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Nvidia stock jumps 4.3% to close at a record for the first time since Oct., pushing Nvidia's market cap past $5T, as a rally in Intel pushed chipmakers higher (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/nvidia-stock-closes-at-…

Nvidia stock closes at record, pushing market cap past $5 trillion
Nvidia's stock closed at its first record since October, as a rally in Intel pushed chipmakers higher.

I see a lot of people pushing to avoid libraries that use AI. We're soon going to need to figure out how we even define that, since it's not always obvious if a PR is AI-assisted.
We're going to need standards for "organic code." Which is... yeah, GFL with getting devs to agree on anything.
#Programming

Because some of the replies, while good, have wandered a bit off the rails, please consider:
1. “We should study and learn from how Hypercard lowered the barrier to entry to programming.”
2. “Hypercard or something like it would be unsuitable for many / most modern applications.”
Please note that both these things can be true (and both are in my view). Upthread I’m pushing for (1). And…

During his State of the Union address on Tuesday, Donald Trump demanded that lawmakers gathered in the joint session of Congress
“approve the SAVE America Act to stop illegal aliens [from] voting in our sacred American elections.”
Republicans stood and cheered.
“The cheating is rampant in our elections,” the president continued. “It’s rampant.”
The directive was built on years of Republican bloviating about a problem that doesn’t exist:
the notion that scores of…

The ‘Cataclysmic’ Reality Behind Trump and the GOP’s Voter ID Bill
Donald Trump is pushing Republicans to pass the SAVE Act, a voter ID bill that would bring a "cataclysmic" overhaul to the voter registration process.

You'll never be able to convince me companies don't purposefully botch updates for older devices to make them slow and less usable, pushing you to buy whatever new bs they're shilling instead

The European Parliament votes to delay EU AI Act deadlines, including pushing compliance for high-risk AI systems back to December 2027, and to ban nudify apps (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/901315/eu-ai…

EU backs nude app ban and delays to landmark AI rules 
The EU Parliament voted to delay deadlines for high-risk AI systems and watermarking AI-generated content due to take effect this August until at least next year.

Stephen Miller is pushing states to stop educating undocumented children | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/stephen-miller-education-texas-florida-b2944711.html

“One of the things that was pretty stunning and pretty clear from the very beginning of this Trump administration is how hungry people are to hear faith voices and to see faith leaders pushing back against this heretical theology and the weaponization of faith,”
said Rev Dr Liz Theoharis, founder and executive director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice.
According to Theoharis and others heralding the efforts of progressive and social justice-motivate…

Apparently the SFBOS land use committee is voting today to make parklets worse. Public access being removed entirely. I can’t even keep up with all the terrible legislation they’re pushing through.
#sfpol

Chinese tech workers are starting to train their AI doubles–and pushing back
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/20/1136149/chinese-tech-workers-ai-colleagues/

Chinese tech workers are starting to train their AI doubles–and pushing back
A viral GitHub project that claims to clone coworkers into a reusable AI skill is forcing Chinese tech workers to confront deeper fears.

The reactionary establishment of Minneapolis is pushing for their own #CopCity (with a euphemism for the name of course; i won't use it but it is more of a #CopSpa to be fair).

Zelensky: US pushing for Ukraine-Russia ceasefire by June 2026: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/07/zelensky-us-pushing-for-ukrainerussia.html

In Salt Lake City, we already have the existential crisis of the drying #GreatSaltLake. Why not radiate the remaining water, too?
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/04/13/pus

Imagine turning 22 during covid, you've just finished celebrating properly entering adulthood and think (even with Biden) that things might make a turn around for the middle to late 2020s globally, it wouldn't be fun but at least the economy will manage to hold up the facade of trying to work for now.
Now it's 2026, you're pushing 30 and damn near everything seems to want me homeless and dead.

I took a weekend today after pushing myself pretty hard the last 3 and especially yesterday. I now regret that. I slept well, felt fine when I woke up, didn't go do physical labor, and was bored, frustrated, and hungry all day.
People like me don't need breaks, we just need to work until we physically and mentally collapse, then recuperate. High speed, low drag, tailspin, crash, and phoenix.

In a dramatic middle-of-the-night stand off, a bipartisan set of lawmakers pushing for true reform and privacy protections for Americans bought us some more time to fight!
They are holding out for, at a minimum,
the requirement of an actual probable cause warrant for FBI access to information collected under the mass spying program known as 702.

