Snap’s New AR Glasses Are Trying to Beat Meta to the Punch

Specs now have a consumer-ready pair of AR glasses for a hefty price.

After Raising More Money Than God, SpaceX Is Ready to Tie the Knot With Cursor

SpaceX is acquiring Cursor in a $60 billion deal.

Sources: Apple's AirPods with cameras for AI are scheduled to launch in 2027 alongside the 20th anniversary pro iPhones and a second-generation foldable iPhone

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple's AirPods with cameras for AI are scheduled to launch in 2027 alongside the 20th anniversary pro iPhones and a second-generation foldable iPhone Apple Inc.'s

Google Earth’s New Flight Simulator Provides You With the Whole World to Crash Into

Explore the world in a new, not-at-all stressful way!

Did Rocket Lab Accidentally Launch a Rocket to Orbit?

The company's suborbital vehicle launched on a secret government mission and ended up somewhere unexpected.

B-52 'burst into flames' after sudden crash, killing 8: What we know

Investigators are trying to determine the cause of a B-52 bomber crash that killed eight Monday in California. The crash occurred during a 'routine test mission' at Edwards Air Force Base.

‘Toy Story 5’ Does Pixar’s Signature Franchise Proud

Featuring the voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, and more, it's in theaters June 19.

Russian Spam and Profanities Are Now Plaguing the Arch Linux AUR

The Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" is facing another issue just days after more than 1,500 packages were found carrying malware. According to Phoronix, over 70 AUR packages have reportedly been modified to insert Russian spam and profane messages into users' shell configuration files. From the report: Nicolas Boichat with his AI/LLM detection bot detected some questionable messages appearing in AUR content. Russian messages were being added post-install to the bashrc / zshrc / Fish configurati...

Arch Linux Pulls the Plug on New AUR Registrations After Malware Flood

Arch Linux has disabled new account registrations on the Arch User Repository (AUR) as they work to contain a malware campaign that swept through the community package repository last week.The AUR is where Arch users look in for software that has not made it into the official repositories yet. It is community-run and unsupported, meaning packages are user-submitted with no safety guarantee from the Arch team.Over 1,500 packages were hit in the first wave alone, and two more waves followed shortl...

Scientists Found That Roommates Share About a Quarter of Their Mouth Bacteria

New research shows that people living in the same home share a lot of the same microbiome.

Databricks agrees to acquire Panther Labs, its third cybersecurity acquisition; Panther was valued at $1.4B when it raised a $120M Series B in 2021

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Bland, which uses proprietary, in-house-built voice models to process calls for 250+ enterprise clients, raised a $50M Series C led by Dell Technologies Capital

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Bland, which uses proprietary, in-house-built voice models to process calls for 250+ enterprise clients, raised a $50M Series C led by Dell Technologies Capital Isaiah Gr

Social media is on the wrong side of history when it comes to 'Seinfeld,' 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' debate

Most fans can agree that "Seinfeld" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" are two of the greatest television shows to ever grace our universe, and they share plenty of similarities.For one, they come from the same hilariously twisted brain of Larry David, and both feature storylines focused on the minutiae and banality of day-to-day life; "shows about nothing," as it were.But, over the past week, one man sparked an internet debate regarding which of the two shows is the superior one, and far too many peopl...

Nvidia's Huang pledges AI will boost manufacturing jobs. A test will come in Texas

Jensen Huang's company Nvidia makes the computer chips that unleashed a revolution in artificial intelligence. Now he's wagering that an AI buildout can revive U.S. manufacturing, pushing past limits

SpaceX bets $60 billion on Cursor to catch OpenAI and Anthropic

Just two trading days after its IPO, Elon Musk's SpaceX is buying AI coding startup Anysphere. The deal is meant to help the struggling xAI division catch up with Anthropic and OpenAI. The article Spa

Future Martian Colonists Will Need a New Relativistic Clock

We think of atomic clocks as the definitive timekeepers. They are famous for being accurate down to the picosecond. Unfortunately, they are still subject to general relativity, so if you put them on a different planet, they will track time slightly faster or slower than on Earth, depending on the planet’s gravity. In Mars’ case, an atomic clock on its surface is sitting in a slightly shallower gravity well, meaning that time moves slightly faster there. Therefore, as we begin to expand our techn...

