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Donald Trump Orders Crackdown on Politically Motivated ‘Debanking’

US President Donald Trump has ordered regulators to investigate the alleged refusal among US banks to supply accounts to customers on the basis of their political or religious beliefs. In an executive order signed Thursday, Trump accused federal banking regulators of presiding over an unlawful discrimination campaign under the guise of risk management, echoing allegations leveled previously by members of conservative groups and the cryptocurrency sector. “Bank regulators have used supervisory

Solar-Powered Device Turns Moon Dirt Into Bricks, a Potential Breakthrough in Lunar Construction

Both the U.S. and China have set their sights on the Moon, aiming to break ground on permanent lunar bases within the next decade. Though there’s no legal basis for claiming territory in space, whichever country gets there first will gain a coveted first-mover advantage, allowing it to set certain ground rules about who can do what, where. But getting there first is only half the battle. Actually establishing a sustained lunar presence presents significant logistical and engineering challenges.

Donald Trump Orders Crackdown on Politically-Motivated ‘Debanking’

US President Donald Trump has ordered regulators to investigate the alleged refusal among US banks to supply accounts to customers on the basis of their political or religious beliefs. In an executive order signed Thursday, Trump accused federal banking regulators of presiding over an unlawful discrimination campaign under the guise of risk management, echoing allegations leveled previously by members of conservative groups and the cryptocurrency sector. “Bank regulators have used supervisory

Weapons turns our deepest anxieties into a potent horror masterpiece

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Zach Cregger’s first major film Barbarian was tense and frightening, but it was also infused with a healthy dose of absurdity. The movie’s twisted sense of humor made it easier to stomach its grotesque violence and a bit more difficult to anticipate how its unhinged story would unfold. But Barbarian also worked surprisingly well as a

Welcome to Regulator

You’ll often see tech policy reporting described as the intersection of technology and politics, and for years, that was a pretty accurate description: Silicon Valley existed independent of Washington politics, and every so often, they’d cross paths, discuss some regulatory concern, write a check, shake hands, and then go their separate ways. This is no longer the case. Tech and politics have violently crashed into each other, and the leaders from both sides are locked in an existential fight t

Introducing Regulator and The Stepback, our new subscriber-exclusive newsletters

is The Verge’s managing editor who oversees operations. An editor with 10 years of experience, she joined The Verge in 2016. Today, I’m excited to announce three newsletter offerings, exclusive to Verge subscribers, that will continue to deliver must-read stories about tech and beyond. First, we’re introducing Regulator by Tina Nguyen. Regulator is focused on the battles between Big Tech and Big Government — from the juicy palace intrigue to the devastating consequences of their political game

These Behind-the-Scenes Emails From Tesla Meekly Begging the State of California to Allow Its Horrible Robotaxis Are Unintentionally Hilarious

Email exchanges between Tesla and California regulators obtained by Politico reveal a comical discrepancy between what Elon Musk is saying his Robotaxi services can do publicly, and what the automaker is actually telling authorities behind closed doors. This week, Tesla launched a ride-hailing service in San Francisco, in what is being framed as an expansion of its Robotaxi efforts that started as an invite-only program in Austin, Texas last month, where it immediately began charging customers

The /o in Ruby regex stands for "oh the humanity "

Your code using the /o modifier Source: wikipedia Hi there! Do you like Regex? Do you like performance? Do you like creating confounding bugs for yourself rooted in the mechanics of the Ruby VM itself? If you said yes to all of the above, have I got a feature for you! But first, let’s start with a story. The cliffs of insanity I was recently reviewing some code, and part of the functionality was about matching. A class took an array of strings, and you could call a method to see if an input

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Zach Cregger Breaks Down the Year’s Most Twisted, Surprising Horror Movie

Writing and directing a breakout hit can be both a blessing and a curse for some filmmakers. On the one hand, you’ve just achieved your dreams of success and adoration in the world of cinema. Well done. On the other hand, now you have to do it again. And again. And again. Some filmmakers fail at this. Others, especially the great ones, rise to the challenge. George Lucas followed THX 1138 with American Graffiti and Star Wars. Steven Spielberg followed Duel with Sugarland Express and Jaws. Fast f

Apple confirms iPhone rebound in China, says upgraders hit record high

Following recent market reports that suggested iPhone sales were bouncing back in China, Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed today that the company managed to reverse the slowdown, with overall revenue in the region rising 4% last quarter. Apple’s joining of government-backed subsidies in China paid off During Apple’s Q3 2025 earnings call today, Cook said iPhone sales accelerated across Greater China, with the company growing revenue in the region by 4% compared to the previous quarter. Cook said t