A reauthorization with virtually no changes was defeated because a core group of lawmakers held strong;
they know that peopl…

Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702
In a dramatic middle-of-the-night stand off, a bipartisan set of lawmakers pushing for true reform and privacy protections for Americans bought us some more time to fight! They are holding out for, at a minimum, the requirement of an actual probable cause warrant for FBI access to information...

Hmm, cocoa free #chocolate substitutes made by fermentation hmm. They're pushing it as ethical etc - but I wonder what the health differences are; Cocoa is pretty good.
https://www.

Cocoa-free chocolate arrives in Switzerland
Several start-ups are developing cocoa alternatives using barley, beans or sunflower seeds.

"How ‘eco‑dystopian’ novels from Asia and Africa are pushing boundaries"
#Asia #Africa #Environment

How ‘eco-dystopian’ novels from Asia and Africa are pushing boundaries
Visions of environmental disaster are shaping world literature.

The RPi that runs #yulbbs crashed and wouldn't reconnect early on Thursday (overnight).
This morning I managed to get it running again by playing Apollo 13 and moving devices between USB busses and gently pushing the power supply/consumption until it would init everything safely.
Really bummed that I missed the CF-18s/F-16s escorting the passenger jets on Thursday, though.

Fighter jets escort Montreal-bound flights after ‘security incident’; 2 men arrested
Norad said fighter jets, including CF-18s, escorted two international flights bound for Montreal on Wednesday due to a 'security incident' that prompted a police response at the Trudeau International airport.

Doctronic, which became the first company to use AI to write prescription refills through a pilot launched in Utah, raised $40M led by Abstract and Lightspeed (Brian Gormley/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/startups-are-

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
clipping.:
🎵 Keep Pushing
#clipping
https://clppng.bandcamp.com/track/keep-pushing
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZyfKvS2z4so0qtoudfyI0

NFL Buzz Says Cowboys Pushing Blockbuster Draft Trade for ‘Pro Bowl’ Edge https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/nfl-buzz-says-cowboys-pushing-blockbuster-draft-trade-for-pro-bowl-edge/

At CPAC, FCC Chair Brendan Carr boasted "Trump is winning", citing PBS and NPR defunding and the departures of Joy Reid, Chuck Todd, Stephen Colbert, and others (Kathryn Wilkens/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-

‘Trump Is Winning’: FCC Chair Boasts He’s Remaking the Media by Pushing Out Left-Leaning ...
During a Friday CPAC appearance, FCC Chair Brendan Carr bragged that he's remaking the media by pushing out left-leaning figures, declaring, " Trump is winning."

Keep Android Open https://keepandroidopen.org/
"You, the consumer, purchased your Android device believing in Google’s promise that it was an open computing platform and that you could run whatever software you choose on it. Instead, as of September 2026, they will be non-consensually pushing an update…

Ok well that was a much longer battle than I expected between having to drill out the standoffs and the NIC renaming itself after all the PCIe shuffling.
Thermals are improved, although not as much as I had hoped.
Previously - idling in the low 70Cs, pushing into the 90s during a single build job, running several at once railed it at 99C and it went into thermal throttling and took forever.
Now - idling in the low 60s and pushing to low 70s during a single build job.
…

Most people just run into information randomly, naturally hold onto the peak neuroplasticity encounters the hardest, work too much to be adequately tapped into everything, and all the wealthiest most horrible people in the world have had unimaginable amounts of money to spend on pushing what they want hardest via every means they have regardless of how much soul the underlings can muster. Dont flinch at this or die

from my link log —
Pushing and pulling: three reactivity algorithms.
https://jonathan-frere.com/posts/reactivity-algorithms/
saved 2026-03-07

Pushing and Pulling: Three Reactivity Algorithms | Jonathan's Blog
It’s looking like I’m going to need to build a reactive engine for work, so I’m going to prepare for that by writing down what I know about them. I want to look at three ways of building reactive engines: push reactivity, pull reactivity, and the hybrid push/pull combination that is used in a bunch of web frameworks. The Problem Statement The simplest way to visualise reactivity, in my opinion, is as a spreadsheet. You have a series of input cells, containing your initial data, and a seri…

If the "SAVE act" passes most people registering to vote would have to present documents in person at an elections office, including people who vote by mail.
Advocacy groups that oppose the legislation say that the bill would crush voter registration efforts ahead of this year’s elections.
The bill would create new penalties for election officials who register applicants who have not presented documentary proof of citizenship.
Opponents say that provision could pot…

What’s in the Voting Bill That Republicans Are Pushing to the Senate Floor
Legislation that would force voters to prove they are U.S. citizens is being debated on the Senate floor this week.

