Asked by Time why he hadn’t called for Gershkovich’s release earlier, Trump said: “I guess because I have so many other things I’m working on. I have hundreds of things.” wsj.com/politics/polic…

NEW: Border communities in Texas have purchased a technology that tracks people through their Bluetooth and WiFi signals. It can track you through your wireless earbuds. The product is called Trafficatch & it's integrated into license plate reader systems
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Today marks my SIXTH year at @wsj, and instead of a paperweight, I want a fair contract that reflects the value of our employees who, through painful layoffs, are still powering Dow Jones to record profits and subscriber growth.

Once we have a contract, I’ll take a paperweight.

An excerpt from our “World on the Brink” book in the The Washington Post that discusses how to stop Chinese semiconductor breakout and its importance to deterring an invasion of Taiwan

CC Garrett M. Graff

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Extraordinary: The Biden administration tipped off a foreign power on the reporting of an American newspaper — a story about that same foreign power, India, trying to assassinate a U.S. citizen in the United States.

US intelligence has concluded Putin likely didn't order Navalny killed at the time he died. Navalny allies and some European security officials are not convinced. ⁦Aruna Viswanatha⁩ ⁦Dustin Volz⁩ ⁦Warren Strobel⁩ ⁦Alan Cullison⁩ ⁦Thomas Grove⁩ wsj.com/world/russia/a…

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U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that Putin likely didn’t order Navalny to be killed at the notoriously brutal prison camp in February.

The assessment doesn’t dispute Putin’s culpability for Navalny’s death, but rather finds he probably didn’t order it at that…

News: U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that Putin likely didn’t order Navalny to be killed in February—but the finding doesn't dispute Putin’s ultimate culpability for his death. wsj.com/world/russia/a…

Here's the full video of my interview on The Daily Show last night, on my book FILTERWORLD, homogenization, and algorithmic Taylor Swift for president youtube.com/watch?v=8JKgir…

Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and others join a panel to advise US DHS on deploying AI safely within America's critical infrastructure (Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal)

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Between this and Byron Tau’s Means of Control, I’d say Jordan Klepper has an exquisitely refined taste in top-notch nonfiction!

Germany arrested a prominent far-right politician’s parliamentary assistant on suspicion of spying for China, the fourth arrest of an alleged China spy in Germany in 24 hours.
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TIL John Lithgow's childhood babysitter was 'Coretta Scott, when she was at Antioch in the late 1940s. She would, of course, become Coretta Scott King.'

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