Month: May 2025

A Republican member of the Federal Communications Commission is proposing a DOGE-style overhaul of the agency's operations, including large cuts to the Universal Service Fund that subsidizes broadband deployment and access.

FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington said the fund should reduce spending on fiber networks and give money to Starlink—helping Elon Musk, the man in charge of President Trump's DOGE initiative. Simington also argued that the FCC is using too many staff hours on reviewing license applications and should instead use automated systems to approve most license requests.

In a Daily Caller op-ed titled, "It's Time For Trump To DOGE The FCC," Simington and his chief of staff, Gavin Wax, wrote that "President Trump's vision for restoring constitutional government is finally taking shape, and nowhere is that more urgently needed than at the Federal Communications Commission."

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A day after the US Copyright Office dropped a bombshell pre-publication report challenging artificial intelligence firms' argument that all AI training should be considered fair use, the Trump administration fired the head of the Copyright Office, Shira Perlmutter—sparking speculation that the controversial report hastened her removal.

Tensions have apparently only escalated since. Now, as industry advocates decry the report as overstepping the office's authority, social media posts on Monday described an apparent standoff at the Copyright Office between Capitol Police and men rumored to be with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

A source familiar with the matter told Wired that the men were actually "Brian Nieves, who claimed he was the new deputy librarian, and Paul Perkins, who said he was the new acting director of the Copyright Office, as well as acting Registrar," but it remains "unclear whether the men accurately identified themselves." A spokesperson for the Capitol Police told Wired that no one was escorted off the premises or denied entry to the office.

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The Milk-V Jupiter NX is a computer-on-a-module that looks like a stick of laptop memory. It’s compatible with carrier boards designed for the NVIDIA Jetson NX compute module, but while NVIDIA’s hardware combines an ARM-based processor with NVIDIA graphics and an AI accelerator, the Milk-V module has an 8-core RISC-V processor and a 2 TOPS NPU. […]

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The Lenovo ThinkPad X200 is a laptop that was released in 2008. But its classic design still appeals to some long-time enthusiasts who appreciate the laptop’s iconic keyboard with a TrackPoint nub in the center and 12.1 inch display with a 16:10 aspect ratio. The notebook’s aging specs don’t really cut it in 2025 though. So developer […]

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Die Telekom-Konkurrenten im VATM fürchten, dass die Telekom sich Zugangsrechte zur Netzebene 4 verschafft. Dann könne sich ein strategischer Überbau wiederholen. (VATM, Telekom)

Last Thursday, white smoke emerged from a chimney at the Sistine Chapel, signaling that cardinals had elected a new pope. That's a rare event in itself, but one of the many unprecedented aspects of the election of Chicago-born Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV is one of the main reasons he chose his papal name: artificial intelligence.

On Saturday, the new pope gave his first address to the College of Cardinals, explaining his name choice as a continuation of Pope Francis' concerns about technological transformation.

"Sensing myself called to continue in this same path, I chose to take the name Leo XIV," he said during the address. "There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution."

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Amazons meistverkauftes Balkonkraftwerk ist ein bifaziales 900-Watt-Set mit Rabatt. Ein weiteres Modell ist befristet 65 Euro billiger. (Balkonkraftwerk, Unterhaltung & Hobby)

When you don’t believe in germ theory, the world is your oyster—or maybe your bathtub.

Over the weekend, America's top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., shared pictures on social media of himself fully submerged in the sewage-tinged waters of Rock Creek in Washington, DC. His grandchildren were also pictured playing in the water.

The creek is known for having a sewage overflow problem and posing a health hazard to any who enter it. The National Park Service, which manages the Rock Creek Park, strictly bars all swimming and wading in Rock Creek and the park's other waterways due to the contamination, specifically "high levels of bacteria."

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Wenn der Gerätespeicher voll ist, schafft eine MicroSD-Karte wie das 256-GByte-Modell von SanDisk im Alltag spürbar Entlastung. (Technik/Hardware, Speichermedien)

The US and China agreed to lower tariffs by 115 percent for 90 days while they continue talks on a longer-term agreement, sending stocks soaring on hopes that President Trump's trade war won't be as damaging to the two economies as previously feared.

"As part of a deal hammered out in Geneva over the weekend, the US will lower additional tariffs on Chinese goods to 30 percent from 145 percent and China will reduce duties on US imports to 10 percent from 125 percent. China said it would also 'suspend or cancel' non-tariff measures taken against the US," the Financial Times wrote.

Trump recently appeared eager to make a deal, while China seemed content to wait for better terms. The White House today called the temporary deal "a historic trade win for the United States" that "demonstrat[es] President Trump's unparalleled expertise in securing deals that benefit the American people."

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