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Apple expands its American Manufacturing Program, bringing in Bosch, Cirrus Logic, TDK, and Qnity Electronics to make components in the US for sale worldwide (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/26/apple-american-manufacturing-program-trump.ht…

Apple expands American manufacturing program with four new partners
Apple is adding Bosch, Cirrus Logic, TDK, and Qnity Electronics to its American Manufacturing Program, committing $400 million through 2030.

Elon Musk says X will "pause" new creator monetization rules that would base payouts on engagement from a user's local audiences, after criticism from creators (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/25/elon

Elon Musk pauses changes to X's creator revenue-sharing program after backlash | TechCrunch
Hours after announcement of the new policy Elon Musk said X is pausing the rollout.

USDA cancels $300 million program to help farmers buy land amid anti-DEI push (Marcia Brown/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/24/usda-cancels-program-help-farmers-buy-land-00841948
http://www.memeorandum.com/260324/p121#a260324p121

just delighted to be back in albuquerque after a few years away for this year's grateful dead scholars' caucus at SWPACA, but already missing the hotel blue & its weird but undeniably cozy heat-optional electric fireplaces.
you can peep the whole conference program here, text search for "grateful dead" to check out this year's caucus presentations/papers/roundtables.

Elon Musk says X will "pause" new creator monetization rules that would base payouts on engagement from a user's local audience, after criticism from creators (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/25/elon

Elon Musk pauses changes to X's creator revenue-sharing program after backlash | TechCrunch
Hours after announcement of the new policy Elon Musk said X is pausing the rollout.

Short-range kamikaze drones are one of the fastest moving facets of the defense sector today —
The Marine Corps "Organic Precision Fires-Light" (OPF-L) program, is designed to provide dismounted Marine infantry rifle squads with a man-packable, easy-to-operate precision strike drone to engage adversaries beyond line of sight.
A recent announcement of a $23.9-million contract to provide the U.S. Marine Corps with more than 600 "Bolt-M" drones is the next phas…

Inside Anduril’s Bolt-M Kamikaze Drone Program
We go in-depth with Anduril on their machine learning-infused loitering munition that the USMC just ordered, including how they intend to produce it at scale.

"Greece receives 12.2 GW of merchant battery applications for 4.7 GW program"
#Greece #Batteries #Energy

Greece receives 12.2 GW of merchant battery applications for 4.7 GW program
Investors have submitted applications for 12.15 GW of utility-scale, standalone merchant battery storage projects in Greece, far exceeding the 4.7 GW the country plans to approve. But with wrestling over financing and key policy details still unresolved, the path to construction remains unclear.

"Eliminates computer-program blowing gliches" 🤔

Seeking a shortcut to becoming exceptional is the best guarantee of remaining mid forever.
“The organizations believe that through a combination of online learning and AI tutoring, average performers can become exceptional in a compressed amount of time.”
https://www.…

MasterClass Is Working With OpenAI to Build a Business School for the AI Era
The new program, which also involves the University of Chicago, is called MasterClass Executive. Mark Cuban is among the instructors.

And we can always supply them with a program that makes identical files
into links to a single file.
-- Larry Wall in <199709292012.NAA09616@wall.org>

Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"
The onslaught includes LLMs finding bogus vulnerabilities and code that won’t compile. The project developer for one of the Internet’s most popular networking tools is scrapping its vulnerability reward program after being overrun by a spike in the submission of low-quality reports, much of it AI-generated slop.
🤖

Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"
The onslaught includes LLMs finding bogus vulnerabilities and code that won't compile.

Oh wow Beethoven made classical music about the open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit 😮

Federal overreach and unconstitutional per Murphy v. NCAA.
HUD launches investigation into WA’s Covenant Homeownership Program | The Seattle Times
https://archive.ph/b8thN

Report: Strong Chance George Pickens Skips on Cowboys Offseason Program if Tagged https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/report-strong-chance-george-pickens-skips-cowboys-offseason-program-tagged

On January 25, 1986, Tom Bolton of the University of Toronto and Ian McGregor of the McLaughlin #Planetarium joined host Randy Attwood for a LIVE 2 hour program about #Voyager2 at #Uranus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTEim9mSiWY and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OOh8e-KTOU

NEW PROGRAM> Call for Applications to attend the Black Buddhism Faculty Training Summer '26 #acrel https://networks.h-net.org/group/annou

