Tootfinder

How the EU responds to the illegal invasion of another country and the kidnapping of its president by the United States will determine-
Ah.
Continuing to kiss fascist ass it is then.
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2026/01/03/kaj…

Kaja Kallas says Maduro 'lacks legitimacy' and calls for restraint
The European Union’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, stated that Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro “lacks legitimacy. “ She urged for restraint and respect for international law regarding Venezuela’s situation. Kallas mentioned discussions with U. S. officials and emphasized the EU’s monitoring of the situation, advocating for a peaceful transition and adherence to the principles of international […]

Example 1: the EU's Kaja Kallas: https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2026/01/03/kaja-kallas-says-maduro-lacks-legitimacy-and-calls-for-restraint/

Kaja Kallas says Maduro 'lacks legitimacy' and calls for restraint
The European Union’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, stated that Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro “lacks legitimacy. “ She urged for restraint and respect for international law regarding Venezuela’s situation. Kallas mentioned discussions with U. S. officials and emphasized the EU’s monitoring of the situation, advocating for a peaceful transition and adherence to the principles of international […]

Patriots players laud Mike Vrabel for setting 'standard' for Super Bowl turnaround https://www.nfl.com/news/patriots-players-laud-mike-vrabel-for-setting-standard-for-super-bowl-turnaround

KKR and Singtel agree to acquire the remaining 82% stake in data center operator STT GDC for ~$5.1B, giving the company an enterprise value of ~$10.86B (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/04/kkr-and-singtel-stake-in-stt-gdc-for-over-5-bi…

KKR and Singtel to acquire remaining stake in data center firm STT GDC for over $5 billion
The deal pegs the enterprise value at S$13.8 billion.

Donald Trump won AZ-06 by less than one point in 2024
– and I need your help to flip this seat blue.
It’s Jo Mendoza reaching out.
I know polling can be confusing. Everyone wants to convince you that their race is the most important for you to support,
and it can be hard to figure out which are actually the most critical.
So let’s talk about what the data says about my race:
There’s only been one poll so far, but it shows me beating my MAGA opponent by onl…

Mendoza for Congress
Join Mendoza for Congress in building a stronger Arizona. Dedicated to honest leadership, hard work, and community-first solutions, Joanna Mendoza is fighting for veterans, working families, and a brighter future. Learn more about her vision for Arizona’s Sixth Congressional District.

Looking at EU official statements, Greenland’s accession/invasion by US seems inevitable and we’ll be watching closely.
I’m deeply disappointed by the EU’s leadership on this.
🔗 https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2026/01/03/k…

For fellow art-poetry nerds/lovers, Édouard Glissant’s art collection is coming to New York.
https://www.cara-nyc.org/program/exhibitions/the-earth-the-fire-the-water-and-the-winds-for-a-museum-of-errantr…

Macron nöjd ”for sure” – men den här sortens "diplomati" på sociala medier är inte helt oproblematisk. Särskilt när den äger rum på X.
Vad tycker ni? https://www.dn.se/varlden/erik-de-la-reguera-macron-nojd-for-sure/

Macron nöjd "for sure" – virala klippen blir en del i det franska propagandakriget
Macron nöjd "for sure" – virala klippen blir en del i det franska propagandakriget mot Donald Trump och Vladimir Putin

(LinkedIn) Generative human intelligence for images anyone? https://www.linkedin.com/posts/petermeijer_the-voice-for-android-apps-on-google-play-activity-7413499467846500352-sfcJ

The vOICe for Android - Apps on Google Play | Peter Meijer
What is sensory substitution? When I speak to you and say, "Imagine a rising bright line", and you "see" a rising bright line in your mind's eye, that's mental imagery guided by sound, a form of sensory substitution. The vOICe vision BCI generalizes this such that it works for all images. And yes, being software-based, it is already in "mass production" well ahead of any Neuralink Blindsight brain implant, with well over 500,000 cumulative installs from Google Play https://lnkd.in/dGaF2br More…

from my link log —
Lazier binary decision diagrams (BDDs) for set-theoretic types.
https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/12/02/lazier-bdds-for-set-theoretic-types/
saved 2025-12-02

Lazier Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) for set-theoretic types
This article explores the data structures used to represent set-theoretic types and the recent optimizations we have applied to them

Substack-based investigative outlet Democracy for Sale says it now has nearly 50,000 subscribers and 1,500 paying readers; its stories had 3M views in 2025 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters

How Democracy for Sale is making investigative journalism pay on Substack
Peter Geoghegan's investigative news outlet Democracy for Sale has "more than tripled" in terms of both revenue and subscribers in a year.

