
The Guardian - 2 hours 19 min ago
The enormous US debt under Trump will hobble the next Democratic administration just as the GOP planned You could pin the US's staggering $40tn in government debt to Donald Trump's Keystone Cops-style governance. Tariffs he sold as a new source of revenue were struck down by the supreme court, forcing the government to return tens of billions of dollars to importers. Elon Musk's "department of government efficiency" (Doge), ostensibly created to stop wasteful government spending...

The Next Web - 6 hours 53 min ago
The US Department of Justice has stepped into a court fight on the side of Elon Musk's xAI. It is backing the company's challenge to a Minnesota law that bans AI "nudification" tools. A federal judge heard arguments on Wednesday and said he would rule soon, according to Courthouse News Service. xAI wants a preliminary […] This story continues at The Next Web...

The Guardian - 10 hours 40 min ago
It's simple, says the SpaceX boss according to something called the Kardashev scale', we just have to move energy production off-planet' Next time the weather gives the UK 61 days without rain and we wonder idly if this is the end, there is a term we may whistle up to soothe us. Like murmuring the rosary, or putting our fingers in our ears and humming, this phrase is to be mumbled on repeat "the Kardashev scale, the Kardashev scale" a buzzy concept in tech, much favoured by Elon...

NY Post - 18 hours 36 min ago
Derek Chauvin has filed a motion to pause his appeal, claiming Gov. Tim Walz unlawfully assigned Attorney General Keith Ellison to prosecute his murder case.

TMZ - 21 hours 11 min ago
Elon Musk is doubling down on his defense of Derek Chauvin ... insisting the former Minneapolis cop convicted of murdering George Floyd is innocent and should be freed. Elon weighed in Wednesday on X ... saying Chauvin was "unjustly convicted of…...

Forbes - 21 hours 40 min ago
The post marks the latest reversal of Musk's previously liberal political leanings.