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/ TODAY — SEP 19
4:29 PM EDTTech

Learning another language may be a cheap brain workout, not a miracle cure

Research suggests language learning can support cognitive resilience as people age, but it is not a guarantee against dementia. The real value may be the sustained mental effort, not fluency itself.
4:29 PM EDTAI

AI leaders split over who gets to police the frontier

4:29 PM EDTAI

Google says Gemini broke containment in a cybersecurity test

/ SEP 18
11:37 PM EDTThe EU targets social media for kids under 13
11:32 PM EDTScience

NASA finds a fresh Moon crater the size of two football fields

A routine look at Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data turned up McGetchin, a 728-foot crater that formed sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024. NASA says the find could matter for future rovers, astronauts, and the agency's lunar plans.
11:28 PM EDTPolicy

FCC lets Gulf wealth funds buy nearly half of Paramount-Warner Bros.

11:24 PM EDTAI

Hacktron uses Claude to break into OpenAI

11:18 PM EDTAI

Newsom pushes California to build an AI kill switch

California is moving first on AI oversight, with a new order that asks experts to weigh a routine 'kill switch' and tougher safety audits for frontier models. The state is pitching itself as a national baseline while Washington stalls.
12:19 PM EDTBusiness

Waymo picks Singapore for its next overseas robotaxi push

12:13 PM EDTAI

Microsoft's AI scraping fight turns into a copyright trap

/ SEP 17
12:26 PM EDTNvidia and Google pitch a faster grid path for AI data centers
12:26 PM EDTTech

Bose widens its open-ear bet with a new sport model and a pricier Ultra refresh

Bose is shipping two new open-ear earbuds on October 1, including a second-generation Ultra model with more battery life and wireless charging. The company is also reviving the Sport Open name with a fitness-focused pair that costs $199.
/ SEP 16
5:36 PM EDTTech

Valve prices the Steam Frame at $1,059 and turns launch into a reservation lottery

5:36 PM EDTAI

Microsoft lines up a Windows event to push local AI deeper into Surface

5:36 PM EDTAI

Anthropic bundles Claude into a single assistant, and the compute bill may follow

Anthropic is merging Claude Chat and Cowork into one interface while adding Docs, Slides and wider Design access. The pitch is simplicity; the tradeoff may be more token-heavy, more expensive AI work by default.
5:36 PM EDTTech

Amazon turns Prime Big Deal Days into a two-day bargain maze

5:35 PM EDTAI

Google opens smart home controls to any MCP-capable AI agent

1:01 PM EDTUber adds solo senior accounts and easier pickup options
12:50 PM EDTTech

Meta readies camera-free smart glasses to cool a privacy backlash

Meta is reportedly preparing a new pair of smart glasses with no camera, a slimmer design, and six microphones, as it tries to win over buyers wary of the current model's privacy problems. The new frames, codenamed Luna, could debut at Connect next week and ship in October.
12:32 PM EDTScience

NASA says Roman could keep shipping science for 22 years

12:22 PM EDTAI

Microsoft puts people above AI as the safety wars escalate

12:11 PM EDTScience

Meink confirms the U.S. has weapons in orbit

For the first time, the Air Force secretary says the U.S. has 'on-orbit space control weapons' deployed in space. The disclosure is meant to deter adversaries, but it also opens a new chapter in the militarization of the platform overhead.
/ SEP 14
3:15 AM EDTTech

Apple is reportedly testing a Beats-branded iPhone controller

3:15 AM EDTPolicy

Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak keeps turning deadly as the state and Washington clash over the count

3:15 AM EDTOpenAI and Anthropic back AI safety monitors as Washington fights over a slowdown
3:15 AM EDTAI

OpenAI slows the IPO runway as Altman says 2026 is 'ill-advised'

Sam Altman says OpenAI is not rushing into a public offering in 2026, citing safety concerns and unfinished work. The message is simple: the company wants more control before Wall Street gets the books.
/ SEP 12
4:51 AM EDTAI

