Halluminate, which builds AI training environments for complex financial work, raised a $30M Series A led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $38.5M

Wen Shao / Fortune: Halluminate, which builds AI training environments for complex financial work, raised a $30M Series A led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $38.5M Halluminate, a nine-p

Election Deniers Think the GOP’s Terrible Midterm Polling Is a ‘Psyop’

Dozens and dozens of high profile MAGA influencers and pundits have weighed in. “The laughable fake polls are rolling out,” Catturd posted on X.

US authorities arrest a California man suspected of smuggling $300M+ worth of restricted Nvidia AI chips to China via Malaysia and Singapore from 2023 to 2024

Michael Shepard / Bloomberg: US authorities arrest a California man suspected of smuggling $300M+ worth of restricted Nvidia AI chips to China via Malaysia and Singapore from 2023 to 2024 Federal pr

A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data

While the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in a ChatGPT app shows that AI software is itself an inviting—and vulnerable—target.

Balcony solar installations will soon be legal in America's most populous state

California has joined nine other US states in approving balcony solar installations.

31 Best STEM Toys for Kids (2026): Learning Made Fun

We found lots of math-filled and science-rich toys for tiny nerds to assemble, bake, squish—or even tear apart and rebuild.

Health Care Workers Are Tired of Cleaning Up Palantir’s Mess

A hospital giant and radiology network turned to Palantir to streamline scheduling, but nurses and other staff say the new software is causing errors, burnout, and frustration.

Microsoft AI releases new transcription and text-to-speech models for voice agents

Microsoft AI has released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a new model for real-time transcription. The article Microsoft AI releases new transcription and text-to-speech models for voice agents appeared f

Businesses are using more AI and paying less for it, Ramp AI Index shows

US companies are spending less on AI, according to the latest Ramp AI Index from Ramp economist Ara Kharazian. The article Businesses are using more AI and paying less for it, Ramp AI Index shows appe

Where Things Stand in the Jane Doe Investigation

Gov. Kathy Hochul has named a special investigator, Letitia James, as the allegations of rape in a fraternity house become part of a national conversation about sexual assault and consent.

Ms Rachel builds sprawling media empire while shelling out thousands to progressive candidates

The popular children's YouTuber Rachel Accurso has spent over $22,000 backing Democratic and progressive candidates since 2024, while her toddler-facing brand has expanded into Netflix, Penguin Random House and the toy aisles of Target.Better known as "Ms. Rachel," the online star has cemented herself as the face of a multimillion-dollar children’s entertainment empire. The former New York City preschool educator, who sings nursery rhymes and teaches language to more than 21 million YouTube subs...

JONATHAN TURLEY: Justice Alito blazes the ethical path the Supreme Court should take

On Sept. 28, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recused himself from one of the term's most important cases: Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County. As I have previously discussed, the case involving the liability of energy companies for nuisance actions tied to climate change could have sweeping implications for the country. Justice Alito should be commended for avoiding even the appearance of a personal interest or a conflict in the case. However, the controversy should p...

A must-win midterm state is the real loser of Trump's Canada trade war

President Donald Trump's escalating trade fight with Canada could deliver an economic blow to one of the country's most closely watched battleground states, potentially raising costs for automakers and prices for consumers.Michigan, home to a fiercely contested U.S. Senate race this November, is particularly vulnerable because its auto industry depends heavily on a cross-border supply chain with Canada.America's northern neighbor received roughly $21.2 billion worth of Michigan exports in 2025, ...

How a hidden scam plaguing college campuses has racked up a multimillion-dollar price tag

A hidden scheme draining millions from the federal student aid system and infiltrating college campuses has emerged as a key target of the Trump administration's fraud crackdown, with officials faulting Biden-era identity verification policies for opening the door to it.One fraud expert is now highlighting the red flags students and parents must look out for as the fall semester begins, warning fraudsters are fabricating identities to enroll at colleges and collect aid that is meant for legitima...

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Congress will take your money, they just won’t take care of it like they should

The people who oversee the largest budget in the world, who are in charge of an entity ultimately responsible for the largest number of employees in the U.S., and who are put in charge specifically to represent constituents somehow have no broad fiduciary duty Congress.In most large businesses, and certainly every publicly traded one, a board of directors is put in place to represent that business’s stakeholders. This is referred to as a fiduciary duty, which in layman’s terms, is a legal obliga...

