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The Laws That Changed the Jedi and Republic Forever

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-07-20 09:00:27

“For a over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic,” Obi-Wan Kenobi tells Luke Skywalker in A New Hope. In the decades of Star Wars storytelling since, countless tales have fleshed out that connection between the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order’s service of it, from its highest highs to the lows that tore them both apart in the fires of the Empire’s rise. But while a thousand generations span much of the unseen ancient history o

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Trump Jr.’s ‘Amazon for Guns’ Business Is Firing Blanks

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-07-22 00:35:42

What is the opposite of the Midas touch? Whatever that is, Donald Trump Jr. seems to have it. On Wednesday, an online firearms seller backed by the President’s favorite failson went public. It didn’t take long for the public to say, “No thanks.” On Wednesday, the company’s stock price took a significant hit by the end of the trading day. GrabAGun is a pretty simple concept. It’s an online marketplace that specifically handles guns, ammunition, and firearm accessories. Trump Jr.’s business partn

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Senate votes to kill entire public broadcasting budget in blow to NPR and PBS

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-22 17:35:59

The US Senate voted to rescind two years' worth of funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), delivering a blow to public radio and television stations around the country. The CPB is a publicly funded nonprofit corporation that supports NPR and PBS stations. The 51-48 vote today on President Trump's rescissions package would eliminate $1.1 billion that was allocated to public broadcasting for fiscal years 2026 and 2027. All 51 yes votes came from Republicans, while Sens. Susan

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iOS 26 public beta rumored to launch next week

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-07-27 09:49:41

iOS 26 has been in beta testing with developers for over a month, and there’s still been no public beta release yet. Apple has only confirmed a July launch, but according to Mark Gurman, there’s a specific day next week being targeted. Apple reportedly targeting July 23 for iOS 26 public beta Historically, Apple tends to launch its summer public betas about a week after beta 3 debuts. But iOS 26 beta 3 arrived last Monday, July 7 and we’re now over a week later with no public beta. According

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A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Hackers

news.ycombinator.com Renee Dudley 2025-07-28 00:18:16

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Reporting Highlights Chinese Tech Support: Microsoft is using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department’s computer systems — with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel. Microsoft is using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department’s computer systems — with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel. Skills Gap: Digital escorts of

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Governor of Texas Says He Can't Release His Emails With Elon Musk Because They Are "Intimate and Embarrassing"

futurism.com Unknown 2025-07-29 16:40:11

Texas governor Greg Abbott is seemingly terrified of having his communications with billionaire Elon Musk come to light. As the Texas Tribune and public radio station the Texas Newsroom, report in an eye-opening, co-published investigation, the elected official's public information coordinator, Matthew Taylor, said that the communications are confidential — and should stay that way — because they include "information that is intimate and embarrassing and not of legitimate concern to the public,

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Texas Governor Says ‘Intimate and Embarrassing’ Emails With Elon Musk Must Remain Secret

gizmodo.com Lauren Mcgaughy 2025-07-29 21:10:30

This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott doesn’t want to reveal months of communications with Elon Musk or representatives from the tech mogul’s companies, arguing in part that they are of a private nature, not of public interest and potentially embarrassing. Musk had an eventful legislative session in Texas this y

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Texas governor says his emails with Elon Musk are too ‘intimate or embarrassing’ to release

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-07-30 05:31:30

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Texas Governor Greg Abbott is refusing to release months’ worth of emails sent to Elon Musk and his companies under public records laws, according to a joint report from ProPublica, The Texas Newsroom, and The Texas Tribune. After initially agreeing to an information request, the governor’s office argued that the emails are covered by a law that pre

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The UK needs to deal with its e-scooter problem

engadget.com Unknown 2025-07-30 09:30:56

E-scooters could be a vital tool to eliminate unnecessary car journeys, cutting emissions and journey times. Unfortunately, the UK is the last major European nation to not allow them to be ridden on most public roads. They've proliferated illegally anyway, and are now an issue the country can no longer afford to drag its heels on. The benefits of e-scooters are obvious: They’re cheap to buy and maintain, cost very little to run and have a small physical and environmental footprint. In 2022, the

