John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight just ran a prime-time broadside telling viewers the Republican Party is “way too comfortable with some, at best, Nazi‑adjacent shit.” It’s loud, it’s theatrical, and it’s exactly the kind of cultural performance that wins applause on cable and outrage on the right. But applause or outrage doesn’t change the fact More

Neil Young just sued President Trump’s campaign for $10 million over the use of “Rockin’ in a Free World” at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio. The filing says the song was played right before Mr. Trump took the stage and that the anthem’s meaning clashes with everything President Trump stands for. It is the latest More

General Motors announced this week it will move its stock from the New York Stock Exchange to the Nasdaq Global Select Market. The switch is set to take effect after the market close on Nov. 16, with Nasdaq trading to begin on Nov. 17, and the ticker will stay “GM.” That is the plain fact. More

Online stores have been quietly charging different people different prices for years. Now a new consumer tool called Grok Bots offers a clever way to fight back. Instead of trusting a retailer’s guess about you, ordinary shoppers can use simple automation to compare prices, shop anonymously, and make surveillance pricing much harder to pull off. More

Bill Gates, co‑founder of Microsoft and Chair of the Gates Foundation, stirred the pot again in a recent Decoder podcast interview. He told host Nilay Patel that as artificial intelligence reshapes work and life, some people “may choose” to step away from the technological frontier — “not large groups, but like the Amish.” He also More

New reporting this week says Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been using the NYPD academy gym for pickup basketball games. The story set off a firestorm with police union leaders who say their training space is being treated like a private rec center. That reaction tells us a lot about how this mayor treats law enforcement More