Published on: 2025-04-20 07:13:45
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is paying software company Palantir $30 million to provide the agency with “near real-time visibility” on people self-deporting from the United States, according to a contract justification published in a federal register on Thursday. The tool would also help ICE choose who to deport, giving special priority to “visa overstays,” the document shows. Palantir has been an ICE contractor since 2011, but the document published Thursday indicates that Palantir want
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The long-awaited antitrust trial between Meta and the Federal Trade Commission kicked off on April 14th. Over about two months, DC District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg is hearing arguments about whether then-Facebook illegally monopolized the market for “personal social networking services” through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. The FTC first brought the case in late 2020. While it was initially thrown out by the judge, he let an amended version move forward after the governme
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning out Instagram in 2018 on concerns about the rising threat of antitrust litigation against Facebook, according to an email presented Tuesday in a Washington, D.C. courtroom. During Zuckerberg's second day of testimony in Meta's antitrust trial with the Federal Trade Commission, lawyers representing the FTC presented an email from May 2018, in which Zuckerberg appeared to comment on the possibility of separating the photo-sharing app his company purc
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Dear Members of the Harvard Community, For three-quarters of a century, the federal government has awarded grants and contracts to Harvard and other universities to help pay for work that, along with investments by the universities themselves, has led to groundbreaking innovations across a wide range of medical, engineering, and scientific fields. These innovations have made countless people in our country and throughout the world healthier and safer. In recent weeks, the federal government h
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Palantir, the software company cofounded by Peter Thiel, is part of an effort by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to build a new “mega API” for accessing Internal Revenue Service records, IRS sources tell WIRED. For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a single API layer above all IRS databases at an event previously characterized to WIRED as a “hackathon,”
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Titanic scan reveals ground-breaking details of ship's final hours 3 days ago Share Save Rebecca Morelle • @BBCMorelle Science Editor Alison Francis Senior Science Journalist Share Save Atlantic Productions/Magellan The digital scan shows the bow sitting upright on the sea floor A detailed analysis of a full-sized digital scan of the Titanic has revealed new insight into the doomed liner's final hours. The exact 3D replica shows the violence of how the ship ripped in two as it sank after hitt
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-01 23:55:04
In 1901, sponge divers discovered an ancient shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera. Among the recovered materials, a corroded lump of metal caught the eye of archaeologist Valerios Stais. The artifact turned out to be a surprisingly complex—though fragmented—mechanical device dated between the late second and early first centuries BCE. Now called the Antikythera Mechanism, it is widely considered to be the world’s first analog computer, tracking time and astronomical events
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Sugar substitute found in supermarkets can kill drug-resistant bacteria and help antibiotics work better Saccharin, the artificial sweetener used in diet foods like yoghurts and sugar-free drinks, can kill multidrug-resistant bacteria – including one of the world’s most dangerous pathogens. “Antibiotic resistance is one of the major threats to modern medicine,” said Professor Ronan McCarthy, who led the research at Brunel University of London’s Antimicrobial Innovations Centre. “Procedures su
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GameNode is the perfect platform to manage your game collection virtually. Update your backlog, rate the titles you've played, and add the most anticipated releases to your wishlist. Connect with friends, follow their activities, and keep track of everyone's latest gaming sessions. Too lazy to import your entire library? Don't worry, we got you! GameNode can import games and playtime* from these sources. More will be available soon.
