Tootfinder

How Synthesia is combining multiple AI voice and video models to improve avatar realism with natural gestures and accent preservation (Rhiannon Williams/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/0

Synthesia’s AI clones are more expressive than ever. Soon they’ll be able to talk back.
The uncanny valley is narrowing. Are we ready for what comes next?

GitHub CEO: Embrace AI or get out.
https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8
PS. Here’s where to go: @…

GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out
Thomas Dohmke wrote that humans are often resistant to change. He said that's okay, but these people should probably find another profession.

Freitag: Kryptodiebstahl nach Stellenangebot, Office ohne Teams bald günstiger
Betrug an Blockchain-Beschäftigten EU-Druck auf Microsoft Drohne für Wassersportler Förderung von Elektrobussen Dax ohne Porsche Datenschutz-Podcast

These aren’t 475 hardened criminals (they rarely are in these raids), so I suspect some of Trump’s anti-EV / pro-big-oil bent is at play here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/us/georgia-battery-plant-hyundai-lg-ice-raid.html
If I’m Hyun…

South Koreans Are Swept Up in Immigration Raid at Hyundai Plant in Georgia
They were among nearly 500 workers apprehended at a construction site for a South Korean battery maker, officials said. The episode prompted diplomatic concern in Seoul.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,087,180 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/06/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Always good to get a reality check. At the same time good to remember the data collection of this trial was from October 2024 to Decembre 2024. Models have improved since then, reasoning, more tool use etc.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m365_copilot_uk_government/

UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost
: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

I was lucky enough to watch the premiere of "Nühai" ("Girl") by Shu Qi. Very moving.
https://www.labiennale.org/it/cinema/2025/programma-cinema-2025-pubblico/nühai-girl-2025-09-04-16-15
It was …

This is amaxing: THe @… have produced a beatuful set of easy to access tools for using with their satellite data products.
Some great quick start notebooks and tonnes and tonnes of lovely #EarthSytsem climate data.
(Our PISCO project will also be steadily adding stuff to this as well over the next year and a half)
https://climate.esa.int/en/data/toolbox/

If you mess up your misskey fork, that's called a mistakey

Es ist für mich ein furchtbares Jahr. Immer wieder schwere Rückschläge, gefolgt von einem kurzen Moment, der kurz wie ein Ausweg aus allen nöten erscheint, sich dann wieder zerschlägt, gefolgt von weiteren schweren Rückschlägen. Menschen, von denen ich geglaubt habe, sie würden mir helfen, wenn ich existentielle Not erfahre, wenn sich gegen mich, wissen um meine nöte und und stellen forderungen an mich, die ich schon nicht erfüllen könnte, wenn es mir gut ginge.

Check out the playlist for this week’s episode of @… radio
It contains links to #Accordion artists up on #bandcamp this

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-09-03: Jo Ann Castle’s Birthday Bandcamp Friday
Last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir program, celebrating the occasion of Jo Ann Castle’s birthday, is another look into the catalogue of squeezy music a…

ハヤシは、やっぱ洋食屋系になるよねー

Putin has every reason to seek a lifeline for the Russian economy.
In recent weeks, a flurry of signs has shown Russia’s war-drained, sanctions-constrained economy to be at an inflection point.
For the first time since the start of the war, nonmilitary economic activity has been contracting,
bankers are making plans to weather a financial crisis,
and energy firms are worrying about losing their largest customer for seaborne oil exports.

Putin’s Fear of a Humiliating Economic Crisis
Greater sanctions pressure could finally bring Moscow to the negotiating table.

