The Cop Who Took On Flock

After Noel Pichardo called out his city's embrace of Flock surveillance cameras, he was subjected to five internal affairs investigations in less than two years.

As Colorado River reservoirs shrink, Arizona warns of a legal fight

The Trump administration's plan for the water-starved Colorado River is drawing criticism. Arizona warns it could sue.

This clumsy green beetle is buzzing all over L.A. It might just crash into your face

Big, green and notoriously bad at flying, figeater beetles are taking over Los Angeles this month. Here's why the clumsy insects are thriving.

‘It’s Absolutely Terrifying’: AI Is Reportedly Slopping Up the Bills in Congress

By one count, the number of requests for legislation in 2025 was up 72% from the same period in 2023

The Trillion-Dollar Trial Against Meta Is Too Big to Succeed

Could Meta really pay $1.4 trillion if it loses in court?

Best Merino Wool Clothing (2026): Base Layers, Hoodies, Jackets

Merino is one of the best fabrics you can wear. We explain the different blends, what “GSM” means, and how to care for your clothes.

The Powerful Chinese Model Experts Warned About—and Waited for—Is Here

Z.ai’s latest AI model release could help companies secure their systems—or find its way into the hands of hackers.

OpenAI to lease massive new AI data center in US, backed by Nvidia

ChatGPT maker OpenAI will lease a massive new data center in the United States for 20 years, backed by a $105 billion financing commitment from Nvidia, according to a regulatory filing published Monda

Google is reportedly planning to move all Pixel production out of China

Google told its suppliers that it will no longer manufacture Pixel devices in China starting next year, according to Nikkei Asia.

Apple appears to have leaked its camera-equipped AirPods

Apple may have leaked its camera-equipped AirPods in a video tucked into macOS Tahoe 26.7.

Anthropic increases revenue sevenfold, hits annualized rate above $65 billion

Anthropic's annualized revenue has topped $65 billion, a sevenfold increase in one year, according to Bloomberg. The company could go public as early as fall 2026 at a $1 trillion valuation, potential

I Found an Easy Way to Make GNOME More Colorful

One thing that always comes up in the GNOME vs KDE debate is how easy it is to customize KDE. You can surely customize GNOME but not to the extent of KDE. But that doesn't deter us GNOME users from trying new looks and visuals, does it? In that regard, I recently came across a super cool GUI tool that lets give an altogether different look to your GNOME desktop.Take a look at the screenshot below. Looks like Archcraft or Omarchy, right?That is the magic of Rewaita, a GUI app worth adding in your...

Appeals court rules Trump admin unlawfully appointed Nevada's top federal prosecutor

A federal appeals court panel on Monday upheld an order that disqualified Sigal Chattah as the top federal prosecutor in Nevada, finding that the Justice Department could not keep her in charge through the appointment and delegation mechanisms it used after her interim term ended.A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a judge's ruling that Chattah ‌was not validly leading the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Nevada.The ruling disqualifies Chattah from s...

Mushroom murders: Australia’s Erin Patterson appeals against triple conviction

Meanwhile, Melbourne prosecutors are appealing Patterson’s 33-year non-parole period.

Whittaker’s Peanut Slab sparks debate after woman eats it boarding Bali flight

Online opinion is split over eating peanut products before getting on a plane.

Sources: AI-drafted bills are swamping the US House's Legislative Counsel, which now spends more time fixing them than it would spend to draft them from scratch

Owen Dahlkamp / Politico: Sources: AI-drafted bills are swamping the US House's Legislative Counsel, which now spends more time fixing them than it would spend to draft them from scratch Congression

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DOJ opens probe into prestigious college over alleged discrimination favoring minority students

The Department of Justice launched an investigation on Monday into the College of William and Mary to determine whether certain scholarships and student benefits at the Virginia-based public research institution include unlawful race-based criteria, adding to the Trump administration's targeting of educational institutions across the country.The DOJ's Civil Rights Division announced it was opening a compliance review for the college's potential violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1...

Stripped of sand, decades-old infrastructure 'relics' pop up at the Wedge in Newport Beach

The material exposed at the Wedge surf spot in Newport Beach by powerful swells is believed to be part of an old jetty that was constructed decades ago.

