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Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.

In 2023, Mozilla released a report noting that modern U.S. cars had the worst security and privacy standards of any major technology industry the organization tracks. That was followed by a major NYT report in 2024 showing how automakers routinely hoover up oodles of consumer driving and phone info, then sell access to that data […]

ElevationLab has withdrawn its AirTag Silencer from sale. The device precisely destroyed the speaker in an AirTag while leaving tracking functions intact. Two weeks ago, I strongly suggested it stop selling it because their precision product offered abusers and stalkers a useful tool—true, available from other sources, but none with the high production quality or the stellar reputation among Apple users that ElevationLab has.…

The crowd at Mike Johnson's campaign stop in Texas today

Japanese photographer and artist Tomoko Sawada works primarily in self-portraiture. For her first project, she visited ID photo booths to take hundreds of photos of herself, dressed, posed, and presented differently. Eugenie Shin of Tokyo Weekender calls that 1998 project, ID 400, “a dizzying grid of strangers who are all actually the same woman”. For subsequent projects, Sawada says she’s continued to “examine the relationship between outer appearance and inner self through different concepts”. (via tokyo weekender) Tags: art · photography · Tomoko Sawada

Federal prosecutors say an employee planted an audio recorder and left another unattended in his bag.

Doocy: We were very grateful that we got the chance to ask Katie Zacharia two questions

The Iran war has cost each U.S. household an estimated $2,000 in higher costs.

A new national ranking of colleges has named the top schools in New York State for 2027, and one Hudson Valley institution made the top 10. Continue reading…

There was a time when going to the department store was an exciting event. For generations of Americans, a trip to Gimbels or Marshall Field’s meant visiting a local landmark downtown — and often dressing for the occasion, as these stores also served as gathering places for ...

For the most part, pink is seen as a feminine color in the United States today. But while a pink suit on a man might turn heads now, in 18th-century Europe it could mark its wearer as a fashionable gentleman.  Wealthy men of the time dressed in shades of pink ranging fr...

New White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia first press conference was an unmitigated disaster. She started reading from prepared notes for almost 9 minutes, speaking incoherently in chopped sentences while smiling intermittently like a ventriloquist dummy. The first p...

New EVs still cost less than they did a year ago, but September brought buyers a double hit: higher prices and smaller discounts.

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Doug Field, the engineer who ran Tesla’s Model 3 program and later Ford’s entire EV operation, is now president of Mind Robotics, the industrial robotics startup Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe spun out of Rivian last year.

He lands at a company that has now raised more than $1 billion in under a year, and he’ll run product, engineering, and operations alongside Scaringe.

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US attorney apologized to court, said government has stopped running Trump ads.

Should prisons have internet access?

One writer makes the case for why they should.
https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2026/10/13/people-in-prison-should-have-internet-access/

West Virginia resident on the Trump administration's cuts to food assistance:

"I really thought Trump would move right on in and take care of everything. He's disappointed me."

Before we get to the feud, let's start with the facts. Molly, the wooden crank-operated automaton made by the artist Bliss Kolb, is a beauty. Although Molly is made of basswood, cherry, and teak, with glass eyes and steel screws, its buttery yellow body and dusky brown wings...

The WNBA was staring down the following issue: After the first two games of the Finals, beginning Saturday at the raucous 18,064-seat building which the Golden State Valkyries have sold out for two straight years, the series would move to Atlanta, where the Dream’s primary a...

Three-time Trump voter: I love Donald Trump. He shouldn't promise people things that he ain't going to do. Trump said there wasn't going to be new wars. Prices were going to come down. People aren't living good over here.