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The US Department of Justice has charged three Iranian nationals linked with a cyberattack against Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, according to an indictment on Friday.
The three hackers, all of whom have ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, allegedly gained access to the accounts of campaign officials using social engineering and spear phishing, a tactic that attempts to trick victims into...
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Here’s the thing about asking investors for money: they want to see returns.
OpenAI launched with a famously altruistic mission: to help humanity by developing artificial general intelligence. But along the way, it became one of the best-funded companies in Silicon Valley. Now, the tension between those two facts is coming to a head.
Weeks after releasing a new model it claims can “reason,” OpenAI is barreling toward dropping its...
Apple fans are still waiting for the release of M4 Macs later this year.
However, one Apple analyst suggests that the company is already looking ahead to the next iteration of the Apple Vision Pro, which will be reportedly powered by the next-gen M5 chipset.
According to a new report from Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple is expected to start production for the new Apple Vision Pro in the second half of 2025.
The new Apple Vision Pro will also likely incorporate Apple's AI, Apple Intelligence,...
Will Farrell and Harper Steele have been close friends and collaborators for decades. Here, they talk about what is at the heart of 'Will & Harper', a road trip documentary they made after Harper's transition.
Something strange happens when an artist blows up in the social media age. Their fans begin to think they own a piece of the artist's success or, more precariously, the fans start to believe the artist owes them for their ascent. And that situation becomes tenuous for the newly popular artist — not too long ago, their actions and statements belonged only to themselves. We live in parasocial times.
That phenomenon has been unfolding online with Chappell Roan over the past week. As Mashable...
"A couple weeks or so ago, he put up a Trump sign in the shared driveway, but it’s in front of my house, far enough away from his that it looks like I put it there..."
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Tiger Woods during the Pro-Am prior to the 2024 Genesis Invitational. | Photo by Ben Jared/PGA Tour via Getty Images
A Louisiana-based company, Tigeraire, rejected Tiger Woods’ Sun Day Red trademark filing because it believes SDR ‘hijacked’ its logo.
Tiger Woods may have to change the logo of his apparel company, Sun Day Red, after the Louisiana-based company Tigeraire rejected their trademark filing.
Tigeraire started by creating cooler and more comfortable helmets for the LSU...
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Meta is rolling out the ability to tag your location on your Threads posts. If you have the feature, you’ll see a pin in the post composer that you can tap so you can include where you are.
Note that adding your location to a Threads post doesn’t share an exact pin on a map. Instead, the feature lets you give your users an approximate idea of your location by sharing things like a city name, a neighborhood, or a restaurant. And if you see a Threads post...
A container truck burns outside the Port of Los Angeles. | Image: Pepe’s Towing
A truck full of lithium-ion batteries is burning in Los Angeles, shutting down ports and a bridge. It’s not clear what the batteries were for — but LA’s Vincent Thomas Bridge, leading to the Port of Los Angeles and next-door Port of Long Beach, has been shut down for at least 15 hours now while local firefighters let the truck burn. State Route 47 was also closed in both directions as of a couple...
Can ChatGPT generate images? With all the various ChatGPT features and models OpenAI has announced in the past year, it's hard to keep track of what's actually live and accessible to the average user.
But if you're wondering about one of the most popular features — image generation — we're here to tell you that it's available and free to all ChatGPT users.
In August, OpenAI brought DALL-E 3, its AI image generator model, to all users with a free ChatGPT account. However, there are some...
In 32 years in charge of Hezbollah, Mr. Nasrallah, 64, has built the Iranian-backed militia into an influential force in Lebanon and a potent adversary of Israel.
U.S. Treasury alleges that Sergey Ivanov has laundered hundreds of millions of dollars worth of virtual currency for cyber criminals and darknet marketplace vendors for the last 20 years.
A network of people and virtual currency exchanges associated with harboring Russian cybercrime were hit with sanctions on Thursday, in a government-wide crackdown on cybercrime that could assist Russia ahead of President Joe Biden‘s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The laws entitle child influencers to a percentage of earnings based on how often they appear on video blogs or online content that generates at least 10 cents per view.
Parents in California who profit from social media posts featuring their children will be required to set aside some earnings for their minor influencers under a pair of measures signed Thursday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The former president in a post on Truth Social that if the Department of Justice does not prosecute Google, he will do it himself.
Former President Donald Trump called for the criminal prosecution of Google over what he said was the tech giant’s bias toward his presidential opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, in online search results.
Rupert Grint said, "My hair in [ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ] is one of my biggest regrets. Shoulder length."
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The Raiders have ruled out star receiver Davante Adams, edge rusher Maxx Crosby and three other starters for Sunday's matchup against the Browns.
“That appointment—that relationship—is everything,” says audio executive Eric Eddings. But that doesn't mean the industry isn't innovating.
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The Nintendo Museum in Kyoto is a slick and playful trek through the company’s century-long history. But it’s lacking much in the way of revelations.
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An illustration of DRACO getting destroyed in Earth’s atmosphere. | Image: ESA
The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to launch a satellite into Earth’s orbit in 2027 to watch it get wrecked as it reenters the atmosphere. The project is intended to help understand how exactly satellites break apart so that scientists can learn how to prevent the creation of more space debris.
Space junk is becoming a bigger problem as we send more satellites into orbit, but there are efforts to try...
This robotic arm’s articulated hand can detach and crawl around on its own. | Screenshot: YouTube
Researchers from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have developed an articulated hand that can extend the reach of a robotic arm by detaching and crawling away on its own to grab things. The research was recently presented at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) and was spotted by IEEE Spectrum magazine.
Due to their strength...