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Taking the Train to a Single World Cup Match Could Cost $150
The extraordinary price for a round-trip train ticket from New York City to New Jersey would offset the $48 million in expected extra transit costs during the FIFA World Cup games, according to people familiar with the plan.
Playdate Season 3 is coming later this year
Playdate is getting a third season of curated, surprise games, Panic announced today. We don't know much beyond the fact that Season Three is officially happening, but Panic's Head of Playdate Greg Maletic said in an announcement video that it will be here "in time for the holidays" this year. Considering we had to wait a whole three years for Season Two to come out following Season One's release with the console in 2022, that doesn't sound so bad.Panic hasn't yet said how many games Season Thre...
AI-generated Val Kilmer movie debuts trailer, creators defend digital resurrection of late actor
The filmmakers behind As Deep as the Grave, the indie film that is using an artificial intelligence-rendered version of Val Kilmer in a prominent role, debuted a first look at the recreated actor Wednesday at CinemaCon in Las Vegas.
Wizards of the Coast Is Getting in on Its Own ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ Actual Play
'Dungeon Masters' will feature both current and unreleased material from the legendary TTRPG in its first in-house actual play series.
Privacy Email Service Tuta Now Also Has Cloud Storage with Quantum-Resistant Encryption
Privacy in 2026 is a bit of a joke. Governments have turned surveillance into standard operating procedure, and Big Tech companies treat your personal data like a free-for-all buffet, helping themselves, then selling the leftovers to data brokers who do the same.That's pushed people toward privacy-first alternatives, and quite a few companies have stepped up to meet that demand. Tuta is one of the more recognizable names in that space, offering encrypted mail and calendar services to over 10 mil...
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Charges dropped against Torrance officers in killing of Black man who held air rifle
A Los Angeles County judge formally dismissed manslaughter charges against a pair of former Torrance police officers in the 2018 killing of Christopher Deandre Mitchell.
Iceland Just Got its First Mosquitoes. Scientists Aren’t Ready for What Comes Next
As the Arctic's climate and ecology rapidly change, two researchers are calling for a paradigm shift in insect monitoring.
The Battle for OpenAI’s Soul
In Musk v. Altman, a jury will soon determine whether OpenAI has strayed from its founding mission to ensure AGI benefits humanity. Here’s what to know.
Europe Could Run Out of Jet Fuel in Just 6 Weeks
The head of the International Energy Agency says it will take "up to two years to come back where we were before the war.”
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Trump Urges Extending Foreign Surveillance Program As Some Lawmakers Push For US Privacy Protections
Trump Urges Extending Foreign Surveillance Program As Some Lawmakers Push For US Privacy Protections Via Headline USA, Congress is set to take up the reauthorization of a divisive program that lets U.S. spy agencies pore over foreigners’ calls, texts and emails, with supporters like President Donald Trump saying it has saved lives while critics point to longstanding concerns about warrantless surveillance of Americans. (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin) A key provision of the Foreign ...
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.7 to Remind Everyone How Great Mythos Is
Bold strategy to promote your new release as "less broadly capable" than other options.
The UK Launches Its $675 Million Sovereign AI Fund
In a bid to minimize dependence on technology from other countries, the UK government is plowing resources into homegrown AI startups.
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These earbuds can read the label on your snack
Instead of walking around with a camera on your face, how about one in each ear? A team at the University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School has built VueBuds, a pair of wireless earbuds with a grain-of-rice camera tucked into each shell. Read the rest The post These earbuds can read the label on your snack appeared first on Boing Boing.
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‘Greater New York’ Brings the Noisy, Messy Vitality of 53 Artists
The signature survey by MoMA PS 1 of artists living and working in the city highlights those whose talent is often hidden in plain sight.
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A Silicon Valley startup wants to sell you a brain-reading beanie
Skip the keyboard and skip the dictation: a California startup called Sabi says it will ship a wool hat that lets you type by thinking, and it wants the first ones on heads before the year is out. The company came out of stealth this week with a pitch described in a Wired profile of its plan to build a cyborg-for-everyone wearable, backed by Khosla Ventures. Read the rest The post A Silicon Valley startup wants to sell you a brain-reading beanie appeared first on Boing Boing.
