government Of The Billionaires, By The Billionares, And For The Billionaires

On his Truth Social platform earlier, Demented Don put the country up for sale.

Money talks, democracy walks.

A government of oligarchs that will exist to solely serve the interests of oligarchs while distracting working people with culture wars. And people can complain all they want about a Trump screenshot. I almost never post any here and this is important so just block me instead of whining.

Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2024-12-10T19:36:51.430Z

If you got enough money then permits and approvals are guaranteed without any scrutiny, and it'll happen faster if it fucks over climate change under the new regime. And what does it really mean to "invest 1 billion in the United States"? Bribing Trump? Is it just an outright bribe solicitation?

Trump shat on Lincoln's greatest words from his Gettysburg Address.

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Tuesday, 10 December 2024

GM is giving up on Cruise robotaxis, pivots to personal autonomous vehicles

General Motors said Tuesday it will no longer fund the development of a commercial robotaxi business and will instead absorb its self-driving car subsidiary Cruise and combine it with the automaker’s own efforts to develop driver assistance features — and eventually fully autonomous personal vehicles. The pivot is a remarkable step for the automaker, which […]

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HarperCollins CEO touts Spotify’s audiobooks entry, AI’s impact on publishing

The future of audiobooks and AI’s impact on the publishing industry were points of discussion for HarperCollins, whose CEO, Brian Murray, spoke at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference on Tuesday. During the event, the exec praised Spotify’s entry into the audiobooks market and detailed its future growth plans in the space. He also […]

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Google says its new quantum chip indicates that multiple universes exist

Google announced its latest quantum chip, Willow. But what really caught the industry's attention was a wild claim tucked into the blog post.

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Larry Kudlow Smears Jill Biden: She's Involved In 'Heavy Petting With Trump'

Since Jill Biden acted like a human being with dignity and grace towards Trump, she was vilified and smeared by Fox News hosts as being "addicted to power, and wanting to have an affair with Donald Trump."

I kid you not.

These MAGAts and Fox News hosts can take a simple video visual and turn it into a salacious, and despicable act.

Media Matters caught the show.

KUDLOW: I just want to go back inside the church for a minute, Molly. Take a careful look at that. That wasn't a nice conversation. That was outright flirtation. It was almost —

FAULKNER: Oh my goodness!

KUDLOW: That was almost heavy — that was almost heavy-duty petting at the G7 level. I've been there. I've seen these things before. So I'm just saying the evidence is mounting.

The stupidest man on television just lowered himself into the MAGA pit of feces.

Not to be outdone, host Harris Faulkner endorsed much of what Kudlow said.

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Monday, 9 December 2024

Clown Show Almost Complete; Alina Habba Named WH Counsel

Alina Habba, who served as Donald's attorney, was just named on Truth Social as the disgraced former President, who will soon be President again because some Americans don't care if this country crashes and burns, as White House counselor to the bloviating blowhard.

It's almost as if taxpayers will shovel out cash for his attorney, something his supporters usually front the bill for. She's such a great attorney that she lost the E. Jean Carroll civil suit against her sexual-abusing hero. Still, Donald insists Habba "has become a role model for women in Law and Politics."

Habba, who is pleased with Donald stocking his oligarchy with billionaires, said recently that the wealthy elites who will be serving in his godawful administration will run the country like they run their businesses, which is laughable since Leon Musk destroyed Xitter. It's only worth a fraction of what he paid for the platform. And Donald, of course, declared bankruptcy six times. Seven, if you consider that he handed his successor, Joe Biden, with an apocalyptic economy.

Donald praised Habba in the announcement for her "unwavering in her loyalty," which appears to have paid off for the little sycophant.

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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 since its launch in November 2022. 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. That growth has propelled OpenAI itself into […]

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Sunday, 8 December 2024

Dr. Donald Offers Bizarre Thoughts On Autism And Vaccines

Donald Trump sat down with Kristen Welker on Meet the Press where he offered his thoughts on the discredited nonexistent link between autism and childhood vaccines. The reason why there are more cases of autism now than years ago is because of awareness, and autism wasn't added to the DSM until 2000. Still, Trump is comparing the rates from 25 years ago. It's just not a thing, though.

