Category: everydayblog


  • Has Your Nonprofit Been Affected by Federal Funding Cuts? We Want to Hear From You.

    This is a time of fear and worry in the nonprofit world. The Trump administration has taken extraordinary steps to reduce federal grant funding to nonprofit groups. It has largely shut off foreign aid. It briefly froze all outgoing grants. Now, even though that broad freeze has been lifted, the White House says it is…

  • PDP’s Riffmaster guitar controller is receiving a rare $20 discount

    Last month, Fortnite Festival, the game’s Rock Band-like music mode, rolled out local multiplayer on PlayStation and Xbox. It’s a great addition if you and up to three buddies want to relive the halcyon days of ‘07 on a single TV, particularly if you’re using a nostalgia-inducing peripheral like the PDP Riffmaster — which is…

  • Tariffs: Aiming at Mexico, Hitting Ourselves

    There are many reasons to regret Trump’s latest experiment with tariffs, but let’s take prices and migration. Source link

  • US tariffs: how Trump’s tax is impacting big tech and beyond

    President Donald Trump has announced that he’s imposing a tariff on goods from some of the US’s biggest trade partners: Canada, Mexico, and China. Under the executive orders signed on February 1st, Canada and Mexico will face a 25 percent tariff, while goods from China will be subject to a 10 percent tax. Energy resources…

  • Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday

    More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a New York Times analysis has found, as federal agencies rush to heed President Trump’s orders targeting diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.” The purges have removed information about vaccines, veterans’ care, hate crimes and scientific…

  • Automakers brace for ‘massive’ impact of Trump’s tariffs

    Your next car purchase is probably going to be more expensive, thanks to President Donald Trump. Around 5.3 million vehicles are built in Canada and Mexico, 70 percent of which are destined for the United States. Those vehicles will soon be subject to 25 percent tariffs, which were just announced by the Trump administration. And…

  • CBS to Hand Over Transcript of Kamala Harris’s ‘60 Minutes’ Interview to FCC

    CBS News plans to comply with a request from the Federal Communications Commission for the unedited transcript of a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris that aired last year and became the subject of a lawsuit brought against the network by President Trump. The network’s news division received a letter of inquiry from the F.C.C.,…

  • Here’s How DeepSeek Censorship Actually Works—and How to Get Around It

    Less than two weeks after DeepSeek launched its open-source AI model, the Chinese startup is still dominating the public conversation about the future of artificial intelligence. While the firm seems to have an edge on US rivals in terms of math and reasoning, it also aggressively censors its own replies. Ask DeepSeek R1 about Taiwan…

  • Army Withholds Identity of Helicopter Pilot Killed in Crash

    The Army on Friday released the names of two male aviators who were killed when their Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines regional jet on Wednesday night. But in an extraordinary step, the Army did not identify the third crew member, a female pilot, citing her family’s request for privacy. The names of…

  • Elon Musk’s Friends Have Infiltrated the General Services Administration

    Elon Musk’s minions—from trusted sidekicks to random college students and former Musk company interns—have taken over the General Services Administration, a critical government agency that manages federal offices and technology. Already, the team is attempting to use White House security credentials to gain unusual access to GSA tech, deploying a suite of new AI software,…