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John Pavlus / Quanta Magazine : Q&A with physicist Lenka Zdeborová on how the physics of phase transitions in matter can help model the behavior of algorithms, understanding LLMs, and more   —  Quanta spoke with Zdeborová about the similarities between water and algorithms, using physics …

Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, set the record straight on how former President Donald Trump's and Vice President Kamala Harris' leadership styles for America's veterans differ during a campaign stop in Johnstown, Pennsylvania , on Saturday. The Republican vice presidential nominee's rally was held at JWF Industries, which supplies "Department of Defense prime contractors with reliable, on-time fabrications and sub-assemblies," according to its site. Vance, himself a Marine veteran, asked the crowd, "When our own citizens suffer and our veterans are at the top of that list, [do] you know what a big difference between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris [is]?" 'WE BELIEVE IN DONALD TRUMP': MORE THAN A DOZEN MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS ENDORSE FORMER PRESIDENT "Donald Trump wants to put American citizens and American veterans first. He thinks the government of this country exists to serve the people of this country, not people who shouldn't be h...

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch : Matt Mullenweg says WordPress is “forking” Advanced Custom Fields, a plugin developed by WP Engine; ACF team says the plugin was taken away “without consent”   —  The dispute between WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and hosting provider WP Engine continues …

Washington Post : Some Ukrainian soldiers say SpaceX has not done enough to crack down on illicit use of Starlink terminals by Russia to power its advance in Ukraine   —  Ukraine's outgunned and outmanned army had one major advantage over its enemy: internet through Starlink terminals.  Now the Russians have it, too.

Second gentleman Douglas Emhoff did not explicitly deny allegations — made to the Daily Mail by several unnamed sources — that he once slapped an ex-girlfriend and also hired a "trophy secretary" at his Los Angeles law firm. Emhoff called the tabloid stories "a distraction" when responding to a question during a Friday interview with "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough on MSNBC. The allegations could not be independently verified by Fox News Digital. "We don’t have time to be pissed off. We don't have time to focus on it. It's designed to try to get us off our game," Emhoff said , before pivoting to a warning about a potential second term for former President Trump. "We understand the stakes. We understand the responsibility. We understand what is necessary. Our very country. Our future." HARRIS VOTERS DEFEND DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE ON ISRAEL-GAZA CONFLICT: 'HE'S MARRIED TO A JEWISH GUY' Trump recently...

Former President Trump is expected to detail "Operation Aurora" during his rally in Colorado Friday afternoon — a program at the federal level that would remove illegal immigrant members of the dangerous transnational Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua , a senior Trump campaign official told Fox News Digital.  Trump is expected to hold a rally on Friday in Aurora, Colorado, where he will formally propose the removal program. The program is expected to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to target and dismantle " every illegal migrant criminal network operating on American soil," the official said. BLOODTHIRSTY VENEZUELAN STREET GANG SPARKS FEAR IN US AMID MIGRANT SURGE: WHAT TO KNOW The announcement comes after members of Tren de Aragua last month were caught on camera, armed with rifles and handguns, as they  forced their way into an apartment in Aurora and threatened the tenant at gunpoint. Shortly after, they opened fire on a 25-year-old man outside the buildi...

Daniel Wiessner / Reuters : The US NLRB issues a complaint accusing Apple of interfering with workers' rights to organize by restricting their use of social media and Slack   —  Apple (AAPL.O) has been accused by a U.S. labor board of interfering with workers' rights to collectively advocate for better working conditions …

FIRST ON FOX: A woman whose skull was fractured by an illegal immigrant let out of jail as part of a program launched by then San Francisco DA Kamala Harris is blasting the vice president over a resurfaced speech where Harris discusses the matter as being the result of a "glitch" in the system.  "That ‘glitch’ certainly had a negative impact on my life," Amanda Kiefer, who suffered a brutal attack at the hands of an illegal immigrant in 2008 while she walked down the street with friends, said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "It would be easier to believe it was a mistake if Democrats in San Francisco didn’t have a long history of enabling illegal immigration, choosing not to prosecute illegal immigrant criminals and refusal to deport anyone." "It wasn’t a "glitch" that the Biden Harris administration has let in millions of illegal immigrants, including tens of thousands of known, convicted criminals and those on the terror watch list...