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Middle East conflict live updates: Israel, Lebanon agree 10-day ceasefire
US President Donald Trump announced the ceasefire on his Truth Social network.
OpenAI updates its Codex desktop app with features like computer control, an in-app browser, image generation, automation memory, plugin support, and more
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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7
For anyone who has been taking my pelican riding a bicycle benchmark seriously as a robust way to test models, here are pelicans from this morning's two big model releases - Qwen3.6-35B-A3B from Aliba
The Next Surface PCs May Not Be the Big Upgrades You Hoped for
Expect Microsoft's next Surface Pro and Surface Laptops to cost more for a simple refresh.
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Mayor Bass has a new plan for addressing climate change in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has released a new climate change plan for Los Angeles, setting goals for solar energy, EV chargers and water recycling.
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Mamdani Turns to Private Donors in His Push to Expand Free Child Care
Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York announced a campaign to raise $20 million from philanthropists through a city-run nonprofit to support his child care plan.
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This clock sorts the 43,200 times of day alphabetically
Ryan Bateman, a Berlin-based technologist who tinkers with oddball web projects at boat.horse, built a working clock that tells time by spelling every possible moment in English and sorting the list A to Z. He calls it The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock, and it runs in your browser with two modes to pick from. Read the rest The post This clock sorts the 43,200 times of day alphabetically appeared first on Boing Boing.
Riders fire Ajou Ajou after CFL says he made 'aggressive and unwelcome physical contact' with women
The Saskatchewan Roughriders have kicked receiver Ajou Ajou off the team after the CFL concluded he made 'aggressive and unwelcome physical contact' with multiple women at a Regina restaurant on the day of the Riders' Grey Cup parade last November.
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LIV Golf CEO Denies "Speculation" That Saudi Arabia On Cusp Of Severing Ties
LIV Golf CEO Denies "Speculation" That Saudi Arabia On Cusp Of Severing Ties Update (1130ET): Amid reports that Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund might be on the verge of pulling its funding for the league, LIV Golf CEO Scott O'Neil told staff in an email overnight that its season will go on "as planned, uninterrupted and at full throttle." The email, which was obtained by ESPN, didn't directly address reports that PIF might stop investing in the breakaway circuit after spend...
Google's 2025 Ads Safety Report: Google blocked a record 8.3B ads, up 63% YoY, but suspended 36% fewer advertisers, attributing the disparity to its use of AI
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Google's 2025 Ads Safety Report: Google blocked a record 8.3B ads, up 63% YoY, but suspended 36% fewer advertisers, attributing the disparity to its use of AI Google said
‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ Should Be Called ‘Lee Cronin’s The Exorcist’
The new creature feature unwraps plenty of gore but too much déjà vu.
Realtor's cold case murder suspect alleges major evidence blunder by investigators: report
Defense attorneys for the woman accused in the 2011 murder of an Iowa real estate agent are reportedly arguing that evidence in the cold case has been lost or destroyed. Kristin Ramsey, 53, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Ashley Okland on April 8, 2011. She was taken into custody last month, marking the latest development in the 15-year-long cold case.A new court filing reportedly reveals Ramsey’s defense team is alleging that key evidence in the long-cold murder case was mis...
AI tools to help vision-impaired are good, but could be better
Artificial intelligence is touching nearly every aspect of life—including assistive technology for blind and low-vision (BLV) individuals. And just like in other arenas, the AI used to assist BLV peop
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Coming to Broadway: Molière, ‘The Full Monty’ and a Play About D.J.s
Roundabout Theater Company, one of the four nonprofits with Broadway houses, plans three Broadway shows next season.
Google's AI Mode Update Tries to Kill Tab Hopping in Chrome
Google latest update to AI Mode in its Chrome browser is designed to keep the chatbot-style search tool always around once you start an online search journey.