DeCo-MIL: Debiased Counterfactual Reasoning for Long-Tailed Whole Slide Image Analysis

arXiv:2608.14719v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multiple instance learning (MIL) is widely used for weakly supervised whole slide image (WSI) analysis. However, under long-tailed distributions, MIL-ba

VideoGAIA: A Benchmark for General AI Assistants on Agentic Video Understanding

arXiv:2608.14718v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video understanding is a fundamental task for evaluating the capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). However, existing leading models

Local Gains and Fixed-Assignment Set Losses in Shared Set Decoders

arXiv:2608.14717v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A query-relation deletion can improve the edited slot while reducing the utility of the prediction set that contains it. We study this tension in two re

Xemo-Talker: Unlock Emotions Explicitly for Audio-Driven Talking Portrait Synthesis

arXiv:2608.14700v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Precise emotion control in audio-driven talking heads remains a challenge due to the reliance on implicit emotion regulation in existing systems, which

Explaining Reinforcement Learning Decisions in Self-adaptive Systems

arXiv:2608.14620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been extensively used in autonomous and self-* systems, but RL policies, especially deep RL ones relying on neural netwo

Calibrated Trust, Not Sharper Prediction: An Empirical Test of Uncertainty Fusion

arXiv:2608.14617v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A recurring proposal in legal AI is to improve case-outcome prediction by fusing uncertainty tools (evidence graphs with belief propagation, sequential

Forward Pass Domain Adaptation (Without Cross-Layer Backpropagation)

arXiv:2608.14563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Forward-Pass-Only MLP training (FPO) adapts large language models without a backward pass through the model body, achieving 2.7--3.2x the throughput of

Learning Discrete Riemannian Metrics for Physical Fields with Cochain-Frame Equivarianc

arXiv:2608.14556v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical fields on meshes require a separation between topology and geometry: conservation laws are topological and should be exact, while geometry, mat

Position: Certified Correctness in Neural Constraint Reasoning Requires Symbolic Integration

arXiv:2608.14569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural solvers for constraint satisfaction problems have achieved remarkable in-distribution accuracy, yet they suffer from a fundamental limitation per

Position: AI Governance Needs ISO-like Interoperability Protocols, Not Just Laws

arXiv:2608.14568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems become deeply integrated into critical global infrastructure, the urgency for robust governance frameworks has i

Position: Evaluations of AI Moral Reasoning Still Miss Half of the Picture

arXiv:2608.14566v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work on evaluating the moral competence of large language models (LLMs) has focused primarily on what we call the moral value problem, i.e., whet

Position: AI Lock-In Is in Progress, and We Must Be Prepared

arXiv:2608.14565v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI safety research has mainly focused on two areas: technical alignment (ensuring AI systems produce human-aligned outputs) and the regulation of genera

Global AI Regulations for FAIR and Ethics in High-Risk Use Cases: A Comparative Review

arXiv:2608.14562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI governance is shifting from voluntary ethics to enforceable, risk-based regulation, yet cross-jurisdictional divergence creates compliance uncertaint

The Unwritten Benchmark: A New Challenge for Multimodal Machine Learning in Abstract Perceptual Reasoning

arXiv:2608.14558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current multimodal models have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in recognizing static visual and auditory content. However, their capacity for abstra

Large Language Models Show Metacognitive Sensitivity in Medical Reasoning

arXiv:2608.14552v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly evaluated and used in medicine, but clinical usefulness depends on answer accuracy and whether confidence

FLOPs vs Real Work: The Importance of Replication in AI Efficiency Assessment

arXiv:2608.14550v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI efficiency has recently taken the spotlight in both academy and industry due to massive model scales, high energy demands, and environmental costs. W

Foreign Central Banks and Governments Dumped Treasuries, Led by China/Hong Kong and Japan to Raise USD for Yen Intervention

But private-sector holdings remained at huge record, with the big seven financial centers leading the charge.

Unearthed Video Seems to Reveal Apple AirPods That Can ‘See’

Is this the quiet—and presumably accidental—unveiling of the fabled AirPods with cameras?

What's Behind Trump's Unexpected Favor To Kim Jong Un?

