Dolly Parton Is Building an Avatar, a Museum and a Broadway Show While Her Doctor Keeps Her Home
Dolly Parton spent August 14 in Nashville, about 200 miles west of the Pigeon Forge park where […]
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Why Credit Monitoring Cannot Fix the Baylor Genetics Breach
Baylor Genetics, the Houston clinical genomics lab in the Texas Medical Center, has told patients and staff
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The Duskbloods Leaked Because FromSoftware Guarded the Wrong Door
FromSoftware spent months building one of the tightest anti-leak operations the industry has seen for a test
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Phia Said It Learned About Cookie Stuffing in 24 Hours. Its Own Slack Goes Back Seven Months.
When Bloomberg asked Phoebe Gates’s shopping startup on July 7 why its browser extension appeared to be
Meta’s Child-Safety Trial Opens in Oakland With Damages Nearly the Size of the Company
Opening statements land Tuesday in an Oakland federal courtroom, where four state attorneys general get seven weeks
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119,000 Cameras Are Reading American License Plates, and Cities Are Only Now Doing the Math
Over the past week, “flock camera map” became one of the most-searched phrases in the United States,
The FAA’s $875 Million Airspace Fix Was Proven on One Airline’s Dispatch Desk
Alaska Airlines started letting an AI system suggest flight routes to its dispatchers in 2021, and five
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Data Centers Are Now a Campaign Issue in Both Parties, and the Power Bill Explains Why
A democratic socialist in Wisconsin and a Republican in Ohio are both campaigning for a data center moratorium. PJM’s capacity market explains how a local zoning fight became a statewide race.
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Meta Owes New Mexico $942 Million. The Part That Should Scare It Costs Nothing.
Chief District Court Judge Bryan Biedscheid ordered Meta to pay $567 million into a five-year fund for
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MiniMax Shipped H3 as an API, Then Put the Weights on Hugging Face Three Days Later
MiniMax announced H3, also called Hailuo 3.0, on July 31 as an API product. On August 3
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Trump Blames Minnesota for the Iran-Linked Water Hack. The Flaw Has No Patch.
In Braham, Minnesota, a city of roughly 1,700 people, the cyberattack that hit the week of July
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New York Clawed Back $104 Million in Delivery Tips by Regulating the Checkout Screen
New York City delivery workers have collected an estimated $104 million in extra tips since January. The law that did it does not set a wage. It sets what has to appear on the checkout screen.
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Ariana Grande’s Hackers Never Broke Into Her Accounts, They Broke Into Everyone Around Her
Ariana Grande sued 100 anonymous defendants in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Monday over a hacking
A $5 Million Startup Takes Aim at China’s Rare Earth Monopoly
A Bengaluru-based deep-tech company has secured its fifth Indian patent for a rare-earth-free electric motor. If it
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Magnitude 7.1 Earthquake Rocks Kumamoto, the Prefecture Japan Staked Its Chip Revival On
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Kumamoto Prefecture on Tuesday, injuring at least 50 people and cutting power to 40,000 homes. TSMC, Sony and Fujifilm evacuated their Kikuyo plants.
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Elon Musk Says Grok Will Make a Full AI Odyssey Movie by December, and the Internet Has Thoughts
Elon Musk says Grok Imagine will produce a full-length AI Odyssey film by December. Christopher Nolan’s version just earned $263.7 million globally in its opening weekend. The internet has thoughts.
Jensen Huang Just Made His First X Post Ever, and It Was a Warning to Washington
Jensen Huang broke his lifelong X silence with a single post: an open letter from 25 companies warning Washington not to restrict open-weight AI models. OpenAI and Anthropic conspicuously didn’t sign.
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Claude Opus 5 Is Anthropic’s Fourth Frontier Model in Two Months. Here’s What Actually Changed
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 at the same $5 and $25 token price as its predecessor, added an effort dial that lets developers pay for less thinking, and quietly cut how often its cybersecurity filters fire.