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When President Trump’s new tariffs started throttling freight traffic, the leader of trucking logistics firm Freight Technologies used an unorthodox method to try and get the president’s attention. The California-based firm purchased $2 million worth of Trump Coin, the signature cryptocurrency backed by Mr. Trump. The president and his family launched Trump Coin days before he took office in January. Anyone can buy the cryptocurrency. An analytics firm says Mr. Trump’s family and other backers have collected more than $300 million in transaction fees so far. Donald Quinby, Freight Technologies’ chief financial officer, told CBS News that the purchase seemed like…
The folks behind Rust-based AV1 video decoder rav1d are looking for developers to get it running as fast as its C-based cousin, dav1d. It all kicked off back in March 2023. The plan? Build a high-performance AV1 decoder, but with all the memory safety goodness Rust brings. They teamed up with Immunant for the heavy lifting on the engineering side. Fast forward to September 2024, and rav1d was pretty much there – “basically complete,” as they put it. It passes all the same tests as the dav1d decoder it’s based on, and you can even get Chromium to play nice…
LeSean McCoy reacts to Angel Reese’s reaction to Caitlin Clark’s flagrant foul. The Indiana Fever defeated the Chicago Sky 93-58.
ATLANTA — Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms says her single term as Atlanta mayor gave her “battle-tested executive leadership” that she can offer to Georgia voters as she runs for governor.Bottoms, 55, officially launched her campaign Tuesday, becoming the second well-known Democrat to jump into the 2026 race. State Sen. Jason Esteves of Atlanta announced his campaign in April.“As we are facing the uncertainty and the anxiety that’s being created in Washington right now, I’m running to be a fighter for Georgia,” Bottoms told The Associated Press on Monday. “I want to be able to fight and deliver for our communities,…
The government has announced £5.5m of funding to support projects that will be streamlined by the Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO) to cut bureaucracy. The RIO, headed by David Willetts, was set up by the government to cut red tape, remove barriers to innovation and accelerate the time it takes to bring emerging technologies to market. Willetts, who took on the role of chair of the RIO in March, hopes to shape regulatory approaches that empower new technologies, supporting Labour’s pledge to bring the UK’s most promising new technologies to the public quickly and safely while kickstarting economic growth. The…
CANNES, France — Before this week, the dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi hadn’t attended the premiere of one of his films in more than 15 years.Panahi, one of the leading international directors, was banned from traveling out of Iran in 2009 for attending the funeral of a student killed in the Green Movement protests, a judgment later extended to two decades. But even when placed under house arrest, Panahi kept making movies, many of which are among the most lauded of the century. He made 2011’s “This Is Not a Film” on an iPhone in his living room. “Taxi” (2015)…
Judge: DHS South Sudan flight violated order Judge rules Trump administration violated court order with South Sudan deportation flight 05:38 A group of eight migrants are being held in the small African country of Djibouti after a judge said the Trump administration’s attempt to fly them to South Sudan “unquestionably” violated a court order, President Trump confirmed Thursday.Mr. Trump lashed out at U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, who ordered the government to “maintain custody and control” of the migrants Tuesday. Attorneys say the migrants were put on a flight to violence-plagued South Sudan, allegedly violating an earlier order by Murphy…
[SINGAPORE] JPMorgan Chase chief Jamie Dimon cannot rule out the US economy will fall into stagflation as the country faces huge risks from geopolitics, deficits and price pressures.“I don’t agree that we are in a sweet spot,” the chief executive officer said in a Bloomberg Television interview from the lender’s Global China Summit in Shanghai. Risks include huge deficits, inflationary factors, and geopolitical risk, he said, adding that the US Federal Reserve is doing the right thing to wait and see before they decide. Fed officials have held interest rates steady this year amid a solid economic backdrop and uncertainty about…
In a surprising move that will frustrate longtime fans, Mozilla has announced it will shut down Pocket on July 8, 2025. The once-popular “read-it-later” service, which helped users save and organize web content for later reading, will no longer function as normal after that date. While existing users can continue saving and reading articles until July, the service will switch to export-only mode afterward, with all user data permanently deleted on October 8. Mozilla, which acquired Pocket in 2017, says it’s closing the platform due to changes in how people browse and consume content. The company wants to focus its…
Tinder CEO Faye Iosotaluno said on Thursday that she would step down in July, as the dating app aims to attract more users.Iosotaluno, who has led Tinder since January 2024, oversaw the dating platform’s increased focus on personalization through deeper integration of artificial intelligence into its recommendation system.Tinder parent Match Group’s CEO, Spencer Rascoff, in a LinkedIn post said he would step in to lead the Tinder team.”Tinder is in great hands with Spencer and the leadership team,” Iosotaluno said in her LinkedIn post, where she announced her departure. Rascoff was appointed Match CEO in February, with a focus on…