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Trump says crime in D.C. is out of control. Here’s what the data shows. – The Washington Post

Trump says crime in D.C. is out of control. Here’s what the data shows.  The Washington Post The nation’s capital waits for Trump’s next move as a federal takeover threat looms  AP News President Trump taps federal law enforcement agencies to police Washington, D.C.  NPR White House announcement on Monday will ‘stop violent crime’ in D.C., Trump says  NBC4 Washington Trump may move closer …

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How payment networks control the definition of acceptable sex in videogames

How payment networks control the definition of acceptable sex in videogames

To speedily summarise a lot of very knotty reporting, last month a bunch of credit card companies and payment processors forced Steam and Itch.io to alter their definitions of acceptable sexual material in PC games. Seemingly faced with the prospect of having all transactions blocked, the two storefronts now require developers to comply with the extremely open-ended adult content policies …

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Trump’s executive order gives political appointees control over all federal grants

Trump’s executive order gives political appointees control over all federal grants

NEW YORK (AP) — An executive order signed by President Donald Trump late Thursday aims to give political appointees power over the billions of dollars in grants awarded by federal agencies. Scientists say it threatens to undermine the process that has helped make the U.S. the world leader in research and development. The order requires all federal agencies, including FEMA, …

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Optical control of resonances in temporally symmetry-broken metasurfaces

Optical control of resonances in temporally symmetry-broken metasurfaces

Moitra, P. et al. Programmable wavefront control in the visible spectrum using low-loss chalcogenide phase-change metasurfaces. Adv. Mater. 35, 2205367 (2023). CAS  Google Scholar  Karvounis, A., Gholipour, B., MacDonald, K. F. & Zheludev, N. I. All-dielectric phase-change reconfigurable metasurface. Appl. Phys. Lett. 109, 051103 (2016). Wang, Y. et al. Electrical tuning of phase-change antennas and metasurfaces. Nat. Nanotechnol. 16, 667–672 …

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With One Colossal Mistake, the NCAA Lost Control of College Football – The Wall Street Journal

With One Colossal Mistake, the NCAA Lost Control of College Football  The Wall Street Journal NCAA policy revamp gives Power 4 more influence  ESPN DI board eliminates several DI committees, increases student-athlete representation  NCAA.org Speed reads for SBJ Unpacks newsletter for August 5  Sports Business Journal NCAA restructures governance policy to give more influence to Power Four conferences  USA Today Source link

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Millions of women could lose birth control due to Trump cuts : NPR

Millions of women could lose birth control due to Trump cuts : NPR

Polls show people across political lines agree that contraception should be legal and accessible. Liudmila Chernetska/iStockphoto/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Liudmila Chernetska/iStockphoto/Getty Images Contraception is a routine part of life for many Americans and polls show people across political parties agree that it should be legal and accessible. But the Trump administration is walking back access to birth control …

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Mastercard Claims NSFW Game Bans Aren’t From Them, Valve Explains How Mastercard Launders Its Control

Mastercard Claims NSFW Game Bans Aren’t From Them, Valve Explains How Mastercard Launders Its Control

from the nice-try dept This whole attempted censorship of adult games on gaming platforms is becoming a thing. Collective Shout—a group out of Australia that wraps itself in a feminist flag while behaving like the religious right to get anything it doesn’t like out of the video game industry—put on a pressure campaign with payment processors, writing in to demand …

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Trump threatens federal control of D.C. following attack on administration staffer known as ‘Big Balls’

Trump threatens federal control of D.C. following attack on administration staffer known as ‘Big Balls’

President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday to have the federal government take control of Washington, D.C., after an assault on a well-known original staffer for the Department of Government Efficiency in the nation’s capital over the weekend. Edward Coristine, also known by his online name, “Big Balls,” and a woman characterized in a police report as his significant other were the …

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