Director Carl Rinsch sentenced to 2½ years in Netflix fraud case

Hollywood writer-director Carl Rinsch was sentenced Monday to two-and-half-years in prison after being convicted of defrauding Netflix out of $11 million US for a never-finished sci-fi series. Supporters including Keanu Reeves had asked the court to show leniency.

California bill to preserve online games fails committee vote

At least for this session, the Stop Killing Games campaign has hit a wall in the California Senate.

South Korea To Spend $1 Trillion On More Memory Chip Production, Humanoid Robots

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: South Korea's government and top tech companies are committing $1 trillion to several flagship megaprojects that could bolster global memory chip supply, build new AI data centers and spur commercial deployment of humanoid robots by 2028. [...] "We must secure the core elements of AI faster than any other country," said South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in a televised speech on June 29, as reported by BBC News and other media outlets. "Se...

Deutsche Bank: Tesla's Q2 Vehicle Deliveries Tracking Above Consensus Expectations

Deutsche Bank: Tesla's Q2 Vehicle Deliveries Tracking Above Consensus Expectations Tesla could be on track to deliver a stronger than expected second quarter, according to a new research note from Deutsche Bank analyst Edison Yu and his automotive team. The firm now expects Tesla to report approximately 416,000 vehicle deliveries during the second quarter of 2026. That estimate is about 10,000 vehicles above the company compiled consensus and sits modestly ahead of most Wall Street...

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie launches onto Peacock on July 30

The second animated Mario movie made over a billion dollars.

New York City Will Offer Transit Discounts to 340,000 More Riders

A budget deal between the mayor and the City Council is set to expand eligibility for the Fair Fares program, which provides half-price fares to lower-income New Yorkers.

Chong to finance, Duncan to foreign affairs in Conservative front bench shuffle

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is shuffling his front bench, in a renewal that sees a number of recently elected MPs taking on bigger portfolios, while also promoting one of the party’s longest-serving MPs to finance critic.

Trump Suggests He May Not Sign Bipartisan Housing Affordability Bill

Trump Suggests He May Not Sign Bipartisan Housing Affordability Bill Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump indicated on June 29 that he may not sign a bill that Congress passed that aims to make housing more affordable. Trump told reporters at the White House in Washington that he has not decided whether to sign the housing bill, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which Congress approved in a bipartisan fashion earlier in the month and target...

Earth Microbes Can Survive Individual Martian Hazards—and Evade Astronaut Immune Systems

Hopefully, we’re about to travel back to the Moon relatively soon. And while the original “giant leap for mankind” was taken by a human, Neil Armstrong brought a plethora of other forms of life along with him. Humans themselves are essentially walking ecosystems, and understanding how our microbial companions survive in the harsh environments of space will be critical to ensure the health and safety of future astronauts, no matter where their giant leaps might be. A new PhD thesis from Tommaso Z...

Tasmania's favorite 1,000-kilo chaos seal is back on land

Tasmania's favorite suburban elephant seal has returned, bigger, weirder, and apparently still committed to the bit where he turns roads, lawns, and traffic cones into supporting characters in the Neil Cinematic Universe. Neil is funny because he looks like a sofa that learned to breathe, but the fandom gets dangerous when people forget the sofa weighs a ton, has opinions, and teeth. Read the rest The post Tasmania's favorite 1,000-kilo chaos seal is back on land appeared first on Boing Boing.

Here’s Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately

Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it.

MDOTM, which makes AI software for asset and wealth managers, raised $27M led by Expedition Growth Capital, bringing its total funding to $36.5M

Ryan Lawler / Axios: MDOTM, which makes AI software for asset and wealth managers, raised $27M led by Expedition Growth Capital, bringing its total funding to $36.5M MDOTM, which makes AI software f

All the Apple products avoiding the price hike (for now)

All the Apple products avoiding the price hike (for now)

Man accused of stealing Sea Scouts' boat probably doesn't get his old boat back

The man accused of stealing the Sea Scouts' 30-foot sailboat, swapping its registration numbers onto a junker, and leaving the worse boat behind has reportedly been arrested, which means he may not get his old boat back either. This was already a beautiful little harbor-crime story: someone allegedly decided the Sea Scouts had a nicer boat than he did, performed the world's dumbest maritime trade-in, and hoped nobody would notice that the youth sailing program's vessel had been replaced by a flo...