"Let me ask you about RFK Jr," Welker said. "He has obviously talked about his skepticism of vaccines. He's expressed opposition to childhood vaccines. Do you want to see childhood vaccines eliminated?"

"If they're dangerous for the children," Trump said.

"So, possibly?" Welker asked.

"When you look at some of the problems, when you look at what's going on with disease and sickness in our country, something's wrong," Donald said.

"Are you talking about autism?" Welker pressed.

"Well, if you take a look at autism, you go back 25 years; autism was almost non-existent," the fucking president-elect said. "It was, you know, one out of 100,000, and now it's close to one out of 100. I mean, what, what's happening if they can find it?"

"Sir, Going back 25 years, studies show that there are, there is no link between vaccines and autism, and yet it sounds like you are open to the possibility of him looking to get rid of that," Welker said.

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Apple’s Vision Pro might add support for PlayStation VR controllers

Apple is looking to make its Vision Pro mixed reality device more attractive to gamers and game developers, according to a new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The Vision Pro has been pitched as more of a productivity and media consumption device than something aimed at gamers, due in part to relying on eye and […]

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UCLA offers comp lit course developed by AI

In winter 2025, a comparative literature class at UCLA will feature a textbook, homework assignments, and TA resources generated by AI. The class in question is a survey of literature from the Middle Ages to the 17th century, while the materials are generated by Kudu — an “evolved” textbook platform founded by Alexander Kusenko, a […]

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Saturday, 7 December 2024

OpenAI bets you’ll pay $200 a month for ChatGPT

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re diving into OpenAI’s surprise 12 days of reveals, an underwhelming Spotify Wrapped, and an app that tells you when you’ll die. 😰 Let’s get into it. OpenAI is getting into the holiday spirit. In a surprise “12 Days of OpenAI” event, the company will livestream updates […]

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Google pushes back against federal supervision of its payment arm

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced Friday that it was placing Google’s payment arm under federal supervision. In response, Google filed a lawsuit seeking to block the move. Such supervision would subject Google to the same inspections that the bureau conducts with major banks and other financial institutions for potential violations of the law. The […]

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Hegseth's Mission As Sec Def: Privatize And Cut Services To Troops

Hegseth dresses up the MAGA giveaway-to-the-rich scheme as a benefit to veterans. “We want to have full choice where veterans can go wherever they want for care,” Hegseth reportedly told Donald Trump and then-VA head Dr. David Shulkin during Trump’s first term in office, as per CNN. But it’s really a plan that would destroy the current system, not improve it, and make things worse for vets.

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“Your version of choice would cost billions more per year, bankrupting the system,” Shulkin recalls telling Hegseth in his memoir. “How can we responsibly pursue this? Unfortunately, he didn’t want to engage at the level of budget and other aspects of day-to-day reality. He seemed to prefer his sound bites on television.”

“At the time, I was telling him, ‘I’m here on the ground, I know the reality,’” [Shulkin] told CNN in an interview on Wednesday. “I see the patients, the veterans with PTSD. I’ve been a doctor my whole life in the private sector. I know my hospitals that I ran didn’t have the capability to care for these patients. I’m not just going to give [veterans] a voucher and say, ‘Good luck.’”

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FAFO: GOP Realizes Massive Immigration Plans Will Hurt Them, Too

In today's edition of FAFO (F*ck Around and Find Out) we have GOP Business Leaders learning the hard way that Trump's massive immigrant deportation plans will actually be really bad for business. When you get rid of that cheap labor that are willing to work ungodly hours for crazy low wages with virtually no employee protection, you are in trouble. Americans expect at least minimum wage, breaks, maybe some insurance. Those ungrateful immigrants will settle for $4.00 an hour and stand in the sun for 16 hours a day picking strawberries. Not us 'mericans!

