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Trump Wants to ‘Nationalize’ Elections Before Midterms, Here’s Why You Should Worry

After the Jan. 6 Insurrection and talks of running for a third term, President Trump has a dangerous suggestion to help win Republican votes this election.

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MindsEye gets a massive new update, expansion is on the way

MindsEye developer Build A Rocket Boy releases update and bug fixes, and says a multiplayer mode is currently in the works, too.

Mistral debuts Voxtral Transcribe 2, a family of speech-to-text models with speaker diarization and ultra-low latency, under the Apache 2.0 open-weight license (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View)

Sabrina Ortiz / The Deep View:
Mistral debuts Voxtral Transcribe 2, a family of speech-to-text models with speaker diarization and ultra-low latency, under the Apache 2.0 open-weight license  —  AI assistants are going voice-first, and Mistral AI just launched its models to compete.  —  On Wednesday, the French AI startup …

One Piece’s most divisive arc is streaming on Hulu — and it includes one of the anime’s best fights

One Piece's Whole Cake Island arc just got added to Hulu's library.

I drove three Chinese cars — here’s why they would clean up in the US

It only took a brief drive in a Zeekr 7X to convince me: Chinese cars are now competitive and could be sold in the US tomorrow. The compact battery-electric crossover, a bestseller in Europe, is aimed directly at the Tesla Model Y with its five seats, two rows, impressive road grip, energetic performance, and smooth […]