Meituan's LongCat-2.0 shows China can train massive AI models without Nvidia

Meituan trains a 1.6 trillion parameter AI model entirely on Chinese chips, no Nvidia required. The article Meituan's LongCat-2.0 shows China can train massive AI models without Nvidia appeared first

Harbor x LangChain: A Unified Stack for Evaluating Agents

Evaluating long-running, stateful agents needs a new kind of runner. Here's how Deep Agents, LangSmith sandboxes, and observability plug into Harbor.

Cybersecurity company Aikido Security acquires Root, which has raised about $37.6M and develops an AI platform for securing open-source components

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Cybersecurity company Aikido Security acquires Root, which has raised about $37.6M and develops an AI platform for securing open-source components Belgian cybersecurity

New York Is About to Feel Hotter Than Phoenix

Extreme heat coupled with humidity will make it feel like 109 degrees Fahrenheit as the holiday weekend approaches.

AWS launches an internal organization for AI-focused forward-deployed engineers, backed by $1B in resources, following OpenAI and others in launching FDE teams

Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: AWS launches an internal organization for AI-focused forward-deployed engineers, backed by $1B in resources, following OpenAI and others in launching FDE teams As compa

AR Glasses Have a Massive Size Problem

Just ask Snap CEO, Evan Spiegel, about his new Specs.

X now offers an MCP server to make its platform easier for AI tools to use

X has launched a hosted MCP server, making it easier for developers to connect AI applications with the company’s API.

Courtney Sale Ross, Founder and Funder of a Quirky School, Dies at 78

Instead of home-schooling her daughter, she spent hundreds of millions of dollars building an idiosyncratic educational institution in the Hamptons.

Democrat-Led States Sue Trump Administration Over Medicaid Work Requirement Rules

Democrat-Led States Sue Trump Administration Over Medicaid Work Requirement Rules Via American Greatness, A coalition of 25 Democrat-led states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the Trump administration’s rules implementing new Medicaid work requirements. The suit claims the work regulations unlawfully restrict exemptions for medically vulnerable recipients. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Massachusetts, seeks to overturn the administration’s...

San Francisco's AI boom is pricing out six-figure tech workers who can't find rent under $5,000

San Francisco's AI boom is driving up the cost of living so fast that even couples earning $365,000 a year can't find an affordable apartment. Median rent sits at $3,827, and homes cost $1.7 million o

GPT-5.6 is here but...

plus the insanity of inference

How Jaiveer Singh Is Helping Robots and Developers Move Faster

When Jaiveer Singh talks about robots, he doesn’t begin with spectacle. He begins with infrastructure: the boards inside machines, the software that lets developers see through a robot’s cameras and t

‘Birthright’ Stages a Thrillingly Complex Conversation on Conversation Itself

Jonathan Spector’s ambitious drama about six Jewish friends and their shifting relationship with Israel stretches over three hours and nearly two decades.

US Supreme Court Rules Geofence Warrants Require Constitutional Privacy Protections

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 (PDF) in Chatrie v United States (No. 25-112) that geofence warrants sweeping up smartphone location data constitute searches under the Fourth Amendment. The Court found that individuals have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in such data, even when the tracking covers only a brief period or records movements in public. "An individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in records about his cell phone's location, and police intrude on that constitutionall...

The only thing hotter than summer? A $15 Sam's Club membership when it's usually $60.

TL;DR: Get a 1-year Sam's Club Membership with Auto-Renew for just $15 and enjoy member access to summer essentials, exclusive prices, free samples, travel savings, pharmacy perks, tire services, and more. Summer has a funny way of reminding people about all the things they need. Read the rest The post The only thing hotter than summer? A $15 Sam's Club membership when it's usually $60. appeared first on Boing Boing.

Amazon launches new $1 billion FDE org, following OpenAI and Anthropic

Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.

