Month: February 2025

Government employees fight the Trump administration’s chaos by organizing and publishing information on Bluesky After seeing Elon Musk’s X post on Saturday afternoon about an email that would soon land in the inboxes of 2.3 million federal employees asking them to list five things they did the week before, a clandestine network of employees and …

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This attempt to discover the identity of the cryptocurrency’s originator is clearly a labour of love. But all the information is old and it’s so padded out it’s the TV equivalent of a Zoom call that could have been an email Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? It’s a mystery that has vexed the internet since long …

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Investors will be eyeing firm’s financials for signs of slowing demand after revelation high-end chips not necessary Nvidia will deliver its earnings report for the fourth quarter of 2024 Wednesday evening, which investors will be watching closely for any signs of slowing demand for semiconductor chips. The chipmaker’s financials will face scrutiny over possible signals …

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Cross-party committees urge ministers to drop plans to force creators to opt out of works being used to train AI Two cross-party committees of MPs have urged the government to prioritise ensuring that creators are fairly remunerated for their creative work over making it easy to train artificial intelligence models. The MPs argued there needed …

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Vote vindicates tech company’s decision to uphold diversity initiatives as other firms give into pressure from president Apple shareholders voted down an attempt to pressure the technology company into yielding to Donald Trump’s push to scrub corporate programs designed to diversify its workforce. A proposal drafted by the National Center for Public Policy Research – …

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said more than a million US federal employees responded to an email sent by Elon Musk’s Department for Government Efficiency asking them to list five things they had accomplished in the last week. ‘It took me about a minute and a half to think of five things I did …

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Barney Ronay on Arne Slot | Church of England | Tech revolution | Too many questions | Last word on school reports? Last month, Barney Ronay said Liverpool’s manager, Arne Slot, had the look of a “prosperous provincial butcher here to pick up a civic award”. This month (23 February), he said Slot had “the …

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The tycoon’s links with Donald Trump and Germany’s far-right AfD have slammed the brakes on sales and put the car’s owners in a spin Tesla sales almost halve in Europe over Musk’s ties to Trump When Mike Schwede first sat in a Tesla Roadster 15 years ago, he felt like it was a glimpse into …

‘I felt nothing but disgust’: Tesla owners vent their anger at Elon Musk Read More »

Government accepts advice of commission that also says children under 13 should not have their own smartphone Denmark is to ban mobile phones in schools and after-school clubs on the recommendation of a government commission that also found that children under 13 should not have their own smartphone or tablet. The government said it would …

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Tech billionaire, a close adviser to the US president, is a vocal supporter of Germany’s far-right AfD party Business live – latest updates Sales of new Tesla cars almost halved in Europe last month, indicating waning demand for the US carmaker’s vehicles as its chief executive Elon Musk intervened repeatedly in the politics on both …

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