What's Behind Trump's Unexpected Favor To Kim Jong Un? Authored by Andrew Korybko, He might be flirting with a radical policy recalibration even if he soon changes his mind... Trump unexpectedly announced that the US will “substantially reduce” its participation in the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield large-scale joint military drills with South Korea that he was apparently unaware of till just recently and which began this week. He described his decision as being “Based on my very g...

White House attacks CNN reporter for question on Trump aide

Trump berated reporter Kristen Holmes after she asked about aide Natalie Harp.

'Buy Now, Pay Later' Lenders Pitch Loans For Needs Like Electricity and Rent

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Buy now, pay later" loans took off during the pandemic as a way for online shoppers to go on retail splurges without using a credit card. Now, lenders are offering the loans as a means for people to finance basic households needs. The lending apps Flex and Zip allow customers to take out loans to pay for their broadband, electricity, health insurance, mobile phone service, mortgage and water bills. Affirm, one of the most popular pay-l...

WSJ Catches Up, Discovers AI's Off-Balance Sheet Liabilities Are $3 Trillion And Growing $1.2 Trillion Per Quarter

WSJ Catches Up, Discovers AI's Off-Balance Sheet Liabilities Are $3 Trillion And Growing $1.2 Trillion Per Quarter More than two months ago, long before most Wall Street analysts had any clue that the bulk of the AI buildout commitments were diligently hidden in various off-balance sheet SPVs and other (perfectly legal) accounting gimmicks, we wrote a lengthy article detailing just that, and explaining why far beyond the $1 trillion (and rapidly rising) in annual plain vanilla capex...

Mars Curiosity Rover Discovers Massive Field of Polygons

The surface of Mars is home to some of the most breathtaking and awe-inspiring landscapes in the solar system. This is primarily due to the Red Planet lacking several re-surfacing processes that Earth possesses, including plate tectonics, volcanism, and flowing water. While Mars does have dust storms, this has done little to reshape the planet’s surface, which has remained largely undisturbed for billions of years. However, this near-pristine landscape has enabled scientists to look back in time...

Discord suspends livestreams in Brazil, after the country's data protection authority ordered it last week, saying Discord failed to protect children and teens (Associated Press)

Associated Press: Discord suspends livestreams in Brazil, after the country's data protection authority ordered it last week, saying Discord failed to protect children and teens Discord, the popular

China's YMTC Is Now World's 3rd Biggest Flash-Memory Supplier With 14% Market Share

China's YMTC Is Now World's 3rd Biggest Flash-Memory Supplier With 14% Market Share Earlier today we reported that China's highly touted DRAM memory maker CXMT recently surpassed Tencent to become China's most valuable company. That may be just the start, because hot on the heels of the biggest Chinese IPO this decade, comes that "other" Chinese memory maker, Yangtze Memory Technologies Corporation (YMTC) which has now broken into the world’s top three NAND flash memory suppliers...

Zambia's president re-elected to 2nd term following election-night violence

Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema was re-elected for a second 5-year term, but the opposition leader put in an unexpectedly strong showing, capitalizing on public ‌frustration with lingering hardships despite an economic turnaround.

Fake News, Part I: The Long History

Fake News, Part I: The Long History Authored by John Maxwell Hamilton via RealClearPolitics, In 1896, a daring journalist covering the Cuban revolution against their colonial masters crossed the Spanish lines three times to interview insurgent leaders. William Francis Mannix's final trip into the Cuban interior was made at the request of the leader of the insurgent government, Salvador Cisneros Betancourt. El Presidente Cisneros wanted the intrepid correspondent to carry back an ap...

Facing quagmire in Iran, Trump turns to a familiar face: North Korea’s Kim Jong Un

New York Times: Trump failed to disarm North Korea. Could the same thing happen with Iran?

MOTHRA Shows Us A Star Being Recycled in the Helix Nebula

Astronomers used new MOTHRA telescope in Chile to image the famous Helix Nebula. They found 22 glowing shock waves where stellar debris from a dying star collided with interstellar gas. After colliding with gas, stellar fragments remain intact for just 10,000 years, the team estimates. The observations show how dying stars are recycled and return material to the interstellar medium to form new stars and planets.

