GM will pay $220m to settle claims it sold drivers’ Smart Driver data
General Motors will pay $220m to 35 US states and the District of Columbia over drivers’ data. The states said GM sold it to data
Big Tech buybacks fall 83% as AI spending eats the cash, Reuters reports
Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Oracle handed 9.3% of the cash their businesses made back to shareholders. That covers the first nine months of 2026.
Dutch authorities rescue 38 people adrift in rubber boat
Migrant boats are rarely found in Dutch waters, and authorities are still trying to establish where this one came from.
Trump loses legal battle over Epstein-linked Wall Street Journal case
Judge permanently drops Trump’s $10bn WSJ lawsuit, ruling he failed to prove actual malice in the newspaper’s reporting.
Palestine Action supporters arrested outside US embassy in London
Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the US Embassy in London to oppose the UK government’s ban on Palestine Action.
Hospital admits full responsibility for 24 failures that led to toddler’s death
Eleanor Aldred-Owen died after surgery because an abnormal scan was not flagged.
Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers
Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl recently declared “it’s time for a renaissance in energy and in supersonic flight” as the supersonic airliner company unveiled a
Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours
An official extension for Anthropic’s Claude model was backdoored and threatened as many as 5,000 developers’ machines, multiple sources reported Friday. Anthropic so far has
AO3 Fan Fiction Site Is Hacked and Could Be Offline for Weeks
Home to tales inspired by the likes of “Harry Potter” and “Heated Rivalry,” the archive was taken down after “an intrusion,” one of its founders
I’ve been stuck on a tiny Pacific island for years and can’t get a transit visa to fly home
Ruchira Ranasingha, 50, has been stranded in the Cook Islands since 2023 and wants to return to Sri Lanka.
Thousands demonstrate in Paris as protests spread across Europe
More than 320,000 people demonstrated across France against the rising cost of living and poor public services, with clashes between some protesters and police.
‘We came back from hell’, say Ukrainians after years in Russia-occupied front-line city
One evacuated couple says they crossed minefields in Oleshky in search of food.
Scientists smash oxygen nuclei to recreate matter from the Big Bang
Scientists have recreated a primordial state of matter from the dawn of the universe by colliding oxygen nuclei at nearly the speed of light. The
Texas showdown: 12 claims involving Talarico and Paxton, fact-checked
The U.S. Senate race between James Talarico and Ken Paxton in Texas has garnered national attention, prompting numerous rumors about the candidates.