"The Pentagon is pushing four AI companies to let the military use their tools for "all lawful purposes," including in areas of weapons development, intelligence collection and battlefield operations, but Anthropic has not agreed to those terms and the Pentagon is getting fed up after months of negotiations, according to the Axios report."
Anthropic is not ruthless enough, apparently.

What's in the Voter ID Bill Trump and Republicans Are Pushing? (Minho Kim/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/us/politics/trump-voter-id-bill.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p49#a260317p49

This week’s post jumps from Super Bowl ticket prices to Oklahoma’s new steps toward transparency on asset forfeiture—and then into a long-running fight over casket sales and licensing. Sports, policy, and skepticism included. 🏈⚖️
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/foo…

Football Dreams, Government Overreach, and Small Businesses Pushing Back – Bob Mueller
Super Bowl prices, Oklahoma reforms, and a look at why asset forfeiture transparency and licensing laws matter to regular people.

In the DC area, some of us have always adored Sean Doolittle.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jan/28/fascism-is-here-now-the-us-athletes-pushing-back-on-trumps-america

‘Fascism is here now’: the US athletes pushing back on Trump’s America
World Series winner Sean Doolittle, Super Bowl champion Doug Baldwin and college star McKenzie Forbes have strong opinions on a troubled era

'It's the new frontier': How AI is pushing NFL draft prep to 'a different level' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48446759/nfl-draft-combine-artificial-intelligence-caleb-downs-arvell-reese-david-ba…

Now this is scary --- the trumpies/maga want to return us to the 15th century and the era of the Spanish Inquisition (without the comfy chair).
"‘We Need to Do McCarthyism to the Tenth Power’
Conservative influencers are pushing for a return to the dark days of 1950s inquisitions."
https://ww…

The McCarthy Revivalists
Conservative influencers are pushing for a return to the dark days of 1950s inquisitions.

Can’t help but wonder when gas prices will make commuting to work unaffordable for all those living paycheck to paycheck, unable to cover a minor emergency. Rising food and gas costs must be pushing them over the edge.

Building and pushing container images on Codeberg CI
As part of moving my services to EU-based infrastructure, I've been migrating away from GitHub to @… One of the things I needed was a CI pipeline to build a container image and push it to the Codeberg container registry for my @…

How some political candidates and activists across ideologies and professions are pushing back on the spread of data centers and AI in the US (Andrew R. Chow/Time)
https://time.com/7377579/ai-data-centers-people-movement-cover/

The People vs. AI
Across red states and blue, a grassroots movement is pushing back on the unchecked growth of the artificial intelligence industry.

More pollution and higher energy costs: critics condemn Trump’s anti-environment agenda https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/trump-anti-environment-agenda-pushback
Under Trump, EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, re…

Some workers are going all in on AI while also questioning whether all that AI is good for the world. Others are effectively training machines to do their jobs better than they can. And many of the same workers who are racing to build the future are now wondering if the future they’re building has a place for them in it.

I would also like the crowd to consider that in 2007 when the Kindle was released there was no Calibre and there was no Kobo (you could get a Sony e-reader but these got discontinued over a decade ago); plus Kobo is just another commercial brand and Calibre is now pushing LLMs, which are sort of the opposite of reading.

💸 Prediction market firms could be making $10 billion in yearly revenue by 2030, Citizens Bank says
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/02/24/from-niche-to-usd3-billion-run-rate-prediction-markets-eye…

Prediction market firms could be making $10 billion in yearly revenue by 2030, Citizens Bank says
The bank said rising volumes, tighter market structure and early institutional engagement are pushing prediction markets beyond their gambling roots toward a new asset class.

Trump Is Pushing To Include Risky Assets Like Crypto and Private Equity in 401(k)s | Portside
https://portside.org/2026-02-07/trump-pushing-include-risky-assets-crypto-and-private-equity-401ks

Anthropic are now casting live coders for ad campaigns showing how great Claude is for pushing beyond their capabilities. Not sure it's quite there yet..