US Navy Destroyer Suffered 4-Day Power Outage In Sweltering South China Sea

US Navy Destroyer Suffered 4-Day Power Outage In Sweltering South China Sea Large US naval battleships continue to suffer problems at sea. While there have been many headlines of late detailing the problems of the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier connected to its extended deployment amid the Iran war, a separate warship is having serious problems in Pacific waters, quite apart from the crisis in the Persian Gulf. "A US Navy guided-missile destroyer spent four days last month without wor...

Orcas wow beachgoers with extremely close encounter | The Moment

Stephanie Morris tells The National about the moment she had an extremely close encounter with a family of orcas that swam by just off Bella Bella beach on Fox Island, Wash.

Virginia man acquitted by insanity in killing flees US during 48-hour mental hospital pass

A Virginia man found not guilty by reason of insanity in a 2019 killing fled the United States on a one-way flight to Tajikistan while on an approved 48-hour pass from a state mental health facility, according to court records.Abdulloi Toshpulodzoda left the Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute (NVMHI) on July 6 for an authorized 48-hour pass. He was required to return two days later, but he never did, FOX 5 reported, citing court documents.Instead, Toshpulodzoda traveled to Washington Dull...

Billionaires open the purse to fight California wealth tax

A group funded by Google co-founder Sergey Brin and other billionaires gave $5 million to a group opposing Proposition 40. What it means for the fight over the proposed California billionaire tax.

A short video in Apple's macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate appears to show a man demoing camera-equipped AirPods using Visual Intelligence and Siri

Juli Clover / MacRumors: A short video in Apple's macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate appears to show a man demoing camera-equipped AirPods using Visual Intelligence and Siri Apple is working on came

A video found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate appears to show a man demoing camera-equipped AirPods using Visual Intelligence

Juli Clover / MacRumors: A video found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate appears to show a man demoing camera-equipped AirPods using Visual Intelligence Apple is working on camera-equipped A

langchain-openai==1.5.2a1

Initial release release(openai): 1.5.2a1 ( #39709 ) feat(openai): extract gateway metadata from response headers when available ( #39706 ) chore(openai): update snapshots ( #39657 ) fix(openai): suppo

Entering The Gates Of Lies: Unmasking The Climate Version Of Theranos

Entering The Gates Of Lies: Unmasking The Climate Version Of Theranos Authored by Sydney Rodman via RealClearEnergy, One of President Trump's campaign promises was eliminating climate scams. As net-zero climate policies fade into the shadows, another climate scam is biting the dust. Bill Gates's daughter, Phoebe Gates, may not have her father's entrepreneurial talent, but she, too, frequently peddles climate alarmism. Mr. Gates, however, renounced climate doomerism last year in a ...

R.I.P. Columbia House: Here’s How It Improbably Survived This Long

It wasn't music streaming that killed it, because it pivoted.

19-year-old UC Santa Cruz student ID'd as victim after car plunges off cliff into ocean

The life of 19-year-old UC Santa Cruz student Alli Renee Singh was abruptly cut short when the car she was inside plunged off a cliff at night and into the ocean.

Saints first-round pick Jordyn Tyson could miss 2 months with hamstring injury from training camp

Jordyn Tyson’s start to his NFL career is not going according to plan.The New Orleans Saints receiver, who went in the first round of the 2026 NFL Draft, could miss the next two months after suffering a hamstring injury during training camp, according to NFL Network.The 22-year-old Arizona State product, whom the Saints took eighth overall back in April, suffered the injury during last Thursday’s joint practice with the Jacksonville Jaguars.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMSaint...

Police Attacked During Massive "Teen Brawl" At Wisconsin State Fair

Police Attacked During Massive "Teen Brawl" At Wisconsin State Fair The establishment media commonly uses strategic phrases to hide or omit the truth behind certain uncomfortable situations.  Since the BLM era, journalists cannot simply describe a violent mob as a "black mob", even if that description is generally true.  Today, one must say the words "teen brawl" in order to avoid any implications of race.  It's a very similar tactic to those used by the media in the UK whenever a ...

