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Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama on Trump’s Campaign Trail
10KNYT > Technology / 23h
As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.
Jimmy Kimmel trolls Trump over TACO nickname with parody song
100+Mashable / 21h
Trump, who's always loved dishing out nicknames, now has one of his own . "They're calling him TACO, which is an acronym for 'Trump Always Chickens Out'," explains Jimmy Kimmel in the clip above from his Thursday monologue. "And you're not going to believe this, but he doesn't like the nickname at all." Unsurprisingly, Kimmel has little sympathy for the president. "How does it feel to be on the o
AI powering a “dramatic surge” in cyberthreats as automated scans hit 36,000 per second
Latest from TechRadar US in News,opinion / 47min
AI is fueling a huge increase in cyberattacks The US is the primary target for ransomware attacks Threat actors are turning to vulnerable assets It won’t come as a surprise to many cybersecurity professionals, but AI is behind a drastic rise in the number of cyberattacks, with new research from Fortinet revealing the apparenty scale of the problem. The study found that year-on-year, automated sca
ICYMI: the 8 biggest tech stories of the week, from Google's new AI video magic to WhatsApp on the iPad
Latest from TechRadar US in News,opinion / 1h
The rate of progress in the tech world has shown no signs of slowing down over the last seven days. Whether it's advances in the capabilities of AI video generators or a long-serving messaging app finally appearing on Apple's tablets, it's been quite a week. As good as we try and make our journalism here on TechRadar, we know that not everyone has time to sit down and digest every story that we p
A lifetime of PDF tools for just $24
Mashable / 4h
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How to watch PSG vs. Inter Milan online for free
Mashable / 4h
TL;DR: Live stream PSG vs. Inter Milan in the 2025 Champions League final for free on discovery+ . Access this free live stream from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN . Following on from the Europa League and Conference League finals, the main event is finally here. PSG take on Inter Milan in the Champions League final. We're expecting a really entertaining matchup between two talented sides
NYT Connections hints today: Clues, answers for May 31, 2025
Mashable / 6h
Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle , Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle. If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you
NYT Strands hints, answers for May 31
Mashable / 6h
If you're reading this, you're looking for a little help playing Strands , the New York Times ' elevated word-search game. Strands requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of
Wordle today: Answer, hints for May 31, 2025
Mashable / 6h
Oh hey there! If you're here, it must be time for Wordle . As always, we're serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today's answer. If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you. SEE ALSO: Mahjong, Su
Hurdle hints and answers for May 31, 2025
Mashable / 6h
If you like playing daily word games like Wordle , then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine. There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give
‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ gets surprise guest appearance: a revolutionary 360TB silica storage media
Latest from TechRadar US in News,opinion / 8h
Sphotonix’s 5D optical storage media has appeared on the latest installment of Mission Impossible A rare feat for a new product, its appearance is central to the movie plot Like Microsoft Silica, it uses silica based material to store up to 360TB per glass platter Storage startup Sphotonix has landed itself a money-can’t-buy starring role in the big-budget Hollywood movie " Mission Impossible, Th
Elon Musk is lobbying lawmakers on driverless vehicle rules
25TechCrunch / 9h
Musk and others in his orbit have been calling members of Congress directly, according to Bloomberg.
Walt Disney World Finally Gets a Nighttime Parade This Summer
Gizmodo / 9h
Also at Disney World, spooky season starts early: there's a new Disney Villains show, and tickets to Magic Kingdom's Halloween party are on sale now.
No One Is Buying Phones for AI
Lifehacker / 9h
If you're entrenched in tech news, you'd think Apple was on the brink of collapse. The company undoubtedly is having a rough go of all things AI—while companies like ChatGPT, Google, and Microsoft have hit the AI ground running, Apple's AI department is in disarray . Some features, like Clean Up and Writing Tools , have made their way to products like the iPhone, but, others (notably Siri's AI ov
The Credit Card Offering American Admirals Club Access
200+One Mile at a Time / 9h
Link: Apply now for the Citi® / AAdvantage® Executive World Elite Mastercard® The Citi® / AAdvantage® Executive World Elite Mastercard® ( review ) is the sole credit card that offers American Admirals Club access . This is American’s most premium credit card, and there are lots of reasons to consider getting this card , from a generous welcome bonus , to the ability to earn 20,000 bonus Loyalty P
College Grads Furious After an AI Butchers Their Names During Commencement
22Futurism / 9h
College graduates were left speechless after officials at New York City's Pace University deployed an AI model to read out their names during a commencement event this month. A video that has since gone viral on social media shows students having a QR on their smartphone scanned, only to have an AI read their name out loud — an irritating use of the tech that turned what should've otherwise been
You Can Get a Lifetime License to Qlango for Just $35 Right Now
Lifehacker / 10h
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. Language learning apps usually fall into two camps—either they’re too rigid and boring, or they gamify things so much that you stop learning and start guessing. Qlango tries to find the middle ground, and right now, you can grab a lifetime subscription for $34.97 from Stack
All-in-One AI Platform 1minAI Is Now Almost Free, Get Lifetime Access for Up to 87% Off
Gizmodo / 10h
Dive into the world of Artificial Intelligence with this easy to learn all-in-one tool and watch your creativity explode.
