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Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform

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By now you’ve almost certainly heard the news that Meta has settled with 52 state and local Attorneys General who had sued the company in some form or another over child safety on Meta’…

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Oracle Helped Kneecap Section 230, Then Bought 15% Of A Company That Needs It.

Six years ago, when Trump first tried to force ByteDance to sell TikTok’s US operations to his billionaire buddy Larry Ellison at Oracle, we wondered if this would finally get Oracle to change its tune on Section 230. While not as widely known outside of Silicon Valley, Oracle has been a driving force behind the […]

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Daily Deal: The 2026 Canva Creator Mastery Bundle

Take your design skills to the next level with the 2026 Canva Creator Mastery Bundle, a powerful all-in-one course for modern creators and business owners. This program teaches you how to use Canva effectively to produce professional-quality visuals for any purpose. You’ll explore practical design techniques, creative workflows and branding strategies that make your content […]

Electrek
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Segway Navimow X430 robot mower $2,249 in Labor Day Sale, EcoFlow Monthly Madness power station flash sale, Worx, EVs, more

Leading today’s Green Deals is the Segway Navimow Labor Day robot sale, with offers like the advanced X430 Robotic Lawn Mower down at its second-lowest $2,249 price, among others starting from $669. We also have the EcoFlow August Monthly Madness flash sale with three power...

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The Many Extremists in Mike Collins’ Orbit Have Come to Define His Campaign

The most prominent throughline that has emerged in the 2026 Georgia Senate race is that one candidate, Rep. Mike Collins...

TPM – Talking Points Memo
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Dem Guvs Renew Vow to Fight for States’ Right to Administer Their Elections in Wake Of SCOTUS Mail-in Voting Decision

Hello, and happy Thursday! Welcome back to The Franchise.  On Monday, the Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration in...

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Honoring the American History of the Great Lakes and Renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and Policy.  As I announced in Executive Order 14172 of January 20, 2025 (Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness), it is the policy of my Administration to recognize […]

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Aider, Claude Code, and OpenClaw ran an identical model. Token use varied 70-fold.

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When teams price an AI coding agent, they tend to scrutinize the model. But three recent benchmarking efforts suggest the

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Political Wire
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Trump Renames Lake Ontario as Lake America

“President Donald Trump announced he was moving to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America, escalating his clash with Canada after trade negotiations between the two nations collapsed,” Bloomberg reports. NOTUS: What Trump’s “Gulf of America” tells us about “Lake America.”

Political Wire
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Democrats Hand Trump More Tariff Powers

“After raging against a key tool in President Donald Trump’s economic arsenal, Senate Democrats quietly green-lit the authority before they left Washington, D.C,” Fox News reports. “Democrats have bashed Trump’s use of tariffs since they were first floated during his campaign in 2024, and have taken every chance to challenge and push back against duties […]

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Q: Why not sanction Chinese banks—

Trump: Who said I'm not? You don't know if I'm doing it. I don't have to announce everything, do I?

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Q: What would you say to those who are concerned a trade dispute with Canada could affect American affordability ahead of midterms?

Trump: Ultimately it's going to be very good for us

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Trump on a Ted Cruz 2028 presidential run:

He's very talented. He's a very good friend of mine.

WIRED
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Netflix Failed at Video Games. Now It’s Trying to Promote Them

Netflix has walked back plans to put AAA games on its streaming platform. Instead, it's pivoting to marketing highly anticipated titles like Grand Theft Auto VI.

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Riz Ahmed takes on his inner critic

In his Prime Video series, Bait, Riz Ahmed plays an actor auditioning to be the next James Bond. Ahmed says Bond is a "symbol of aspiration, this unattainable kind of self" his character is pursuing. He’s nominated for an Emmy for his role in the series. Ahmed spoke with Tonya Mosley about being his own worst critic, why he connected to Hamlet, and his early days as an MC on pirate radio. 


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Trump: Maybe we'll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific

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Trump: We're going to be changing the name of Lake Ontario, effective immediately, to Lake America

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Trump: The Lake of America is something I've been thinking about for a long time

Electrek
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Aptera solar EV makes up to 4.75 kWh a day, independent test shows

Aptera’s solar electric vehicle can pull more than 4 kWh of usable energy out of the sun in a single day, and now an independent testing house has put its name on the number.

TÜV Rheinland, the 150-year-old German testing and certification firm, ran three days of on-site solar measurements at Aptera’s Carlsbad, California headquarters and confirmed the car generated 4.23 to 4.75 kWh per day, enough for roughly 42 to 47 miles of driving on sunlight alone.

Defector
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Let’s Remember Some Publications That Said We Would Get To Mars By 2026

Let’s Remember Some Publications That Said We Would Get To Mars By 2026
Good science journalism is by its nature suspicious of grand or outlandish claims. Good science journalism does not take press releases at face value, but rather investigates the evidence behind those claims and the context in which they appear. Good science journalism is mo...