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FOIA records reported by the Guardian show the FCC chair meeting the White House, Fox and Sinclair. The independence standard regulated firms were told to plan against is not the one in force.
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A side project swapped RabbitMQ, Redis and Elasticsearch for SKIP LOCKED, an unlogged table and a GIN index. The queue arithmetic shows where that choice stops working.
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A Tech Transparency Project report says Meta ran branded influencer events in more than a dozen countries to argue bans do not work. Meta says the partnerships are disclosed and lawful.
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Trump has told the Navy to strip EMALS from a hull already deep into construction. The plan is due in 60 days; the keel is due by the end of 2026.
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Raul Torrez is drafting bills that would remove penalty caps and extend liability to AI chatbots, one day before 29 attorneys general opened against Meta in Oakland. States are setting the floor.
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A Guardian investigation puts numbers on a gap every buyer of cloud capacity should assume exists: announced gigawatts and installed accelerators are not the same asset.
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A Guardian investigation says thousands of advanced accelerators sit in Microsoft inventory while data centers run late. The binding constraint on stated AI capacity is buildings, not silicon.
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Paramount's leadership and CNN's own president have separately floated the same structure. The audience is a dozen blue-state attorneys general, not the newsroom.
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Impersonation of named executives, economists and politicians has moved from nuisance to regulated-scale fraud. The takedown pipeline is now an operating function, not a PR reflex.
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A carrier nine months at sea, resupplied through a channel the blockade itself has degraded, is the clearest public evidence that the Gulf standoff has a physical ceiling and not only a political one.
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Opaque buyers are paying full price for thousands of unrelated titles in the UK, Ireland, the US and Australia. One delivery postcode points to freight warehouses near Heathrow.
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Schneier and Sanders say June's IPO filings ended governance by founder intent at OpenAI and Anthropic. The operator question underneath it is what happens to a dependency that cannot be priced.
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