#EV technology is evolving rapidly, including for trucks. Volvo Trucks has launched a new generation of trucks that further limits the number of cases where battery-electric trucks 'can't do the job'.

Volvo launches new electric trucks – with ranges up to 700 km
Volvo Trucks keeps pushing the boundaries for electric truck transport. With the launch of its new electric trucks with improved performance, flexibility and ranges up to 700 km, this is a new benchmark for electric heavy-duty trucks.

Sources: Micron is pushing the US Congress to pass the "MATCH Act", which would put new export restrictions on equipment its Chinese rivals use to make chips (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/m

"Faced with economic stagnation the elites are panicking. Wild eyed in the control room, they thrash around seeking to fix the unfixable, pushing all the buttons, pulling all the levers, to no avail, just making things worse. They try the old mantra “growth”, repeated endlessly, and given a priority above all else"
Reeves says 'more to do' after sluggish GDP growth - BBC News

Reeves says 'more to do' after sluggish GDP growth
The chancellor's comments came after figures showed the UK economy saw a lacklustre end to 2025.

Ukraine seizes initiative along 40-km front, pushing Russians back over 9 km amid Starlink blackout: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/ukraine-seizes-initiative-along-km.html

Google has partially walked back their decision to remove Android's ability to install independently published software. Their new stance is that it will still be possible, but it will be more difficult. I assume their plans are still subject to change.
I don't like the FUD that Google is pushing, and I still have a lot of unanswered questions, but I figured that it would be best to link the original source:

Sources: CNN restricted staff from using its platforms for self-promotion, after Jake Tapper pushing his Joe Biden book turned into a "rolling infomercial" (Cameron Adams/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-forces-internal-chan…

CNN Rewrites Its Rules After Jake Tapper’s Biden Book Fiasco
The anchor is said to be “very, very unhappy” at the network’s new policy on self-promotion.

As states moved to cap sky-high interest rates,
two GOP lawmakers
-- who’ve taken millions from financial interests
-- are pushing legislation to override those protections nationwide
https://www.levernews.com/bank-backed-republicans-move-t…

Bank-Backed Republicans Move To Gut Interest Rate Caps
As states moved to cap sky-high interest rates, two GOP lawmakers who’ve taken millions from financial interests are pushing legislation to override those protections nationwide.

Jussi Nummelin will speak on 'Pushing Kubernetes to the Far Edge: IoT, AI Workloads, and Evolving Architectural Patterns' as part of our Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/p

An eventful day at the home office so far... just spent the last 20 minutes trying to clean up the mess of pushing bag of besan (chick pea) flour off the top shelf in the pantry, which burst on impact, maximising dispersion on the coffee making stuff & the rest of the pantry. Much blue air was created. But before that had a magical few minutes when a pīwakawaka flew into the house, happily flew around a bit, & happily flew back out again.

Official Israeli Persian account pushing a conspiracy theory that civilian casualties in Iran are being faked: straight from the Gaza playbook.

My BBC Model B series 7 case looks a disaster inside, but it's working nicely after a recap; caps 1,2,9 in the PSU. It worried me by not beeping - but the capslock worked, and after pushing the socketed analogue chips down under the keyboard it's good. It's a bit fuzzy on the UHF, but there again that is a terrible lead I used. Just has DNFS and View in. The W key took some cleaning, and the '.' is still not working. Getting the aux socket out of the PSU is a bastard!…

And wasn't Charlie pushing for release of the Epstein files?
Erika Kirk's Corcoran Group link in focus amid company's Epstein links; ‘handled his assets…’ | Hindustan Times
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/erika-kirks-corcoran-group-link-in-focus-amid-companys-epstein-links-handled-his-assets-101771466880445.html

Ich schätze, dass einige etwas übertrieben finden, wie sehr ich darauf rumreite, dass #DigitaleSouveränität ein problematischer Begriff ist.
Großartiger Text dazu, und aktuell zum Iran:
"..the current wave pushing digital sovereignty as the key to ending dependency on American and Chinese technology is negligent of its Eurocentric bias. Despite democrati…

Football Dreams, Government Overreach, and Small Businesses Pushing Back
From Super Bowl ticket shock to Oklahoma policy changes, this post reflects on football fandom, small-business fights, and why new transparency rules around asset forfeiture matter for civil liberties and everyday people more than most realize.