I saw the real DOGE from the inside. Why the media got DOGE and Elon all wrong

My book about my time inside DOGE launched last week, and I've watched friends who privately cheer me on go completely silent in public. That’s how toxic the stigma around DOGE has become. And that stigma is built on a version of events I barely recognize.My experience inside DOGE was almost nothing like what I read about in the mainstream news. The fairest and most balanced coverage I can remember was our interview on Fox News with Bret Baier in March 2025—but let me tell you what it was actual...

New Mexico wants Meta to pay $40 billion in penalties for Cambridge Analytica scandal

New Mexico's attorney argued that the penalties Meta has to pay need to be significant enough to make an impact on the company.

A profile of Larry Ellison, including his octopus fixation, influence across Oracle, data centers, TikTok, politics, and support for David's media ambitions (Vanity Fair)

Vanity Fair: A profile of Larry Ellison, including his octopus fixation, influence across Oracle, data centers, TikTok, politics, and support for David's media ambitions The $200 billion software ti

Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h

Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason

On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a gift to its human opponent. Move 37 in game two of the five

In Gaza, a UN cash-for-work program gives Palestinians some income and hope

The UN World Food Program's cash-for-work program helps provide stable work and income for Palestinians in Gaza, who have with little to no other options.

Amid the push to build Canadian, a Quebec train factory is booming

A Quebec train factory battered by years of layoffs is expanding as governments push to buy Canadian. Alstom's La Pocatière plant is hiring and scaling up for major domestic rail contracts, including a $4.7-billion VIA Rail project.

What Cornell's alleged rape case and the Hockey Canada trial's striking parallels reveal

Several legal experts note there are some striking similarities between the alleged gang rape case unfolding at Cornell University this week and last year's Hockey Canada sexual assault trial in London, Ont., which saw all five players acquitted.

UK Officials Are Keeping A List Of Brits Who Question Government Policy

UK Officials Are Keeping A List Of Brits Who Question Government Policy Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The British state is compiling a list of people who criticise its own counter-terror programme. Ordinary X and Reddit users who questioned Prevent training, flagged a one-sided focus on the "far Right," or simply criticised it have had their posts logged, stored and "investigated" by a Home Office-linked unit most of them have never heard of. Officials spent more ...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s partner, Ken Urker, dies on 34th birthday

Ken Urker was found dead at his Louisiana home and police have opened an investigation.

Why Prosecutors May Face Legal Hurdles in the Cornell Investigation

Experts in sexual assault cases said it may not be easy to win a conviction on the rape allegations that Jane Doe has made against fraternity members.

OpenAI Alerts More Than 100 Groups About Rogue AI Agent Activity

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: OpenAI has informed more than 100 organizations about incidents involving unauthorized activity tied to its AI agents, according to a blog post by the ChatGPT maker, as AI labs face mounting scrutiny over rogue AI agent activity. Here are some other details: - The Sam Altman-led company has been conducting a broad review of the activities of its AI models after the accidental hacking of Hugging Face. - OpenAI is searching through roughly 50 peta...

Homeowners Are Clinging to their Below-4% Mortgages for Dear Life as Mortgage Rates Went over 7%

The housing market, wrecked by ultralow mortgage rates, will stay wrecked for longer.

[AINews] Pi 1.0, Pi Durable, and AIE NYC

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Europe's Housing Crisis Is An Immigration Crisis, Berlin Data Confirms

Europe's Housing Crisis Is An Immigration Crisis, Berlin Data Confirms Via Remix News, In a system that rejects mass immigration, the population can fall, opening up room for cheaper housing, lower rents, and even an increase in the birthrate. Across the West, native Europeans are dying out but rental prices continue to go up every year. While the left would like to point the finger at capitalists and greedy landlords, the primary factor driving the housing affordability crisis ...

Trump admin wants to require tax filers to disclose citizenship status to IRS

The Trump administration has proposed requiring U.S. taxpayers to disclose their citizenship and work authorization status to the IRS on the annual tax form that nearly all workers file each year.The administration claims the proposed requirement would help federal officials stop illegal migrants from collecting federal benefits they are not eligible for, which officials argue could save taxpayers up to $2 billion.The IRS posted its draft 1040 form for 2026 in late August, which includes the que...

