Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading!

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment Re:"Helping push the legislation through" (Score 3, Informative) 36

Bondi will release one page with the name Hillary Clinton scribbled in sharpie.

Well, they will have flagged and redacted all the pages about Trump ... Durbin: FBI agents were told to ‘flag’ Epstein records that mentioned Trump

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says he has received information that Attorney General Pam Bondi “pressured” about 1,000 FBI personnel to comb through tens of thousands of pages of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and flag any mention of President Trump.

Citing “information my office received,” Durbin said Bondi “pressured the FBI to put approximately 1,000 personnel in its Information Management Division” on 24-hour shifts to review about 100,000 Epstein-related records as part of a broader effort to release documents publicly by what Durbin called “an arbitrarily short deadline.”

Durbin says his office was told FBI personnel were “instructed to ‘flag’ any records in which President Trump was mentioned.”

[In his letter to Bondi, Patel, and Bongino Durbin asked] “Is there a log of the records mentioning President Trump? If yes, please transmit a copy of the committee and the OIG,” he wrote, referring to the Judiciary panel and the Office of Inspector General.

Welcome to the Trump Deep State?

Comment Re:Trump Doesn't understand Crypto... (Score 3, Informative) 36

Trump is obviously senile.

The signs are there. For example, Trump, 79, Can’t Remember Appointing His Own Fed Chair

“He’s a terrible Fed chair. I was surprised he was appointed,” the president vented. “I was surprised, frankly, that Biden put him in and extended him.”

However, it was Trump who appointed Powell to lead the Federal Reserve during his first term. In his Nov. 2017 announcement, the president praised Powell’s leadership, judgement and expertise.'

Even worse is his completely made-up "brag" about his uncle teaching the Unabomber at MIT. Fact check: Trump tells fictional story about his uncle and the Unabomber

Trump was speaking at a Pennsylvania event about energy and innovation when he said he had to “brag just for a second” about his uncle’s intelligence. After wrongly saying his uncle was “the longest-serving professor in the history of MIT” (he was one of the longest-serving but not the very longest) and wrongly saying his uncle’s three university degrees were “in nuclear, chemical, and math” (two were in electrical engineering and one was in physics), the president claimed, “Kaczynski was one of his students.”

He went on to tell a story about having asked his uncle about what Kaczynski was like. “‘I said, ‘What kind of a student was he, Uncle John?’ Dr. John Trump. I said, ‘What kind of a student?’ And then he said, ‘Seriously, good.’ He said, ‘He’d correct – he’d go around correcting everybody.’ But it didn’t work out too well for him.”

For two big reasons, this story could not possibly be accurate.

First, the president’s uncle died in 1985. Kaczynski was publicly revealed as the Unabomber more than a decade later, in 1996, when he was captured; before that, he had lived as a recluse in the Montana wilderness. There is no apparent reason that Donald Trump would have been asking anyone about Kaczynski in 1985 or earlier.

Second, Kaczynski attended Harvard University and the University of Michigan, not MIT. An MIT spokesperson said in a Wednesday email: “We have no enrollment record or information that Ted Kaczynski ever attended MIT.”

Why people and reporters continually give him a pass on this stuff when he says it is beyond me.

Comment Re:"Helping push the legislation through" (Score 1) 36

Does this mean making bribes, deals, or threats?

Maybe he reminded them they're in the Epstein files and *he* gets to decide what gets released ... /cynical

Because I thought passing legislation was mostly supposed to be about reading, understanding, deciding, and voting.

Hah, you're funny. :-) Several Republicans admitted they didn't read the BBB they just voted for and were surprised by what was in it. Republicans Admit They Didn’t Even Read Their Big Beautiful Bill

Even when they do, they make bad choices. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) is now trying to pass legislation to repeal the Medicaid cuts in the BBB, that he voted for -- guess he wants it both ways with his constituents. Hawley seeks to repeal Medicaid cuts he voted for

Comment Re:"Helping push the legislation through" (Score 3, Insightful) 36

MAGA is amazing at following orders. Look how they keep voting against releasing the Epstein files.

