Flight delays and cancellations just hit more than 13,000 in one day with FAA mandate in effect. Will it get worse?

Michael Grothaus / fastcompany - This weekend, U.S. travelers began to feel the initial impact of flight reductions mandated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), a plan designed to help compensate for the understaffing of air traffic controllers due to the ongoing government shu…

Sarah Fielding / engadget - LGBTQ+ rights and acceptance have taken another hit in China, with Apple removing two of the countries biggest LGBTQ+ dating apps. Wired reports that Blued and Finka are no longer available on the iOS App Store or certain Android App Stores following orde…

#techpolicy #apple #china #government #ios #apps #asia #law #censorship #regulation

Apple Bows to China, Removes Gay Dating Apps from App Store

3 months / iphoneincanada / Nehal Malik

Apple removes popular gay dating apps from Chinas App Store

3 months / mashable

Apple bows to Chinese pressure to remove queer dating apps from its App Store

3 months / betanews / Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson

Apple told to remove LGBTQ+ dating apps by China

3 months / engadget / Sarah Fielding

Apple Pulls China’s Top Gay Dating Apps After Government Order

3 months / wired / Zeyi Yang, Louise Matsakis

Denmark passes social media ban for users under 15

mashable - Denmark passes social media ban for users under 15

#techpolicy #government #internet #europe #law #safety #digitalprivacy #regulation

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Denmark passes social media ban for users under 15

3 months / mashable

Denmark Says It Will Ban Social Media for Users Under 15

3 months / gizmodo / Lucas Ropek

UPS (and FedEx) Ground Dozens of MD-11 Aircraft After Tuesday's Crash in Kentucky

EditorDavid / slashdot - American multinational freight company UPS "has grounded its fleet of MD-11 aircraft," reports the Guardian, "days after a cargo plane crash that killed at least 13 people in Kentucky. The grounded MD-11s are the same type of plane involved in Tuesday's c…

#government #business #aviation #aerospace #supplychain #technology #emergencyservices #safety

UPS (and FedEx) Ground Dozens of MD-11 Aircraft After Tuesday's Crash in Kentucky

3 months / slashdot / EditorDavid

Investigators recover black boxes from UPS plane crash, detail data recovery process — NTSB successfully extracts cockpit audio from charred remains

3 months / tomshardware

China warns Dutch away from Nexperia as it lets chip exports resume

Brandon Vigliarolo / theregister - Netherlands court still overseeing governance at the chipmaker Tensions between China and the Netherlands over the state of chipmaker Nexperia have begun to ease, but the battle for company control doesn't appear to be entirely resolved yet. …

#semiconductors #techpolicy #china #chips #government #supplychain #technology #tradesecrets

China warns Dutch away from Nexperia as it lets chip exports resume

3 months / theregister / Brandon Vigliarolo

Dutch government allegedly folds to supply chain pressure, will relinquish control of Nexperia in China spat — reports say deal contingent upon China allowing firm to resume chip exports

3 months / tomshardware

Dutch Ready To Drop Nexperia Control If Chip Supply Resumes

3 months / slashdot / msmash

Google Plans Secret AI Military Outpost on Tiny Island Overrun By Crabs

msmash / slashdot - An anonymous reader shares a report: On Wednesday, Reuters reported that Google is planning to build a large AI data center on Christmas Island, a 52-square-mile Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, following a cloud computing deal with Australia's m…

#ai #cloud #defensetech #google #aiethics #government #datacenter #asia #australia #technology

Google Plans Secret AI Military Outpost on Tiny Island Overrun By Crabs

4 months / slashdot / msmash

Google plans secret AI military outpost on tiny island overrun by crabs

4 months / arstechnica / Benj Edwards

Google Plans Strategic AI Data Center on Remote Australian Military Outpost

4 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

FBI subpoenas the web registrar behind Archive.is

Stevie Bonifield / theverge - The FBI is attempting to track down the identity of the owner of Archive.today and its numerous mirrors, like Archive.is and Archive.ph. As reported by 404 Media, the FBI subpoena, which was posted on the official Archive.today X account, was sent to web …