Broadcasters told not to air any booing of Donald Trump at US Open men’s final | US Open Tennis 2025 | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep/06/broadcasters-told-not-to-air-any-booing-of-donald-trump…

Trump Is Exploring Ways to Take Over the Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/us/politics/trump-sept-11-museum.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p144#a250904p144

We've been working with Liquid Glass all summer (with the first fruits of that effort being visible in today's test builds of OmniFocus 4.8). So, naturally, this Ohrwurm song by @… has had many occasions to be summoned to my mental soundtrack—ever since the first preview he played in the car on the way to @…

In accordance with Sec. 2. (e) of Executive Order 14190, “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling” as signed by potus on January 29, 2025, the U.S. Government will _not_ be "modifying a [Department]'s name," despite SecDef and potus' desires for the Department of Defense's “social transition.”
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
#USpol

When we have something novel and unfamiliar like LLMs, especially something that hijacks our existing intuitions and provokes all kids of strong gut responses, seeing it as it really is requires multiple ways of seeing. And not just multiple •people• seeing it in multiple ways, but •individuals• who can have conversations across boundaries, take on multiple perspectives and synthesize them.
I am very anti-self-narrowing. Be large! Contain multitudes!

Faux héros, vrai pédophile : le père Plater a fait vivre un calvaire Š ses multiples victimes - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/societe/faux-heros-vrai-pedophile-le-per…

Faux héros, vrai pédophile : le père Plater a fait vivre un calvaire à ses multiples victimes
INFO LE PARISIEN. Durant des décennies, Eugène Plater, proche du pape Jean-Paul II, a agressé sexuellement les élèves du petit séminaire polonais de Paris dont il avait la charge. Treize d’entre eux réclament justice devant les instances religieuses, qui se renvoient la balle. Le prêtre, qui vit aujourd’hui dans l’Yonne, reconnaît les faits.

Die Meldungen zum angeblichen #GPS-Jamming auf den Flug von Von-der-Leyen nach Bulgarien waren offenbar übertriebene #fakenews:

Die #Bundesnetzagentur sieht die #Stromversorgung bis 2035 als gesichert, wenn zusätzliche steuerbare Kapazitäten entstehen und Flexibilisierung genutzt wird.
Kritik kommt vom #BSWSolar

Bericht zur Strom-Versorgungssicherheit der Bundesnetzagentur in der Kritik
Die Bundesnetzagentur hat ihren Bericht zu Versorgungssicherheit im Bereich von Elektrizität herausgegeben. Erste Kritik regt sich.

Quoi!?
Pour 20 millions, moi aussi, je pourrais vous élucider plein de choses! (Le problème est évidemment que je ne suis pas dans les réseaux par lesquels on obtient ces contrats lucratifs.)
https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/2025/articl

Me talking to ChatGPT

A revamped Inside the NFL, produced by NFL Films, will debut September 8 on Elon Musk's X, with at least 10 short episodes airing weekly on the platform (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

‘Inside the NFL’ Gets Reboot as an X Original Series
Ryan Clark will host the show, which will be reimagined for the Elon Musk-owned platform as a short-form series with new episodes throughout each week of the NFL season.

Zou ik sowieso altijd doen daar.
Advies om drinkwater te koken na vondst bacterie in Goor https://nos.nl/l/2581406

Advies om drinkwater te koken na vondst bacterie in Goor
Bewoners van meerdere postcodes wordt geadviseerd het drinkwater 3 minuten te koken.

🎉 Ab sofort könnt ihr die 25 Projekte kennenlernen, die es in den fünf verschiedenen Kategorien auf die Shortlist für die @DigAMus Awards 2025 geschafft haben: https://digamus-award.de/digamus-shortlist-2025/
🥂 Herzlichen Glückwunsch an alle! Wir freuen uns auf die Pre…

The militia cleared unhoused camps to make room for their tents;
"An additional $5 million for a tent city has been approved, ... along with $600K in air conditioning rental & more than $500K for land mobile radios."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/na

With no end in sight, National Guard troops deployed to DC grow weary
With each phone call home, the troops describe a mission unlike any other.

