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Supporters of former President Donald Trump attending his final rally ahead of Saturday's South Carolina Republican presidential primary shared who they'd like to see as his vice presidential running mate in the November general election . Fox News Digital spoke with just a few of the nearly 6,000 supporters who showed up to Winthrop University's campus in Rock Hill, South Carolina on Friday, waiting for hours in line to see and hear the former president bash President Biden, as well as his Republican rival Nikki Haley , a name not uttered once by those listing a number of others they said would make a good second-in-command. "I like Kari Lake a lot. I think she'd be great," one supporter told Fox, referencing the conservative firebrand and likely Republican nominee in the race to flip Arizona's Senate seat.  KRISTI NOEM OFFERS 5 REQUIREMENTS TO SERVE AS TRUMP'S VP A number of others suggested Lake, as well as former presidential candidate and entr...

Financial Times : How tensions between past and present leaders of Sequoia, which had a reputation for quiet competence, have spilled into the open with the Klarna boardroom spat   —  Tension between past and present leaders of Silicon Valley's premier venture group have spilled into the open

Congressional Republicans are slamming the Biden Administration's border policies after a Venezuelan immigrant who crossed the border illegally was charged with the murder of a Georgia nursing student.  26-year-old Jose Antonio Ibarra, the suspect charged in the murder of nursing student Laken Riley on the University of Georgia campus, is a Venezuelan national who crossed illegally into El Paso, Texas, in September 2022 and was released into the U.S. via parole, three ICE & DHS sources told Fox News.  House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., shared his condolences with Riley's family and friends while also reemphasizing Republicans' efforts to pass border legislation.  GEORGIA STUDENT MURDER SUSPECT CONFIRMED TO BE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT "The brutal murderer who took the life of Laken was one of the millions of illegal aliens that the Biden Administration simply released and unleashed upon our country," Johnson wrote on X, formerly Twitter. "For Laken, and th...

Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge : Many redditors say they are not enthused about Reddit's IPO and expect CEO Steve Huffman to run the site into the ground while trying to make it profitable   —  There's the mention of r/WallStreetBets.  (Five mentions in total, actually.)  There's the stockpile it's amassed of Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Brian Heater / TechCrunch : Humane postpones the delivery of its Ai Pin for “priority access” customers from March to “mid-April”   —  Hardware is difficult, to paraphrase a famous adage.  First-generation products from new startups are notoriously so, regardless of how much money and excitement you've managed to drum up.

Some Republicans joined Democrats in expressing alarm over a ruling this week by the Alabama Supreme Court that jeopardized future access to in vitro fertilization , giving allies of President Joe Biden new fuel for their efforts to center abortion access in the presidential election. "We’ve got to talk about making sure we don’t take away women’s rights to IVF, women who are childbearing age and want to give birth to children," said GOP Rep. Nancy Mace, who was campaigning this week for former President Donald Trump in South Carolina. She added, "I’ll be working very hard to make sure that doesn’t happen." Democrats and left-leaning interest groups have banked on abortion rights as a major motivator for voters in the upcoming presidential election and fight for control of Congress. They believe abortion can be a winning issue as the debate widens to include increasing concerns over miscarriage care, access to medication, access to emergency care and now IVF treat...

Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab : Google confirms “a small subset of users” have been temporarily unable to access the News tab filter in search results pages as part of ongoing testing   —  The News filter disappearing from Google search results for some users this week won't help publishers sleep any easier.

The Justice Department named its first-ever official focused on artificial intelligence (AI) on Thursday in anticipation of the rapidly evolving technology's impact on the criminal justice system.  Jonathan Mayer, a professor at Princeton University who focuses on the "intersection of technology and law, with emphasis on national security, criminal procedure, consumer privacy, network management, and online speech," according to his online biography, was selected to serve as the DOJ's chief science and technology adviser and chief AI officer, Reuters reported.  "The Justice Department must keep pace with rapidly evolving scientific and technological developments in order to fulfill our mission to uphold the rule of law, keep our country safe and protect civil rights," U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. Mayer previously served as the technology adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris during her time as a U.S. senator, and as the C...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : Google DeepMind announces AI Safety and Alignment, an organization that includes a new team focused on AGI safety alongside existing teams working on AI safety   —  If you ask Gemini, Google's flagship GenAI model, to write deceptive content about the upcoming U.S. presidential election, it will, given the right prompt.

