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Raiders Could Look to Pair Fernando Mendoza With Familiar Face https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/omar-cooper-jr-fernando-mendoza/

Sources familiar with the discussions reveal that the Pentagon has mapped out scenarios involving boots on the ground in Iran.
Among the units reportedly considered is the 82nd Airborne Division, one of the military’s most elite rapid-response forces, known for its ability to deploy quickly into high-risk combat zones.
The reported planning includes not only troop deployment but also operational logistics
—such as how to detain enemy combatants and manage potential engageme…

He Said “No Troops”… But Secret War Plans Were Already in Motion—What’s Really Happening Behind the Scenes?
Trump says no troops in Iran, but reports reveal Pentagon plans for ground deployment. Is a hidden war strategy already underway?

Sources: Kalshi plans to offer crypto trading in the US, offering perpetual futures, putting it in competition with exchanges like Coinbase (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-kalshi-launch-crypto-t…

Exclusive: Kalshi to Launch Crypto Trading With Perpetual Futures
Prediction market Kalshi plans to offer crypto trading in the U.S., according to people familiar with the matter, putting it in direct competition with crypto exchanges such as Coinbase. Kalshi will enter the crypto market by offering perpetual futures, the most popular type of trading products, on crypto tokens such as bitcoin, the people said. Crypto perpetuals, largely off-limits to U.S.

I'm in an unhappy place with my reading these days. 😟📚
I feel impatient with many books and end up abandoning them.
At times like this I often reread what I think of as my "core authors", their voices familiar and well-loved.
About a decade ago I realised that I basically only need 7 particular albums, and two authors (complete works of), the rest are nice for a fling, but not strictly necessary.
Are other people like this too?

Sources: Media24, a unit of Naspers that runs some of South Africa's biggest digital news sites, is considering selling or closing historic newspaper City Press (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-22/…

Naspers Mulls Options for South Africa’s Historic ‘City Press’
Naspers Ltd., Africa’s largest company by market value, is exploring strategic options for City Press, according to people familiar with the matter, a historic newspaper in the continent’s biggest economy.

Gorgeous song and gorgeous video: https://youtu.be/ABHgpUAv1mk?si=c84RuuCHjMGB2x32
Moloko - Familiar Feelings <3

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
The Vernon Spring:
🎵 Under A Familiar Sun
#TheVernonSpring
https://open.spotify.com/track/5EUz3oaNR9W3JtxnBjWnWa

New coaches, familiar faces? Reunion targets for each new staff in NFL free agency

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-free-agency-2026-reunion-targets-new-head-coaches/

Rashan Gary Excited For Cowboys Rebuild With Key Familiar Presence https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/rashan-gary-excited-dallas-cowboys-rebuild-key-familiar-presence

The US military has significantly depleted its stockpile of key missiles during the war with Iran
and created a “near-term risk” of running out of ammunition in a future conflict should one arise in the next few years,
according to experts and three people familiar with recent internal Defense Department stockpile assessments.
Over the last seven weeks of war,
the US military has expended at least 45% of its stockpile of Precision Strike Missiles;
at least half …

Last Rounds? Status of Key Munitions at the Iran War Ceasefire
The United States has depleted its missile inventories but still has enough to continue fighting this war under any plausible scenario. The risk is with future wars—particularly against a peer competitor like China.

Ik kom er net achter dat Beth Gibbons (Portishead) in 2019 meedeed aan een uitvoering van Henryk Górecki's Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs). Echt heel mooi (vind ik).
"Gibbons is not a powerful singer in the athletic sense—she’s never going to threaten the structural integrity of a chandelier. But her grainy, sour wail, coated with streaks of dried spilled coffee and nicotine stains, strikes deep chords of clammy fear, of desperation, of vulnerability."
…

curtis sliwa has a new substack where he talks abt how listening to the chainsmokers healed his soul from the stress of campaigning against mamdani and cuomo, and ofc brings up the one cab story again for the millionth time
https://curtissliwa.substack.com/p/the-beats-tha…

Kind request for every US citizen to pay $600 for Trump's illegal war in the Middle East, on top of the price increases it causes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/18/iran-cost-budget-pentagon/

Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war
That figure would far surpass the costs of the U.S. airstrike campaign to date and aims to boost production of critical weapons depleted in the conflict, people familiar with the matter said.