Football Dreams, Government Overreach, and Small Businesses Pushing Back – Bob Mueller
Super Bowl prices, Oklahoma reforms, and a look at why asset forfeiture transparency and licensing laws matter to regular people.

Gabbard raised issues with spy law Trump is pushing to renew (John Sakellariadis/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/16/gabbard-trump-fisa-702-00877855
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p126#a260416p126

Reliable Robotics, which is developing autonomous aircraft systems for cargo flights, raised $160M led by Nimble Partners, pushing its valuation to ~$1B (Cailley LaPara/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
clipping.:
🎵 Keep Pushing
#clipping
https://clppng.bandcamp.com/track/keep-pushing
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZyfKvS2z4so0qtoudfyI0

Everything makes me uncomfortable. i saw a little drawing of Bart Simpson on the gas station bathroom mirror and couldn't help but take enjoyment not about pleasure but about pushing up against order and limit to the point of death in accordance with Lacan's concept of jouissance

Chiefs make 'aggressive' 2026 scheduling request with NFL: Kansas City pushing hard to play in these two games

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-2026-scheduling-spain-christma…

I think the reason Meta et al are pushing for the OS age thing is that they know there's no way that anything they can do themselves for age verification will satisfy the regulators and/or cause them to have to pass data to 3rd party dodgy verifiers; they'll always get the blame if kids find a way around it if it's done at their end.

Sources: the Pentagon is pushing OpenAI, Anthropic, and others to make their AI tools available on classified networks without the standard user restrictions (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/pentagon-pushing-ai-compa…

A new Mass Deportation Coalition of MAGA faithful is pushing Trump team to resume ICE raids | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/maga-coalition-trump-deportation-ice-b2960451.html

Koch’s "Americans for Prosperity" political operation is attempting to shape and help implement a U.S.
AI technology agenda, which could ultimately profit Koch’s traditional oil and gas business.
Despite the Koch network’s ongoing disagreements with Trump on issues including tariffs,
the vast political operation appears to have found common cause with the administration on
ensuring that fossil fuels, and not renewable energy sources, are central to AI develo…

The Koch Network Is Pushing Trump to Accelerate AI, Documents Show
Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel agenda.

Kathleen Riebe dropped out of the race for Utah's District 1 US Representative and is putting her support behind Ben McAdams.
I disagree. I have many strong memories of contacting Ben McAdams when he was my representative, pushing him to vote for my and his other constituents rights only for him to demure and vote against them in the name of "Blue Dog Democrats" push to lower the deficit and cut spending.
I recommend revisiting his voting record to remind yourself w…

Rep. Ben McAdams [D-UT4, 2019-2020], former Representative for Utah's 4th Congressional District - GovTrack.us
Legislative profile for Rep. Ben McAdams [D-UT4, 2019-2020], the former Representative from Utah

The Austrian German term for managers who push bullshit like this is "dem hams ins Hirn gschissn", which translates as "someone shat into their brain".
(This about the thinly veiled workplace surveillance stuff [they call it "bonus system" or some shit] Meta is pushing on their employees.)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
clipping.:
🎵 Keep Pushing
#clipping
https://clppng.bandcamp.com/track/keep-pushing
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZyfKvS2z4so0qtoudfyI0

Sources: the NFL and Paramount begin talks to keep Sunday games on CBS through 2033-34; NFL is pushing for an increase of ~50% over the $2.1B CBS already pays (Alex Sherman/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/13/nfl-media-deal-paramount.html

Republicans are pushing hard for a bill that would disenfranchise trans voters - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/03/republicans-are-pushing-hard-for-a-bill-that-would-disenfranchise-trans-voters/

Sources: Apple stops vibe coding apps from pushing updates, citing rules on running code; Replit thinks Apple may approve opening AI-generated apps in a browser (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-cracks-vibe-coding-apps

Apple Cracks Down on ‘Vibe Coding’ Apps
Apple has quietly prevented AI vibe coding apps such as Replit and Vibecode, which help people create games and other applications, from releasing updates to their mobile apps on the App Store unless they make modifications, according to several people with knowledge of the situation. The ...

Senator Elizabeth Warren:
The Trump administration has deported hundreds of people,
including children,
long-time U.S. residents,
and those without criminal records
to countries they are not from
and without due process
—even after courts ruled that this is illegal.
I’m pushing for an investigation.