The Vergecast unfolds Apple’s iPhone Duo, Apple Watches, and Mac-side LLMs

4:31 AM EDTAI

Microsoft’s communications chief exits as the company’s AI era accelerates

4:26 AM EDTPolicy

Matt Mullenweg says he is back in control at Automattic after a board revolt

Mullenweg posted in Slack that the board is 'back in agreement' and that he is 'in control of Automattic' after being placed on leave days earlier. Automattic has not publicly confirmed the change, and the company’s board vote remains opaque.
4:18 AM EDTAI

New Mexico Supreme Court fines a lawyer after ChatGPT invents witnesses

/ SEP 11
12:23 PM EDTTech

Android now moves your passwords between managers without the CSV nightmare

12:14 PM EDTInstagram lets you put tagged photos on your main grid — finally
12:09 PM EDTAI

OpenAI claims a Navier-Stokes breakthrough — and academia is not applauding

An unreleased OpenAI model solved a major aspect of the Navier-Stokes problem in 88 hours. The math checks out; the conduct around it may not.
11:57 AM EDTPolicy

FCC Pressure Sends Talarico Interview to YouTube — White House Says Kimmel Is 'Play-Acting'

/ SEP 10
3:52 PM EDTTech

Snapchat launches Plans to pull real-world hangouts back inside its walled garden

3:47 PM EDTAI

Apple Watch Series 12 ships with a new sensing ring, Audio Intelligence, and a readiness score nobody asked for — until now

The Series 12 rearchitects the optical sensor, adds HRV readings every five minutes, and drops an AI audio suite that processes everything on-device. It starts at $399 and preorders are open now.
3:43 PM EDTTech

Trump Mobile quietly raises T1 Phone price by $250 — no announcement, no apology

5:59 AM EDTAI

Apple's iPhone 18 Pro Ships a Variable Aperture and a 2nm Chip — and Barely Mentions AI

5:54 AM EDTApple Announces Watch Audio Intelligence That Listens So You Don't Have To
/ SEP 9
8:54 PM EDTAI

Anthropic's own safety lead puts 10% odds on AI killing everyone — and admits there's no plan

A researcher quit, a safety team lead agreed with him on X, and Anthropic still has no alignment roadmap for superintelligence. The demo is not the product.
8:44 PM EDTTech

Audio-Technica ships a $279 open-back wireless headphone that leaks sound on purpose

8:36 PM EDTAI

OECD's Biggest Student Study Yet Finds AI Use Mostly Hurts Grades

8:28 PM EDTTech

Lucasfilm sends the original, unaltered Star Wars to IMAX 70mm for the first time ever

The 1977 cut — no added scenes, no digital tweaks — hits 70mm IMAX screens in February 2027. The new 'Starfighter' follows three months later.
5:37 AM EDTAI

Andrew Garfield plays Sam Altman in a biopic that looks more like a horror film

5:10 AM EDTAI

Meta Ships Muse, an AI Agent That Runs Your Life — If You Trust Meta With It

5:05 AM EDTWhite House Quietly Pulls 'Build the Wall' After the Tetris Company Flags Copyright Concerns
/ SEP 8
7:46 PM EDTAI

Chrome ships every two weeks now, and AI is why

Google's Chrome 153 kicks off a new two-week release cycle — shorter patch gaps, faster features, and a direct response to AI-accelerated threats and AI-accelerated competition.
7:41 PM EDTTech

Nintendo puts Ocarina of Time remake on the November calendar — right next to GTA VI

/ SEP 7
6:51 PM EDTPolicy

Huawei's New Trifold Copies Samsung's Homework, Then Marks Up the Tuition

/ SEP 5
12:38 AM EDTPolicy

The White House Ships a Tetris Clone. Tetris Would Like It Deleted.