OpenAI's latest Codex update builds the groundwork for its upcoming super app
Last month, following reporting from The Wall Street Journal, OpenAI confirmed it was working on a desktop super app that would combine ChatGPT, its Codex coding agent and Atlas web browser into one cohesive experience. OpenAI is not releasing that application today. Instead, it's pushing out a major update to Codex that significantly expands what that software can do. However, the new release offers a glimpse of what OpenAI hopes to build with its latest effort. "We're building the super app o...
Google Chrome makes it easier to wrangle different tabs in AI Mode
Love 'em or hate 'em, no modern browser is complete without robust tab support, and so too would it seem Google's AI Mode. Starting today, the company is rolling out an update to users in the US that makes the tool better at interacting and understanding tabs. To start, the next time you use AI Mode on Chrome for desktop and click on a link, the chatbot will open a new side-by-side interface that allows you to both browse the new webpage and ask questions of AI Mode. The connection allows the ch...
Google now lets you explore the web side-by-side with AI Mode
Now, when you're using AI Mode on Chrome desktop, clicking a link will open the webpage side-by-side with AI Mode.
Google's AI Mode Update Tries to Kill Tab Hopping in Chrome
Google latest update to AI Mode in its Chrome browser is designed to keep the chatbot-style search tool always around once you start an online search journey.
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"Justin Bieber's guy" rents Coachella buggies, drives them straight to Mexico
A Newport Beach rental company handed over four electric festival buggies to a man claiming to be part of Justin Bieber's team. The story that held together just long enough for the vehicles to make their way to Coachella, and then, very efficiently, to Tijuana, where their tracking devices mysteriously turned off. Read the rest The post "Justin Bieber's guy" rents Coachella buggies, drives them straight to Mexico appeared first on Boing Boing.
GOP zeros in on South Texas Dem who urged Trump to 'allow people to cross freely'
FIRST ON FOX: A Democratic congressman representing a South Texas district that Donald Trump carried by double digits is emerging as a top Republican target, with the GOP arguing Rep. Vicente Gonzalez’s shifting border record has left him politically exposed at home.Though traditionally a Democratic stronghold, heavily Hispanic South Texas has trended sharply Republican in recent election cycles. Gonzalez narrowly won his 2023 election over former Rep. Mayra Flores by less than three percentage ...
Body of New York woman who jumped from moving vehicle in panic and went missing is found weeks later
A corpse found floating in the Long Island Sound was the body of 32-year-old Brittany Kritis-Garip, according to the Suffolk County Police Department in New York."Brittany Kritis-Garip, 32, of Oyster Bay, has been identified as the woman found deceased in the Long Island Sound in Lloyd Harbor on April 13. Detectives believe her cause of death to be non-criminal in nature," according to the department.The woman went missing last month.LONG ISLAND WOMAN MISSING AFTER JUMPING FROM MOVING VEHICLE IN...
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Former N.B.A. Player Is Expected to Plead Guilty in Gambling Scandal
Damon Jones, who spent more than a decade in the N.B.A., was accused of providing inside information about injured players to professional gamblers.
Intel launches new Core Series 3 chips for mainstream laptops
Intel has unveiled its new Core Series 3 chips, the official title for its Wildcat Lake-codenamed series intended for mainstream and value-oriented laptops. Built using the same Intel 18A process as its Core Ultra Series 3 chips, they’re significantly more powerful than the previous generation and promise "exceptional battery life" and "boosted AI-ready performance." Intel says the Core Series 3 offers up to 47 percent better single-thread performance and 41 percent better multi-thread performan...
OpenAI says more women than men now use ChatGPT, flipping an 80-20 male split at launch
More women than men now use ChatGPT regularly, according to OpenAI's own data. The company also estimates China's AI spending at up to $125 billion and argues that computing power is becoming the defi
The Newest Alzheimer’s Drugs Might Be Worthless, Review Finds
Anti-amyloid drugs likely provide no "clinically meaningful" effects for people with Alzheimer's, the authors concluded.
