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- Regulation Renovation: The Executive Order To Make Deregulation Permanent
A new OMB memo lays a foundation for Trump to lock in deregulation with an executive order that rewrites Washington’s rulebook for good.
- Oil Vs. Gas: Diverging Valuations In The Energy Patch Persist
Permian oil producers struggle for growth as gas peers surge on LNG demand and power generation optimism heading into 2026.
- Warren Buffett says ‘accumulating great amount of money’ doesn’t achieve greatness—He still lives in a $31,500 Nebraska home and clipped coupons
Berkshire Hathaway mogul Buffett, worth $150 billion, says kindness is more golden than big bank accounts. He still eats at McDonald’s, and says luxury purchases wouldn’t make him happier.
- Trump, who slapped an extra $100,000 on the H-1B visa, now says there aren’t enough talented people in the U.S. to fill jobs
The president argued U.S. companies need specialized labor from foreign workers and can’t “take people off an unemployment line who haven't worked in five years.”
- Ford CEO says he has 5,000 open mechanic jobs with 6-figure salaries from the shortage of manually skilled workers: ‘We are in trouble in our country’
“We do not have trade schools. We are not investing in educating a next generation of people,” Jim Farley said.
Technology
- Sam Rockwell’s a time traveler in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die trailer
"I'm not gonna sugarcoat it. You're in for a really weird night."
- Review: New Framework Laptop 16 takes a fresh stab at the upgradeable laptop GPU
New components make it more useful and powerful but no less odd.
- Formula with “cleanest ingredients” recalled after 15 babies get botulism
Cases span 12 states. All affected babies have been hospitalized, but no deaths reported.
- The Download: how to survive a conspiracy theory, and moldy cities
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What it’s like to be in the middle of a conspiracy theory (according to a conspiracy theory expert) —Mike Rothschild is a journalist and an expert on the growth and impact of conspiracy…
- Improving VMware migration workflows with agentic AI
For years, many chief information officers (CIOs) looked at VMware-to-cloud migrations with a wary pragmatism. Manually mapping dependencies and rewriting legacy apps mid-flight was not an enticing, low-lift proposition for enterprise IT teams. But the calculus for such decisions has changed dramatically in a short period of time. Following recent VMware licensing changes, organizations are…
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