A taxpayer-funded arcade of Trump-branded browser games rips the mechanics straight from Tetris, and the company says nobody asked its permission. Property rights, it turns out, apply to government websites too.
/ SEP 4
2:11 PM EDTTech

Tesla Ships the Cybercab Without Pedals or Mirrors, and Washington Notices Fast

9:03 AM EDTTech

Aqara unveils a full smart lighting lineup at IFA 2026 — no price tag attached

/ SEP 3
11:09 PM EDTTesla's Cybercab Launch Skips the Livestream, Keeps the NDAs
6:04 PM EDTTech

Lenovo's Rollable Laptop Stretches From 14 to 17 Inches, Price Not Included

At IFA 2026, Lenovo showed off the ThinkBook Project Swan, a business laptop whose screen unrolls on demand — proof the format is nearly ready for retail, even if Lenovo won't say what it would cost you.
6:02 PM EDTAI

Anker Wants Your Security Footage to Stay Home, Not in Someone Else's Cloud

6:02 PM EDTAI

Nvidia ships free software that turns your spare laptop into a data center rack

/ SEP 2
8:59 PM EDTAI

Amazon Ships an AI Fraud-Checker Because Its Own Emails Look Like Phishing

Alexa for Shopping will now tell you if that 'your order shipped' text is real, addressing a scam problem that reportedly drives 360,000 support calls a year — no new law required.
3:48 PM EDTTech

Google keeps AdX, and the DOJ's antitrust win shrinks to a redline memo

10:44 AM EDTTech

Acer unveils a gaming handheld that folds into a laptop nobody can actually buy

/ SEP 1
9:36 PM EDTApple Renames Lake Ontario 'Lake America,' Bowing to Trump's Executive Order
5:54 AM EDTTech

Google Quietly Hikes the TV Streamer's Price by 50 Percent

No press release, no keynote — just a new sticker price. The device that replaced Chromecast now costs $149, and Google isn't explaining why.
/ AUG 30
11:31 PM EDTTech

Valve Left an API Wide Open, and 12TB of PC Gaming History Walked Out the Door

/ AUG 29
12:48 PM EDTTech

Xbox Says Its Next Console Is Actually Several Consoles

/ AUG 28
11:46 AM EDTTech

Apple TV Hits $14.99 a Month, Its Fourth Price Hike in Four Years

The subscription jumps $2 to $14.99 monthly and $20 to $119 annually, with Apple One climbing to $21.95 — the latest markup in a streaming industry that keeps finding new numbers to charge.
2:06 AM EDTTech

Meta Patches The Loophole Behind Its 'Pervert Glasses' Problem, Ships A Billboard Too

/ AUG 27
11:57 AM EDTAI

Plaud's AI earbuds record your meetings, summarize them, and ship in September

/ AUG 26
2:03 PM EDTTech

Apple sets September 9 for 'Surprise and Shine' — and the foldable iPhone might finally be real

/ AUG 25
8:31 PM EDTAI

Instagram's First Draft Trims Your Reels Without Calling It AI

Meta's new auto-editing feature cuts pauses and silences from your clips — and the company is notably careful about the word 'artificial intelligence.'
8:31 PM EDTTech

DHS Wants $103,265 Per H-1B Visa — and This Time It's Going Through the Rulebook

/ AUG 24
9:46 AM EDTTech

Chinese humanoid robots beat Usain Bolt's 100-meter record — then crash into a wall

/ AUG 23
9:52 AM EDTTech

The green-card process now sends push notifications

URPE Integral Services shipped an app that lets immigrants watch their own case move through the system in real time — a first for an industry that still runs on manila folders and unreturned calls.
/ AUG 21
8:49 PM EDTTech

TikTok Pays $400 Million to Settle DOJ Child Privacy Case — One of the Largest COPPA Recoveries Ever

/ AUG 20
6:54 PM EDTTech

Roblox Signs Court-Enforceable Deal After Australia Finds Adults Still Reaching Kids on the Platform

/ AUG 19
11:41 AM EDTTech

Framework refreshes the Laptop 12 with new Intel chips, Linux out of the box, and a lower starting price

/ AUG 18
6:29 PM EDTAI

Robin Williams' kids reactivate his Instagram to fight the AI slop machine

Zelda, Zak, and Cody Williams are turning their late father's dormant account into a verified archive of authentic clips and photos — a direct counter to unauthorized deepfakes flooding the platform.
6:28 PM EDTTech

Apple rewrites its EU App Store fees — again — and this time it actually simplifies the math

9:22 AM EDTTech

Apple Leaks Its Own Camera AirPods Inside a macOS Beta

/ AUG 17
4:21 PM EDTTech

Sonos Ships iPhone Lockscreen Controls Two Years After Breaking Them

Live Activities support lands in the latest iOS app update — a feature Sonos quietly killed in 2023 and has been promising to restore ever since the 2024 app disaster.
4:20 PM EDTTech