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Oil Jumps As Report On 6-Month Iran Deal Timeline Crushes Ceasefire Hopes, Hormuz Still Locked Down
Oil Jumps As Report On 6-Month Iran Deal Timeline Crushes Ceasefire Hopes, Hormuz Still Locked Down Summary Trump unveils 10-day Lebanon ceasefire, but which Hezbollah has not signed on for, amid heavy IDF attacks on south. BBG reports on potential 6-month timeframe for comprehensive Iran deal, oil spikes. Iran seeks to boost rial through toll payment scheme; vessels pay Hormuz passage through Iranian banks. US Navy: vessels seeking entry into Hormuz Strait now fair gam...
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Google In Talks With Department Of War To Deploy Gemini AI In Classified Settings
Google In Talks With Department Of War To Deploy Gemini AI In Classified Settings The Information, citing multiple people familiar with the discussions, reports that Google is now negotiating with the Department of War on an agreement that would allow Gemini AI models to be deployed in classified settings. This development suggests the DoW is moving very quickly to broaden the use of frontier models for military and intelligence purposes after the Anthropic fiasco. The agreement un...
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SantaCon organizer allegedly ran actual con
The man behind New York's annual SantaCon, a festive sea of red suits, public intoxication, and supposed charity, has been charged with wire fraud after prosecutors say he siphoned off more than half of the $2.7 million raised, treating a holiday fundraiser as a personal revenue piggy bank. Read the rest The post SantaCon organizer allegedly ran actual con appeared first on Boing Boing.
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The Moon Might Be More Prone To Fires
Engineers love a good practical challenge, especially when it comes to spaceflight. But there’s one particular challenge facing the crewed missions of the near future that scares mission planners above almost all others - fire. For decades, we’ve relied on a NASA test known as NASA-STD-6001B to screen material flammability for flight. But space is much more complicated than an Earth-bound test provides for. A new paper from researchers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center and Johnson Space Center and...
Making AI safer for victims of intimate partner violence
Conversational AI tools denied blunt requests for harmful content by researchers posing as intimate partner abusers, but these guardrails were easily circumvented when they requested the content under
FIFA fires back at New Jersey Gov Mikie Sherill over demand to pay for World Cup transit tickets
FIFA responded strongly to New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherill after she posted a critical video saying that FIFA should pay for fans' NJ Transit tickets to World Cup matches at MetLife Stadium this summer.In her video, a response to "headlines" about reports of $100 train tickets, Sherill said FIFA "should pay for the rides" since NJ Transit is getting billed $48 million, while FIFA will make $11 billion.FIFA said it was "quite surprised" by Sherill's "approach...on fan transportation" before outlini...
Jackson publicly airs grievances with conservative colleagues over Trump-era rulings
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused the Supreme Court this week of using unexplained emergency orders to hand President Donald Trump wins, warning the practice risks eroding public trust in the judiciary.In a Yale Law School speech made public Wednesday, Jackson, a Biden appointee and frequent dissenter on emergency rulings, repeatedly called the Supreme Court’s use of the emergency docket "problematic" and argued the conservative majority's decisions were sometimes "utterly irrational."The em...
NOT BLUFFING: Stephen Miller says Trump is directly involved, 'holds all of the cards' in Iran negotiations
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller said President Donald Trump is directly involved in negotiations with Iran and described the administration’s blockade of Iranian ports as a move that is "resetting the entire global order" Wednesday on "Hannity.""I can confirm that President Trump is very much involved in negotiations as commander in chief, along, of course, with the negotiating team that he assembled that has done such an incredible job to this point in time," he said...
Nvidia wants to scale robot simulation training with Lyra 2.0
Nvidia researchers have unveiled Lyra 2.0, a system that generates large, coherent 3D environments from a single photograph. The resulting scenes can be explored in real time and used directly in robo
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Watch the deranged new trailer for the Street Fighter movie
Some weird part of me has needed the forthcoming Street Fighter movie for a long time. The 1994 Hollywood movie was bad (though Raul Julia was great) and the anime was better, but this looks like just the ticket: a well-coreographed fight movie (with actual street fighting!) Read the rest The post Watch the deranged new trailer for the Street Fighter movie appeared first on Boing Boing.
