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President Donald Trump shared security footage on social media Saturday, slamming a subcontractor accused of cracking the "most beautiful marble and stone available anywhere" in the recently renovated White House Rose Garden. In a post to Truth Social, Trump said he discovered a "huge gash" in the limestone three days ago, extending more than 25 yards. "Surfaces are very important to me as a Builder," the president wrote in the post. "As everyone knows, I built many GREAT Buildings, and other things, over the years. … [The limestone crack] was deep and nasty! I started yelling, ‘Who did this, and I want to find out now!’—and I didn’t say this in a nice manner." TRUMP WARNS HE WILL TAKE 'FEDERAL CONTROL' OF WASHINGTON, DC AS YOUTH VIOLENCE CONTINUES Trump said he questioned whether the damage was caused by vandalism or "stupidity" and credited White House security equipment with cracking the case. "They brought back t...

Tor Blog : How Turkmenistan turned censorship into a lucrative extortion scheme by intentionally restricting internet access in order to sell its own VPNs to citizens   —  In July 2021, a sudden drop in Tor usage in Turkmenistan called our attention.  Tor would come to understand that this marked …

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal : The price per token for AI models has fallen, but costs for developers are rising as newer reasoning models require more tokens to complete tasks   —  With models doing more ‘thinking,’ the small companies that buy AI from the giants to create apps and services are feeling the pinch

David Gilbert / Wired : Purgatory, tied to online community The Com, claims responsibility for swatting attacks on US universities, airports, and more, charging $20 to $95 per incident   —  WIRED spoke to a self-proclaimed leader of an online group called Purgatory, which charged as little as $20 to call in fake threats against schools.

Los Angeles Times : California Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers strike a deal with Uber and Lyft allowing drivers to unionize while remaining classified as independent contractors   —  - One bill in the deal, sponsored by the powerful Service Employees International Union, would allow Uber and Lyft drivers …

FIRST ON FOX: Homeland Security (DHS)  Secretary Kristi Noem slammed a group of former and current Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employees who wrote a letter criticizing the Trump administration’s handling of the agency as she outlined her vision for FEMA’s role in the U.S.  More than 190 former and current FEMA employees  joined an open letter on Monday "in response to the Trump administration’s dismantling cuts and devastating attacks on FEMA programs and missions." On Wednesday morning, the agency’s current employees who signed on to the letter were placed on administrative leave. "I am not surprised that some of the same bureaucrats who presided over decades of inefficiency are now objecting to reform; including many who worked under the Biden Administration to turn  FEMA into the bureaucratic nightmare it is today," Noem told Fox News Digital on Thursday. "I refuse to accept that FEMA red tape should stand between an American citizen suf...

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE : InstaLILY, whose industry-specific AI agents called InstaWorkers integrate with legacy systems, raised $25M from Insight Partners   —  InstaLILY Inc. said today it has raised $25 million exclusively from Insight Partners to fuel the growth of industry vertical-specific “AI Teammates” …