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Julie Wainwright is building what comes next — join her fireside chat at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-07-31 20:30:00

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 returns to Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27–29, uniting over 10,000+ startup founders, VCs, and tech leaders for the ultimate look at what’s next. One of this year’s must-see conversations on the premier Going Public Stage features iconic entrepreneur and e-commerce trailblazer Julie Wainwright, in a candid fireside chat on reinvention, resilience, and how to spot — and build — the next big thing. What to expect on the Going Public Stage In this intimate fi

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Julie Wainwright is building what comes next— Join her fireside chat at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-08-01 01:30:00

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 returns to Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27–29, uniting over 10,000+ startup founders, VCs, and tech leaders for the ultimate look at what’s next. One of this year’s must-see conversations on the premier Going Public Stage features iconic entrepreneur and e-commerce trailblazer Julie Wainwright, in a candid fireside chat on reinvention, resilience, and how to spot — and build — the next big thing. What to expect on the Going Public Stage In this intimate fi

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Helios wants to be the AI operating system for public policy professionals

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-08-01 05:07:11

When OpenAI was having its ChatGPT moment in 2022, Joe Scheidler, co-founder and CEO of Helios, was tackling a different kind of challenge: Helping build the White House’s newly authorized cybersecurity office and navigating the complexities of public-private coordination on cyber policies. His current co-founder, Joseph Farsakh, was also at the State Department, working on Yemen Houthi peace negotiations. The two overlapped in national security discussions and started trading notes on how larg

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A Virginia public library is fighting off a takeover by private equity

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-04 08:05:46

Photo from The Samuels Public Library After being targeted by anti-LGBTQ book banners and having their funding pulled, a local library in Virginia successfully stopped a threatened takeover by a private equity group. The local community rallied around The Samuels Public Library in Front Royal, Virginia, to push back against attacks and the private equity owned Library Systems & Services withdrew their bid to run operations. But with their funding cut for the fiscal year that began this July, th

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From Point Clouds to Photorealism: How PRoGS Advances the State of Neural Rendering

computer.org Enrique Quezada 2025-08-07 04:34:42

What if a real-time automated decision-making process needs a computer vision system to produce photorealistic visuals in a mere fraction of a second? In many cases, this requires too much computational power — if it’s even possible at all. When computer vision uses 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS), it provides a photorealistic image, but the process takes far too long. For more on this topic, see our article on computer vision for disaster responses. This article discusses a new approach, Progress

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Figma is going public

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-08-18 05:03:06

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Figma, the platform that specializes in collaborative interface design, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO). The company will trade under the ticker symbol “FIG” as it prepares to “double down” on its investments in AI. Figma was nearly acquired by Adobe for $20 billion in 2022, but the two companies scrapped the deal in 2023 after facin

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David George from a16z on the future of going public at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-08-19 08:30:00

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is coming to Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27-29, bringing together 10,000+ startup and VC leaders to chart what’s next in tech. And on October 27, on the premier industry stage Going Public, David George of Andreessen Horowitz will take the mic for a fireside chat focused on one of the most important, and often misunderstood, decisions in a company’s lifecycle: when to go public. What to expect from this fireside chat In this conversation, George will unpa

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Public companies bought more bitcoin than ETFs did for the third quarter in a row

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-08-19 17:49:15

In this article MARA KDLY PCAPU GME BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Ozan Kose | Afp | Getty Images Corporate treasuries have surpassed ETFs in bitcoin buying for a third consecutive quarter as more companies try to benefit from the MicroStrategy playbook in a more crypto-friendly regulatory environment. Public companies acquired about 131,000 coins in the second quarter, growing their bitcoin balance 18%, according to data provider Bitcoin Treasuries. ETFs showed an

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Even MAGA Is Pissed Off About Tech Bros’ Dream of Bulldozing Federal Lands to Create New Cities