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Economic policy emphasizing exports Seaport at sunset, a painting by Claude Lorrain, completed in 1639 at the height of mercantilism Mercantilism is a nationalist economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports of an economy. In other words, it seeks to maximize the accumulation of resources within the country and use those resources for one-sided trade. The concept aims to reduce a possible current account deficit or reach a current account surplus, and it i
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Two members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) were spotted at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this week, sources tell The Verge. Gavin Kliger and Emily Bryant were seen in the building and are now listed in the FTC’s internal directory under the Office of the Chairman with their own agency emails, according to the sources. FTC spokesperson Joe Simonson told Axios, which first reported the news, that DOGE is there “to root out waste, fraud and abuse.” It’s unclear wha
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A species of Paenibacillus bacteria has potent antibacterial activity against some pathogenic bacteria such as Escherichia coli.Credit: Clouds Hill Imaging Ltd/Science Photo Library Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic molecule that targets a broad range of disease-causing bacteria — even strains resistant to commercial drugs — and is not toxic to human cells1. The molecule was found in soil samples collected from a laboratory technician’s garden. The discovery shows that “there is ter
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After becoming the first humans to fly over the Earth's poles in space, a crew of private astronauts — or space tourists, depending on your perspective — report that the world's southernmost continent is indeed a vast expanse of snow and ice. "Hello, Antarctica," tweeted Chun Wang, the crypto entrepreneur who financed and is leading the private space mission, Fram2. "Unlike previously anticipated, from 460 km above, it is only pure white, no human activity is visible." As seen in a video Wang
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Ivanti has released security updates to patch a critical Connect Secure remote code execution vulnerability exploited by a China-linked espionage actor to deploy malware since at least mid-March 2025. Tracked as CVE-2025-22457, this critical security flaw is due to a stack-based buffer overflow weakness. It impacts Pulse Connect Secure 9.1x (which reached end-of-support in December), Ivanti Connect Secure 22.7R2.5 and earlier, Policy Secure, and Neurons for ZTA gateways. According to Ivanti's
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SignalGate, as it's come to be called, may be the biggest scandal to hit the Trump administration in its first months in power. But it's been great for Signal. Since the news broke on Monday that senior Trump administration cabinet members accidentally included the editor in chief of The Atlantic in a group chat on the Signal encrypted messaging platform where the officials were making secret plans to bomb Yemen, the ensuing news cycle and the constant mentions of Signal have led to the encrypt
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SignalGate, as it's come to be called, may be the biggest scandal to hit the Trump administration in its first months in power. But it's been great for Signal. Since the news broke on Monday that senior Trump administration cabinet members accidentally included the editor in chief of The Atlantic in a group chat on the Signal encrypted messaging platform where the officials were making secret plans to bomb Yemen, the ensuing news cycle and the constant mentions of Signal have led to the encrypt
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Defense secretary Pete Hegseth appears to have lied when he said that "nobody was texting war plans." In a stunning piece for The Atlantic on Monday, the magazine's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg revealed that he had accidentally been added to a Signal group chat between key national security personnel — including Hegseth, vice president JD Vance, and national security advisor Mark Waltz — as they discussed an upcoming offensive in Yemen. Not only was the use of Signal a reckless departure f
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In context: Qualcomm and Arm haven't been on good terms for a while. The UK designer tried and ultimately failed to force the US chipmaker to stop using its IP. In it's back-and-forth battle, Qualcomm is now complaining to antitrust authorities that Arm is trying to hamper worldwide competition. Qualcomm recently had private meetings with three antitrust organizations about Arm's alleged anticompetitive behavior. Anonymous sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that this new global ant
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-28 11:28:26
President Trump and administration officials claimed this week that no classified information about war plans was shared with a journalist, despite The Atlantic report that specific plans to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen were included in a Signal chat the reporter was inexplicably invited to. The Atlantic initially declined to publish the exact text of the most specific message sent in advance of the bombings but changed course after the Trump administration's denials. Secretary of Defense Pete
