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Trump pardons major drug traffickers despite his anti-drug rhetoric
Donald Trump — who campaigned against America’s worsening drug crisis and promised to crack down on the illegal flow of deadly drugs coming across the border
— has pardoned or granted clemency to at least 10 people for drug-related crimes since the beginning of his second term, according to a Washington Post analysis.
He also granted pardons or commutations to almost 90 others for drug-related crimes duri…

Trump pardons major drug traffickers despite his anti-drug rhetoric
The president has granted clemency to about 100 people accused of drug-related crimes during his two terms in office, a Post analysis shows.

Sources: OpenAI has been slow to expand in-app checkouts for ChatGPT as the startup and its partners Shopify and Stripe struggle to standardize merchant data (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-shopping-ambitio…

OpenAI’s Shopping Ambitions Hit Messy Data Reality
OpenAI’s efforts to turn ChatGPT into a go-to personal shopper are off to a slow start. Challenges with wrangling product data mean in-app checkouts aren’t yet widely available to the millions of shops that OpenAI said in September would soon be coming to ChatGPT. OpenAI and its early partners, ...

Xreal partners with Asus to unveil ROG Xreal R1 gaming glasses with 1080p micro-OLED displays and a 240Hz refresh rate, launching in H1 2026 (Cameron Faulkner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/848256/asus-rog-xreal-r1-smart-glasses-specs-release…

Asus ROG’s next ally is Xreal, with 240Hz AR glasses coming in 2026
Xreal and Asus announced the ROG Xreal R1 AR glasses at CES 2026. These gamer-focused glasses support USB-C video and include a dock with HDMI and DisplayPort.

Comment des partenaires de Pierre-Edouard Stérin mettent le milliardaire Š distance : « Il est devenu radioactif »
https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2025…

Comment des partenaires de Pierre-Edouard Stérin mettent le milliardaire à distance : « Il est devenu radioactif »
Les engagements politiques à l’extrême droite de l’entrepreneur et de son numéro deux, François Durvye, conseiller du Rassemblement national, commencent à ternir l’image du groupe, en proie à des difficultés financières.

Was looking at the Chaos Communications Congress agenda & this session caught my eye:
A cool civilian terrestrial backup for GPS Satellite that is interference resistant.
✅ Who cares about the Baltic Jammer?
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[39c3] Who cares about the Baltic Jammer? – Terrestrial Navigation in the Baltic Sea Region
Since 2017, our team at DLR and partners across Europe have been working on an alternative to satellite navigation: **R-Mode**, a backup system based on terrestrial transmitters. Our main testbed spans the Baltic Sea — a region now infamous for GN...

Spotify partners with Netflix to distribute a selection of video podcasts from Spotify Studios and The Ringer on Netflix starting in early 2026 in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/14/spotifys-video-podcasts-are-coming-t…

Spotify partners with Netflix for video podcast distribution deal | TechCrunch
Spotify is partnering with Netflix to bring select video podcasts to the streaming platform starting in early 2026. The deal will feature curated shows from Spotify Studios and The Ringer, expanding later to include more genres. The move reflects Spotify’s growing focus on video as a key driver for engagement and ad revenue, with video podcast consumption now growing 20 times faster than audio-only content.

https://theonion.com/wedding-experts-say-engagement-ring-should-cost-at-leas-1834915832/

Wedding Experts Say Engagement Ring Should Cost At Least Three Diamond Miners’ Lives
NEW YORK—Maintaining that the jewelry was absolutely essential in communicating trust and commitment to your partner, matrimony experts confirmed Tuesday that an adequate engagement ring should cost at least three diamond miners’ lives. “This tradition is still with us for good reason: A diamond is tangible proof that your unique and eternal love is worth any sacrifice, which in this case is a minimum of three diamond miners from Sierra Leone,” said wedding advisor Dori Drysdale, cautio…

Spotify partners with Netflix to distribute a selection of video podcasts from Spotify Studios and The Ringer on Netflix starting in early 2026 in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/14/spotifys-video-podcasts-are-coming-t…

Spotify partners with Netflix for video podcast distribution deal | TechCrunch
Spotify is partnering with Netflix to bring select video podcasts to the streaming platform starting in early 2026. The deal will feature curated shows from Spotify Studios and The Ringer, expanding later to include more genres. The move reflects Spotify’s growing focus on video as a key driver for engagement and ad revenue, with video podcast consumption now growing 20 times faster than audio-only content.

Spotify's video podcasts deal with Netflix will bring 16 shows to the platform, including The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Rewatchables, and Serial Killers (Spotify)
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-10-14/netflix-partnership-the-ringer…

Spotify Studios and The Ringer Video Podcasts Are Coming to Netflix — Spotify
Early next year, your favorite video podcasts are getting a bigger stage. Spotify and Netflix are teaming up to bring sports, culture, lifestyle, and true crime video podcasts from Spotify Studios and The Ringer to Netflix to complement the streamer’s existing programming and unlock new audiences and wider distribution for the shows.  Audiences will be...

While China’s older tech pioneers tend to idolize Silicon Valley,
younger founders find their role models in people such as
DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng and
Unitree’s Wang Xingxing
— both of whom studied exclusively at Chinese universities and are known to predominantly hire domestic talent.

A December analysis from Citi GPS projected that the world would be populated by 648 million humanlike bots by 2050,
unlocking an enduring production advantage and immen…

The Chinese robots are coming
China is miles ahead in the race to dominate a technology that could define the 21st century.