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-08-19 01:00:17

In recent years, a cadre of tech billionaires have become obsessed with a deeply unconventional idea: the creation of new, privately owned cities. Dubbed the “Freedom Cities” movement, backers say they’d like to create new special development zones in the U.S. that would allow such cities to be built. In these zones, private investors could write their own laws and set up their own governance structures. According to this project’s backers, such communities would be corporately controlled and wo

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Texas Lawmakers Want More Control of the Tesla Robotaxis on Their Roads

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2025-08-26 22:30:00

As a small number of Tesla robotaxis continue to pick up and drop off a select few Tesla influencers in Austin, Texas, a state legislator who represents part of the electric automakers’ limited service area says she’s concerned the cars’ driving is “less reliable” than the typical human driver. Videos posted online show some “moving violations” that “could be very serious,” state senator Sarah Eckhardt, a Democrat who represents Texas’ 14th district, told WIRED in an interview. “My constituency

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Blockchain-driven platform to mimic stock trading, allowing users to buy shares of SpaceX, other hot private companies

cnbc.com Tanaya Macheel 2025-08-28 13:33:26

Republic, a New York-based investment startup, is offering users exposure to SpaceX by issuing a "tokenized" representation of its shares. The company will begin selling the digital tokens this week and eventually plans to expand the offering to other private companies like artificial intelligence darlings OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Stripe, X, Waymo, Epic Games and more. The Wall Street Journal first reported the story Wednesday. "We're talking about delivering products to retail investo

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Brit politicians question Fujitsu's continued role in public sector contracts

news.ycombinator.com Lindsay Clark 2025-08-28 12:12:46

British MPs and peers are questioning the government's decision to continue accepting bids for large-scale IT contracts from Fujitsu, despite the Japanese supplier's previous pledge to stop bidding. Following the widespread publicity around the Post Office Horizon scandal in January 2024, Fujitsu, which supplied the faulty computer system, volunteered to stop bidding for UK public sector contracts until the public inquiry had completed. At the time, the Japanese computer giant was in the proce

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Art rhymes

technologyreview.com Mit Alumni News Staff 2025-08-29 17:00:00

As an MIT visiting scholar, rap legend Lupe Fiasco decided to go fishing for ideas on campus. In an approach he calls “ghotiing” (pronounced “fishing”), he composed nine raps inspired by works in MIT’s public art collection, writing and recording them on site. On May 2, he and the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble debuted six of them, performing in front of a packed audience in Kresge for the final performance of the MIT Artfinity festival. The concert featured arrangements of Fiasco’s music done by

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Apple releases new beta builds of all its flashy new Liquid Glass-ified OS updates

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-01 09:38:44

As with any operating system that ushers in a major new look and feel, this year's Apple operating systems and their new Liquid Glass aesthetic will likely merit some extra attention from power users who want to see all the new stuff and developers who suddenly need to acclimate to a new design language. Apple put out one early beta build of all of its new operating systems after its Worldwide Developers Conference keynote a couple of weeks ago—these updates are the first to standardize on year-

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AI in Hiring: Examining Biases and Human Experience

computer.org Enrique Quezada 2025-09-07 23:56:55

Is artificial intelligence streamlining the hiring process, or is it just automating old biases in new ways? As employers increasingly turn to artificial intelligence for recruitment and hiring processes, researchers are raising important questions about the technology’s effectiveness in creating fair opportunities for all candidates. A recent study by Theresa Fister and George K. Thiruvathukal of Loyola University Chicago explores the human experience of AI job applications and investigates pot

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Meta AI app ‘a privacy disaster’ as chats unknowingly made public [U: Warning added]

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-09-11 21:32:59

Update: Business Insider notes that Meta has now added a warning message when users share chat queries. The Meta AI app has been described as “a privacy disaster,” as users unknowingly make their embarrassing questions public. One tech writer described it as like discovering your web browser history has been public all along without you knowing it … TechCrunch reports that there is an absolutely ridiculous privacy default for many users. Whether you admit to committing a crime or having a we

