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Nippon Steel’s $14.9bn acquisition of US Steel closed on Wednesday,
confirming an unusual degree of power for the Trump administration after the Japanese company’s 18-month struggle to close the purchase.
Under the deal terms, Nippon bought 100% of US Steel shares at $55 a share, as it first laid out in its December 2023 offer for the well-known and struggling steelmaker.
A press release on the filing also discloses details of a national security agreement inked with the Tr…

“Steel border”: underground is the only defense against drones and artillery: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/19/steel-border-underground-is-the.html

🤺 Can technology help settle disputes over Kendo scoring?
#kendo

Can technology help settle disputes over Kendo scoring?
Although kendo scoring is quite subjective, many kendo practitioners fear that rigid rules or technology could push the martial arts toward Western-style sportification.

Filing: Newsmax agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $67M to settle a defamation lawsuit over false claims about the 2020 election, with $27M due this month (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/media/newsmax-dominion-settle-2020-election-defamatio…

Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle Dominion lawsuit over network’s 2020 election lies
Egregious lies about the 2020 presidential election are going to cost Newsmax millions.

from my link log —
A comparison of C libraries providing generic containers.
https://github.com/P-p-H-d/c-stl-comparison
saved 2025-08-13

GitHub - P-p-H-d/c-stl-comparison: Comparison of different C libraries providing generic containers capabilities
Comparison of different C libraries providing generic containers capabilities - P-p-H-d/c-stl-comparison

There's `@starting-style` in #CSS https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@starting-style but no 'ending-style' 🫠
Wondering how it got spec-ed out in…

@starting-style - CSS | MDN
The @starting-style CSS at-rule is used to define starting values for properties set on an element that you want to transition from when the element receives its first style update, i.e., when an element is first displayed on a previously loaded page.

After nuclear weapons testing began in 1945, atmospheric radiation contaminated new steel production worldwide.
For decades, scientists needing radiation-free metal for sensitive instruments had to salvage steel from pre-war shipwrecks.
Scientists called this steel
"low-background steel."
Graham-Cumming sees a parallel with today's web, where AI-generated content increasingly mingles with human-created material and contaminates it.
With the advent o…

Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content
Newly announced catalog collects pre-2022 sources untouched by ChatGPT and AI contamination.

In the early morning hours of 12 June, Moises Sotelo woke up to go to work in the rolling hills of Oregon’s Willamette Valley wine country, a place he has called home for decades.
But a car tailed Sotelo as soon as he left his driveway, according to an account from his co-worker.
Trucks surrounded him just outside of St Michael’s Episcopal church, where he was detained by federal immigration agents.
By the end of the day, Sotelo was in an Ice detention facility.
“He was…

Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ canceled by CBS, to end in May 2026

The announcement came days after Colbert spoke out
against the $16 million settlement
paid by CBS News parent Paramount to settle a lawsuit filed by Donald Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/st…

Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ canceled by CBS, to end in May 2026
The announcement came days after Colbert spoke out against the $16 million settlement paid by CBS News parent Paramount to settle a lawsuit filed by Donald Trump.

Frankly, Trump may have a greater impact on the English language than any president in the history of the United States, believe me. 🤣
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/opinion/trump-speaking-style.html?smid=nytcor…

Opinion | The Insidious Creep of Trump’s Speaking Style
The fact that we’re talking like Donald Trump could mean that we’re starting to think like him as well.