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Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries (cnbc.com)
I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either (benhouston3d.com)
GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations (githubstatus.com)
Weaponizing Ads: How Google and Facebook Ads Are Used to Wage Propaganda Wars (medium.com)
Show HN: MyCoder, an open source Claude-Code alternative (github.com)
RISC-V is currently slow compared to modern CPUs (benhouston3d.com)
TikTok removing posts for violating the "joy of TikTok" (twitter.com)
Sam Altman's sister files lawsuits against Sam alleging sexual abuse (cnbc.com)
University of Texas limits on teaching of "unnecessary controversial subjects" (texastribune.org)
Google partners with Internet Archive to link to archives in search (9to5google.com)
OpenAI's GPT-5.2 model cites Grokipedia (engadget.com)
As Ellison Buys Out TikTok, US Moves Toward One-Party Media (fair.org)
'We Can Bury Anyone': Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine (nytimes.com)
San Francisco's pro-billionaire march draws dozens (techcrunch.com)
Google AI helped IDF drones with targeting in 2024 breaching its own policies (washingtonpost.com)
No place in children's hands: <16s in UK to be banned from buying energy drinks (theguardian.com)
TikTok users flock to UpScrolled in response to new U.S. owners (mashable.com)
Mark Zuckerberg's stops funding the pro-immigration group he founded (businessinsider.com)
Open-source OpenWrt One router released at $89 – 'hacker-friendly device' (tomshardware.com)
The Plot to Poison Children's Minds (paulkrugman.substack.com)
China responses to Trump's 105% taffies with its own 84% tariffs on US goods (bbc.com)
What Is the Most Minimal Agentic Coder You Can Write? (benhouston3d.com)
Nature: The political effects of X's feed algorithm (nature.com)
US may ban TP-Link routers/switches over links to Chinese government (theverge.com)
Trump executive action targets ActBlue, the main Democratic fundraising platform (nbcnews.com)
Ford 'ripping up' Ontario's $100M contract with Elon Musk's Starlink (cbc.ca)
Anthropic and DeepMind researchers more likely to reject Meta offers than OpenAI (theverge.com)
After pro-Palestinian students, now foreign students being targeted by Trump (theintercept.com)
HDRify: True HDR image viewer, and tool set in pure JavaScript (hdrify.benhouston3d.com)
Researchers ran an unauthorized AI persuasion experiment on Reddit users (404media.co)