‘You can’t do that!’ Ex-senator flips out over Trump’s ‘blatantly’ illegal ad scheme
President Tweety McTreason, faced with intense opposition from his own party, backed off his plan to use taxpayer money stolen from the Department of Homeland
Tech jobs decline as US hit with rising costs and economic instability
A number of studies reported a decline in tech jobs in September as the US continues to get squeezed by geopolitical and economic instability. Tech
Windows 11 gains ground as price hike looms for Windows 10 security updates
According to new figures from Statcounter, Windows 11 continues to gain users at the expense of Windows 10. The newer operating system is now estimated
This Supreme Court Term: Our Rights and Freedoms at Stake
The ACLU could have its busiest Supreme Court term ever, with potential cases on immigration, voting rights, and religious freedom in schools.
NIH Censors Crucial Research on Alzheimer’s, Kidney Disease, and More, Researchers Share
NIH is targeting and terminating grants for research studies that it thinks will communicate disfavored viewpoints on diversity, gender identity, climate change, and more, violating
Drones sink ships near NATO countries in “unacceptable” attacks, EU says
Drones sank two cargo ships and damaged a third in the exclusive economic zones of NATO member countries for the first time, killing at least
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT outputs by default—but only in the EU
OpenAI will begin automatically watermarking text generated with ChatGPT in the European Union, the company has announced. It will also offer the watermarking feature in
Christa Pike ‘conscious and speaking at hospital’ after failed execution in US
Death row inmate Christa Pike is conscious and speaking nearly a week after Tennessee’s failed execution, her lawyers say.
Paramount completes $81bn takeover of Warner Bros Discovery
Skydance-owned Paramount has completed its $81bn (£61bn) takeover of Warner Bros Discovery – bringing together the two media giants under a combined company.
Sierra announces Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard for personal AI agents
Sierra and Meta are developing Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard defining how personal AI agents authenticate with businesses and what those businesses let them
Google launches EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model for devices
Google has released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open 740-million-parameter model that maps text, code, images, audio and video into a single space and runs entirely on
US CDC says it’s ‘aware of and closely monitoring’ Russian plague case
The top US public health agency’s remarks come as the Trump administration said it’s ‘closely’ watching the incident.
Cornell names Sally Yates to review university’s response to rape case
Yates will examine Cornell’s sexual assault investigations, disciplinary process and campus police response.
Why Flavio Bolsonaro outperformed the polls in Brazil’s election
A late right-wing shift, a banking scandal and economic frustration may be behind Bolsonaro’s last-minute gains.