September 2025? January 2026? Delivery dates keep slipping for the Trump Organization's "Trump Phone" a gold-coloured Android smartphone priced at $499 (370)

Plus: Meta officially kills encrypted Instagram DMs, the Trump administration targets violent left wing extremists, leaked documents reveal Russia's school for elite hackers, and more.

The plan isn't final and could change, but his ouster would be no surprise.

FCC chair hasn't been able to bully ABC and owner Disney into submission.

Trump's vow to impose tariffs a "different way" already has the tech industry on edge.

The Associated Press reports: The Pentagon has begun releasing new files on UFOs, saying members of the public can draw their own conclusions on "unidentified anomalous phenomena" like an object that a drone pilot says shone a bright light in the sky and then vanished. It said in a post on X on Friday that while past administrations sought to discredit or dissuade the American people, President Donald Trump "is focused on providing maximum transparency to the public, who can ultimately make up their own minds about the information contained in these files." It said additional documents will be released on a rolling basis

Apple and Intel have reportedly reached a preliminary agreement (paywalled; alternative source) for Intel to manufacture some chips used in Apple devices, after more than a year of talks and pressure from the Trump administration

In a word, 'Huh?'

Financial analysts at Wedbush have consistently been bullish about Apple, but now has raised its target price by a whopping $50 to $400, making its greatest jump in at least the last five years. The new Siri is coming Back in April 2025 when Trump's tariffs first struck, Wedbush did cut its Apple price target $325 down to $250, but that was a rare drop

The administration of Donald Trump is reportedly planning to invite several major American business leaders to accompany the president on an upcoming visit to China

The nearly universal 10% tariffs enacted by Trump have been declared illegal, pending appeal, so Apple may get even more cost reduction across its supply chain and additional refunds

Today on Uncanny Valley, were diving into recent reports that the Trump administration is considering an executive order that would establish some sort of federal oversight over new AI models.

Companies including Philips and Pandora say they plan to seek tariff reimbursements after the Supreme Court ruled Trump's sweeping duties illegal, with the U.S

The Trump administration is in early discussions about an executive order that would create a government review process for AI models before public release

Elements of the right and the left are united in the baseless belief that two attempts on Donald Trump's life were staged.

Trump forced to admit Biden was right on AI safety testing.

The Trump administration will have early access to new AI models from some big AI companies.

FDA has suppressed studies on COVID-19 vaccines and Shingrix, a shingles vaccine.

The Institute for Primary Facts has compiled more than 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files for public display at the newly opened Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room.

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SEC alleged Musk's late disclosure cheated Twitter investors out of $150 million.

The White House is also considering a new AI working group that would explore potential oversight and vet models before release, CNBC confirmed.

OpenAI and Anthropic, which had existing evaluation partnerships with the center dating to 2024, renegotiated their deals to align with priorities in Trump's AI Action Plan

Trump administration uses national security to justify stalling the development of 165 wind farms that could power 15 million homes

The Trump administration is reportedly considering an executive order to create a working group that could review advanced AI models before public release

White House officials are forming an AI working group to discuss AI model oversight and review processes, a reversal of President Trump's previous stance.

The Trump administration is said to be discussing an executive order that would establish a government review process for new AI models before theyre released to the public

Onshore wind development in the United States is being brought to a standstill.

The company's more than 5,000-acre site in the Texas panhandle dubbed Project Matador, or the President Donald J. Trump Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus remains mostly unfinished

Reuters reports: SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), several of which already work with the Pentagon, will be integrated into its secret and top-secret network environments, providing more military access to their products for use on sensitive topics, the Pentagon said in a statement. The lesser-known Reflection AI, which raised $2 billion in October, is backed by 1789 Capital, a venture capital firm in which Donald Trump Jr

Senator decries "blatant, brazen corruption," wants to target Trump admin next.

A Trump administration directory designed to help seniors find healthcare inadvertently exposed Social Security numbers

Trump lashes out at Cassidy while announcing his new nomination.

New report shows Trump, Vance and Rubio are the most deepfaked US politicians

Just in time for the Trump-Xi summit Exclusive A novel China-linked threat group infiltrated more than a dozen critical networks in Poland, Asian countries, and possibly beyond, beginning in December 2024 and with activity uncovered as recently as this month.

A federal judge denied Sam Bankman-Fried's request for a new trial, calling his claims of DOJ witness intimidation "wildly conspiratorial" and unsupported by the record. Judge Lewis Kaplan said (PDF) the FTX founder's motion appeared tied to a pre-indictment plan to recast himself as a Republican victim of Biden's DOJ in hopes of gaining sympathy, leniency, or even a Trump pardon

Broadcast license renewals are "all but automatic" due to 1996 change in US law.

The Trump administration has effectively forced out more than two dozen experienced lawyers from the DOJ's Voting Section, the part of the agency responsible for upholding the Voting Rights Act.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: The Food and Drug Administration on Friday granted a quick review of three experimental psychedelic drugs meant to treat major depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. It's the latest move by the Trump administration signaling a shift in policy toward treatments that also give users a high -- coming a day after the Justice Department said it would ease restrictions on state-licensed medical marijuana

The clown car is all gassed up.

Kimmel joke calling Melania an "expectant widow" followed quickly by FCC order.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has paid a visit to the White House as President Donald Trump greets the UK monarch, King Charles III

DoI offers up to $885M if they abandon offshore wind projects As the Iran war pushes up energy prices, the Trump administration is paying offshore wind developers to walk away from projects and invest instead in fossil fuel infrastructure.

