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Nate Silver Explodes In Foul-Mouthed Tirade After Fake Polling Firm Pulls Off Humiliating Hoax Political polling guru Nate Silver unleashed a profanity-laced tirade after a polling operation admitted its surveys were largely fabricated. Silver, whose career has been built around interpreting polling data, was furious after Wedgewood Polling admitted that much of its operation had been an elaborate "social experiment" designed to expose just how easily questionable statistics could infiltrate the political media ecosystem. "Our fabricated numbers were given instant credibility across national media platforms," the statement said. "The ease with which...

Iran Set To Emerge With More Hormuz Leverage Than Before The War Under Draft US-Oman Deal President Trump said late Tuesday that talks with Iran are "moving along very nicely" - in a highly fluid and ambiguous situation where it appears the two sides are only interacting indirectly at best. But the Iranian side has continued to insist that there are currently no peace or ceasefire talks happening, but only the Iran-Oman negotiations which focus on reopening the Strait of Hormuz and setting terms of how it will be managed. Consistent with this...

Oracle Kills $7BN Tencent AI Chip Deal Under Trump Pressure Trump administration officials went to Oracle with concerns about its chip leasing contract with Tencent, and the deal has since been cancelled, two people familiar with the matter told the Financial Times.The five-year lease, worth an estimated $7 billion, would have given the Chinese tech giant access to as many as 100,000 advanced AI chips across a string of Oracle data centers in Southeast Asia, chips it can't use at home because of curbs from both Washington and Beijing. It...