NYTIMES (Dustin Volz and Ernesto Londoño) - Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran
Michigan and Minnesota are among at least seven states coping with cyberattacks aimed at disrupting water systems nationwide.
NYTIMES (Boris Fishman) - To Find Happiness, I Stopped Talking. It Helped.
I had no idea what would help with my problems, but I knew what wouldn’t: talking about them. Which is why a silent retreat turned out to be exactly what I needed.
NYTIMES (Dustin Volz and Ernesto Londoño) - Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran
Michigan and Minnesota are among at least seven states coping with cyberattacks aimed at disrupting water systems nationwide.
NYTIMES (Devlin Barrett) - Justice Dept. Subpoenas Times Freelancer in Effort to Identify Sources
A previously undisclosed subpoena, involving reporting on a failed SEAL Team 6 mission in North Korea, reflects the government’s expanding campaign to investigate leaks of secrets.
ABCNEWS - Democrats see chance to flip House seat as abuse claims mount against GOP rep
Democrats see a fresh opportunity for an upset in an Ohio congressional seat.
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ABCNEWS - Maryland governor 'very concerned' Trump will interfere in midterms
Moore says Trump might use federal power to influence the fall elections.
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AXIOS (Ben Berkowitz) - Tillis says Blanche won't be confirmed as AG amid Trump fund fight
Sen. Thom Tillis said Saturday morning that new comments by President Trump about his "anti-weaponization" fund mean that attorney general nominee Todd Blanche won't be confirmed by the Senate next week. Why it matters: Tillis's comment escalates the fight between the White House and holdout Senate Republicans over whether Trump's fund for people he considers victims of political persecution is dead or not. What they're saying: "Despite comments as late as yesterday that the fund is dead, President Trump clearly intends to resurrect the payout pot for punks either by inappropriately establishing another bogus fund or pushing Congress to vote for a bill that the majority of Republicans in the Senate would be against," Tillis (R-N.C.)…
AXIOS (Zachary Basu) - DeepSeek's new bargain model accelerates AI's race to zero
Data: Axios research; Chart: Sara Wise/Axios Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released a powerful new coding model Friday that charges pennies for vast amounts of code — the latest sign that some of the smartest software on Earth is rapidly becoming a commodity . Why it matters: Tech giants are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into the computing infrastructure powering the AI revolution. Yet the intelligence that infrastructure produces is getting cheaper by the week. Zoom in: DeepSeek is the same Chinese startup that ignited a market meltdown last January by showing it could build a world-class AI model with far fewer resources than its U.S. rivals. - Its newest model, V4 Flash, performs close to the level of Anthropic's Claude Opus…
NYTIMES (Binod Ghimire and Elian Peltier) - Nirmal Purja, Renowned Mountaineer, Is Found Dead on Pakistani Mountain
The British-Nepali mountaineer was one of 10 climbers who were struck by an avalanche on Thursday on Broad Peak, one of the world’s highest mountains.
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NPR (Scott Simon) - Opinion: Remembering Margo Howard
Margo Howard had a lot of life experience and used it to offer advice for years as "Dear Prudence" for Slate. She died this week at the age of 86.
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