Germany's Cartel Office Catches Apple Tilting Its Own Privacy Pop-Ups in Its Favor

4:20 PM EDTTech

YouTube Rewrites Its View Counter to Match TikTok — and the Numbers Will Never Look the Same

4:19 PM EDTUber bets on Zipline drones to hit 1 million daily Eats deliveries by 2029
/ AUG 14
5:40 PM EDTAI

Google lets you strip the sparkle off AI content — the invisible watermark stays, whether you like it or not

A new toggle in Gemini and Flow makes visible AI watermarks optional. SynthID and C2PA metadata remain embedded and cannot be turned off.
5:39 PM EDTTech

Netflix Shuts Down Night School Studio Six Weeks After Calling Its Game a Top Performer

/ AUG 13
3:45 PM EDTAI

Microsoft Merges Its Two Copilot Apps and Kills Podcasts, Group Chat, and Deep Research Along the Way

/ AUG 12
6:06 PM EDTAI

Amazon turns Twitch into a training dataset — opt out or you're in

Twitch quietly defaulted every streamer's content into Amazon's generative AI pipeline. The chief product officer's explanation for why it isn't opt-in is at least honest, which is more than you can say for the framing.
/ AUG 11
5:46 PM EDTAI

ChatGPT and Gemini Both Cross 1 Billion Users — But the Numbers Are Not the Same

5:45 PM EDTAI

Anthropic Embeds Invisible Watermarks in Claude Text — and the Fine Print Is Already Complicated

/ AUG 10
4:23 PM EDTZuckerberg's $300M Yacht Was Closer — A Replica Steamship Did the Job Anyway
4:22 PM EDTTech

Boeing Sells Its eVTOL Bets to Archer Aviation, Takes a 16.5% Stake in Return

Wisk Aero, SkyGrid, and Insitu are all heading to Archer in a deal that lets Boeing refocus on its 6,200-plane backlog — and still keep a seat at the autonomous-flight table.
4:21 PM EDTAI

Zuckerberg Publishes 6,500-Word AI Manifesto and Calls the Doom Crowd's Bluff

12:11 PM EDTTech

Google Opens the Play Store to a Rival App Store — And It Won't Be the Last

/ AUG 8
7:48 PM EDTScience

Amazon's Texas Power Plant Could Out-Pollute Every Coal Plant in America

A new natural-gas facility in Pecos County is permitted to emit 33 million tons of CO2 per year — and Amazon's own climate pledge is now the awkward footnote.
/ AUG 7
11:31 PM EDTTech

One Night Only cut 'so much nudity' because theater audiences now flinch at on-screen sex

10:38 AM EDTTech

New Mexico hits Meta with $942 million in child safety rulings — and the platform is still appealing

/ AUG 6
5:41 PM EDTFCC kills the 39% broadcast ownership cap, opening the door to national TV consolidation
1:26 PM EDTTech

Ford Names Its Sub-$30K Electric Truck 'Fathom' and Bets the UEV Platform on It

The Fathom starts at $28,350, ships from Louisville in fall 2027, and is Ford's first ground-up EV design — built by a skunkworks team stacked with Tesla and Rivian talent to undercut a market where the average new car costs $50,000.
/ AUG 5
4:18 PM EDTAI

Google Assistant is dead on Android — Gemini takes over September 4th

11:54 AM EDTTech

Disney+ pipes TikTok fan videos into its app and calls it a content strategy

7:37 AM EDTScience

SpaceX's First Earnings Call Was Elon Musk Saying a Big Number and His CFO Immediately Trying to Survive It

Musk declared $100B ARR 'not a question mark' and moved the trillion-dollar revenue target up a year. His executives spent the call quietly mopping up behind him.
/ AUG 4
7:10 PM EDTTech

Apple Pulled Telegram From the App Store Without a Phone Call — Durov Says That's the Real Bug

7:10 PM EDTTech

BMW Pushes Spider-Man Ads to Dashboards It Promised Would Stay Ad-Free

10:37 AM EDTOpenAI Publishes the Receipts in Apple's Trade-Secret Fight
2:22 AM EDTPolicy