Donald Trump’s New Crypto Bible Is Everything the Industry Ever Wanted

The White House has laid out its plan to usher in a “new American Golden Age,” with cryptocurrency at its center. In a 160-page report published Wednesday, White House representatives outlined a series of recommendations to federal government officials as they set about building a legal framework and regulatory ruleset for companies handling crypto assets in the US. If put into action by lawmakers and regulators, the recommendations would effectively gift the crypto industry—which spent hundre

Hibernation’s Hidden Healing ‘Superpowers’ Could Be Locked in Our DNA

After spending months without eating, drinking, or moving, hibernating mammals must rebound from extreme physiological changes. Two new studies suggest that the genetic “superpowers” underlying this incredible resilience may also be present in the human genome. For these studies, published Thursday, July 31, in the journal Science, researchers at the University of Utah honed in on the specific DNA regions that help hibernators rapidly recover from muscle atrophy, insulin resistance, and brain d

Benchmarks in CI: Escaping the Cloud Chaos

Creating a performance gate in a CI environment, preventing significant performance regressions from being deployed has been a long-standing goal of dozens of software teams. But measuring in hosted CI runners is a particularly challenging task, mostly because of noisy neighbors leaking through virtualization layers. Still, it's worth the effort. Performance regressions are harder to catch and more expensive to fix the longer they go unnoticed. Mostly because: Catching issues in production is

Coverage.py Regex Pragmas

Coverage.py uses regexes to define pragma syntax. This is surprisingly powerful. Coverage.py lets you indicate code to exclude from measurement by adding comments to your Python files. But coverage implements them differently than other similar tools. Rather than having fixed syntax for these comments, they are defined using regexes that you can change or add to. This has been surprisingly powerful. The basic behavior: coverage finds lines in your source files that match the regexes. These lin

‘Weapons’ Is a Terrifying, Fascinating, Excellent, Character-Driven Horror Movie

Zach Cregger’s latest movie, Weapons, is unforgettable. And not only because it’s intense, gross, and fascinating, which it is. It’s that the premise of the movie is so smart, seductive, and deeply disturbing that we’d gladly watch a bad movie about it just to find out more. Thankfully, Cregger is able to build off his ingenious idea and deliver a constantly surprising and often horrific mystery that blends drama and scares in a way that creates something truly special. The aforementioned premi

DOGE is reportedly pushing an AI tool that would put half of all federal regulations on a 'delete list'

According to a report from The Washington Post, DOGE is using an AI tool to analyze federal regulations and determine which to get rid of. A DOGE PowerPoint presentation obtained by the publication notes that its "AI Solution" — reportedly called the DOGE AI Deregulation Decision Tool — found that 100,000 out of over 200,000 regulations "can be deleted." The document sets a September 1 goal deadline for agencies to complete their own deregulation lists using the tool, which it says can be done i

Apple and Google have 'effective duopoly' in UK says regulator

Apple and Google have 'effective duopoly' in UK says regulator 50 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon & Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporters Share Save Getty Images Apple and Google may be required to change the way they operate some of their mobile services in the UK, according to proposed decisions by the UK's competition regulator. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating the tech giants over their app stores, browsers and operating systems. "Around 90-100% of UK mobi

A big problem for Tesla isn't getting much attention

CNN — For years, Tesla has earned billions of dollars from its competitors just for selling electric vehicles. But that windfall is about to go away, just when the company may need it the most. Regulatory credit sales have been a huge source of revenue for the automaker, which currently faces a sales and profit slump. Legacy automakers purchase credits from Tesla to keep selling gas-burning cars that would otherwise violate emission regulations and cost them a fine. But the Republican tax and

Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon

Intel's campus in Aloha was the company's first Oregon site -- and its first manufacturing facility outside California -- when it opened in the 1970s. Mike Rogoway/The Oregonian Over the five decades Intel has operated in Oregon, its local footprint had moved in just one direction: Upward. From a single factory in Aloha that opened in 1976, the chipmaker grew into the state’s largest corporate employer and one of Oregon’s primary economic engines. Intel spent billions of dollars every year to

Adding lookbehinds to rust-lang/regex

In a previous blogpost, Erik wrote about how he implemented the linear time matching algorithm from [RegElk+PLDI24] in the popular regex engine RE2. In this one, we're looking at how to do the same thing for the official regex engine from the Rust language. Namely, we add support for unbounded captureless lookbehinds. First, let's discover the newly supported feature and its limitations. Lookbehinds allow regexes to make assertions about things preceding some part of the regex pattern without c