Your Chunks Failed Your RAG in Production
The upstream decision no model, or LLM can fix once you get it wrong The post Your Chunks Failed Your RAG in Production appeared first on Towards Data Science .
SpaceX and Other Elon Musk Companies Are Propping Up Cybertruck Sales
SpaceX alone reportedly accounted for nearly 20% of Cybertrucks registered in the U.S. in late 2025.
Roblox revamps Roblox Assistant, its plain-language AI tool for game development, with agentic tools to let developers plan, build, and test games
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Roblox revamps Roblox Assistant, its plain-language AI tool for game development, with agentic tools to let developers plan, build, and test games Roblox is introducing new
Solidroad, which uses AI to evaluate customer interactions with human and AI agents to find risk, skill gaps, and more, raised a $25M Series A led by Hedosophia
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A Baker, Cardamom Buns and Allegations of a $3.8 Million Scam
A baker at the Church of Sweden’s popular cafe in Midtown Manhattan was accused of swindling nearly $4 million from the church’s donations and bequests.
Google launches native Gemini app for Mac
Google has released a native Gemini app for Mac, marking the first desktop version of its AI assistant alongside the existing smartphone apps. The article Google launches native Gemini app for Mac app
Hegseth excoriates media, likening them to ‘Pharisees’ in Trump defense
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ripped the media Thursday, likening them to Pharisees in the Bible who "were only there to explain away the goodness in pursuit of their agenda.""A note to the press, to the press corps, to the American media, as I just can’t help but notice the endless stream of garbage, the relentlessly negative coverage, you cannot resist peddling, despite the historic and important success of this effort and the success of our troops," Hegseth said during a press briefing on the...
Surrey Pro-Khalistan activist says police have warned him of significant safety risk
An activist based in Surrey, B.C., who was a friend and associate of the assassinated pro-Khalistan advocate Hardeep Singh Nijjar, says he has been warned by police that he could be in serious danger.
Webb Telescope Resolves Cosmic Identity Crisis Between Planets and Stars
Where do massive planets end and stars begin? It may come down to how they formed.
InsightFinder raises $15M to help companies figure out where AI agents go wrong
According to CEO Helen Gu, the biggest problem facing the industry today is not just monitoring and diagnosing where AI models go wrong, it's diagnosing how the entire tech stack operates now that AI
AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it’s boosting their revenue too
Adobe says AI traffic to U.S. retail sites also jumped 269% in March, with visitors converting better and generating more revenue than non-AI shoppers.
AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it's boosting their revenue too
Adobe says AI traffic to U.S. retail sites also jumped 269% in March, with visitors converting better and generating more revenue than non-AI shoppers.
House rejects Democrat attempt to limit Trump's Iran war powers
House Republicans blocked a new attempt by Democrats to halt the U.S. military campaign against Iran, standing by President Donald Trump, who has voiced confidence that the conflict in the Middle East could wrap up soon.Lawmakers voted 213 to 214 against approving the resolution introduced by Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., which would have required Trump to end hostilities with Iran absent congressional approval. Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, was the lone Democrat to join Republicans in opposing the ...
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Jeep-Maker Stellantis Signs AI Deal With Microsoft
Jeep-Maker Stellantis Signs AI Deal With Microsoft Stellantis and Microsoft are teaming up in a five‑year strategic deal to accelerate the deployment of AI across the automotive company's large portfolio of brands, including Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Jeep, Maserati, Peugeot, and others. The companies plan to develop more than 100 AI initiatives across customer care, product development, and operations. These include predictive maintenance, AI-assisted testing and validation, faster ro...
The ‘Avatar’ Movie Leak Didn’t Come From a Paramount Email, But It’s Still Just as Bad
A new report puts a spotlight on the aftermath of one of the biggest leaks Paramount has faced in years.