Anthropic had a deal in place, but refused the government's demands to remove weapon and surveillance-related safeguards. NEW: Trump to blacklist Anthropic in the most consequential and controversial policy decision to date at the intersection of artificial intelligence and national security

The Trump Administration has signed deals with two major energy companies to abandon their respective offshore wind farms, with both firms agreeing to invest in oil and gas projects instead

That 'yet' is sure doing a lot of heavy lifting if the budget for science is slashed NASA administrator Jared Isaacman has appeared before the US House Appropriations Committee to explain the proposed Trump administration plan to cut $5.6 billion from the space agency's budget.

True Anomaly, a four-year-old startup, plans to use the funding to scale manufacturing and double its workforce by the end of the year.

The Trump administration says it will reimburse energy companies $885 million to cancel two planned offshore wind farms, with the firms in turn agreeing to put money into oil and gas projects instead

Space Force awards 11 firms prototype deals to build orbital interceptors The United States Space Force (USSF) has awarded eleven companies contracts to develop space-based interceptors for President Trump's Golden Dome program, in agreements worth up to $3.2 billion.

The suspected shooter at Saturday nights White House Correspondents Dinner faces three felony charges

Members had planned to release report that US is ceding scientific ground to China.

As reported by several outlets , the Trump administration dismissed members of the National Science Board (NSB), which is tasked with establishing policies for the National Science Foundation

Predicting incident trends can be a form of predictive policing, which uses data to anticipate where, when and how crime may occur... Meanwhile, the Trump administration's national policy framework for artificial intelligence, released on March 20, 2026, urges Congress to use grants and tax incentives to fund "wider deployment of AI tools across American industry" and to allow industry and academia to use federal datasets to train AI

The 31-year-old engineer and self-described indie game developer is suspected of firing shots at the annual event attended by President Donald Trump, high-profile media figures, and US government officials.

America's National Science Board (NSB) "was established in 1950 to guide the governance of the National Science Foundation," writes the Washington Post, "in an unusual structure within the federal government that echoes the setup of a company board in the private sector. It helps guide an agency that operates Antarctic research stations, telescopes, a fleet of research vessels and supports basic science research in laboratories across the United States." (NSF research has helped evolve the technology used in MRIs, cellphones and LASIK eye surgery.) But yesterday President Trump fired all 24 members of the National Science Board (NSB), the body that oversees the National Science Foundation (NSF), reports Science magazine: In addition to advising the administration and Congress on national science policy, it has statutory authority to oversee the actions of the $9-billion NSF, setting policy and approving large expenditures

To run it they'd hired Collin Burns, who'd worked at OpenAI and then Anthropic. But Burns started work Monday at the Center for AI Standards and Innovation and then "was pushed out Thursday by the White House, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations." Officials were concerned about Burns having worked at the AI company, which has fought bitterly with the Trump administration in recent months, according to one of the people and another person

At the federal level, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) endorsed a bill that would not only create a moratorium on new data center construction, but also any upgrades to existing facilities. Any desire to slow down AI development or the infrastructure that makes it possible runs counter to the demands of tech companies, and the perspective of the Trump administration, who's actively encouraging faster AI buildout in the US

The department also positions Colorado's law as a risk to "the United States' position as the global AI leader," a title the current administration is committed to protecting. As both an AI cheerleader and enabler, the Trump administration has been particularly sensitive to the notion of diversity, equity and inclusion being incorporated into AI

It's like "Pete Rose betting on his own team," Trump says of arrested soldier.

House vote to defang the Endangered Species Act was unexpectedly cancelled

The tax is a 2% levy on the revenues of search engines, social media services and online marketplaces that derive value from U.K

Oval Office resident rants about Blighty's Digital Services Tax with threats that dont quite add up Donald Trump has threatened to whack the UK with a "big tariff" if it doesn't scrap its tax on large US tech firms, reviving a long-running spat over who gets to skim the proceeds from Silicon Valley's global empire.

According to the Department of Justice, Van Dyke created a Polymarket account around December 26, 2025 and made 13 bets related to Maduro from December 27 to January 2. He took the Yes position on several Polymarket wagers, including US Forces in Venezuela by January 31, 2026, Maduro out by January 31, 2026, Will the US invade Venezuela by January 31 and Trump invokes War Powers against Venezuela by January 31

This occurred even after the message was set to disappear and the app itself was deleted from the device. 404 Media flagged the issue after speaking to multiple people who attended a hearing where the FBI testified that it "was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant's iPhone, even after the app was deleted, because copies of the content were saved in the device's push notification database." The shocking revelation came in a case that 404 Media noted was "the first time authorities charged people for alleged 'Antifa' activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization." "We're grateful to Apple for the quick action here, and for understanding and acting on the stakes of this kind of issue," Signal's post said

Trump-Xi summit may be rocked by US mulling huge sanctions.

Revolutionary telescope aiming for space after multiple near death experiences NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is ready for launch ahead of schedule despite repeated attempts by both Donald Trump's first and second administrations to cut funding

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Nearly half of children in the United States are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a new report, as experts warned Donald Trump's expansive rollback of protections will make the situation worse

Ancient Slashdot reader Alain Williams shares a report from the BBC: The Trump family's World Liberty crypto venture is being sued by one of its billionaire backers over allegations of extortion

Lawsuit demands Nintendo pass Trump tariff refunds on to its customers.

Im sure well get some chatter about the Apple Car project from people who thought that was ever a good idea. As for the Trump Stuff(), I have some sympathy for Cook, who probably didnt expect to play diplomat when he took the job

If Dems take Congress, Trump may face reckoning for pay-to-play memecoin galas.

This has prompted some skepticism among security researchers but also fear that AI-generated cyber attacks could become a "real threat," CTO of cloud security firm Edera Alex Zenla recently told Wired . Anthropic was recently designated as a " supply chain risk " by the US Department of Defense, but has been in talks with the Trump administration of late to have that label removed