Fatal shooting aboard Culver CityBus, witness says; suspect at large

Multiple bullets were fired in the incident and a man in his 40s was killed, according to police, who said the suspected gunman was at large.

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ArXiv limits preprint submissions to two per month per submitter, as AI access fuels a record 40,363 submissions in September 2026, vs. 20,569 in September 2024

Kat Boboris / arXiv: ArXiv limits preprint submissions to two per month per submitter, as AI access fuels a record 40,363 submissions in September 2026, vs. 20,569 in September 2024 arXiv, and the s

Trump vows to hit Iran ‘very hard’ if linked to flydubai attack

The UAE is investigating possible terrorist activity or intent.

Mystery surrounds case of 2 men who disappeared, then were found in shallow desert graves

Two sets of human remains found in a remote area of Lancaster earlier this week have been linked to two missing persons reports.

Bodies recovered in remote California desert location identified as 2 missing men

Two sets of human remains found in a remote area of Lancaster earlier this week have been linked to two missing persons reports.

Browns’ late field goal spoils Aaron Rodgers’ Thursday night finale, seals Cleveland's third straight win

Future Pro Football Hall of Famer Aaron Rodgers’ NFL farewell tour continued Thursday night as the Pittsburgh Steelers faced the Cleveland Browns in what was scheduled to be his final Thursday night game.The ending was not what Rodgers likely envisioned, as the Browns continued their strong start to the season with a victory over their AFC North rivals. Deshaun Watson, an early NFL comeback of the year candidate, was efficient, throwing for 268 yards and a touchdown.Rodgers entered the night one...

Season's over: Caitlin Clark leaves it all on court with bloody mouth as Fever fall in Game 3

It was win-or-go-home for Caitlin Clark, and she went down swinging.The season came to an end for Clark and the Indiana Fever with a 94-83 loss to A'ja Wilson and the reigning champion Las Vegas Aces in Thursday's decisive Game 3.Wilson led the charge with 36 points in the winning effort, dropping 21 by halftime.The Fever kept it within single digits until the final two minutes, but the shots just didn't fall down the stretch. Clark the AP Comeback Player of the Year finished with 18 points on 6...

OpenAI Has Sent Notices of Sketchy AI Behavior to Over 100 Organizations So Far

None of the instances of what OpenAI calls “misaligned agent activity" have been as severe as the Hugging Face attack so far, the company said in a blog post.

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Scientists Invent Underwater Umbrellas to Protect Coral Reefs—and It Appears to Be Working

The world's coral reefs are in crisis, but a crafty solution could help.

Domain generalization and synthetic data in object detection: the enabler, the probe, and the gap

arXiv:2610.00030v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Object detection models often experience performance degradation when deployed under distribution shifts, caused by for example changes in weather type,

Encoded but Disconnected: Decomposing Vision-Language Model Failures under a Patching Null

arXiv:2610.00024v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Across three vision-language model architectures (LLaVA-1.5-7B, Qwen2.5-VL-7B, InternVL3-8B), we report a universal negative finding for mid-layer inter

A Holistic Assessment of the Carbon Footprint of Noor, a Very Large Arabic Language Model

arXiv:2610.00223v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As ever larger language models grow more ubiquitous, it is crucial to consider their environmental impact. Characterised by extreme size and resource us

Legal text classification in Korean sexual offense cases: from traditional machine learning to large language models with XAI insights

arXiv:2610.00087v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The advancement of natural language processing (NLP) has expanded AI-based text classification in the legal domain. However, accurately classifying lega

Measuring Human-Like Bias in LLMs? A Critique of Human-Derived Bias Constructs in LLM Evaluation

arXiv:2610.00070v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Researchers increasingly use human-derived bias constructs to study Large Language Models (LLMs), including social-cognitive constructs such as implicit

The First Token Is Not the Verdict: Hidden Costs of Reading LLM Judges Without Generating

arXiv:2610.00054v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reading an LLM judge's verdict from the logits of its first generated token is cheap, requires no generation, and is exactly what constrained decoding a

SCM-based Fairness and Faithful Explainability for Legal Document Classification

arXiv:2610.00045v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer models such as LegalBERT are increasingly used in legal decision support, raising concerns about both fairness and the transparency of model

