SpaceX has reportedly held talks with EchoStar about acquiring Boost Mobile or gaining access to its network, potentially giving Starlink a shortcut toward becoming a full-fledged U.S. mobile carrier. Engadget reports: According to Washington Post's sources, the deal could look like SpaceX acquiring Boost Mobile outright or gaining access to its cell network, which is leased from AT&T and T-Mobile. There could be a major hitch with the deal though, since SpaceX's potential mobile service would need the green light from those major mobile carriers, according to the report. The Washington Post also reported that major cell companies, which include AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, have already turned down Musk down for access to its cell networks in order to launch a separate SpaceX service. Last month, SpaceX reportedly held talks with Crown Castle to access at least 80,000 cellular tower sites across the U.S. as it prepares to launch Starlink Mobile. "We will be building out our terrestrial networks so there's broad-based connectivity anywhere that SpaceX and Starlink are allowed to operate," Musk said during SpaceX's earnings call this week. Satellite launches plus spectrum acquisition "will pave the way for Starlink Mobile to become a major mobile carrier in the US," he said.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Data centers are deeply unpopular. But what if we called them something else? Axios reports that OpenAI is preparing a "PR blitz" for after the midterm elections on Tuesday, as Democrats seem likely to win back the House of Representatives, and possibly the Senate, too. The company's chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane told Axios that the midterms will be "a bit of a movie trailer for what you're going to see in 2028," when he expects AI to be "the issue" in the presidential election.
So OpenAI is to influence the AI debate moving forward, with Lehane discussing several proposals, including the development of AI "speed limits"; finding ways to help people see AI as empowering them in their daily lives; pushing the U.S. to take a role in developing global standards; and yes -- rebranding data centers as "AI compute campuses." Lehane also described the conversation around data centers (a debate that has pushed Amazon and Microsoft to say they will no longer use NDAs in their negotiations with local governments) as "good and healthy." "Communities should hold companies responsible and accountable so they really and truly get a transformative benefit from these projects," he said.
So OpenAI is to influence the AI debate moving forward, with Lehane discussing several proposals, including the development of AI "speed limits"; finding ways to help people see AI as empowering them in their daily lives; pushing the U.S. to take a role in developing global standards; and yes -- rebranding data centers as "AI compute campuses." Lehane also described the conversation around data centers (a debate that has pushed Amazon and Microsoft to say they will no longer use NDAs in their negotiations with local governments) as "good and healthy." "Communities should hold companies responsible and accountable so they really and truly get a transformative benefit from these projects," he said.
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The New York Times and several other publishers have sued (PDF) Brave Software, accusing the browser maker of scraping their websites without permission and helping users bypass paywalls. The Verge reports: According to a complaint (PDF) filed by the companies that run New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orlando Sentinel, Brave Software has monetized its index of scraped websites by, in part, providing AI companies with paid access to "real-time online content from the Brave Index." The AI companies then use that index to train their models, access content to "respond to specific user queries," or both. Brave has allegedly provided "stolen copyrighted content" to "many" AI companies including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere. Brave also promotes "hundreds of top publishers" as being accessible through its "Paywall blocker" feature in its browser.
"Brave has never asked for the Publishers' permission to access their websites, much less to copy the material and provide it to users or other AI companies," the complaint says. "On the contrary, as noted above, Brave allows its users to bypass the Publishers' paywalls without their consent, and has taken other steps that prevent the Publishers from blocking Brave's access to the Publishers' websites. Brave has never compensated the Publishers for the unlawful use, copying, and distribution of the Publishers' copyrighted content." "While we believe in the ethical and responsible use and development of AI, Brave has flouted established copyright law and ignored repeated requests by The Times to stop its infringing conduct," Graham James, an NYT spokesperson, says in a statement. "We filed this lawsuit to hold Brave accountable for stealing our content to power its own products and to provide it to some of the most prominent and well resourced generative AI companies in the world."
"Brave has never asked for the Publishers' permission to access their websites, much less to copy the material and provide it to users or other AI companies," the complaint says. "On the contrary, as noted above, Brave allows its users to bypass the Publishers' paywalls without their consent, and has taken other steps that prevent the Publishers from blocking Brave's access to the Publishers' websites. Brave has never compensated the Publishers for the unlawful use, copying, and distribution of the Publishers' copyrighted content." "While we believe in the ethical and responsible use and development of AI, Brave has flouted established copyright law and ignored repeated requests by The Times to stop its infringing conduct," Graham James, an NYT spokesperson, says in a statement. "We filed this lawsuit to hold Brave accountable for stealing our content to power its own products and to provide it to some of the most prominent and well resourced generative AI companies in the world."
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The 20-year-old is now the youngest-ever World Champion in F1 history.
Antonelli may have become F1’s youngest-ever World Champion in Mexico, but the betting markets are already predicting something different for 2027.
Het gaat slecht met het kabinet, maar verder goed (laatste update: ze zijn het onderling eens over dat ze het niet eens zijn met de rest), en gelukkig hebben we in Nederland Özcan Akyol om de boel eens even lekker Algemeen te duiden in het Dagblad. En wat blijkt? Het ligt allemaal aan de VVD en er is niemand die dat durft te zeggen, behalve Özcan Akyol. Niemand? Echt? Niemand? Een kleine bloemlezing in het Stamcafé.
PS - Wat staat hier?
Best bekeken sAtiRiScH programma op de NPO (kennelijk niet te ontvangen in Deventer)
SocialPampieren Volkskrant
Volkskrant Podcast (overal te beluisteren, behalve in Deventer)
Kamer van Klok júíst niet geobsedeerd door VVD
VVD? Prima centrum-rechtse partij volgens de Kamer van Klok
Jetten krijgt er weer van langs in de Kamer van klok
Is het wel goed, dan deugt het alsnog niet
Humor!!!
