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Crypto Billionaire Pardoned In Prison By Trump Just Wrote a Memoir
EditorDavid, Slashdot.org
Forbes estimates he's worth roughly $110 billion, "placing him ahead of Bill Gates." And now Changpeng Zhao, the 49-year-old billionaire founder of Binance, "has written a memoir..." It arrives with the unmistakable timing of a man determined to tell the …
Apr 12, 2026, 10:34 AM
US Demands Reddit Unmask ICE Critic, Summons Firm To Grand Jury
BeauHD, Slashdot.org
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Trump administration has stepped up an effort to unmask a Reddit user who criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). After failing to obtain information through a summons issued (PDF) to Re…
Apr 11, 2026, 11:00 AM
EPA Flags Microplastics, Pharmaceuticals As Contaminants In Drinking Water
BeauHD, Slashdot.org
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Responding to public health concerns about microplastics and pharmaceuticals in the nation's drinking water, the Trump administration for the first time has placed them on a draft list of contaminants maintained b…
Apr 3, 2026, 3:30 AM
Global Ban On Digital Duties Expires After Stalled Talks At WTO Meeting
BeauHD, Slashdot.org
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: A global ban on taxing digital streaming and downloads across national borders expired on Monday, after members of the World Trade Organization concluded an annual meeting without agreeing to extend…
Mar 31, 2026, 7:00 PM
Melania Trump Welcomes Humanoid Robot At White House Summit
BeauHD, Slashdot.org
Longtime Slashdot reader theodp writes: In Melania and the Robot, the New York Times reports on First Lady Melania Trump's inaugural Fostering the Future Together Coalition Summit, which brought together international leaders, First Spouses from around the wo…
Mar 26, 2026, 7:00 AM
Trump's TikTok Deal Benefited Firms That 'Personally Enriched' Him, Lawsuit Says
BeauHD, Slashdot.org
An anti-corruption group has filed a lawsuit (PDF) against Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi over the deal that transferred TikTok's U.S. operations to a group of investors tied to the administration. The suit claims the arrangement violates a 2024 …
Mar 5, 2026, 9:00 PM
US Tech Firms Pledge At White House To Bear Costs of Energy For Datacenters
BeauHD, Slashdot.org
Major tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta pledged at the White House to pay for new power generation and grid upgrades needed to support their rapidly expanding datacenters. The Guardian reports: The agreement is meant to help mitigat…
Mar 5, 2026, 3:00 PM
America Used Anthropic's AI for Its Attack On Iran, One Day After Banning It
EditorDavid, Slashdot.org
Engadget reports: In a lengthy post on Truth Social on February 27, President Trump ordered all federal agencies to "immediately cease all use of Anthropic's technology" following strong disagreements between the Department of Defense and the AI company. A f…
Mar 1, 2026, 7:47 PM
Trump Orders Federal Agencies To Stop Using Anthropic AI Tech 'Immediately'
BeauHD, Slashdot.org
President Donald Trump has ordered all U.S. federal agencies to "immediately cease" using Anthropic's AI technology, escalating a standoff after the company sought limits on Pentagon use of its models. CNBC reports: The company, which in July signed a $200 mi…
Feb 27, 2026, 10:40 PM
Americans Are Leaving the US in Record Numbers
msmash, Slashdot.org
An anonymous reader shares a report: In its 250th year, is America, land of immigration, becoming a country of emigration? Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasn't definitively occurred since the Great Depression: More people moved out than moved …
Feb 26, 2026, 12:07 PM
Americans Are Destroying Flock Surveillance Cameras
msmash, Slashdot.org
An anonymous reader shares a report: Brian Merchant, writing for Blood in the Machine, reports that people across the United States are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras, amid rising public anger that the license plate readers aid U.S. imm…
Feb 25, 2026, 9:00 PM
The US Had a Big Battery Boom Last Year
msmash, Slashdot.org
The United States installed a record 57 gigawatt hours of new battery storage on its electric grids in 2025, a nearly 30% increase over the prior year that arrived even as the Trump administration cut tax credits for wind and solar in last summer's One Big Be…
Feb 25, 2026, 4:01 AM
