Adi Robertson

Turns out the number Pete Hegseth keeps using to chat about military strikes isn’t all that secret:

If you’ve been watching our Meta antitrust coverage and are wondering what’s going on today: break time! We’ll be back in DC with Judge Boasberg — who has, you may recall, a lot happening right now — on Monday.

On the heels of the millions-strong April 5th Hands Off protests and the March Tesla Takedown events, an estimated 400 events are scheduled for tomorrow.

The Onion will probably be making up new fake iOS services until the end of time, and I’ll chuckle at every one.

If not, make sure to click through — ideally several times — for the full effect (no Bluesky account required). While salvagers have recovered deeper ships, even a feat like raising the Vasa was done from 32 meters. We’ll have to stick to lowering the Atlantic instead.

Washington Post journalist Will Oremus reports that it advanced out of the House Energy & Commerce Committee today after a Republican majority rejected amendments proposed to mitigate its significant speech problems. It now awaits a vote on the House floor.

It’s one of numerous bills being taken up by the House Energy & Commerce Committee starting at 10AM ET — a well-intentioned proposal that, as I wrote last month and discussed on Decoder, is a dead end for fighting nonconsensual sexual imagery and a threat to free speech. Fight for the Future is currently running a petition against it and has a tool for finding your representative (if you live in the US) too.