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  • Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

    The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’ Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon Peter Thiel, the billionaire political svengali and tech investor, is worried about the antichrist. It could be the US. It could be…

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  • Murdoch’s TikTok? Trump offers allies another lever of media control

    Under the known terms of the deal with China, TikTok would get a new board, including Murdochs and Ellisons Donald Trump revealed last week the US and China are close to inking a deal to let TikTok continue operating in the US. Details are not final, but should the agreement go through as has been…

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  • Trump says Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch likely part of US TikTok deal

    US president tells Fox News ‘a man named Lachlan is involved … that’s a very unusual name, Lachlan Murdoch’ Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan Murdoch will probably be involved in the effort to buy TikTok in the US, Donald Trump said in an interview on Sunday. The president was asked about the status of…

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  • How memes, gaming and internet culture all relate to the Charlie Kirk shooting

    Kirk’s rise to fame was largely bolstered by being extremely online – and it seems the suspect has that in common Hello, and welcome to TechScape. Dara Kerr here, filling in for Blake Montgomery, who promises he’ll come back from vacation. Meanwhile, I’m looking at the memes, gaming and internet culture behind the shooting of…

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  • Trump celebrates TikTok deal as Beijing suggests US app would use China’s algorithm

    Comments from Chinese official in Madrid have raised questions over who could control the algorithm that powers Tik Tok’s video feed Donald Trump has claimed his administration has reached a deal with China to keep TikTok operating in the US, amid uncertainty over what shape the final agreement will take, with suggestions from the Chinese…

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  • Trump hosts US tech leaders at White House dinner – minus Elon Musk

    Tesla CEO’s absence is marked departure from his constant presence at the White House in early days of Trump 2.0 As Donald Trump hosted leaders from the biggest US tech companies at a lavish White House state dining room dinner on Thursday night, there was one notable absence. Elon Musk, once inseparable from Trump and…

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  • Trump fortune balloons by billions after family firm’s crypto token starts trading

    World Liberty Financial’s digital token $WLFI fell in price on first day, a year after launch by Trump family and partners The Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture, World Liberty Financial, put its namesake digital tokens up for sale on Monday, adding some $5bn in paper value to Donald Trump’s family fortune. The token, known as $WLFI,…

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  • Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps

    Trump administration contract with Paragon Solutions gives immigration agency access to one of the most powerful stealth cyberweapons US immigration agents will have access to one of the world’s most sophisticated hacking tools after a decision by the Trump administration to move ahead with a contract with Paragon Solutions, a company founded in Israel which…

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  • How Elon Musk’s billionaire Doge lieutenant took over the US’s biggest MDMA company

    Antonio Gracias is part of the growing movement among Silicon Valley’s right wing enamored with the therapeutic and commercial potential of drugs like MDMA Months before Antonio Gracias took a leading role in the “department of government efficiency’s” dismantling of the federal government, he was at Burning Man. In the dusty Nevada desert, Gracias, a…

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  • Trump says Intel has agreed to give US government a 10% stake

    Unprecedented deal comes after president demanded CEO Lip-Bu Tan to resign over his ties to Chinese firms The US government has taken an unprecedented 10% stake in Intel under a deal with the struggling chipmaker and is planning more such moves, according to Donald Trump and the commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, the latest extraordinary intervention…

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