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NEW on “Paper Trail”: Reporter Renee Dudley heard Microsoft was running tech support for the Pentagon through China, the country’s biggest cybersecurity adversary.

She thought it sounded like a conspiracy theory — until she started looking into it.

Listen to the full episode: https://www.propublica.org/podcast/microsoft-digital-escorts-china-defense-department?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Podcast #Podcasts #Microsoft #Tech #Technology #Cybersecurity #Pentagon #Defense #China #Data #Journalism

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The Nazi tattoo should have been enough. Denying that it was a Nazi tattoo should have been enough. Refusing to remove the Nazi tattoo should have been enough. But no. Democrats lined up (mostly) behind Graham Platner. Then the credible assault allegations started rolling i...

A federal judge has ordered the release of the $5 million judgment E. Jean Carroll won in her suit against Donald Trump after a jury found he had both sexually assaulted her and defamed her by claiming she had lied about it.

Carroll had immediately asked a federal judge to order Trump to pay her after even the MAGA Supreme Court rejected his appeal, The New York Times reported. Trump’s lawyers have indicated they will appeal that ruling, albeit with some laughably pathetic excuses for not paying. So stay tuned on that front!

Trump’s lawyers have already requested a rehearing from the Supreme Court, according to The Times. While they were at it, they also asked SCOTUS to take up Carroll’s $83.3 million second defamation verdict against Trump, a guy who has boasted about sexually assaulting women.

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President Donald Trump was formally ordered by the court to pay E. Jean Carroll $5 million in damages after a Manhattan federal jury found him liable for battery and defamation. That infamous verdict was handed down in 2023, and Trump, unsurprisingly, has yet to fork out s...

Companies will once again be allowed to scan citizens’ personal texts, emails, and social media messages via the “chat control” bill to find child abuse material online.

Donald Trump once again revealed how out of touch he is and how little he cares about those of us struggling to make ends meet in the Trump economy while he has enriched himself to the tune of $2 billion, just in 2025.

After President Deal Maker shredded his own ceasefire agreement with Iran, oil prices quickly spiked 6% to their highest level in weeks, according to USA Today. Gas prices also ticked up and are now 65 cents a gallon higher than a year ago. As USA Today also noted, gas prices are likely to likely to keep rising, as they lag changes in oil prices.

But billionaire Trump, the guy who promised to lower prices on Day One, thinks spending $10 or more every time you fill up your gas tank is no biggie.

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Trek is making a bigger push into the fast-growing fat tire e-bike segment with the launch of the new Borrego+, a Class 2 electric bike that blends adventure-ready capability with commuter-friendly practicality. The company is also offering a faster Borrego+ S variant for riders in markets where Class 3 e-bikes are permitted.

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From TPM Reader OM … I’ve been reading TPM since my junior year of college (I graduated in 2003, so pretty early...

The National Design Studio’s influence continues to grow. It is now working on Login. gov, the identity and authentication service used to access many federal agencies and government services.

As longtime Torment Nexus readers probably know, I have a minor obsession with the topic of artificial intelligence engines and consciousness — in part because such discussions inevitably reveal how little we know about human consciousness, let alone the machine kind.

When news breaks — about, say, Graham Platner’s Senate campaign imploding over sexual assault allegations or Mitch McConnell’s hospitalization —...

From TPM Reader BC … I am a long time reader, since the early aughts.  I have been giving to...

The Bezos-backed automaker building America's cheapest electric truck is teaming up with the crayon company in a bid to brighten its rides. Make ours Razzmatazz.

An AI detection company found that amount of AI content that users actually see in their day-to-day browsing is shockingly high.

There are really two very different ways of coding with AI. One is to quickly iterate with small changes. The other is letting an agent go off and work on a hard problem or high-level goal, where it churns for minutes or hours. For the first, model speed is almost everything.