Originele take op BlueSky (Mag Özcan Akyol niet komen)
Analyse!!! (achter paywall, onmogelijk te lezen voor Özcan Akyol)
Piratenzender Radio 1
De Groene Amsterdammer pleit de VVD lekker vrij
Trouw (belandt in huize Akyol linea recta in prullenbak)
"NRC? Nooit van gehoord"
SocialEn dan nu: de Megamix (een terugblik op deel 1 t/m 4)
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Hispanics and Asians have become their country’s most dynamic swing voters.
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Het is misschien ouderwets, maar Stephan Sanders schrikt er toch van dat je homoseksueel kunt zijn én Trump-vertrouweling.
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Douglas DePodesta says he was made ‘scapegoat’ after collapse of case against Broadview Six anti-ICE protesters
The former head of the FBI in Chicago has accused the Trump administration of pressuring him to investigate the president’s political opponents and making him a “scapegoat” after a major federal case against anti-ICE protesters fell apart.
Douglas DePodesta, who served as FBI special agent in charge from 2024 until July 2026, alleged in a federal lawsuit filed on Monday that the Department of Justice (DoJ) had engaged in “misconduct” and “malfeasance” in its pursuit of unjust prosecutions – and that he was wrongly blamed for the DoJ’s missteps and unlawfully forced out of his job.
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Through abstract, prismatic acrylic paintings to garment-like sculptures and textile collages, Jeffrey Gibson explores questions of identity, lineage, and cultural translation. Working across media, the artist intricately beads monumental works and incorporates a wide range of fabrics and materials.
Jeffrey Gibson: A Real Love Thing at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center delves into the cross-disciplinary breadth of the artist’s practice throughout the past decade. Fifteen works amplify his interest in pattern, queer iconography, and his Indigenous Mississippi Choctaw and Cherokee heritage. Drawing on the early and continuing influence of music, the artist often integrates song lyrics into tapestry-like wall hangings and three-dimensional works.
Music also inspired the title of the exhibition, which Gibson drew from a 1971 interview with soul artist Marvin Gaye, who described his seminal album What’s Going On by saying, “I think I’ve got a real love thing going. I love people, I love life, and I love nature, and I can’t see why other people can’t be like that.”
Reflecting this sentiment, Gibson’s approach is a luminous celebration of Indigenous symbolism and traditional materials, such as jingle cones used in ceremonial garments, tipi poles, and glass beads that have coated bags, moccasins, and other apparel hand-crafted by Native Americans throughout the centuries. The artist also posits a future full of hope, joy, acceptance, and, like Gaye, a love-above-all ethos.
A Real Love Thing continues through March 13 at the Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., where Gibson will present a talk as part of the esteemed Sam Gilliam Lecture series on November 12. And if you’re near Eugene, Oregon, the artist’s traveling solo exhibition They Teach Love is also on view through through March 7 at the University of Oregon.
Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Jeffrey Gibson’s ‘A Real Love Thing’ Surveys a Decade of the Artist’s Multidisciplinary Practice appeared first on Colossal.
KYIV (ANP) - De Oekraïense president vreest dat de aandacht die uitgaat naar de Amerikaanse parlementsverkiezingen deze week, de midterms, de aandacht zal afleiden van de oorlog tegen zijn land. In zijn dagelijkse videotoespraak aan Oekraïners zegt het staatshoofd dat Rusland dat momentum kan aangrijpen om aanvallen uit te voeren op zijn land. Zelensky zegt daarbij over informatie te beschikken dat Rusland een grootschalige aanval voorbereidt.
Zinspelend op de dieseldeal die de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump onlangs met Rusland sloot, zegt Zelensky dat er "geen spelletjes moeten worden gespeeld met Ruslands olie- en gasinkomsten". Die overeenkomst met het Kremlin werd breed gezien als ommezwaai in Trumps steun voor Oekraïne, ook omdat zo'n stap indirect de Russische oorlogsinspanning steunt.
"We moeten op zo'n manier druk op Rusland zetten dat het geen ander alternatief heeft dan de oorlog te beëindigen. Amerika kan dit", aldus Zelensky.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het kabinet komt dinsdagochtend om 09.00 uur bijeen voor een extra ingelaste ministerraad. Daarin wordt besloten hoe het verder moet met het belastingplan voor volgend jaar en met de plannen voor aanpassing van de belasting op inkomen uit vermogen op de langere termijn. Dat meldt een woordvoerder van minister-president Rob Jetten.
ROTTERDAM (ANP) - In een woonwijk in het oosten van Rotterdam heeft een schietincident in een woonwijk plaatsgevonden. De politie meldt dat daarbij een man is overleden en een andere man zwaargewond is geraakt.
Het incident vond rond 20.00 uur plaats op de Evenaar in de wijk Oosterflank. Voor het incident werden veel hulpdiensten opgeroepen, waaronder een traumahelikopter. De politie doet onderzoek.
Ted Chiang: “There’s no way to write fiction and guarantee your readers will understand it correctly. There is no way you will ever be able to write something so straightforward that Elon Musk will understand it the way that you intend it.”
Feyenoord moet Jeremiah St. Juste dinsdagavond missen tegen Internazionale. De centrale verdediger, die begin dit jaar terugkeerde op het oude nest, kende een moeizame start, maar is intussen een heel belangrijke speler in het elftal van Giovanni van Bronckhorst. Gaat Feyenoord hem missen in het Champions League-duel?
Bij een schietpartij aan de Evenaar in Rotterdam-Oosterflank is maandagavond één man om het leven gekomen. Een andere man raakte zwaargewond. Volgens de politie speelde het geweld zich af in een auto.
