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Monday September 22, 2025. 10:01 PM
Disney pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! after receiving FCC threats, then quickly reversed the decision. Now Disney is trying to retcon its cave-in as careful decision-making, rather than caving to illegal pressure. Jimmy Kimmel Live! is not dead. On September 22, Disney...
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An award-winning screenwriter, Alex O'Keefe, was removed from an MTA train by MTA Police because a white woman was offended by his posture, and he is Black. According to a video posted to O'Keefe's official Instagram account on Sept. 18, 'I was arrested on the MTA train to...
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from CalMatters: A California attorney must pay a $10,000 fine for filing a state court appeal full of fake quotations generated by the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT. The fine appears to be the largest issued over AI fabrications by ...
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Under Secretary Kristi Noem and her advisor Corey Lewandowski have transformed DHS into President Trump's most powerful enforcement arm, according to Ben Terris in New York Magazine. Though Noem officially leads the department, Lewandowski reportedly exercises significant...
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Forbes frames Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as making 'bold bets.' Still, the real throughline is that immediately after leaving government, he secured billions from Saudi, Qatari, and Emirati sovereign funds. This is the money that underwrites his entire private equity ...
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I had the pleasure of going to RustConf 2025 in Seattle this year. During the conference, I met lots of new people, but in particular, I had the pleasure of spending a large portion of the conference hanging out with Jeremy Soller of Redox and System76. Eventually, we got...
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However, the changes could lead to more offshoring In a surprise announcement on Friday, President Trump issued a proclamation on the H-1B visas many tech companies use to import qualified foreign workers. The headlines mentioning a $100,000 fee caused panic among many visa...
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Notorious convicted felon and held liable for sexual assault, Donald Trump felt the journalists flying with him on Air Force One needed a reminder of what a giant narcissist he is. 'Fly safely. You know why I say that? Because I'm on the flight,' the Orange Menace said. —...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: The iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max appear to provide little resistance to scratches and scuffs around the sharp edges of the camera bump. Tech blogger Zack Nelson demonstrates this weakness in a durability test on his JerryRigEverything...
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The Trump administration has outlined a plan that would put Oracle in charge of safeguarding TikTok’s recommendation system, a senior White House official said today. The proposal is designed to ease U.S. concerns that the app could be steered by Beijing, while keeping...
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Version 6.0.0 of the RPM Package Manager has been released. Notable changes in this release include support for multiple OpenPGP signatures per package, the ability to update previously installed PGP keys, as well as support for RPM v4 and v6 packages. See the release notes...
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Not old enough to drink, old enough to be accused of causing millions in damage A teen surrendered to Las Vegas police and was booked on suspicion of breaking into multiple Las Vegas casino networks in 2023, as part of a series of hacks attributed to Scattered Spider.…
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The Keychron Q1 HE brings our favorite new type of keyboard switch to the mainstream.
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The rise of self-driving cars could eventually cost many ride-hailing drivers their jobs -- and that's a big problem, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said. From a report: Khosrowshahi spoke about the issue onstage this month at a summit hosted by the 'All-In' podcast, which...
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Another creepy gazillionaire has bought his way into deciding what information to feed you and spying on what you watch, read, like, and share. The New York Times reports that Oracle, run by 81-year-old Larry Ellison, 'will oversee the security of Americans' data and...
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Spooky season is nearly here. Want to be scared? There are fresh betas to try Two of the biggest names in fixed-release distros are nearly finished and ready to drop. You can taste them now, but they're not fully baked yet.…
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Microsoft is working on bringing support for setting a video as your desktop wallpaper on Windows 11. From a report: Hidden in the latest Windows 11 preview builds, the feature lets you set an MP4, MOV, AVI, WMV, M4V, or MKV file as your wallpaper, which will play the video...
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College presidents' names from the mid-20th century sound remarkably interchangeable, as if assembled from an elite Anglo-Saxon name generator. Veteran NBC newsman Edwin Newman highlighted this curiosity in his 1974 book Strictly Speaking, noting how Columbia's Nicholas...
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On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss OpenAI’s new teen safety features, the right’s retaliation against critics of the late Charlie Kirk, and more of the week’s biggest stories.
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Cloud and apps chiefs step up as Safra Catz moves upstairs. Larry remains Larry Oracle on Monday named Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia as its new co-chief executives, replacing Safra Catz, who will shift into the role of executive vice chair of the board after more than a...
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