#cybersecurity #techpolicy #government #doj #internet #law #litigation #digitalprivacy #regulation

Web Archive Archive.today: FBI Subpoenas Web Registrar Tucows to Unmask Operators

4 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

FBI Subpoenas Registrar for Details on Anonymous Archiving Site Owner

4 months / slashdot / msmash

FBI subpoenas the web registrar behind Archive.is

4 months / theverge / Stevie Bonifield

FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site

4 months / heise

FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site

4 months / 404media / Jason Koebler

Thousands of flights in danger of cancellation as FAA announces major cuts

Andrew J. Hawkins / theverge - The government shutdown-spurred airport chaos is about to get a whole lot worse. The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it will reduce flight volumes by 10 percent across 40 major airports in response, a move that could threaten 3,000 to 4,500…

#government #aviation #us #travel #economy #faa #safety #regulation

Government Shutdown Travel Trouble: How to Manage Flight Delays and Cancellations

4 months / cnet / Gael Cooper

These 3 major airlines are offering flight refunds during the government shutdown, starting tomorrow

4 months / fastcompany / Jennifer Mattson

Thousands of Flights in Danger of Cancellation as FAA Announces Major Cuts https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/06/1529244/thousands-of-flights-in-danger-of-cancellation-as-faa-announces-major-cuts?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

4 months / bsky / @slashdot.org / slashdot.org

Here are the 40 airports where the FAA is cutting flights because of the government shutdown

4 months / qz / Chris Morris

Trump admin threatens to cancel thousands of flights if shutdown continues, just in time for Thanksgiving

4 months / mashable

Here’s the List of 40 Airports Expected to Be Impacted by Shutdown Flight Reductions

4 months / gizmodo / Ece Yildirim

Thousands of Flights in Danger of Cancellation as FAA Announces Major Cuts

4 months / slashdot / msmash

Thousands of flights in danger of cancellation as FAA announces major cuts

4 months / theverge / Andrew J. Hawkins

The FAA is cutting flights at 40 major airports. Here's what it means for travelers

4 months / qz / Catherine Baab

Airports Are on the Verge of a Flight Cancellation Apocalypse

4 months / gizmodo / Mike Pearl

Debra Messing’s anti-Mamdani crashout

Eve Upton-Clark / fastcompany - Last night, Zohran Mamdani defeated Andrew Cuomo to become the next mayor of New York City. Cue the online crashouts. Leading the pack is Will & Grace star Debra Messing, who is now facing intense backlash for sharing dozens of posts smearing the Democrat…

#techpolicy #politics #government #privacy #election #ftc #digitalprivacy #regulation

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Tech Transition Shakeup (3)
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4 months / engadget

Lina Khan to co-chair NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team

4 months / techcrunch / Amanda Silberling

Ex-FTC chair Lina Khan joins Mamdani's transition team

4 months / businessinsider

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Election indicators in red and blue states: Democrats may be adopting new tactics. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

4 months / bsky / @curlypoodlegirly.bsky.social / curlypoodlegirly.bsky.social

Bullshit has an expiration date. Yesterday, 11/4/2025 was that date. “We were the barometer tonight for what the American public is feeling one year into Trump term two,” Sen. Tim Kaine said in an interview. “We basically sent a message that we can do a

4 months / bsky / @goldcountryrich.bsky.social / goldcountryrich.bsky.social

No, pro-Trump hackers didn’t hack Zohran Mamdani’s election night party

4 months / bsky / @paleofuture.bsky.social / paleofuture.bsky.social

No, Pro-Trump Hackers Didn’t Hack Zohran Mamdani’s Election Night Party

4 months / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

Interesting Lina Khan to co-chair NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team techcrunch.com/2025/11/05/l...

4 months / bsky / @phastidio.net / phastidio.net

techcrunch.com/2025/11/05/l...