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Sources: the White House plans to unveil a federal AI framework on Friday covering preemption of state laws, child safety, communities, creators, and censorship (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/19/white-house-rollout-ai-framework

White House eyes Friday rollout for AI framework
The White House is expected to send Congress its ideas for regulating AI on Friday, sources familiar with the matter told Axios.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Dekker:
🎵 Familiar Beat
#NowPlaying #Dekker
https://dekkermusic.bandcamp.com/track/familiar-beat-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/7009Vao1OZoIg69g6F33ag

I realized something interesting today that I hadn't fully pieced together: living under #Trump is a pretty close approximation to being poor in a rural area, at least in my experience.
You're constantly afraid of authorities because any of them could randomly ruin your life. You randomly can't afford things (because some unexpected expense came up, or because some incompetent asshole decided to tariff something or start a war or whatever). Everything is terrifying, unstable, and unpredictable basically all the time. The only way you survive is with a community.
I knew Trump would take the rural vote way back because I recognized him as the crooked sheriff or good ol' boy mayor of more than a few little towns I've lived in. He's so deeply familiar, which is really triggering for the tiny number of people who managed to escape that kind of crushingly hopeless place.
So if this has all felt very terrifying and foreign, then perhaps use it to understand the people who find it terrifying and familiar. For at least some of those people, this has been an unpleasant return to (continuation of) an old normal. Understand why we say that things must change far more radically than that which lets a few people "go back to brunch."

Elections in my state this year are going to be "fun", I guess.
https://www.n-tv.de/politik/AfD-bei-Wahlumfrage-in-Mecklenburg-Vorpommern-weit-vorn-id30380152.html
For anyone not familiar: AfD is the party that wa…

What Prediction Markets Are Telling Raiders Fans Right Now https://raiderramble.com/2026/03/20/what-prediction-markets-are-telling-raiders-fans-right-now/

from my link log —
Inside the Am2901: AMD's 1970s bit-slice processor.
http://www.righto.com/2020/04/inside-am2901-amds-1970s-bit-slice.html
saved 2020-04-18

Inside the Am2901: AMD's 1970s bit-slice processor
You're probably familiar with modern processors made by Advanced Micro Devices. But AMD's processors go back to 1975, when AMD introduced t...

Revolution and Resistance: English Baptist Life in the 17th Century https://www.lulu.com/shop/karen-smith-and-stephen-copson/revolution-and-resistance/paperback/product-rmg8mpm.html

Revolution and Resistance
Revolution and Resistance: English Baptist Life in the Seventeenth Century offers a fresh and richly textured exploration of Baptist identity during a century of upheaval. Edited by Stephen L. Copson and Karen E. Smith, this scholarly collection brings together leading historians to examine church life, spirituality, mission, controversy, and overlooked voices within early Baptist communities. Rather than retelling familiar political narratives, the essays probe the convictions, practices, and …

Savannah Banana's Robert Anthony Cruz catches a flyball in a unique... but strangely familiar way. 🤣
#superherolanding #backflip #bananaball

Sources: Polymarket is in talks to raise $400M at a ~$15B post-money valuation, up from $9B in October 2025, but below Kalshi's $22B valuation from March 2026 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/polymarket-talks-raise-money-…

Polymarket in Talks to Raise Money at About $15 Billion Valuation
The predictions site Polymarket is talking to investors about raising $400 million in funding at a valuation of about $15 billion including the new money, according to two people familiar with the talks. The financing would add to the $600 million already invested in the funding round by ...

Money drives people nuts.
So can families.
Together they are combustible,
need and greed mixing with primal resentments and rivalries.
This is why, like the “marriage plot”, the inheritance plot is sometimes a staple of fiction.
Today’s tetchily unequal age is one of those times:
witness
“How to Make a Killing”,
a droll film released in America on February 20th and elsewhere soon.

'How to Make a Killing' Review - A Smart Yet Somewhat Familiar Social Class Thriller
Glen Powell weaponizes his good looks and charm for nefarious deeds in John Patton Ford's clever class warfare thriller, How to Make a Killing.

Honest curiosity: are current interviews for software development positions asking candidates to use AI to solve the problems?
If not familiar with tools, then the candidate will now face three challenges: solving the problem, explaining the line of thinking, and using the tools to display the work.