But my code doesn’t even compare. el-xmp reads and parses the XMP data in Elisp (!), I just used exiftool.el #Emacs

But my code doesn’t even compare. el-xmp reads and parses the XMP data in Elisp (!), I just used exiftool.el #Emacs

Indigenous communities oppose Papua forest rezoning for palm oil https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/indigenous-communities-oppose-papua-forest-rezoning-for-palm-oil/

Indigenous communities oppose Papua forest rezoning for palm oil
JAKARTA — Indigenous communities in Indonesia’s easternmost region of Papua accuse the government of underhanded zoning changes to expand the so-called food estate program there to include large-scale oil palm plantations. Indigenous representatives have filed a formal objection to two decrees issued by the Ministry of Forestry that reclassify 486,939 hectares (1.2 million acres) of […]

"A program that has not been specified cannot be incorrect; it can only be surprising"

Senaste irritationerna: Högerklick slutar random att fungera, skärmklippverktyget blockeras enligt jobbdatorn av admin helt random och nu har min usb-hubb börjat kopplas ur och i lite random. Samtliga fel fixas med en reboot. Men det innebär att jag måste stänga ner alla program och bryta min workflow.
Last win11 frustration: Right click stops working randomly, so does screen capture. My usb-hub disconnects and connects again randomly. Screen capture gets locked by admin (or so does th…

The idea for the program started back in 2021,
as severe drought conditions enveloped agricultural powerhouse states across the country.
The $400 million, according to Montaño Greene, was set to be distributed through the Commodity Credit Corporation,
a financial institution used to implement specific agricultural programs established by the federal government.
By the close of 2024,
she said the Biden administration had entered final agreements with selected r…

Did the USDA just forget about $400M in drought aid for farmers?
More than a year later, not a dollar has been spent — and no one knows what happened to the money.

A revised M.Div. program strengthening the School’s historic commitment to professional education in ministry while substantially updating it for a changing landscape—one of many great reasons to apply to YDS.
Learn more about the revised M.Div. program here. Application deadline Feb. 1.

Even though our knowledge has greatly advanced over the decades, I must say the #planetary literature was much more exciting during the Mariner program
#Mars
(Image from here:

Time again to butt my head into my usual complaints, after starting my Windows 11 Corp computer, i get bombarded with 20 different announcement from various programs
I try to do one thing, but related program NEEDS to inform me of a UI change, other unrelated program NEEDS to inform me that it cannot sync some Windows lnk files, Outlooks says that I have messages unrad, Teams informs me of an required update, vpn client tells me it cannot create a socket
Afterr 5 minutes of cli…

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|| The FORTUNE-COOKIE program is soon to be a Major Motion Picture! ||
|| Watch for it at a theater near you next summer! ||
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Francis Ford Coppola presents a George Lucas Production:
"Fortune Cookie"
Directed by Steven Spielberg.
Starring Harriso…

A look at Africa Uncensored, a Kenyan investigative news outlet, its mentorship program for aspiring journalists, and the impact of its video investigations (Maurice Oniang'O/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/africa-uncenso

Inside Africa Uncensored, the East African outlet that has defied a decade of pressure.
Africa Uncensored has survived legal threats, intimidation, and politically motivated attacks on its funders to become a prominent force in Kenya’s investigative journalism landscape.

Last April, CISA issued an 11-month extension for its CVE program with MITRE, rescuing the program from an almost certain death.
Since then, CISA and MITRE have negotiated a new deal that puts the CVE program on firmer footing.
My exclusive for CSO, with thanks to Peter Allor and others within the cybersecurity vulnerability community.
CVE program funding secured, easing fears of repeat crisis

CVE program funding secured, easing fears of repeat crisis
The funding crisis that nearly shut down the global vulnerability tracking system last year has quietly been resolved, easing fears of another abrupt disruption to a cornerstone of the cybersecurity ecosystem.