4 months / bsky / @courageousgirl2.bsky.social / courageousgirl2.bsky.social

The Mamdani camp never saw social media as a gimmick. They treated it with the same seriousness they bring to the issues he ran on. That seriousness helped build trusted relationships with fans and creators who could spin out the fun. www.wired.com/sto

4 months / bsky / @makenakelly.bsky.social / makenakelly.bsky.social

Oh Debra

4 months / bsky / @docinaustin.bsky.social / docinaustin.bsky.social

During her time leading the FTC, Khan drew the ire of many on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley.

4 months / bsky / @businessinsider.com / businessinsider.com

Och Lina Khan går från att reglera Silicon Valley till att bygga en stad som utmanar bolagsmakten. www.businessinsider.com/lina-khan-jo...

4 months / bsky / @danielswedin.bsky.social / danielswedin.bsky.social

In addition to affordability, New York City’s mayor-elect will be forced to reckon with the NYPD’s sweeping mass surveillance operations. www.wired.com/story/welcom...

4 months / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

"Mass surveillance endangers all values at the heart of our democracy, and I do hope that our next mayor is willing to be a spokesperson for this cause." @foxcahn.bsky.social #Mamdani #NYPD www.wired.com/story/welcom...

4 months / bsky / @stopspyingny.bsky.social / stopspyingny.bsky.social

Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race

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Digital Advantage

Zohran Mamdani won because he knew when to be online — and when not to

4 months / theverge / Adi Robertson

Election Live Coverage

Live Updates: Mamdani Wins NYC Mayor's Race After Highest Turnout in Decades

4 months / nytimes

Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race

4 months / nbcnews

NYC mayoral election: How to track the race between Mamdani, Cuomo, and Sliwa in real time

4 months / fastcompany / Christopher Zara

Elite Resignation

View / New York’s elite ‘resigned’ to Mamdani win - https-//www.semafor.com

4 months / google

MAGA Backlash

‘New York City Has Fallen’: MAGA Responds To Zohran Mamdani’s Victory With a Racist Freak Out

4 months / wired / David Gilbert

All Other Stories

"New York Has Fallen" How MAGA freaked out over @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social becoming mayor of NYC www.wired.com/story/maga-r...

4 months / bsky / @davidgilbert.bsky.social / davidgilbert.bsky.social

Mamdani, who campaigned on progressive issues and identifies as a democratic socialist, will be the youngest New York mayor in over a century. He will also be the city’s first Muslim and South Asian mayor.

4 months / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

With over 90 percent of the 2 million votes counted on Wednesday morning, Mamdani held an almost 9 point lead over former governor Andrew Cuomo, with Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa trailing far behind with just 7 percent of the vote.

4 months / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

It is Mamdani’s embrace of New York’s immigrants and his own Muslim upbringing that most of the MAGAsphere fixated on, calling him everything from a “a third-world communist” to a “Marxist” and “a jihadi.”

4 months / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

“Bannon also suggested that the Department of Homeland Security “denaturalize” Mamdani and “ship him back to Uganda,” where he was born.” www.wired.com/story/maga-r...

4 months / bsky / @awinston.bsky.social / awinston.bsky.social

good @thedextriarchy.bsky.social take www.theverge.com/policy/81406...

4 months / bsky / @sarahjeong.bsky.social / sarahjeong.bsky.social

HOORAY!!! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

4 months / bsky / @truthjoylove.bsky.social / truthjoylove.bsky.social

Not Donalds favourite candidate

4 months / bsky / @zed64ab.bsky.social / zed64ab.bsky.social

ゾーラン・マムダニがニューヨーク市長選に勝利 Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race

4 months / bsky / @hacker-news-jp.bsky.social / hacker-news-jp.bsky.social

Zohran Mamdani wins NYC mayor election over Cuomo, NBC News projects www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

4 months / bsky / @sharonjohnston.bsky.social / sharonjohnston.bsky.social

Trump Renominates Jared Isaacman to Lead NASA

Micah Maidenberg / wsj - The announcement came about five months after the president dropped support for the technology executive.

