‘Absolute power consolidated in one person’: a slippery slope to the end of checks and balances
President Donald Trump’s ongoing conflict with New York is the latest chapter in his broader assault on the system of checks ...
Fintechs like Block and PayPal are battling like never before to be your all-in-one online bank
Quarterly results from Block, Affirm and PayPal show that the major U.S. fintechs are converging as they all try to become ...
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North Carolina committee models DOGE to target wasteful spending amid mass federal firings
Two lawmakers will lead North Carolina’s DOGE-style initiative to cut wasteful spending, including the lead sponsor of a bill ...
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Vast Data Builds Out Data Platform With Block Storage And Kafka Streams
If you are going to be audacious enough to call the thing you are creating Universal Storage, then by definition it has to do ...
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Ballast blocks become batteries in new US tech, boosting rooftop solar power
An Austin-based company has replaced battery’s ballast blocks with Yotta Block to simplify installation by eliminating the ...
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Scientists Identify New Driver of Inflammation Implicated in Autoimmune Diseases
Researchers identify a new player in human immunity that can go rogue and turn the immune system against the body’s own ...
Appeals court upholds block on Trump’s birthright citizenship order, setting up Supreme Court showdown
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined an emergency Justice Department request to lift the hold a Seattle judge had ...
Court Declines to Block Federal Government's New "Government-Wide Email System"
From yesterday's decision by Judge Randolph Moss (D.D.C.) in Doe v. Office of Personnel Mgmt.: In late January 2025, the Office of Personnel Management ...
DOGE accessing 'the motherlode' of Americans' private IRS data raises serious questions. We've got answers.
At stake are taxpayer privacy and a fair market, the plaintiffs say in court papers. People on the DOGE team, led by Elon Musk, could see the tax records of Musk's business competitors, the lawsuit ...
Bill to block local governments from regulating Trump’s library moves in Tallahassee
Florida International University is among the sites that have been scouted as a potential site for a Trump presidential ...
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VAST Data Adds Blocks to Unified Storage Platform
VAST Data today announced the addition of block storage to its data platform, completing what the company said is its initial ...
Unions sue to block DOGE access to IRS data
Another lawsuit has been filed seeking to block Elon Musk‘s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing government data. A collection of groups, including two government employee unions, the Ce ...