Not sure Trump actually wants everything released. Remember he said Bondi could release "all pertinent grand jury files" -- meaning (a) she gets to decide what's "pertinent", but (b) grand jury files only have a fraction of the information and (c) the judge probably won't release anything because Maxwell has a pending appeal on counts 1-5 and possible re-trial on count 6. But it *looks* like he's trying to be transparent while setting Bondi up to get thrown under the bus.

Too bad people don't all have sunglasses, they might see the truth.

Comment Hmm .... (Score 1) 36

The president on Friday suggested that he spoke to the holdouts individually on the phone to persuade them ... JD Vance had been on the phone late at night, helping push the legislation through.

Trump, Vance and his people support Crypto. Wonder why ... Trump’s Cabinet Is Cashing in on Crypto:

Trump has the biggest stake in crypto, worth at least $51 million.

JD Vance ... reported holding between $250,001 and $500,000 in Bitcoin in his 2024 financial disclosure.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also reportedly had at least $500,000 in digital assets before being sworn in, but [reportedly] divested them.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard both reported holdings under $1 million, and Gabbard reportedly divested her holdings before taking office.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who reported holding between $1 million and $5 million in crypto.

Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, who holds between $1 million and $2 million in digital currencies.

Scott Kupor, the guy Trump tapped to lead the Office of Personnel Management, reportedly holds almost $10 million in crypto,

Submission + - Ukraine offers its front line as test bed for foreign weapons (reuters.com)

fahrbot-bot writes: Reuters is reporting that Ukraine will let foreign arms companies test out their latest weapons on the front line of its war against Russia's invasion, Kyiv's state-backed arms investment and procurement group Brave1 said on Thursday.

Under the "Test in Ukraine" scheme, companies would send their products to Ukraine, give some online training on how to use them, then wait for Ukrainian forces to try them out and send back reports, the group said in a statement.

"It gives us understanding of what technologies are available. It gives companies understanding of what is really working on the front line," Artem Moroz, Brave1's head of investor relations, told Reuters at a defence conference in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Ukraine is betting on a budding defence industry, fueled in part by foreign investment, to fend off Russia's bigger and better-armed war machine.

Submission + - First Electronic–Photonic Quantum Chip Created in Commercial Foundry (bu.edu)

fahrbot-bot writes: Scientists from Boston University, UC Berkeley, and Northwestern University have reported the world’s first electronic–photonic–quantum system on a chip, according to a study published in Nature Electronics.

The system combines quantum light sources and stabilizing electronics using a standard 45-nanometer semiconductor manufacturing process to produce reliable streams of correlated photon pairs (particles of light)—a key resource for emerging quantum technologies. The advance paves the way for mass-producible “quantum light factory” chips and large-scale quantum systems built from many such chips working together.

Generating quantum states of light on chip requires precisely engineered photonic devices—specifically, microring resonators (the same devices recently identified by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang as being integral to Nvidia’s future scaling of its AI compute hardware via optical interconnection). To generate streams of quantum light, in the form of correlated pairs of photons, the resonators must be tuned in sync with incoming laser light that powers each quantum light factory on the chip (and is used as fuel for the generation process). But those devices are extremely sensitive to temperature and fabrication variations which can push them out of sync and disrupt the steady generation of quantum light.

To address this challenge, the team built an integrated system that actively stabilizes quantum light sources on chip—specifically, the silicon microring resonators that generate the streams of correlated photons. Each chip contains twelve such sources operable in parallel, and each resonator must stay in sync with its incoming laser light even in the presence of temperature drift and interference from nearby devices—including the other eleven photon-pair sources on the chip.

Comment Re:Banning a U.S. central bank digital currency (Score 2) 45

What I don't get is why people will buy stable coins that do not get paid interest like a bank does. I've had some for a while as part of a larger transaction but I was given interest at a good rate for the time.

For me, you can stop at, "What I don't get is why people will buy stable coins?" :-) -- or, in general, crypto.

Slashdot Top Deals

Maybe you can't buy happiness, but these days you can certainly charge it.

Working...