Format-Aware Fusion for Fast FP4 Pretraining

arXiv:2610.00053v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Four-bit floating-point (FP4) Tensor Cores accelerate matrix multiplication, but scale computation, operand packing, layout construction, and saved back

Fast Polynomial Transcendentals for LLMs

arXiv:2610.00049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graphics processing unit (GPU) generations scale matrix, special-function, and memory pipelines at different rates, so kernel bottlenecks move as hardwa

Integrating Fairness and Explainability in a Multiple Instance Reinforcement Learning System

arXiv:2610.00035v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting student performance from educational interaction data requires models that are both accurate and sufficiently transparent to support meaningf

K-Dense BYOK: An Open-Source AI Research Assistant That Runs Locally and Keeps a Hash-Chained Lab Notebook

arXiv:2610.00074v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: K-Dense BYOK (bring your own keys) is a free, open-source AI research assistant for scientists in any field that runs on the researcher's own computer.

Gradient-Aligned Pair Selection for Personalized Preference Optimization

arXiv:2610.00061v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalizing large language models (LLMs) requires aligning generation behavior with user-specific preferences rather than aggregate quality. While Dir

From Proposal to Verified Effect: Praxa, an Evidence-Bound Harness for Governed AI Agent Execution

arXiv:2610.00015v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-language-model agents can propose and execute actions, but proposal, authority, dispatch, verified external effect, and serving promotion are diff

When Do Causal World Models Help Modular LLM Agents

arXiv:2610.00012v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents increasingly act through modular systems, such as order, payment, inventory, and shipment services, where actions in one module change which

Heavy-Tailed Memory Traces in Long-Horizon Language Agents

arXiv:2610.00010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon language agents increasingly rely on external memory as a frozen world model, yet current memory systems are usually judged only by task su

Braves dominate Phillies with big home runs to set up huge NLDS against Los Angeles Dodgers

While the three other wild card series ended in two-game sweeps, the matchup between the Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies has delivered exceptional postseason drama.In game one, the Braves trailed late while trying to mount a comeback against typically dominant closer Jhoan Duran. With two outs in the bottom of the 8th down 3-2, third baseman Austin Riley delivered, launching a game-changing homer to give Atlanta a 5-3 lead. Raisel Iglesias closed it out to give them a 1-0 series lead.Ph...

Experts say mounting cases of Nvidia chips reaching Chinese AI companies despite US export controls are increasingly pointing to gaps in Nvidia's due diligence

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Experts say mounting cases of Nvidia chips reaching Chinese AI companies despite US export controls are increasingly pointing to gaps in Nvidia's due diligence Nvidia'

California Rushes To Prepare For Massive 'Kelvin' Wave, Predicted Sea Level Rise

fjo3 shares a report from The Guardian: Communities across California are rushing to prepare for the imminent arrival of the so-called "Kelvin wave," a massive underwater band of warm water threatening to inundate swaths of the vast North American shoreline. The wave is nearing southern California and expected to reach the San Francisco Bay Area by early October, as it crawls toward Alaska. Waters could rise by a foot along the California coast, according to scientists, who have warned that this...

How a Cornell student went from shame to action

The forum post was the first time she heard the night described as an assault.

Lindsay Clancy: Judge denies acquittal bid by US woman who killed her kids

Clancy did not deny strangling her children but claimed postpartum psychosis.

The student journalists who never let the Cornell assault case go

The Cornell Daily Sun named seven men in the suit who had not been criminally charged.

Counter-ISIS Mission In Iraq Comes To An End

Counter-ISIS Mission In Iraq Comes To An End Authored by Patty Nieberg via Task and Purpose, The U.S. military-led mission to counter the Islamic State in Iraq has officially come to an end. Counter-ISIS Mission In Iraq Comes To An End. Operation Inherent Resolve will continue with a new hub in Jordan to counter ISIS in Syria.U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced Wednesday that the "orderly departure" of U.S. personnel and equipment from Erbil Air Base in northern Iraq was offi...

Cloudflare debuts open-weight multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash, claiming they are smarter and faster than Jev, based on Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B

Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register: Cloudflare debuts open-weight multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash, claiming they are smarter and faster than Jev, based on Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B Su

Copper theft, flooding and empty beds plague L.A. homeless housing, report finds

A new report on L.A.'s homeless services system finds fractured and inefficient data systems, and adds detail on other problems such as water damage, elevator outages and copper theft.

