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Mortgage Rate Predictions: Will the Fed Keep Postponing Interest Rate Cuts?

Post author:CNET
Post published:January 30, 2025
Post category:LATEST

The Fed's "wait and see" policy could delay lower mortgage rates. Source

Bitcoin Spikes as Fed Skips Rate Cut—No 'Hurry' Despite Trump Demand

Post author:Decrypt
Post published:January 30, 2025
Post category:crypto deals LATEST

"We do not need to be in a hurry to adjust our policy stance," Fed Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday, as Bitcoin bounced around. Source

Copying Musk, Trump admin offers federal workers buyouts to resign

Post author:Ars Technica
Post published:January 30, 2025
Post category:LATEST social

Echoing Elon Musk's approach to thinning out Twitter's staff in 2022, Donald Trump's plan to significantly slash the government workforce now, for a limited time only, includes offering resignation buyouts.…

White House walks back funding freeze after a day of confusion

Post author:The Verge
Post published:January 30, 2025
Post category:business entertainment LATEST

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is walking back the federal funding freeze memo that set off a day of chaos and confusion on Tuesday up until…

Sony removes PlayStation account requirement from 4 single-player Steam games

Post author:Ars Technica
Post published:January 29, 2025
Post category:chips gaming LATEST

Sony's game publishing arm has done a 180-degree turn on a controversial policy of requiring PC players to sign in with PlayStation accounts for some games, according to a blog…

DeepSeek AI gets hit with data privacy red flag by Italy and Ireland

Post author:Mashable
Post published:January 29, 2025
Post category:ai LATEST mobile software

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI chatbot, swiftly rose to the top of app stores this week, and it's just as swiftly rising in priority for data protection watchdog agencies worldwide. DeepSeek's privacy…

Fact Check: Trump Doesn't Have the Power to Force Lower Interest Rates

Post author:CNET
Post published:January 29, 2025
Post category:LATEST

The Fed's policy-making body is expected to put a pause on interest rate cuts today. Source

What DeepSeek knows about you — and why it matters

Post author:Mashable
Post published:January 29, 2025
Post category:ai LATEST mobile social software

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI chatbot similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT, is the most downloaded free app in the U.S. — but its swift rise to the top of the app store…

South Dakota Seeks to Establish Bitcoin Reserve as More States Join the Trend

Post author:Decrypt
Post published:January 29, 2025
Post category:crypto LATEST

The state-level Bitcoin reserve push aligns with Trump’s pro-crypto stance, driving renewed interest for crypto in U.S. financial policy. Source

RFK Jr.'s Cousin Says He Used to Grind Up Baby Animals in His Drug Den

Post author:Futurism
Post published:January 29, 2025
Post category:LATEST

Does Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sound like the kind of sane individual you'd want to be in charge of this country's public healthy policy? Not according to his own family. …

Why did Elon Musk just say Trump wants to bring two stranded astronauts home?

Post author:Ars Technica
Post published:January 29, 2025
Post category:entertainment LATEST social

For reasons that were not immediately clear, SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to his social media site X on Tuesday evening to make a perplexing space-based pronouncement. "The @POTUS has…

European Union Is Reportedly Planning To Ban Video Game Console Sales To Russia

Post author:Game Spot
Post published:January 29, 2025
Post category:entertainment gaming LATEST

The Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, and it has forced the two opposing sides to improvise weapons during the conflict. That's why the European Union is reportedly…

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

Post author:Ars Technica
Post published:January 29, 2025
Post category:ai business LATEST

Last summer, Anthropic inspired backlash when its ClaudeBot AI crawler was accused of hammering websites a million or more times a day. And it wasn't the only artificial intelligence company…

Senator Ted Cruz is trying to block Wi-Fi hotspots for schoolchildren

Post author:Ars Technica
Post published:January 29, 2025
Post category:LATEST

US Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is trying to block a plan to distribute Wi-Fi hotspots to schoolchildren, claiming it will lead to unsupervised Internet usage, endanger kids, and possibly restrict…

Mortgage Predictions Weekly: What Fewer Fed Cuts Mean for Homebuyers

Post author:CNET
Post published:January 28, 2025
Post category:LATEST

The Federal Reserve's first policy meeting of the year won't change much for mortgage rates in the near term. Source

Bowing to Trump, Google Maps plans to “quickly” rename the Gulf of Mexico

Post author:Ars Technica
Post published:January 28, 2025
Post category:entertainment LATEST social software

Well, that didn't take long. Google Maps, the most popular mapping software in the world, said on Monday evening that it will begin using new names for two prominent geographical…

DeepSeek collects keystroke data and more, storing it in Chinese servers

Post author:Mashable
Post published:January 28, 2025
Post category:ai deals LATEST mobile security software startups

U.S. tech companies are known to stockpile as much user data as they can, but DeepSeek's privacy policy makes Meta, Google, and OpenAI look tame. Over the past few days, China-based AI startup DeepSeek…

Google sending manual actions for site reputation abuse in Germany

Post author:Search Engine Land
Post published:January 28, 2025
Post category:LATEST

Google appears to be rolling out manual actions, search penalties, across German-based sites over the site reputation abuse policy. This comes a week or so after Google expanded the penalties…

Google Maps will rename some iconic locations because the US government said so

Post author:Android Authority
Post published:January 28, 2025
Post category:LATEST mobile software

Google Maps on phone Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority “Gulf of Mexico” is now called ‘Gulf of America’ on US-based Google Maps per government directives. “Denali” mountain has been…

FCC chair nixes plan to boost broadband competition in apartment buildings

Post author:Ars Technica
Post published:January 28, 2025
Post category:deals LATEST

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr has dropped the previous administration's proposal to ban bulk billing deals that require tenants to pay for a specific provider's Internet service. In March…