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  Trump can't force election changes by blocking counterterrorism funds to states, judge says A federal judge on Monday blocked the authority of President Donald Trump’s administration to withhold some federal counterterrorism funding from states that don’t meet its election administration demands. Courts have largely rejected the administration’s previous efforts, which reflect untrue claims about widespread voting fraud and come ahead of November’s midterm elections where Democrats seek t...

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  3 US news outlets return to White House after judge orders Trump to lift ban Three news organizations banned from the White House for days were back Thursday after a judge handed CNN, MS NOW and Politico a reprieve in an extraordinary showdown between President Donald Trump and outlets whose coverage he dislikes. But media coverage of Trump’s White House was hardly normal. On a high-profile day when Chinese leader Xi Jinping was visiting Washington and planning to attend a state dinner, no ma...

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  Judge blocks Trump's ban and says CNN, MS NOW and Politico must have White House access restored A federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s move to ban three news outlets from the White House grounds, saying early Thursday that CNN, MS NOW and Politico must have their access restored. It’s the latest development in an escalating showdown between Trump and media outlets whose coverage he dislikes. Trump announced he was banning the outlets Friday, assailing what he called...

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  Republicans dump cash into red states as they try to hold the line against Democrats in the midterms Republicans are growing increasingly grim about their chances in November, with aligned groups pumping money into reliably GOP states and candidates scrambling to distance themselves from unpopular White House policies. From Texas to Ohio and Alaska to Iowa, campaigns are grappling with a fed-up electorate that is sour on the president and angry over soaring fuel prices driven by an unpopular...

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  Trump administration to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees over fraud claims Vice President JD Vance and other Trump administration officials said Tuesday they plan to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees from public healthcare exchanges, alleging that the individuals were fraudulently enrolled in the program, or simply do not exist. Vance said the discovery and canceled subsidy payments for hundreds of thousands of people from the exchanges, part of an administration-wide c...

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  Trump slams the Supreme Court for rejecting his push to restrict mail ballots President Donald Trump on Tuesday went after the Supreme Court after it rejected his push to restrict mail-in voting in this year’s midterms, saying justices who opposed him were “not the people I interviewed.” His social media missive was just the latest in a long history of Trump assailing justices, particularly those he had nominated, who ruled against him on his administration’s most prominent initiatives. The p...

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  Trump agrees to new bipartisan ethics provision in massive crypto bill, Republican senators say President Donald Trump has agreed to a significant portion of a stringent ethics proposal that is part of broader cryptocurrency legislation headed for a key vote this week, according to three of the bill’s main Republican authors. The sweeping bill initially had just a provision included that would bar all federally elected officials and their spouses, as well as federal judges, from issuing digit...

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  House Speaker Mike Johnson says Trump’s $5,000 ‘dividend’ needs congressional approval President Donald Trump’s proposal to send $5,000 to every American adult if his Republican Party maintains control of the House and Senate in the November election needs congressional approval, House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday, while pledging to try to make it happen. Trump made the unusual pitch at the party’s midterm convention in Dallas last week, promising a “Trump Dividend” if voters keep the GOP...

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  Second federal judge freezes Trump mail ballot order with US Supreme Court poised to weigh in A federal judge late Sunday ordered that the U.S. Postal Service not implement President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting mail balloting, adding another obstacle to the administration’s effort to rewrite election rules as the Supreme Court is poised to weigh in on the matter. The nation’s highest court already is considering the administration’s appeal of an order by U.S. District Court Judge...

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  Republicans open highly unusual, midterm convention billed as a two days of ‘Trump-a-Palooza’ Republicans opened their unusual midterm convention in Dallas on Wednesday by offering speech after speech bashing Democrats and celebrating President Donald Trump, putting their party’s undisputed leader at the center of the upcoming midterm elections — whether the candidates running like it or not. Many Republicans, including those facing tight races, are skipping the two-day affair, while others h...

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  Democratic Sen. Fetterman speaks at a GOP midterm convention, fueling party-switch fears Democratic Sen. John Fetterman spoke to the Republican midterm convention via video Wednesday, an extraordinary escalation of the growing rupture between the Pennsylvanian and his party. Fetterman’s decision is certain to stoke fears, already simmering among Democrats, that he will switch parties. Democrats need to pick up four GOP-held Senate seats in November to regain the majority. If Fetterman were to...