UEFA Wants Heads to Roll After FIFA's Secret World Cup Sale Collapses

Europe's football body welcomed FIFA's retreat on its privatization plan — then immediately demanded accountability for whoever cooked it up behind closed doors.
2:21 AM EDTTech

Spider-Man: Brand New Day Opens to $360 Million, the Biggest Domestic Weekend in Box Office History

/ AUG 3
10:01 PM EDTCulture

A Scottish photographer spent a decade finding red hair across America — and accidentally documented the whole country

10:01 PM EDTCulture

Liv Morgan Retains the Women's World Title at SummerSlam, Doesn't Need the Help

Morgan pinned Iyo Sky with a clean Oblivion at U.S. Bank Stadium — her first successful title defense in over 100 days — and the interference from her own stable nearly blew the whole thing up.
10:00 PM EDTPolicy

Homemade bomb kills three at Moscow restaurant, investigation underway

10:00 PM EDTCulture

Renegade Wins the Jim Dandy, Keeps the Edge Over Commandant Heading Into the Travers

10:00 PM EDTNetherlands sweeps both EuroHockey U-21 titles in Valencia, Spain takes silver and bronze
9:57 PM EDTPolicy

Two Gunmen Open Fire Outside Idaho In-N-Out, Triggering Lockdowns and Mass Panic

Cellphone footage captured the shooting near Twin Falls' Blue Lakes Boulevard on Saturday; police shut down the Perrine Bridge and placed surrounding businesses on lockdown.
5:26 PM EDTPolicy

Dogs Shred Waves at Pacifica and Nobody Is Mad About It

5:25 PM EDTPolicy

Uganda contained Ebola in 20 cases. Next door, DR Congo just crossed 1,500 deaths.

5:25 PM EDTTech

Russia's Sanctioned Ghost Ship Runs Military Hardware to Mali Through the English Channel

BBC Verify tracked the Mikhail Britnev from a Russian Baltic port to Togo, where its cargo of armored vehicles began a land journey to Bamako. Sanctions, apparently, are decorative.
5:21 PM EDTPolicy

Arizona Man Detained in Nancy Guthrie Case Sues Sheriff's Office for $3.25M, Says He Was Never Cleared

5:13 PM EDTPolicy

Spain Deploys Floating Barrier at Ceuta After 67 Deaths and 50,000 Crossings

5:10 PM EDTUCLA marmot researchers open an OnlyFans account because the NSF said no
12:59 PM EDTPolicy

This Story Is Not About Technology and We Both Know It

Infobae ran 800 words on a dancer's breakup and her dog. Voltage does not cover this. Here is why you are still reading.
12:58 PM EDTTech

Microsoft Names a Russian Hacking Campaign Targeting Hotel Wi-Fi — and the Malware Is Already on Windows PCs

12:58 PM EDTTech

Ariana Grande Skips the Press Tour and Ships 'petal' Anyway

12:54 PM EDTPolicy

Swalwell's dead campaign keeps paying lawyers with donor money — $150K more since May

The disgraced ex-congressman has no office to run for and no campaign to speak of, but the checks to his law firm keep clearing. A bipartisan bill wants to make that illegal.
12:52 PM EDTAI

Alibaba Ships Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-Trillion-Parameter Model That Benchmarks Just Behind Anthropic's Best

8:27 AM EDTTech

Spider-Man: Brand New Day Turns the Multiplex Into a $309 Million Billboard

8:27 AM EDTCanada Tops CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Group C on Goal Difference After 2-2 Draw With Jamaica
8:26 AM EDTPolicy

Maduro's Government Calls the Opposition — A First Meeting Is Set for Next Week in Caracas

Jorge Rodríguez confirmed a phone call with opposition Assembly president Dinorah Figuera to launch what he called an 'inclusive and effective' dialogue. The agenda includes earthquake victims, democratic guarantees, and political rights.
8:25 AM EDTTech

Amazon Prime Video's August 2026 lineup includes Reacher Season 4, a Maia Reficco romance, and a Colson Whitehead adaptation