10 Classic Sci-Fi Movies That Were Inspired By Star Trek
How-To Geek / 10h
The original Star Trek series was revolutionary. It changed how people thought of sci-fi on television, and it pushed the envelope in other ways as well. It was social commentary, and it wasn't pulpy or campy like what had come before.
This movie is fully AI-generated and has a fully SAG-AFTRA cast – here’s 3 things you need to know about Echo Hunter
Latest from TechRadar US in News,opinion / 10h
Echo Hunter is a new, fully AI-generated sci-fi short film created using Arcana AI The cast is SAG-AFTRA actors led by Breckin Meyer The film blends traditional voice performances with AI-rendered visuals There’s a memorable moment in the new sci-fi short film Echo Hunter where a clone hunter starts questioning his place in a morally bankrupt world with blurred lines between man and machine. It f
Texas Solicitor General Resigns After Sharing Bizarre Fantasy About An Asteroid
Futurism / 10h
Content warning for discussions of sexual violence and harassment. Usually asteroids are distant features of the cosmos, occasionally crashing down to Earth or threatening the planet . Not so for former Texas solicitor general Judd Stone, who's been accused of making the distant space rocks a focal point in violent and bizarre fantasies about a coworker that he regaled to other people. Needless t
Google and DOJ tussle over how AI will remake the web in antitrust closing arguments
Ars Technica - All content / 11h
From its humble beginnings in the late 20th century, Google has come to dominate online searches, putting it squarely in the US government's antitrust crosshairs. The ongoing search antitrust case threatens to upend Google's dominance, giving smaller players a chance to thrive and possibly wiping others out. After wrapping up testimony in the case earlier this month, lawyers for Google and the De
Amazon Fire Sticks enable “billions of dollars” worth of streaming piracy
Ars Technica - All content / 11h
Amazon Fire Sticks are enabling “billions of dollars” worth of streaming piracy, according to a report today from Enders Analysis, a media, entertainment, and telecommunications research firm. Technologies from other media conglomerates, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook, are also enabling what the report’s authors deem an “industrial scale of theft." The report , "Video piracy: Big tech is clearly
Lenovo’s 2-in-1 Chromebook Acts as Both a Tablet and Laptop for Practically Nothing, Keyboard Included
Gizmodo / 11h
Best Buy has the Lenovo Duet 11 Chromebook for nearly 40% off for a limited time.
Marvel Will Skip San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H Again This Year
Gizmodo / 11h
After a massive 2024 panel with Robert Downey Jr., Kevin Feige and the Avengers are taking the year off.
Match just bought a sapphic dating app, and some users arent happy
Mashable / 11h
Last week, Match Group (the conglomerate that owns Tinder , Hinge, OkCupid, and many others ) announced it acquired the sapphic dating app HER. HER founder Robyn Exton posted on LinkedIn that, "I'm incredibly proud to say that Match Group sees the value in this incredible space we've built. Maybe even more importantly, they see the power and presence of the sapphic community." (Sapphic, like WLW
Yooka-Laylee developer Playtonic is laying off over a dozen staff
Engadget / 11h
Playtonic, the creators of Yooka-Laylee , is laying off some of its staff, the developer and publisher announced on social media . The post doesn't mention how many members of Playtonic will be effected, but does credit the layoffs to the company's struggle with "a period of profound change in how games are created and funded." Based on a LinkedIn post shared by Playtonic brand manager Anni Valka
Dean DeBlois Is Hopeful Cate Blanchett Will Return for ‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’
Gizmodo / 11h
And the door might be open for more 'How to Train Your Dragon' stars to return in some form, too.
Continuous Thought Machines Could be the Next Step in AI
How-To Geek / 11h
Do AI models "think"? This is an important question, because to someone using something like ChatGPT or Claude, it sure looks like the bot is thinking. We even have little prompts that pop up that say "thinking" and these days you can even read a bot's "chain of thought" to see how it reasoned its way to a conclusion.
Best Buy Offers This Insignia Soundbar at a Practically Free Price to Help You Get Ready for Father’s Day
Gizmodo / 11h
Save nearly 20% on the wall-mountable Insignia 2.0 channel soundbar over at Best Buy.
