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Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional : As JD Vance chastised the EU for its AI regulation, 12+ US states are considering algorithmic discrimination bills that look strikingly similar to EU's AI Act   —  The AI regulation onslaught  —  Introduction  —  At the AI Action Summit in Paris this week, Vice President J.D. Vance delivered a broadly optimistic message on AI.

The 2000 presidential election was held up for weeks due to snafus across the state of Florida , and ultimately ended in a Supreme Court ruling effectively deciding that Texas Gov. George W. Bush would be named the victor. In recent Arizona elections, voters and Republican politicians have complained of similarly grueling canvassing, wait times, alleged technical difficulties and a generally drawn-out process. "How is it that Florida can have their results at 8:00 at night, and Arizona is the last in the country to report the electoral votes?" State Senate President Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert, asked. Petersen said that Arizona hopes to learn from Florida’s failures, and how it went from an unwittingly tardy linchpin in a historically narrow election to a well-oiled machine that counts 11 million votes more quickly than some smaller states. AZ SENATE LEADER URGES BURGUM TO REVERSE OBAMA-BIDEN LAND GRAB AT URANIUM SITES Petersen referenced what he called the "Florida ...

Thomas Claburn / The Register : Hector Martin, lead of Asahi Linux distribution for Apple Silicon, resigns, citing burnout, demanding users, and Linus Torvalds's handling of Rust integration   —  I fought the Torv and ... the Torv won  —  Hector Martin, project lead of Asahi Linux, resigned that project early Friday …

David Heaney / UploadVR : EssilorLuxottica says it has sold 2M+ Ray-Ban Meta glasses since their Q4 2023 launch, and plans to raise annual production capacity to 10M by the end of 2026   —  Ray-Ban Meta glasses have sold 2 million units so far, and the annual production capacity is being increased to 10 million by the end of 2026.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Mastodon is working on a quote posts feature, which it says is a “source of concern” for some and “highly requested” by others   —  Mastodon, the decentralized alternative to X, is going to adopt a controversial feature from the platform formerly known as Twitter: quote posts.

Democratic lawmakers on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee sparred with President Donald Trump's Department of Education nominee Linda McMahon on Thursday over cost-cutting efforts underway by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an agency led by tech billionaire Elon Musk. "I believe the American people spoke loudly in the election last November to say that they want to look at waste, fraud and abuse in our government," said McMahon, the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Pressed by Democrats, including Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, if she would follow through with cuts suggested by the "DOGE brothers," McMahon said she can be counted on to follow congressional statute "because that's the law." TRUMP EDUCATION NOMINEE LINDA MCMAHON SAYS SHUTTING DOWN DOE WOULD 'REQUIRE CONGRESSIONAL ACTION' Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., also asked if McMahon believes DOGE should have access to ...

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch : Sources: Italian spyware maker SIO created malicious Android apps that masquerade as WhatsApp and other apps; a researcher says they were likely used in Italy   —  Italian spyware maker SIO, known to sell its products to government customers, is behind a series of malicious Android apps …

FIRST ON FOX: Elon Musk's DOGE team has successfully canceled millions of dollars of government contracts that the administration says were a waste of taxpayer dollars.  A senior administration official told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that DOGE has worked with various agencies to cancel several contracts in the Social Security Administration, the Departments of Homeland Security and Labor, and several other areas.  "Taxpayer dollars will no longer be wasted on nonsense," the official told Fox News Digital.  The canceled spending includes a $36,000 contract for DEI related workshops at Homeland Security and the cancellation of a $1 million contract that supports the "Gender X Initiative" and involves public-facing SSA applications that allow for the "non-binary" field.  DOGE SLASHES OVER $100M IN DEI FUNDING AT EDUCATION DEPARTMENT: 'WIN FOR EVERY STUDENT' At the Department of Agriculture, a $1 million contract for a diversity communic...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Sources: Apple will unveil an Android app for Apple TV+ as early as Wednesday as it looks to boost subscriptions and compete with Netflix and Disney+   —  Apple Inc. is set to announce that it's expanding the TV+ streaming video service to Android phones for the first time, according to people familiar with the move.

A Democratic congressman is facing heat from conservatives on social media after promoting the idea of a "street fight" at a protest pushing back against  Elon Musk’s recent efforts to slash government waste through the newly created DOGE office. "This will be a congressional fight, a constitutional fight, a legal fight, and on days like this a street fight, yes we will stand," Democratic Rep. Kweisi Mfume, who has represented Maryland’s 7th Congressional District since 2020, said at a rally in Baltimore on Monday outside the Social Security Office.  Mfume, who was elected to fill the seat of the late Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings, added that DOGE stands for "the department of government evil." Conservatives on social media were quick to criticize Mfume. They accused him of inciting violence and wondered aloud why more media outlets weren’t picking up the comments.  'DOGE BOYS': DEMS FUME OVER SPENDING CUT SPREE AT RALLY OUTSIDE TRUMP'S...

