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Or a CEO, especially one involved in AI

I'm pretty sure that Trump will probably tweet something self-congratulatory on the parade, then pivot to complaining about how this parade was to celebrate the Army and that the lack of support is somehow Biden's fault

they're having a hard time hiding their boredom

Trump parade en route. We get more people and enthusiasm at our town's 4th of July parade. He should have had the Boy Scouts handing out lollipops.

My small little purple-tinged NorCal town had a sizeable #nokings protest. More people out than I can remember seeing before.

My wife drives a conversation like a BMW weaving through traffic. No turn signals. We're talking about No Kings one moment and the next she's referencing a cartoon on our refrigerator talking about sweet potatoes. And then, boom, gone.

The most Los Angeles sign ever. And it’s true.

#New: Company co-founder Anne Wojcicki will buy back 23andMe and its data for $305 million, outbidding Regeneron.

We now have a shooting war in the Middle East, apparently. I'm not sure Iran will back down. www.msn.com/en-us/news/n...

Bad news, especially if you own an older PC including a Ryzen AM4 platform. Start thinking about saving up for some DRAM. www.pcworld.com/article/2814...

AMD's ROCm doesn't make nearly as many waves as its Ryzen or Radeon chips, but it matters: it's essentially AI drivers. AMD admitted that they've basically ignored Windows to date (I've noticed!) but they're fixing that. Plus, major perf improvements with ROCm 7. www.pcworld.com/article/2812...

This concept of "sovereign computing" (AI for governments) now gives me the heebie-jeebies.

This story's a day old, but pretty important for PC users: we're apparently about to leap from PCI Express 5 devices (SSDs, graphics cards) to PCI Express 6. Much more performance, but heat, too. www.pcworld.com/article/2805...

Microsoft's Copilot Vision is now live for all U.S. users. Copilot VIsion looks at your screen and offers advice. It's not quite like Recall, but if this worries you, you might want to check it out as well as my hands-on. www.pcworld.com/article/2812...

AMD's Advancing AI 2025 keynote by Lisa Su: the first on-stage guest is from (*sigh*) X.AI, founded by Elon Musk.

Robert E. Lee and his men killed over 110,000 US Army soldiers. Here's why that same Army must rename its military bases after him. by Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth

Forgot to note this earlier: we're finally on the cuso of PCI Express 6 devices. www.pcworld.com/article/2805...

Funds will be distributed directly from the White House. Will there be a vig? www.reuters.com/business/env...

UN report says data center energy consumption among 200 leading tech companies "increased by 12 per cent each year from 2017 to 2023, four times faster than global electricity growth." 2023 is the most recent full-year data available.

I know nothing about the MindsEye game, but perusing the Other Place you can clearly see who has been incentivized to hype the game and what the reality of the launch really is...which is very bad.

I tend to focus mostly on productivity devices and laptops but I respect all of the ingenuity that goes into desktop building. Jon's story on the state of PC cooling is really good and worth a read. www.pcworld.com/article/2799...

Some of these Windows Start menu tweaks that you've seen dribble out piecemeal are now being assembled into a cohesive whole. www.pcworld.com/article/2808...

This was probably the first time in decades that I was actually tempted by Apple and macOS. It just looks like how I want Windows to look. www.pcworld.com/article/2807...

Trump just authorized the National Guard as well as the military to support ICE. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Watching CNN's post game on Good Night, Good Luck and I do agree with Bret Stephens but the journalistic cannibalism is inevitable. Also why is Swisher there

Video of an ICE caravan just ramming people

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

George Clooney on stage in live stage production of Good Night and Good Luck, available on CNN without a subscription today at 4 PM PT. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/e...

When you live in a small town, hanging out downtown while the high school is graduating is like going to the mall during the Super Bowl.

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio tried to give a press conference to announce his lawsuit against DOJ. Much to my surprise it turned out to be the greatest press conference of all-time.

This is a great read...and it's the first of two parts!

I would say that newsrooms I've worked in haven't exactly shied away from this. www.the-future-of-commerce.com/2025/06/06/s...

This won't change your life, but it's a neat little Windows tweak. www.pcworld.com/article/2797...

Nvidia has 92 percent of the desktop GPU market. That's insane. I can't recall any product in any tech industry ever having that kind of market share, can you? www.pcworld.com/article/2806...

Amazing. Respect the lede.

AMD's new 9060 XT GPU keeps up with the Nvidia GeForce 5060 Ti. That's good! Retailers are jacking prices! That's bad! www.pcworld.com/article/2805...

If the accessories are a 40 percent adder on top of the purchase price, isn't that wrong

For some reason we've come to accept Microsoft positioning the Surface Pro as tablet, pen, and keyboard -- even when Microsoft actually charges hundreds more for its accessories. It's ridiculous, and the cheaper Pro spotlights the problem. www.pcworld.com/article/2798...

Dammit, I bought Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 just twenty years ago and now they're on Game Pass

The cult of gross margin www.theregister.com/2025/06/04/i...

Looks like Intel's Bartlett Lake and Wildcat Lake are in the CPU pipeline, maybe? Bartlett Lake is an edge processor for now, but an all P-core variant looks intriguing. www.pcworld.com/article/2802...