AeroVironment Erupts On "Asymmetric Warfare Boom"

AeroVironment Erupts On "Asymmetric Warfare Boom" AeroVironment shares surged the most in nearly two decades in early trading after the defense contractor - best known for its loitering munitions and unmanned systems - reported stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter results and issued fiscal 2027 revenue guidance that topped Wall Street estimates tracked by Bloomberg. AeroVironment's fiscal fourth-quarter revenue jumped 31% to $642 million, well ahead of the Bloomberg Consensus est...

Caitlin Clark's teammate called 'wildly unprofessional' for airing true thoughts on Mercury

Sophie Cunningham is throwing more fuel onto the WNBA fire.Caitlin Clark's sidekick is never one to hide from anything, and on the latest episode of her "Show Me Something" podcast, she did not shy away from her true feelings about her former team.Cunningham once played for the Phoenix Mercury, but last week the Mercury was Public Enemy No. 1 after Alyssa Thomas' hard foul on Caitlin Clark.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMThe foul went uncalled before the WNBA reviewed the play,...

WhatsApp will allow users to go by usernames, closing a privacy blind spot

WhatsApp users will soon get the option of going by usernames instead of phone numbers, the company said Monday, announcing plans to address a privacy blind spot. WhatsApp, which says it has more than 3 billion users globally, has until now allowed users to be contacted by anyone who has their phone number.

Storm rips apart home, leaves destruction in southwest Winnipeg

A vicious storm pounded Winnipeg Monday night, leaving a swath of destruction in the city's southwest that included the partial collapse of a house.

Lumo 2.0: Proton's Private Alternative to ChatGPT and Claude Just Got Better

When Lumo (partner link) launched last year, I took it for a spin to see what Proton's foray into AI assistants looked like. I found out that the open source AI assistant ran quite well for a new launch.And a few months later, Lumo 1.3 brought Projects to the assistant, letting me bundle related chats, files, and custom instructions into encrypted workspaces. I tried this out too, complete with Proton Drive integration for pulling files straight in, and it worked well.Following that, I used Lumo...

U.S. Supreme Court rules against Trump executive order to limit birthright citizenship

Supreme Court strikes down limit on party campaign spending in coordination with candidates

The Supreme Court struck down a longstanding federal campaign spending limit, ruling that political parties can now spend unlimited amounts in coordination with their federal candidates, as long as they otherwise comply with campaign finance laws.The 6-3 vote in the case National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission saw all the conservative justices in the majority, ruling against the restriction in the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA)."In short, constitutional text...

Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump's Birthright Citizenship Executive Order

Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump's Birthright Citizenship Executive Order The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down President Donald Trump's executive order curbing birthright citizenship.  President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 2025. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images) In a massive 194-page, 5-4 ruling, the Court affirmed a District Court ruling, holding that Executive Order 14160 - Trump's attempt to deny...

UAP whistleblower Luis Elizondo details congressional staffer's warning of a plot to 'eliminate' him

A whistleblower's brush with death, a congressman's dive into one of America's biggest mysteries and chilling warnings for their safety have taken center stage on the latest episode of the "Hang Out With Sean Hannity" podcast.Former Pentagon official and UFO whistleblower Luis Elizondo recalled a startling warning he received from a congressional staffer regarding him and fellow whistleblower David Grusch."There was a plan to eliminate you," Elizondo said, recounting the warning.UFO WHISTLEBLOWE...

IN PHOTOS | See the stunning strawberry moon

The so-called strawberry moon, which marks the first full moon of the summer, was on full display last night.

IN PHOTOS | See the stunning Strawberry Moon

The so-called Strawberry Moon, which marks the first full moon of the summer, was on full display last night.

Trump suffers major Supreme Court defeat as justices uphold birthright citizenship

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump's bid to restrict birthright citizenship, preserving the long-standing constitutional interpretation that most children born in the United States are automatically U.S. citizens, including children born to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present in the country.The ruling is a major setback for Trump, who made curbing birthright citizenship a key part of his immigration agenda. "Children born in the United States to parents un...

