Former Republican congressman George Santos has received a first-of-its-kind lifetime ban from the prediction market platform Kalshi, which has also fined him $71,356 for violating […]
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Why Food Keeps Making Everybody Sick This Summer
This summer, every meal feels like a risk. Just as the US is recovering from a major cyclospora outbreak stemming from tainted iceberg lettuce, salmonella […]
ATM Flaws Reveal Key Weaknesses in the Software Supply Chain
For the past five years, security researcher Matt Burch has immersed himself in the esoteric and high-stakes world of ATM security, in which small software […]
How an Atlanta Suburb Ended Up Sharing Flock Data With More Than 2,000 Organizations
Alpharetta, a prosperous suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, is home to about 67,000 people, served by about 120 local police officers. It also hosts several dozen […]
I Asked 100 Companies for My Data. I Got Deletion Notices Instead
I filed a request with McDonald’s earlier this month to access all of the personal data the fast food company collected about me, and I […]
XGIMI Vibe One Battery-Powered Projector Review (2026)
The pair of built-in, three Watt JBL speakers are adequate here, but as you can imagine, there’s very little in the way of bass frequencies. […]
Scientists Create the Littlest Big Bang to Study the Universe’s Origins
In the very first moments of the universe, matter didn’t exist as we know today. A millionth of a second or so after the big […]
Google Maps Now Shows ‘Lake America’ Instead of Lake Ontario
Lake Ontario is no more on Google Maps in the US. Google changed the name of easternmost of the Great Lakes to “Lake America” late […]
How to Escape Group Chat Hell
A specific cadence for contemporary group chats eludes me. The rapid-fire tempo of texts combined with custom stickers, often based on inside jokes, leaves me […]
Why the Hottest New Wearables Want to Be Ignored
Whoop has made screen-free wearables since its first proper release in 2015, but the shift in what Whoop considers itself to be about mirrors the […]