With Trump in power, can Turkey find its way back into the F-35 program?
Analysts told Breaking Defense the S-400 and sanctions present significant hurdles, but they’re not impossible to overcome.
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Trump Administration Plans To End the IRS Direct File Program for Free Tax Filing
The Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS’ Direct File program, an electronic system for filing tax returns directly to the agency for free, AP reported Wednesday, citing two people familiar with the decision. From the report: The program dev…
Immigrant Founders Are the Norm in Key US AI Firms: Study
More than half of the top privately held AI companies based in the U.S. have at least one immigrant founder, according to an analysis from the Institute for Progress. From the report: The IFP analysis of the top AI-related startups in the Forbes AI 202…
Hertz data breach: Customers in US, EU, UK, Australia and Canada affected
American car rental company Hertz has suffered a data breach linked to last year’s exploitation of Cleo zero-day vulnerabilities by a ransomware gang. The breach resulted in information of an unknown number of customers of Hertz and Hertz’s…
Nvidia To Make AI Supercomputers in US for First Time
Nvidia has announced plans to manufacture AI supercomputers entirely within the United States, commissioning over 1 million square feet of manufacturing space across Arizona and Texas. Production of Blackwell chips has begun at TSMC’s Phoenix facilitie…
Trump Denies Tariff ‘Exception’ for Electronics, Promises New Electronics Tariffs Soon
Late Friday news broke that U.S. President Trump’s new tariffs included exemptions for smartphones, computer monitors, semiconductors, and other electronics. But Sunday morning America’s commerce secretary insisted “a special-focus type of tariff” was …
America’s Dirtiest Coal Power Plants Given Exemptions from Pollution Rules to Help Power AI
Somewhere in Montana sits the only coal-fired power plant in America that hasn’t installed modern pollution controls to limit particulate matter, according to the Environmental Protecction Agency. Mining.com notes that it has the highest emission rate …
FSF Urges US Government to Adopt Free-as-in-Freedom Tax Filing Software
“A modern free society has an obligation to offer electronic tax filing that respects user freedom,” says a Free Software Foundation blog post, “and the United States is not excluded from this responsibility.”
“Governments, and/or the companies that …
Trump Tariffs Add Exemptions Friday Night for Smartphones and Other Electronics
Smartphones, computer monitors, semiconductors, and various other electronics will be exempt from U.S. President Trump’s tariffs, reports CNN, “according to a US Customs and Border Protection notice posted late Friday.”
And several other products als…
Trump orders revocation of security clearances for Chris Krebs, SentinelOne
US President Donald Trump has signed an Executive Order on Wednesday to revoke security clearance held by Chris Krebs, the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and his colleagues at SentinelOne. “The Ord…