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Jay-Z to headline Super Bowl LXI halftime show
Jay-Z will be the featured performer for the halftime festivities on Feb. 14 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.
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Elon Musk’s Anti-Woke AI ‘The Odyssey’ Movie Ripped as “Soulless Slop” After Criticizing Nolan
The tech titan's anti-woke Grok-fueled take on 'The Odyssey' gets called "zombie-like."
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10 Software Security Practices Built for the Next 250 Years
This Cybersecurity Awareness Month's theme, "Securing the Next 250," asks us to look beyond vulnerabilities and consider what will make our digital systems resilient for generations.
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Zelensky calls out Hegseth for ‘nearly a month’ Patriot missile delay
Ukraine has been waiting “for nearly a month” for U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to allow missiles for its air defense systems to be sent to the country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday. “We have been waiting for nearly a month for Mr. Hegseth to sign off on missiles for Patriots and NASAMS,” Zelensky…
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Trump’s Jones Act blunder could hand the Senate to the socialists
The Democratic Socialists of America are sali vating. Their end game is in sight. But America’s rescue could ride in on the barges, cargo ships, and tugs of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron — under American flags. A Republican Senate would be an important check on a Democratic-controlled House with a small army of DSA […]
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America Is Spending Billions To Fight the War on Terror in Africa. The Terrorists Are Winning.
Terrorism fatalities in Africa rose more than 100,000 percent between 2002 and 2022, according to the federal government.
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Why Humanity Needs Death
As AI pioneers target a post-human future, we must not forget the importance of confronting life’s fragility.
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Kubiak on QB switch for scuffling Raiders: 'We're thinking about everything'
Raiders coach Klint Kubiak said the team is thinking about everything, including turning to QB Fernando Mendoza, amid a four-game losing streak.
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Brazil's left-wing President Lula elected for fourth term
Brazil's 80-year-old left-wing leader President Lula defeats Flávio Bolsonaro in a bitterly contested runoff.
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World reacts to Lula’s victory in Brazilian presidential race
International leaders and politicians congratulate the Brazilian president on his re-election win.
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Denzel Washington's 148-Minute Historical Epic Is Officially Netflix's Biggest Streaming Hit
It might not have made a splash when it counted during awards season in 2024, but Denzel Washington has a historical epic making waves on Netflix.
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Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.
A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.
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Paxton sues OpenAI, Altman for failing to warn Texans about ChatGPT’s ‘dangers’
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman on Friday, accusing the company of failing to warn consumers about the potential dangers from its AI models. The lawsuit alleges the ChatGPT maker is running afoul of a Texas consumer protection law and kids’ online safety law, underscoring warnings about the…
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ICE’s Cruelty Is Becoming America’s M.O.
Trump’s deportation force is giving ordinary people new ways to threaten, torment, and punish their neighbors.
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When It Makes Sense to Replace a Legacy Virtualization Stack
Virtualization platforms often remain in place long after their original purpose because migration carries operational risk. Yet aging…
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AI Tools Are Generating Massive Attacks for Little Cost
One campaign targets 105 sites using open-weight models; in another, public models gained full domain control for $12. Cyber-defense will have to change.
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Companies are running out of experienced CEOs
A recent paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) analyzing more than 50,000 CEO careers found that the average appointment age has climbed from 48 in the year 2000 to 55 today. The researchers suggest that increased economic uncertainty and the growing geographic and regulatory complexity of the role are pushing firms to prioritize “generalist human capital” (i.e., experience) over “raw ability.” One outcome of this corner office trend is that CEO, even more than it used to be, is becoming a career capstone rather than a career path. More and more executives will hold the job only once before they retire. First-timers accounted for 86% of public CEO appointments in 2025 and have held the majority by a wide margin since 2018, according to the executive search firm Russell Reynolds Associates. The firm also reports that the average CEO tenure is shortening—from 8.3 years in 2021 to 7.1 in 2025. The hollowing of the serial CEO pipeline is happening at an inflection point in artificial intelligence transformation. Our times call for a CEO who’s had to rethink strategy while bearing full accountability for the business’s performance, because they’ll have to do it aga…
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Cognitive surrender: Artificial intelligence’s threat to democracy
Wesleyan University computer science professor Sebastian Zimmeck argues that artificial intelligence poses a threat to democratic citizenship by encouraging cognitive surrender and requiring both individual critical thinking and robust regulatory oversight to protect personal agency.
