How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
Jesse Drucker, Investigative Tax Reporter - The New York Times
Stephan: The federal minimum wage for 2025 remains at $7.25 per hour. Elon Musk just got a one trillion dollar pay deal, a number so large most Americans could not even write it – $1,000,000,000,000, (one followed by 12 zeros).
_Why? Because the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) minimum has not changed since 20 … ⌘ Read more
Python Foundation Donations Surge After Rejecting Grant - But Sponsorships Still Needed
After the Python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5 million grant because it restricted DEI activity, “a flood of new donations followed,” according to a new report. By Friday they’d raised over $157,000, including 295 new Supporting Members paying an annual $99 membership fee, says PSF executi … ⌘ Read more
Why hurricanes rarely kill in Cuba
Hours before Hurricane Melissa roared toward Cuba’s second-largest city, Santiago de Cuba, the island’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, announced that 735,000 people had been evacuated—1 of every 15 Cubans. The storm had already smashed into Jamaica, the most powerful to ever strike the island, causing landslides, power failures and deaths. ⌘ Read more
Ukrainian attacks in Russia’s Belgorod Oblast leave over 20,000 without power, governor claims ⌘ Read more
Poland to Train 400,000 Citizens in “Largest Military Readiness Drive” Since WWII ⌘ Read more
Video Games’ Hottest New Platform is an Old One
Web-based video games are experiencing an unexpected revival as the broader $189 billion industry stagnates. Sales for browser-based titles like GeoGuessr and chess were expected to triple from 2021 to 2028, reaching $3.09 billion, according to Google and Kantar. Playgama hosted more than 15,000 new web games in the first half of 2025, exceeding the combined total from 2021 throug … ⌘ Read more
Corporate Profits Surge as Companies Cut Nearly 1 Million Jobs
U.S. corporate profits have risen to record levels this year as companies eliminated nearly 1 million jobs. Chen Zhao of Alpine Macro calls the disconnect a “jobless boom.” Companies typically cut workers when profits decline. Amazon laid off 30,000 employees despite strong earnings. Zhao attributes the pattern to AI adoption boosting productivity across … ⌘ Read more
Canada gains a surprise 67,000 jobs in October, beating economists’ expectations ⌘ Read more
Zelenskyy Counts Record 25,000 Russian Losses in October—Pokrovsk Turns Into a Mass Graveyard ⌘ Read more
Child bride faces execution in Iran unless she pays £80,000 in ‘blood money’ | Global development ⌘ Read more
Digital map lets you explore the Roman Empire’s vast road network
Archaeologists have compiled the most detailed map yet of roads throughout the Roman Empire in AD 150, totalling almost 300,000 kilometres in length ⌘ Read more
Thousands of Flights in Danger of Cancellation as FAA Announces Major Cuts
The government shutdown-spurred airport chaos is about to get a whole lot worse. From a report: The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it will reduce flight volumes by 10 percent across 40 major airports in response, a move that could threaten 3,000 to 4,500 flights daily. The cuts will affect “high volume” markets … ⌘ Read more
Akamai Builds Cloud Native Resilience: Cloud Credits to Power CNCF Projects
Akamai, a CNCF Gold member since 2023 and a committed supporter of open source infrastructure, is generously donating $1,000,000 in annual cloud credits. The donation will support both the Linux Foundation and Cloud Native Computing Foundation…. ⌘ Read more
Nearly 400,000 people are starving in Sudan, a new report finds ⌘ Read more
Ukraine is fighting for every block in Pokrovsk as 170,000-strong grouping continues to infiltrate ⌘ Read more
SpaceX’s Starlink and other satellites face growing threat from sun
There are now over 10,000 satellites in orbit, more than at any point in history, and this growing number is starting to reveal how solar storms could disrupt internet mega constellations like SpaceX’s Starlink ⌘ Read more
Child bride faces execution in Iran unless she pays £80,000 in ‘blood money’ ⌘ Read more
Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower
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Explorers seek ancient Antarctica ice in climate change study
An explorer and a glaciologist have embarked on a three-month mission to cross part of Antarctica on kite skis in search of ice that is 130,000 years old. ⌘ Read more
Russia deploys 170,000 troops for push in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, Zelenskyy says ⌘ Read more
1,000s of litres of drug chemicals from China seized by Canadian border officers ⌘ Read more
The $2,000 Bug That Changed My Life: How a Tiny URL Parameter Broke Web-Store Pricing !! ⌘ Read more
“The $10,000 Handlebars Hack: How Email Templates Led to Server Takeover”
While studying advanced template injection techniques, I came across one of the most fascinating bug bounty stories I’ve ever encountere … ⌘ Read more
French Army Chief General Says France is Ready to Send 7,000 Troops to Ukraine ⌘ Read more
Were Neanderthals capable of making art?
The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had trouble believing that modern humans from the Upper Paleolithic (between 45,000 and 12,000 years ago) were capable of artistic flair. ⌘ Read more
Russia has amassed around 11,000 troops in attempt to encircle Pokrovsk ⌘ Read more
$20,000 Bounty Offered to Bribe FFmpeg Team to Fire Contributor
A popular YouTuber named Theo Browne offered $20k to the Open Source FFmpeg team if they remove their social media person, who Theo calls a “motherf***er”. ⌘ Read more
Zelenskyy wants to use frozen Russian assets to manufacture long‑range weapons up to 3,000 km ⌘ Read more
Long-Range Drones Smash Russian Arms Factory and Oil Hub Nearly 1,000 km From Ukrainian Border, Video ⌘ Read more
Omarchy Linux Hits 150,000 Installs This Month Alone
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Russia’s 100,000-strong offensive crumbles before Pokrovsk ⌘ Read more
Marriage is hard, but it’s even harder when you immigrate together
Canadian immigration policy has long emphasized family reunification. In fact, most of Canada’s 200,000 yearly newcomers migrate as a couple or a family unit. ⌘ Read more
Almost 75,000 farmed salmon in Scotland escaped into the wild after Storm Amy. Why this may cause lasting damage
When Storm Amy battered the Scottish Highlands in early October, it tore through a salmon farm’s sea pens, releasing around 75,000 fish into open water in Loch Linnhe. The scale of the escape is alarming. It comes at a time when wild Atlantic salmon—already classified as “endangered” in Great Britain—are in decline. ⌘ Read more
Hamas deploys 7,000 troops to ‘cleanse Gaza’ as Palestinians scramble to fill power vacuum: ‘Perfect recipe for civil war’ ⌘ Read more
Israel frees nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, including hundreds of terror convicts ⌘ Read more
Indiana City Doesn’t Have to Pay Innocent Mom $16,000 After Police Wrecked Home
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Power restored to 270,000 consumers in Kyiv; outage schedules changed in 3 cities ⌘ Read more
When I open the CSS out of curiosity and it’s over 10,000 lines long ⌘ Read more
Russians report drone attack in Tyumen, 2,000 km from Ukraine ⌘ Read more
Mysterious signs on Teotihuacan murals may reveal an early form of Uto-Aztecan language
More than two millennia ago, Teotihuacan was a thriving metropolis in central Mexico with up to 125,000 inhabitants. The city had gigantic pyramids and was a cultural center in Mesoamerica at the time. ⌘ Read more
40,000 Russians without power in Belgorod after Ukrainian attack causes ‘significant’ damage to energy facilities ⌘ Read more
Up to 5,000 Cubans fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine, Reuters reports ⌘ Read more
Almost 1,000 trapped on Tibetan side of Mount Everest by blizzard ⌘ Read more