You can finally skip the line on Universal’s most popular coaster — and these hotels let you do it for free
20The Points Guy / 11h
When Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure opened in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando Resort on June 13, 2019, guests waited a painful amount of time for the opportunity to straddle an enchanted motorbike (or ride along in the sidecar) — as long as 14 hours , according to some accounts. When I finally got to experience Hagrid’s for myself in 2020, wait times had t
6 reasons to get the Citi AAdvantage Executive World Elite Mastercard
The Points Guy / 11h
Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with new information and offers. Citi is a TPG advertising partner. The Citi® / AAdvantage® Executive World Elite Mastercard® (see rates and fees ) is a valuable travel card that’s a great fit for frequent American Airlines flyers. It carries a high $595 annual fee, but there are several easy ways to get excellent value from both the card
CDC updates COVID vaccine recommendations, but not how RFK Jr. wanted
Ars Technica - All content / 11h
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday updated its immunization schedules for children and adults to partially reflect the abrupt changes announced by health secretary and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earlier this week. In a 58-second video posted on social media on Tuesday, May 27, Kennedy said he was unilaterally revoking the CDC's recommendations that healthy
Spy-catcher saw “stupid” tech errors others made. FBI says he then made his own.
Ars Technica - All content / 11h
Twenty-eight-year-old Nathan Laatsch was, until yesterday, a cybersecurity employee at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). He had a Top Secret clearance and worked in the Insider Threat Division. Laatsch spent his days—you'll understand the past tense in a moment—"enabling user monitoring on individuals with access to DIA systems," including employees under surreptitious internal investigation
TSA Agents Didn’t See It Coming—Surveillance Video Shows Sudden Miami Airport Ambush
View from the Wing / 11h
A Canadian traveler pled guilty to attacking two TSA employees at the Miami airport in a rampage caught on surveillance camera. Continue reading ...
SpaceX Is Reportedly Giving Elon Musk Advance Warning of Drug Tests
100+Futurism / 11h
Generally speaking, drug testing in the workplace is supposed to be conductd at random intervals — but according to insider sources, that's not the case for the sometimes-world's richest man. A New York Times exposé about Elon Musk's fear and loathing on the campaign trail found that the billionaire not only has been on boatloads of risky and illegal drugs during his turn into hard-right politics
Yep, X was down again
24TechCrunch / 11h
People reported that photos weren't loading, its banking service XMoney wasn't working, and search wasn't returning any results, among other things.
Superfast 32TB USB4 External SSDs are coming, thanks to a new chip - but I bet they won't be cheap
Latest from TechRadar US in News,opinion / 12h
Silicon Motion SM2324 9mm chip powers external SSDs with up to 32TB and It promises true USB4 speeds of 4,000MB/s Built for filmmakers and backup warriors, this chip supports Apple Pro workflows Silicon Motion has revealed a potentially transformative piece of storage tech at Computex 2025: the SM2324 , a single-chip USB4 SSD controller aimed at powering external drives with up to 32TB of storage
Some data centers are deliberately slowing possibly tens of thousands of AI GPUs to avoid blackouts - but this company may have a solution
Latest from TechRadar US in News,opinion / 12h
Dummy loads burn up to 45% of energy just to keep power levels stable Skeleton’s GrapheneGPU delivers up to 40% more computing with the same hardware AI workloads are killing energy efficiency, GrapheneGPU smooths power draw in real time As artificial intelligence systems grow more demanding, many data centers have found themselves consuming nearly twice the energy they technically need. This ove
‘Terrifier 4’ Will Finally Dig Deep into Art the Clown’s Origins
24Gizmodo / 12h
Damien Leone discussed the highly anticipated installment of his slasher clown series at Texas Frightmare Weekend.
You Might Catch the Northern Lights This Weekend If You Live in One of These States
Gizmodo / 12h
A geomagnetic storm is expected to hit Earth tonight, sparking auroral displays.
A Four Pack of These TSA-Approved SmartLocks Is $80 Right Now
Lifehacker / 12h
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. Losing your luggage might not be the end of the world, but it’s definitely the worst part of a trip. That’s where something like the SmartLock comes in, and a four-pack of these TSA-approved travel locks is going for $79.99 on StackSocial right now , which is the same price
The Mac's Biggest Game Is MIA, What's Going On?
How-To Geek / 12h
Mac gaming is on the rise. With great, capable hardware and increasing developer support with help from Apple, those who choose to go with Cupertino instead of Redmond now have more opportunities to play in between work sessions.
TechCrunch Mobility: A ride-sharing pioneer comes for Uber, Tesla loses more ground, and dog-like delivery robots land in Texas
24TechCrunch / 12h
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
The AI Slop Scandal Around the MAHA Report Is Getting Worse
100+Futurism / 12h
It came to light this week that a new government report from the "Make America Healthy Again" Commission led by Robert F Kennedy Jr. contained botched citations for scientific papers that
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