Russian actors pushed disinformation campaigns on social media around Hurricanes Milton and Helene in an attempt to sow distrust in the American government and stoke outrage over Ukrainian support ahead of November’s election, according to a new analysis.
In the aftermath of the two national disasters, Russian state-affiliated med
Deconstructed pizza discs, a “Cherry Freeze” flavored Prime drink, and a side of . . . mold? Lunchly, a Lunchables competitor that was created by YouTube stars MrBeast, Logan Paul, and KSI, has recently come under fire after reports that mold-covered cheese was discovered in their prepacked lunch kits targeted at children.
Rosanna Pansino, a cookbook author and YouTuber with 14.5 million subscribers of her own, recently posted a
Speaking to his biographer Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk said of his approach to authority: “I guess I’ve always wanted to push my chips back on the table or play the next level of the game.” Isaacson later quotes Musk as saying, “I’ve got a bad habit of biting off more than I can chew.”
At present, both those quotes seem to be the case for Musk, who has
An AI coding assistant called Augment Code is hoping to make programmers—and their teams—more efficient.
And while it’s competing against a variety of other coding assistants, including Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot, Augment CEO Scott Dietzen says his company’s tool is designed to be faster than the competition, meaning developers don’t lose focus waiting for it to offer suggestions.
Augment Code is aut
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The European Space Agency is in talks with SpaceX about the possibility of Elon Musk’s space venture joining an international charter designed to reduce a growing swarm of debris in space, Director General Josef Aschbacher told Reuters.
The 22-nation agency is spearheading one of several efforts to roll back the
An image of Donald Trump cosplaying as a football player last weekend set the tone for the final push of the Republican nominee’s campaign. It depicts Trump as a yoked, veiny-arm baller glowering from within a Steelers uniform on the field at Pittsburgh’s Acrisure Stadium. While Trump actually did attend
With many-megapixel cameras and the ability to shoot video at up to 4K, an iPhone’s storage fills up quickly. Sure, ballooning apps and digital downloads like audiobooks and movies also take up space, but they are easy to offload and reload as needed. Apple’s iOS even provides a handy listing of all apps—starting with the biggest ones holding the most data or media—to help make those calls.
But in the iOS 18 software up
Jen Easterly’s confirmation by the Senate in July 2021 to become director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was about as smooth as Senate votes get. With a résumé that includes time in the U.S. Army, on both the National Security Council and National Security Agency, and leading Morgan Stanley’s cybersecurity division, Easterly was seen as wholly qualified and appropriately nonpartisan to lead the five-year-old agency and its 3,400 employees as only its second di