Russia has officially added Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., to a list of "terrorists and extremists" after the GOP firebrand condemned the Russian government for the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny this week. Russia's state financial watchdog, which handles the "terrorist and extremist" list, announced Graham's addition on Tuesday. Graham blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for Navalny's death this weekend, and he also called for the U.S. to add Russia to its list of state sponsors of terrorism. "Navalny was one of the bravest people I ever met. When he went back to Russia he had to know he was going to be killed by Putin, and he was murdered by Putin," Graham said in a Sunday interview with CBS. "President Biden told Putin, if something happens to Navalny, you’re going to pay a price. President Biden, I agree with you, the price they should pay is to make Russia a state sponsor of terrorism," he added. STATE DEPARTME...

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg : Filing: Roblox paid out a record $740.8M to over 12,000 game creators in 2023, up 19% YoY; ~3,500 creators earned over $10,000, and ~750 earned over $100K   —  - About 12,000 game creators generated money from the site  — The majority of Roblox players are 16 years old or younger

House Speaker Mike Johnson marked President’s Day by meeting with former President Trump about the 2024 election cycle at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, Fox News Digital has learned. It comes as Trump's last major primary opponent , former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, announced Tuesday that she was staying in the race despite losing every contest to Trump so far. "Speaker Johnson met with President Trump in Florida on Monday to discuss growing the majority and securing Republican victories up and down the ballot in November," Johnson campaign spokesman Greg Steele told Fox News Digital. TRUMP BLASTS 'CLUBHOUSE POLITICIAN' JUDGE AFTER BEING FINED $350M, DEFENDS THE 'GREAT COMPANY' HE BUILT Attending the meeting with Johnson was Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the House GOP’s campaign arm. They were in Florida for the House GOP leadership's annual retreat. The NRCC did n...

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac : Apple Music debuts a monthly version of Replay, with insights like total listening time, top songs, artists, and albums, and makes 2024's Replay Mix available   —  Apple today updated the Apple Music Replay experience, available at replay.music.apple.com, with visualizations of your favorite music habits …

President Biden's great-great-grandfather received a pardon from President Lincoln , according to newly discovered documents in the National Archives. Biden's relative in the incident, Moses J. Robinette, got into a fight with another Union Army civilian employee while camped along the Rappahannock River near Beverly Ford, Virginia, as the Civil War raged on March 12, 1864, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post. The fight left the other man, John J. Alexander, bleeding from knife wounds, and Robinette was charged with attempted murder and was incarcerated near Florida. Three of Robinette's friends were officers in the U.S. Army, and they petitioned Lincoln directly to overturn the sentence. WHY BIDEN’S ANGER AND DEFENSIVENESS INFLAMED ANXIETY ABOUT HIS MEMORY ISSUE They argued Robinette's sentence was overly harsh for "defending himself and cutting with a Penknife a Teamster much his superior in strength and size, all under the impulse of the...

Tom Warren / The Verge : Microsoft fixes a bug that caused Edge to automatically import Chrome tabs and browsing data without consent, following months of complaints from some users   —  Microsoft has fixed an issue where its Edge browser was again misbehaving, this time by automatically importing browsing data and tabs from Chrome without consent.

GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley alleged Sunday that Congress is "lying to the American people" by tying foreign aid to border security.  "Congress is failing because they’re making this sound like you have to choose between Ukraine and Israel, or securing the border. They are lying to the American people. That’s a false premise. We can do both," Haley said during an appearance on ABC's This Week. "Securing our southern border is priority number one, but making sure that we help Ukraine and Israel is also about preventing war. If we just supported Ukraine and Israel, that’s only 5% of our defense budget. If we supported Ukraine, Israel and secured the border, that’s less than 20% of Biden’s green subsidies. So this is not about the American people having to choose either/or. This is about Joe Biden and Congress understanding that they need to choose national security. They need to choose preventing war, and their job is to keep Americans safe, and t...

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch : Q&A with Laela Sturdy, the head of Alphabet's growth stage venture arm CapitalG, about its decision-making process, AI strategy, Stripe's valuation, and more   —  Almost a year ago, Alphabet's growth stage venture arm, CapitalG, named partner Laela Sturdy as its new head, just as the unit's founder, David Lawee, stepped down.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul apologized for recent remarks in which she said Israel "has a right to defend itself," while making what she later called an "inappropriate analogy" about Canada invading Buffalo, New York. "Call out Hamas for what it is, and it is a terrorist organization that must be stopped. No one, no country should live with that threat, that specter over them," Hochul said Thursday during a speech at the United Jewish Appeal-Federation of New York, according to video shared on X.  "And for those that don’t understand this dynamic here in our own state, in our own country, I’ll give you an example," she said. "I’m from Buffalo, anybody realize that? If Canada someday ever attacked Buffalo, I'm sorry my friends, there would be no Canada the next day. Right? I love Canada, but we did have the War of 1812, and they did burn Buffalo… so there might be a little conflict here. But think about that. That is a natural reaction...