Google Makes Image Generation a Little Creepier With Personal Intelligence
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Roblox’s AI assistant gets new agentic tools to plan, build, and test games
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Gemini can now draw on your Google data to personalize the images it generates
Your Google Photos library could soon influence the kind of images you can generate with Gemini. After letting users personalize the AI assistant's responses with data from Gmail, Search and YouTube, Google says it's bringing that same "Personal Intelligence" to Nano Banana 2 to make it easier for users to create personalized images with the AI model.The goal is to have the data affiliated with your Google account your YouTube history, emails, Google Photos, etc. provide context to Nano Banana 2...
'60 Minutes' accused of using left-leaning Cardinals to bait Trump into feud with Vatican
Some conservative commentators accused CBS’s "60 Minutes" of airing a segment featuring three "left-wing" cardinals who criticized the Trump administration’s immigration and Iran policies.Father Gerald Murray and author Robert Royal joined Raymond Arroyo on "The Prayerful Posse" to discuss whether the situation was meant to spark a conflict between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV."The three of them are billed as so-called influential, but none of them hold offices in the U.S. Bishops' Co...
Could This AI-Simulated Brain Lead to Human Mind-Uploading?
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Sabi, which is developing a brain-computer interface beanie that can decode internal speech into words, emerges from stealth with backing from Khosla and others
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Josh Barnett’s BloodSport XV set to showcase why its the ‘hardest hitting event in professional wrestling’
The average sports fan who thinks of pro wrestling likely has the idea in their head that everything in the industry is WWE-like – a four-sided, cable-roped ring, with four sides, featuring muscle-laden men and women performing highly choreographed moves with no violence or blood involved.While that might be true for most events that will take place in Las Vegas in the lead-up to WrestleMania 42, Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport XV promises hard-hitting action and an event unlike any other.For one, the...
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 makes a big leap in coding, while deliberately scaling back cyber capabilities
Anthropic's new flagship model Claude Opus 4.7 delivers major improvements in coding tasks. During training, the company deliberately tried to reduce certain cybersecurity capabilities. The article An
Trump says Israel, Lebanon agree to 10-day ceasefire
Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a 10-day ceasefire, President Donald Trump announced on Thursday.Trump's announcement comes after a Lebanese official told Fox News that Lebanese President Joseph Aoun would not speak to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu until a ceasefire had been established."I just had excellent conversations with the Highly Respected President Joseph Aoun, of Lebanon, and Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, of Israel. These two Leaders have agreed that in order to achieve ...
American travelers warned about popular low-cost beach destination as global tensions rise
U.S. officials have issued a travel advisory for a budget-friendly European tourist destination popular for its Adriatic coastline.Tirana, Albania, is the subject of a travel advisory issued by the U.S. Embassy in Albania on April 1.The embassy, located in Tirana, cited Iran-related tensions as the reason behind the alert.AMERICANS WARNED OF POTENTIAL ATTACKS IN VACATION DESTINATION AS BORDER CROSSING EXIT FEE DOUBLES"Groups associated with Iran may seek to target entities associated with the U....
Government withholding information on UFOs from the public, GOP rep says
Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn, expressed skepticism in a new interview that the federal government has been forthcoming on what it knows about UFOs."The truth is, is that the government is not telling us everything about what's going on," Burchett said on Wednesday's installment of the "Will Cain Country" podcast."I believe there is something else going on it's not ours, it's not the Russians', it's not China's. If either one of them had it, they would own us, even more so than China does now," he c...
The first real trailer for the Street Fighter movie is filled with crowd-pleasing moments
We finally have a real-deal trailer for the upcoming Street Fighter movie, after a short teaser dropped at The Game Awards last year. This is nearly three minutes of fighting, silly dialogue and, of course, Easter eggs from the games. To the latter point, there's a scene of Ken beating up a car like in the bonus stages from Street Fighter II and footage of Ryu powering up one of his famous Hadoken fireballs. There's even a cheeky reference to Chun-Li's notoriously-large and powerful thighs. This...