GNU Parallel is such a nice program. It has a bunch of features that, sure, you could cobble together with a program or shell script, but that with Parallel are just a flag away.
Like, “read 1MB chunks from stdin, adjust chunk boundaries so they always start with a specified delimiter, then run N copies of this command where each copy gets a subset of chunks on stdin”.
It’s just --pipe --round-robin --recstart 'some delimiter'.
Last night I used this to search a Li…

finally got around to "move my archive of scanned documents out of google drive" with the help of a lovely program "ocrmypdf", which is basically a python wrapper around tesseract and various pdf tools, but it's a really well done wrapper.
the simple invocation:
`ocrmypdf input.pdf output.pdf`
does what I want. the defaults are sensible. and now I can pdfgrep when I need to find that thing from 20 years ago that I still have for questionable "I do…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@botgov/116284820151085855
bebest, exec office name that has a web page with details on flotus program

Salesforce reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $11.2B, vs. $11.18B est., forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates, and announces a $50B share repurchase program (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sus

Rumor is the US triple tapped the school in Iran.
Not just a war of choice, potus and kegsbreath have a war crime of choice. War crimes of choice.
https://volitionmaximus.substack.com/p/the-us-triple-tapped-the-iranian

This: For Many Cash-Strapped Americans, ‘Basic Living Has Become a Burden’
The issue feels more important to me than the next 5 issues put together. Permanent widespread financial stress continued 1% enrichment, an explosion waiting to happen. Not just in the US, but the US is unique in its insane health-care economics. I think a political program that eliminated the threat of medical bankruptcy would be a ticket to victory.

@… Haha. Desværre har jeg ikke mulighed for at dele de programer jeg har skrevet i den kontekst.
Det er bare sådan helt tilfældigvis blevet sådan at jeg har arbejdet i tre forskellige softwarevirksomheder af stor stŸrrelse, der alle mente at vi skulle have et program til den slags. Vi skulle da selfŸlgelig lave det selv fordi sådan er det (Der er mange i …

Just watched Russell Howard Live at the London Palladium on SBS on Demand (Australian catch up).
Husband and I cried - there were some very very funny bits. Definitely recommended.
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/russell-ho…

Watch Russell Howard: Live at the London Paladium
Watch Russell Howard: Live at the London Paladium for free with SBS On Demand, your ultimate destination for diverse entertainment. Stream now!

New whistleblower documents detail substantial cuts by the Trump administration to the training requirements for new immigration officers.
Among the cuts are the elimination of practical exams, use of force and legal training courses, and an overall reduction in training time, contrary to an official’s testimony to Congress earlier this month.
The documents, provided to Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) by whistleblowers from the Department of Homeland Security, were publicly re…

ICE whistleblower documents reveal deep cuts to training program
The Trump administration made significant cuts to the training requirements for new immigration officers, according to new whistleblower documents made public Monday.

The Harvest: Canada’s MAID Program, Eugenics, and the Commodification of Despair
When a state administers death as a healthcare service and then discovers the dead have commercially valuable parts, the question is no longer about dignity. It is about inventory. Something has gone structurally wrong in Canada, and the evidence is no longer ambiguous. In 2024, 16,499 Canadians died through the country's Medical Assistance in Dying program, accounting for 5.1 percent of…

The Harvest: Canada’s MAID Program, Eugenics, and the Commodification of Despair | David Boles, Blogs
When a state administers death as a healthcare service and then discovers the dead have commercially valuable parts, the question is no longer about dignity. It is about inventory. Something has go…

Just pulled the @… card on #WikiGacha 🤣 #noxp

Any Wikipedians around?
Why are there pages about pure made-up fantasy like "SpaceX Mars colonization program", which aren't a thing other than mayhaps hyperbole marketing?

I do miss condors and hummingbirds. This is such good news:
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/california-condors-nesting-in-pacific-northwest-for-first-time-in-a-century-on-yurok-territory/

Sources: Cowboys' Smith has minor knee surgery https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48023285/sources-cowboys-tyler-smith-knee-ready-april

#TrevorNoah has a podcast I’ve been watching on his YT channel. Here’s a discussion with #JoshJohnson. It’s 2 hours long🙁 but wide-ranging and interesting: his history;methods; goals; motivation; privilege of comedians; media have always had algorithms to program us but now it’s automated by AI; “T…

Instagram is testing Shop the Look, an AI feature that surfaces duplicates of influencers' clothes, angering some who say their image was used without consent (Annie Bang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/…