“We find in animals complex organs of sense, richly supplied with nerves, but the function of which we are as yet powerless to explain. There may be fifty other senses as different from ours as sound is from sight; and even within the boundaries of our own senses there may be endless sounds which we cannot hear, and colours, as different as red from green, of which we have no conception....The familiar world which surrounds us may be a totally different place to other animals. To them it may…

The LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has discovered a new particle consisting of two charm quarks and one down quark,
a similar structure to the familiar proton, but with two heavy charm quarks replacing the two up quarks of the proton -- thus quadrupling its mass.
The discovery, presented at the ongoing Moriond conference, will help physicists better understand how the strong force binds protons, neutrons and other composite particles together.
Quarks …

Via David DiMolfetta on BlueSky
“A letter from House Dems says CISA’s former acting director failed a second polygraph exam. House Homeland staff were informed of the second exam and its results by one of the individuals placed on leave who helped administer them, a person familiar said.”

Lawmakers seek watchdog probe into former acting CISA chief’s polygraph failures
A letter penned by House Democrats indicates CISA’s former acting director failed a second polygraph examination during his tenure.

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Auto-translation on #Mastodon: a love-hate relationship.
I can sort-of read most Nordic, Germanic and Romance languages -- enough to pick up the gist. I can't read Slavic, Finno-Ugric, or anything from outside Europe. Reading languages I'm not familiar with is a muscle which weakens if I don't use it.
Autotranslate enables me to read a lot of content on Mastodon in languag…

❝People are not numbers, and so among the rising tide of wartime deaths around the world are some familiar faces from our communities. Soroush Khazaei was an audiovisual artist who gave generously to the Iranian scene.❞ https://cdm.link/soroush-khazaei-memorial/

Soroush Khazaei, audiovisual artist, killed in an airstrike in Tehran - CDM Create Digital Music
People are not numbers, and so among the rising tide of wartime deaths around the world are some familiar faces from our communities. Soroush Khazaei was an audiovisual artist who gave generously to the Iranian scene. He was killed earlier this week in Tehran by US/Israeli airstrikes.

Mick Shots: Making impressions from the past https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mick-shots-making-impressions-from-the-past

Whoa, just set up a wiki.js instance! Slick! Took about 10 minutes. If you're not familiar, see https://js.wiki

Me, too, actually.
For millennials like me, the Iran war feels horribly familiar.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/03/iran-war-iraq-donald-trump-george-w-bush.html

Sources: Meta has revived a previously shelved smartwatch project, now code-named Malibu 2, and plans to release it in 2026 with health features and Meta AI (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-revives-plan-smart-…

Meta Revives Plan for Smart Watch, Targets 2026 Launch
Meta Platforms plans to release its first smartwatch in 2026, according to two people familiar with the matter. Meta’s plans come as other big tech companies, including Apple, OpenAI and Google, are stepping up their plans for new consumer devices. The company has revived a previously shelved ...

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99% of stakeholder "ideas" are just copying a feature they saw on a competitor's product. And the features they notice most are the ones that yell at their users the loudest.
Now all software (not just consumer apps, but also metrics dashboards) yells at you, and trains you to attend to its yelling. Strategy becomes dominated by the overriding need to make the good number go up.

The circular logic of our metrics
We design what is familiar. The design patterns we adopt are the ones yelling at us the loudest.

Norrköping! As in the place in Sweden where our friends @… live?!
#osgeo #GISChat #OpenSource

Finding Football: Ashton Jeanty’s around-the-world route to the sport he never left behind https://www.raiders.com/news/finding-football-ashton-jeanty-around-the-world-route-to-the-sport-he-never-left-behind

Even if you tell Google to not save your videos, they still do. Please, don't use Nest cameras
"But Nest still saves around three hours of “event-based” video history for free before being deleted. That data lives in Google’s cloud and servers. "
#google #nest

How Google played a key role in recovering the video from Nancy Guthrie’s cameras
A major breakthrough in the Nancy Guthrie case largely came down to Google’s technical expertise, a person familiar with the investigation told CNN.

The United States has a tendency to overestimate what political outcomes can be engineered using overwhelming military power
while underestimating the fallout,
said Caitlin Talmadge,
a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who specializes in Gulf security issues.
“Air power is the U.S. drug of choice
— we love to believe that it can achieve big political effects and also big military effects,
yet the historical record doesn’t support that…

For U.S., Unmet Expectations in Iran Fit a Familiar Pattern in the Region
Iran’s military retaliation, along with the political defiance of its new leaders, evokes a decades-old pattern of unrealized goals for American interventions in the region.