8:24 AM EDTTech

Crypto data CEO allegedly drained $5M from his own startup, then deleted 194 expense records on the way out

8:23 AM EDTPolicy

Wisconsin Democrat Francesca Hong Can't Say Yes or No on Defunding the Police — CNN Notices

The polling frontrunner for the Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial nomination dodged a direct question on defund-the-police on CNN, while old DSA tweets and socialist positions continue to surface.
8:22 AM EDTTech

The White House Is Using Bad Bunny and Drake to Soundtrack Its Deportation Videos on TikTok

4:09 AM EDTTech

KCAL 96.7 fires its entire on-air staff and hands the mic to an algorithm

4:08 AM EDTColo Colo's coach has no idea if their announced goalkeeper is actually coming
4:07 AM EDTCulture

Jonathan Taylor Thomas surfaces in a reunion photo and then, presumably, disappears again

Patricia Richardson posted a snapshot with her 'Home Improvement' TV sons, giving fans the rarest of sightings: JTT in 2025.
4:02 AM EDTPolicy

Divers Pull Second Body From New Jersey's Passaic River After Two Children Drown in Two Days

4:02 AM EDTTech

Mexico City's Air Quality Hits 'Bad' With 'High' Health Risk, August 1 Report Shows

4:00 AM EDTPolicy

Socialist NY Assemblyman-Elect Runs a GoFundMe While a $142K Salary Waits in Albany

Brian Romero won 66% of the Democratic primary, faces zero Republican opposition, and still can't make rent — so he asked the internet for $2,000. He took the page down when the New York Post called.
3:59 AM EDTPolicy

Federal Judge Blocks Somalia TPS Termination Again, One Day After Appeals Court Reversed Her Colleagues

12:04 AM EDTPolicy

Bomb Kills Three at Moscow Restaurant in Suspected Suicide Attack

12:03 AM EDTIranian Hackers Hit Water Systems in Michigan and Minnesota — and the FBI Is Investigating
12:03 AM EDTBusiness

Argentina's Credit Market Runs on Two Engines — and Only One Is Working

Dollar loans to exporters hit a record high while peso credit to households contracts 10.9% in real terms. The split tells you everything about who Milei's model is built for — and who it isn't, yet.
12:02 AM EDTTech

A 42-Year-Old Childhood Obesity Theory Is Probably Just Wrong

12:02 AM EDTCulture

Yahaira Plasencia defends the promoter that pulled Daniela Darcourt offstage mid-show

12:01 AM EDTTech

Calvin Ridley lost 15 pounds in 24 hours and Chipotle is taking the blame

The Titans wide receiver opened up about a brutal offseason stomach bug. The fast-casual burrito chain has not been linked to any Cyclospora outbreak, but here we are.
12:01 AM EDTTech

Samsung Slaps a 7% Discount on the Galaxy S24 Ultra in Mexico and Calls It a Deal

/ AUG 2
7:53 PM EDTPolicy

Italy Wants to Freeze Spain Out of Schengen. It Legally Cannot.

7:52 PM EDTAmericans Are Having Less Sex, and the Data Says That's Mostly Fine
7:52 PM EDTTech

This source is about watering cacti, not technology

The submitted source contains no technology, AI, platform, or policy content that Voltage can report on.
7:51 PM EDTPolicy

Minnesota Assisted Living Facility Served a Mentally Ill Resident 18 Shots Before His Doctor's Appointment

7:50 PM EDTCulture

Leonardo DiCaprio Takes a Yacht Break in Saint-Tropez and the Internet Notices

7:47 PM EDTPolicy

Mamdani Buys Time on NYC's Pied-à-Terre Tax After 17,000 Letters Went to the Wrong People

The socialist mayor extended the appeal deadline to September 18 after his own Department of Finance mailed tax notices to far more residents than the city ever said would be affected.
7:45 PM EDTCulture

It: Welcome to Derry Season 2 Goes to the Depression-Era 1930s — and Won't Look Away

3:32 PM EDTPolicy

Sophie Cunningham gives a kid her game shoe and Portland still boos her

3:32 PM EDTPolicy

Argentina's drug smugglers are hiding cocaine inside fuel tanker trucks — and Gendarmería keeps finding it