As Greg Sargent from the New Republic points out "Republicans or GOP-adjacent industries have already begun to admit out loud that some of his most important policy promises could prove disastrous in their parts of the country."

Oopsie!

They won't say it out loud. but they are definitely thinking it. Instead, they dance around it. For example, in Georgia they are worried about losing that sweet President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act money, which provided HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars into green energy technologies. Trump has vowed to repeal that money. Georgia state Rep Beth Camp is worried about losing those jobs - and that money.

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Friday, 6 December 2024

Instagram locks out developers of third-party consumer apps

A change to Meta’s developer tools is impacting third-party consumer apps that had previously integrated with Instagram. Among those affected by the changes are the Match-owned dating apps Tinder and Hinge, which had allowed their users to link their Instagram profiles to their accounts to display their posts to potential matches. Day One, the journaling […]

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Hopeful hearts and other startup news

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. The week after Thanksgiving is usually rich in announcements, and this year was no exception. Blame it on the holiday season, but we would even go as […]

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Bannon: Trump Should Make Matt Gaetz A Special Counsel

On Steve Bannon's Real America's Voice podcast, the jailbird was still mourning over the loss of a true MAGA sycophant Matt Gaetz, and tried to cheer himself up by hoping Matt could be made into some sort of special counsel in the future.

Bannon markets himself as someone pulling the strings at the (nonexistent yet) Trump White House. Of course, it's telling that we're discussing "who is in charge" at Mar-a-Gofundme because we all know it ain't President-Elect Syphilis.

BANNON: They kind of know what should be done. They're not going to do that. They know what's in their own interest, and their own interest is they're gonna keep control of this apparatus and screw you. Trump's got four, he's already lame-duck according to them. They think he's a lame-duck. Trump will lose interest; Trump will lose energy--78 years old. He'll want to play golf, so we'll pick them off.

We'll pick off these fire breathers one at a time. Alinsky 101, pick them off one time. Gates was culled him from the herd. Make a big deal about this stuff. He was never charged with stuff that I think fully. Just put it all out there. It was a news story for two days and then let's get on with it.

It's not what happened. Gaetz is gone.

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Thursday, 5 December 2024

Elon Musk’s xAI lands $6B in new cash to fuel AI ambitions

xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, has raised $6 billion, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday. Investors gave a minimum of $77,593, per the filing. 97 participated, but the document doesn’t reveal their identities. The Wall Street Journal previously reported that Valor Equity Partners, Sequoia Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz […]

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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 since its launch in November 2022. 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. That growth has propelled OpenAI itself into […]

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Holiday app Festivitas puts Xmas lights on your Mac

Getting into the holiday spirit but still stuck at work? A cute new macOS called Festivitas can help you decorate your Mac computer screen with twinkling, holiday lights that are strung up from your menu bar and illuminate your dock. This whimsical holiday treat was dreamed up by software developer Simon B. Støvring, the maker […]

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Threads tests a feature that lets users see how well specific posts performed

Threads is testing the ability for users to see how well their individual posts performed on the social network. Up until now, Threads’ “Insights” feature only showed you aggregated metrics for all of your posts. Now, the feature can show you metrics for each post. If you’re in the test, you can sort posts by […]

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Wednesday, 4 December 2024

See Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs generate 3D environments from a single picture

World Labs has announced a new AI feature that turns 2D images into tiny worlds. This tool, the first from Fei-Fei Li’s highly hyped startup, takes a prompt or 2D reference image and spits out a fully navigable 3D environment.  By generating in 3D, World Labs can avoid some of the the control and consistency […]

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Hegseth's Mom Blames Herself And Attacks Media For Pete's Problems

Penelope Hegseth joined Fox and Friends this morning for a lengthy interview to try and revive her son's candidacy for SecDef by claiming Pete is a completely different man today while bashing the media.

