As Wall Street gears up for SpaceX’s record-breaking IPO, regulators quietly granted brokerages an extraordinary exemption from rules protecting customers if markets turn volatile.
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As tech companies race to automate industries and build massive data centers, leaked government documents reveal growing fears of nationwide anti-A.I. unrest. Federal agencies are responding not with social programs, but with expanded surveillance and monitoring of potential anti-tech activists.
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Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is pushing for a suite of data center reforms aimed at protecting Texans from rising utility costs and depleting water reservoirs.
In U.S. politics, it’s slobs versus snobs.
GOP Rep. Nancy Mace blames her primary loss on her support for releasing the Epstein files.
A provision tucked into a must-pass transportation bill could shield Uber and Lyft from lawsuits — as the companies battle thousands of injury and sexual assault claims.
After Iran struck Israeli military targets in response to attacks on Beirut, Yemen reimposed its Red Sea blockade in support of Lebanon. On this segment of The Target, Robert Inlakesh examines whether a new regional deterrence equation is taking shape.
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Madison Square Garden owner James Dolan rolled out the red carpet for Donald Trump weeks after the White House spared the arena from relocation plans.
Drupal 12 is coming later this year. As with previous major releases, the contributed ecosystem will require updating for breaking changes . Thousands of modules and themes will need their deprecated API uses updated before they are ready. Doing that by hand, across all of contrib, would cost the community an enormous number of hours.
That is the job the Project Update Bot exists to do. We have refreshed it, and it now targets Drupal 12 readiness: it scans contributed projects automatically and opens issues with patches that fix deprecated API uses for you.
This blog post summarizes the key insights from the CX Decoded podcast episode featuring Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal and Executive Chairman of Acquia.
In the fast-moving world of digital experience, few names carry as much weight as Dries Buytaert. As the creator of Drupal, he has spent over two decades navigating the evolution of the web. But in his latest appearance on the CX Decoded podcast, Dries issued a candid warning: AI isn’t just another tool - it is a fundamental disruption that is stress-testing every business model in its path.
The Maine Senate primary today has become a national referendum on populism, power, character, and the future of the Democratic Party. Here’s our essential coverage.
Justices declined to stop a bankruptcy maneuver that allows companies to dump legal liabilities into a separate entity — and leave victims fighting for compensation.
A new report alleges Uber has parked $12.5 billion in a Hawaiian shell company that could help finance robotaxis, sidestep taxes, and bankroll efforts to weaken consumer protections.
Today’s your lucky day, kid. I’m you from the future. I traveled back to 1955 to give you this sports almanac. It lists all the biggest sports events from now to the end of the century. All you have to do is bet on the winner, and you’ll never lose.
You’re the fifth “me” I’ve visited. I guess sports have changed between 1955 and the twenty-first century, because after the others read a few pages of the almanac, they threw it in my face and called me a “psycho.” One of them called the cops. Another got our dad, who pulled out his shotgun and called me a “dirty red.” So this time, I’m explaining a few things so you don’t freak out.
For starters, horse racing is no longer the biggest thing in America. Yes, “seriously.” I know right now it’s as big as baseball, but in the future most Americans just care about the Kentucky Derby, and only because it involves day drinking. The few people who regularly watch horse races anymore are white folks looking for an excuse to cosplay the Jim Crow–era South, millionaires who broker in horse semen, and degenerate gamblers.
A top pension officer trading fossil fuels, the monopoly stopping fire trucks from fighting fires, and more from The Lever this week.
We have experiences, inherited knowledge, and approaches that escape the comprehension of the global north, and the more we hear each other’s stories, the better chances we have of surviving the climate crisis.
Immigration enforcers face justice from Minnesota to Texas, abortion patients preserve their privacy, and oil drillers come clean.
Iranian authorities claim to have dismantled multiple spy and militant cells tied to foreign intelligence agencies, arresting more than 6,500 people since the war began. The announcement follows reports describing Mossad's largest-ever operation inside Iran and growing scrutiny of covert Western involvement
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Platner’s critics, supporters, and detractors have valid points — but the most powerful voices in the debate are politically motivated to deny that complexity exists.
As immigration courts accelerate deportation proceedings, the Trump administration is withholding funding while pressuring legal aid groups to disclose sensitive data about vulnerable children.
Newly obtained records show the former president once snarkily rejected calls to bypass Senate roadblocks to deliver public health insurance — the same barriers he now condemns.
“Elon Musk has again weighed in on Christopher Nolan’s upcoming big-budget adaptation of The Odyssey, this time agreeing with a racist comment made by a far-right journalist who criticized the casting of Oscar-winning actor Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy.” — The Hollywood Reporter
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Hollywood is once again deliberately undermining Western civilization, this time by desecrating one of the foundational texts of our proud literary canon. Christopher Nolan’s pitiful adaptation of theOdyssey is just the latest in a litany of re-imaginings of beloved works by Tinseltown screenwriters and film directors. The movie is rife with historical inaccuracies, and there’s no greater proof than Matt Damon playing Odysseus. Damon was born and raised outside Boston and isn’t the least bit Greek.
Test your knowledge of Citizens United, AI in the stock market, and other issues that really matter.
“Several women who dated Graham Platner recall ‘unsettling’ behavior. The Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine could be charming, women said in interviews, but some found his actions intimidating and disturbing.”
— The New York Times
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I must apologize.
You see, right now Graham Platner is the presumptive Democratic nominee for the Maine Senate seat. If he wins, he will go head-to-head with Susan Collins this fall to try to take her seat. And if early polling is any indication, he has a decent chance of winning.
He’s also one of the most scandal-plagued candidates in Senate history.
So, yeah, my bad.