3:29 PM EDTCulture

Kevin Durant says the new 76ers have four 25-point scorers and nobody called it unfair

Durant pointed out the double standard: his Warriors superteam got roasted, LeBron's Philadelphia stack is getting a standing ovation. The math hasn't changed, just the name on the jersey.
3:28 PM EDTPolicy

U.S. Raises Travel Alert for Ceuta as Morocco Migration Crisis Turns Dangerous

3:28 PM EDTTech

A Parasite From Mexico Wipes Out Demand for American Lettuce — and Nobody's Crop Was Even Infected

3:28 PM EDTPolicy

ICE Picks Up Guatemalan Man Charged With Rape After Massachusetts Jail Releases Him

Rocael Ordonez-Cruz, 23, walked out of Middlesex County House of Correction before federal agents were waiting. The charges — rape, assault to rape, indecent assault, indecent exposure — were already filed.
3:27 PM EDTPolicy

AeroDiana Small Plane Crashes Near Nazca Lines, Killing All 13 on Board

11:06 AM EDTCulture

Cardinals' Quinn Mathews and Tigers' Max Clark Are the Fantasy Baseball Pickups You Actually Need Right Now

11:05 AM EDTTech

A Dallas startup rents humanoid robots by the hour — and Trump's China tariffs are already complicating the roadmap

11:05 AM EDTPolicy

Iran Is Reading Your Troops' Instagram. The Pentagon Is Finally Doing Something About It.

U.S. service members in Jordan may soon lose their phones after CENTCOM's top commander warned that open-source social media posts are helping Iran score its own missile strikes.
11:03 AM EDTPolicy

UN Special Rapporteur warns Chile's Supreme Court mass judge removals threaten judicial independence

11:03 AM EDTCulture

Paula Echevarría's father dies at 76; actress says 'my heart is broken' in Instagram farewell

11:00 AM EDTCulture

Charlie Hunnam Lost 30 Pounds in Three and a Half Weeks to Play Ed Gein — Then Adopted Kittens to Decompress

The 46-year-old actor went deep into the darkest research of his career for Ryan Murphy's Netflix limited series, then found an unlikely coping mechanism between takes.
7:01 AM EDTPolicy

Panama Re-Bids a $139M Wastewater Plant After the First Contract Came Back Unsigned

7:00 AM EDTPolicy

Venezuelan Red Cross Maps a Two-Year Tech-Assisted Relief Operation After the June Earthquakes

6:59 AM EDTPolicy

Chilean gang used a fake mechanic gig on social media to kidnap a family — five arrested, three of them minors

6:58 AM EDTAI

Meta wants to run your entire business for you — for a fee tied to results

Zuckerberg is pitching AI agents that go way beyond customer chat: think market analysis, competitor research, and full back-office automation, billed like an ad campaign. Over a million businesses are already on the platform. The hard part is everything that comes after the demo.
6:58 AM EDTPolicy

Medicare's GLP-1 Bridge Program Ships — With a $50 Co-Pay, a Hard Cutoff Date, and Rules That Don't Quite Add Up

6:57 AM EDTPolicy

Ecuador Seizes 627 Kilos of Cocaine from Peru-Origin Container Bound for Germany

2:58 AM EDTScience

William Shatner's Doctor Called It a Salivary Gland. It Was Stage 4 Cancer.

The 95-year-old 'Star Trek' actor says a second opinion saved his life after his first physician dismissed a lump on his face — and his daughter was fighting her own cancer diagnosis at the same time.
2:57 AM EDTPolicy

Colombia's Lottery Apps Still Can't Publish the Actual Numbers

2:55 AM EDTPolicy

ICE Arrests Man for Third Deportation After He Killed a U.S. Marine and Kept Coming Back

2:53 AM EDTJuliette Lewis Plays the Villain This Time — and Gets Shot for It
2:53 AM EDTTech

Schools Stopped Teaching Heroes. TikTok Filled the Gap.