Check out the results of the latest GameJam for creating games that are accessible for blind players.
#games

UN calls for return of Russia-abducted Ukrainian children in US-backed vote: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/un-calls-for-return-of.html

Temporary exemptions for electric vehicles from traffic charges, which aim to reduce traffic, are not a sustainable strategy. Logically, this will also come to an end in Rome, although the cost of a permit will still be attractive at half that for cars with combustion engines.
https://www.

Rome to introduce ZTL access charges for EVs from July - electrive.com
From 1 July 2026, electric vehicle drivers in Rome will no longer enjoy largely free access to the city’s restricted traffic zone (ZTL – Zona a Traffico

Ugh, visited 1600 websites on https://free-for.dev and removed 332 of them that are not free anymore, unclear pricing, dont exist anymore or are just rubbish.
Crazy job.

So the website for Venezuela's state-run electricity transmission system is down for maintenance.

PRO BOWL HIGHLIGHT: Prescott pinpoints St. Brown who stretches for a TD https://www.detroitlions.com/video/highlight-prescott-pinpoints-st-brown-who-stretches-for-a-td-to-open-up-scoring-for-nfc

chess: Kaggle chess players (2010)
A network among chess players (nodes) giving the chess match outcomes (edges), for game-by-game results among the world’s top chess players. The direction of edge (i,j) denotes white player (i) and black player (j). Each edge is timestamped (approximate). Edge sign is 1 for a win by white, 0 for draw, and -1 for a win by black.
This network has 7301 nodes and 65053 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Signed, Timestamps

„Just for shits and giggles, you can de-sham the chronostatiomatrix by running —()()(]]asdg a=-do —cd go cd stay —sususudododo baby shark—][] but that’s optional.“
https://infosec.exchange/@masek/115824312054188754

BYD is now the world's top seller of EVs, selling ~38% more units in 2025 than Tesla did. https://electrek.co/2026/01/02/byd-crushes-tesla-all-electric-sales-for-2025-secures-global-bev-crown/
BYD's P/E ratio: 17-25x, …

There Are Four Lights: Star Trek’s Unwitting Allegory for Domestic Abuse https://reactormag.com/star-treks-unwitting-allegory-for-domestic-abuse/

There Are Four Lights: Star Trek’s Unwitting Allegory for Domestic Abuse - Reactor
The parallels are unmistakable, once you consider Picard's final confession.

"People are trying BPC-157 and TB-500 for healing injuries by stimulating new blood vessel growth, oxytocin for improving eye contact (one OpenAI researcher called it “Ozempic for autism”), epitalon for sleep and retatrutide — a next-generation weight-loss drug still in clinical trials — for everything from appetite suppression to increased focus."

‘Chinese Peptides’ Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World
The gray-market drugs flooding Silicon Valley reveal a community that believes it can move faster than the F.D.A.

French nuclear 'umbrella' for Europe now increasingly discussed among allies.
French President Emmanuel Macron will deliver a speech on nuclear deterrence on Monday, with Europeans expected to pay close attention amid threats from Russia and growing doubts over the United States' reliability as a NATO ally.

French nuclear 'umbrella' for Europe now increasingly discussed among allies
French President Emmanuel Macron will deliver a speech on nuclear deterrence on Monday, with Europeans expected to pay close attention amid threats from Russia and growing doubts over the United States' reliability as a NATO ally.

Trump wants to create an excuse for why no one wants to go to the Kennedy Center any more.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-kennedy-center-will-close-two-years-renovations-rcna256982

Trump says Kennedy Center will close for two years for renovations
President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he has determined that the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington should close for about two years

dead freaks: rosie mcgee launched a newsletter & is posting 60th anniversary stories. around this time in 1966, she moved in with the band in los angeles, where they'd relocated with owsley. https://therealrosiemcgee.substack.com/p/storytime-for-deadheads-m…

Storytime for Deadheads: My Grateful Dead Stories - March 2, 1966
"60 Years Ago Today" blog posts here all this year, the year I first lived with the Dead. TODAY'S POST - March 2, 2026: The continuing narrative on living in L.A. with Phil, the Dead, and Owsley.