DOJ claims xAI’s unpermitted gas turbines are a matter of ‘national, economic, and energy security’

The Justice department says the Pentagon needs xAI to keep using its unpermitted gas turbines.

Fastest, Largest, Strongest: NVIDIA Blackwell Sweeps MLPerf Training 6.0

Every breakthrough AI model starts the same way: with a training run. The infrastructure running those training jobs shapes everything: how fast teams can iterate, what scale of model they can build a

Luigi Mangione supporter working for far-left DC mayoral candidate likened to Mamdani

The right-hand woman of Washington's Democratic socialist mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George has called for accused assassin Luigi Mangione to be freed and pardoned, according to her Threads account.Mangione has attracted support in the months since his arrest, including more than $1.5 million in donations to fund his high-powered defense team.Makia Green described herself as George's political director in a post on the app in May.In the days after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's assas...

10 More Queer Horror Movies to Stream for Pride

Good news, scream queens: horror movies are more diverse than ever before.

Japan's tech business SoftBank rolls out OpenAI 'patches' against cyberattacks

Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group Corp. is launching a service using OpenAI technology to protect against the looming threat of cyberattacks, both companies said Tuesday.

Plaud says its software business topped $100M in ARR after shipping over 2M AI notetakers

Plaud is trying to make a mark in a crowded market full of AI-powered meeting notetakers.

Run a Local LLM with OpenClaw on Your Mac Mini

Tired of your monthly API bill? Follow this tested guide to set up a high-performance local LLM on your Mac Mini without the headaches. The post Run a Local LLM with OpenClaw on Your Mac Mini appeared

Firefox 152 Adds JPEG XL Support, Redesigned Settings

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Linuxiac: Mozilla has released Firefox 152, the latest update to its popular open-source web browser, with updated settings, improved media controls, experimental JPEG XL support, and various platform-specific fixes for desktop and Android. A key update is the redesigned Firefox Settings page, which now features clearer groupings, improved navigation, and a more streamlined structure for easier customization. The release also expands built-in spellchecker...

Commodore made a social media-banishing flip phone

The Commodore Callback 8020 is a nostalgic rejection of modern smartphones.

The South Braces for ‘Prolific’ Rainfall as Potential Tropical Storm Takes Shape

The first tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season appears to be forming over South Texas, raising the risk of dangerous flooding across multiple states.

Potential Tropical Storm Could Bring a Major Flood Threat to the South

The first tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season appears to be forming over South Texas, raising the risk of "prolific" rainfall across multiple states.

Hydra Host, a marketplace for developers and enterprises to procure GPUs pooled from data center operators, raised a $100M Series A led by Kindred Ventures

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Hydra Host, a marketplace for developers and enterprises to procure GPUs pooled from data center operators, raised a $100M Series A led by Kindred Ventures Data center

Conservatives pitch legalizing some psychedelics with bill to revamp Canada's drug laws

Conservative MP Corey Tochor introduced legislation on Tuesday to legalize prescribing psychedelics like psilocybin, which researchers and patients say can effectively treat some mental health disorders.

10 Designers Share the Trends Defining Dwellings of Tomorrow

From friend compounds and meditation spaces to shaded outdoor areas and rooms just to make coffee, homes are getting even more multipurpose.

Robinhood's note on 10% layoffs shows blaming AI isn't cutting it

Unlike many of his tech industry peers who have cut thousands of jobs citing the need to restructure to make the most of AI, Robinhood's CEO Vlad Tenev conspicuously made no mention of AI in his note

Robinhood’s note on 10% layoffs shows blaming AI isn’t cutting it

Unlike many of his tech industry peers who have cut thousands of jobs citing the need to restructure to make the most of AI, Robinhood's CEO Vlad Tenev conspicuously made no mention of AI in his note

SpaceX is buying AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion

SpaceX is buying Cursor to bolster the capabilities of xAI.

Xbox Game Pass additions for late June include EA Sports FC 26 and RV There Yet?

Xbox Game Pass additions for late June include EA Sports FC 26 and RV There Yet?

Kidnapped child found in Mexico; father arrested in mother's slaying

A missing 5-year-old girl was found safe in Mexico and her father was arrested in connection with her abduction and the killing of the girl's mother, according to authorities.

