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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 …

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

For my entire time in Dingle, the clear blue sky was married by an endless stream of jet contrails. I keep seeing that Europe is about to run out of jet fuel. Can't wait. Abandon plane. Retvrn to ocean liner.

Le trafic est perturbé entre Dourdan et Juvisy.
Des suppressions, ralentissements ou modifications de dessertes sont Š prévoir.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : panne d'un passage Š niveau dans le secteur de Saint-Chéron (dysfonctionnement sur les infrastructures du réseau ferroviaire).
🤖 28/04 06:25

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…

Mistral launches Voxtral TTS, an open-source enterprise text-to-speech model that supports nine languages, including Hindi and Arabic, based on Ministral 3B (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/mistral-releases-a-new-open…

Mistral releases a new open-source model for speech generation | TechCrunch
Mistral's new speech model can run on a smartwatch or a smartphone.