LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) 鈥� A tech industry trade group sued Arkansas Friday over two new laws that would place limits on content on social media platforms and would allow parents of children who killed themselves to sue over content on the platforms. The lawsuit by NetChoice filed in federal court in Fayetteville, Arkansas, comes […]
Weather experts are warning that hurricane forecasts will be severely hampered by the upcoming cutoff of key data from U.S. Department of Defense satellites, the latest Trump administration move with potential consequences for the quality of forecasting. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it would discontinue the 鈥渋ngest, processing and distribution鈥� of data collected […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the fee that is added to phone bills to provide billions of dollars a year in subsidized phone and internet services in schools, libraries and rural areas. The justices, by a 6-3 vote, reversed an appeals court ruling that had struck down as unconstitutional the Universal […]
ATLANTA (AP) 鈥� Georgia has become the latest state where a federal judge has blocked a law requiring age verification for social media accounts. Like in seven other states where such laws have been blocked, a federal judge ruled Thursday that the Georgia law infringes on free speech rights. The ruling by U.S. District Judge […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� When the Trump family unveiled a new phone before a giant American flag at its headquarters earlier this month, the pitch was simple and succinct, packed with pure patriotism: 鈥淢ade in the U.S.A.鈥� The Trumps are apparently having second thoughts. How about 鈥減roudly American鈥�? Those are the two words that have […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) 鈥� The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is sending out the latest round of refunds to consumers it says were 鈥渢ricked鈥� into purchases they didn鈥檛 want from Fortnite maker Epic Games 鈥� and eligible players who haven’t been compensated yet still have time to apply. According to an FTC went out in December 2024. […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) 鈥� The first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday, ferried there by SpaceX on a private flight. The crew of four will spend two weeks at the orbiting lab, performing dozens of experiments. They launched Wednesday from NASA鈥檚 […]
SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. (AP) 鈥� A group is ending a 20-year search for a plane that crashed into Lake Michigan in 1950, killing all 58 people on board, after sweeping the vast body of water using sonar technology and even getting support from an acclaimed adventure writer. When Northwest Orient Flight 2501 crashed, it was […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Hackers backing Tehran have targeted U.S. banks, defense contractors and oil industry companies following American strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities 鈥� but so far have not caused widespread disruptions to critical infrastructure or the economy. But that could change if the ceasefire between Iran and Israel collapses or if independent hacking groups […]
For her 6th grade honors class, math teacher Ana Sep煤lveda wanted to make geometry fun. She figured her students 鈥渨ho live and breathe soccer鈥� would be interested to learn how mathematical concepts apply to the sport. She asked ChatGPT for help. Within seconds, the chatbot delivered a five-page lesson plan, even offering a theme: 鈥淕eometry […]
In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge has ruled that AI company Anthropic didn鈥檛 break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books. But the company is still on the hook and could now go to trial over how it acquired those books by downloading them […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Six months ago, Jennifer Rubin had no idea whether she’d make it in a new media world. She just knew it was time to leave The Washington Post, where she’d been a political columnist for 15 years. The Contrarian, the democracy-focused website that Rubin founded with partner Norm Eisen in January, […]
Waymo’s robotaxis will begin carrying passengers through parts of Atlanta on Tuesday in an expansion of a partnership with Uber that began earlier this year in Austin. Waymo’s driverless march into Atlanta comes just days after Tesla finally launched a limited robotaxi service in Austin, more than five years after CEO Elon Musk brashly promised […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) 鈥� A budding partnership between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and legendary iPhone designer Jony Ive to develop a new artificial intelligence hardware product has hit a legal snag after a federal judge ruled they must temporarily stop marketing the new venture. OpenAI last month announced it was buying io Products, a product […]
Maria Weston Kuhn had one lingering question about the car crash that forced her to have emergency surgery during a vacation in Ireland: Why did she and her mother sustain serious injuries while her father and brother, who sat in the front, emerge unscathed? 鈥淚t was a head-on crash and they were closest to the […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� New York City is using ranked choice voting in its Democratic mayoral primary election Tuesday, a system that takes some explaining, even for New Yorkers who have used it before. Voters’ understanding of how ranked choice works could play a role in which candidate comes out on top in a race […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Elon Musk promised in 2019 that driverless Tesla 鈥渞obotaxis鈥� would be on the road 鈥渘ext year,鈥� but it didn鈥檛 happen. A year later, he promised to deliver them the next year, but that didn鈥檛 happen either. Despite the empty pledges the promises kept coming. Last year in January, Musk said, 鈥淣ext […]
BOSTON (AP) 鈥� A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump ‘s administration from making drastic cuts to research funding provided by the National Science Foundation. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston struck down on Friday a policy change that could have stripped universities of tens of millions of dollars in research funding. The […]
A Connecticut man whose parents were kidnapped after he took part in a $245 million Bitcoin theft has pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering conspiracy charges and has agreed to testify against his co-defendants, according to court documents that were unsealed this week. Veer Chetal, 19, from Danbury, Connecticut, was one of three men […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an appeal from an Illinois toy company pushing for a quick decision on the legality of President Donald Trump鈥檚 tariffs. Learning Resources Inc. had asked the justices to take up the case soon, rather than let it continue to play out in lower courts. The company […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� A group of Democratic lawmakers in Texas is asking Elon Musk to delay the planned rollout of driverless 鈥榬obotaxis鈥� in the state this weekend to assure that the vehicles are safe. In a letter, seven state legislators asked Tesla to wait until September when a new law takes effect that will […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Researchers at cybersecurity outlet Cybernews say that billions of login credentials have been leaked and compiled into datasets online, giving criminals 鈥渦nprecedented access鈥� to accounts consumers use each day. According to a report published this week, Cybernews researchers have recently discovered 30 exposed datasets that each contain a vast amount of […]
A SpaceX rocket being tested in Texas exploded Wednesday night, sending a dramatic fireball high into the sky. The company said the Starship 鈥渆xperienced a major anomaly鈥� at about 11 p.m. while on the test stand preparing for the tenth flight test at Starbase, SpaceX鈥檚 launch site at the southern tip of Texas. 鈥淎 safety […]
In the early days of Israel’s attack on Iran, U.S.-operated Radio Farda, which broadcasts in the Persian language in Iran, debunked a state media report that an Israeli pilot had been shot down and captured. Its journalism has continued despite the Trump administration’s threat to its future, along with a Persian-language television outlet run by […]
