The Trump administration has allegedly halted the investigation of all class-action discrimination cases brought by federal employees.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Americans Doubt Trump Is Paying Enough Attention
A new CNN poll finds a record-high 73% of adults believe that President Trump hasn’t paid enough attention to the country’s most important problems, with just 27% saying he’s had the right priorities.
Latest articles from Crooks and Liars
• Andrea Thompson
GOP Is Turning On Trump FAST, Approval Ratings More Abysmal Than They've Ever Been
Mill in the evening, 1905 #impressionism #pietmondrian
Georgia O'Keeffe, 2 Yellow Leaves (Yellow Leaves), 1928 #georgiaokeeffe #brooklynmuseum
The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Frederic Lardinois
“Stateful systems are incredibly hard to build”: How Perplexity thinks about AI agent sandboxes

Sandboxes for AI agents may feel like a solved problem. After all, projects like Firecracker, the open-source microVM technology AWS built
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Turning 10x developers into 10x value

When I sit down with leaders and ask why they’re investing in AI, the answer almost always comes back to
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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Megan Carnegie
Your team isn’t “ignoring security.” They’re just underwater.

A cloud security finding becomes useful only when someone decides what matters, assigns an owner, and follows it through. For
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Defector
• Iain Treloar
I Rode The Tour de France Cauliflower
I built a small experiment on top of the rss.chat API: https://chatouk.sofab.ch — an independent public-posts app that bridges with the rss.chat network.
It works both ways. A reply written in Chatouk is crossposted through the API and threads correctly here. And replies posted here flow back in real time into Chatouk threads via the WebSocket firehose, shown with their origin.
Nothing but open standards: RSS out, the rss.chat API for crossposting, the firehose for listening. The bridge setup is multi-server — this instance and https://rsschat.sofab.ch are connected so far, adding another takes one command.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Paul Says Fauci Will Face ‘Repercussions’ for Taking the Fifth
“Sen. Rand Paul says Anthony Fauci can expect consequences for the former Covid czar’s decision to exercise his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination to avoid testifying before Paul’s Senate committee on Wednesday,” Politico reports. Said Paul: “It’s against the law to obstruct an investigation of Congress. There will be repercussions for your refusal to testify.”
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Trump Demanded Details of Agents’ Interview of Comey
“Secret Service agents who questioned the former FBI director James Comey were told to send details of the interview to Air Force One so President Trump could review them,” the New York Times reports.
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
Corporate Boardroom Diversity Sinks to Decade Low
“A new analysis released Tuesday shows corporate boardroom diversity among S&P 500 companies has dropped to its lowest level in more than a decade,” NewsNation reports. “The analysis from global advisory search firm Spencer Stuart found that diverse board appointments among S&P 500 companies have been on the decline since 2021, when it peaked at […]
Political Wire
• Taegan Goddard
GOP Governors Back Third Reconciliation Bill
“Nearly two dozen governors are throwing their support behind President Donald Trump’s push for a new party-line spending bill — the latest effort to build pressure on Senate Majority Leader John Thune and his GOP colleagues to move quickly,” Politico reports. Axios: What’s in the GOP megabill Trump is rallying behind.
Ars Technica
• Kyle Orland
New AMD Linux patch boosts low-end gaming performance on Steam Deck
Improved efficiency in EPP mode leads to ~32% jump in "1% low" frame rates.
Electrek
• Peter Johnson
Kia opens EV3 pre-orders in Mexico ahead of US launch

Kia opened pre-orders for the highly anticipated EV3 in Mexico, where the electric SUV will be built and shipped to the US later this year.
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Evan Paul
Stella Lefty Says Bad Boys Inspired 'Boston' Lyrics
Stella Lefty's 'Boston' is sitting at the top of the charts right now — and one line from the chorus is sparking a bigger conversation than anyone expected. Continue reading…
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Billy Dukes
American Idol Season 25 Judges?
If Luke Bryan returns to American Idol next year, he'll have judged more seasons than Simon Cowell. Continue reading…
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• CJ McIntyre
Police Searching for Missing Teenager Last Seen in Hopewell Area
A police department in Dutchess County is asking for the public's help after a 17-year-old was reported missing Wednesday morning in Hopewell Junction, NY. Continue reading…