Grifters thrive under Trump’s scam-friendly administration
On April 22nd, Fight Fight Fight LLC, a company with ties to President Donald Trump, announced that the 220 top investors in its meme coin $TRUMP would be invited to meet with Trump himself. The event was billed as an "intimate private" dinner, but with obvious hints that attendees were
Read MoreSenate Dems propose ban on presidents investing or endorsing crypto assets
After abruptly pulling their support from what would have been the Senate’s first stablecoin regulatory bill, Senate Democrats announced Tuesday that they would introduce a new bill that would prevent federal officials and their families from issuing digital assets – a bill directed at Donald Trump and his family’s current
Read MoreMeta awarded $167.25 million over Pegasus spyware attack
NSO Group, the Israeli spyware-maker behind Pegasus, must pay Meta $167.25 million for hacking 1,400 users across WhatsApp. A federal jury in California made the decision on Tuesday after the court found the NSO Group liable for the attacks last year. Meta sued NSO Group in 2019 after Citizen Lab
Read MoreChris’ Corner: GSAP, more like FREESap
The news is that GSAP, a hugely popular animation library on CodePen and the web writ large, is now entirely free to use thanks to their being acquired by Webflow. Thanks to Webflow GSAP is now 100% FREE including ALL of the bonus plugins like SplitText, MorphSVG, and all the others that were exclusively available to
Read MoreThe modified Signal app used by Mike Waltz was reportedly hacked
A hacker has obtained direct messages and contact information from TeleMessage, the Israeli software company that offers modified versions of Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, and other apps to the US government, according to a report from 404Media. Last week, a photo of former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz appeared to show
Read MoreElon Musk’s SpaceX gets a company town in Texas
Residents near Boca Chica Beach in Texas have voted to become a city called Starbase. | Photo by GABRIEL CARDENAS/AFP via Getty Images<br> South Texas voters mostly employed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX have approved a measure to incorporate as Starbase, a new city in Texas’ Cameron County near the company’s
Read MoreTrump’s 2026 NASA budget would slash ISS crew and allocate more money for Elon
The Trump administration has released a proposal to cut about a quarter of NASA’s 2026 budget, slashing both International Space Station crew sizes and the amount of research done there. At the same time, it sets up new funding that would likely benefit Elon Musk’s SpaceX by prioritizing human missions
Read MoreSam Altman and Elon Musk are racing to build an ‘everything app’
Sam Altman and Elon Musk aren't just competing in the AI race; they both have ambitions to build Silicon Valley's holy grail: an "everything" super app encompassing finance, social media, gaming, and more. Earlier this week, I got a peek at Altman's plan from a cavernous event space on the
Read MoreMicrosoft goes passwordless by default on new accounts
After supporting passwordless Windows logins for years and even allowing users to delete passwords from their accounts, Microsoft is making its biggest move yet toward a future with no passwords. Now it will ask people signing up for new accounts to only use more secure methods like passkeys, push notifications,
Read MorePrevent and detect cheating in recruiting
For as long as there have been hiring assessments, there have been candidates who attempt to game the system. Before they had easy access to generative AI (GenAI) tools like ChatGPT, candidates for technical roles might copy and paste someone else’s code from an online forum, or have someone take
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