ByteDance Seed and Tsinghua AIR Introduces CUDA Agent: A Large-Scale Agentic RL System for CUDA Kernel Generation

ByteDance Seed and Tsinghua AIR have released CUDA Agent, an agentic reinforcement learning system that trains a large language model to write GPU kernels that beat a compiler. The gap it targets is n

Heat deaths in a ‘cold’ country are a warning to the rest of Europe

New York Times: A June heat wave exposed a lethal lack of readiness.

One of world’s oldest orca whales found with possible shotgun wounds as officials launch investigation

The mysterious wounds found on one of the world's oldest orcas have triggered an investigation in Spain and raised questions about whether someone took aim at the famed killer whale amid years of tense encounters between orcas and boats.Toñi, the oldest known Iberian orca, surfaced in the Strait of Gibraltar with multiple fresh marks across her dorsal fin and back that conservationists believe were caused by shotgun pellets. The injuries were not visible in photographs taken just weeks earlier.T...

'No risk' to public safety after grizzly bear escaped enclosure, Calgary Zoo says

The Wilder Institute's Calgary Zoo is investigating the circumstances under which one-year-old grizzly bear Fitz escaped his enclosure before being found Sunday morning.

Stephen A Smith goes off on national Black journalists organization after 'personal hit job' against him

ESPN host and political commentator Stephen A. Smith targeted the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) for what he called a "personal hit job" against him in a lengthy rant during his show on Monday.Smith's comments came after the NABJ gave him a "Thumbs Down" award at the group's Saturday night gala in Atlanta over what it characterized as his repeated disparagement of prominent Black women.The sports host felt personally offended by the decision, calling out the moment as a spectac...

Deep Capture: The Administrative State's Intellectual Origins

Deep Capture: The Administrative State's Intellectual Origins Authored by Sofia Karstens via Brownstone Institute, Woodrow Wilson holds a distinction no other American president has: he earned a Ph.D., completing his doctorate in political science and history at Johns Hopkins University in 1886. That same year, he wrote an essay called "The Study of Administration," later published in the inaugural volume of Political Science Quarterly. Historians widely credit this essay as the fo...

Newly released data shows which American cities have the most passionate fanbases in the NFL

It's an age-old question that's divided sports fans for decades: which city or team has the most passionate fanbases?There are several obvious contenders, cities that have the reputation for caring "more" about their team than others. Particularly in the NFL. The Philadelphia Eagles come to mind, with that city's fans infamous for maybe caring a bit, too, much. New York and Boston too, with the East Coast mindset and dedication to sports.Then there is Chicago Bears fans, who pack the old, outdat...

Family of L.A. man killed by ICE agent calls for grand jury investigation into shooting

The family of Keith Porter Jr., who was shot and killed by an off-duty ICE agent on New Year's Eve, called on Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman to put the case before a grand jury.

Peter Thiel Makes $76 Million Bet On Argentina's Top Shale Exporter Amid Milei Reforms

Peter Thiel Makes $76 Million Bet On Argentina's Top Shale Exporter Amid Milei Reforms Vista Energy SAB's American depositary receipts are up 5% Monday on news that Peter Thiel's hedge fund disclosed a $76 million stake in Argentina's largest oil exporter. Thiel Macro LLC reported owning almost 1.2 million shares of Vista at the end of the second quarter, valued at about $76 million. This was the fund's second-largest disclosed holding after Amazon. Thiel, the co-founder of Pala...

Man calls 911 after girlfriend found dead in motel, police allegedly uncover disturbing videos on his phone

A Missouri man called 911 after his girlfriend died at a motel, but investigators say a disturbing discovery soon turned the case into a homicide investigation.Nicholas Ayres, 35, is now charged with second-degree felony murder and first-degree domestic assault in the death of 37-year-old Destiny Dunn, according to Columbia Police and Boone County jail records.The investigation began around 3:22 p.m. on Aug. 12, when Ayres called 911 and told a dispatcher that Dunn was lying down, might have a h...

Iran War Pushes Middle Eastern Airlines Towards $4.3BN Loss In 2026

Iran War Pushes Middle Eastern Airlines Towards $4.3BN Loss In 2026 Via Middle East Eye As the US and Israel launched air strikes on Iran on February 28 2026, Iran struck back near US military installations in the Gulf, including in Qatar and the UAE. Several international airports were hit by Iranian strikes, including Dubai, the world's busiest for international passengers, as well as Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Bahrain.  The UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait closed their airspaces due t...