Panthers, Dave Canales add familiar face in Darrell Bevell to help with offense https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7038912/2026/02/11/panthers-darrell-bevell-dave-canales-coaching-staff/

Mick Shots: Making impressions from the past https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mick-shots-making-impressions-from-the-past

Finding Football: Ashton Jeanty’s around-the-world route to the sport he never left behind https://www.raiders.com/news/finding-football-ashton-jeanty-around-the-world-route-to-the-sport-he-never-left-behind

Trump's administration is considering deploying ⚠️thousands of U.S. troops to reinforce its operation in the Middle East,
as the U.S. military prepares for possible next steps in its campaign against Iran,
said a U.S. official and three people familiar with the matter.
The deployments would provide Trump with additional options as he weighs expanding U.S. operations,
with the Iran war well into its first month.
Those options include securing safe passage for…

“Trump is trying to pay his way out of the war he started,” wrote New York-based political activist Melanie D’Arrigo
Critics were quick to note the irony in the plan reportedly being considered by Trump, who has frequently accused former President Barack Obama of giving Iran “$150 billion in cash,” an inaccurate claim referring to the “high-end estimate” of Iranian funds that were unfrozen after the lifting of sanctions,
much like what the Trump administration is reportedly consi…

'Trump wants to pay them?' Observers baffled after White House's Iran deal plans leak
Onlookers and critics were left baffled Friday after the Trump administration’s plans for ending its war against Iran were leaked by two U.S. officials and two additional insiders familiar with the White House’s negotiations.As reported by Axios on Friday, the Trump administration is reportedly cons...

Why the return of Ballard, Steichen and Jones doesn't just mean 'run it back' for the Colts https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47850287/indianapolis-colts-2026-roster-outlook

Eagles Starter Leaves Door Open on Joining Familiar Face With Dallas Cowboys https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/eagles-starter-leaves-door-open-on-joining-familiar-face-with-dallas-cowboys

Those Nest cameras keep videos for three hours on their backend servers even if you're not a subscriber.
How Google played a key role in recovering the video from Nancy Guthrie’s cameras
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/tech/google-video-nancy-guthrie

How Google played a key role in recovering the video from Nancy Guthrie’s cameras
A major breakthrough in the Nancy Guthrie case largely came down to Google’s technical expertise, a person familiar with the investigation told CNN.

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The CEO "moved to re-establish police partnerships and push more AI into Ring cameras. The company has also partnered with Flock, a surveillance firm used by thousands of police departments, and launched a beta feature called "Familiar Faces" that identifies known people at your door. "
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet - Slashdot
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/02/11/1844232/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet

Klint Kubiak keeps familiar face on his Raiders staff https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/02/14/klint-kubiak-retains-db-coach-joe-woods-raiders-coaching-staff/88688807007/

Sources: DeepSeek is in talks to raise outside capital for the first time, seeking at least $300M at a valuation of at least $10B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/chinas-deepseek-raising-money-first-time-10-b…

China’s DeepSeek is Raising Money for First Time, At $10 Billion-Plus Valuation
DeepSeek is in talks to raise outside capital for the first time, seeking to beef up its financial war chest so it can better compete in the costly battle to develop leading AI models, according to four people familiar with the matter. DeepSeek is owned by Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer Capital ...

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Moloko:
🎵 Familiar Feelings
#NowPlaying #Moloko
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Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war
In an enormous new ask that is almost certain to run into resistance from lawmakers opposed to the Iran conflict,
The Pentagon has asked the White House to approve a more than
$200 billion request to Congress
to fund the war in Iran,
according to a senior administration official,

That number would far surpass the costs of the administration’s massive airstrike campaign to date
and …

Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war
That figure would far surpass the costs of the U.S. airstrike campaign to date and aims to boost production of critical weapons depleted in the conflict, people familiar with the matter said.

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For Cowboys fans, draft night has become a familiar exercise in what might have been https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-fans-draft-night-has-become-familiar-exer…

One Familiar Face Who Must Return to the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-one-familiar-face-who-must-return

Sources: Apple plans to send a significant part of its Siri team, known as a laggard, to an AI coding bootcamp; the group is expected to be fewer than 200 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-sends-siri-…

Apple Sends Siri Staffers to Coding ‘Bootcamp’ in Latest Shakeup For Organization
Apple is sending a portion of its Siri programmers back to coding school just two months before the company is expected to unveil a major, AI-powered revamp of the voice assistant, people familiar with the team said. The company plans to send a significant chunk of people working on Siri—a group ...

