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The WSJ on Zuckerbergâs $25 Million Payoff to Trump
Annie Linskey and Rebecca Ballhaus, reporting for The Wall Street Journal: âIt looks like a bribe and a signal to every company that corruption is the name of the game,â...
One of These Lickspittle Tech Titans Is Not Like the Others
NBC News, âMeta Agrees to Pay $25 Million to Settle Trump Lawsuitâ: Meta said Wednesday it would pay $25 million to settle a four-year-old lawsuit from President Donald Trump over...
LocalSend: Open Source Cross-Platform Alternative to AirDrop
Via David Smith on Mastodon, who writes: The recent work Iâve been doing has required a lot of sharing files between testing devices (and my Mac). AirDrop should be the...
Apple Reports Q1 FY2025 Results
Apple: Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2025 first quarter ended December 28, 2024. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $124.3 billion, up 4 percent year over year,...
How to Write (and Read) Headlines in the Trump 2.0 Era, Microsoft-TikTok Edition
A Monday report from Reuters, syndicated at The Guardian, âMicrosoft Is in Talks to Acquire TikTok, Trump Claimsâ: Donald Trump has suggested that Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok...
OpenStreetMap Community Discussion on How to Handle the U.S. Federal Governmentâs Imminent Designation of the Gulf of Mexico as the âGulf of Americaâ
Fascinating threadâââand an almost entirely civil discussion of what has become, for obvious reasons, an inflammatory topic. These are mapping and metadata nerds approaching the dilemma in the...
Google Maps Will Rename Gulf of Mexico to âGulf of Americaâ, for American Users Only
Google, in an announcement on X: Weâve received a few questions about naming within Google Maps. We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated...