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The Republican National Committee (RNC) is celebrating after GOP poll watchers were allowed into four blue-leaning counties’ election offices for extended absentee ballot hours this weekend, according to party Chair Michael Whatley. Federal and state GOP groups had threatened to sue Fulton County late Friday after it and the counties of Cobb, DeKalb and Gwinnett announced several election offices would be open this weekend for people to turn in absentee ballots in person.  Republicans also accused Fulton County of not allowing any public observers into those locations open on the weekends, which Whatley and Georgia GOP Chairman Josh McKoon argued was against the Peach State’s election observer laws. "Following our efforts, our poll watchers have now been let into the building in all four Georgia counties. Our lawsuit over the offices remaining open is still pending, but we have eyes in the room as votes are being counted," Whatley wrote on X. "We will continue our ag...

Hamid Ganji / Neowin : Apple's M4 Max chip scores 4,060 in single-core tests, making it the first production CPU to cross 4,000 in Geekbench 6, and scores 26,675 in multi-core tests   —  After months of swirling rumors, Apple revealed its new Mac devices with updated M4 chips last week.

Democratic 2024 presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris blasted former President Trump and praised young voters in what was likely her final campaign speech in Georgia . Harris spoke to supporters in downtown Atlanta on Saturday, three days before voters across the country who haven't already cast ballots head to the polls on Election Day. "We have three days left – three days in one of the most consequential elections of our lifetime – and we still have work to do," the vice president said. She pivoted to attacking Trump just a few minutes into her roughly 22-minute speech. 'ILLEGAL, UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND VOID': GEORGIA JUDGE STRIKES DOWN NEW ELECTION RULES AFTER LEGAL FIGHTS "We have an opportunity in this election to finally turn the page on a decade of Donald Trump, who spends full time trying to keep us divided and afraid of each other. We're done. We're done with that," Harris said.  "This is not someone who is thinking ...

Cory Doctorow / Pluralistic : Why Bluesky not adding the federation systems that let users leave the Bluesky server and take their community to other hosts can lead to “enshittification”   —  - Bluesky and enshittification: No one is the enshittifier of their own story.  — Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.

A video of Haitian migrants voting in Georgia’s elections is fake and the work of "Russian influence actors," according to U.S. intelligence.  In the clip, two people claiming to be Haitian migrants say they are planning to vote multiple times in two different Georgia counties for Vice President Kamala Harris. "We’re voting Kamala Harris. Yesterday, we voted in Gwinnett County, and today we’re voting in Fulton County," one person says. "We have all our document – driver’s license. We invite all Haitians to come to America and bring families." The video was amplified by right-wing accounts on social media.  "The [U.S. Intelligence Community] assesses that Russian influence actors manufactured a recent video that falsely depicted individuals claiming to be from Haiti and voting illegally in multiple counties in Georgia," read a joint statement from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastru...

Reuters : Disney forms the Office of Technology Enablement to coordinate its use of emerging technologies such as AI and mixed reality, to be led by CTO Jamie Voris   —  Walt Disney (DIS.N) is forming a new unit to coordinate the company's use of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and mixed reality …

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, reiterated his criticism of a group linked to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., at a recent rally, saying it has not assisted him in his competitive Senate race this cycle.  "We are getting absolutely zero support from the Senate Leadership Fund (SLF)," the Republican said.  Cruz is taking on Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, in the tight race for Senate. Despite the legitimate challenge posed by Allred, Cruz is favored to win the contest.  REPUBLICANS CALL ON MAYORKAS TO REINSTATE COVID-ERA BORDER POLICY AMID TUBERCULOSIS 'SURGE' SLF has notably spent most of its resources in states with key Republican Senate pick-up opportunities, such as Pennsylvania, Montana, Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan.  But Cruz pointed out, "In Texas, we have the most expensive Senate race in the entire country." As the senator noted, the Cruz and Allred campaigns have raised more money than the candidates in any other Senate race, with the two ...