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is the Senior Tech Editor at The Verge. She previously covered tech, science, and art at Popular Science, Gizmodo, and other places. On March 24th, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg published a damning story about being added to the ‘Houthi PC Small Group’ on Signal by Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz. In it, he described inadvertently becoming privy to high-level military operation planning that should never have taken place on Signal by people who really should have
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Quad9 can be used simply by setting the DNS server settings for your device to the addresses given in one of our service profiles. No sign-up is required, no account data needs to be given to Quad9, and there is no contract. Quad9 is free to use and collects no personal data about you. You can configure your router or wifi access point to distribute these settings, which will extend protection to all the elements on your local network including IoT devices, many of which otherwise would not have
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Comment It might take a particularly shameless company to grasp the opportunity presented by the UK's coronavirus pandemic and step in with a sales pitch. US spy-tech biz Palantir is willing to give it a go. In a witness statement to the UK COVID-19 Inquiry [PDF], an ongoing independent public inquiry into the nation's response to the pandemic (in which around 208,000 people died), Louis Mosley, executive veep of Palantir Technologies UK, said the government should invest in a "common operating
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In Brief The Trump administration’s national security leaders accidentally included the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, in a chat on Signal discussing confidential plans to attack Yemen’s Houthis. “I could not believe that the national-security leadership of the United States would communicate on Signal about imminent war plans,” Goldberg wrote of the March 15 messages, which Goldberg received two hours before the U.S. dropped its bombs. Signal and other commercial tech pla
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Microsoft is investigating an Exchange Online bug causing anti-spam systems to mistakenly quarantine some users' emails. According to a new incident report added to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, the email issues started almost five hours ago, at 10:11 UTC. While the company has yet to share what regions are impacted, this Exchange Online incident has been tagged as a critical service issue tracked under EX1038119 on the Microsoft 365 admin center. "Specific URLs are being miscategorised and
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It’s the aquatic buddy comedy movie we never knew we needed. Scientists in New Zealand have released footage of an octopus appearing to ride the back of a shortfin mako shark. Researchers at University of Auckland documented the real-life sharktopus during a December 2023 expedition in the Hauraki Gulf near Kawau Island. The sighting was unusual for several reasons, not the least of which is that octopuses aren’t known for hanging out near the water’s surface. Rochelle Constantine, a professor
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is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Virgin Atlantic announced a partnership with California-based Joby Aviation to launch an air taxi service in the UK, becoming the latest airline to bet on a new class of electric aircraft vying to become taxis in the sky. Joby’s all-electric aircraft has six rotors and seats five, including the pilot. The vehicle can take
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Fortnite will be available on Arm-based Windows machines later this year. In a blog post , developer Epic Games said that it is working with Qualcomm to get the hugely popular game compatible with the new Windows architecture by offering Windows on Snapdragon support for Epic Online Services Anti-Cheat, also known as Easy Anti-Cheat. Microsoft has making a big push to convert its computing ecosystem to Arm-based hardware with Windows 11, especially as it puts more resources behind its line of C
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 16:14:19
Saudi Investment Fund pays $3.5bn to capture Pokémon Go 3 hours ago Share Save Tom Gerken Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) will pay $3.5bn (£2.7bn) to buy the gaming division of developer Niantic, whose titles include the hit mobile game Pokémon Go. The game involves players walking around in the real world to hunt the collectable creatures, which appear on their phone screens using augmented reality. Despite launching almost a decade ago
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 16:49:00
Your next game of Pokemon Go could be changing. The game is getting a new corporate boss. Meanwhile, previous parent company Niantic has other plans: a future that's less about gaming and more about maps that are AI-generated by those games. I've already seen pieces of that future, and AR glasses may just be one part of where it all plays out. However, it may still involve some games, too. Niantic retains control of Ingress and Peridot, two of its most augmented reality-focused, location and ma
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Mobile gaming giant Scopely on Wednesday said it has agreed to acquire Pokémon GO maker Niantic’s gaming division for $3.5 billion. Niantic said that it will add an additional $350 million cash to yield a total value of $3.85 billion to Niantic equity holders. Niantic’s games roster includes the hit Pokémon GO, which has more than 20 million weekly active players; Pikmin Bloom, a walking game introduced in 2021; Monster Hunter Now, an AR game released in 2023; Campfire, a community interaction
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