Instax Pal 2: fun but pricey pocket toy camera

Fujifilm's ever-growing Instax range trends toward both high-end retro and pocketable fun (consider the runaway success of Kodak's Charmera), with both to be found in the Instax Pal 2. Shorn of its printer and only 1.4 x 1.6 x 3.6 inches (37 x 42 x 92mm), it's completely unlike the bloblike original in style. Read the rest The post Instax Pal 2: fun but pricey pocket toy camera appeared first on Boing Boing.

Iran War: US is running out of ammunition, Trump admits

‘Some forms of ammunition are a little bit lower than others.'

Lawyers, experts urge Tennessee governor to commute Christa Pike’s sentence after botched execution

Christa Pike's lawyers are calling on Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to commute her death sentence to life in prison after she remained alive following two doses of lethal injection drugs in what one death penalty expert described as an unprecedented event.Pike, who was sentenced to death for a 1995 murder of a classmate, was rushed to a hospital Wednesday night after surviving her planned execution. Her lawyers said on Thursday that she remains in critical condition and is receiving "lifesaving medica...

Trump Explains Why He's Okay With North Korea Having Nukes, But Not Iran

Trump Explains Why He's Okay With North Korea Having Nukes, But Not Iran Here's what White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said a mere week ago on the rationale for the US attacking Iran: "The President is courageously ensuring that such an evil country never possesses a nuclear weapon, which will make the entire world safer and more stable," she said. This week President Trump was asked why he seems OK with a deeply totalitarian state like North Korea and its dictator Kim Jong Un ha...

New York's governor removes district attorney from Cornell rape allegations case, appoints special prosecutor

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed a special prosecutor Thursday to oversee an investigation into a woman's allegations that she was gang raped at a Cornell University fraternity house, with the governor saying she had lost faith in the local district attorney's ability to handle the case.

Joshua Kutryk's Grade 6 teacher watches him launch into space | The Moment

Ted Hupé tells The National about the moment he watched his former Grade 6 student, Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk, launch into space on the Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station, in Cocoa Beach, Florida.

Ford CEO Says Europe Is Lost To Chinese Electric Vehicles

Washington should take the "time to be considerate" before letting Chinese cars in, the Ford CEO warns.

AOC's dramatic retelling of Cornell rape allegations collides with complaint details

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., painted a far more sweeping picture of a Cornell University sexual assault case than what's alleged in the underlying civil complaint, while also making claims the university disputes.Speaking during a town hall hosted by More Perfect University on Sunday in Ithaca, New York, Ocasio-Cortez addressed allegations outlined in a civil complaint filed last month by a former Cornell student identified as Jane Doe, who alleges she was drugged and sexually assaulte...

OpenAI says that as of September 26, it has informed 100+ third-party organizations about unauthorized activity involving its AI agents

Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: OpenAI says that as of September 26, it has informed 100+ third-party organizations about unauthorized activity involving its AI agents OpenAI has informed more than 1

OpenAI says three staffers fired for mishandling ‘sensitive’ info

The alleged mishandling involved an external organisation that evaluates AI models.

RAM shortage to last two more years, say top manufacturers

Executives from Samsung and Micron, two of the world's top sellers of random access memory, warned this week that the RAM shortage would continue through 2028. AI companies take it all for their datacenters, and what's left for everyone else will continue to command premium prices. Read the rest The post RAM shortage to last two more years, say top manufacturers appeared first on Boing Boing.

'What the f--k, call it!': Aaron Rodgers and Mike McCarthy curse at each other during hot mic moment

When Aaron Rodgers returned to the Pittsburgh Steelers to play for Mike McCarthy this season, everyone recalled the roller-coaster relationship between the quarterback and coach years ago. And Thursday night we got a full-color snapshot of those times.During the first quarter of the game against the Cleveland Browns, the Steelers pieced together a 17-play drive.During that drive full of fits and starts, Rodgers had moments of frustration. And one of those was when he expected the play-call from ...

Halle Berry's attorney fires back after ex Olivier Martinez accuses actress of abusing their son

Halle Berry’s attorney fired back Thursday, calling claims made by her ex that she abused their son "meritless." Olivier Martinez was granted a temporary restraining order from the actress Thursday, according to TMZ.Martinez is also seeking sole custody of their 12-year-old son, alleging that she physically and emotionally abused the boy, according to documents obtained by People magazine and TMZ.Martinez claims Berry caused him "emotional and mental distress due to physical abuse of our minor c...