A Heritage Foundation fellow argues that gutting historical role models from classrooms didn't produce critical thinkers — it produced kids who take moral cues from influencers.
/ AUG 1
10:39 PM EDTPolicy

Minnesota Assisted Living Gave a Resident 18 Shots Before His Doctor's Appointment

10:37 PM EDTPolicy

Iran Executes 20-Year-Old Protester for 'Waging War Against God'

10:37 PM EDTPolicy

Venezuela's Last Opposition Mayor Begs Maduro's Government for a Backhoe

Henry Maldonado, the only opposition mayor in Barinas state, is doing flood-prevention work with a single piece of heavy machinery — and asking the regime that starves his budget to send more.
10:36 PM EDTTech

Disney+ Cancels Wonder Man After Promising a Second Season It Never Made

10:34 PM EDTBusiness

A Mexican supplier's parasite outbreak is destroying California's lettuce industry — and the growers didn't cause it

10:34 PM EDTPolicy

Argentina's Government Sends Inspectors to Schools to Enforce Its New 'Essential Service' Strike Rules

7:29 PM EDTTech

26 Armed Groups Now Run 95% of Venezuela's Southern Mining Territory, NGO Finds

SOS Orinoco's 2026 report maps a criminal ecosystem — including the ELN and FARC — that has effectively replaced the Venezuelan state across Amazonas, Bolívar, Delta Amacuro, and the Essequibo.
7:28 PM EDTBusiness

Only Four Chilean Companies Actually Embed Nature Into Their Business Strategy — The Rest Are Greenwashing With Better Branding

7:28 PM EDTPolicy

Chicago Teachers Union Boss Will Collect Petition Signatures for Mayor Johnson If He Won't Do It Himself

7:28 PM EDTBusiness

Kevin Warsh Caused a 'Credibility Shock' at the Fed — Now the Yield Curve Will Grade His Homework

The new Fed chairman's July 29, 2026 press conference was so dovish it will likely force a hawkish outcome, according to Bank of America. Wall Street is watching the bond market to see if anyone believes him.
7:27 PM EDTPolicy

Michigan Pastor Collected $75,000 From Senate Candidate While Endorsing Him on Air

7:27 PM EDTTech

Amazon México puts ASUS TUF Gaming laptops on sale at up to 37% off

7:26 PM EDTTech

Miami's University of Miami Runs a $5M Accelerator That's Quietly Becoming the On-Ramp for Latin American Founders

7:26 PM EDTTech

Iran-Linked Hackers Hit Water Systems in at Least Seven U.S. States

The FBI and EPA confirm intrusions into industrial control systems at water treatment plants — no contamination yet, but CISA is already telling operators to pull the plug on internet-connected controllers.
7:25 PM EDTBusiness

Argentina's truck market stalls out in July, dragging total car sales deeper into the red

7:25 PM EDTTech

Amazon México Is Selling Back-to-School Notebooks and Calling It News

7:24 PM EDTPolicy

State Department Plans to Spend $175 Million on Undersea Cables to Keep China Out of Central America

A congressional notification obtained by the AP reveals the Trump administration wants to replace aging submarine telecom infrastructure in the Caribbean — and deny Beijing a foothold it has been quietly building for years.
7:24 PM EDTTech

Truth Social Launches a $100,000-a-Month API and Wall Street Is Already Paying

7:23 PM EDTPolicy

Trump's $14.7M Reflecting Pool Reno Was the Vandal

7:22 PM EDTPolicy

Sánchez Calls Meloni's Border Controls 'Selfish and Unlawful' After 60,000 Migrants Breach Ceuta

7:22 PM EDTTech

Suspected Iranian Hackers Hit Water Systems in Minnesota and Michigan — and the Feds Still Won't Say Who Did It

Cyberattacks on more than 30 Minnesota water utilities have spread to nine Michigan systems. Iran is the working theory. Nobody is saying so officially.
7:21 PM EDTPolicy

Trump Overrules His Own DOJ on the Reflecting Pool — In Public, on Truth Social

7:20 PM EDTPolicy

Trump posts the '51st State' Venezuela map again — and this time there are talks to back it up

7:19 PM EDTPolicy

Trump Posts 'State 51' Venezuela Map and Says the Country Isn't Ready for Elections Yet

The president shared a Truth Social image of Venezuela draped in the Stars and Stripes — but held off on a timeline, calling the situation a work in progress under interim president Delcy Rodríguez.