OK so now I have a hundred-odd lines of Bash and a 25-line slurm.conf that is able to queue up a build job (https://github.com/ngscopeclient/scopehal-ci-scripts), wait for the node to be free, spawn the VM, wait for it to boot, launch the actual test script on the VM, shut it down,…

GitHub - ngscopeclient/scopehal-ci-scripts: Test scripts for continuous integration builds on our internal cluster
Test scripts for continuous integration builds on our internal cluster - ngscopeclient/scopehal-ci-scripts

I don't get the "I failed to fact-check what the LLM generated when I was doing research/collating information for my article I am writing as a professional journalist" excuse.
First and most obviously, how about not using LLMs for this—because it is well established that they don't actually work for research, summarizing or collating data (that needs to be accurate).
But also: you need to fact-check anything and anyone as a journalist. It's not an optional thing to do, it's literally _what you do as a journalist_. You journal facts. It's like a cook forgetting to boil the pasta and serving it uncooked.

Magsafe, the phone magnetic mount, is really great. I use it now for a stand for my phone, and a mount for a tripod, and for attacking my wallet to my phone. The fact it lines up wireless charging is very nice too.

So #Fortipwn is now declared #secure.
(a bit tongue-in-cheek here, they have had a not that great track record over the last years, just like Ivanti, Palo Alto et al)

Got something to share at #TNC26?
There’s just 1 week left to submit your proposals for Lightning Talks, BoFs, and Community Hub.
This year, under the theme Digital Sisu, the TNC Programme Committee are especially looking for contributions that show courage and inner strength in our changing world.
🎤 Submit your idea before 10 March:

If anyone has questions about this role, I'm happy to answer them! I've really enjoyed supporting the digital humanities as ADHO Exec Board Secretary
From: @…
https://

Calendar apps should let individuals rename shared events for themselves, without renaming the event for all the invitees. If I have coffee with Sally, the same event should be named “Paul coffee” for Sally and “Sally coffee” for me.
Do any calendar clients out there do this? It seems so obvious. Am I just missing it?

‘Naked imperialism’: how Trump intervention in Venezuela is a return to form for the US
“Almost every country in the region has experienced some form of US intervention, overt or covert, in the past decades.”
https://www.theguardian…

He refused to fight for Putin. Germany says it’s safe for him to go back.
https://www.politico.eu/article/georgy-avaliani-russia-ukraine-war-germany-return-vladimir-putin…

Comics and (Eco)Social Justice - Graphic Narratives for Transformation https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/03/01/comics-and-ecosocial-justice-graphic-narratives-for-transformation

Christian Jihad:
https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-were-told-iran-war-is-for

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus
Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

Apr 12-14 — Join us for a unique public theology gathering, focused on the moral dimensions of the midterm elections. This national conference offers a moral analysis that transcends partisan boundaries and equips religious leaders, scholars, theologians, and moral activists to delve into the crucial public issues confronting our nation.

My #orgdown static website generator #lazyblorg learned lots of new tricks lately:
- ultracool #TagTree navigation 🏷️
- Atom feeds for single tags and combination of 2

Wow, I sure am glad we have such diversity in the CSS world and that AIs consider all of the options fairly, instead of hypothetically being hyper focused on any specific library.

From the Globe and Mail: Editorial Cartoons for February, 2026 - https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/gallery-editorial-car…

Editorial Cartoons for February, 2026
The Globe and Mail offers the most authoritative news in Canada, featuring national and international news

Bernie Sanders: Medicare-for-all would not resemble Britain’s NHS
Medicare-for-all is not a government-run, British-style National Health Service system.
It is a government-funded universal insurance program.
Medicare-for-all would simply expand Medicare
— a program that has worked extremely well for more than six decades
— to cover every American, eliminate premiums and out-of-pocket costs,
give people the freedom to choose their doctors,
and ens…

Bernie Sanders: Medicare-for-all would not resemble Britain’s NHS
Readers respond to Post articles and commentary.

