The United States is planning a new round of military strikes on Iran as early as this weekend, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the plans. The scope of the strikes and potential targets have not been finalized, and officials cautioned the operation could still be called off. President Donald...
A discarded SpaceX rocket is on a high-speed collision course with the moon. The rocket’s upper stage will unintentionally slam into the lunar surface on Wednesday, carving out a crater and sending up a plume of dust and rubble that scientists and skygazers are eager to observe. The abandoned rocket segment...
Houston Astros star infielder Carlos Correa stated that he will not rule out a return to the field during the current 2026 Major League Baseball season. Correa underwent surgery on May 11 to repair a torn tendon in his left ankle, an injury sustained while taking swings in the batting...
The European Union officially began enforcing stringent transparency rules under its landmark artificial intelligence framework, requiring compulsory labelling and machine-readable watermarks for synthetic media. The mandates compel providers of generative artificial intelligence systems to embed machine-readable tracking data into synthetic text, audio, images, and video. Deployers and publishers utilizing...
Microsoft shares registered the largest single-day increase in valuation for a publicly traded company in history, adding $450 billion in market capitalization. The surge followed quarterly financial disclosures indicating that Microsoft signed more than $130 billion in new data center leases during the second quarter. Chief executive Satya Nadella...
Formula 1 driver Lando Norris and social media influencer Alix Earle were seen together in Ibiza during the motorsport series' summer break. The pair visited local nightlife venues, including Hï Ibiza to watch DJ Dom Dolla and subsequently Amnesia Ibiza, accompanied by a group of friends that included Olympic skateboarder...
Vincent Pastore, the actor best known for playing Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on HBO's The Sopranos, was found dead at his Bronx residence on Saturday, August 1, at age 80. TMZ, Deadline, Forbes, and other outlets reported he was discovered by longtime friend Stephen Villano after not being heard from...
Donald Trump is now offering early access to his Truth Social posts in a move that has been seen as corruption benefitting a sitting president. Trump Media and Technology Group officially rolled out its new subscription-based data service on Saturday, giving paying customers faster, real-time access to Truth Social posts from...
Levent Alpöge, a mathematician at AI company Anthropic in San Francisco, reports finding a counterexample to the long-standing Jacobian conjecture in higher dimensions, using the firm’s large language model Claude Fable 5. The conjecture, posed 87 years ago, concerns polynomial functions whose Jacobian determinant is a non-zero constant and asks...
The Milwaukee Brewers bolstered their catching depth Saturday by acquiring Canadian catcher Bo Naylor from the Cleveland Guardians in exchange for reliever Craig Yoho. Right-handed pitcher Codi Heuer also joins Milwaukee, while outfielder Blake Perkins heads to Cleveland. Naylor, from Mississauga, Ontario, has played 28 MLB games this season, batting...