America's Peace Corps Announces 'Tech Corps' Volunteers to Help Bring AI to Foreign Countries
EditorDavid, Slashdot.org
Over 240,000 Americans volunteered for Peace Corps projects in 142 countries since the program began more than half a century ago. But now the agency is launching a new initiative — called Tech Corps. "It's the Peace Corps, but make it AI," explains Engadge…
Feb 21, 2026, 9:43 PM
Trump Directs US Government To Prepare Release of Files on Aliens and UFOs
msmash, Slashdot.org
US President Donald Trump says he will direct US agencies, including the defence department, to "begin the process of identifying and releasing" government files on aliens and extraterrestrial life. From a report: Trump made the declaration in a post on Truth…
Feb 20, 2026, 5:00 AM
99% of New US Will Be Green in 2026
EditorDavid, Slashdot.org
This year in America, renewables and battery storage "will account for 99.2% of net new capacity — and even higher if small-scale solar were included," reports Electrek, citing EIA data reviewed by the SUN DAY Campaign: EIA's latest monthly "Electric Power M…
Feb 1, 2026, 12:34 PM
99% of New US Energy Capacity Will Be Green in 2026
EditorDavid, Slashdot.org
This year in America, renewables and battery storage "will account for 99.2% of net new capacity — and even higher if small-scale solar were included," reports Electrek, citing EIA data reviewed by the SUN DAY Campaign: EIA's latest monthly "Electric Power M…
Feb 1, 2026, 12:34 PM
Cory Doctorow On Tariffs and the DMCA In Canada
BeauHD, Slashdot.org
Longtime Slashdot reader devnulljapan writes: In 2012, Canada passed anti-circumvention law Bill C-11, cut-and-pasted from the U.S. DMCA, in return for access to U.S. markets without tariffs. Trump has tariffed Canada anyway, so Cory Doctorow suggests it soun…
Jan 30, 2026, 1:25 AM
Mozilla is Building an AI 'Rebel Alliance' To Take on Industry Heavweights OpenAI, Anthropic
msmash, Slashdot.org
Mozilla, the nonprofit organization behind the Firefox browser that has spent two decades battling tech giants over control of the internet, is now turning its attention to AI and deploying roughly $1.4 billion in reserves to fund what president Mark Surman c…
Jan 27, 2026, 8:43 PM
Amazon CEO Jassy Says Tariffs Have Started To 'Creep' Into Prices
msmash, Slashdot.org
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs are starting to be reflected in the price of some items, as sellers weigh how to absorb the shock of the added costs. From a report: Amazon and many of its third-party merchants pre-purchase…
Jan 20, 2026, 2:40 PM
JPMorgan Warns 10% Credit Card Rate Cap Would Backfire on Consumers and Economy
msmash, Slashdot.org
JPMorgan Chase's chief financial officer Jeremy Barnum pushed back hard on Tuesday against President Donald Trump's proposed 10% cap on credit card interest rates, calling the measure "very bad for consumers" and "very bad for the economy" during a call with …
Jan 13, 2026, 4:05 PM
Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work
msmash, Slashdot.org
President Donald Trump signed into law this month a measure that prohibits anyone based in China and other adversarial countries from accessing the Pentagon's cloud computing systems. From a report: The ban, which is tucked inside the $900 billion defense pol…
Jan 2, 2026, 8:01 PM
'Foreign Tech Workers Are Avoiding Travel To the US'
BeauHD, Slashdot.org
In an opinion piece for Computerworld, columnist Steven Vaughan-Nichols argues that restrictive visa policies and a hostile border climate under the Trump administration are driving foreign tech workers, researchers, and conference speakers away from the U.S.…
Dec 31, 2025, 2:02 AM
Nvidia Buying Groq's Assets For $20 Billion in Its Largest Deal on Record
msmash, Slashdot.org
Nvidia has agreed to buy assets from Groq, a designer of high-performance artificial intelligence accelerator chips, for $20 billion in cash, according to Alex Davis, CEO of Disruptive, which led the startup's latest financing round in September. From a repor…
Dec 25, 2025, 3:01 PM
Trump Administration To Overhaul Lottery System For H-1B Visas
msmash, Slashdot.org
The Trump administration has announced it would replace the lottery programme used to grant H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers with a system that prioritises higher-paid individuals. From a report: The Department of Homeland Security said it would begin t…
Dec 25, 2025, 2:00 PM
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