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  Exclusive: New grand jury subpoenas in investigation targeting Trump-Russia probe, AP sources say The Justice Department is demanding testimony before a Florida grand jury in an investigation aiming to establish an intelligence community conspiracy against President Donald Trump, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. New subpoenas being issued to former government officials represent an escalation in the year-long investigation as the Justice Department pursues a loosely defi...

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  I was going to say, Intel GPUs work great on Linux these days. For more modern Intel cards (if not all Intel GPUs), it’s also part of the kernel, just like AMD cards.

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  Supreme Court grants Republican emergency appeal on TV ad rates before midterms The Supreme Court granted an emergency appeal from Republicans in a dispute over campaign ad prices on Friday, clearing a legal roadblock to political parties getting cheaper TV ad time ahead of the midterm elections. The justices halted for now a lower-court ruling in favor of Democratic candidates who argued that cheaper broadcast ads should be limited to candidates. One justice publicly dissented from the unsig...

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  Flock surveillance cameras become midterm campaign target as voters balk at tech companies' power Wisconsin’s candidates for governor want to limit them, while Pennsylvania’s say they support a ban. A Michigan congressional candidate called them “un-American.” A Florida Senate candidate is selling merch opposing them. Across the country and up and down ballots, candidates from both parties are increasingly on the attack over Flock cameras, the AI-powered nationwide network of automated ca...

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  Trump again appeals to Supreme Court on mail-voting restrictions with midterm elections looming The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to reject an order by a federal judge that halts it from implementing a new rule regulating mail ballots, hours after being unable to tell that judge whether the computer system that would govern the entire project was operational yet. The administration filed its appeal the afternoon before mail ballots were scheduled to be sent out by N...

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  US military has no plans to send troops to the polls in November, top general says The highest-ranking officer in the U.S. military says there are no plans to send troops to polling places during November’s midterm congressional elections, addressing concerns among Democrats that the Trump administration could use the military to interfere with the vote. Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made the statement in a letter to Michigan Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin, who recent...

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  Supreme Court lets White House continue construction on Trump’s $400 million ballroom A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed the White House to continue construction on a $400 million ballroom project as lawsuits play out, a win for President Donald Trump as he flexes unprecedented executive power and remakes the capital in his image. Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, “I am pleased to report that the United States Supreme Court has just ruled in favor of the Ballroom/Military Compl...

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  No, AI Is Not "Autonomously Hacking" with Cal Newport cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/70064423 In this week’s Better Offline, Ed talks with computer science professor and writer Cal Newport about what the recent AI hacking incidents actually mean, why we should stop referring to LLMs as AI, and what the post-bubble world looks like for LLMs.

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  FBI no longer treating an applicant's experience with prostitution as automatic bar against hiring The FBI is dropping a categorical hiring ban on applicants who have had sexual encounters with prostitutes and will instead consider in a more holistic manner at least some candidates who have engaged in the practice in the past, according to people familiar with the matter. The move away from an automatic disqualification falls along a continuum of evolving recruitment standards within fede...

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  WA sues Trump administration again over mail ballot restrictions Washington sued the U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday, trying to block the Trump administration’s proposed rules that could throw the state’s vote-by-mail system into chaos just two months before this year’s midterm elections. It’s the second time the state has sued to block this executive order. The Supreme Court on Monday sided with the Trump administration, finding that Washington and other states’ prior lawsuits were filed pr...

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  Frigate is great for self-hosted!

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  Isn't the NSA portion in that Wikipedia article just explaining why people moved to using ec25519? It says: > In 2013, interest began to increase considerably when it was discovered that the NSA had potentially implemented a backdoor into the P-256 curve based Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm.[12] While not directly related,[13] suspicious aspects of the NIST's P curve constants[14] led to concerns[15] that the NSA had chosen values that gave them an advantage in breaking the encryption.[16][1...

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  In college, on the first day of orientation, someone in my class bragged that they wrote 50,000 lines of code for a game that was similar to tic tac toe, emphasizing that he "wrote a lot of code". A TA told him that it wasn't a sign that his program was decent and that it really didn't seem like it should take 50k lines of code to make something as simple as his game. He dropped out after the first week of intro to programming.