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The clippening
Earlier this year, after a tumultuous period serving as the former second-in-command at the FBI, Dan Bongino went back to what he is perhaps known best for: video podcasting. After Bongino exited...
How a “super El Niño” could create record-breaking warming
Yagua Indigenous people carrying water and goods due to the low level of the Amazon River in Colombia, in October 2024. | Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images This story was originally published by...
Anthropic owes authors $1.5B for pirating work — but the claims process is a Kafkaesque mess
Earlier this year, the author Maureen Johnson was fighting with Anthropic. Specifically, she was wrestling with the Anthropic copyright settlement website. Johnson is the author of 28 books,...
Chrome’s AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage
Google Chrome may be taking up more of your storage than expected thanks to a large on-device AI model file that, in some cases, is being automatically downloaded to the browser's system folders....
The Supreme Court broke democracy by saying the quiet part out loud
Sometimes, it’s best if this guy keeps his mouth shut. | Chip Somodevilla/AFP via Getty Images Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court’s Republican majority effectively repealed a 1982 amendment to the...
The Supreme Court broke democracy by saying the quiet part out loud
Sometimes, it’s best if this guy keeps his mouth shut. | Chip Somodevilla/AFP via Getty Images Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court’s Republican majority effectively repealed a 1982 amendment to the...
Nuro approved to test its driverless Uber robotaxis on California roads
Uber and Nuro plan to start fully autonomous testing later this year.
Senate to probe sports betting boom and risks to game integrity in May 20 hearing
Lawmakers in Washington are preparing to take a deeper look at the booming sports betting business, zeroing in on how it could be reshaping competition and trust in games across the country. Sen....
Apple will pay $250 million for failing to deliver its AI-powered Siri on time
The proposed settlement is the result of a class action lawsuit filed in California.
Google Home’s Gemini AI can handle more complicated requests
Google Home users can now ask Gemini to complete more complex, multi-step tasks and combine multiple tasks in a single command. Google has updated Gemini for Home to Gemini 3.1, which it says will...