Watchdog report finds overwhelming majority of IRS employees fired by DOGE for performance had no documented issues - ICIJ
https://www.icij.org/news/2025/09/watchdog-report-finds-overwhelming-majority-of-irs-employees-fired-by-doge-for-performance-had-no-documented-issues/

„Kennedy affirms the COVID vaccines are the deadliest vaccines in history and that Trump should get a Nobel prize for helping develop them“
The RFK Jr. Congressional Hearing Was An Unmitigated Disaster https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/05/the-rf

#Bunt

“Shell scraps construction of biofuels plant in Rotterdam"
#Shell #FossilFuels #Energy

from my link log —
How Google Chrome V8 made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast.
https://v8.dev/blog/json-stringify
saved 2025-08-04 https://

This guy sounds like a #crackpot but his wiki page suggests otherwise. I’d guess scaling the #desalinization and #purification would be a problem. I don’t know enough

I'd like to publish conference proceedings as epub rather than pdf, as they're more accessible, can include videos etc. They're basically standardised bundles of HTML as far as I can tell, that can be downloaded onto ereaders etc.
However, web browsers can't natively read them, and I somehow can't find a nice and simple, fast and useable javascript thingie for making them readable online. Does it exist?
Every time I look into this sort of thing I don't und…

Welp.
The toolchain is cursed but I have the Trion devkit talking FMC/APB at 75 MHz to a STM32H750. I can probably push further (maybe 100 MHz PCLK?), this isn't failing timing, but it's good enough for the purpose.

Tesco is suing Broadcom and technology reseller Computacenter in a dispute over VMware software licences that it says could disrupt its ability to keep food on shelves.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/cloud/tesco-sues…

Tesco sues Broadcom over VMware licensing, warns food supply could be hit
Tesco is suing Broadcom and technology reseller Computacenter in a dispute over VMware software licences that it says could disrupt its ability to keep food ...

Danke, Wassenrock! 🖤❤️‍🔥

I keep seeing pull requests clearly generated by LLMs, but what’s really awkward is their inability to create separate branches and PRs for each fix, even after asking the contributor multiple times.
Can we conclude that git is still out of reach for LLMs to really understand?
#git #llm

Trivia for your weekend:
Long before HP got into "gaming hardware", omen.com belonged to a tech company with a cool logo that brought us YMODEM and ZMODEM. Note that the predecessor XMODEM is just a bit older.
https://web.archive.org/web/200801292216…

Conversational AI firm Cerence sues Apple in Texas for infringing patents tied to virtual keyboards and "Hey Siri", says it raised the issues with Apple in 2021 (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/04/apple-hi…

Apple hit with patent lawsuit over Hey Siri and virtual keyboard features - 9to5Mac
Today, Cerence filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing it of infringing multiple patents. Here are the details.

Risikomanagement und Resilienz in der IT-Sicherheit: IT-Sicherheitstag Dortmund
Praxisnahe Vorträge am 16. September – von aktuellen Hacking-Methoden über Schutz vor LLM-Angriffen bis hin zu Strategien für mehr Cyber-Resilienz.

NASA will get a safety process cut before it gets money to satisfy the empty promise from this administration. Folks will die, Trump will blame scientists, install yet more political hacks, and leave office having achieved nothing more than hollowing out another science-based government entity.

NASA’s acting chief “angry” about talk that China will beat US back to the Moon
“I can tell you what, I’ll be damned if that is the story that we write.”…

This was always how it was going to end, just a financial settlement and AI companies can continue.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/technology/anth…

Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors
The settlement is the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases and could lead more A.I. companies to pay rights holders for use of their works.

“‘They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,’ the Turkish activist Ersin Çelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.
Lorenzo D’Agostino, a journalist and another flotilla participant, said after returning to Istanbul that Thunberg was ‘wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy’ – a scene described with disbelief a…

Ukraine launches first joint drone production line in Denmark, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/05/ukraine-launches-first-joint-drone.html

ココイチのカレーも、チーズいっぱい入れればどろどろに（そうではない）

The US justice department has initiated a criminal investigation into mortgage fraud claims against Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook
as a lawsuit she filed against Donald Trump over her firing makes its way through court.
Lawyers with the justice department have issued subpoenas for the investigation, according to the Wall Street Journal, who first reported the investigation,
which has since been confirmed by multiple news publications.
This is the third mortgage fr…

Allemagne : un nouveau candidat de l’AfD aux municipales de Rhénanie décède, le septième en quelques semaines - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/all

Allemagne : un nouveau candidat de l’AfD aux municipales de Rhénanie décède, le septième en quelques semaines
Cette accumulation de décès de candidats de l’AfD donne lieu, depuis plusieurs jours, à des théories complotistes sur les réseaux sociaux.