The US DOJ has indicted two Virginia brothers, Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, for allegedly deleting 96 US government databases while working as Opexus contractors (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/03/virgina-twins-doj-arrest-opexus-data-breaches

Virginia brothers arrested for allegedly tampering with government databases
The brothers worked for a contractor and previously pled guilty for hacking into the State Department.

from my link log —
A landmark ruling that sets a new standard for algorithmic transparency in Spain.
https://civio.es/novedades/2025/11/17/this-is-the-landmark-ruling-that-sets-a-new-standard-for-algorith…

This is the landmark ruling that sets a new standard for algorithmic transparency in Spain
A court decision that reshapes how public algorithms must be governed — and how citizens can hold them accountable.

Center for Strategic and International Studies: China helped Russia triple Iskander missile production, skirting sanctions: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/02/center-for-strategic-and-international.html

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

Demarcus Lawrence, difference-maker for Seahawks D, one win from ultimate told-you-so https://www.nfl.com/news/demarcus-lawrence-difference-maker-for-seahawks-d-one-win-from-ultimate-told-you-so

This is a neat event that DOE hosts every year: A full-scale cyber training event designed to strengthen U.S. energy grid resilience on Plum Island, New York, across an 840-acre grid that mirrors real utility environments.

DOE’s Liberty Eclipse simulates ransomware and stealth attacks to prepare utilities for real-world grid cyber threats - Industrial Cyber
DOE’s Liberty Eclipse simulates ransomware and stealth attacks to prepare utilities for real-world grid cyber threats, build resilience.

AMC is now Open Access!
As of January 1, 2026, all ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library are now open access. This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, discoverable, and reusable.
#AMC

DMGT reports revenue down 1% YoY to £1.1B, adjusted operating profit up 11% to £97M, and digital ad revenue down 15% to £148.3M due to Google's AI Overviews (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_busin

DMGT reports revenue dip as Google changes hit traffic for Mail publisher
Digital advertising revenue at the publisher of the Daily Mail fell by 15% last year, results for the year to 30 September 2025 show.

Shortly after 10 a.m., the California Highway Patrol announced on X that #Highway101 is #closed from Winchester in Goleta to State Route 1
“due to debris flow and flooding for an unknown duration.”
#CHP advises motorists to u…

Flash Flood Warning Issued for Parts of Santa Barbara County as 101 Closes for ‘Unknown Duration’
Debris flow and flooding close Highway 101 in both directions through Goleta Saturday morning.

Lazypost, is there a good tool to fix (as much as possible) somewhat broken audio from a CD that has some read errors (I've fixed surface of CD and read with EAC to extract as much info as possible, you can hear everything but it sounds a bit like a crackling record).
I am not looking for CD reading software (EAC already spent 70 hours on extracting the one track I'm interested in).
I am looking for fixing errors in a ripped lossless audio track, for example through interpolation and/or specifically tuned ML algorithms.
If helpful, I have access to Logic Pro and to Adobe tools.
(Please only recommend software you personally have used and that you like, thank you.)

Comics and (Eco)Social Justice - Graphic Narratives for Transformation https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/03/01/comics-and-ecosocial-justice-graphic-narratives-for-transformation

Here We Goooo: Three keys to the game for Cowboys-Giants https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/here-we-goooo-three-keys-to-the-game-for-cowboys-giants

European gas price now up 48% since Friday!
And Dutch gas storages at a very low level (10% filled).
But: no incentive at all for commercial companies to start filling up again: prices throughout the year are higher than those for next winter. If we want the storages filled, governments need to act.

Sources: Tokyo-based chipmaker Renesas agrees to sell its clocks and timing device business to Nasdaq-listed chip design company SiTime for ~$3B (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/business-deals/japan-s-re…

Japan's Renesas to sell timing solution segment to US-based SiTime for $3bn
Chipmaker divesting non-core businesses after seeing a loss in 1st 9 months of 2025

Inside the fight for Ukraine's river islands: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/02/inside-the-fight-for-ukraines.html

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

NFL Week 18 injury report: Injuries for bettors to know include Lamar Jackson and George Kittle

https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/nfl

Intel unveils its Xeon 6 Clearwater Forest CPUs, its first data center CPUs built on 18A, offering up to 288 Darkmont efficiency cores, set for a 2026 release (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon 6+ CPU — multi-chip monster sports 12 channels of DDR5-8000, Foveros Direct 3D packaging tech
Intel unveils x86 CPU with the industry's highest core count.

