Democratic lawmakers in Nassau County, N.Y., have sued to end a program created last year by Executive Bruce Blakeman, a Republican, that enlisted armed citizens to volunteer as “special deputies” whom he would activate in case of emergency. The lawsuit called the program an illegal and secretive militia that “represents a substantial and ongoing waste…

Wireless charging is less efficient than plugging in a wire, but it’s certainly convenient — especially when you add magnets. Most people who have an iPhone 12 or later and want a magnetic charger should get a Qi2 charger. Any Qi2-certified charger will charge a MagSafe iPhone at up to 15W — just as fast…

President Trump’s first weeks back in the White House have included government groups scrambling to figure out their funding and Wall Street investors getting whipsawed by trade wars that seemed to begin and then end in an instant. But through it all, the mood among those in right-wing media has been nothing short of ebullient.…

Apps distributed through both Apple and Google’s app stores are hiding malicious screenshot-reading code that’s being used to steal cryptocurrency, the cybersecurity software firm Kaspersky reported today. It’s the “first known case” of apps infected with malware that uses OCR tech to extract text from images making it into Apple’s App Store, according to a…

A U.S. District Court judge in Maryland issued a preliminary injunction on Wednesday that indefinitely blocked President Trump’s attempt to unilaterally eliminate automatic U.S. citizenship for children born to undocumented immigrants on U.S. soil. The nationwide injunction, issued by Judge Deborah L. Boardman, who was nominated by President Biden, is more permanent than the 14-day…

The goal, Patel says, is to continuously cycle through all of Framework’s actively supported laptops, updating each of them one at a time before looping back around and starting the process over again. Functionality-breaking problems and security fixes will take precedence, while additional features and user requests will be lower-priority. Source link

China’s tech industry recently gave the U.S. tech industry — and along with it, the stock market — a rude shock when it unveiled DeepSeek, an artificial intelligence model that performs on par with America’s best, but that may have been developed at a fraction of the cost and despite trade restrictions on A.I. chips.…

Reddit has seen an increase in rule-breaking posts across “several communities,” and it has issued a temporary ban on one that featured users calling for violence against people who work for the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). In a note on the subreddit, Reddit says it was banned “due to a prevalence of…

Two Trump initiatives that unfolded on Tuesday evening seemed to capture, in the flash of a few hours, the outline of President Trump’s vision for shaping American power. Ten thousand people working around the world for U.S.A.I.D., the main American aid agency, were told to pack up and come home over the next month, eviscerating…

Nintendo is gearing up for the Switch 2’s launch sometime in 2025, and president Shuntaro Furukawa says that the company is “taking risks and proceeding with production so that we can meet as much demand as possible,” according to a machine translation of an earnings Q&A. The company had some trouble keeping the original Switch…