Another JOLT: Jobs Opening Smash Expectations, Despite Another Drop In Number Of Hires

Another JOLT: Jobs Opening Smash Expectations, Despite Another Drop In Number Of Hires Another month, another whopping beat by the BLS JOLTS job openings report. One month after the April JOLTS report came out with a whopping 9-sigma beat to estimates, when it showed that in April the US added a whopping 731K job openings to 7.618 million (and up 520K from a year ago), smashing estimates of 6.9 million, moments ago the BLS reported that in May, the number of total job openings prin...

AI chip startup Etched raised $800M from investors including Jane Street and a venture firm linked to TSMC, and says it has signed sales contracts worth $1B

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: AI chip startup Etched raised $800M from investors including Jane Street and a venture firm linked to TSMC, and says it has signed sales contracts worth $1B Nvidia rival says

Cyber unicorn Aikido acquires Israeli startup Root for $70-$100 million

Meir Orbach / CTech: Cyber unicorn Aikido acquires Israeli startup Root for $70-$100 million The Belgian company expands its AI security push and will open a new development center in Israel followi

Google's Gmail Live AI feature is now available in beta

You can use Gemini to quickly search your Gmail inbox with natural language.

Weaving the Future of Space Suits

The famous opening scene of the Martian has Mark Watney stabbed in the torso with a communications antenna. While this accident sets up the plot for what is widely regarded as a modern classic of sci-fi storytelling, what if he was wearing a space suit that would have stopped the impact altogether? That’s the idea behind a recent NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I program run by researchers from Materials Research and Design, Fiber Materials, Inc, and NASA’s Johnson Space Cen...

Supreme Court: States Can Ban Trans Athletes From Girls' Sports

Supreme Court: States Can Ban Trans Athletes From Girls' Sports The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that states can block biological transgender males from competing in girls' sports. In a 6-3 ruling, the court gave an iron-clad answer to the question.  Writing for the majority in West Virginia v. B.P.J. (consolidated with Little v. Hecox), Justice Brett Kavanaugh held that neither Title IX nor the Equal Protection Clause requires schools to carve out an exception for transgender ...

Conference Board Consumer Survey Signals Ugly Job Market, Weakest 'Present Situation' In Over 5 Years

Conference Board Consumer Survey Signals Ugly Job Market, Weakest 'Present Situation' In Over 5 Years Amid a plethora of revisions (lower), The Conference Board's measure of Americans' Consumer Confidence rose very modestly in June (from 90.6 to 91.2 - a big miss on the headline print's expectation of 94.4). However, while Expectations rose to their highest level of the year, the Present Situation tumbled to its lowest since March 2021... “Consumer confidence inched up in June a...

Clicks shows off its Communicator smartphone with a Blackberry-like keyboard

Clicks has released the first hands-on video of its Blackberry like Communicator Android phone.

Dave Portnoy left 'stunned' by NYC socialist victories, says the American Dream is under siege

Barstool Sports owner Dave Portnoy had an answer Monday about whether he is weighing a potential mayoral run in the Big Apple: "Maybe." Speaking with Fox News Digital following a 92NY event promoting his new book, the New England native debated whether he’d be the best candidate to take on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, whose socialist brand is rising in the Democratic Party."Depends what day you ask me," Portnoy told Fox News Digital. "I don’t know that I could win, but somebody’s got to t...

U.S. Supreme Court upholds state laws banning transgender athletes from women's sports

Taylor Sheridan says he doesn't care what critics think, admits to 'rage baiting' them on purpose

Taylor Sheridan couldn't care less what critics think about his work.Sheridan has become the most powerful creative visionary in entertainment, and there's no close second.The man took TV by storm with "Yellowstone," and has continued to expand the universe of the neo-Western with great success.That's on top of his series "Landman," "Lioness" and many others.MICHELLE PFEIFFER FOUGHT 'BATTLE' WITH TAYLOR SHERIDAN BEFORE SURRENDERING TO HIT SHOW 'THE MADISON'Sheridan's series are all hits with reg...

Supreme Court makes ruling on trans athletes in women's sports

The Supreme Court has established a new nationwide precedent that allows states to protect women's sports.The justices ruled in favor of West Virginia and Idaho on Thursday against trans athletes who sued to gain access to girls' sports. The states were backed by the law firm Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), while the trans athletes were represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Cooley Legal.In the highly-anticipated rulings in West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox, the...