"The Cycle's TXU?": Paramount's Record Bond Offering Craters Before The Ink Is Dry

"The Cycle's TXU?": Paramount's Record Bond Offering Craters Before The Ink Is Dry On Monday we flagged that September was shaping up as the worst month for junk since 2022. We also noted that Paramount's $12.4 billion high-yield tranche would be bigger than SoftBank's recently issued record $11 billion junk deal. The next morning the company kicked off the high-grade portion. By Tuesday afternoon it reported $109 billion of demand.  With so much excess demand, the offering was sup...

N.Y. Lawmakers and Victims Push to Change Rape Law in Intoxication Cases

Accusations that Cornell University students assaulted a woman while she was impaired have renewed calls to amend the law.

Chinese AI model investigated after researcher says it provided instructions for bioweapons, assassinations

Chinese AI company Moonshot AI has launched an internal investigation after a researcher found that one of its models could be manipulated into providing instructions for developing biological weapons and carrying out assassinations, Fox News senior foreign policy correspondent Gillian Turner reported Thursday.Researcher Peter Garrigan told Fox News Moonshot AI's Kimi model could also be manipulated to provide information on planning terrorist attacks using real-time data, creating sarin gas, de...

Sources: Jay Clayton will likely be the White House's pick for AI czar, and he may remain in his current role as director of national intelligence

Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News: Sources: Jay Clayton will likely be the White House's pick for AI czar, and he may remain in his current role as director of national intelligence Jay Clayton will likely

Australia's Tobacco Taxes Have Fueled A Massive Black Market For Cigarettes

Australia's Tobacco Taxes Have Fueled A Massive Black Market For Cigarettes One lesson governments never seem to learn is that when taxes push the legal price of something high enough, a black market will eventually show up to collect the difference. Australia is now getting a particularly ugly demonstration of that principle. After more than a decade of relentlessly increasing tobacco taxes in an effort to crush smoking, the country has created an enormous price gap between legal ...

Sydney Sweeney shares cheeky boat trip photos with boyfriend Scooter Braun

Sydney Sweeney is sharing a cheeky snapshot of her man "taking her to the moon."Earlier this week, Sweeney shared a carousel of images to Instagram during a recent boating trip to Lake Powell, Arizona."when your man takes you to the moon🌒," Sweeney captured her post. The post started with a Polaroid image of Sweeney in a one-piece red bathing suit.The next slide shows Sweeney water-skiing with just one ski off the back of a boat. She also wakeboarded with a friend on her back, and included a sol...

Newsom signs bills providing environmental exemptions for San Diego stadium project

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills that seek to fast-track a San Diego stadium and housing project.

11 mystery Flock cameras identified in Florida county

Florida recently ordered law enforcement agencies to remove Flock cameras installed on the state's roads: the intrusive technology and regular misuse by police officers has led to a national backlash against the company and surveillance cameras in general. Most are already gone, but there's a problem: there are Flock cameras in St. Read the rest The post 11 mystery Flock cameras identified in Florida county appeared first on Boing Boing.

Hasan Piker vows he will pressure James Talarico to govern as a leftist, not a moderate

Left-wing streamer Hasan Piker vowed Wednesday that he would push Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico to govern as a leftist rather than a moderate Democrat if Talarico was elected."Hopefully after James Talarico wins, we’ve got to hold him to account," Piker said during a campus event at the University of Texas at Austin. "We've got to make sure that he doesn’t become another, ‘do nothing Democrat’ ‘business as usual’ and we've got to keep up that pressure." "We have to remind him ...

Amazon's New Kindle Accessories Bring Back Physical Controls

Alongside a refreshed Kindle lineup, Amazon today introduced two accessories that bring physical buttons back to its touchscreen e-readers. The $34.99 Kindle Click is a Bluetooth remote that lets readers turn pages and adjust brightness without touching the device, while a new $79.99 magnetic cover is available for select Paperwhite and Colorsoft models. GeekWire reports: Amazon says [the Kindle Click is] meant for reading under the covers, on a treadmill, or on an airplane tray table. It's avai...