This ought to be a simple point to understand. Yet it is lost on a large swath of the American right, who insist that calling Trump what he is causes at least some of his opponents'among them, the accused shooter Cole Tomas Allen'to believe that violence is justified against the president. In an interview with CBS following the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, Trump blamed the most recent attempt on his life on 'the hate speech of the Democrats,' which he called 'very dangerous.' The New York Post asked on Sunday, 'Where did Allen get such ideas about Trump and the need to remove him, via murder'' It answered the question like so: 'Almost certainly from the left, including from Democrats in positions of power. Barely a day goes by without some Dem calling Trump an autocrat, a king, a dictator, Hitler.' Also on Sunday, CNN's Dana Bash asked Representative Jamie Raskin to engage with the premise. 'You and many of your fellow Democrats have used some heated rhetoric against the president,' she said. 'Do you think twice about that when something like this happens'' And yesterday, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt charged, 'Those who constantly falsely label and slander the president as a fascist, as a threat to democracy, and compare him to Hitler to score political points are fueling this kind of violence.'...

In the past few months, firms including SpaceX, Google and Blue Origin have all shared plans to launch large fleets, or constellations, of satellites into low Earth orbit. The networks would act in a similar way to the interconnected computers inside data centres on Earth, which process, store and transmit data on a massive scale. Putting these 'orbital data centres' into space could, in theory, address concerns about their energy and water consumption, and their occupation of wide swathes of land. The idea is that constellations would use sunlight for energy rather than driving up electricity costs on Earth, and they would be cooled by space's naturally cold environment rather than by water sources on our planet. For some, such a solution can't come soon enough. Data centres on Earth have become so environmentally taxing that communities and politicians are taking action against them. For example, the board of trustees for a township in the US state of Michigan voted last week to institute a one-year moratorium on the delivery of water to hyperscale data centres so that the township can study the effects of a planned facility....

OpenAI does not like to be left out. The week after Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview'an AI model that has put governments around the world on edge because of its potential ability to hack into banks, energy grids, and military systems'OpenAI shared a program that is uncannily similar. And just like Anthropic did with its model, OpenAI has, for cybersecurity purposes, restricted access to this new bot, called GPT-5.4-Cyber, to a small group of trusted users. This sequence has become something of a pattern: First Anthropic will make an announcement, and then OpenAI will follow suit. Last year, Anthropic launched Claude Code, an AI coding tool. A couple of months later, OpenAI came out with its own version, Codex. When Claude Code had a breakout moment in January, OpenAI responded with two major updates to Codex alongside a press blitz for the product. And earlier this month, OpenAI released a version of Codex that allows it to use other apps on your desktop'similar to an existing Anthropic tool called Claude Cowork....

Apple is giving App Store developers a new way to attract subscribers with lower-priced plans tied to a yearlong commitment. The company announced on Monday it will introduce a new subscription option that lets customers pay for their auto-renewing subscriptions on a monthly basis, while committing to a 12-month plan. This model will allow developers to offer discounted rates to customers in exchange for more predictable long-term revenue. This also caters to how many developers have already been marketing their annual subscriptions in their apps. Often, app developers will display the lower monthly price to highlight the discount the customer would receive if they purchase the annual subscription instead of the monthly option. If the user is on the fence about a longer-term commitment, the notion that they're getting a better deal can help to push them toward the annual option. Now, Apple is essentially formalizing what these developers were already doing, which allows it to also craft a set of policies around how these subscription offers are to be displayed so as not to mislead customers about the true cost of the deals....