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Friday June 27, 2025. 08:11 PM
California Governor Gavin Newsom is suing Fox News for $787 million over what he says was a false claim about his communication with President Trump during recent protests in Los Angeles. The lawsuit centers on Fox News host Jesse Watters' on-air statement that Newsom lied...
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Claiming not to use drugs or a laptop, Elon 'Pedo Guy' Musk has found someone to blame for Tesla's abysmally poor performance, not himself. Head of Tesla's sales and manufacturing operations in North America and Europe, Omead Afshar, has been dismissed. — Read the rest The...
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A mysterious gold 'TV' has popped up across from the U.S. Capitol featuring an unusually joyful Donald Trump dancing with pedo-pal Jeffrey Epstein. But the Trump Administration fails to see any humor in the art piece — the second Trump-related sculpture to grace the...
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The world's largest adult website has pulled the plug on Texas operations after the Supreme Court upheld a state law requiring adult sites to verify users' ages. The 6-3 ruling on June 27 will change how Americans in many states access adult content online. — Read the rest ...
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Now play dead, like a lot of NASA science programs if the White House gets its way The team behind NASA's 19-year-old Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been busy teaching an old spacecraft new tricks, persuading the vehicle to perform a 120-degree roll to peer more...
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Android 16 will include a new security feature that warns users when their phones connect to fake cell towers designed for surveillance. The 'network notification' setting alerts users when devices connect to unencrypted networks or when networks request phone identifiers,...
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Watch Guinness World Records employee Masakazu Senda try to win as many claw machine prizes as possible in 30 minutes.  The World Record in this video wasn't actually the number of prizes won, but the location itself. This location holds the record for the most claw...
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Visitors to US National Parks, asked to report incidents of 'negative' history, have instead berated the Trump administration's overreach. The DOI's new 'erase history' program ran into an unintended glitch. Instead of reporting unwanted truths that some park visitors may...
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A Chilean tourist's shopping trip with her 12-year-old daughter in Times Square turned traumatic when NYPD officers violently arrested her after she approached them for help, leaving her child alone on the bustling streets of Manhattan. Javiera Montero and her daughter were...
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After a long and storied history, the BSOD is being replaced. WIRED takes a trip down memory lane to wave goodbye to the iconic screen we all love to hate.
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I've recently found two essential resources that have helped me understand what, exactly, is going on with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's takeover of public health: (1) episode 259 of the Conspirituality podcast, MAHA is Project 2025's Trojan Horse, and (2)...
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Getting it in might mean re-racking the entire datacenter and rebuilding the network, though Cisco is talking up the integration of security into network infrastructure such as its latest Catalyst switches, claiming this is vital to AI applications, and in particular the...
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The renewed interest in sea shanties has met its end in infinity. Parker Higgins created a sea shanty generator which plays without end in your browser—at least so long as you don't close the tab. It's not produced with AI, but with a more elegant weapon from a more...
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The Supreme Court ruled Friday that the FCC's Universal Service Fund can continue operating, rejecting claims that the program's funding mechanism violates the Constitution. In a 6-3 decision written by Justice Elena Kagan, the court found that Congress did not exceed its...
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It's odd to think of VR as still being in its infancy — it has a whole Half-Life game, after all — but the capabilities of the technology are still nowhere near fully explored. Perhaps its greatest selling point is the sense of immersion it gives the user, and this seems ...
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'No impact on safety,' FAA tells The Reg update Hawaiian Airlines said a 'cybersecurity incident' affected some of its IT systems, but noted that flights are operating as scheduled. At least one researcher believes Scattered Spider, which previously targeted retailers and...
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In 2023, Fujita Tomonori wrote a Rust version of the existing driver for the Asix AX88796B embedded Ethernet controller. At slightly more than 100 lines, it's about as simple as a driver can be, and therefore is a useful touchstone for the differences between writing Rust...
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On The New York Times’ Hard Fork Live, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called the company’s relationship with Microsoft “wonderfully good” despite reports of tension, while also pushing back on a lawsuit from the Times over user data. Joined by COO Brad Lightcap, Altman also...
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Google-owned YouTube started testing a new “AI-powered search results carousel” to help users find what they are looking for faster.  The new feature is only available on the mobile apps (iOS and Android) and only in English. Only a small, randomly selected group of YouTu...
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Brazil's supreme court has ruled that social media platforms can be held legally responsible for their users' posts. From a report: Companies such as Facebook, TikTok and X will have to act immediately to remove material such as hate speech, incitement to violence or...
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