Meta isn't setting its Oversight Board free just yet
The Oversight Board the policy body Meta created to weigh its most impactful moderation rulings has seen its role within Mark Zuckerberg's empire come into question due to shifting content policy priorities and dwindling investment. The Oversight Board has taken steps to formalize its long-contemplated desire to work with other companies, but Engadget has learned Meta has thus far declined to move forward with that process. Over the last year, board members have become increasingly interested in...
Apple sends Siri developers to AI coding bootcamp
Apple is sending some of its Siri developers back to school. Fewer than 200 engineers will go through a multi-week bootcamp to learn how to use AI coding tools like Anthropic's Claude Code or OpenAI's
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"It's Really Illiquid": Goldman COO Warns Retail About Private Credit And The "Perception Of Liquidity"
"It's Really Illiquid": Goldman COO Warns Retail About Private Credit And The "Perception Of Liquidity" Speaking at Semafor’s World Economy event in Washington, D.C., President and COO of Goldman Sachs John Waldron warned that some managers have oversold how easy it is to get money out—especially to retail investors, who’ve helped balloon the market into a $1.7 trillion behemoth just as the space faces growing scrutiny and tighter conditions, according to Semafor. “Not everybody ha...
Astros' $54M pitcher blames arm fatigue on struggle to adjust to American lifestyle
Japanese pitcher Tatsuya Imai signed with the Houston Astros this offseason, and the transition to the American lifestyle has not been easy for him.Imai, 27, was recently placed on the injured list with right arm fatigue, and in his first comments since the injury, he said, through an interpreter, the adjustment to the American lifestyle might be the reason."He’s not able to adjust to the American lifestyle," Imai’s interpreter, Shio Enomoto, said, according to The Athletic. "Baseball and outsid...
OpenAI wants to sell more ads in ChatGPT, but advertisers are struggling with basic tools
OpenAI is expanding its advertising business in ChatGPT and introducing new pricing models. But early advertisers are running into a lack of tracking tools and limited targeting options. The article O
New FBI warning reveals phishing attacks hitting private chats
You probably think your messages are safe. After all, apps like WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram promote strong encryption.But a new warning from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows that attackers do not need to break encryption at all.Instead, they are going after you.Sign up for my FREE CyberGuy ReportFBI WARNS ABOUT FOREIGN APPS AND YOUR DATA According to the joint advisory, cyber actors tied to Russian intelligence are running large...
Canva unveils Canva AI 2.0, which can generate editable layered designs from conversational prompts using Canva's foundation model built specifically for design
Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: Canva unveils Canva AI 2.0, which can generate editable layered designs from conversational prompts using Canva's foundation model built specifically for design Australia's h
Rosie O'Donnell heartbroken over Swalwell scandal, declaring 'men suck' after Bill Clinton comparison
Rosie O'Donnell reacted to the sexual misconduct allegations against former Democratic congressman and California gubernatorial candidate Eric Swalwell in a video posted to TikTok on Tuesday, lamenting that she had donated to one of his campaigns while comparing the situation to Bill Clinton."Now can we talk a little bit about Eric Swalwell?" O'Donnell said. "I know that guy. In the ‘What kind of way?’ Like, spoke to him on the phone a couple times, donated money to him, I believe. Talked about ...
Trump predicted Israel–Lebanon leaders would speak ‘tomorrow’ Beirut swiftly shut it down
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun will not speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for now, a Lebanese official told Fox News Digital, dealing a setback to U.S. efforts to broker direct contact between the two countries as fighting continues across southern Lebanon.The development came after President Donald Trump said late Wednesday that the two leaders could speak for the first time in decades."We are trying to create a little breathing room," Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding that...
Trump predicted Israel-Lebanon leaders would speak ‘tomorrow’ Beirut shut it down as ceasefire emerges
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a 10-day ceasefire beginning at 5 p.m. Eastern Time, in what he described as a major step toward ending weeks of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.Trump said he had spoken separately with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that both sides had agreed to begin formal talks aimed at reaching a broader peace agreement."I just had excellent conversations with the Highly R...
