These Ants Found a Loophole for a Fundamental Rule of Life The New York Times Ant queen gives birth to two different species CNN ‘Almost like science fiction’: European ant is the first known animal to clone members of another species Live Science Scientists Found a Creature That Shockingly Gives Birth to 2 Different Species Popular Mechanics Everything You Need To Know About The …
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Trump’s closure of the de minimis tariff loophole sent postal traffic to the U.S. to a ‘near-halt’
Postal traffic into the United States plunged by more than 80% after the Trump administration ended a tariff exemption for low-cost imports, the United Nations postal agency said Saturday. The Universal Postal Union says it has started rolling out new measures that can help postal operators around the world calculate and collect duties, or taxes, after the U.S. eliminated the so-called “de minimis exemption” …
Read More »The Loophole Turning Stablecoins Into a Trillion-Dollar Fight
Crypto advocates see things differently. They claim stablecoin rewards create healthy market pressure and could drive big banks to provide more competitive interest rates in an effort to keep customer deposits. “To call this a trillion-dollar fight would be an understatement: This is highly fraught territory that banks have jealously guarded,” says former Republican Representative Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, …
Read More »Google’s AI refuses to generate deepfakes… unless you give it a photo. I found a dangerous loophole inside Gemini’s new photo-editing skills
Ask Google’s AI Gemini to generate a deepfake photo of a politician or an image containing copyrighted material, and the chatbot will flat out refuse. But when Google added more photo editing capabilities with Flash 2.5, it also briefly opened up a dangerous loophole that gave the AI platform more potential for abuse. When I started testing Gemini’s new photo …
Read More »Trump closes the ‘de minimis’ shipping loophole. Etsy and eBay shares have tumbled. – MarketWatch
Trump closes the ‘de minimis’ shipping loophole. Etsy and eBay shares have tumbled. MarketWatch Online Shopping May Never Be the Same The Atlantic Trump’s trade war has come to your Etsy shopping cart MSNBC News Rocky waters ahead for British artist stopping sales to customers across the pond NBC News Etsy, eBay, and Shein reel as ‘de minimis’ tariff exemption ends, adding hefty charges …
Read More »Google will soon fix a security loophole in Chrome’s password autofill
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google Chrome on Android will let you require biometric authentication before autofilling passwords, adding a much-needed layer of security. This feature closes a loophole, as the existing biometric protection for autofill in Google Password Manager currently only applies to apps, not the browser. A newly discovered setting explicitly states this protection is “coming soon …
Read More »Trump ends international tax loophole: What it means for consumers, businesses – Axios
Trump ends international tax loophole: What it means for consumers, businesses Axios Trump ends de minimis exemption for global low-cost goods CNBC US ends tariff exemption for all low-value packages Reuters FedEx and UPS Shares Fall After White House Sets End Date for ‘De Minimis’ Rule The Wall Street Journal Trump closes key trade loophole, impacting Shein, Temu orders USA Today Source link
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