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Freed of Federal Charges, Defiant Eric Adams Says He’s ‘Gonna Win’ Reelection

Mayor Eric Adams holds his weekly press conference at City Hall.

With his federal corruption case behind him, Mayor Eric Adams stood on the back steps of Gracie Mansion on Wednesday to defiantly declare he is  going to run — and prevail — in the upcoming mayoral race.  “I’m running for re-election and you know what? I’m gonna win,” he said.  It was a striking scene […]

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Severed Edits

Ernie Smith (via Hacker News): But it of course raises the question: Do they make Apple‘s shows on Macs? As the second season of Severance ended in dramatic fashion, Apple decided to answer that question, and the answer was … surprisingly confusing. […] In the video Apple released, which highlights the Mac-driven editing process that […]

Rebuilding the Social Security Administration’s Codebase

Makena Kelly (Hacker News): The project is being organized by Elon Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, multiple sources who were not given permission to talk to the media tell WIRED, and aims to migrate all SSA systems off COBOL, one of the first common business-oriented programming languages, and onto a more modern replacement like Java within […]

Nintendo wants to compete in a new type of console war

Nintendo took an unusual approach to the past two decades of video game console wars. It stayed out of them. But with today’s Nintendo Switch 2 info dump — packed with big-name third-party games rarely seen on Nintendo hardware — the House that Mario Built appears ready to rejoin the fray. Why now? Credit a […]

Source: President Trump plans to announce TikTok America, a company that is ~50% owned by US investors and 19.9% by ByteDance, which would license the algorithm (Kaya Yurieff/The Information)

Kaya Yurieff / The Information:
Source: President Trump plans to announce TikTok America, a company that is ~50% owned by US investors and 19.9% by ByteDance, which would license the algorithm  —  President Donald Trump plans to announce later on Wednesday his plan for a new company called TikTok America …