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Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA's Gamble on America's Drugs

news.ycombinator.com Debbie Cenziper 2025-09-11 21:10:25

The Food and Drug Administration’s 2022 inspection of the Sun Pharma factory in India warned of contaminations and deficiencies. But the plant received permission from the FDA to continue shipping more than a dozen generic medications to Americans. We are still reporting. If you are a current or former FDA employee or someone in the industry with information about the agency, the safety of generic drugs, or the manufacturers that make them, our team wants to hear from you. Megan Rose can be rea

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Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses

wired.com Lily Hay Newman 2025-09-11 23:24:10

The man who allegedly assassinated a Democratic Minnesota state representative, murdered her husband, and shot a state senator and his wife at their homes in a violent spree early Saturday morning may have gotten their addresses or other personal details from online data broker services, according to court documents. Suspect Vance Boelter, 57, is accused of shooting Minnesota representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, in their home on Saturday. The couple died from their inju

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Meta warns users to 'avoid sharing personal or sensitive information' in its AI app

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-12 01:39:00

Meta seems to have finally taken a small step to address the epidemic of over-sharing happening in the public feed of its AI app. The company has added a short disclaimer that warns users to "avoid sharing personal or sensitive information" to the "post to feed" button in the Meta AI app. The change was first spotted by Business Insider, which labeled the app "one of the most depressing places online" due to the sheer volume of intimate, embarrassing and sometimes personally-identifying informa

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Meta AI app ‘a privacy disaster’ as chats unknowingly made public

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-09-13 21:12:36

The Meta AI app has been described as “a privacy disaster,” as users unknowingly make their embarrassing questions public. One tech writer described it as like discovering your web browser history has been public all along without you knowing it … TechCrunch reports that there is an absolutely ridiculous privacy default for many users. Whether you admit to committing a crime or having a weird rash, this is a privacy nightmare. Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as

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Here's how to turn off public posting on the Meta AI app

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-09-15 01:35:39

This photo illustration created Jan. 7, 2025, shows an image of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, and an image of the Meta logo. AI generated images of women kissing while mud wrestling and President Donald Trump eating poop are some of the conversations users are unknowingly sharing publicly through Meta's newly launched AI app. The company rolled out the Meta AI app in April, putting it in direct competition with OpenAI's ChatGPT. But the tool has recently garnered some negative publicity and sp

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The Laws That Changed the Jedi and Republic Forever

Trump Jr.’s ‘Amazon for Guns’ Business Is Firing Blanks

Senate votes to kill entire public broadcasting budget in blow to NPR and PBS

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Governor of Texas Says He Can't Release His Emails With Elon Musk Because They Are "Intimate and Embarrassing"

Texas Governor Says ‘Intimate and Embarrassing’ Emails With Elon Musk Must Remain Secret

Texas governor says his emails with Elon Musk are too ‘intimate or embarrassing’ to release

The UK needs to deal with its e-scooter problem

Julie Wainwright is building what comes next — join her fireside chat at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Julie Wainwright is building what comes next— Join her fireside chat at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Helios wants to be the AI operating system for public policy professionals

A Virginia public library is fighting off a takeover by private equity

From Point Clouds to Photorealism: How PRoGS Advances the State of Neural Rendering

Figma is going public

David George from a16z on the future of going public at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Public companies bought more bitcoin than ETFs did for the third quarter in a row

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Texas Lawmakers Want More Control of the Tesla Robotaxis on Their Roads

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Art rhymes

Apple releases new beta builds of all its flashy new Liquid Glass-ified OS updates

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Meta AI app ‘a privacy disaster’ as chats unknowingly made public [U: Warning added]

Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA's Gamble on America's Drugs

Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets’ Addresses

Meta warns users to 'avoid sharing personal or sensitive information' in its AI app

Meta AI app ‘a privacy disaster’ as chats unknowingly made public

Here's how to turn off public posting on the Meta AI app

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