Three college football recruiting 'winners' that dominated the month of June on the trail

Temperatures are starting to rise across the country as we enter the summer months, and with that, things on the recruiting trail are beginning to heat up as well.Now that official visits are starting to wind down, more and more teams and recruits are getting a clearer picture about what the future holds for them in the 2027 cycle.As with most things in college football, though, there are winners and losers, and rather than be a glass-half-empty kind of guy, I thought it would be fun to look at ...

The ‘House of the Dragon’ Cast Breaks Down Episode 2’s Most Pivotal Moments

Matt Smith, Emma D’Arcy, Olivia Cooke, Steve Toussaint, and Abubakar Salim talk about what their characters face in 'Queen's Landing.'

Civil rights heroes loved America. Today's grievance peddlers just hate it

I was scrolling on X the other day when I came across a post from Darializa Avila Chevalier, a Democrat and community organizer running for Congress in New York's 13th District. If she wins in November, she plans to abolish ICE, and she has been endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. She declared that "Hate has no place Uptown and in the Bronx" and that there is "no room for the hateful politics of the past." Sounds reasonable enough.Then something interesting happened. Filmmaker Eli St...

Building Local AI Systems: Qwen3.6 + MCPs

Define a tool once as an MCP server and any MCP-compatible client, any model, any framework, can discover and call it with zero custom integration code per model.

'Desperate Housewives' star James Denton says LA is 'not a great place to raise kids' due to image culture

James Denton shares why he believes raising his children outside of Los Angeles ultimately benefited them.During a recent interview with Fox News Digital, the 63-year-old actor discussed his one-man play "A General's Prayer," at the Museum of the Bible, in which he portrays George Washington as he contemplates the next steps in the American Revolution.He also touched on the reasons he moved from Los Angeles to the Midwest, and the positive effect that move had on his kids' lives.The actor noted ...

Lumo, Proton’s privacy-focused AI chatbot, gets an upgrade

Proton's Lumo 2.0 is dropping this week, giving users a broader variety of capabilities.

Today Will Or Won't See A US-Iran Meeting In Doha Which Will Be "Perhaps Important, Perhaps Not"

Today Will Or Won't See A US-Iran Meeting In Doha Which Will Be "Perhaps Important, Perhaps Not" By Michael Every of Rabobank Build 'em up or Burnham down? In typical form, today will or won’t see a US-Iran meeting in Doha; which will be ‘perhaps important, perhaps not’; and either discussing the MoU or unfreezing $6bn of Iranian assets. So, the ‘peacefire’ continues, as expected, but with little chance this holds permanently. Likewise in Lebanon, where the US is pushing to disarm...

Lumo, Proton's privacy-focused AI chatbot, gets an upgrade

Proton's Lumo 2.0 is dropping this week, giving users a broader variety of capabilities.

Canada's economy reverses months of slow growth with 0.5 per cent boost in April

Canada's economy showed signs of rebounding by growing 0.5 per cent in April, reversing months of slow and negative economic growth. Real gross domestic product is up half a percentage point largely because of growth in the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction sectors, Statistics Canada said in its latest report , released Tuesday.

China Prepares Its First Asteroid Landing on Earth’s Quasi-Moon

The Tianwen-2 probe will attempt to collect samples from Kamo’oalewa and bring them back to Earth.

"Right Above The Cockpit": Drone Strikes JetBlue Plane On Final Approach To JFK

"Right Above The Cockpit": Drone Strikes JetBlue Plane On Final Approach To JFK JetBlue Airways Flight 948 reportedly struck a small drone while the narrow-body aircraft was in the traffic pattern on final approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. JetBlue pilots reported striking a drone earlier today as they approached New York - JFK Airport at ASALT, the waypoint in the center of the video, about 11:16:45 UTC. JetBlue #B6948 landed safely from Las Vegas...

Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce reported MSG wedding plans call for 1,000 guests, street closure at MSG: source

NEW YORK Pop superstar Taylor Swift’s wedding to three-time Super Bowl winner Travis Kelce will be a days-long event involving street closures, hundreds of VIPs, a special police detail and taxpayer-funded security measures, according to a source with knowledge of the event.The NYPD is preparing to lock down a city block outside Madison Square Garden in the heart of Manhattan.The source detailed an event spanning multiple days of setup, festivities, and breakdown, with 1,000 guests expected to a...

Summer Walker blends vintage burlesque with slow-burn RandB at T-Mobile Arena

Summer Walker blends vintage burlesque with slow-burn RandB at T-Mobile Arena

South African cities shuttered, military on standby as anti-migrant protests gather pace

Demonstrators wrapped in flags and wielding wooden sticks gathered across South Africa on Tuesday for anti-immigrant marches, some of which saw brief outbreaks of violence amid heavy police guard, as shops remained shut and foreign workers stayed at home.

Trump's Turkey arms sale proposal sparks congressional questions before NATO summit

The Trump administration is moving forward with a controversial arms sale worth $700 million to NATO ally Turkey despite apprehension over Ankara’s closeness with Russia and terrorist groups in the Middle East.Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the administration notified him of the State Department’s decision to bypass Congress and send Turkey the $700 million in defense articles, mostly fighter jets."In this case, the State Department did no...

Mark Hamill Doesn’t ‘Get’ ‘Twisted Metal’ but Enjoys Playing the Pope

Plus, Mike Flanagan's star-studded 'Exorcist' gets a title.

US-Iran Have Delegations In Qatar, But No Direct Talks; Hormuz Energy Transit Rebounds - Oil Down Near Prewar Levels

US-Iran Have Delegations In Qatar, But No Direct Talks; Hormuz Energy Transit Rebounds - Oil Down Near Prewar Levels The Witkoff-Kushner delegation is now confirmed to be in Doha, and yet in its latest official statement Iran's foreign ministry has made clear the Iranian side has no plans to meet US officials "at any level in the next few days." "What will probably be done in Doha tomorrow is a discussion on the implementation of clauses of the Memorandum of Understanding, includin...

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Poll shows Platner’s oyster-farmer image failing to win over working-class Maine voters

A poll released this week, in addition to showing a dead heat in the Maine Senate race, suggests that Democratic candidate Graham Platner’s working-class bona fides as an oyster farmer which he has made a central part of his campaign aren’t resonating.Platner currently trails incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins by 21 points, 37% to 58%, with registered voters who do not hold a four-year college degree, according to a New York Times/Portland Press Herald/Siena poll released on Monday.  Additi...

Obamacare Enrollment Drops By 3 Million; Experts Disagree On Cause

Obamacare Enrollment Drops By 3 Million; Experts Disagree On Cause Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times, Obamacare enrollment declined by nearly 3 million in 2026, sparking renewed debate about the affordability of healthcare in America. National politicians and policy experts disagreed on the reasons for the dip in enrollment, with some saying that it was driven by rising premiums.  Others said the decline was evidence that program integrity measures taken by the Tr...

US Home Prices Drop For 3rd Straight Month

US Home Prices Drop For 3rd Straight Month Home prices in America's top 20 cities were expected to fall MoM for the 3rd straight month in April (the latest reported data from SandP Cotality Case-Shiller) and they did... but only marginally. Prices fell 0.04% MoM in April (less than the 0.10% decline expected), but the annual change rose modestly from +0.88% YoY to +1.14% YoY... Source: Bloomberg "Monthly price movements show seasonal strength masking underlying softness," said ...

New York Is Set to Offer Transit Discounts to 340,000 More Riders

A budget deal between the mayor and the City Council is expected to expand eligibility for the Fair Fares program, which provides half-price fares to lower-income New Yorkers.

Gorsuch suggests Supreme Court's Trump ruling is opening move against administrative state

The Supreme Court may have done more Monday than give President Donald Trump new firing power it may have opened the door to a far broader challenge to the modern administrative state, the sprawling network of federal agencies that many conservatives have long dubbed the "deep state."In a 6-3 decision, the Court ruled Trump could lawfully remove Federal Trade Commission Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, overturning much of the nearly 90-year-old Humphrey's Executor precedent that had protected ind...