Comics and (Eco)Social Justice - Graphic Narratives for Transformation https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/03/01/comics-and-ecosocial-justice-graphic-narratives-for-transformation

Here We Goooo: Three keys to the game for Cowboys-Giants https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/here-we-goooo-three-keys-to-the-game-for-cowboys-giants

For those who know the stakes,
James Talarico is Dems best chance to flip the TX Senate seat.
Chip in any amount right now. Please: https://jt4tx.org

Join our fight to take power back for working people.
James Talarico is running for the U.S. Senate in Texas to take his fight against corruption to Washington and win power back for working people.

Today’s sanctions also zero in on eight cyber military intelligence officers for working for the GRU for cyber operations targeting Yulia Skripal with X-agent malware and, five years later, the attempted murder of Yulia and her father on UK soil
https://www.

UK cracks down on Russian intelligence agency authorised by Putin to target Skripals
UK announces sanctions against the GRU as Dawn Sturgess Inquiry report finds Putin personally ordered their activity in Salisbury in 2018.

Iranian regime must answer for attempts to destroy lives and people, – Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/03/iranian-regime-must-answer-for.html

Panthers vs. Buccaneers, Seahawks vs. 49ers Week 18 inactives: Players ruled out for Saturday's games https://www.nfl.com/news/panthers-vs-buccaneers-seahawks-vs-49ers-week-18-inactives-players-ruled-out-for-saturday-s-…

Horizon Quantum, which aims to list on Nasdaq via a SPAC in Q1 2026, claims it is the first private company to deploy a commercial quantum computer in Singapore (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/horizon-qu

Software startup deploys Singapore’s first quantum computer for commercial use
Singapore-based software firm Horizon Quantum Computing has become the first private firm to deploy a quantum computer for commercial use in the city-state.

The marquee matchup for the open US Senate seat in North Carolina will begin to resolve into focus Tuesday,
with a well-known former Democratic governor and a Donald Trump-endorsed but untested Republican appearing to lead the field.
In the Democratic primary, former two-term governor Roy #Cooper is ahead in recent polling against the slate of other candidates who have never held elected office.…

George Pickens has 'hope for the best' in contract talks, 'would love to' stay with Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/george-pickens-has-hope-for-the-best-in-contract-talks-would-love-to-stay-with-co…

It's interesting that all the press coverage of a police raid of cyberscammers in Bihar, India emphasizes that the majority of the people arrested were women.
15 women among 22 held for cyber fraud in Bihar
https://www.ptinews.com/story/national/15-

Press Trust Of India

Trump says the job market is booming for U.S.-born.
-- The data doesn’t show it. 

Since the summer, Trump officials have been trumpeting the idea that job creation is booming for U.S.-born workers.
Trump said so, too, during a prime-time address last month aimed at assuaging Americans’ concerns about the economy

Trump administration officials also said recently that more than 2.5 million U.S.-born workers gained jobs in 2025
as 1 million immigrants left the workfor…

Trump says the job market is booming for U.S.-born. The data doesn’t show it.
The idea that employment is surging for U.S.-born workers is routinely trumpeted by Trump officials. But economists say otherwise.

Prisco's Top 100 NFL free agents for 2026: Offensive lineman tops list, two WRs in top 5

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/pete-priscos-top-100-nfl-free-agents-for-2026/

George Pickens has 'hope for the best' in contract talks, 'would love to' stay with Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/george-pickens-has-hope-for-the-best-in-contract-talks-would-love-to-stay-with-co…

Team Cymru warns that a newly identified open-source AI security testing platform called CyberStrikeAI was used by the same threat actor behind a recent campaign that breached hundreds of Fortinet FortiGate firewalls.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

CyberStrikeAI tool adopted by hackers for AI-powered attacks
Researchers warn that a newly identified open-source AI security testing platform called CyberStrikeAI was used by the same threat actor behind a recent campaign that breached hundreds of Fortinet FortiGate firewalls.

