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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Threads says it is testing ephemeral posts that disappear within 24 hours with a limited number of users, but doesn't say if the experiment is region-specific   —  Automatically disappearing posts on social networks could be handy for users who have a habit of deleting their posts through third-party tools …

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s family denounced him for "betraying" their family values after the former presidential candidate gave his full-throated support Friday to former President Trump.  "We want an America filled with hope and bound together by a shared vision of a brighter future, a future defined by individual freedom, economic promise and national pride," a statement signed by five of the former third-party presidential candidate's siblings said. "We believe in Harris and Walz," the statement continued. "Our brother Bobby's decision to endorse Trump [Friday] is a betrayal of the values that our father and our family hold most dear. It is a sad ending to a sad story." The statement, signed by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Courtney Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Chris Kennedy and Rory Kennedy, was shared by Joe Kennedy III, a grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, who wrote that it was "well said." ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR. LAMBASTS ‘DN...

Reuters : Reports: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested at the Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday evening, after being targeted by an arrest warrant in France   —  Pavel Durov, billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app was arrested at the Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday evening …

Olaf Storbeck / Financial Times : A look at Germany-based discount retailer Lidl's foray into offering cloud computing services, signing up clients like SAP and generating €1.9B in sales in 2023   —  A unit of Europe's largest retailer is offering IT services to companies wary of big providers such as Amazon and Google

Alaska's Supreme Court issued a decision Thursday that will allow a question regarding repeal of the state’s controversial ranked choice voting system to appear on the November ballot. The state's high court upheld a lower court ruling that would allow the ballot measure to come to a popular vote. "Having considered the record, the parties’ briefs, and the parties’ arguments, we affirm the superior court’s summary judgment order," the judges said in their ruling .  "An opinion explaining this decision will be issued at a later date." The case came about after three Alaska residents, led by Elizabeth Medicine Crow, sought to disqualify the measure based on allegedly defective petitions. RANKED-CHOICE VOTING RANKLES ELECTION SEASON AS SUPPORTERS, OPPONENTS TRANSCEND PARTY LINES IN KEY STATES Alaska’s Division of Elections certified in March that enough signatures had been collected to qualify the repeal initiative after the agency allowed petitioners to...

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on Friday dropped his White House bid and announced support for former President Donald Trump, issuing broadsides against the Democratic Party's handling of the primary election and media censorship. Kennedy said in Phoenix that the Democratic Party of "waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself," and "ran a sham primary." "In an honest system, I believe I would have won the election," he said. Kennedy's campaign is asking swing states to remove his name from the ballot because he does not want to be a "spoiler," he said. He will remain on the ballot in states that he considers "red" or "blue," he said. "If you live in a blue state, you can vote for me without harming or helping President Trump or or Vice President Harris," Kennedy said. "In red states, the same will apply." The former Democrat spoke a couple o...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Sources: Apple plans to unveil new iPhones, AirPods, and Apple Watches on September 10; developer logs: Apple has ramped up testing of four new M4 Mac models   —  - Company also ramps up testing of Mac models with M4 processors  —  Apple Inc. is planning to hold its biggest product launch event …

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., dodged a question Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) from Fox News Digital about whether she'd support restrictions for late-term abortions, as abortion remains a key platform issue for the party. "Congresswoman, would you support restrictions for late-term abortions? " Fox News Digital asked Waters, who endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on day one of the DNC. Waters can be seen on video turning away and ignoring the question. PLANNED PARENTHOOD OFFERING FREE ABORTIONS, VASECTOMIES AT DNC Abortion has been a central issue of the Democratic Party's 2024 re-election bid with Harris and Gov. Tim Walz at the top of the ticket, as each night speakers have taken turns calling for expanded federal abortion access. Late-term abortions, which typically occur in the third-trimester, have been an issue often evaded by Democratic lawmakers. Planned Parenthood's free mobile clinic, parked just a couple of blocks from th...

Cory Weinberg / The Information : Sources: Stripe plans a tender offer to buy back shares held by current employees with its own cash; Stripe is offering $27.51/share, implying a $70B valuation   —  Stripe is planning a new tender offer to buy back shares held by employees, but it will finance this one entirely with its own cash, unlike in previous employee tenders.

Michelle Obama wore a nearly $3,000 pantsuit to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago while touting to attendees that her parents were "suspicious" of the wealthy.  The former first lady began her DNC speech by saying the last time she was in her hometown of Chicago was to memorialize her mother, the woman "who showed me the meaning of hard work and humility and decency" and "who set my moral compass high and showed me the power of my own voice."   "She and my father didn't aspire to be wealthy. In fact, they were suspicious of folks who took more than they needed," Michelle Obama said. "They understood that it wasn't enough for their kids to thrive if everyone else around us was drowning. So my mother volunteered at the local school."  All the while, she was wearing a black pantsuit jacket that is available for pre-order online by the New York fashion designer Monse for $1,690.  The online description invites cus...

Allison Johnson / The Verge : Pixel 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL review: great build quality, brighter screens, faster fingerprint sensors, but the AI features are inconsistent and all over the place   —  The AI is inconsistent, but the hardware is oh so good. … Google finally got the hardware right.

