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The National Assembly passed amendment I-1358 yesterday on the 2027 budget. It creates a tax of 0.055 euros for every gigabyte of data that content providers send to French internet subscribers. Internet providers measure the volume. The platforms pay. A cap limits it to 15 percent of French revenue or 2 percent of global revenue. … Read more

Social media and a Telegram group called GenZ in Opstand put out calls for young people to gather on the Malieveld at 2pm today and walk to the Binnenhof and the city center. No one registered a demonstration with the city. Mayor Jan van Zanen’s office says The Hague is “alert and prepared.” Police will … Read more

With Election Day days away, the president is openly promising to veto any legislation a Democratic Congress sends him — a threat that collides with must-pass funding bills and the debt limit. President Donald Trump says his veto pen could render a Democratic-controlled Congress ineffective before it even gets started. Speaking to reporters as he … Read more

Elon Musk posted today that Neuralink’s first product is called Telepathy. It enables high speed communication with computers or humans simply by thinking. Output bandwidth will vastly exceed the fastest human speech or typing in a few years. The post quoted Neuralink’s update from October 29 on a 72 hour hackathon with one of its … Read more

Skies over Kirandul and Dantewada in Chhattisgarh turned deep blood red in videos that went viral. Strong winds and unsettled weather hit the area as remnants of Cyclone Arnab moved inland. The storm made landfall on the Andhra Pradesh coast on October 28 with sustained winds around 130 kmph and gusts to 150 kmph before … Read more

She did the meme "If only we could pack the Supreme Court, eliminate the filibuster, abolish the Electoral College, and reshape the Senate we could win" pic.twitter.com/pHUa1bCg8c — Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) October 30, 2026 Kamala Harris said it out loud on Keke Palmer’s podcast mid-October. She told the host Democrats should expand the Supreme Court … Read more

Jason Clinton, Anthropic’s deputy chief information security officer, recently posted an ominous warning on X after several serious cybersecurity vulnerabilities were made public. He wrote, “as bad as things have gotten in the past 4 days, they are going to get a lot worse before they get better. security leaders, never let a crisis go … Read more

Donating to President Donald Trump’s pet projects may have seemed like a savvy corporate investment 18 months ago. But today, companies are hiring lobbyists and crisis communications experts out of fear that their efforts to stay in the administration’s good graces may expose them to a hail of partisan crossfire if Democrats take over Congress. … Read more

Early voting is still ongoing in Washington, D.C.’s elections, but everyone already knows who the winner of the mayoral race is going to be. In June, Councilmember Janeese Lewis George won a commanding 54 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary. In one of the bluest cities in America, that all but assures she’ll … Read more

Silver dropping back down to 25-30? 🙂 pic.twitter.com/2DYdQl0VZ3 — M-Algo Systems (@M_AlgoSystems) October 30, 2026 Silver has lost its shine, with spot prices slipping below $50 an ounce for the first time since November 2025, as concerns over industrial demand and the prospect of tighter U.S. monetary policy add to pressure on the precious metal. … Read more

Alphabet rolled back automated Gemini-first search output defaults across mobile platforms today, shifting standard mobile Google searches back to traditional web and sponsored link results. The product shift follows Alphabet’s Q3 earnings release on October 28, where financial reports revealed that while overall search revenue grew 12% to $63.35 billion, rapid AI query growth compressed … Read more

The “almost cartoon-villain level of political spending” by SpaceX CEO and former Trump administration adviser Elon Musk has reached a fever pitch ahead of the midterm elections, with the right-wing billionaire’s donations of $445 million to super political action committees accounting for 10% of the $4.2 billion the PACs have brought in. As an analysis … Read more

Booking an Airbnb has gotten completely out of hand. At a hotel: – You book a room.– It's $160.– You get your key card in 90 seconds.– The AC works, the sheets are clean, and there's free coffee in the lobby.– You leave your wet towels on the bathroom floor and walk out at… — … Read more