Hegseth's mother did her best to try and take back the vicious email she sent her son for his constant attacks on women.

When a parent writes such a demonstrative email against her own child, we know something is very,very wrong with that child.

HEGSETH: Right, let's go back seven years, which if we all went back seven years, we would see that maybe we were not the people we are today, but they were going through, Pete and his wife at the time, were going through a very difficult divorce.

It was a very emotional time, and I'm sure many of you across the country understand how difficult divorce is on a family. There's emotions. We say things, and I wrote that in haste.

I wrote that with deep emotions. I wrote that as a parent, and about two hours later, my husband tells me I should think through things a little bit more, but Pete and I are both very passionate people.

Penny blames herself for being too emotional for sending this email:

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Tuesday, 3 December 2024

Mayer: More Pete Hegseth Stories 'Coming Out Of The Woodwork'

Jane Mayer of the New Yorker appeared on the Rachel Maddow show last night to talk about the bombshell story about Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth, and she dropped this little tidbit.

"We gave Hegseth two days basically to respond, and they have not denied a single thing in this report, so they just said no, after being given very careful questions," she said.

"The other thing I would like to say is just that it has been almost a day since this story came out, and my phone has been ringing off the hook. I have been hearing from many more people who work with Pete Hegseth, who have come out of the woodwork to say they, too, have stories along the same lines.

"Stories of just drinking himself into sort of oblivion. All of which I think is, you know, I have got nothing against people having a good time in life, but it is when you combine it with running the Defense Department that it really does get to be an alarming picture."

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Amazon teams up with Orbital to remove CO2 from the air at one of its datacenters 

The system should remove more carbon dioxide than the electricity used by the datacenter would produce.

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Monday, 2 December 2024

Jeff Bezos backs AI chipmaker Tenstorrent

AI hardware startup Tenstorrent raised nearly $700 million in new funding. Tenstorrent raised a $693 million Series D round that values the company at more than $2.6 billion, Bloomberg first reported. The round was led by Samsung Securities and AFW Partners. Other investors including Hyundai and Jeff Bezos’s Bezos Expeditions, among others. The Toronto-based company […]

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A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs

A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024.

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Coinbase now lets you buy crypto with Apple Pay in third-party apps

Coinbase announced an integration with Apple Pay on Monday, allowing app makers to build the ability to buy crypto with Apple Pay directly into their apps. The integration is part of Coinbase Onramp, which gives app makers a way for customers to turn their traditional currencies, such as USD, into cryptocurrencies. That process has historically […]

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An Apple employee is suing the company over monitoring employee personal devices

An Apple employee sued the tech company as part of an effort to limit the visibility employers have on personal devices used for work.

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Sunday, 1 December 2024

Alexander Vindman's Brother Has A Warning For Elon Musk

Congressman-Elect Eugene Vindman warned Musk he could soon be facing a facing a defamation lawsuit if he continues making threats and spreading lies about his twin brother, retired Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman.

Musk recently threatened Vindman with treason charges over Vindman's testimony during Trump's impeachment.

Vindman was asked about Musk's threats on Saturday's The Weekend on MSNBC, and Vindman responded that Musk need to "dial back" his defamatory remarks about his brother, or he's going to be the one that ends up "paying."

MENENDEZ: Congressman-elect, earlier Michael referenced your brother, Elon Musk accusing him of committing treason, saying he will pay after the former Trump impeachment witness accused the tech billionaire and close Trump ally of being unwittingly used by Russia – a reminder of the focus on retribution by this administration.

VINDMAN: Yeah, well, I would say that if anybody's on the cusp of having to pay, it may be Elon Musk, because his comments are really false and defamatory, no basis in fact. Ans so I think he needs to dial back what he said.

My brother served honorably in the army. He's fought and bled on battlefields for this country, and every statement that Elon Musk made is false. And so, I think he needs to dial that back, otherwise he is the one in jeopardy of having to pay for defamation.

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