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Trump meets with his aides to make the “final decision” on moving forward with the Iran deal

Trump meets with his aides to make the “final decision” on moving forward with the Iran deal

🚀 Read this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Donald Trump news,Iran,Strait of Hormuz âś… **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — US President Donald Trump said Friday that he is holding a meeting in the White House Situation Room with his advisers as he looks to make a “final decision” on moving forward with a deal to extend a ceasefire with Iran. Trump confirmed the high-level talks at the White House a day after the Associated Press and other media reported that American and Iranian negotiators had reached a tentative agreement. The agreement would extend the…
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Downdetector and Speedtest sold to Accenture for $1.2 billion

Downdetector and Speedtest sold to Accenture for $1.2 billion

✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Downdetector and Speedtest — the free platforms that allow people on the web to quickly check internet speeds or see if an online platform may be down — will soon have a new owner. On Tuesday, the consulting and IT services provider Accenture announced that it has agreed to acquire the Ookla-owned platforms from Ziff Davis for $1.2 billion, as reported earlier by Reuters.In the press release, Accenture CEO Julie Sweet says the company will use Ookla’s products to capture data that will help “clients…
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Devastating wildfires and homelessness loom large in Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’s bid for a second term

Devastating wildfires and homelessness loom large in Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’s bid for a second term

✨ Check out this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: california,karen bass,Los Angeles,Nithya Raman,spencer pratt,Vote 2026 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: LOS ANGELES (AP) — As Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass seeks a second term, she's not ignoring the obvious: Her tenure on the City Council has been difficult. “I didn't always get it right,” she says plainly. But the first black woman to hold the position insists she must continue to lead the struggling city of about 4 million that will host the 2028 Olympics. Murders have declined. Street homelessness has decreased. Homes destroyed by last…
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To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks. — Martyn’s random musings

To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks. — Martyn’s random musings

🔥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I know the technology, I understand what it's doing and I know the impact, so I am vehemently anti-AI. I do not believe any positive outcome is possible with this form of AI that is worth the harms that it has already done and is continuing to do. Nor do I believe that “just one more model bro” will make something that is “intelligent”. Of course “AI” is a marketing term so it doesn't mean anything, neither does GenAI or the latest buzzword “Agentic”. This…
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WATCH: Epstein survivors press Comer to interview Bundy under oath, ask about release of files

WATCH: Epstein survivors press Comer to interview Bundy under oath, ask about release of files

đź’Ą Explore this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: epstein files,James Comer,jeffrey epstein,Pam Bondi đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Former Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared before House lawmakers on Friday during an investigation into how the government handled investigations into Jeffrey Epstein. Rep. James Comer spoke with abuse survivors outside Bondi's interview. Watch in the video player above. Bondi was ousted from her position as prosecutor last month, but in her previous testimony before Congress, she was defiant in facing questions from lawmakers about how the Justice Department handled the release of the Epstein case files. She…
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Voxel Space | VoxelSpace

Voxel Space | VoxelSpace

🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: History Let us go back to the year 1992. The CPUs were 1000 times slower than today and the acceleration via a GPU was unknown or unaffordable. 3D games were calculated exclusively on the CPU and the rendering engine rendered filled polygons with a single color. Game Gunship 2000 published by MicroProse in 1991 It was during that year NovaLogic published the game Comanche. Game Comanche published by NovaLogic in 1992 The graphics were breathtaking for the time being and in my opinion 3…
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WATCH: Rep. Garcia says Bondi refused to answer any questions about the Trump-Epstein files

WATCH: Rep. Garcia says Bondi refused to answer any questions about the Trump-Epstein files

đź’Ą Read this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: congress,Donald Trump news,epstein files,jeffrey epstein,Pam Bondi,robert garcia,Todd Blanche,u.s. department of justice 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Former Attorney General Pam Bondi declined to answer lawmakers' questions about President Donald Trump's involvement in the release of the Epstein files on Friday. Watch House Democrats talk about Bondi's interview in the video above. Bondi was on Capitol Hill for a closed-door interview in which she defended the administration's actions to House lawmakers examining the operation, which was delayed and included personal information about potential victims. He watches: Epstein's survivors pressure…
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Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain tissue

Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain tissue

🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A largely overlooked space between cells in women’s brains may hold the key to understanding memory loss tied to estrogen decline after menopause, reports a new preclinical Northwestern Medicine study. Nearly two-thirds of Americans with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are women, but the reasons why women are more vulnerable are still not fully understood. Scientists have long theorized that the loss of estrogen after menopause may reduce the brain’s natural protection against memory loss and neurodegeneration. In the new study, the scientists examined young and old…
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Louisiana passes new congressional map to eliminate majority black district, giving GOP another seat

Louisiana passes new congressional map to eliminate majority black district, giving GOP another seat

✨ Check out this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: congressional redistricting,Gerrymandering,Louisiana,redistricting,Supreme Court,Vote 2026 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers passed a new congressional map Friday designed to help Republicans pick up a seat while eliminating one of the state's two majority-Black House districts, both represented by Democrats. Approval of the new House map came a month after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the state's existing map as an illegal racial gerrymander, weakening the landmark federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. The decision intensified a redistricting battle nationwide, fueled by…
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kristapsdz/openrsync: BSD-licensed implementation of rsync · GitHub

kristapsdz/openrsync: BSD-licensed implementation of rsync · GitHub

đź’Ą Read this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: This system has been merged into OpenBSD base. If you'd like to contribute to openrsync, please mail your patches to tech@openbsd.org. This repository is simply the OpenBSD version plus some glue for portability. This is an implementation of rsync with a BSD (ISC) license. It's compatible with a modern rsync (3.1.3 is used for testing, but any supporting protocol 27 will do), but accepts only a subset of rsync's command-line arguments. Its officially-supported operating system is OpenBSD, but it will compile and run on other…
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