Donald Trump raked in more than
$1billion from his crypto businesses last year, a federal filing released Monday shows,
giving a substantial boost to his annual income.
In his second term, Trump and his family have heavily invested in digital money and various crypto businesses
with Trump announcing at the start of 2025 that he wanted the US to be the “crypto capital of the world”.
Trump’s crypto earnings are in addition to profit from his legal settlements, real…
A look at the deluge of AI computing power set to come online in the coming years; Epoch AI expects the number of AI chips in use to double every nine months (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactiv…
Couple Raiders veteran additions change numbers following roster cutdowns https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/08/31/raiders-veteran-additions-matt-gay-f…
Colts QB Daniel Jones 'feeling good' coming off Achilles tear, full-go for training camp https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-qb-daniel-jones-feeling-good-coming-off-achilles-tear-full-go-for-training-camp
Canada's CBC makes 9/11 an exception to its policy of not labeling specific attacks as terrorism, after criticism over a leaked memo restating the policy (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/canada-cbc-terrorism-united-state…
05:40 am Tuesday morning. Day off, so wide awake! Weather here isn’t cold, but cooler and already the RA is coming back and feeling painful in places.
Halo Reach: flying around in space
I am, apparently, a little way through the game, and I restarted halfway through chapter 3. The difference in gameplay from the first Halo is marked, with increased reliance on team members and communication, and a move to large scale set pieces rather than small-scale battles in corridors from one waypoint to the next. The world feels a lot more empty and open, and you have a sense of partaking in a massive war rather than an…
"The Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex (MDSCC) in Robledo de Chavela was evacuated on July 24 due to the wildfires. All personnel are safe following the passage of the fire through the area. [...] Mission operations have been transferred seamlessly to the Goldstone Complex (California). This ensures service continuity and uninterrupted support for spacecraft communications." From the thread #DeepSpaceNetwork
Watch out, that joke is coming in flat.
#dadjoke #punintended
Common Cause condemned the Supreme Court’s ruling allowing the federal government to continue using the flawed SAVE system to reject registered voters.
Statement from Common Cause President & CEO Virginia Kase Solomón:
“The Supreme Court’s decision to allow DHS and states to use an error-ridden system
is completely unacceptable
and didn’t need to happen this close to the election.
This DHS system, which the federal government itself admits is flawed,