Block leads rebound in fintech stocks as analysts downplay JPMorgan data fee risk

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifies during a remote video hearing held by subcommittees of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee on "Social Media's Role in Promoting Extremism and Misinformation" in Washington, U.S., March 25, 2021. Block jumped more than 5% on Monday, leading a rally in shares of fintech companies as analysts downplayed the threat of JPMorgan Chase's reported plan to charge data aggregators for access to customer financial information. The recovery fol

Multi-Region Row Level Security in CockroachDB

Controlling who can access what data is more important than ever as organizations scale and modernize their data infrastructure. Enterprises are modernizing their critical databases, and they need fine-grained, built-in access controls that go beyond table-level permissions. That’s why, with the 25.2 release of CockroachDB , we’re introducing Row-Level Security — a powerful feature that allows you to define and enforce access policies at the row level, directly within the database. This form o

The complete Side Events lineup at TechCrunch All Stage 2025

Boston, are you ready?! TechCrunch All Stage 2025 is about to explode with energy — and the real magic kicks off with an epic lineup of Side Events lighting up the city from July 14–17! We’re just ONE WEEK AWAY, and we couldn’t be more pumped to unveil the full Side Events schedule — your ultimate passport to game-changing connections and unforgettable moments. From high-voltage networking mixers to mind-blowing innovation showcases, this is where Boston’s boldest tech minds come to connect, cr

What Microchip doesn't (officially) tell you about the VSC8512

Switch project, part 3 - what Microchip doesn't (officially) tell you about the VSC8512 2025-07-04 08:00 This is part 3 of my ongoing series about LATENTRED, my project to create an open source 1U managed Ethernet switch from scratch. Here’s a quick, or maybe not-so-quick, update about the PHY on the line card and some of my troubles (and solutions). And probably more internal details than you want to know, but hey - maybe this will be useful to somebody. Not a lot of pretty pictures either.

More than 1 in 5 Show HN posts are now AI-related, get > half the votes/comments

More than 1 in 5 Show HN posts are now AI-related, but get less than half the votes or comments. _ The idea for this article didn't exist in my brain before this morning. But there I was, scrolling the New page and even more tired of all the AI-related Show HN posts than usual. I was confident that their numbers were multiplying and wanted proof. Exactly how much more AI crap is on my lawn compared to last year? Full disclosure: I'm not a data guy. Everything below was off the top of my head. N

How Brex is keeping up with AI by embracing the ‘messiness’

Companies have struggled to adopt the right AI tools as the technology evolves at a far faster pace than their slow sales cycles. Corporate credit card company Brex is no different. The startup found itself facing the same issue as its enterprise counterparts. The upshot: Brex completely changed its approach to software procurement to ensure they wouldn’t get left behind. Brex CTO James Reggio told TechCrunch, at the HumanX AI conference in March, the company initially tried to assess these

Why government red tape is draining your phone’s battery potential

Robert Triggs / Android Authority You’re not alone if you’re pining for longer battery life from your latest smartphone. Despite emerging technologies like silicon-carbon cells, we’ve seemingly hit a ceiling just above the 5,000 mAh mark — at least for phones sold in the US and Europe. Meanwhile, glance over at models in China or India, and you’ll spot far larger batteries in otherwise identical handsets. For example, the new Nothing Phone 3 packs a 5,150mAh battery globally, but bumps that up

Automatically Rewrite Container Image References in Kubernetes

Mutating Registry Webhook A Kubernetes mutating admission webhook that automatically rewrites container image references to use pull-through cache registries (like AWS ECR Pull Through Cache). Description This webhook intercepts Pod creation and update requests in your Kubernetes cluster and automatically rewrites container image references based on configurable rules. This is particularly useful when you want to: Use AWS ECR Pull Through Cache to reduce external registry dependencies Imple

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Trump's big, revised bill will slash AI funding for states that regulate AI

ANDREY DENISYUK/Getty The Trump administration's tax bill -- also called its "big, beautiful bill," which is facing a vote today -- includes a rule that would prevent states from enforcing their own AI legislation for five years, and would withhold up to $500 million in funding for AI infrastructure if states don't comply. Over the weekend, senators also added exemptions for state laws targeting unfair or deceptive practices and child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The initial version of the ru