🌐 Trump threatens 100% tariffs over digital services taxes

🎛️ Instagram tests new ways to tune “Your Algorithm”

👁️ Gemini now sees exactly what you highlight

🔇 California bans extra-loud streaming ads

⛽ NASA is building gas stations in orbit

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Trump posted Friday that any country taxing US tech firms with a digital services tax will face an immediate 100% tariff on all goods shipped to America, even overriding existing trade deals.

Digital services taxes hit the largest tech companies, nearly all American, including Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon. More than a dozen countries already levy them, and Trump singled out European nations weighing their own versions.

No obvious law lets Trump do this. The Supreme Court struck down his IEEPA tariffs in February, and his fallback, Section 122, caps rates at 15% and expires this July.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri is previewing new ways to reach "Your Algorithm," the tool that lets you tell the app which topics to show more or less of, instead of leaving it buried in settings.

His examples include pulling down on the feed or swiping up from a Reel to open the menu, plus buttons under each Reel to flag whether you want more like it. Some may not ship.

The top comments on Mosseri's post all asked for the same thing, and none of them wanted more buttons. One simply demanded the algorithm show the people they actually follow.

Google is rolling out "Select from screen" in Chrome 149, letting you draw a box around any text or image in a tab and fire it straight to Gemini instead of typing out a description.

The feature only works on desktop for signed-in users outside Incognito, and it landed the same day Google gave developers computer-use powers in Gemini 3.5 Flash for agents that act across apps.

Google pitches this as Gemini graduating from chatbot to an assistant that anticipates what you want. The catch baked into that pitch: it gets smarter the more it watches what you are already doing.

California's SB 576 takes effect July 1, making it illegal for streaming services to play ads louder than the shows they interrupt, finally matching the rules broadcast and cable TV have followed since 2010.

The 2010 federal CALM Act forced traditional TV to level its ad volume but never touched streaming, so California closed the gap itself. Illinois passed a similar law that kicks in by July 2027.

Streaming groups warned that compliance gets tricky across phones, tablets, and TVs. Worth noting: the FCC still fielded 1,700 loud-ad complaints in 2024, proving the old rules never fully cracked this either.

NASA just tested a "cryocoupler" built by L3Harris, basically a gas-pump nozzle for space that lets a spacecraft dock with an orbiting fuel depot and top off before heading deeper into the solar system.

Engineers ran liquid nitrogen at negative 321 degrees Fahrenheit through the coupler and simulated misaligned dockings on a robotic table. It connects and releases on its own, so no astronaut needs to spacewalk out to refuel.

NASA admits nobody has ever pulled off cryogenic refueling between two spacecraft, calling it one of spaceflight's toughest challenges. So treat the orbital gas station less as a product and more as a cold engineering dare.

A) Yes - 79% 🏆

B) No - 21%