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A newly expanded policy from the Trump administration could require travelers from five World Cup-qualified countries to front a bond of up to $15,000 in order to enter the United States for the tournament.
Visa bonds operate like security deposits:
a one-time payment meant to be refunded after a traveler exits the US under the terms of their visa.
The amounts generally run between $5,000 and $15,000, and are required for passport holders from certain countries to enter the…

AI's deflationary impact on India's IT industry, which has never seen a decline in software exports in 24 years, will likely take years to fully materialize (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
https://indiadispatch.com/p/in-defense-of-indias-it-industry

In Defense of India's IT Industry
The cost of electricity does not run an enterprise.

OK, the Arch runner is now set up and working after my rather annoying tangle with llvmpipe.
The entire six-job build ran for 17 minutes. I could probably optimize it further: right now the Windows and Ubuntu 24.04 builds are among the slower ones and they share the same GPU forcing them to run sequentially. If I shuffled around which VM ran which job, I could probably fine tune a bit.
Max concurrent jobs was four, three using nvidia cards plus the Ubuntu 26.04 using llvmpipe. I …

Far from Hormuz, a second Middle East strait enters the crosshairs (Scott Waldman/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/26/iran-war-strait-mandeb-energy-00845751
http://www.memeorandum.com/260326/p132#a260326p132

Les Italiens exagèrent-ils quand ils expriment des doutes Š propos des enquêtes des autorités valaisannes? Clairement, il n’y a rien Š voir.
https://www.rts.ch/info/regions/valais/2026/article/videosurvei…

The title already hits the nail on its head.
Further down in the article: "Compelled speech isn’t free speech, guys. And this is nothing more than a blatant intimidation campaign to frighten away reporters from reporting the truth about Palantir."
#Palantir #Republik

The way Dodford pulls off a narrative arc for a half-hour-long biopic almost entirely out of quotes and clips never ceases to amaze me.
The Vanishing of Ryan Gosling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12GADjataDQ

Taking up all the remaining oxygen in the room right now is AI hype,
exemplified by Jared Kaplan, who is quoted in this article:
-- ⭐️ --
"I spoke to Jared Kaplan, co-founder of Anthropic, the company behind the chatbot Claude.
He was a physicist the last time we spoke.
As a grad student at Harvard in the 2000s, he worked with the renowned theorist Nima Arkani-Hamed to open up the new directions in amplitude research that are being actively pursued today.

Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard? | Quanta Magazine
Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine
For Accurately Reporting That
The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/27/palantir-sues-swiss-magazine-for-accurately-reporting-t…

Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir
If you run a company whose entire value proposition is the ability to see patterns, predict outcomes, and connect dots that others miss, you’d think someone in the building might have flagged…