Senate Republicans muscled through $70bn for immigration enforcement at 5am, ending the four-month shutdown — even as a federal judge ordered asylum processing restarted and Putin brushed off Zelenskyy's first direct overture; watch the House take up the bill and a chip-led wobble on Wall Street today.
Senate Republicans passed a $70bn immigration-enforcement bill for ICE and DHS in a 52-47 party-line vote at 5am, ending the partial government shutdown that had dragged on since February. Lisa Murkowski was the lone Republican against; the bill now heads to the House next week and leaves intact a contested $1.8bn 'anti-weaponization' fund critics say would reward Trump allies.
A federal judge invalidated Trump administration policies that halted asylum grants and froze immigration-benefit processing for people from 39 countries, ordering officials to restart the system.
Even as Senate Republicans rebelled against the $1.8bn fund for Trump's allies, they looked the other way as his administration quietly granted him potentially lucrative protection from IRS audits.
Three days after polls closed, California's governor primary is still too close to call: British-born conservative pundit Steve Hilton narrowly leads with ~60% counted, with Biden-era HHS secretary Xavier Becerra close behind and billionaire Tom Steyer trailing. The top two advance to November; counting could run for days.
Thousands have protested in Tirana against a planned $1.6bn luxury resort backed by Jared Kushner, sited in one of the Mediterranean's most environmentally sensitive areas.
Spelman College named roboticist and AI expert Ayanna Howard as president, a notable departure for the top-ranked HBCU known for its liberal-arts focus.
Speaking at the St. Petersburg economic forum, Putin rejected Zelenskyy's proposal for a face-to-face meeting, calling the Ukrainian leader's open letter 'boorish' and saying he sees 'no point.' It was Zelenskyy's first direct public message to Putin since the 2022 invasion. Putin also slammed Western sanctions as damaging to the global economy.
Tech stocks slid for a second day after disappointing results from semiconductor giant Broadcom, with the chips sell-off threatening to end Wall Street's winning streak.
Myanmar's junta chief Min Aung Hlaing, who seized power in the 2021 coup and has rebranded as a 'civilian' leader, released overthrown president Win Myint in April after five years' detention. The gesture, alongside Aung San Suu Kyi's continued house arrest, signals the military is conceding little ahead of any political reset.
The EU has begun work to sanction Israel's national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir over his treatment of activists who tried to bring aid into Gaza by sea.
Pioneering Ebola scientist Peter Piot says the latest outbreak is fundamentally different from Covid: Ebola is deadly but not very contagious, making it far more containable.
Three men were each sentenced to 47 months for the heist of the 2,500-year-old Romanian Coțofenești golden helmet from a Dutch museum.
The independent browser project rethinks its development process, sparking a big debate about building a browser engine from scratch.
Anthropic open-sources a harness for pointing LLMs at codebases to surface security bugs.
A feature-length documentary on the history of C++ drops, with Herb Sutter as the messenger.
Meta unlocks ADB access on its discontinued Portal hardware, giving the devices a second life as hackable screens.
A learning author argues most grand schemes to reinvent school underestimate why the current system is so sticky.
Researchers geolocate a strong GPS-jamming source disrupting navigation across European airspace.
Alibaba ships an open-source CLI that runs AI code review over your diffs.
A cross-platform tool that lets you drive the entire desktop without ever touching the mouse.
A systematic study questions whether transformers really need separate Q, K and V projections, or if you can do with fewer.
Microsoft's in-house distro grows up into a general-purpose Linux, not just a container host.
A docs engineer fine-tunes a model on vintage technical writing to recapture terse 90s manual style.
Redis 8.8 adds a native array type and a built-in rate limiter alongside performance gains.
An ESP32-based Bus Pirate clone with a web CLI for poking at SPI, I2C, UART and more.
Physicists argue a quantum property called 'magic' may be what gives emergent space-time its gravity.
An observation that devs suddenly write thorough docs once an AI agent is the reader, not their teammates.
The European Commission lays out a tech-sovereignty push with open source at the center.