This Week in Tech 1030: Journalism Comes In Second

• Judge Blasts Apple For Violating Antitrust Ruling
• Google's Sundar Pichai Calls US Remedies 'De Facto' Spinoff of Search - Slashdot
• Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive
• Visa Announces Plans to Give AI Agents Your Credit Card Information
• The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here
• The TAKE IT DOWN Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims That Will Lead to Censorship
• Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act
• White House Slams Amazon After Report it Will Highlight Tariff Costs
• The Kickstarter you backed may soon ask for more money to cover Trump's tariffs
• Microsoft Raises Xbox Prices 20% as Tariffs Drive Up Cost of Development
• UPS will cut 20,000 jobs because fewer Amazon packages are coming
• Elon Musk's DOGE ties could get his companies out of $2 billion in potential liability
• President Trump's fiscal 2026 budget proposal suggests slashing $491M from CISA's ~$3B budget, claiming the cut "refocuses CISA on its core mission"
• Government Actually Threatens Wikipedia's Editorial Freedom; Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warriors Suddenly Have Other Plans
• Mark Zuckerberg Sailed 5,300 Miles With Two Superyachts Only to Helicopter Up a Mountain and Ski
  Down in Billionaire Style - Sustainability Times
• Massive power outage in Spain, Portugal leaves millions in dark
• Wall Street Banks Sell Final Slug of Elon Musk's X Debt
• Elon Musk's SpaceX gets a company town in Texas
• Amazon deploys the first Project Kuiper internet satellites
• Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users
• How Badly Did ChatGPT and Copilot Fail to Predict the Winners of the Kentucky Derby? - Slashdot
• Quantum message travels record distance over fiber optic network
• Photo appears to show Mike Waltz using Signal-like app that can archive messages
• Chinese university designed 'world's first silicon-free 2D GAAFET transistor,' claims new bismuth-based tech is both the fastest and lowest-power transistor yet
• The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers

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