Wer grad recht gut d'rauf sein sollte, kann sich gerne #Ö1 #doublecheck von https://oe1.orf.at/progra…

You can easily make text-based interfaces that don’t do this.
E.g. normal search engines don’t say “I found 37 results, that’s a really great search term, Thomas!”.
That would be weird, wouldn’t it?
Yet…

Facebook is revamping its classic Poke feature to be easier to use and include gamification elements similar to Snapchat and TikTok as it courts younger users (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/04/facebook-is-trying-to-make-pokes-happen-a…

Facebook is trying to make 'pokes' happen again | TechCrunch
The poke-tracking feature is largely designed to appeal to younger users who have grown up with gamification elements built into their social apps, like Snapchat and TikTok Streaks.

"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."
—Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke je Bundesland pro 10000 Einwohner in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Steckersolaranlage überwachen

Technical grounds.
Judge dismisses Newsmax’s case, giving Fox the win - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/09/06/judge-dismisses-newsmaxs-case-giving-fox-the-win/

PBS to Cut 15% of Its Staff (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/business/media/pbs-job-cuts.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p154#a250904p154

Arbeitsplatz gestern: 120 qm. 🤩

How Wikipedia became the factual foundation of the web and why it's under attack from Musk, conservative groups, the Trump administration, and other governments (Josh Dzieza/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-atta…

How Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks
How the world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack from the right wing, tech billionaires, and AI.

Analyse van het VVD verkiezingsprogramma.
TLDR: toch maar even helemaal lezen!
https://antipopulista.com/2025/08/06/xenofoob-marktfundamentalisme-uit-vvd-verkiezingsprogramma-speelt-populisten-in-de-kaart/

Xenofoob marktfundamentalisme uit VVD-verkiezingsprogramma speelt populisten in de kaart
De VVD heeft als eerste partij haar verkiezingsprogramma bekendgemaakt . Het ligt in de lijn der verwachting dat er (helaas) een coalitie gesmeed moet worden met de VVD, omdat het in de peilingen t…

Lenovo stellt seine Business-Thinkpads mit Arrow Lake und Blackwell vor
Intels CPU-Generation Arrow Lake zieht in Lenovos Thinkpads ein. Das Thinkpad X9 erscheint zudem mit einem weißen Gehäuse.
http…

Alternative title: how one company knows where all Dutch people who use it are at all times.
And to think, poor Hitler just had census records to work with… https://mastodon.green/@HelgavanLeur/114981026302320384

Helga van Leur ☀️ (@HelgavanLeur@mastodon.green)
Attached: 1 image De kracht van grafische weergave... Waarheen gaat de Nederlander met de auto op vakantie? (én heeft daarbij Flitsmeister aan staan). 🚗 via https://www.instagram.com/p/DMNVI35Nqv-/

US tech industry's eight companies valued at $1T gained a combined $420B in market cap this week, lifting their total value to $21T, led by a Google rally (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/05/tech-megacaps-worth-market-cap.html

Google leads monster week for tech, pushing megacaps to combined $21 trillion in market cap
Tech's megacaps got bigger this week, and the eight trillion-dollar companies now make up a combined 36% of the S&P 500.

I’ve said it before, but chatbot user interfaces that pretend to be human or human-like need to be banned.
It’s a deceitful, dehumanizing and deeply unethical scam.

"Acting, for me, is giving to your co-actors."
—Rajkummar Rao
#acting #coaching #inspiration

The Trump administration is more willing to support loan guarantees and tax breaks for nuclear power
than for wind and solar
because it is "more American"
than those forms of energy,
the director of the U.S. Energy Dominance Council said on Thursday

Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 0,930 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 5.18 %

KI-Update DeepDive: DeepLs Erfolgsrezept gegen KI-Giganten
DeepL zeigt, KI aus Deutschland kann sich durchsetzen. In dieser Folge erklärt der Chief Scientist, wie das Unternehmen aufgestellt ist.
https://www.

