Published on: 2025-04-19 09:10:00
The only office within the US State Department that monitors foreign disinformation is to be eliminated, according to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, confirming reporting by MIT Technology Review. The Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI) Hub is a small office in the State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy that tracks and counters foreign disinformation campaigns. The culling of the office leaves the State Department without a way to actively counter the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-23 19:17:53
The Global Engagement Center, a State Department unit that called out Russian and Chinese propaganda campaigns and became a MAGA boogeyman, has been shut down. Team Trump is promising that it’s just the start of an examination of alleged censorship during the Biden administration—and the first Trump administration too. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the move “a crucial step toward keeping the president’s promise to liberate American speech” in an op-ed for the right-wing site The Federal
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Stateful Serverless That Runs Anywhere The easiest way to build stateful, AI agent, collaborative, or local-first applications. Deploy to Rivet, Cloudflare, Bun, Node.js, and more. Documentation • Discord • X • Bluesky Quickstart Start By Framework Start With Studio Open Studio Start With Template npx create-actor@latest What is Stateful Serverless? Long-Lived, Stateful Compute Each unit of compute is like a tiny server that remembers things between requests – no need to reload data or
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On April 2nd, 2025, our president announced major new taxes on imports from foreign countries (“tariffs”), ranging from 10% to 49%. The stated goal is to bring manufacturing back to the United States and to “make America wealthy again”. These tariffs will not work. In fact, they may even do the opposite, fail to bring manufacturing back and make America poorer in the process. This article gives the 14 reasons why this is the case, how the United States could bring manufacturing back if it were
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is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. A PDF of Meta’s opening statement slides in its FTC antitrust hearing yesterday contains easy-to-remove redactions that make it possible to see everything the company didn’t want made public, The Verge has discovered. Thanks to the poor redactions, we can see sections comparing the use of Apple’s Messages app to Meta apps like Instagram and WhatsApp. The
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China has named three individuals working at the National Security Agency it claims hacked computer systems for the Asian Winter Games earlier this year. The country rarely publishes the names of alleged nation-backed hackers, even though the United States routinely outs actors linked to China. On Tuesday, police in Harbin, where the games took place, named three alleged NSA agents as culprits in the hack—Katheryn A. Wilson, Robert J. Snelling, and Stephen W. Johnson. It claims the group also t
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On April 2nd, 2025, our president announced major new taxes on imports from foreign countries (“tariffs”), ranging from 10% to 49%. The stated goal is to bring manufacturing back to the United States and to “make America wealthy again”. These tariffs will not work. In fact, they may even do the opposite, fail to bring manufacturing back and make America poorer in the process. This article gives the 14 reasons why this is the case, how the United States could bring manufacturing back if it were
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 03:32:08
People say many things about entropy: entropy increases with time, entropy is disorder, entropy increases with energy, entropy determines the arrow of time, etc.. But I have no idea what entropy is, and from what I find, neither do most other people. This is the introduction I wish I had when first told about entropy, so hopefully you find it helpful. My goal is that by the end of this long post we will have a rigorous and intuitive understanding of those statements, and in particular, why the u
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As China continues its digital gambit around the world, researchers are warning that hacking activity from long-tracked groups is evolving and blending together. On top of that, attackers are hiding their campaigns more effectively and blurring the lines between cybercriminals and state-backed hacking. Last year, revelations rocked the United States federal government that the Chinese hacking group known as “Salt Typhoon” had breached at least nine major US telecoms. And the group’s rampage eve
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What is the best internet provider in State College? Xfinity tops CNET's list of the best internet providers in State College, Pennsylvania. It has widespread coverage, affordable starting prices and offers a range of plans. This cable internet provider also offers one of the cheapest internet plans with wide availability in the area -- Xfinity's 400Mbps plan starts at just $30 a month. If you have a need for speed, Xfinity also has a 2,100Mbps plan at $85 per month. Xfinity isn't without its
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Erlang’s not about lightweight processes and message passing… I used to think that the big idea of Erlang is its lightweight processes and message passing. Over the last couple of years I’ve realised that there’s a bigger insight to be had, and in this post I’d like to share it with you. Background Erlang has an interesting history. If I understand things correctly, it started off as a Prolog library for building reliable distributed systems, morphed into a Prolog dialect, before finally becom
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Erlang’s not about lightweight processes and message passing… I used to think that the big idea of Erlang is its lightweight processes and message passing. Over the last couple of years I’ve realised that there’s a bigger insight to be had, and in this post I’d like to share it with you. Background Erlang has an interesting history. If I understand things correctly, it started off as a Prolog library for building reliable distributed systems, morphed into a Prolog dialect, before finally becom
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On April 8, 2020, John Horton Conway developed symptoms of COVID-19. On April 11, 2020, he succumbed to the disease. Like so very, very many, I mourn Conway’s passing, and yet I also celebrate his life. I celebrate his accomplishments, I celebrate his curiosity, and I celebrate his skill at making important topics in mathematics engaging and interesting. One of the finest examples of that skill is the programming language FRACTRAN, the subject of this essay. Prelude John Horton Conway in 199
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The next part of the Advent of Code puzzle involves interpreting instructions called do() and don't() which turn on and off the contributions of mul instructions to the sum. As we parse, we now need to keep track of one bit of state. This is a nightmare for regexes to deal with, because they recognise regular languages, and regular languages are literally stateless languages.2 There’s more nuance, of course, but as a first approximation. Technically regular languages are those that can be recogn
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Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%, effective immediately. At some point, hopefully in the near future, China will realize that the days of ripping off the U.S.A., and other Countries, is no longer sustainable or acceptable. Conversely, and based on the fact that more than 75 Countries have called Representatives of the United States, including the Departments of Commerc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 11:05:33
