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Richard Lawler

Richard Lawler

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    Trump delays higher tariffs on China again.

    After his DC police press conference, an unnamed White House official told CNBC that a new executive order has delayed a 145 percent tariff on Chinese goods for another 90 days. That mirrors the delay put in place on May 12th, and now pushes the deadline into mid-November.

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    Richard Lawler
    Intel’s CEO will reportedly meet with Trump on Monday.

    According to the Wall Street Journal’s sources, after the president called for Lip-Bu Tan to resign last week, they’ll meet for a “wide-ranging conversation with Trump, with the intent of explaining his personal and professional background.”

    Maybe Tan could offer a 15 percent cut -- it worked for Nvidia and AMD.

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    Richard Lawler
    Nvidia and AMD will cut the US government in on revenue from AI chip sales in China.

    The Financial Times first reported on this “highly unusual” arrangement that is part of reopening the gate for Nvidia and AMD to sell previous-gen AI chips to companies in China:

    The US official said Nvidia agreed to share 15 per cent of the revenues from H20 chip sales in China and AMD will provide the same percentage from MI308 chip revenues. Two people familiar with the arrangement said the Trump administration had not yet determined how to use the money.

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    Richard Lawler
    Netflix shares a first look at One Piece season two, and confirms season three.

    As part of a One Piece Day event in Tokyo, Netflix shared a teaser for season two and the news that production on season three will start in South Africa later this year. One Piece season two will stream on Netflix in 2026 — here’s our review of season one.

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    Richard Lawler
    What is it really like to go off the rails with ChatGPT?

    This article digs into the ChatGPT conversation history of a 47-year-old Canadian man who was told by the bot that he’d “discovered a novel mathematical formula” that could take down the internet and create a force field vest.

    When he realized this was delusional, he checked by asking Google Gemini.

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    Richard Lawler
    Instagram wants to know where you are and it’s freaking people out.

    The new Instagram Maps request to enable location services (feeding Meta valuable ad targeting data from your Android or iPhone) has spawned incredulous reactions, along with claims it’s on by default, despite Adam Mosseri’s denials.

    Still, he says, “We’ll get out a few design improvements as quickly as possible.”

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    Richard Lawler
    Microsoft employees respond to reports of IDF using Azure to store 11,500TB of mass surveillance data.

    A Microsoft workers group says reporting by The Guardian, Local Call, and +972 Magazine “revealed incriminating details about Microsoft’s indispensable role as the technological backbone of Israel’s mass surveillance of Palestinians all over Palestine” with the IDF’s Unit 8200, despite the company’s denials.

    No Azure for Apartheid:

    ...Microsoft and Unit 8200 worked closely to build a Microsoft-powered mass surveillance weapon that “collects and stores recordings of millions of mobile phone calls made each day by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.”

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    Richard Lawler
    Trump threatens D.C.‘s autonomy after a DOGE worker was injured.

    Despite police stats showing violent crime in Washington D.C. is down 26 percent from last year, after dropping by 35 percent compared to the year before, the president has continued to insist that crime in the city is “totally out of control,” in posts and comments to reporters.

    The latest comments from Trump and Elon Musk pushing to federalize the city follow a report that DOGE affiliate Edward Coristine and another person were attacked in a carjacking attempt that occurred between 3 and 4AM on August 3rd.