This is likely the least of what DOGE took.
The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/20

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job
The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familiar with the process.

These Republicans just told on themselves with a familiar Washington magic trick - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/republicans-2675900583/

A senior federal prosecutor in Miami has withdrawn from an investigation into John O. Brennan, the former C.I.A. director,
over concerns about the legal viability of a politically charged case Trump administration officials have tried to fast-track, people familiar with the matter said.
The prosecutor, Maria Medetis Long, is a career official who oversees national security investigations for the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of Florida.
The top prosecutor…

Prosecutor Withdraws From Trump Team’s Investigation of Ex-CIA Director John O. Brennan
A career Justice Department lawyer, Maria Medetis Long, in Miami is said to have raised concerns about whether the evidence justified moving forward with a bid to prosecute John O. Brennan.

Raiders to hire Seahawks QBs coach Andrew Janocko as offensive coordinator: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7048829/2026/02/15/raiders-to-hire-seahawks-qbs-coach-andrew-janocko-as-offensive-coordinator-s…

Sources: OpenAI appoints new leaders to oversee Stargate after deciding to rent more AI servers from cloud providers, and splits its computing effort in three (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Names New Infrastructure Leaders Following Stargate Strategy Shift
OpenAI has appointed new leaders to oversee its Stargate computing initiative after deciding to rent more AI servers from major cloud providers rather than build its own data centers, according to two people familiar with the changes. As part of its reorganization, OpenAI has divided its ...

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The Trump administration has burned through🔥 “years” of critical munitions since the start of the war with Iran,
said three people familiar with the matter,
fuelling concerns about the rising cost of the conflict and the US’s ability to replenish its stockpiles.
The rapid depletion of weaponry included advanced long-range Tomahawk missiles, the people said.
It is a “massive expenditure of Tomahawks”, said one person familiar with the US military’s use of munitions. …

Cowboys' Insider Identifies Free Agent Most Likely to Follow Christian Parker https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-insider-names-nfl-free-agent-most-likely-follow-christian-parker

Raiders could bring in familiar QB to back up Fernando Mendoza https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/03/02/raiders-could-bring-in-familiar-qb-to-back-up-fernando-mendoza/889412…

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Texans hit offseason with familiar feeling after another divisional round loss https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/page/Houston-Texans/houston-texans-offseason-familiar-place-divisional-round-loss-cj-stroud

Ex-Cowboys defender signs early free agent deal with Titans https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/17/titans-sign-former-cowboys-dl-earnest-brown-reuniting-with-dl-coach…

A foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI’s investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
during a break-in at the bureau’s New York Field Office three years ago,
according to a source familiar with the matter and recently published Justice Department documents reviewed by Reuters.
The details of who accessed a server at the FBI’s New York Field Office, ‌including the allegation that a foreign hacker was involved, are being reported here for the first …

Exclusive: Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show
A foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI’s investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a break-in at the bureau’s New York Field Office three years ago, according to ​a source familiar with the matter and recently published Justice Department documents reviewed by Reuters.

Sources: Grafana Labs, which makes cloud and AI monitoring tools, is in talks to raise at a $9B valuation, up from $6.6B in 2024; its ARR hit $400M in Sept. (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/grafana-labs-talk-raise-9-billion-valuati…

Grafana Labs in Talk to Raise at $9 Billion Valuation
Grafana Labs, a software startup that helps companies monitor cloud and AI activity and spending, is finalizing a new funding round that would value it at about $9 billion, people familiar with the matter said. That’s up from $6.6 billion in a 2024 funding round. The funding talks follow Grafana ...

As many as 150 U.S. troops have been wounded in the 10-day-old war with Iran,
two people familiar with the matter told ‌Reuters on Tuesday.
The casualty figure has not been previously reported.
Prior to Reuters' publication of the figure, the Pentagon had only disclosed eight U.S. personnel seriously injured.

Exclusive: As many as 150 US troops wounded so far in Iran war, sources say
As many as 150 U.S. troops have been wounded in the 10-day-old ​war with Iran, two people familiar with the matter told ‌Reuters on Tuesday.

