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The Supreme Court may be about to make America’s prisons much crueler
On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump issued an executive order requiring the Bureau of Prisons to “ensure that no Federal funds are expended for any medical procedure,...
Trump’s revenge campaign comes for Ilhan Omar
Homeland Security Investigations outside the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar on October 12, 2026 in Washington, DC. | Andrew Leyden/Getty Images This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily...
OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference room
An OpenAI engineer was arrested after the company said it discovered a "sophisticated recording device" hidden in one of its offices. The employee, 35-year-old Abdulrahman Alfozan, is charged with...
Florida’s uniquely horrifying death penalty system
The execution chamber in the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville in 1984. | Jerry Cabluck/Sygma via Getty Images Late last month, the state of Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike, a woman...
It looks like Apple Music is getting a new icon
Apple Music's iconic red app icon has reportedly been replaced with a black-and-white version in the latest iOS 27.2 beta, 9to5Mac reports. The eighth note on the icon also appears to have a...
Shopify opens its catalog up to more AI agents
CANADA - 2025/07/20: In this photo illustration, the Shopify logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) More AI...
Xbox is officially embracing the chaos of AI-powered game ports
Retro gaming is going through a wild time at the moment, thanks to decompilations and recompilations that are letting gamers port classic titles to new devices, or merge code from two different...
CFTC Rule Puts Sports Event Contracts at Center of Court Fight
The CFTC has issued an interim final rule and a separate proposal on event contracts, adding regulatory action to a dispute that states, the NFL and others are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear....
The Nothing Headphone A are half off for the first time
The Headphone A keep the shape and style of Nothing’s over-ear design, but with an opaque instead of transparent case. | Photo by John Higgins / The Verge One of the best deals we’ve seen today...
Russian bot farms are still trolling, even after Ukraine’s drone strikes on Yandex
Days after Ukrainian military drones took down several Russian data centers, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that the campaign had hurt Russia's disinformation efforts. "It suddenly became a...