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 vs GPT-5.6 Sol on DeepSWE: Cost, Coding, and Routing

We ran 904 DeepSWE rollouts on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and GPT-5.6 Sol. Sol leads pass@1 by 10 points at 35x the cost; Pro wins pass@4, and a Pro-first cascade hits 83.0%.

Anthropic's annualized revenue surges to $65B

The model maker added $18 billion in annualized revenue in two months.

Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B

The model maker added $18 billion in annualized revenue in two months.

Unfortunately, there are only three Ana and Din mysteries

Having finished The Tainted Cup, I immediately dove into the next Ana and Din novel by Robert Jackson Bennett. I also finished the third in the series. Now I must wait. This series fantasy worldbuilding inside of a detective novel is really a lot of fun. Read the rest The post Unfortunately, there are only three Ana and Din mysteries appeared first on Boing Boing.

Illegal immigrant learns fate after using stolen identity to vote in US elections for decades

Carlos Felipe Jaramillo-Grajales, a criminal illegal alien from Colombia, was recently sentenced to three years behind bars for identity theft and lying about his citizenship status a falsification that, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), he used to participate in U.S. elections over a period spanning roughly 20 years."Because of his fraud, he was able to obtain a driver’s license and vote in our elections," DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a statement."DHS will always...

Google pays $10M to get its hands on Spirit Airlines' business data for AI training

Alphabet Inc.’s Google LLC has won an auction to acquire massive volumes of internal business data from the bankrupt airline operator Spirit Airlines Inc. for a hefty $10 million price. A report by Bl

Record Ground Beef Prices May Finally Be Breaking Consumer Demand

Record Ground Beef Prices May Finally Be Breaking Consumer Demand Last week's retail sales report provided fresh evidence that the K-shaped economy is buckling, with national average gasoline prices still printing above $4 a gallon and discretionary spending weakening. Consumer stress is now surfacing in the grocery aisle: as beef prices hover near record highs, Americans are beginning to trade down to cheaper proteins. Bloomberg cites new data from Chicago-based market research co...

AI cloud operator Groq raises $350M more in funding

Artificial intelligence startup Groq Inc. today announced that it has raised $350 million in additional funding. The Series A round was led by returning backer Disruptive. Grok stated that Nvidia Corp

MLB approves sale of San Diego Padres to José E. Feliciano and Kwanza Jones

Major League Baseball's team owners unanimously have approved the sale of the San Diego Padres to an investor group led by private equity billionaire José E. Feliciano and his wife and business partner, Kwanza Jones. The league announced the approval Monday after a vote. Feliciano and Jones reached an agreement in May to buy ...

Penn State cocaine bust nets 14 arrests over alleged pledge coke-cutting ‘indoctrination' rituals

More than a dozen Penn Staters are charged in connection with an alleged massive cocaine distribution ring as one of the alleged ringleaders, Agostino Abbatiello, 24, of Westbury, New York remains at large. Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced that Abbatiello is among 14 people who are facing charges related to the coke trafficking operation where students and two off-campus fraternities were allegedly involved."In all, 13 defendants were Penn State University students at or aroun...

US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 years

How many women hold executive-level positions at top U.S. companies? What is the racial and ethnic breakdown of those roles? What is the gender and racial breakdown of the lowest-paid roles at those companies?

Oprah distances herself from Trump allies Dr Phil and Dr Oz, says they have ‘not one thing to do with me’

Talk show legend Oprah Winfrey distanced herself from Dr. Phil McGraw and Dr. Mehmet Oz, two stars she helped turn into national media personalities who have since become associated with conservative politics.Winfrey spoke to Emmy Magazine about her career and was asked how she felt about McGraw and Oz now."People criticize me for Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz, because of their politics or their views," she said, recalling that during a lengthy legal battle in the late ‘90s, "Dr. Phil, he was so practical...

Fisherman rescued after 15 days trapped in Mexico underwater cave

Erasto Valdez was pursuing a fish when he became disoriented and lost his way out.