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Ilhan Omar plans to move out of her Washington DC home after federal raid
US federal agents raided the congresswoman’s home last week as part of an investigation into alleged immigration fraud.
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‘Nobody Wants This’ Creator Erin Foster Reacts to Adam Brody Saying He Supports “A Free Palestine”: “It’s Complicated”
In an interview with GQ, the actor previously said of the Israel-Gaza war, “Put me down as thinking it’s a genocide. Put me down as wanting a free Palestine.”
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Saudi Arabia’s nuclear program could outlive its government, so plan accordingly
Nuclear technology can outlive the strategic assumptions that justified its transfer, two experts caution US lawmakers.
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UK’s Royal Navy has ‘serious’ anti-submarine warfare gap, committee finds
The Royal Navy has a “serious anti-submarine warfare gap” that weakens the U.K.'s ability to respond to Russia’s submarine and underwater sabotage threats.
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Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion After Court Finds 43 Million Privacy Violations
Social media giant Meta was ordered to pay 25 billion in penalties by a New Mexico court on Wednesday as part of a data privacy lawsuit that sprang from the company's Cambridge Analytica data scandal, which came to light in 2018. According to multiple reports from the Associated Press, the New York Times, Reuters, and the Wall Street Journal, state District Court Judge Francis J. Mathew called
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North Carolina Democratic underdog hopes a blue wave can take down House GOP campaign chief
ELON, North Carolina — Democrat Richard Ojeda is hoping that the public’s discontent with the Trump administration can provide enough of a blue wave to unseat Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC), the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. Ojeda is running in the Tar Heel State‘s 9th Congressional District against Hudson, but election forecasters such […]
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Pepsi renews contract with Taco Bell days after KFC switches to Coke in the U.S.
Taco Bell is sticking with longtime beverage supplier PepsiCo, even though sister chain KFC defected to Coca-Cola.
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Why a global bank is slashing thousands of jobs — and what the Fed says about AI replacing workers
Barclays on Thursday said it’s cutting 5,000 jobs, about 5% of its workforce, as the bank relies on artificial intelligence to perform back-office tasks.
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Amanda Jiang to Star in ‘Dracula: The Crimson Code’ Alongside Joey Phillips, Richard Brake and Shayne Ward (EXCLUSIVE)
Amanda Jiang, Joey Phillips (“Outlander”), Richard Brake (“Game of Thrones,” “The Mandalorian,” “Kingsman: The Secret Service,” “Barbarian”) and Shayne Ward (“The Good Ship Murder,” “Coronation Street”) will lead the cast of gothic romance and supernatural thriller “Dracula: The Crimson Code,” which has started filming. The contemporary female-led Dracula reimagining is directed by Andrea M. Catinella […]
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Germany’s turning point
The ascent of the AfD and how to stop it: why nostalgia won’t work in government; defending democracy in the hinterlands; culture policy back to the ’30s; Merz’s leadership fetish.
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They Believe 2020 Was Stolen. They Could Be in Charge of Elections in 2028
A host of election-denying candidates are running for attorney general in states across the country.