Statistical Query Lower Bounds for Smoothed Agnostic Learning
Ilias Diakonikolas, Daniel M. Kane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21191 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21191 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21191
arXiv:2602.21191v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the complexity of smoothed agnostic learning, recently introduced by~\cite{CKKMS24}, in which the learner competes with the best classifier in a target class under slight Gaussian perturbations of the inputs. Specifically, we focus on the prototypical task of agnostically learning halfspaces under subgaussian distributions in the smoothed model. The best known upper bound for this problem relies on $L_1$-polynomial regression and has complexity $d^{\tilde{O}(1/\sigma^2) \log(1/\epsilon)}$, where $\sigma$ is the smoothing parameter and $\epsilon$ is the excess error. Our main result is a Statistical Query (SQ) lower bound providing formal evidence that this upper bound is close to best possible. In more detail, we show that (even for Gaussian marginals) any SQ algorithm for smoothed agnostic learning of halfspaces requires complexity $d^{\Omega(1/\sigma^{2} \log(1/\epsilon))}$. This is the first non-trivial lower bound on the complexity of this task and nearly matches the known upper bound. Roughly speaking, we show that applying $L_1$-polynomial regression to a smoothed version of the function is essentially best possible. Our techniques involve finding a moment-matching hard distribution by way of linear programming duality. This dual program corresponds exactly to finding a low-degree approximating polynomial to the smoothed version of the target function (which turns out to be the same condition required for the $L_1$-polynomial regression to work). Our explicit SQ lower bound then comes from proving lower bounds on this approximation degree for the class of halfspaces.
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Next week perhaps: https://ail.angewandte.at/program/sounds-of-the-living-conny-frischauf/

Sounds of the Living | AIL

You know the classic story of the foolish employer who paid software developers per bug fixed? If you haven’t, you can guess the outcome: program called off when one developer “fixed“ hundreds of bugs in a single day (that they’d intentionally introduced).
This is just like that, except not like it at all: the “fake bugs” — ICE agents abducting random people to make a buck — are the •intended• effect.

"Greece receives 12.2 GW of merchant battery applications for 4.7 GW program"
#Greece #Energy #Batteries #Renewables

Greece receives 12.2 GW of merchant battery applications for 4.7 GW program
Investors have submitted applications for 12.15 GW of utility-scale, standalone merchant battery storage projects in Greece, far exceeding the 4.7 GW the country plans to approve. But with wrestling over financing and key policy details still unresolved, the path to construction remains unclear.

The program for the International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming - FLOPS - is out, and registration is open.
FLOPS 2026 will happen May 26-28 in Tsukuba, Japan - with excellent research papers, and enough time for lively discussions and a hallway track.
See you in Tsukuba!
https://functional-logic.…

I think the thing the video fails to stress enough is the importance of the revolutionary program to the insurgency. Che failed because he failed to pay attention to his own lessons (and perhaps didn't fully understand them) about the primacy of the revolutionary program.
The true power of the insurgency comes from the things the state *cannot* compromise on.

A newly expanded policy from the Trump administration could require travelers from five World Cup-qualified countries to front a bond of up to $15,000 in order to enter the United States for the tournament.
Visa bonds operate like security deposits:
a one-time payment meant to be refunded after a traveler exits the US under the terms of their visa.
The amounts generally run between $5,000 and $15,000, and are required for passport holders from certain countries to enter the…

DoorDash rolls out relief program for drivers as gas prices soar – NBC Los Angeles
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/doordash-added-payments-us-canadian-drivers-gas-prices-soar/3865741/

#Sigh - but not stunned at #GavinNewsom proposals that balance the budget on the backs of the lower income populations.
‘Vital’ state farmers market program on the chopping block | Public Health | sfexaminer.com

State farmers' market program faces existential threat
Market Match is on the chopping block two years after it was threatened with cuts.

#Sigh - but not stunned at #GavinNewsom proposals that balance the budget on the backs of the lower income populations.
‘Vital’ state farmers market program on the chopping block | Public Health | sfexaminer.com

State farmers' market program faces existential threat
Market Match is on the chopping block two years after it was threatened with cuts.

Before you ask a diffusion model to barf up a banner image for your article, please consider searching one of the many existing sources of fine & free media:
• Public Domain Image Archive
• Openverse
• Wellcome Collection
• Digital Bodleian
• Getty Open Content Program
• Wikimedia Commons
#publicdomain

Annual reminder to Canadian citizen/permanent resident authors, editors, translators, photographers, illustrators, and narrators: if you've published a book in the last 5 years, you may be eligible for the Public Lending Right Program from the Canada Council for the Arts. The program pays $50 to $4,500 based on the number of books you have at Canadian lending libraries. I've always earned more from PLRP than I have in royalties.
Registration opens later this month.