Nanoleaf Has a New Matter-Compatible Ceiling Light, Like Everyone Else

It doesn't even have that angular Nanoleaf flair.

Into the Omniverse: Three Workflows for Improving Vision AI Agent Accuracy With Synthetic Data and Fine-Tuning

Editor’s note: This post is part of Into the Omniverse, a series focused on how developers, 3D practitioners, and enterprises can transform their workflows using the latest advances in OpenUSD and NVI

World Cup soccer fans are discovering America’s greatness. It’s time Americans did, too

As America prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, we received an unexpected gift from millions of World Cup visitors: a fresh reminder of what makes America exceptional.Tourists from dozens of countries descended on American cities this summer for the World Cup, or FIFA 2026, and what they found shattered everything their media had told them. They had been warned about an angry, divided, dangerous country in irreversible decline. Instead, they found something so ordinary it became extraordina...

Shark's new PowerDetect Transformer turns into three different types of vacuum

Shark has launched a new vacuum with three form factors.

Samsung Music Studio 7 review: A great speaker on its own, and even better in a pair

The Music Studio 7 is an excellent Sonos alternative that can pull double duty in the living room.

Fort Simpson spared the worst overnight after wildfire stopped on edge of town

A shift in winds overnight prevented the vast, out-of-control wildfire that forced the evacuation of the community from spreading to structures in town.

US campaigns now run on AI at nearly every step, and Europe is drawing a harder line

Republican and Democratic campaigns now run on AI at nearly every step, from vetting opponents to micro-targeting voters, according to a New York Times report. But the technology is still a political

Pope Leo pleads with breakaway Catholic group not to commit 'sin of extreme gravity'

Pope Leo XIV issued an extraordinary last-minute plea Tuesday to a breakaway traditionalist Catholic group to abandon plans to consecrate four bishops without Vatican approval, warning the move was a "sin of extreme gravity" and could deepen a decades-old split with the Church.In a letter addressed to the Rev. Davide Pagliarani, leader of the Society of St. Pius X, Leo urged the group to reconsider before Wednesday's planned ceremony in Econe, Switzerland, saying it would place the bishops invol...

Reds' Dane Myers carted off field after crashing into wall making acrobatic catch vs Brewers

Cincinnati Reds center fielder Dane Myers needed to be carted off the field after a play that could be a candidate for "Catch of the Year" turned scary after he crashed into the fence in Milwaukee on Monday night.Milwaukee Brewers veteran Andrew Vaughn smashed a ball to center field in the bottom of the fourth inning, and Myers got a great jump as he started to track the ball.As he sprinted toward the gap, Myers reached up and made an acrobatic catch, but he lost his balance and was too close to...

Stephen A Smith warns Democrats embracing socialism is 'handing the presidency to the GOP'

Stephen A. Smith emphasized how socialism could threaten the Democratic Party's presidential goals for 2028 if it embraces democratic socialist candidates like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.During his "Straight Shooter" show on Monday, Smith reacted to Mamdani's claims on ABC News that a democratic socialist "can get elected anywhere across this country for any position."Though Smith agreed with Mamdani on concerns about the wealth gap and the working class, he bristled at the idea of the D...

Far-left group calls out New York officials for taking too long to issue reparations as 'disservice' to Blacks

A prominent civil rights organization is calling out New York officials for extending the timeline on a highly anticipated state report investigating slavery reparations remedies.The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) on Friday slammed the New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies after a provision embedded in the newly passed state budget pushed the release of its final report back an additional two years moving the deadline to 2029."The state’s decision to spend an additi...

Taylor Swift's empire tops $2 billion as wedding frenzy fuels global obsession

Taylor Swift's biggest wedding gift may already be sitting in her bank account.Before the superstar prepared to say "I do," she built an estimated $2 billion empire that branding experts said transformed her from a hitmaker into one of the most powerful businesses in entertainment."At this point, Taylor Swift's brand is so dominant and so deeply tied to her creative output that marriage is only going to add a new dimension to an empire that is already running on all cylinders," reputation manage...