OpenAI launches a Codex app for macOS, designed to serve as a command center for managing AI agents, and says Codex usage has nearly doubled since mid-December (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/openai-codex-mac-app-free-trial/

OpenAI's Codex just got its own Mac app - and anyone can try it for free now
The new Mac app turns GPT-5.2-Codex into a multi-agent command center. Here's how.

Donald Trump’s tech skills are coming into question after he celebrated his youngest son,
Barron Trump’s, skill for a rather mundane task...
—turning on his computer
https://www.irishstar.com/news/politics/barron-trump-hailed-dad-donald-36489339

Barron Trump hailed by dad Donald for 'incredible' skill for mundane task
President Donald Trump’s tech skills are coming into question after he celebrated his youngest son's skill for a rather mundane task

Open Market: Free agency options at safety for Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/open-market-free-agency-options-at-safety-for-cowboys

NFL DFS picks for Bucs-Panthers, 49ers-Seahawks: Top daily Fantasy lineups for Week 18 Saturday

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-dfs<…

Source: SpaceX acquired xAI for $250B; the announcement about the acquisition focuses on SpaceX's plans to launch data centers into space (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/elon-musk-says-spacex-acquired-xai

SpaceX Acquires xAI for $250 Billion
Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired xAI for $250 billion, said a person familiar with the situation. The news, without the price, was confirmed by Musk in a press release posted to SpaceX’s website Monday. Musk did not provide details of the purchase price or how the deal could affect SpaceX’s potential IPO this year. “SpaceX has acquired xAI to form the most ambitious, vertically-integrated

Trump announced on Wednesday that he is repealing the Biden-era federal fuel economy standards,
significantly weakening fuel efficiency requirements for tens of millions of new gasoline-powered cars and light trucks.
It marks the US president’s latest effort to dismantle pollution regulations and federal support for cleaner-running vehicles and renewable energy.
Burning gasoline is a significant contributor to global heating and transportation is the largest source of greenho…

NFL Super Bowl injury report: Seahawks vs. Patriots injuries for bettors to know include Drake Maye

https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/nfl

Troy Aikman to advise Miami Dolphins in search for new GM https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/troy-aikman-to-advise-miami-dolphins-in-search-for-new-gm

X announces a "Paid Partnership" label that creators can apply to their posts to indicate they're ads; until now, creators relied on hashtags to label posts (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/x-ad

X ads 'Paid Partnership' labels for creators so they can ditch the hashtags | TechCrunch
The new labels comply with regulations and allow creators to be more transparent with their followers.

The only border crossing that connects Gaza with Egypt
⭐️has opened for the first time in almost a year.
✅The step throws a lifeline to Palestinians who want to leave for medical care or return to homes and families after two years of war.
The passage, near the city of Rafah, in southern Gaza,
was seized by Israeli soldiers in May 2024
and had been mostly closed since then,
other than for a brief time during a temporary cease-fire last winter.
A long…

What to Know About the Rafah Border Crossing in Gaza
The only crossing that connects Gaza with Egypt has reopened after nearly a year of closures. The move will allow residents to leave for medical care or return to homes and families in the territory.

2026 NFL free agency tracker: Latest signings, trades, contract info for all 32 teams https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-free-agency-tracker-latest-signings-trades-contract-info-for-all-32-teams

Cowboys could be great fit for RB who thrived with current OC https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/03/03/the-dallas-cowboys-might-be-a-good-fit-for-a-soon-to-be-free-ag…

Alaffia Health, which provides AI tools for health plan claims operations, raised a $55M Series B led by Transformation Capital (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/03/alaffia-health-raises-55m-expand-agen…

Alaffia Health raises $55M to expand agentic AI for health plan claims operations - SiliconANGLE
Alaffia Health raises $55M to expand agentic AI for health plan claims operations - SiliconANGLE

During her detention, Yu said uncertainty weighed heavily on her.
Yu has operated her two West Valley restaurant locations for years, building a reputation for greeting customers with humor and kindness.
Supporters said she has no criminal record and has been active in giving back to the Peoria community.
Her release came after U.S. District Court Judge Krissa Lanham granted a habeas corpus petition filed on her behalf.
The petition argued that her continued detenti…