#vc #space #nasa #politics #government #business #aerospace #trump

Trump re-nominates billionaire Jared Isaacman to lead NASA

4 months / theverge / Jess Weatherbed

Trump Re-Nominates Billionaire Jared Isaacman To Run NASA

4 months / slashdot / BeauHD

Trump turnabout sees him re-nominate amateur astronaut Jared Isaacman to run NASA

4 months / theregister / Simon Sharwood

The reversal comes after weeks of pressure from people like Elon Musk, who accused Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy of being ill-equipped for the job.

4 months / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

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4 months / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

Trump flips and re-nominates Jared Isaacman to lead NASA

4 months / techcrunch / Sean O'Kane

In a stunning comeback, Jared Isaacman is renominated to lead NASA

4 months / arstechnica / Eric Berger

Trump Renominates Jared Isaacman to Lead NASA

4 months / wsj / Micah Maidenberg

Trump renominates Musk ally Jared Isaacman to run NASA months after withdrawal

4 months / cnbc

The Fight for NASA Administrator Is Getting Dirty

4 months / gizmodo / Ellyn Lapointe

Former Vice President Dick Cheney dies at 84 amid polarizing legacy

Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, a figure as contentious as he was influential through multiple administrations, has passed away at the age of 84. Reports highlight his complex legacy in national and international policy, reminding us of a storied career that continues to spark debate long after his time in office.

#defensetech #politics #government #trump #us #cia #law #election #regulation

Dick Cheney, Powerful Former VP, Dies at 84

4 months / slashdot / msmash

Former US Vice President Dick Cheney dies aged 84 - https-//www.semafor.com

4 months / google

Former US Vice-President Cheney Dies

4 months / reuters

Palantir CEO Alex Karp slams ‘detractors’ as company delivers record revenue again

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Big data analytics company Palantir Technologies Inc. delivered solid results that surpassed analysts’ expectations and offered bullish guidance for the current quarter, citing artificial intelligence as its most important growth driver. In its third-quar…

#ai #automation #analytics #defensetech #aiethics #government #earnings #business #palantir #technology

Palantir CEO Alex Karp Thinks the Haters Are ‘Confounded’ By His Success

4 months / gizmodo / Mike Pearl

Fentanyl, ICE and popcorn: Palantir CEO Alex Karp's earnings call commentary

4 months / cnbc

Palantir CEO celebrates one cash culture to rule them all

4 months / theregister / Thomas Claburn

Alex Karp to CNBC regarding earnings: "these are the single best numbers ever printed in enterprise software." (Microsoft booked about 77x more revenue in the same quarter.) www.cnbc.com/2025/11/03/p...

4 months / bsky / @stevekovach.bsky.social / stevekovach.bsky.social

Palantir CEO Alex Karp slams ‘detractors’ as company delivers record revenue again

4 months / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Palantir Revenue Hits Another Record as Defense Work Booms

4 months / wsj / Heather Somerville

Palantir tops estimates, boosts fourth-quarter guidance on AI adoption

4 months / cnbc

Former L3Harris Trenchant boss pleads guilty to selling zero-day exploits to Russian broker

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / techcrunch - Prosecutors confirmed Peter Williams, the former Trenchant boss, sold eight exploits to a Russian buyer. TechCrunch exclusively reported that the Trenchant division was investigating a leak of its hacking tools, after another employee was accused of invol…

#cybersecurity #infosec #government #business #cybercrime #russia #law #technology #tradesecrets

Former Trenchant exec pleads guilty to selling cyber exploits to Russian broker

4 months / therecord

Former L3Harris Trenchant boss pleads guilty to selling zero-day exploits to Russian broker

4 months / techcrunch / Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

Ex-L3Harris Cyber Boss Pleads Guilty to Selling Trade Secrets to Russian Firm

4 months / wired / Kim Zetter

ICE’s forced face scans to verify citizens is unconstitutional, lawmakers say

Ashley Belanger / arstechnica - Videos show ICE conducting random face scans on US streets.

