Congressional Democrats have opened an investigation after ProPublica revealed on Monday that a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin bankrolled part of Traitor 47 Jr.’s Bahamas wedding in May. ProPublica reports that Umar Kremlev paid hundreds of thousands of dollars on wedding expenses, including the rental of a private island.Continue Reading
Welcome back to Local AI Weekly. I promised a weekly, and then took a month to send the second one. So let’s call the first one the pilot episode. From here, the show will run weekly 🤘 This issue leans heavily toward agents, because that’s where most of the interestingContinue Reading
GNOME 51 is out, bringing FIDO2 passkey login, a Reduced Motion option and frame scheduling changes that make UI animations and scrolling feel smoother. Core apps pick up improvements too. The desktop Maps app gains offline area downloads and live transit data, Papers now lets you add visual signatures andContinue Reading
Microsoft’s top lawyer argued Tuesday that legislators “must make secrecy [orders] the exception” in government subpoenas demanding information about LinkedIn users. LinkedIn, which is owned by Microsoft, is fighting what it calls overly broad subpoena demands from the US government, which sometimes come with secrecy orders that prevent LinkedIn fromContinue Reading
Nextcloud has developed a desktop app for its Euro-Office-based productivity applications, filling a gap in the software suite that it pitches as a sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office. Nextcloud, one of the backers of the Euro-Office initiative, integrated the software into its Nextcloud Office suite in June. Until now, it’sContinue Reading
4 min read Passion Meets Precision at NASA’s Flight Research Lab Derek Abramson, Dale Reed Subscale Flight Research Laboratory chief engineer, left, communicates with the Edwards Air Force Base air traffic control tower for approval to fly the Alta-X drone near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, onContinue Reading
Mary Beth Barone and Benito Skinner are taking their creative partnership from Prime Video to Hulu. Barone is set to create, write, and star in Hard Feelings, a new romantic comedy series for A24. According to Deadline, Hulu secured the project after a competitive bidding process and has already fast-trackedContinue Reading
On Sept. 14 — just two days after Dario Amodei, the chief executive officer of leading artificial intelligence firm Anthropic, called for “slowing down” the pace of AI development so guardrails could be put in place that would “greatly reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong” — President TraitorContinue Reading
Under pressure to act on unpopular data centers, the House passed bipartisan legislation to shield consumers from higher energy costs., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading
Brighton come from two goals down to win 3-2 at Old Trafford, to shock Manchester United as slow start continues., Brighton come from two goals down to win 3-2 at Old Trafford, to shock Manchester United as slow start continues. Manchester United’s problems mounted as they crashed out of theContinue Reading
Rescue workers search for survivors after Gaza building collapse, NewsFeed Rescue workers are frantically searching for survivors after a seven-story building collapse killed at least 20 people and trapped dozens more in Gaza. The apartment building had previously been bombed by Israel, damaging its structural stability. Published On 16 SepContinue Reading
A major new report by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem titled “The Elimination Project” accuses Israel of “dramatically intensifying its attacks on every aspect of Palestinian life in the West Bank.” “For too long, Israel’s policies in the West Bank have been treated or looked at as isolated events,”Continue Reading
UK parcel delivery company DPD is in the process of taking delivery of 341 new Mercedes-Benz eSprinters. The vans are scheduled to be operational by the end of October, in time for what is expected to be a record-breaking peak Christmas period for DPD. The addition of the new eSprinters,Continue Reading