Heartbroken father blasts ‘broken’ system that let family massacre take his children before they could reunite

A father is grieving the loss of his four young children following an alleged murder-suicide poisoning plot.Speaking with Fox News Digital, the children's father, Brady Harmon, said nothing could have prepared him for the shocking and devastating news. He said, "There is no preparation. It's horrendous."The children's grandmother is suspected of poisoning the four children and their mother before taking her own life in Mechanicville, New York, police said during a Thursday news conference."There...

Discoveries that reshaped what historians knew about America's Founding Fathers

The Founding Fathers left behind extensive writings, but new discoveries continue to deepen historians' understanding of America's most influential figures.Advances in archaeology, DNA analysis and archival research have uncovered forgotten documents, artifacts and other evidence from the nation's earliest years.Over the past century, discoveries have offered fresh insight into America's founders, changing how historians understand their lives and legacies, as detailed below.ANCIENT ROMAN'S 'MIS...

Stop Choosing Between Local and Cloud LLMs: A Field Guide to Hybrid Patterns

A hands-on walkthrough of a hybrid local-cloud workflow using Gemma 4 and GPT-5.4, with reasoning and structured outputs The post Stop Choosing Between Local and Cloud LLMs: A Field Guide to Hybrid Pa

House GOP's SAVE Act rescue plan hits resistance from conservative holdouts

House Republican leaders are making another bid to salvage the stalled SAVE America Act after a conservative revolt froze floor action last week, but GOP lawmakers behind the blockade are withholding support for the plan.The House Rules Committee on Monday approved a rule in an 8-4 vote that would merge an annual defense policy bill with the Trump-backed election measure in a rare procedural maneuver before sending the package to the Senate. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, a member of the panel who was ...

Maersk Lifts Outlook As Wall Street Questions Whether Freight Tailwinds Can Last

Maersk Lifts Outlook As Wall Street Questions Whether Freight Tailwinds Can Last A.P. Moller-Maersk shares rose in Copenhagen trading after the world's second-largest container carrier surprised analysts by raising its full-year profit outlook, citing stronger-than-expected containerized demand, particularly across Asia. The upbeat guidance suggests the global container market has remained resilient despite earlier Hormuz-related chokepoint disruptions, with global shipping demand h...

Juan Soto's misread turns routine single into Little League home run as Mets' woes continue

Just how bad are things going for the 2026 New York Mets?Look no further than the first batter they faced against the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night, where a routine base hit turned into a Little League home run. And Juan Soto, the team’s $765 million man, was at the center of the brutal mishap.The Mets came into this game 35-49, which has been one of the most shocking pre-All-Star-break stories of the season given their spot as the second-highest payroll in MLB this season, only behind the ...

The 2 Best Slushie Machines of 2026: Now With Soft Serve

The original Ninja Slushi has been replaced! The new best slushie machines chill faster and make soft serve.

The Best Gadgets of June 2026

From the most powerful Microsoft Surface Laptop ever made to a robotic lawn mower to an adorable gimbal-based vlogging camera that looks like a tiny Wall-E, June was packed with new gadget unveils.

Archaeologists Hacked Through Miles of Jungle and Found an Intact Lost Maya City

The site is among the most untouched Maya sites researchers have ever discovered.

Astronomers Discover Terzan 5's True Nature

Observations of a distant cluster of stars in our galaxy have resulted in a new class of objects that turn out to be galactic building blocks. Researchers used Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to study the stars that make up Terzan 5, long though to be a globular cluster. What they found puts that cluster into a very rare class of objects called "bulge fossil fragments."

Supreme Court set to close term with landmark birthright citizenship ruling and more top headlines

1. Supreme Court to close term with birthright citizenship ruling 2. Socialists take fight west in bid to oust Democratic establishment3. US, Iran send delegations to Qatar as Tehran denies direct talksENERGY SECURITY Gulf states quietly building ways to bypass Iran's greatest geopolitical weapon. Continue reading …HOUSE DIVIDED Fetterman unleashes on 'dirtbag' wing of Dems after far-left victories. Continue reading …HISTORIC UPSET Disallowed goal in extra time leads Paraguay over Germany in stu...