#dataprivacy #techpolicy #government #DHS #security #privacy #immigration #law

This one is only 20 minutes old and has no definitive answers. Reinforces my sense that people should not comply with ICE requests to scan their faces. 5/ arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

4 months / bsky / @ddelgadovive.bsky.social / ddelgadovive.bsky.social

“We should have banned government use of face recognition when we had the chance because it is dangerous, invasive, and an inherent threat to civil liberties,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told @404Media.co. www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp...

4 months / bsky / @eff.org / eff.org

ICE is using faulty and biased face surveillance technology to go after people they suspect of being undocumented. This is a direct threat to the fundamental rights of every individual and has no place in our cities.

4 months / bsky / @aclu.org / aclu.org

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep

4 months / bsky / @5-2blue.bsky.social / 5-2blue.bsky.social

ICE’s forced face scans to verify citizens is unconstitutional, lawmakers say

4 months / arstechnica / Ashley Belanger

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Faces on the Street to Verify Citizenship

4 months / 404media

Smile! Uncle Sam wants to scan your face on the way in – and out

4 months / theregister / Brandon Vigliarolo

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship

4 months / 404media / Joseph Cox

Nvidia, Oracle to build 7 supercomputers for Department of Energy, including its largest ever

Brandon Vigliarolo / theregister - 100,000 Blackwell GPUs and 2,200 exaFLOPs make for a big system The US Department of Energy is partnering with Nvidia and Oracle to build seven new AI supercomputers to accelerate scientific research and develop agentic AI for discovery. Two of these syst…

#ai #cloud #defensetech #nvidia #gpu #government #datacenter #deeptech #supercomputers #oracle

Nvidia and Oracle Are Planning the ‘Largest Supercomputer’ in America for Trump

4 months / gizmodo / Ece Yildirim

Nvidia, Oracle to build 7 supercomputers for Department of Energy, including its largest ever

4 months / theregister / Brandon Vigliarolo

Nvidia and partners to build seven AI supercomputers for the U.S. gov't with over 100,000 Blackwell GPUs —combined performance of 2,200 ExaFLOPS of compute

4 months / tomshardware

Nvidia announces reference design for colossal gigawatt-scale Omniverse DSX data centers — single data center requires a nuclear reactor's worth of power generation

4 months / tomshardware

Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin supercomputers for Los Alamos National Laboratory, total of seven new supercomputers — announcement comes on heels of AMD's recent supercomputer wins

4 months / tomshardware

AMD, Department of Energy announce $1 billion AI supercomputer partnership

Stevie Bonifield / theverge - AMD has sealed a $1 billion deal with the US Department of Energy to develop two supercomputers, Lux and Discovery, in collaboration with Oracle and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Both supercomputers will live at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in…

#ai #hardware #innovation #chips #aiethics #government #us #amd #supercomputers

AMD and US Energy Department launch $1B supercomputer project

4 months / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

AMD, HPE to build two new supercomputers for the Energy Department

4 months / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

AMD, Department of Energy announce $1 billion AI supercomputer partnership

4 months / theverge / Stevie Bonifield

U.S. Department of Energy and AMD cut a $1 billion deal for two AI supercomputers — pairing has already birthed the two fastest machines on the planet

4 months / tomshardware

The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program

Simon Willison / simonwillison - The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant programThe Python Software Foundation was recently "recommended for funding" (NSF terminology) for a $1.5m grant from the US government National Science Foundation to help improve the se…

#software #opensource #techpolicy #government #governance #community #python

The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program | Discussion

4 months / bsky / @hackernewsbot.bsky.social / hackernewsbot.bsky.social

The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program

4 months / simonwillison / Simon Willison

Python Foundation goes ride or DEI, rejects government grant with strings attached

4 months / theregister / Brandon Vigliarolo

PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program

4 months / blogspot