SpaceX buys AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion in race for an edge over Anthropic and OpenAI

SpaceX will move forward with its $60 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Cursor as Elon Musk's space exploration and AI company seeks a competitive edge against rivals Anthropic an

The Death of the Starter Home

Buying a first house used to mark entry into adulthood—and the beginning of wealth-building. But a shifting economic landscape is threatening to close the door on this American milestone.

8 veteran-owned brands worth shopping ahead of America 250

With America 250 on the horizon, now's the perfect time to support brands that are run by and stand behind our nation's veterans. This list highlights eight veteran-founded and veteran-friendly companies that give back to retired and active-duty service members. Shop everything from coolers perfect for camping, and USA-roasted coffee to military-themed hot sauces and more.READ MORE: America 250 is coming: What to know and the best commemorative gear to buyNeed a cooler that can handle the outdoo...

Todd Chrisley recalls emotional phone call with daughter Savannah after controversial Trump pardon

Todd Chrisley recounted the emotional moment he learned he had been pardoned by President Donald Trump, detailing the tearful phone call with his daughter Savannah that changed everything."I was crying, and I said, 'Is it true?' And she [Savannah] started crying," Chrisley recalled on the "Hang Out With Sean Hannity" podcast.The "Chrisley Knows Best" star said he was returning from the prison library when a corrections officer caught up to him, revealing he had been pardoned and would be going h...

Exclusive look inside America250 time capsule reveals artifacts preserving US history

From civic records to cultural keepsakes, a literal ton of American history is almost ready for burial in Philadelphia.Ahead of the nation's historic 250th birthday, "Fox and Friends" got an exclusive look at the final contents of the America250 time capsule a 900-pound, stainless steel, waterproof vessel housing nearly 200 contributions from across the nation."The contents of the time capsule [are] amazing," America250 Chair Rosie Rios shared Monday."We wanted to make sure that all three branch...

Insta360 Luna Ultra review: Let the gimbal camera wars begin

Insta360's first gimbal camera is a high-powered Osmo Pocket rival that you can actually buy.

Passengers push back as major cruise lines raise gratuity charges

→ Passengers are sounding off as automatic service charges keep climbing across major cruise lines.→ A hiker was recently airlifted after a grizzly bear dragged him dozens of feet on a trail.→ A record seaweed bloom washed ashore across South Florida, bringing foul odors to beaches.→ A beloved cruise tradition is facing new limits as passengers push the trend to extremes.→ This towering new attraction is raising the stakes for thrill-seekers looking to cool off.→ A historic amusement park is tak...

China's DRAM Giant CXMT Gets Final Nod For Largest Mainland IPO Since 2022

China's DRAM Giant CXMT Gets Final Nod For Largest Mainland IPO Since 2022 Chengxin Memory Technology, China’s leading maker of DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) chips, has had its initial public offering approved by the country’s securities watchdog, clearing the way for the Chinese mainland’s biggest stock market listing since 2022. CXMT’s registration to go public on Shanghai’s Nasdaq-style Star Market became effective on June 12. The Hefei-based company is planning to raise C...

3 Brazilian men charged after woman tossed from bridge without safety rope

Three men face potential charges after a 21-year-old woman died when rope-jumping instructors allegedly launched her from a bridge without attaching the safety ropes meant to stop her fall, authorities said.Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas, a 21-year-old student, died Saturday during a rope-jumping event at an abandoned bridge about 90 miles northwest of São Paulo, Brazil.Police investigator Andrea Levy told reporters Monday that the three instructors involved in the jump acknowledged that Rod...

South Carolina personal trainer goes missing, last spotted walking toward wooded area

A South Carolina woman vanished last week after she was last seen leaving a Planet Fitness gym and walking toward a nearby wooded area, authorities said.Elena Katherine Moore, 39, has not been seen since she left the gym in Lexington, a suburb west of Columbia, on Thursday evening, according to the Lexington Police Department.Authorities said Moore signed in at Planet Fitness around 6:40 p.m. and was later seen walking away from the facility toward a wooded area behind a nearby Lowe's Home Impro...