Costco worker reveals why baked goods are never sold hot, and the mold risk behind it
Costco shoppers who stock up on croissants, bagels and pastries may have wondered why baked goods from the brand are never sold hot out of the oven and they may finally have an answer.In a Reddit thread asking Costco employees what they wish customers would start or stop doing, one self-identified bakery worker revealed why certain baked goods are cooled before reaching shoppers."I work at the bakery," the Reddit user wrote in the two-year-old thread, which was recently resurfaced by Tasting Tab...
Anna's Archive told to pay Spotify and record labels $322 million over unprecedented music scraping
The open-source library and search engine Anna’s Archive has been ordered to pay Spotify and the three of the world’s largest music labels $322 million in damages after it claimed to have scraped the entirety of the streaming platform’s library of music. Spotify, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, sued Anna’s Archive in January for a slightly comical $13 trillion. They alleged Anna's Archive had illegally scraped 86 million songs a significant chunk of all th...
Meta’s Quest Price Hikes Just Put VR in a Worse Spot
The Quest 3S and 3 are getting more expensive, and memory prices are to blame.
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Progressive Democrat Has Edge in Race for Mikie Sherrill’s House Seat
Analilia Mejia, a progressive Democrat, is competing on Thursday in New Jersey against Joe Hathaway, a Republican who has tried to distance himself from President Trump.
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Where Has All of New York City’s Outdoor Dining Gone?
The number of eateries with permits for sidewalk and roadway tables has dwindled to about a third of its pandemic-era peak.
Tiger Woods' attorney fights subpoena for prescription drug records in DUI case: reports
After prosecutors said a subpoena will be issued later this month for Tiger Woods' prescription drug records, his attorney is fighting against it.Woods was arrested for driving under the influence after taking field sobriety tests following a two-vehicle crash in which his Range Rover turned onto its driver's side.A court filing showed that a subpoena will be issued to "seek copies of any and all prescription medication on file" for Woods from Jan. 1 through March 27, the date of his car crash a...
Bluesky is having some issues in one of its 'reginos'
Bluesky is once again having a wobble. The platform says some of its systems are down and that it’s “investigating an incident with service in one of our reginos” (that’s Bluesky’s typo, not mine). The issue appears to have started at 1:42AM ET and was still persisting as of 11AM.According to Bluesky’s status page, three servers were down, including one based in the US East region. The outages appear to be due to connection timeout issues. It seems that only certain users are being affected. Blu...
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Stop Flock campaign targets invasive surveillance network
The Stop Flock campaign takes aim at the domestic surveillance startup, whose cameras are everywhere now—even inside buildings. "Mass surveillance isn't public safety," the campaign states, "it's public control." Flock Safety markets AI surveillance that goes far beyond reading license plates; color, bumper stickers, dents, and other features are used to build databases and identify movement patterns. Read the rest The post Stop Flock campaign targets invasive surveillance network appeared f...
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Trump Signs Pipeline Permits To Boost US–Canada Oil Flow
Trump Signs Pipeline Permits To Boost US–Canada Oil Flow Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump issued several pipeline permits on April 15, including one for the construction of a new pipeline to facilitate the transportation of crude oil and petroleum products between the United States and Canada, according to documents released by the White House. The action covers four permits in total. The permit authorizing construction was issued to the Ba...
Dozens of Dems flip on Israel, vote to ban arms sales in protest of Iran war
More Senate Democrats than ever before voted to halt arms sales and military bulldozers to Israel as an act of protest against President Donald Trump’s war in Iran.The late-night vote on Wednesday, which saw both of Sen. Bernie Sanders', I-Vt., resolutions fail, signaled a shift among Senate Democrats, who in several previous attempts by the progressive had joined Republicans to support the Jewish state.Combined, Sanders’ resolutions would have blocked nearly $500 million in arms and equipment s...
