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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…

Gunnar Sohn antwortet auf René Pfisters Spiegel-Kritik an der #rp26: Wer 670 Sessions auf 27 Bühnen durch das Rechts-Links-Sieb drückt, verliert alles, was interessant ist. Netzpolitik als Arbeit am Staat — nicht als Milieu-Folklore. Ein lesenswerter Gegenentwurf zur Lagerlogik.
@…

Gegen die Lagerlogik: Netzpolitik jenseits von links und rechts @rene_pfister #rp26 - ichsagmal.com
Die Konferenz im Bildausschnitt René Pfister hat im SPIEGEL aus der re:publica eine Erzählung gebaut, die sofort einrastet: einst Netzutopie, heute progressives Milieu; einst Aufbruch, heute Ritual; einst digitale Befreiung, heute letzte Party auf der „Titanic“. Man erkennt die Konstruktion, weil sie gut funktioniert. Sie nimmt einzelne Szenen, einzelne Stimmen, einzelne ästhetische Eindrücke und zieht … Gegen die Lagerlogik: Netzpolitik jenseits von links und rechts @rene_pfister #rp…

Instacart co-founder Apoorva Mehta launches Abundance, a hedge fund that aims to have AI agents run the entire fund, with $100M in seed funding (Hema Parmar/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/instac…

Since I fired up Chrome and enabled grid lanes to read Manuel’s post, I tried my 2019 reading order bookmarklet:
https://adrianroselli.com/2019/04/reading-order-bookmarklet.html
And it works!
You have to run it from the top of the page for the numbers t…

The driver of a lifted Chevrolet Silverado was so oblivious behind the wheel of a three-ton truck that she missed an entire Lamborghini Huracan,
drove onto it, and then put it in park to see what was going on.
From the footage, the Lamborghini appears to be moving slowly through a parking lot, likely searching for a space.
The Silverado enters with noticeably more speed than the setting calls for.
There’s no meaningful correction, no obvious braking in time, and then C…

Florida Woman Drove Her Lifted Truck Over A Lamborghini And Didn’t Even Notice
The Huracan was crawling for a parking spot when a three-ton lifted Chevy Silverado climbed right over its front end without stopping

New blog entry. Do you want to run VLC as root? :)
sed -i 's/geteuid/getppid/g' vlc
"Running VLC as root and the magic sed"
https://sysfatal.github.io/vlc.html

The change log entry I just wrote for Kitten¹:
- __Faster tests__
The tests (unit, regression, and end-to-end) have all been refactored to run conccurrently.
Speed improvements:
- Unit tests: ~8× faster
- Regression tests: ~4× faster
- End-to-end tests: ~2× faster
To enable this, the unit and regression tests were ported from Tape to Node’s native node:test. We’re still using the TAP test reporter and [Tap Monkey](

tap-monkey
A tap formatter that’s also a monkey.

Hang Ten Systems, led by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, launches with a $32M seed led by Mayfield to help enterprises use AI to run software at a lower cost (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/form

Former Infosys chief has a new startup that wants to challenge the IT services world | TechCrunch
Backed by Mayfield and Aramco Ventures, Vishal Sikka’s new venture brings together veterans from SAP, Infosys, and VianAI.

Sail, whose software optimizes how AI models run on existing chips, emerges from stealth with $80M in seed and Series A led by Kleiner at a $450M valuation (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/06/25/exclusive-sail-apple-k…

Exclusive: A former Apple engineer thinks AI infrastructure is built for the wrong future. Investors just gave him $80 million to fix it
Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia, the startup is betting an explosion of AI agents will force enterprises to rethink the economics of computing.

Zohran Mamdani’s growing influence over the Democratic party was on show in New York City on Tuesday
as three congressional candidates endorsed by New York’s democratic socialist mayor won closely watched primaries,
while voters in Maryland, Utah and South Carolina cast ballots in primaries and runoffs.
Brad Lander, the former New YorkCity comptroller who also ran for mayor last year before endorsing Mamdani, won his race comfortably,
defeating the Democratic represen…