Trans actor Elliot Page argues 'healthy masculinity' is rejecting expectation to 'shut down'

Transgender actor Elliot Page described "healthy masculinity" as pushing away the impulse to "shut down" emotionally on Thursday.The 39-year-old "Odyssey" actor was asked on the "It's Open with Ilana Glazer" podcast about healthy masculinity as a public figure and someone on a "gender journey." Page claimed that healthy masculinity was moving away from the "expectation" to be closed off from others."Healthy masculinity, to me, is or even just something I’ve felt as, like, transitioning, is like ...

‘Strange New Worlds’ Season 4 Trailer Teases the Journey to the Beginning of ‘Star Trek’

The show's penultimate season arrives July 23 on Paramount+.

Beckham family drama continues to be messy as David dodges questions while son Brooklyn adds fuel to the fire

Halfway through 2026 and the Beckham family feud still rages on.Last week, pictures of Harper Beckham surfaced as she attempted to visit her brother's home. According to Page Six, Harper was unsuccessful and left seconds after arriving at Brooklyn Beckham's Beverly Hills home. A source told the outlet that Brooklyn and his wife, Nicola Peltz, were not home when Harper arrived.Representatives for Brooklyn and Nicola called Harper's spontaneous visit to their home a moment "choreographed for the c...

The Roadmap to Becoming an LLM Engineer in 2026

A step-by-step path through the skills that turn a machine learning practitioner into someone who ships large language model applications.

My Father Wants to Age in Place. AI Will Be Watching

Devices that monitor seniors for safety are appealing to worried loved ones and underresourced home care agencies.

Traditional Home Insurance Is Collapsing. Here’s What Could Fill the Gap

A new, AI-assisted model of insurance is quietly exploding in disaster-prone areas—and may be coming for FEMA too. Is it the answer to climate change, or a trap?

Designing the Dream House of an 87-Year-Old Tech Visionary

An icon of Silicon Valley’s counterculture, Stewart Brand is confronting his final years in a home that embodies the self-sufficient, DIY ethos of his famous Whole Earth Catalog.

Need a New Lamp? Here Are 7 Bright Ideas

These clever lights—each one an exemplar of innovation in materials, design, and function—will beautify your home.

What Do We Need From Our Homes Right Now?

The global editorial directors of WIRED and Architectural Digest on teaming up to help you understand how we live today, and what comes next.

What Do Americans Spend on Housing?

WIRED surveyed readers on their housing costs. The answers paint a stark portrait of unaffordability, climate adaptation, and the death of the homeowner dream.

My Father Wants to Age in Place. AI Will Be Watching

Devices that monitor seniors for safety are appealing to worried loved ones and underresourced home care agencies.

Italy is probing Apple over iCloud services like iPhone backups

Apple is being investigated by the EU again, this time over its iCloud service.

May home sales down 5.1%, but CREA sees positive momentum

Despite year-over-year drop, activity was up 5.5 per cent on a seasonally adjusted basis compared with April this year. Prices have also begun to stabilize as buyers and sellers increasingly see eye to eye, according to CREA's senior economist

Are Alien Probes Hiding in Our Backyard? A New Study Says We’ve Barely Looked

Even at this early stage in our space faring age, humanity has already begun sending probes that will eventually reach other solar systems, even if that was not their original intention. Five robotic explorers - Pioneer 10 and 11, Voyager 1 and 2, and New Horizons - are all on escape velocities out of the solar system, and might someday enter another one. They will no longer be operational at that point, but they serve as a proof of concept that spacefaring civilizations do indeed build interste...

New wheeled robot says no thanks to humanoid hype

The robot race has a familiar look right now. Two legs. A face-like head. A body that tries very hard to look human. Genesis AI is taking a different route with Eno, its first general-purpose robot. Instead of building another humanoid that looks like all the others out there, the company designed a wheeled robot that focuses on work first. That choice may make Eno more useful in the real world.Genesis AI says Eno combines its full-stack hardware platform with GENE, the company's robotics-native...

Ent Security, which wants to build a new layer of workspace security that reads the intent behind what users and AI agents do, launches with $100M in funding

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Ent Security, which wants to build a new layer of workspace security that reads the intent behind what users and AI agents do, launches with $100M in funding Intent-awar

Vance shares how he's gearing up for lion's den debut on 'The View'

Vice President JD Vance is set to make his first appearance on ABC's "The View" on Wednesday, becoming just the third sitting vice president to join the daytime talk show's panel."It may be the optimist in me, but I just fundamentally think that most people not everybody, but most people even if I disagree with them, you ought to try to have a conversation with them," Vance told Fox News Digital in a sit-down interview Tuesday.Vance will join all six co-hosts, including Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Beha...