Sources: Travis Kalanick prepares to launch a self-driving car company with backing from Uber and has been discussing acquiring Anthony Levandowski's Pronto.ai (Jessica E. Lessin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tr

Travis Kalanick Plots New Self-Driving Venture with Levandowski, Uber
Former Uber CEO and cofounder Travis Kalanick is preparing to launch a new self-driving car company with major backing from the ride-hailing giant, according to several people familiar with the matter. Kalanick has also been discussing acquiring the startup founded by Anthony Levandowski, who ...

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Rich Gannon Explains What Made Start of New Raiders Era Special https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-bring-familiar-face-pass-game-coordinator

A grand jury in Washington
refused Tuesday to indict Democratic lawmakers
in connection with a video in which they urged U.S. military members to resist “illegal orders,”
according to a person familiar with the matter.
The Justice Department opened an investigation into the video
featuring Democratic Sens. Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin and four other Democratic lawmakers
urging U.S. service members to follow established military protocols
and reject …

Grand jury refuses to indict lawmakers over military orders video
A grand jury in Washington has refused to indict Democratic lawmakers in connection with a video in which they urged U.S. military members to resist “illegal orders,” according to a person familiar with the matter. The Justice Department opened an investigation into the video featuring Democratic Sens. Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin and four other Democratic lawmakers urging U.S. service members to follow established military protocols and reject orders they believe to be unlawful. All the l…

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Cowboys Lose 6-foot-4, 302-Pound Free Agent Starter to Familiar Face in AFC https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/offensive-lineman-brock-hoffman-afc/

Sources: Amazon plans to move its Prime Day sale from July to late June; the shift affects its financial reporting, with event sales coming in Q2 rather than Q3 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-12/ama…

Amazon Plans to Shift Annual Prime Day Sale to June From July
Amazon.com Inc. is moving up its annual Prime Day sale to June from July, according to people familiar with the matter, shifting the schedule for an event that’s become a big part of the e-commerce economy.

Tel Aviv-based Bold, which uses AI agents to secure enterprise devices like laptops from cyberattacks, emerges from stealth with $40M in funding (Robert Scammell/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/bold-cybersecurity-startup-funding…

This Israeli cyber startup is launching with $40 million in funding during the Iran war: 'It's part of our reality and part of our strength'
Tel-Aviv-based startup Bold is keenly familiar with both AI and war in the Middle East, two of the most disruptive forces for businesses.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#EssentialClassics
- A classical soundtrack for your morning
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002r45k

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#EssentialClassics
- A classical soundtrack for your morning
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sd9h

Raiders Told to Reunite With Super Bowl Winning CB in Free Agency https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/free-agent-rumors-rasul-douglas-br/

Sources: crypto exchange Kraken has fired its CFO Stephanie Lemmerman ahead of its long-awaited IPO; Lemmerman joined Kraken from Dapper Labs in November 2024 (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/

Crypto exchange Kraken fires CFO Stephanie Lemmerman as long-awaited IPO draws closer
Kraken has moved chief financial officer Stephanie Lemmerman to a strategic advisory role, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Raiders to hire Seahawks QBs coach Andrew Janocko as offensive coordinator: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7048829/2026/02/15/raiders-to-hire-seahawks-qbs-coach-andrew-janocko-as-offensive-coordinator-s…

A man armed with a rifle rammed a vehicle into the nation's largest Reform synagogue, in a Detroit suburb,
and was fatally shot by security, The Associated Press has learned.
That's according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke to The Associated Press on Thursday.
The vehicle caught on fire after crashing into the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, the person said

Police respond to a report of an active shooter at a Detroit-area synagogue
FBI Director Kash Patel says agents are on scene of an "apparent vehicle ramming and active shooter situation" at the synagogue.