As President Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders Tuesday aimed at keeping coal power alive in the United States, he repeatedly blamed his predecessor, Democrats, and environmental regulations for the industry’s dramatic contraction over the past two decades. But across the country, state and local officials and electric grid operators have been confronting a factor in coal’s demise that is not easily addressed with the stroke of a pen: its cost. For example, Maryland’s only remainin
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A new report from Reuters today says that Apple supplier Luxshare is considering moving some production outside of China, including to the United States, in response to Trump’s tariffs. According to the report, Luxshare co-founder Wang Laichun made the comments during a call with analysts on Wednesday. Laichun explained that Trump’s tariffs will “have little impact on profits and revenue” for Luxshare, as the company exports “only a small amount of finished products to the United States.” Toda
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-08 07:56:42
Trump’s massive 104% tariffs on China are set to go into effect at midnight tonight, a move that will have a major impact on Apple and its supply chain. Ahead of that, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said today that Trump firmly believes that Apple can move iPhone manufacturing to the United States. In response to a question from Maggie Haberman of The New York Times about the types of jobs Trump hopes to create in the U.S. with these tariffs, Leavitt said: “The president wants to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-10 03:28:59
{transitions} = f(state) Feb 26, 2025 | Play Listen TL;DR: Thinking about the React component tree as modeling a state machine can help clarify the implications of asynchronous updates and React’s concurrent features. A state machine is a formal way of describing a stateful system which changes over time. It generally consists of explicitly defining the states that the system can be in, as well as defining a state transition table which enumerates the set of valid transitions (updates which p
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-12 15:15:21
President Trump’s sweeping global tariffs have rocked the stock market since being announced on Tuesday, with just about every major tech company down double-digits. Semiconductors were largely spared from an immediate impact, however, as chips from Taiwan and other nations were exempted. Most electronics sold in the United States are powered by chips made in Asia, meaning tariffs would have a significant impact on prices. But Trump told a White House press pool on Thursday that tariffs on semic
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As President Trump pushes his massive global tariffs into effect, America’s former trading partners are designing their own, retaliatory tariffs, that are sure to have a walloping effect on Americans’ pocketbooks. On Thursday, the recently elected prime minister of Canada, Mark Carney, announced a new 25 percent tariff on American-made automobiles. The tariffs will apply to all vehicles that do not comply with the USMCA, the trade agreement between Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. that was signed i
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Any changes to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment should be optional rather than mandatory, a group of 115 state legislators from 28 states said in a letter on Thursday to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. It comes after BEAD recently lost its top director, who departed with a scathing letter alleging an impending shift in funding toward Elon Musk's satellite internet company, Starlink. Starlink could receive $10 billion to $20 billion of BEAD -- up from the $4.1 billion it was expec
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Any changes to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment should be optional rather than mandatory, a group of 115 state legislators from 28 states said in a letter on Thursday to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. It comes after BEAD recently lost its top director, who departed with a scathing letter alleging an impending shift in funding toward Elon Musk’s satellite internet company, Starlink. The $42.5 billion broadband infrastructure investment was passed in 2021, and has come under fire
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Rumor mill: Samsung is reportedly gearing up to launch the next-generation Galaxy Ring later this year, a wearable device that could mark a significant leap in battery technology. According to a report from Money Today SK, the Galaxy Ring 2 is expected to feature all-solid-state batteries, an innovation referred to as the "dream battery." The Galaxy Ring 2, anticipated for release in the fourth qua
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Rumor mill: Samsung is reportedly gearing up to launch the next-generation Galaxy Ring later this year, a wearable device that could mark a significant leap in battery technology. According to a report from Money Today SK, the Galaxy Ring 2 is expected to feature all-solid-state batteries, an innovation referred to as the "dream battery." The Galaxy Ring 2, anticipated for release in the fourth qua
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Real-Time Introspective Compression for Transformers By Jeffrey Emanuel (and various collaborators of the electronic persuasion) Written on April 1st, 2025 Introduction: Two Intertwined Problems Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) face two significant limitations that restrict their capabilities: Lack of Introspection: Unless specifically instrumented, transformer-based LLMs have no ability to explicitly access their own internal states—the activations in their feed-forward layer
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Using Large Language Models to generate Prolog planners Combining the strength of Large Language Models (LLMs) with Prolog combinatorial search is a natural fit actually delivering tangible progresses in mainstream automated planning. State of the art in LLM-generated planners Parts of the public discussion about LLMs revolves around unachievably high goals such as "General AI", but LLMs are just statistical language models after all and excel in language translation and summarization tasks f
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In early 2024, the bird influenza that had been spreading across the globe for nearly three decades did something wholly unexpected: It showed up in dairy cows in the Texas Panhandle. A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals — mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive contact. “Holy cow,” says Thomas Friedrich, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “This is how pandemics start.” This bird flu, which scientists call highly pathogenic avian
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-18 03:00:00
Gamescom, the world’s largest and leading event for computer and video games, will remain in Cologne, Germany and be further expanded. In 2024, Gamescom counted 1,462 exhibiting companies from 64 countries – a new record. The event attracted a total of 335,000 people from 120 countries. This year’s event will take place from August 20 to August 2024. The deal was announced today by Koelnmesse and Game – The German Games Industry Association. The new contract was signed in the presence of Henri
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Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung could improve the battery life of the next Galaxy Ring by equipping it with a solid-state battery. Solid-state batteries are more energy-efficient, degrade less over time, and reduce the risk of leaks or fires. Samsung is also reportedly planning to use solid-state batteries for future Galaxy Buds and Galaxy Watches. One of our biggest disappointments with the Samsung Galaxy Ring was its battery life. Samsung claimed it would last six to seven
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