Trump's Iran deal sparks GOP demands for vote as Congress remains in the dark

President Donald Trump has the beginnings of an agreement to end the war in Iran, but Congress hasn’t seen it, and Republicans want details before lending their support.Trump declared that the deal had already been signed by all parties, but senators, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., who is a member of the Gang of Eight who receives top-level intelligence briefings from the administration, are still in the dark about what exactly it entails. "I don't think even the people who...

Limitless Labs, which is developing an AI platform to automate CNC manufacturing, raised a $20M Series A led by Dell Technologies Capital and Square Peg

Meir Orbach / CTech: Limitless Labs, which is developing an AI platform to automate CNC manufacturing, raised a $20M Series A led by Dell Technologies Capital and Square Peg Israeli startup targets

Yum Unloads Pizza Hut Chain As Private Equity Takes On Turnaround Challenge

Yum Unloads Pizza Hut Chain As Private Equity Takes On Turnaround Challenge Yum! Brands agreed to sell its iconic Pizza Hut chain for $2.7 billion following a strategic review, separating the struggling pizza brand from its broader restaurant portfolio, which includes KFC, Taco Bell, and The Habit Burger Grill. LongRange Capital will acquire Pizza Hut's business outside China for $1.5 billion, while Yum China will buy the China business for $1.2 billion. Both transactions are expe...

The British Film Institute’s New Online Video Archive Celebrates Memes, How-Tos, and a Head of Lettuce

Archiving memes is tougher than it sounds.

What that small flashing dot on your Samsung phone is trying to tell you

That small flashing dor on your Samsung phone's screen prevents accidental presses while you're on a call.

LLM Fallbacks Break Agent Pipelines I Built the Missing Recovery Layer

LLM rate limits don't just interrupt agent pipelines—they can silently corrupt structured outputs when fallback models receive incompatible payloads. I built a recovery layer that classifies failures,

Chinese Stocks, Yuan Drop After Dismal Data Dump: Worst Retail Sales Since COVID

Chinese Stocks, Yuan Drop After Dismal Data Dump: Worst Retail Sales Since COVID China’s consumer spending and investment slumped in May to levels unseen since the pandemic, exposing risks for an increasingly two-speed economy, as Bloomberg's Chang Shu and Eric Zhu noted: "The supply side remains robust, driven by faster-than-expected expansion in exports and AI tech sectors. The demand side has faltered, with consumption and private non-tech investment plummeting." Here's t...

DOJ invokes national security to defend xAI's unpermitted gas turbines in NAACP lawsuit

US Justice Department calls xAI's chatbot Grok essential to military operations, defending its controversial gas turbines. The article DOJ invokes national security to defend xAI's unpermitted gas tur

Probably raises $9M to build a more reliable kind of AI

Probably wants to prevent hallucinations and factual errors from reaching users, and achieve accuracy on par with deterministic systems.

Hot mic moment at G7 catches Carney, Trump talking about Chinese EVs

Karoline Leavitt has libs fuming after celebrating America 250 at the White House, Scot party and a protest zone

The sun is out, it's a cool 60 degrees and in this Tuesday edition of Screencaps, you can feel America slipping into a comfort zone for summer. The World Cup rolls on, but there's also this other massive sporting event that takes place this upcoming weekend called the U.S. Open. And it's Father's Day on Sunday.What a run for the United States. Thursday will be a day you'll want to just take off work. While you're at it, take off Friday, too, in order to recover. You'll get Team USA vs. Australia...

A New ‘Moana’ Song Features a Duet Between Live-Action Moana and OG Moana

Plus, Mark Hamill joins Twisted Metal as Sweet Tooth's dad.

Copia, an industrial code management and recovery provider, raised $26M co-led by AE Ventures and Squadra Ventures, after previously raising $16.4M

Colin Campbell / Axios: Copia, an industrial code management and recovery provider, raised $26M co-led by AE Ventures and Squadra Ventures, after previously raising $16.4M Copia, an industrial code

Microsoft’s New Surface Laptop Features a Trackpad With ‘Rumble’ Built In

Microsoft’s revised Surface Pro and Surface Laptop feature pleasant, earthy colors and no Intel chip in sight.