Sources: US Social Security's inspector general is investigating claims an ex-DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive to his new private employer (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/10/social-security-data-brea…

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job
The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familiar with the process.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Songs of the Sea
Many early risers and night-owls will be familiar with the soothing music of BBC Radio 4’s 'Shipping Forecast'. A programme from baritone James Newby and pianist Joseph Middleton.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002tmh5

A government lawyer told a judge during a court hearing stemming from the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota:
“What do you want me to do?
The system sucks.
This job sucks.
And I am trying every breath that I have so that I can get you what you need”.
She has been removed from her Justice Department post, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Julie Le had been working for the Justice Department on a detail,
…

DHS lawyer removed after telling judge 'this job sucks'
A government lawyer who told a judge that her job “sucks” during a court hearing stemming from the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota has been removed from her Justice Department post. That's according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. The person said Julie Le had been working for the Justice Department on a detail from another government agency, but the U.S. attorney in Minnesota ended her detail after her comments in…

Documents and a source: a foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI's Jeffrey Epstein investigation in 2023; the FBI confirms a "cyber incident" (Raphael Satter/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/foreign-h

Exclusive: Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show
A foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI’s investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a break-in at the bureau’s New York Field Office three years ago, according to ​a source familiar with the matter and recently published Justice Department documents reviewed by Reuters.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#EssentialClassics
- Relax into the day with classical
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
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Sources: SpaceX lost just under $5B last year while generating more than $18.5B in revenue; the loss figure includes xAI (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/spacex-posted-nearly-5-billion-loss-last-year-ai-…

SpaceX Posted Nearly $5 Billion Loss Last Year from AI Spending
SpaceX lost just under $5 billion last year while generating more than $18.5 billion in revenue, two people familiar with the figures said. The loss figure includes xAI, the Elon Musk-founded artificial intelligence company that SpaceX acquired in February. The net loss, as well as other ...

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#EssentialClassics
- The very best of classical music
Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music, with discoveries and surprises rubbing shoulders with familiar favourites.
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Iran was laying #mines in the Strait of Hormuz while Donald Trump declared he was thinking of taking it over.
At least two people familiar with U.S. intelligence told CNN Tuesday that Iran began laying mines in recent days,
but noted that the operation is still in an early phase.
They estimated that Iran has so far only laid a few dozen mines and still retains upward of 80 to 90 percent of …

Trump Insists Strait of Hormuz Is Safe as Iran Begins Laying Mines
Donald Trump’s claim comes months after the U.S. decommissioned its primary mine-hunting ships in the region.

Sources: Tencent is developing a top-secret AI agent for WeChat, and has tested using models from Zhipu, Alibaba, and DeepSeek, to compete with Qwen and Doubao (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tencent-joins-chinas-…

Tencent Joins China’s AI Agent Race With ‘Top-Secret’ WeChat Project
Tencent Holdings is secretly building a new AI agent for its hugely popular WeChat messaging app, in hopes of leapfrogging rivals like Alibaba Group and ByteDance in the race to dominate China’s domestic AI market, according to four people familiar with the project. The projectcould dramatically ...

Alphabet has lined up banks to sell a rare 100-year bond,
stepping up a borrowing spree by Big Tech companies racing to fund their vast investments in AI this year.
The so-called century bond will form part of a debut sterling issuance this week by Google’s parent company, said people familiar with the matter.
Alphabet was also selling $20 billion of dollar bonds on Monday
and lining up a Swiss franc bond sale, the people said.
The dollar portion of the deal was…

Alphabet selling very rare 100-year bonds to help fund AI investment
Alphabet becomes first tech company to issue 100-year bonds in nearly three decades.

Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is launching
"Encrypt It Already",
-- our push to get companies to offer stronger privacy protections to our data and communications
by implementing
end-to-end encryption.
If that name sounds a little familiar,
it’s because this is a spiritual successor to our 2019 campaign,
"Fix It Already",
-- a campaign where we pushed companies to fix longstanding issues.
"End-to-end…

Introducing Encrypt It Already
Today, we’re launching Encrypt It Already, our push to get companies to offer stronger privacy protections to our data and communications by implementing end-to-end encryption. If that name sounds a little familiar, it’s because this is a spiritual successor to our 2019 campaign, Fix It Already, a...

A healthy (in body and mind),
active, frugal, sociable, mostly offline citizen
who is highly educated and informed, in full control of their data, avoiding Big Tech’s platforms and algorithms,
with a positive self-esteem and self-image,
is probably persona non grata for the tech billionaires.
But a small, insignificant nuisance, like a fly
– they don’t care about ONE.
But imagine having thousands,
then hundreds of thousands,
then millio…

A new way to describe the Fediverse and its opposition to Big Tech
I may have finally found a compelling, accessible way to describe the Fediverse - and make it appealing to people not familiar with it.