The U.S. Department of Justice filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging California’s newly approved congressional map, opening a high-stakes legal front that could help decide control of the U.S. House in 2026. The move marks an extraordinary moment in American politics: a Republican administration suing a Democratic-led state over redistricting, in a mirror image of […]
A federal judge ordered the release of hundreds of people arrested as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Illinois, according to a court ruling, dealing a blow to federal efforts to detain and deport as many undocumented people as possible. US District Judge Jeffrey Cummings on Wednesday morning sided with attorneys from the […]
“Please” and “Thank you” to ChatGPT: Small words, big costs Recently Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, made headlines when he acknowledged that courteously saying “please” and “thank you” to AI tools like ChatGPT is costing the company tens of millions of dollars in energy bills. The basic logic: Thus, the article’s framing that even small […]
Core thesis. Across these papers, Infoton proposes that today’s computing model wastes vast amounts of energy because the byte/bit abstraction expends power on “empty” states (zeros) and on mathematically inefficient software stacks. The authors argue for a re-encoding of information—an “Infoton,” described as a wave-based, physics-grounded unit—plus firmware/OS/hardware changes that would radically reduce data-center energy, […]
A Louisiana family is preparing to file a federal lawsuit against the Lafourche Parish School District after a 13-year-old girl was expelled for hitting a male classmate she says created and circulated a deepfake pornographic image of her. The incident occurred in August at Sixth Ward Middle School, sparking community outrage, national attention on social […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The U.S. Mint in Philadelphia struck its final circulating penny Wednesday, officially ending the nation’s longest-running coin denomination after more than 230 years of production. President Donald Trump ordered the phase-out earlier this year, calling the penny “wasteful” as production costs rose to nearly four cents per coin. “For far too long […]
The House Oversight Committee’s Democratic members on Wednesday released several previously unseen emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s personal correspondence, drawing renewed public attention to his alleged network of influence and his contacts with Donald Trump. The three email exchanges — obtained from the Epstein Estate after a congressional subpoena — date between 2011 and 2019 and […]
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the appeal of Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. The court’s decision effectively leaves the landmark precedent on same-sex marriage intact, easing fears among LGBTQ advocates that the current […]
Visa and Mastercard have agreed to a revised $38 billion settlement with U.S. merchants, aiming to resolve a two-decade antitrust dispute over so-called swipe fees—charges businesses pay every time customers use credit cards. The new agreement is designed to address concerns from a federal judge who rejected a smaller $30 billion proposal in 2024 as […]
The Trump administration returned to the Supreme Court seeking to keep full November SNAP payments frozen during the shutdown, despite multiple lower-court rulings directing the government to pay full benefits. The administration argues that complying now would unlawfully override Congress’ spending power and strain limited contingency funds; challengers (states and nonprofits) counter that the government […]