A ransomware group leaked thousands of internal files from MyPillow on Friday, two days after CEO Mike Lindell denied that a hack had taken place. As first reported by Straight Arrow on Tuesday, the ransomware gang Play announced on its dark web blog earlier this week that it had stolen data from Lindell’s company. The […]
Emily Pool had spent nearly a decade in cramped New York apartments when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. As Pool and her partner, Adam Porter, rethought what they wanted next, they began looking for a house in Pool’s hometown of Austin, Texas. That was 2022. By then, the Texas capital had become one of the country’s […]
“This is something that I wish the media would talk about.” “And the press refuses to write about it.” “And the press doesn’t even want to write stories about it.” That was President Donald Trump speaking shortly after starting his cabinet meeting on Wednesday, referring to his TrumpRx and “Most Favored Nations” policies that he […]
Artificial intelligence is confusing, so confusing that many companies don’t even understand how their AI works, often labeling their systems a “black box.” But another aspect of AI that’s led to confusion is the infrastructure propping it up. For AI to work, it needs data centers to process massive amounts of information. These data centers […]
Corporations are people in the eyes of the U.S. Supreme Court. In Delaware, they can vote. A Delaware judge declined to strike a law allowing a company representative to vote on its behalf in local elections. The lawsuit, filed by a civil rights organization, concerned the “one person, one vote” principle and the legality of […]
The U.S. oil industry is expanding production in reaction to prices that are expected to stay high, even if the war with Iran ends soon. But the increased oil drilling is unlikely to lead directly to price relief at the pump. The tally of active rigs is up from a low point of 466 in […]
President Donald Trump on Wednesday refiled a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the publisher of the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones & Company, that was thrown out by a federal judge last month. News Corp, the WSJ’s parent company, its CEO Robert Thomson, former chair Rupert Murdoch and the reporters who worked on the story are […]
A software engineer at Google faces federal charges after allegedly using insider information to make more than $1.2 million on Polymarket. Michele Spagnuolo, a 36-year-old Italian citizen living in Switzerland, is the latest prediction market user accused of insider trading. While the number of such cases have been mounting, actual arrests and charges have been rare. […]
Two major chemical accidents just a week apart have killed several people and forced thousands to evacuate. That includes an implosion in Washington state and a potential leak in California. While not all accidents are as major as those two, chemical accidents are an ongoing problem in the U.S., where manufacturing still accounts for at […]
The U.S. military has secured permission from Guatemala to launch collaborative strikes against drug cartels within its borders, according to The New York Times. Guatemala is the Latin American nation to authorize domestic U.S. military actions against cartels, following a precedent established by Ecuador earlier this year. According to sources cited by The Times, the […]