Grace Kay / Business Insider : Four of Musk's Tesla direct reports, including its CIO and global vehicle automation and safety policy lead, recently resigned, ahead of Tesla's robotaxi event   —  - Four Tesla execs announced in the past week that they were leaving or had already left the company.

COLUMBUS – Early voting in the former battleground state of Ohio began on Tuesday and Fox News Digital spoke to the state’s GOP lieutenant governor, who explained why Republicans are encouraging voters to vote early. "I want to do what President Trump's asking us to do, to swamp your vote, because we want everybody across the country and in the state of Ohio to get out there and vote early so that their voices, their votes are locked in, then the campaign can then move on to make sure that they're focusing resources on people who may not have gotten out and voted," Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted told Fox News Digital at the Franklin County Board of Elections on Tuesday as he voted on the first day of early voting.  "It's a really important part of the campaign strategy." The former president's 2024 campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) announced earlier this year the launch of what they call their "Swamp the Vote USA" effort, ...

Hayden Field / CNBC : Writer debuts Palmyra X 004, an LLM for enterprise applications, saying it cost just $700K to train, using synthetic data; source: Writer is raising up to $200M   —  San Francisco-based AI startup Writer debuted a large artificial intelligence model on Wednesday to compete with enterprise offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic and others.

Vice President Kamala Harris had harsh words for Iran in an interview Monday evening as she said the regime is America’s biggest foe.  In a sit-down with CBS’ "60 Minutes," the Democratic presidential nominee was asked to name the U.S.’s greatest foreign adversary. "I think there's an obvious one in mind, which is Iran. Iran has American blood on their hands." "This attack on Israel, 200 ballistic missiles. What we need to do to ensure that Iran never achieves the ability to be a nuclear power. That is one of my highest priorities." Harris declined to say whether she would take military action if given proof that Iran is building a nuclear weapon. "I'm not going to talk about hypotheticals at this moment," she told Bill Whitaker. The suggestion that Iran was the greatest U.S. adversary raised some eyebrows — as China is thought by many to be foe No. 1.  "Iran is our biggest adversary, not China ?," Mary Kissel, former adv...

Increased support from Republicans appears to be one factor fueling Vice President Kamala Harris with four weeks to go until Election Day in her White House showdown with former President Trump , according to a new national poll. The vice president and Democratic presidential nominee stands at 49% support among likely voters nationwide, with the former president and GOP nominee at 46%, in a New York Times/Siena College survey released on Tuesday. According to the poll, Harris stands at 47% and Trump at 44% in a multi-candidate field. Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian Chase Oliver each grabbed 1%, with roughly 7% supporting another candidate or undecided. Harris' edge – which is within the survey's sampling error – is up from the New York Times/Siena poll from last month, when the two major party nominees were deadlocked at 47%. WHAT THE LATEST FOX NEWS POLLS IN THE 2024 ELECTION SHOW The top-line number in the new poll is in the range of most other nationa...

North Carolina election officials are adjusting their voting rules t o ensure residents in areas impacted by the recent hurricane damage can vote early in the upcoming election . Hurricane Helene made a damaging sweep across the southeast, covering swing states that had already started early voting. But the storm caused severe damage to several predominantly red counties and early voting centers as focus shifted to disaster relief. On Monday, the North Carolina Elections Board passed a bipartisan emergency resolution that reformed the state's early voting process in 13 counties. Notably, all except one, Buncombe, voted for former President Donald Trump in 2020. NORTH CAROLINA GOP FOCUSING ON ‘HAND-TO-HAND POLITICAL COMBAT' TO RAMP UP GROUND GAME IN BATTLEGROUND STATE The adjustments include changing or adding voting sites and maintaining their availability, extending the hours when a voting site is open, and adding or reducing days that any site is open within the early v...

