UK Backing Down on Apple Encryption Backdoor After Pressure From US

I guess MAGA folks have a problem with math. Somehow 49.8% is a majority in MAGA math. ... talking about alternative virtual universes ...

Although Google does not include the originating IP address in the email headers, it turns out that they retain the IP address for some unknown length of time...

But seriously, the engines are pretty close to the ground, ...

It's just way less common than bird ingestion.

The month before that a 737 caught fire after sucking a rabbit into an engine.

Devs love to work on eye candy. Fixing bugs is boring. It's why "the year of Linux on the desktop" still isn't a thing.

Were they invaluable? Now they are zero.

Bondi will release one page with the name Hillary Clinton scribbled in sharpie.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says he has received information that Attorney General Pam Bondi “pressured” about 1,000 FBI personnel to comb through tens of thousands of pages of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and flag any mention of President Trump.

Citing “information my office received,” Durbin said Bondi “pressured the FBI to put approximately 1,000 personnel in its Information Management Division” on 24-hour shifts to review about 100,000 Epstein-related records as part of a broader effort to release documents publicly by what Durbin called “an arbitrarily short deadline.”

Durbin says his office was told FBI personnel were “instructed to ‘flag’ any records in which President Trump was mentioned.”

[In his letter to Bondi, Patel, and Bongino Durbin asked] “Is there a log of the records mentioning President Trump? If yes, please transmit a copy of the committee and the OIG,” he wrote, referring to the Judiciary panel and the Office of Inspector General.

Lest I comment on another country's politics but Ars Technica's headline came up in my RSS feed. I mean, wow, she's not holding back.

Trump to sign stablecoin bill that may make it easier to bribe the president

Trump is obviously senile.

“He’s a terrible Fed chair. I was surprised he was appointed,” the president vented. “I was surprised, frankly, that Biden put him in and extended him.”

However, it was Trump who appointed Powell to lead the Federal Reserve during his first term. In his Nov. 2017 announcement, the president praised Powell’s leadership, judgement and expertise.'

Trump was speaking at a Pennsylvania event about energy and innovation when he said he had to “brag just for a second” about his uncle’s intelligence. After wrongly saying his uncle was “the longest-serving professor in the history of MIT” (he was one of the longest-serving but not the very longest) and wrongly saying his uncle’s three university degrees were “in nuclear, chemical, and math” (two were in electrical engineering and one was in physics), the president claimed, “Kaczynski was one of his students.”

He went on to tell a story about having asked his uncle about what Kaczynski was like. “‘I said, ‘What kind of a student was he, Uncle John?’ Dr. John Trump. I said, ‘What kind of a student?’ And then he said, ‘Seriously, good.’ He said, ‘He’d correct – he’d go around correcting everybody.’ But it didn’t work out too well for him.”

For two big reasons, this story could not possibly be accurate.

First, the president’s uncle died in 1985. Kaczynski was publicly revealed as the Unabomber more than a decade later, in 1996, when he was captured; before that, he had lived as a recluse in the Montana wilderness. There is no apparent reason that Donald Trump would have been asking anyone about Kaczynski in 1985 or earlier.

Second, Kaczynski attended Harvard University and the University of Michigan, not MIT. An MIT spokesperson said in a Wednesday email: “We have no enrollment record or information that Ted Kaczynski ever attended MIT.”

Does this mean making bribes, deals, or threats?

Because I thought passing legislation was mostly supposed to be about reading, understanding, deciding, and voting.

MAGA is amazing at following orders. Look how they keep voting against releasing the Epstein files.

The president on Friday suggested that he spoke to the holdouts individually on the phone to persuade them ... JD Vance had been on the phone late at night, helping push the legislation through.

Trump has the biggest stake in crypto, worth at least $51 million.

JD Vance ... reported holding between $250,001 and $500,000 in Bitcoin in his 2024 financial disclosure.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also reportedly had at least $500,000 in digital assets before being sworn in, but [reportedly] divested them.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard both reported holdings under $1 million, and Gabbard reportedly divested her holdings before taking office.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who reported holding between $1 million and $5 million in crypto.

Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, who holds between $1 million and $2 million in digital currencies.

Scott Kupor, the guy Trump tapped to lead the Office of Personnel Management, reportedly holds almost $10 million in crypto,