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This Buried Apple Feature Turns an iPhone Into the Perfect Kids’ Dumb Phone
I have been looking at classic dumb phones for months. Not out of nostalgia—though the first phone I bought with my own money was the Nokia 8210, and I still think about it (launched in October 1999 at Paris Fashion Week, it was then the world’s smallest and lightest mobile). But the day I’ve been…
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Want an AI-proof job? New research says you may be safer at companies embracing the technology
While AI is often cited as one of the reasons for mass layoffs, particularly in the tech sector, for fast-growing companies it also seems to be creating new jobs in many companies, according to a study published Tuesday from financial services company Ramp and employment database Revelio Labs. “Our early result is that it looks…
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The solution to America’s 250th birthday mess? Party like it’s 1976.
America’s 250th anniversary has arrived, and, at a national level, the narrative is set: Presdient Donald Trump has made the semi-quincentennial into his personal party. The White House has rolled out a series of headline-grabbing events, from a UFC fight on the South Lawn to a failed concert series eventually replaced with — what else?…
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Security Roundup: Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email
A politician on the European Parliament’s PEGA Committee—created to investigate spyware abuses, including of the notorious Pegasus malware—was targeted with Pegasus himself, according to new research findings released this week. Meanwhile, top Google security staff warned this week that the pro-competition rule proposals in the EU could make Google Search and Android systems vulnerable to…
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BlackRock is betting on America’s future with $100M investment to train trades workers for AI boom: ‘We just need a lot more of them’
BlackRock is best known as a financial behemoth managing trillions in assets. But now the world’s largest money manager is making a different kind of bet: one on the future of American workers. The company’s new Future Builders initiative will deploy $100 million over the next five years to help train and place 50,000 skilled…
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What J. D. Vance Once Knew
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY, in the middle of the presidential campaign, an essay in The Atlantic set out to explain the appeal of Donald Trump. Its author traced that appeal to the social decline and cultural trauma he had known firsthand, in an impoverished childhood. The author, J. D. Vance, had only days earlier published…
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Trump’s Remarkable Losing Streak
Earlier this year, President Trump claimed a new area of expertise: election law. “I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject,” Trump wrote on social media, and found an “irrefutable one” that he would soon present. He suggested that it would allow him to bypass Congress and…
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Major Union Livid After 1,000 Factory Workers Were Replaced With 50 Robots
One of the most powerful labor unions in the United States is furious, as over 1,000 workers at General Motors’ leading Detroit factory are being pushed out to make room for dozens of new robots. According to Crain’s Detroit Business, the lack of work coincides with the installation of 50 AI-integrated manufacturing robots, which GM…
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The late historian who rekindled my hope for America’s future
America’s 250th birthday celebration feels like a child’s birthday party ruined by fighting between two soon-to-be-divorced parents. What should be a benign celebration of shared, if slightly boring, values has become a fully partisan affair. In part, this is due to the president’s determination to make it all about himself. But the agita surrounding America…
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Pennsylvania state trooper Michael Pahira killed by Haitian illegal immigrant truck driver in crash: report
A Pennsylvania State trooper was killed by an illegal immigrant trucker who entered the country under the Biden administration and obtained a commercial driver’s license from Massachusetts while refusing to leave the country. Trooper Michael E. Pahira, Jr., 44, was inspecting a semitruck on Interstate 81 in Schuylkill County at about 7 a.m. Wednesday when…