Trump Advisers Push for a Temporary Fed Governor to Fill Open Seat Bloomberg.com White House searches for a new BLS chief with ‘credibility’ and ‘experience’ NBC News Trump is about to make two key appointments. Faith in the economy is at stake CNN After BLS firing, Trump leaves clean-up job to successor Politico Trump Just Got a Fresh Shot at Bending the Fed to …
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Microsoft brings OpenAI’s smallest open model to Windows users
Microsoft is making OpenAI’s new free and open GPT model, gpt-oss-20b, available to Windows 11 users via Windows AI Foundry, the tech giant’s platform that lets users tap AI features, APIs, and popular open-source models on their computers. The company said in a blog post that gpt‑oss-20b is “tool-savvy and lightweight,” adding: “Optimized for agentic tasks like code execution and …
Read More »Microsoft makes OpenAI’s new open model available on Windows
OpenAI released a new free and open GPT model yesterday that can run on a PC, and now Microsoft is making that easy to do for Windows users. The lightweight gpt-oss-20b model is now available on Windows AI Foundry, and will be coming soon to macOS, too. You’ll need a PC or laptop with at least 16GB of VRAM, so …
Read More »Officials Move to Open Inquiry on Trump’s ‘Russia Hoax’ Grievance – The New York Times
Officials Move to Open Inquiry on Trump’s ‘Russia Hoax’ Grievance The New York Times MAGA expectations soar after DOJ orders Russia grand jury probe Axios Attorney General Bondi orders prosecutors to start grand jury probe into Obama officials over Russia investigation CNN Comey, Brennan and Clapper took efforts to ‘delegitimize’ Trump’s 2016 victory, says Sean Davis Fox News US Attorney General orders grand jury …
Read More »Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq Set to Open Up; Trump Tariff Fears; AMD, SMCI, Palantir, Uber, More Movers
Stocks were set to rebound on Wednesday as investors looked past President Donald Trump’s latest tariff threats and more data that pointed to U.S. economic weakness. Futures tracking the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 169 points, or 0.4%. S&P 500 futures were up 0.3%, and contracts tied to the Nasdaq 100 climbed 0.2%. All three of the blue-chip indexes finished …
Read More »Millions of Dell PCs with Broadcom chips open to attack • The Register
black hat Critical security flaws in Broadcom chips used in more than 100 models of Dell computers could allow attackers to take over tens of millions of users’ devices, steal passwords, and access sensitive data, including fingerprint information, according to Cisco Talos. The five vulnerabilities, CVE-2025-24311, CVE-2025-25215, CVE-2025-24922, CVE-2025-25050, CVE-2025-24919, exist in Broadcom BCM5820X series chips that Cisco says are …
Read More »Mariners Game #115: 8/5/25, Open Game Thread
Thanks everyone for your patience as we roll out a new look for the site and I try to learn Word Press on the fly. We are dragging on this end and I’m currently the only one with permissions to post. I encourage you to go back and check out Max’s minor league recap and Jake’s series preview, as well …
Read More »Does Japan Want American Cars? Trump’s Push to Open Foreign Markets Faces Test. – The New York Times
Does Japan Want American Cars? Trump’s Push to Open Foreign Markets Faces Test. The New York Times Japan trade negotiator to visit US to press for swift implementation of auto tariff deal Reuters Akazawa returns to U.S. for more talks as tariff deal looks shaky The Japan Times Trump’s plan to boost U.S. automakers is squeezing them instead Axios U.S. Promised Windfalls From Japan …
Read More »Battlefield 6 open beta maps and modes shared, as EA write an essay about tweaks based on Labs feedback
Battlefield 6‘s open beta kicks off later this week, and EA have now painted a picture of what you can expect maps/modes-wise, as well as in terms of the changes the devs have made based on Battlefield Labs playtest feedback. Plus, there’s a new trailer that features yet more folks in camo running about amid booms. I’m glad to report …
Read More »Writers Guild Pens Open Letter Slamming “Authoritarian Assault” On Free Press
More than 2,300 members of the Writers Guild of America West and East, including no shortage of heavy hitters, have signed the union’s open letter decrying the Trump administration’s “recent threats to the free press.” “We are members of the Writers Guild of America who speak with one voice to decry the dangerous and escalating attacks on the First Amendment, …
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