TWiT 1030: Journalism Comes In Second - Government Threatens Wikipedia's Editorial Freedom
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• Judge Blasts Apple For Violating Antitrust Ruling

• Google's Sundar Pichai Calls US Remedies 'De Facto' Spinoff of Search - Slashdot

• Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive

• Visa Announces Plans to Give AI Agents Your Credit Card Information

• The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here

• The TAKE IT DOWN Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims That Will Lead to Censorship

• Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act

• White House Slams Amazon After Report it Will Highlight Tariff Costs

• The Kickstarter you backed may soon ask for more money to cover Trump's tariffs

• Microsoft Raises Xbox Prices 20% as Tariffs Drive Up Cost of Development

• UPS will cut 20,000 jobs because fewer Amazon packages are coming

• Elon Musk's DOGE ties could get his companies out of $2 billion in potential liability

• President Trump's fiscal 2026 budget proposal suggests slashing $491M from CISA's ~$3B budget, claiming the cut "refocuses CISA on its core mission"

• Government Actually Threatens Wikipedia's Editorial Freedom; Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warriors Suddenly Have Other Plans

• Mark Zuckerberg Sailed 5,300 Miles With Two Superyachts Only to Helicopter Up a Mountain and Ski
  Down in Billionaire Style - Sustainability Times

• Massive power outage in Spain, Portugal leaves millions in dark

• Wall Street Banks Sell Final Slug of Elon Musk's X Debt

• Elon Musk's SpaceX gets a company town in Texas

• Amazon deploys the first Project Kuiper internet satellites

• Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users

• How Badly Did ChatGPT and Copilot Fail to Predict the Winners of the Kentucky Derby? - Slashdot

• Quantum message travels record distance over fiber optic network

• Photo appears to show Mike Waltz using Signal-like app that can archive messages

• Chinese university designed 'world's first silicon-free 2D GAAFET transistor,' claims new bismuth-based tech is both the fastest and lowest-power transistor yet

• The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers

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