Politics
Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters”
Elon Musk Reportedly Asked Curtis Yarvin, Far-Right Blogger Who Wants America to Be Run by Authoritarian ‘C.E.O.’ for Advice on Starting Third Party
Unhinged Trump Audio Released: ‘Bomb the S**t Out of Moscow’
Trump said many times the war in Ukraine would never have happened if he were President. In these tapes, he says he threatened to bomb Moscow to prevent it. He also says he told President Xi of China that he's bomb Beijing if he invaded Taiwan.
Trump’s 50% Levy on Brazil Shows World Nothing Is Off Limits
It’s unprecedented for the US to add a tariff onto a foreign country to stop a judicial proceeding. “It signals to US trade partners that any and all issues that catch Trump’s attention could become a problematic part of the trade agenda. It also raises questions as to whether the reciprocal tariff negotiations will ever really settle anything.”
Trump officials used shadowy website to target pro-Palestinian academics for deportation, court records show
As the Trump administration identified pro-Palestinian academics to target for deportation, it relied heavily on Canary Mission, an anonymously-run pro-Israel website that has been criticized for doxxing.
Critics accuse the group of McCarthy-like tactics by painting pro-Palestinian activists as antisemitic based on thin or irrelevant evidence. Canary Mission has not revealed its funders or details of who operates it.
US supreme court clears way for Trump officials to resume mass government firings
The decision could result in hundreds of thousands of job losses at the departments of agriculture, commerce, health and human services, state, treasury, veterans affairs and other agencies.
Can Trump strip Musk and Mamdani of their US citizenship?
The US government frequently tried to denaturalise citizens during the two “Red Scare” periods of 1917 to 1920 and 1947 to 1957, including communists and Nazi sympathisers.
In 1967, the trend for denaturalisation slowed down when the US Supreme Court ruled that a US citizen could not be involuntarily deprived of their citizenship unless they met the specific criteria of having obtained naturalisation by fraud or of having committed serious offences.
Militia fueled by bizarre conspiracy theory brings down weather radars
A militia known as the "Veterans on Patrol" aims to dismantle weather radars, as part of a larger conspiracy theory surrounding weather manipulation.
Amid false conspiracies about the floods in Texas being part of a kind of cloud seeding attack, organization founder Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer confirmed to News 9 that they were "absolutely" working to target Oklahoma radars.
10 Charged With Attempted Murder After ‘Ambush’ at ICE Detention Center
10 to 12 individuals from the Dallas-Fort Worth area attacked the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, on July 4, allegedly launched fireworks at the center, vandalized vehicles with graffiti like “Ice Pig,” and shot at officers.
IRS says churches can endorse political candidates without losing tax-exempt status
The move upends a 70-year interpretation of the U.S. tax code.
Infosec
New Android TapTrap attack fools users with invisible UI trick
76% of apps in the Play Store are vulnerable, because they let other apps open one of their screens, for a purpose like "allow camera access".
How to turn off ACR on your TV (and why it makes such a big difference)
Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) captures continuous screenshots and cross-references them with a vast database of media content and advertisements. ACR can capture up two images per second, and is used to target ads.
This Is DOGE 2.0
DOGE technologists are now quietly cycling into federal agencies, spending days or weeks building products and cutting contracts before cycling out once again. This is all done with little oversight from the White House or the United States DOGE Service (USDS), which these technologists purportedly represent.
“All it takes is people taking you seriously for you to be there ... You don't need a government laptop or email or anything like that to tell people what to do.”
Perplexity launches Comet, its AI-based web browser
Built on Chromium, Comet obviously uses Perplexity as its default search engine. It comes with a sidebar assistant that can summarize pages, answer questions, and even take actions on the user’s behalf (booking hotels, sending emails, or buying products).
The goal, according to CEO Aravind Srinivas as reported by The Verge, is to transform “entire browsing sessions into single, seamless interactions.”
But here’s the catch: for now, Comet is only available to the newly released Perplexity Max subscription tier, which costs $200/month. A broader rollout is expected soon.
'It's been hell': Hundreds of Amazon packages mistakenly shipped to San Jose woman's home for over a year
According to Amazon's policy, international sellers must either provide a U.S. address to which to send the return, issue a "returnless refund", or provide a pre-paid international shipping label within two days of the return request. That means "Liusandedian" would have to lose all proceeds from the sale or pay return shipping to China. So they just use a bogus American address and make customers pay over $100 to ship the defective products there, then never send any refund.
Kay says she's contacted Amazon countless times to try and resolve this over the past year, including filing six complaint tickets.
If you’re caught by AI smoking on campus, prepare for the worst. But don’t worry, Reddit has solutions
An Indian college informs students that “AI-based face recognition cameras have been installed on campus and within a 200-meter radius outside the campus.”
The university employs AI technology to catch students smoking “on campus or near shops outside of campus.”
If anyone is caught smoking in these areas, they will be “suspended with immediate effect.”
Tech layoffs drop in San Francisco after two-year surge
They've fallen from 6,468 in FY 2020 to 2,582 in FY 2025.
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