Microsoft's new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop cost $500 and $600 more than their predecessors

Microsoft's new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop are about 50 to 60 percent more expensive than the previous generation. Thanks, AI!

AWE 2026: Live updates from keynotes by Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, Google and Qualcomm at the XR show

We're liveblogging the AWE XR 2026 event, focusing on Snap CEO Evan Spiegel's keynote and Qualcomm's immediately after. Come join us!

Paramount Refused to Air an Ad Criticizing Its Merger With Warner Bros.

The commercial was submitted by the Freedom of the Press Foundation to run during Donald Trump’s UFC event. It criticized the $111 billion merger as a threat to the First Amendment.

Microsoft’s New Surface Laptop and Surface Pro Get Faster—and Way More Expensive

Microsoft has finally refreshed its premium Surface Laptop and Surface Pro with new chips, but the update comes with a steep price hike.

Docs: audited financial figures show OpenAI spent $34B in 2025, up 172% YoY, including $19B on research and development and nearly $6B on sales and marketing

Ed Zitron / Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At: Docs: audited financial figures show OpenAI spent $34B in 2025, up 172% YoY, including $19B on research and development and nearly $6B on sales and marketin

The ‘Paddington’ Musical Will Come to Broadway Next Spring

The show, which revisits the story of a marmalade-loving bear, plans to open next April at the Hirschfeld Theater in New York.

Mets vs Reds betting preview: Why the over 9.5 runs looks like the play in Cincinnati matchup

It was not the prettiest day on Monday for me and the sports betting plays. I took Spain to go over their team total and they promptly scored zero goals against an inferior opponent. I took a swing on a value play at plus money that lost, and then split the play on the Athletics as they went over the total for the game by themselves. Let's get back on the winning ways as the Mets take on the Reds.At least New York has the Knicks, right? The New York Mets, who are trying to buy a championship in ...

Utterly Flocked: "We-Don't-Track-People"-Firm Deploys Nationwide Network Of Warrantless Pedestrian-Tracking Cameras

Utterly Flocked: "We-Don't-Track-People"-Firm Deploys Nationwide Network Of Warrantless Pedestrian-Tracking Cameras Flock Safety, the Atlanta-based private surveillance firm, insists its cameras are not tracking people. Yet its own systems, training materials, and expanding product line tell a different story -one of a rapidly growing, warrantless mass surveillance infrastructure that logs vehicle movements, follows pedestrians with AI, and feeds data-hungry police departments acro...

US Housing Starts Collapsed In May To Lowest Since COVID

US Housing Starts Collapsed In May To Lowest Since COVID With housing inventories at recent highs, the US housing market just suffered another sentiment setback as Housing Starts crashed by 15.4% MoM in May (far worse than 2% drop expected and worse since March 2024)), following a revised 8.5% MoM drop in April. Building Permits slipped 0.7% MoM (in line with expectations)... Source: Bloomberg That pulls the Housing Starts SAAR to its lowest since COVID (after reaching the highe...

Conservative group targeted in SPLC-inspired terror attack demands restitution after DOJ indictment

A victim of violence inspired by a controversial far-left nonprofit told Fox News Digital he knew the man who shot-up his workplace was motivated by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) before the suspect confessed.The SPLC has recently come under Justice Department scrutiny for allegedly funneling millions to extremist organizations that they told donors they were fighting including funding events like KKK cross burnings and the infamous Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally in 2017.Tony Pe...

Vance reveals Trump lesson guiding Iran deal strategy as Tehran faces 60-day deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Vice President JD Vance said Tehran is effectively entering a probationary period under the Trump administration's agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with Iran required to demonstrate through its actions not its promises that it has abandoned nuclear weapons development and support for terrorism."The thing I've learned from the President of the United States is whether friend or foe, you shouldn't trust anybody, you should trust people's actions," Vance told Fox News Digital in...

Pete Crow-Armstrong hits for reverse cycle, delivers in the clutch before Cubs walk off Rockies

Pete Crow-Armstrong entered Monday night's contest against the Colorado Rockies already on a tear at the plate, but the Chicago Cubs center fielder took things to a truly historic level in what turned into a night to remember at Wrigley Field.Riding a five-game hit streak and carrying a batting average of .392 in June, Crow-Armstrong got things going in a hurry on Monday with a leadoff home run to right-center field. In his next at-bat, he launched a ball on a nearly identical line, but didn't q...