Elizabeth Warren (@elizabeth-warren.bsky.social)
The Trump administration has deported hundreds of people, including children, long-time U.S. residents, and those without criminal records to countries they are not from and without due process—even after courts ruled that this is illegal. I’m pushing for an investigation.

NFL will likely be making a tweak to the scheduling formula if the regular season stays at 17 games

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-tweak-scheduling-formula-i…

According to Microsoft Copilot Terms of Use, updated in Oct. 2025, "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only" and "Don't rely on Copilot for important advice" (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use — firm pushing AI hard to consumers and businesses tells users not to rely on it for important advice
These might be boilerplate disclaimers, but they kind of contradict the company's ads and marketing.

Cable TV networks canceling daytime talk show staples The Kelly Clarkson Show and Sherri show how they are now struggling to compete with video podcasts (The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news…

Talk Is Cheap, Talk Shows Are Not: Daytime TV’s Big Problem
Sky-high production costs and waning audiences are pushing hosts off the dial. Video podcasts may be the final blow to the format.

Via The Signal: On Saturday, N. Korea fired off more than 10 ballistic missiles. Kim Yo-Jong, sister of Kim Jong-Un, warned of “terrible consequences” if U.S.-South Korea military exercises continued. Analysts say Pyongyang is watching closely as US strikes devastate Iran—studying what happens when the U.S. decides you’re a problem. Trump is pushing for another summit with Chairman Kim—who recently said the two nations could “get along” if Washington accepted N. Korea’s nuclear status.

Sources: Sony is considering pushing back the debut of its next PlayStation console to 2028 or even 2029, as the AI boom fuels huge memory chip demand (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-15/rampant-ai-de…

Trump draws comparisons to Marie Antoinette
as he leans into the gilded trappings of the presidency
https://apnews.com/article/trump-renovations-marie-antoinette-ballroom-affordability-midterms-5015c7f144fc3b…

Despite Marie Antoinette comparisons, Trump leans into opulence
President Donald Trump is more overtly leaning into some of the spoils of his office in his second term, drawing comparisons to French Queen Marie Antoinette from political opponents. He has celebrated renderings of his $400 million White House ballroom even during the war in Iran and a partial government shutdown. His administration is pushing ahead with plans to build a 250-foot Triumphal Arch near the Lincoln Memorial. Democrats say Trump is more interested in the gilded trappings of the pre…

‘Nobody Likes Erika’: Erika Kirk’s Pageant Friend Blows the Whistle on Pushing TPUSA's ‘Push Through, Grieve Later’ Motto After Charlie's Passing
https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/02/14/erika-kirks-pageant-friend-blows-the-whistle-on-tpusa-after-charlie-kirks-passing/

Donald Trump touched off a redistricting arms race last year
by pushing Republican states to create more GOP-leaning congressional districts
to help his party maintain its thin majority in the House.
Texas, North Carolina and Missouri responded,
and then Democrats counterpunched by passing a referendum to create five new blue-leaning districts in California.

Virginia is the next biggest prize for Democrats;
Its 11 House seats are held by six Democrats and fi…

Largely secret donors pour millions into election that could tip Congress
Most of the almost $100 million raised to influence the vote, heavily favoring Democrats, comes from nonprofits that don’t have to disclose their donors.

The list of qualifying documents in the SAVE Act for proving citizenship appears long -- but many of them come with qualifiers.
Under the bill, a REAL ID -compliant driver’s license would have to indicate that “the applicant is a citizen,”
--- but not all do.
Only five states
— Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Vermont and Washington
— offer the type of enhanced REAL IDs that explicitly indicate U.S. citizenship.
Standard driver’s licenses, generally available…

Documents required by GOP's voting bill can be difficult and costly to get
Congressional Republicans are pushing voting legislation that's backed by President Donald Trump and would require voters to produce documentary proof of citizenship in order to register for federal elections. Obtaining those records and paying for them may not be as easy as the bill’s promoters make it sound. There's a range of hurdles, including the time and money involved in getting birth certificates or passports. A University of Maryland study estimates that 21.3 million Americans who ar…

Anthropic donates $20M to Public First, a super PAC pushing for AI guardrails and transparency in opposition to OpenAI-backed PACs, ahead of the US midterms (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/technology/anthropic-super-pac-ope…