Charges Against Palisades Fire Arson Suspect Revised

Charges Against Palisades Fire Arson Suspect Revised City News Service via The Epoch Times, LOS ANGELES - The man accused of setting a blaze that grew into the deadly Palisades Fire, the most destructive fire in Los Angeles history, is facing one less criminal charge, with federal prosecutors obtaining a revised indictment in the case. Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, is posed after his arrest on charges that he intentionally ignited the Pacific Palisades fire in Los Angeles, before his ...

[AINews] Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B

No GPUs, no Agents, just really, really, really good infra and distribution.

Kushner gives Hamas stark ultimatum: Disarm or Israel gets US backing to ‘finish the job’

U.S. special envoy Jared Kushner delivered a stark ultimatum to Hamas on Monday, warning that the terrorist group must honor its commitments to disarm in Gaza or face an Israeli military operation to "finish the job."Speaking exclusively to Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst, Kushner also detailed high-stakes diplomatic meetings in Egypt and Israel over the last 48 hours aimed at advancing President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace roadmap as fighting and disagreements between Israel and ...

Supreme Court Rejects Verizon Bid For $47 Million Refund of FCC Fine

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Supreme Court today rejected Verizon's attempt to get a $47 million refund from the Federal Communications Commission. In a list of orders (PDF) issued by the court, Verizon's petition was denied without explanation. The denial apparently ends any possibility of Verizon asking a lower court to review the fine and order the FCC to issue a refund. However, ATandT and T-Mobile are continuing to challenge similar fines on grounds that sellin...

Cancer treatment delays surge across US as doctor warns system ‘needs fixing immediately’

Wait times between a cancer diagnosis and the start of treatment grew by nearly two weeks over the past decade in the U.S., according to a recent study published in JAMA Surgery.Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles and Massachusetts General Hospital analyzed national data from more than two million patients diagnosed between January 2012 and December 2023.The study tracked adults with early to locally advanced stages of six common cancers (breast, colon, lung, pancreatic, s...

Parents Are Paying Thousands For Sorority Rush Coaches

Parents Are Paying Thousands For Sorority Rush Coaches SAAS is starting to mean sororities as a service. Parents are spending thousands of dollars on consultants to help their daughters navigate sorority recruitment at major Southern universities, turning rush into a process with its own coaches, preparation packages and, in some cases, five-figure services, according to Bloomberg. The consultants advise prospective new members, or PNMs, on what to wear, how to introduce themselve...

CNN fires back at Trump White House over attacks on reporter, calls them 'beneath the office'

CNN fired back at the White House on Monday after President Donald Trump's rapid response team took aim at CNN White House correspondent Kristen Holmes.While Trump took questions from the Oval Office, Holmes asked him for his reaction to viral comments made by Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., who claimed Trump would rather "build a ballroom and travel with [White House aide]" Natalie [Harp]" than do his job as president, to which Trump replied by calling him "Pee-wee Herman."The Rapid Response 47 account...

LA gun owners stuck waiting years for concealed carry permits score major DOJ victory

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) has slashed lengthy concealed carry permit delays after a Department of Justice (DOJ) lawsuit accused the agency of leaving thousands of applications in limbo and forcing some gun owners to wait nearly three years for action.The turnaround prompted the DOJ to end its landmark lawsuit against LASD, with federal officials announcing Thursday that the sheriff’s department is now meeting California's permitting deadlines after adding personnel and n...

Lost VHS promos from the twilight of the arcade era

Brian Peek scanned and shared his collection of gaming promotional VHS cassettes, including five that Atari Games sent to arcade operators in the 1990s. Peek inherited the tapes from his dad, who ran a gaming center and received them from Atari Games' then-parent company Midway. Read the rest The post Lost VHS promos from the twilight of the arcade era appeared first on Boing Boing.

Blow to Westside child care: UCLA to close infant and toddler centers charging $3,000 a month

UCLA will close its remaining child-care centers in June, leaving hundreds of families scrambling to find new care amid an acute countywide shortage.

Ottawa will look into screening processes amid NATO intern spying allegations

Webb Captures Clearest Image Yet of the Lion Nebula

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of NGC 2392 (also known as the Lion Nebula), which Hubble previously imaged in 2000.