The Public Lending Right (PLR) Program
It pays to have your books in Canada’s libraries! Learn more about the Public Lending Right Program

looking at the program of #realworldcrypto starting tomorrow in taipei: https://rwc.iacr.org/2026/program.php
i gotta say, i'm becoming a fan of Tom Ristenpart and his work.

RWC 2026 program
Real World Crypto Symposium

The great thing about R is that if it can't do what you want out of the box, you can program it.
So I've just put 2-3 hours into programming that should be basic functionality, but is only accessible piecemeal in a dozen different incompatible libraries.
Now n <- n 1 incompatible libraries.

Congratulations to YDS student Tyler Fair! Part of our social-work dual-degree program, he has been selected as a Behavioral Health Scholar at UConn, where he will enter a year-long program and receive specialized coursework, intensive practicum placements, and faculty mentorship (not to mention a stipend).
Divinity and social work are a potent pairing. Find out more about this and our other dual- and joint-degree programs here:

With the recent integration of CERT-VDE’s CSAF advisories, it becomes even clearer why diverse vulnerability data sources are essential.
CSAF delivers direct vendor remediation information, and when correlated with the CVE Program , it highlights how important federation and data correlation are for remediation efforts and vulnerability management as a whole. (See example below)
🔗

Scott Bottoms is a far-right Christian nationalist member of the Colorado General Assembly
-- who is now running for governor in order to wage ⚡️spiritual warfare on behalf of his state.
Appearing on a program hosted by fellow far-rightChristian nationalist Heidi St. John,
Bottoms said that he is running for higher office in order to
"tear down the high places,"
which is spiritual warfare language generally used by

Scott Bottoms Is Running For Governor Of Colorado To 'Tear Down The High Places'
Christian nationalist state Rep. Scott Bottoms is running for governor of Colorado in order to wage spiritual warfare: "I believe that one of my primary responsibilities as governor is to tear down the high places."

Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
AVON: All right, continue recovery program. [Avon leaves the flight deck, an unconscious Dayna is dragged in by Klegg and a guard.]
KLEGG: Bring her round.
[Scene - the Chengan forest]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/319 B7B3

Democratic president should use ICE money for:
- guaranteed jobs program
- workers to build housing
- Healthcare worker
take the money and redirect it.
#uspol

Don't miss today's packed Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you need to know, including
--DOGE workers shared SSN data with outsiders, derailed DISA operations,
--UK launches national fraud reporting service,
--China blames Taiwan for cyberattacks,
--EU proposes freezing out Chinese tech suppliers,
--New Zealand launches Manage My Health breach probe,
--Curl ends its bug bounty program due to AI flood,
--Cloudflare fixes WAF…

DOGE workers shared SSN data with outsiders, derailed DISA operations
UK launches national fraud reporting service, China blames Taiwan for cyberattacks, EU proposes freezing out Chinese tech suppliers, New Zealand launches Manage My Health breach probe, Curl ends its bug bounty program due to AI flood, Cloudflare fixes WAF flaw, much more

Exploring Cotton Mather’s Curiosa Americana https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20138206/exploring-cotton-mathers-curiosa-americana

The curl project plans to end its HackerOne bug bounty program at the end of January, citing a surge in low-quality AI-generated vulnerability reports (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securi…

#GiftLink
"Ryan Schwank, who resigned from his job at an ICE academy in GA last week, told congressional Democrats at a hearing that the agency eliminated 240 hours of “vital classes” from a mandatory 580-hour training program, including instruction about the legal boundaries for the use of force, how to safely handle firearms, and the proper way to detain and arrest immigrants."
Former ICE instructor says agency slashed training for new officers - The Washington Post
https://wapo.st/4aS06mU

NFL reinstating front office, coaching accelerator https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48176095/nfl-bringing-back-front-office-coaching-accelerator-program

"Continuum of Care"
is the federal government’s flagship program to support state and local governments and non-profits in funding housing and other services for individuals at risk of or experiencing homelessness.
The program is built on the principle that getting unhoused people housed can get them on a path to address other challenges.
But in the past months, the Trump administration has tried to issue sweeping policy shifts to the program,
some of which…

