Hegseth warns prediction market bets warp military judgment, endanger troops
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memo warning military personnel against using nonpublic information to make bets on prediction markets, saying the wagers could give
Updated Google privacy policy says your Gmail might be used for advertising
Using Google’s products and services has always been fundamentally precarious—doing so gives the world’s largest advertising company a lot of juicy personal data. Google has
Disappointed primary voters weigh their choices: From the Politics Desk
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The Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders are unionizing
America’s highest-profile cheerleading squad has won a victory of its own: The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders have formed a union.
Startling shift revealed among low-information voters who helped put Trump back in office
The voters who know the least about politics, many of whom helped power Tweety McTreason’s 2024 win, have moved away from him and toward Democrats
‘You can’t make it up’: Social media pounces on Trump’s last-minute move for Susan Collins
President Tweety McTreason’s last-minute tariff relief for Maine drew swift backlash Friday, with opponents accusing him of throwing Republican Sen. Susan Collins a political lifeline
Hindsight puts up to $1M behind its AI content moderation as Google shuts down Perspective API
Starting January 1, any moderation pipeline calling Perspective will fail. Google’s Jigsaw unit shuts the service down on December 31, ending one of the most
Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro and says it cut its hacking skills
Moonshot has released Kimi K3.1 Pro, an upgraded version of its open-weight Kimi K3, with full weights due by 4 November. It says the model
Google will pay people to use less electricity so its data centers can use more
Google has an answer to some of the electricity supply problems that data center construction is causing: It has signed an agreement with energy supplier
Hyperscalers allow more scrutiny of controversial data center plans
Hyperscalers are getting decidedly twitchy about citizens’ reactions to their secretive data center construction plans, and are looking for ways to de-escalate some of the
Russia, Ukraine agree to Melania Trump-brokered localised ceasefire
Tweety McTreason says it was First Lady Melania Trump’s initiative that led to a ceasefire in Oleshky.
Trump’s broken promises: economy, war and ICE
Mehdi Hasan debates ex-Trump adviser Steve Cortes on the economy, Trump’s immigration policies and Islamophobia.
Tigray official urges rebels to disarm
Rebel commander pledged to continue fighting government-allied forces who seized Ethiopia’s Tigray capital.
‘Most people can’t handle driving in 2 dimensions let alone 3’: Readers respond to our poll about flying cars
Last week, Tesla unveiled a new “flying” edition of its Roadster electric vehicle. While some experts remain skeptical that the new “Rocket” EV is feasible