Reuters : Filing: Binance and the US SEC have jointly asked a judge to stay the regulator's lawsuit against the crypto exchange for 60 days, citing Trump admin changes   —  Binance and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have jointly asked a federal judge to stay the regulator's lawsuit …

EXCLUSIVE: More than 100 congressional lawmakers have lined up behind the goal of cutting government waste, as Republicans and Democrats wage an aggressive ideological battle over the merits of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The Congressional DOGE Caucus was founded shortly after President Donald Trump tapped Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead an advisory panel on where the federal bureaucracy could be trimmed. That effort is now being led by Musk alone, and it's attracted fierce criticism from Democratic lawmakers who call him an unelected bureaucrat with too much control over the federal government despite no prior experience inside of it. KEY CONSERVATIVE CAUCUS DRAWS RED LINE ON HOUSE BUDGET PLAN But in the House, enthusiasm for the mission is still strong. Fox News Digital was told more than 100 members are part of the DOGE Caucus – which is more than one in five House lawmakers. The group's members are currently working on legislative it...

Dan O'Shea / Fierce Electronics : NXP Semiconductors announces a $307M deal to acquire Kinara, which makes NPUs and related software for edge AI applications   —  NXP Semiconductors Neural Processing Unit edge AI artificial intelligence (AI)  —  NXP Semiconductors announced its third acquisition in as many months …

Democratic lawmakers are fueling concerns of a partial government shutdown, warning they may withhold support for any plan in protest of President Donald Trump 's shakeup of the federal government.  Left-wing leaders who have warned of the catastrophic consequences of government shutdowns in the past are now publicly signaling it could be a possibility – and they are already positioning to blame Republicans. "What leverage do we have? Republicans have repeatedly lectured America, they control the House, the Senate and the presidency. It's their government," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., told reporters when asked about what concessions he would seek in exchange for Democratic help to avert a partial shutdown. "We are in the governing season, and so we're ready to work together on any issue. But I'm also confused about the leverage that we allegedly have in the face of such an overwhelming mandate that was given to Republicans by the Ame...

Arizona’s Senate president will urge Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to undo former President Joe Biden’s "land grab" in the Grand Canyon State that he said wrongly cordoned off nearly 1 million acres in the state for future energy exploration. State Sen. Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert, said in a letter to President Donald Trump’s new Cabinet official – and obtained by Fox News Digital – that he will take swift and sweeping actions like undoing certain national monument designations to "Make America Energy Dominant Again." "On his first day in office, President Trump directed you and the rest of his cabinet to immediately identify and rescind all agency actions that impose an undue burden on the development of domestic energy resources like critical minerals and nuclear energy resources," Petersen wrote. Biden’s proclamation making 900,000 acres near the Grand Canyon the "Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni" or "Ancestral Footprints National Monum...

President Donald Trump has started his second stint in the White House by earning positive reviews from Americans, with especially high marks given for the president keeping campaign promises. A large majority of Americans, 70%, believe Trump is doing "what he promised" during the campaign, while just 30% believe the president’s agenda has been "different from promised," according to the results of a CBS/YouGov poll released on Sunday. The poll found that Trump’s overall approval on the job so far is 53%, with 47% of respondents indicating they disapprove. Voters also used positive words to describe the president, with 69% describing him as tough, 63% energetic, 60% focused, and 58% effective. Many Americans also approve of the job Trump has done so far on key issues, with 59% saying they approve of his program to deport illegal immigrants , while 41% said they do not approve. A larger majority, 64%, indicated they approve of the president’s plan to send U.S. t...

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., launched a unique attack against U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer over a plan to relinquish a military base in the Indian Ocean, cautioning the British leader to "put down the bong." "Because the United Nations wants the United Kingdom to feel guilty, they want to give our military base and their military base to Mauritius," Kennedy said on the floor of the Senate. "Now, the prime minister of the United Kingdom can stop this, and Marco Rubio, our new secretary of state, is against it. And I haven’t talked to him directly, but I think President Trump is against it." At issue is the fate of the Chagos Islands, a British overseas territory in the Indian Ocean that currently hosts a U.S.-U.K. joint naval base at Diego Garcia. UN DEMANDS BRITAIN END RULE OF CHAGOS ISLANDS IN 6 MONTHS But a ruling by the International Court of Justice in 2019 that was backed by the United Nations found that the U.K. had no claim to the islands, s...

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg : Edison: despite Spotify's video push, only two of the top 10 US podcasts post videos on Spotify; 37 of the top 50 podcasts regularly post videos on YouTube   —  Popular programs like New Heights and Club Shay Shay have yet to put their videos on the streaming service  —  Hello, and welcome back to Soundbite.