The House GOP is setting its sights on a handful of Democratic candidates who have been bankrolled by left-wing billionaires whose money has also gone toward promoting what Republicans call "soft-on-crime" policies . At least eight Democratic House candidates who have positioned themselves as left-of-center or moderate have received donations from the same wealthy liberals who poured thousands into promoting progressive crime policies in states like California and Florida, campaign finance records show. All eight are also running in competitive districts, making them prime targets for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the House Republicans’ campaign arm. "Defund the police donors backed up the Brink’s truck to bankroll the campaigns of extreme House Democrats," NRCC spokesman Will Reinert told Fox News Digital. "If elected, these far-left Democrats will work hand in hand with San Francisco liberal Kamala Harris to send violent crime ra...

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., is urging House GOP leaders to hold a chamber-wide vote on impeaching President Biden days after a highly anticipated report accused the commander in chief of committing impeachable offenses. "I've felt that way for a long time. I'm on the Oversight Committee, I've seen all of the evidence up close and personal. It is without a doubt that he used his office when he was vice president to enrich his family as pay for play," Donalds told Fox News Digital. "That's public corruption." Referencing the phone call with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy that precipitated the first impeachment of former President Trump, Donalds added, "Listen, if a phone call is quote-unquote, an impeachable offense, then public corruption absolutely is. I think the House should hold that vote." House Republicans released a 292-page report on Monday, a joint effort by the House Oversight Committee, House Judiciary Committee an...

Kate Knibbs / Wired : Condé Nast makes a multiyear deal with OpenAI, letting ChatGPT and SearchGPT surface stories from The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit, and Wired   —  The media company joins The Atlantic, Axel Springer, Vox Media, and a host of other publishers who have partnered with OpenAI.

"Impeachable conduct." "The totality of the corrupt conduct uncovered by the Committees is egregious."  "A concerted effort to conceal President Biden’s involvement in the family’s influence peddling scheme." These are the findings of a trio of House committees – led by Republicans – into the conduct of President Biden. It’s the final report of the GOP’s impeachment inquiry into Mr. Biden. Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy , R-Calif., initiated the inquest verbally last summer, trying to quash an uprising from his right flank. The House finally formalized the probe through a roll call vote in December. BIDEN COMMITTED ‘IMPEACHABLE CONDUCT,’ ‘DEFRAUDED UNITED STATES TO ENRICH HIS FAMILY’: HOUSE GOP REPORT Note that many Republicans wanted any impeachment investigation wrapped up by the start of  last  fall, not a couple of months before the 2024 election . "Republicans have worked to impede and obstruct any effort to investigate Mr. Trump’s ac...

Ian Bogost / The Atlantic : University professors still face the seemingly impossible task of detecting AI-fueled cheating, which continues unabated on both small and large assignments   —  Colleges still don't have a plan.  —  Kyle jensen, the director of Arizona State University's writing programs, is gearing up for the fall semester.

Former President Trump will visit the U.S. southern border in Cochise County, Arizona, this Thursday, amid a broken border resulting in hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants pouring into the country, and a drug crisis fueled by fentanyl pushed by drug cartels. Trump’s campaign announced his visit on Sunday, blaming Vice President Kamala Harris, who was referred to as "border Czar Kamala Harris," for the "country’s worst border crisis." "Despite nearly 10 million immigrant crossings in the last three and a half years, at least 99 individuals on the terrorist watch list being released into our country, deadly drugs like fentanyl being peddled in by cartels and poisoning American communities, and a huge increase in crime and chaos caused by illegal immigrants – there is no end in sight for Kamala Harris’ border crisis," the announcement read. "Our country continues to witness more and more violent and deadly crimes committed by illegal immigran...

PITTSBURGH — Vice President Harris on Sunday appeared to label former President Trump a "coward" during a stop Sunday in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania. Speaking to a crowd of staff, volunteers and supporters at a campaign field office in Beaver County, just outside of Pittsburgh, the vice president contrasted her leadership style with that of Trump, who's long been known for his in-your-face campaign rhetoric, including insulting his rivals, as he's flamed the politics of division. "This campaign is about a recognition that, frankly, over the last several years there’s been this kind of perversion that has taken place, I think, which is to suggest that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down. When what we know is the real and true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up," Harris said. Then, apparently pointing toward Trump without mentioning her presidential election rival by name, H...

Angus Berwick / Wall Street Journal : How Worldcoin is building its World ID identity system, trying to assuage government and privacy activists' concerns about its iris scanning tech and data usage   —  More than a dozen jurisdictions have either suspended the project's operations or looked into its data processing

Vice President Kamala Harris’ rise to the top of the Democratic ticket has re-energized Black voters in the key swing states of Michigan and Pennsylvania. Harris leads former President Trump 70%-9% among Black voters in Michigan and 70%-11% among Black voters in Pennsylvania, according to the results of a Suffolk University/USA Today poll released Sunday. The results show that Harris has recovered some of the enthusiasm lost when President Biden was at the top of the ticket, with the Suffolk University/USA Today poll finding in June that Biden only led Trump 54%-15% among Black voters in Michigan and 56%-11% among Black voters in Pennsylvania. TRUMP RUNNING MATE VANCE AIMS TO TURN BLUE WALL STATES RED   "There is no question that Harris at the top of the ticket has caused an immediate jump in support at the expense of all other candidates and categories," David Paleologos, the director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, said in a press release about th...