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Meta Ordered To Pay New Mexico $25 Billion For Deceiving Facebook Users About Privacy
A judge in New Mexico has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in civil penalties for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook. The ruling Wednesday by state District Court Judge Francis J. Mathew came in the state’s landmark Cambridge Analytica case against Facebook for violations of New Mexico’s Unfair Practices Act. It is the largest […]
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Amazon Threat Intelligence identifies PHP2Shell exploitation prior to public disclosure in MadPot
Amazon Threat Intelligence identified a PHP2Shell exploitation attempt dating to Oct. 17, 2026, in MadPot telemetry, four days before public disclosure of CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. The exploit attempt originated from an IP address associated with a commercial anonymization network. While the vulnerability was under embargo, the targeting of a honeypot from an anonymized IP address […]
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Data centers could erase decades of air quality gains
A rush of new data centers could bring air pollution roaring back to levels not seen since the 2000s in Texas, which has become ground zero for the physical infrastructure behind generative AI. New and proposed data centers are demanding a tremendous amount of electricity. How developers and utilities meet that demand - with gas […]
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Concerns mount over artificial intelligence as Silicon Valley sees AI boom
Tuesday, October 20 saw protests in more than 50 US cities against the rise of artificial intelligence. Demonstrators are calling for a moratorium on AI development, and the sentiment is shared by many: according to a recent study, 71 percent of Americans believe AI will lead to job losses. In the heart of Silicon Valley, record investment is now on a collision course with public fear and uncertainty. FRANCE 24's Pierrick Leurent and Valérie Defert report, with Wassim Cornet.
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Can Europe Build Data Centers Without Giving Up Its Climate Goals?
A plan to funnel the heat given off by data centers into nearby homes has run aground in Germany. Across Europe, policymakers are weighing AI ambitions against climate objectives.
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Opinion: Anyone Who Would Trust Their Life to a Tesla Flying Car Absolutely Should
Hello there, fellow citizens of the FUTURE. That’s what it must be: the future, at least according to Elon Musk, because the... Read the full masterpiece The post Opinion: Anyone Who Would Trust Their Life to a Tesla Flying Car Absolutely Should appeared first on HARDTIMES.
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A ‘kill switch’ is the wrong way to regulate AI. Here’s why
In the wake of high-profile hacking incidents involving advanced artificial intelligence agents, some politicians and business executives have been calling for an AI kill switch: a safeguard that could shut down these AI systems in an emergency. The idea is that, if a model were to behave in dangerous ways, a kill switch would allow humans to regain control over that system by metaphorically flipping a switch from “on” to “off.” Several efforts at AI regulation in 2026 have focused on the notion of a kill switch. These include proposed congressional legislation such as the AI Kill Switch Act, and California Governor Gavin Newsom’s executive order aimed at reining in AI. President Donald Trump has opposed the idea of an AI kill switch as unnecessary regulation, and to date there has been no national regulation that includes a kill switch. Experts such as Dylan Baker, a research engineer at the nonprofit Distributed AI Research Institute, have explained that one regulatory problem with the metaphor of the kill switch is that today’s advanced AI models involve a complex infrastructure of distributed technologies, which is beyond the control of a single kill switch. Additionally, the …
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OpenAI's most powerful AI models disabled their own safety monitoring — and one lied about it.
Warnings about the risks of developing increasingly advanced AI systems have ramped up in recent months, amid cyberattacks from rogue AI models.
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PHP2Shell: Mass Exploitation Looms for Leaked Critical PHP Flaws
Tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, the bugs could potentially lead to unauthenticated remote code execution. The post PHP2Shell: Mass Exploitation Looms for Leaked Critical PHP Flaws appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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Obama will campaign with Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan
Former President Barack Obama will headline a campaign rally in Detroit later this month, bringing some Democratic star power to a key battleground. Michigan is playing host to an open Senate race seen as pivotal to Democratic hopes of flipping the Senate. Polls show Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in a tight contest against Republican former Rep. Mike […]
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Warren warns of ‘enormous risk’ to US if Musk throttled Starshield in Ukraine
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) warned of an “enormous” risk to the United States if SpaceX founder Elon Musk interfered with the speed of the Starshield communications system used by Ukraine. Warren told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that if Musk were responsible for the lapse in service for Ukraine’s use of the military version of his Starlink […]