GOP support erodes for Epstein files petition (Kate Santaliz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/04/massies-epstein-discharge-petition-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p148#a250904p148

Oh dear, Trump is so predictable,
#trump #google #eu

https://www.groene.nl/artikel/tijdbom-onder-trump?utm_source=De Groene Amsterdammer&utm_campaign=8426a1ba3d-Dagelijks-2025-08-06&utm_medi…

De Epstein-files zijn een tikkende tijdbom die door Trumps gedraai nu tot uitbarsting lijkt te komen
Door de Epstein-files is Donald Trump nu doelwit van het complotdenken dat hij zelf altijd heeft aangezwengeld. De geruchtenmolen draait op volle toeren. Waarom maakt hij de ‘klantenlijst’ niet openbaar?

Public records show C3 AI's Project Sherlock, company's flagship contract to speed up policing in San Mateo County, has struggled with usability issues and more (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewste

Billionaire Tom Siebel's C3 AI Was Supposed To Speed Up Policing. It’s Not Going Well.
San Mateo County pumped $12 million into a grand AI surveillance system that was supposed to level up its police work. Three years later, it still hasn’t seen the benefits.

"Gottes Influencer": Heiligsprechung im Vatikan am Sonntag
Am Wochenende soll die bereits im Frühjahr geplante Heiligsprechung des ersten Millenials nachgeholt werden. Carlo Acutis wurde für eine Website bekannt.

Community-driven alternative to rubygems.org just dropped: #tuby #gems

Trump Is Renaming the Defense Department the Department of War (Erica L. Green/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/us/politics/trump-department-of-war-defense.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p142#a250904p142

Large, reputable studies have found no link between autism and the measles vaccine, the vaccine preservative thimerosal, or simultaneous doses of vaccines. 
Alongside Kennedy's causes of autism report, HHS is expected to announce large grant awards to academic researchers as part of the NIH’s autism data science initiative. -- The NIH called for proposals for those studies in May. 
NIH director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary and…

Boah ey, also wenn aus dem Nichts heraus ohne Änderungen an #Hardware oder #Software plötzlich irgendwelche Programme nicht mehr funktionieren, da könnte ich aber sowas von die #Tischkante abbeißen…

Cadence Design to acquire Hexagon's Stockholm-based design and engineering unit, a computer-aided engineering software provider, for €2.7B in cash and stock (Juby Babu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/cadence-design-bu…

Hochul to Sign Order to Get Around U.S. Limits on Covid Vaccine (Joseph Goldstein/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/nyregion/covid-vaccine-hochul-new-york.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p155#a250904p155

Mittwoch: Titanic-Tauchgang trotz Problemen, WhatsApp-Funktion gegen Scammer
Betreiber verantwortlich für Todesfahrt WhatsApp mit Gruppenchat-Warnung AMD-Rekordumsatz trotz China-Bann Vollausbaurecht für Glasfaser AVM wird Fritz

Let me give you some sense of how staggeringly large and complex the capital markets have become.
If we go back ten years ago, there were about 1700 mutual funds with about $700 billion in assets.
Today, we have about 7,000 mutual funds with $3 trillion worth of assets.
There are so many funds and so many stocks and so many bonds and so many warrants and so many options,
it's such a dizzying universe of choice for people that, inevitably,
they're attr…

Seit 1985 sind im #Amazonas #Wälder in der Größe Spaniens verschwunden.
Laut einer Studie verstärkt die #Abholzung

Some tropical trees cool their leaves to survive the heat — but not all species have ways to cope
In full sun, tropical leaves can become much hotter than the surrounding air. Their ability to cope can be a matter of life or death.

Filing: Anthropic will pay $1.5B to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the company's downloading of millions of pirated books (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-05/anthropic-to-pay-1-5-…

Trump's DOJ sues Boston over immigration enforcement policy (Jacob Wendler/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/04/trump-administration-sues-boston-over-sanctuary-policies-00545741
http://www.memeorandum.com/250905/p55#a250905p55

Air Force leadership on Thursday sent an urgent request to service members asking them to nominate colleagues who have a
“highly professional image”
to stand behind Trump for a formal announcement on Friday.
The directive, which originated with the White House Military Office and was channeled through the Chief of Staff of the Air Force,
is referring to Trump’s scheduled announcement about rebranding the Defense Department
“Who: We require 3x uniformed personne…

Air Force Urges Personnel With ‘Highly Professional Image’ To Stand With Trump At Event
The White House wants to curate an image of fine-looking service members standing behind Trump when he announces his new nickname for the Defense Department.

🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
Retröt: #Carsharing ist ein Schlüssel für die #Verkehrswende.
Weniger Autos, weniger #Parkflächen, weniger

Carsharing in Deutschland: Warum es für die Verkehrswende unverzichtbar ist
Carsharing reduziert Staus, spart Parkflächen und hilft bei der Verkehrswende. Das Konzept trägt in Deutschland dazu bei, den Pkw-Bestand zu senken.

Nepal says it is blocking most major social media platforms, including Facebook, X, and YouTube, after they failed to register with the government (Binaj Gurubacharya/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/nepal-ban-social-media-platform-3b42…

Federal Judge Blocks Trump's Move to Cut $4.9 Billion in Foreign Aid (Chris Cameron/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/us/politics/trump-foreign-aid-cuts-judge.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p143#a250904p143

I am once again asking you to stop sending us money.
But we do need your time. ⏰
https://zohranfornyc.com/events
https://

Volunteer | Zohran for NYC
This campaign is about talking to thousands of New Yorkers across the city about how we make this city work better for the many and not the few. And to do this, we need you!

President Trump signs order to rename the Defense Department as the Department of War (Jason Breslow/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/04/nx-s1-5529420/trump-department-of-war-department-of-defense
http://www.memeorandum.com/250905/p119#a250905p119

The date is set for the next big protest.
Saturday, October 18th.
https://NoKings.org
Comment your events.
https://

No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power belongs to the people.

Insiders detail negotiations between politicians, tech and AI companies, VCs, and others over California's SB 53, the first-in-the-nation AI safety law (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/04/sacramento-california-ai-rule…

Trump praises RFK Jr.'s performance even as some Republicans grow weary of his tumultuous term (Adam Cancryn/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/hhs-rfk-jr-trump-republicans
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p147#a250904p147

Indonesia restores TikTok's local operating license after the company provided government-requested user activity data for August 25-30, when protests happened (Prima Wirayani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Trump administration to help share new HIV drug with impacted nations (Adam Taylor/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/04/trump-hiv-aids-pepfar-lenacapavir-gilead/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p146#a250904p146

Republicans eye Kansas and Nebraska to draw more House seats (Hans Nichols/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/05/republicans-redistricting-nebraska-kansas-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/250906/p6#a250906p6

A draft proposal outlines the European Commission's "Apply AI strategy", which is set to be presented on October 7 and aims to "strengthen EU AI sovereignty" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ea3d20ed-5b42-45ce-8155-67ef472ae9df

US State Dept employee sentenced to 4 years for selling defense information (Kanishka Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-state-dept-employee-sentenced-4-years-selling-defense-information-2025-09-04/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p150#a250904p150

Sources: OpenAI and Jony Ive have yet to solve key technical and software issues that could delay the company's palm-sized device, slated for release in 2026 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/58b078be-e0ab-492f-9dbf-c2fe67298dd3

Immigration officers raid Hyundai EV manufacturing site in Georgia (Ross O'Keefe/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3794422/immigration-raid-hyundai-electric-vehicle-manufacturing-georgia/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250905/p2#a250905p2

Trump to attend the US Open men's final Sunday, marking another trip to a major sporting event (Will Weissert/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-us-open-sporting-events-2015-boos-9813e54ba776bab1b5d8da1ee300dc5e
http://www.memeorandum.com/250905/p1#a250905p1

Dear Colleague: Update on the Republican Healthcare Crisis and Donald Trump's Shutdown (Julius Washington/Congressman Hakeem Jeffries)
https://jeffries.house.gov/2025/10/04/dear-colleague-update-on-the-republican-healthcare-crisis-and-donald-trumps-shutdown/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251005/p1#a251005p1