I never realized making everyone spend time in the most crowded, most slowly moving lines would end up "prioritizing the general traveling population" - I thought that would just slow down throughput for everyone, creating longer, slower lines. I'm amazed at #Noem's brilliant management insights. /s
Homeland Security suspends TSA PreCheck, Global Entry airport security prog…

TSA PreCheck still operational after previous suspension announcement
The Transportation Security Administration said Sunday that its PreCheck program would remain operational. The development contradicts an earlier announcement from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that the airport security service was being suspended during the partial government shutdown. It was not immediately clear whether Global Entry would be affected. PreCheck and Global Entry are designed to help speed registered travelers through security lines, and suspensions would likely caus…

I never realized making everyone spend time in the most crowded, most slowly moving lines would end up "prioritizing the general traveling population" - I thought that would just slow down throughput for everyone, creating longer, slower lines. I'm amazed at #Noem's brilliant management insights. /s
Homeland Security suspends TSA PreCheck, Global Entry airport security prog…

TSA PreCheck still operational after previous suspension announcement
The Transportation Security Administration said Sunday that its PreCheck program would remain operational. The development contradicts an earlier announcement from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that the airport security service was being suspended during the partial government shutdown. It was not immediately clear whether Global Entry would be affected. PreCheck and Global Entry are designed to help speed registered travelers through security lines, and suspensions would likely caus…

Very Varied
If you're a lover of underrated gems from multiple decades then this program is for you...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/very-varied/

NEW PROGRAM> Call for Applications to attend the Black Buddhism Faculty Training Summer '26
https://ift.tt/DQLZwTV
CFP: [FRISTVERLÄNGERUNG] Variations 28/2021: Gender through technology (25.09.2021) Call…
via Input 4 RELCFP

The AP Fund for Journalism doubles the size of its local news program to 100 members, who can now share some of their content via the AP's distribution network (Nicole Meir/The Associated Press)
https://www.ap.org/media-center/press-rele

AP Fund for Journalism expands landmark local news program to 100 newsrooms | The Associated Press
AP Fund for Journalism (APFJ) today announced 50 additional news organizations are joining its landmark local news program, growing the total number of

What NFL's rebooted Accelerator Program means for rising coaches and execs as it expands outside minority pool

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-acc

Trump Administration Scrambles to Pick Up the Pieces of Broken
Consumption Tax (AKA Tariffs)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/us/politics/trump-tariffs-supreme-court.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Trump Administration Scrambles to Pick Up the Pieces of Broken Tariffs
President Trump is already working to piece his tariff program back together, after a Supreme Court ruling ruptured a centerpiece of his economic agenda.

Scott MacFarlane, who recently departed CBS News, says he is joining MeidasTouch as its chief Washington correspondent and will anchor a daily program (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/scott-macfarlane-cbs-news-meidas-touch-1236762908/…

Former CBS News Correspondent Scott MacFarlane Says He’s Joining MeidasTouch Network
The former CBS News correspondent will serve as chief Washington correspondent.

"After Helene, rural North Carolina turns to solar and battery hubs"
#US #USA #America #NorthCarolina <…

After Helene, rural North Carolina turns to solar and battery hubs
More than a year after the storm’s devastation, clean-energy microgrids are springing up in remote areas thanks to a program that could become a national…

Islamic schools, more parents sue Texas over exclusion from voucher program
https://religionnews.com/2026/03/13/islamic-schools-parents-sue-texas-over-exclusion-of-muslim-schools-from-voucher-program/

NEW PROGRAM> Call for Applications to attend the Black Buddhism Faculty Training Summer '26 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20138817/call-applications-attend-black-buddhism-faculty-training-summer-26

The US launches the Tech Corps, a program under the Peace Corps to send volunteers abroad to promote American AI, as the US competes with China for AI dominance (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/us-tech-corp-ai-volunteers/

U.S. plans Peace Corps-style “Tech Corps” to counter China’s AI exports
Washington to send volunteers abroad to promote American AI models as Chinese open-weight models are proving popular.