Washington Post : Officials in NC and at FEMA, responding to Hurricane Helene, face a flurry of antisemitic attacks largely on X, where some posts get tens of millions of views   —  Report finds Elon Musk's X is fueling conspiracy theories that risk undermining rescue efforts and preparations for Hurricane Milton.

Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day : As Meta proudly unveils AI tools, Facebook users find feeds clogged with AI junk, even when Facebook is needed as a civic resource to coordinate disaster relief   —  Read to the end for furry opera  —  We're inching closer to the Garbage Day Live election special!!!  Over the next few issues, I'll be announcing a new guest.

Vice President Kamala Harris appears to prioritize winning back Arab American and Muslim voters who were dejected by President Joe Biden’s handling of war in the Middle East over courting the Jewish voter. That's according to an internal review of her calendar meetups with both groups since becoming the Democratic nominee for president.  Harris met with Arab American advocates ahead of a campaign event in Flint, Michigan , on Friday. That followed a meeting with activists with the Pro-Palestinian Uncommitted Movement, which has declined to endorse her, in Michigan in July.  Her public schedule hasn’t included meetings with Jewish groups since meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu privately in July, after she declined to preside over his joint address to Congress.  In August, her campaign nominated Ilan Goldenberg as its liaison to the Jewish community, and on Aug. 15, Harris sent campaign officials to meet with Jewish leaders in Michigan. In September, she c...

Sean Hollister / The Verge : In a final Epic v. Google ruling, US judge orders Google to open up Google Play to rivals for three years, distribute 3rd-party stores in Google Play, and more   —  Google's Android app store is an illegal monopoly — and now it will have to change. … Google will have to distribute rival …

Sen. JD Vance blasted the Biden-Harris administration on Monday for not doing enough to bring home the hostages that Hamas took from Israel during the deadly Oct. 7 attack one year ago. Vance, R-Ohio, spoke during the Philos Project’s Memorial Rally and March on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., briefly taking aim at President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. "I'm going to get a little political here. It is disgraceful that we have an American president and vice president who haven't done a thing," Vance said. "Vice President Harris, our message is, ‘Bring them home.’ Use your authority to help bring them home. We can do it. We just need real leadership." Iran-backed Hamas terrorists launched a massacre against Israel in the Oct. 7 attack last year, killing about 1,200 people, including 46 U.S. citizens, and taking about 250 hostages. A year later, about 100 people, including several Americans, remain in Hamas captivity, as U.S.-led efforts ...

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson slammed the Biden administration’s handling of Hurricane Helene relief efforts, calling the federal government’s response an "abject failure."  "At the federal level, this has been a massive failure. And you could just ask the people there on the ground. I have been there. I was in Georgia. I was in Florida, where Hurricane Helene made landfall there on the coast. And then we'll be going to the hardest hit parts of North Carolina on Wednesday of this week. When you talk to the people who are directly affected, they will tell you that this has been an abject failure," Johnson, R-La., told Fox News’ Shannon Bream during an interview on "Fox News Sunday."  Hurricane Helene has left more   than 220 people dead after flooding devastated towns and cities across Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. Johnson went on to say that the nation had more than a week’s warning of the hurricane, and that ...

Financial Times : A look at the fall of Byju's, India's most valuable startup in 2022 with an estimated $22B valuation, as it faces insolvency and lawsuits in India and the US   —  Edtech company's legal battles from Delaware to Bengaluru have exposed corporate governance issues

Voters attending a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris in Flint, Michigan, argued that the Democratic nominee is better on immigration and that former President Trump is to blame for the current situation at the border. "She comes with compassion and a plan," one voter attending the Harris rally Friday told Fox News Digital. "We know that we have problems down there, but we have to do it specifically to make the changes… just throwing out rhetoric and building a wall is not going to do it. This is about people’s lives who have come here because they’re in distress and danger, and we need to help them because that’s who we are." The comments come as both Trump and Harris made multiple appearances in Michigan last week, highlighting the critical importance of a swing state that could decide the fate of November’s election. KAMALA HARRIS' SUPPORT WITH ARAB AND MUSLIM COMMUNITIES IN MICHIGAN IS 'TENUOUS': DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST With the election just...