Physicists Created an Entirely New Species of Schrödinger’s Cat

Is the cat dead or alive? Either way, the cat is certainly weird, as a new study demonstrates.

Stock Rally Pauses As Attention Turns To Warsh's First FOMC

Stock Rally Pauses As Attention Turns To Warsh's First FOMC US futures are flat, pausing after a three-day rally with investors shifting their focus to this week's FOMC meeting, Kevin Warsh's first, which begins today. As of 8:00am ET, SandP futures are up 0.1% after surging 2% on Monday; and Nasdaq futures gain 0.3%, as SpaceX continued to surge, rising 11% overnight and on track for a more than 50% jump since going public, and briefly surpassing Microsoft's market value in afterho...

An interview with SBF about life in prison, his serialized prison memoir titled Manfred, and more, as he praises Trump, becomes a Republican, and seeks a pardon

Simon van Zuylen-Wood / New York Magazine: An interview with SBF about life in prison, his serialized prison memoir titled Manfred, and more, as he praises Trump, becomes a Republican, and seeks a par

CrankGPT is an offline AI box for the apocalypse

CrankGPT is a fully offline AI box that you power by turning a crank. There's no battery and no internet connection: just a single-board computer (Raspberry or Orange Pi) that runs speech recognition, a small language model, and text-to-speech locally. Crank, speak, and get a spoken answer back. Read the rest The post CrankGPT is an offline AI box for the apocalypse appeared first on Boing Boing.

Trump's push to revive SAVE America Act runs into skepticism from its biggest backers

President Donald Trump wants Republicans to include his long-sought voter ID and citizenship verification legislation into a party-line package, but even the bill’s strongest backers don’t think it’s possible. Trump last week demanded that Republicans get to work on a third budget reconciliation package, cramming $350 billion in defense spending along with the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act into one bill. Republicans, fresh off passing their second reconciliation pack...

Building an End-to-End Sentiment Analysis Pipeline with Scikit-LLM

Traditional machine learning pipelines for predictive tasks like text classification usually rely on extracting structured, numerical features from raw text for instance, TF-IDF frequencies or token

Nancy Guthrie mystery exposes new threat targeting unsuspecting Americans letting down their guards

As the wrench attack theory is gaining traction as a possible motive for the Feb. 1 suspected abduction of Nancy Guthrie, experts are warning that criminals are increasingly sweeping the web for signs of wealth that could lead them to new victims."The bad guys in these cases and in many types of criminal cases utilize open source information and social media information to find their targets and the targets’ vulnerabilities, the pressure point," said Lisa J. Miller, a retired detective and law e...

Gregg Allman was haunted by father's murder and brother's death, fueling decades of addiction: doc

Gregg Allman, the legendary frontman of the Allman Brothers Band, fought a decades-long battle with personal demons that nearly destroyed him.The new documentary "Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul," which features rare interviews with Allman, explores the highs and lows of the late Southern rock icon's life.During an interview with Fox News Digital, director James Keach explained that the film chronicles how Allman's father's murder, the death of his brother Duane and years of addiction left la...

The First Official Studio Ghibli Store in the U.S. Is Opening Soon

Donguri Republic opens in Torrance, CA, on June 23.

Fast-food giant dethroned as customer study crowns America's new favorite restaurant chain

America's favorite fast-food chicken chain has been knocked from the top spot in a closely watched customer satisfaction ranking.Chick-fil-A, which topped the annual American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) in 2025, fell to second place this year.Jersey Mike's claimed first place, with an ACSI score of 84 out of 100, edging Chick-fil-A's 83.RAISING CANE'S FOUNDER WON'T EAT ONE SIDE DISH STILL ON THE MENUThe shift marks the first time in over a decade that a new chain has led the ACSI's quick-...

L.A. Zoo, tattered and losing members, needs new leadership, grand jury finds

The grand jury is urging a new public-private partnership, saying the action is crucial for the Los Angeles Zoo to survive.

L.A. Zoo, tattered and losing members, needs private steward, grand jury finds

The jury is urging a new public-private partnership, saying the action is crucial for the Los Angeles Zoo to survive.