A look at Lawyers for Reporters, a project of the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice, and how it helps news organizations like Deep South Today (Tandy Lau/Editor and Publisher)
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/putting-the-free-in-pre…

Putting the ‘free’ in press freedom
This month’s Association Profile examines how Lawyers for Reporters is stepping in to provide free legal support to local and nonprofit newsrooms navigating rising costs and legal risks. Backed by the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice, the program connects journalists with experienced attorneys across the country, helping protect both reporting and operations. For many outlets without in-house counsel, the service offers critical guidance — from investigative review to everyda…

Donald Trump has agreed to comply with court orders to partially fund the "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program".
The food benefit, commonly called SNAP, goes back-nearly a century in the U.S.
https://www.msn.com/e…

NEW PROGRAM> Call for Applications to attend the Black Buddhism Faculty Training Summer '26 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20138817/call-applications-attend-black-buddhism-faculty-training-summer-26

Leaked DOD letter: Pentagon will adopt Palantir's Maven AI system as an official program of record to streamline its adoption across all arms of the US military (David Jeans/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/pentago…

Abby Tighe thought she had landed her forever job.
She joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in December 2023,
managing a national youth substance abuse prevention program.
The project focused on rural communities, and Tighe, whose family is from Appalachia, was proud to be using her public health training to support often-overlooked parts of the country.
“The CDC was different than anywhere else I’ve worked,” says Tighe.
“People didn’t …

Exploring Cotton Mather’s Curiosa Americana
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Key Figures in the Hunt for Osama bin Laden
⭐️Alfreda Frances Bikowsky
Role: Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station
Background: Started her CIA career in the 1990s as a Soviet analyst. Promoted to Deputy Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station after the USS Cole bombing in 2000, and became Chief by March 2003.
Controversies: Involved in the CIA's interrogation program and linked to the extraordinary rendition of Khalid El-Masri. Criticized for her role in the tortur…

How Zynga uses a secretive VIP program with personal account managers and exclusive sweepstake entries to keep top players spending on games like FarmVille (Michael Thomsen/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/arts/zynga-vip-video-games.html
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The Secretive V.I.P. Programs That Keep Gamers Spending
Lucrative players of games like FarmVille and Words With Friends get personal account managers and entries to exclusive sweepstakes.

In Los Angeles, where more than two-thirds of residents identify as Hispanic, Black or Asian,
a vast majority of schools were found to have extraordinarily diverse student bodies.
And in an effort to combat segregation, the school district has afforded those diverse schools with smaller class sizes and other benefits.
But last month, a conservative group sued the school district, saying the decades-old program has become a mechanism of
“overt discrimination against a…

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California's Department of Finance director says Gov. Gavin Newsom doesn't plan to commit more funding in 2026 to a Google partnership to help local newsrooms (Titus Wu/Bloomberg Government)
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Google Journalism Program Gets Skipped in California Budget
California Gov. Gavin Newsom doesn’t plan to commit funding this year to a partnership with Google to help local newsrooms, state Department of Finance Director Joe Stephenshaw said Friday.

Filing: the SEC approved a Nasdaq rule change allowing some securities to trade in tokenized form; the new approach will be tested in an upcoming pilot program (The Block)
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The first year of Donald Trump’s second term in office was marked by the rapid implementation of his far-right program.
From ICE to DOGE,
from anti-DEI to anti-antifa,
and from bombing boats to $400 million bribes,
Trump’s regime has turned out even more extreme than feared after he was elected to a second term in November 2024.
His words and actions as president have been covered extensively over the past year,
as have those of a number of internal advise…

The Far Right Is Quietly Building Power Under Trump
Extremist groups are some of the biggest winners of the second Trump administration.

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Nonprofit What To Fix says Facebook's content monetization program grew from under 3M to over 12M participants in just over a year; 8M accounts are in English (Hazel Gandhi/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/facebook-creator-monetization-indonesia/

Creators are cashing in on a “Facebook renaissance”
And Indonesian creators are leading the charge.

Sources and docs: the US "effectively gutted" the Internet Freedom program that dispensed $500M since 2016 to help build tech to evade state internet controls (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb

Many Americans with student debt are again facing future upheaval
after a federal appeals court recently ordered the end of a Biden-era student loan repayment program,
known as the Saving on a Value Education (Save) Plan,
-- a move that coincided with another grim revelation:
🔥new education department data shows that by the end of 2025, 7.7 million borrowers had defaulted on $181bn in federal student loans.