Microsoft is pushing for more Africans to adopt its AI tools as it competes with DeepSeek: training 3M people, partnering with telecom MTN to sell 365, and more (Loni Prinsloo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Trump officials met group pushing Alberta independence from Canada
Separatists from oil-rich province try to capitalise on friction between White House and PM Mark Carney
https://www.ft.com/content/11dc2140-6a5d-4536-b766-52c920affcc7

Trump officials met group pushing Alberta independence from Canada
Separatists from oil-rich province try to capitalise on friction between White House and Mark Carney

Sources: Apple's Siri upgrade has run into snags recently, possibly pushing some personalized Siri and other features from iOS 26.4 to iOS 26.5, due in May (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: the White House is pushing back on GOP-led AI bills in Nebraska and Tennessee, putting new pressure on GOP state lawmakers who support AI guardrails (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/trump-white-house-gop-states-ai-rules

Scoop: White House leans on GOP states over AI rules
This behind-the-scenes push puts new pressure on GOP state lawmakers who support AI guardrails but don't want to cross the White House in a tough position.

The effort from House Democratsto pass a war powers resolution by unanimous consent was squashed today
as the pro forma speaker, Republican Chris Smith, refused to recognize Democrats.
It was always a tall order, given that pushback from even a single member would require Democrats to pursue a formal vote on the resolution.
While it’s largely a symbolic move,
top Democrats in both chambers have vowed to hold votes again when Congress returns from recess next week.

Analysis: Trump's World Liberty Financial used 5B of its WLFI tokens to borrow $75M from a platform its adviser co-founded; WLFI falls to an all-time low (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/202…

Trump's World Liberty Financial borrowed millions from a protocol its own advisor co-founded
Onchain data shows WLFI deposited 5 billion of its own tokens as collateral to borrow stablecoins it then sent to Coinbase Prime, pushing a lending pool to 100% utilization and leaving depositors unable to withdraw.

This week’s media atrocity
The New York Times published a story Wednesday about how Trump is undermining trust in our elections
and pushing dishonest schemes to rig the midterms.
Yet in the middle of the story, NYT wrote:
“Democrats are sounding alarms
— and sometimes sounding downright alarmist
— as they war-game for extreme subversion scenarios.”
By describing legitimate concerns as “downright alarmist,” they undercut their own story
-- and …

Trump’s Push for Election Power Raises Fears He Will ‘Subvert’ Midterms
The president appears to be undermining Americans’ faith in the outcome, at a moment when Republicans face an uphill climb to keep control of Congress.

US investors are pushing Asian fund managers to create special vehicles so they can invest in Asia while avoiding US investment restrictions on Chinese tech (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/87d2bcb1-a2ae-479a-bdcb-a4639f74f625

Japan, driven by labor shortages, is increasingly adopting robotics and physical AI, with a hybrid model where startups innovate and corporations provide scale (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/05/japan-is-proving-e…

In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants | TechCrunch
Driven by labor shortages, Japan is pushing physical AI from pilot projects into real-world deployment.

Deveillance's upcoming anti-surveillance device, Spectre I, went viral after its founder said it blocks nearby listening devices with AI, but some are skeptical (Lindsey Weedston/The Daily Dot)
https://dailydot.com/deveillance-smart-device-claims-to-jam-listening

Deveillance says its $1,199 gadget can block listening devices. Skeptics are raising questions
A tech company by the name of Deveillance is pushing a new device it claims can pinpoint and scramble any listening devices in an area.

Sources detail Fidji Simo's moves at OpenAI, including spearheading the TBPN acquisition and pushing OpenAI to cut Sora and avoid other social media products (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

Why OpenAI’s Fidji Simo Bought the TBPN Podcast Amid Crusade Against ‘Side Quests’
In recent weeks, Fidji Simo has burst into public view as the OpenAI executive bringing much-needed discipline to the AI startup, as it inches toward an initial public offering late this year. Last month, Simo—who is now CEO of AGI Deployment—delivered the sobering message to the company’s staff ...

Skyryse, which plans to integrate its flight automation OS, SkyOS, in Black Hawk helicopters and other aircraft, raised a $300M Series C at a $1.15B valuation (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/skyryse…

Skyryse lands another $300M to make flying, even helicopters, simple and safe | TechCrunch
Skyrsye, now valued at $1.15 billion, is pushing to get FAA certification for its universal operating system for flight.