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Patriots' Drake Maye says he's 'turned a corner' with shoulder issue; no concern for Super Bowl LX https://www.nfl.com/news/patriots-drake-maye-says-he-turned-a-corner-with-shoulder-issue-no-concern-for-super-bow…

Cowboys top trade destination for 3x All-Pro, $144M man who hates them https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/03/cowboys-named-top-trade-destination-for-steelers-db-jalen-r…

When Sir Tim Berners-Leeinvented the world wide web in 1989,
his vision was clear:
it would used by everyone,
filled with everything and,
crucially, it would be free.
Today, the British computer scientist’s creation is regularly used by 5.5 billion people
– and bears little resemblance to the democratic force for humanity he intended.
In Australia to promote his book, "This is for Everyone",
Berners-Lee is reflecting on what his inven…

President Trump says the GENIUS Act is being "threatened and undermined" by banks, following their opposition to stablecoin yield payouts (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/03/03/trump…

Trump urges passage of U.S. Clarity Act, attacks banks for 'undercutting' GENIUS
U.S. President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social that the banking industry is trying to undermine the stablecoin bill he signed into law last year.

Today's top games to watch, best bets, odds: Panthers-Bucs and Seahawks-49ers for NFL division crowns, more

https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/tod…

Khalil Mack rumor is bad news for Chargers, good news for Cowboys, Eagles and Lions https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/los-angeles-chargers/news/khalil-mack-rumor-bad-news-chargers-good-news-…

DealBook Summit: Palantir CEO Alex Karp says "the more constitutional you want to make" the US' Caribbean boat strikes "the more you're going to need" Palantir (Ece Yildirim/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo-says-

Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.

#Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday
🔸as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics,
🔸expiring U.S. tax breaks for buyers
🔸and stiff overseas competition
pushed sales down for a second year in a row.
🔥Tesla said that it delivered 1.64 million vehicles in 2025 -- down 9% from a year earlier.
Chinese rival

Tesla loses title of world's top EV maker to China rival amid customer revolt and stiff competition
Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics, expiring U.S. tax breaks to buyers and stiff overseas competition pushed sales down for a second year in a row. Tesla said that it delivered 1.64 million vehicles in 2025, down 9% from a year ago. Chinese rival BYD, which sold 2.26 million vehicles last year, is now the biggest EV maker. For the fourth quarter, sales totaled 418,227, falling short of th…

Take-Two reports Q3 net bookings up 28% YoY to $1.76B, vs. $1.58B, net revenue up 25% to $1.7B, and raises its annual bookings forecast; TTWO up 5% after hours (Max Knoblauch/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/take-two-raises-…

Take-Two raises its net bookings outlook, reaffirms November release for “Grand Theft Auto 6”
Take-Two reported its fiscal third-quarter earnings on Tuesday afternoon.

When people talk about the Enlightenment as if it were an intellectual garden party where everyone sipped wine and agreed about reason, they're missing the part where producing and distributing ideas was (in fact) dangerous and thankless work.
Today we have more information than any civilization in history.
But aside from Wikipedia, we've organized the sum total of our collective knowledge into formats optimized for making people angry at strangers in pursuit of private …

The Case for Blogging in the Ruins
In 1751, Denis Diderot began publishing his Encyclopédie, a project that would eventually span 28 volumes and take more than two decades to complete. The French government banned it twice. The Catholic Church condemned it, Diderot's collaborators abandoned him, his publisher secretly censored entries behind his back, and he worked

Trump pursues Iranian decapitation without a plan for what comes next
Trump’s inclination to bomb first and then wash his hands of whatever comes next in Iran has alarmed U.S. allies.
Security officials in the Middle East and in Europe have raised concerns that the U.S. is unleashing forces that could spill across borders, disrupt global trade and lead to asymmetric terrorist attack reprisals
— all with no certainty that the remaining Islamic hard-liners won’t ultimately …

Trump pursues Iranian decapitation without a plan for what comes next
The U.S. has a fraught track record of toppling autocratic regimes and securing peaceful democracies — even when it has vision for the day after.