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Federal authorities have broken up an international crime ring that stole thousands of iPhones from porches nationwide [non-paywalled link], arresting 13 people last month after a sophisticated operation that combined high-tech tools with old-fashioned bribery.
The thieves created software to scrape FedEx tracking numbers and paid AT&T store employees to provide customer order details and delivery addresses, according to WSJ, which cites prosecutors. Armed with this information, runners intercepted packag
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Elon Musk said the Tesla vandalism shocked him, adding that neither he nor his company have done "anything harmful." Read more ›
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Elon Musk told Fox News "they basically want to kill me" when discussing opposition to Tesla. Read more ›
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The value gap between Elon Musk's stakes in Tesla and SpaceX has widened following the slide in the EV maker's stock this year. Read more ›
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Attorney General Pam Bondi said several suspects had been charged over attacks on Tesla property. Elon Musk said the violence was "insane and deeply wrong." Read more ›
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BI spoke to eight Tesla owners who had their personal data exposed on a public site aimed at doxxing Tesla owners and DOGE employees. Read more ›
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The car world is kind of split right now. There are the legacy automakers — the ones you know and love — but there are also the new startups building all-new kinds of cars. The first of that new generation of car companies was Tesla, and obviously by now it’s certainly not a startup. But […] Read more ›
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski also said her GOP colleagues are remaining silent because they're afraid that they're "going to be taken down" or "primaried." Read more ›
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The biggest backer of OpenAI, Microsoft is now building its own AI models and teaming up with Sam Altman's mortal enemy. Read more ›
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Today I’m focusing on Donald Trump’s purge of Democrats from an agency responsible for policing corporate America, another attempt to eliminate lawful checks on the president’s authority. What’s […] Read more ›
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The Marvel anti-hero's cameo in Daredevil: Born Again teases what's to come for the character. Read more ›
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Disney's latest live-action adaptation isn't perfect, but it's enchanting enough–thanks to a remarkable turn by Rachel Zegler. Read more ›
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Ted Sarandos disagrees with Max's rebranding, doesn't see Amazon Prime competing with Netflix, and doesn't get Apple TV. Read more ›
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that "a good part" of inflation will likely come from President Donald Trump's trade policies. Read more ›
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Assassin's Creed Shadows is a pretty standalone entry in Ubisoft's long-running series, with fewer ties to what's gone before than any other game in recent memory. Read more Read more ›
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Disney is partnering with Nvidia and Google DeepMind to create Newton, an open-source physics engine that will help robots learn complex tasks. Read more ›
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Stephen Gardner is leaving to ensure Amtrak has "the full faith and confidence of this administration." Read more ›
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Say goodbye to the 'metaverse' as even a cheap Meta Quest hasn't turned things around. Instead, say hello to the return of 'glassholes.' Read more ›
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A Ukrainian Special Operations Forces sniper told BI that the US-made Barrett MRAD made a huge difference. Read more ›
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"SpaceX founder Elon Musk has said his Starship rocket will head to Mars by the end of next year," writes the BBC, "as the company investigates several recent explosions in flight tests." Human landings could begin as early as 2029 if initial missions go well, though "2031 was more likely", he added in a post on his social media platform X... The billionaire said in 2020 that he remained confident... Read more ›
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fahrbot-bot shares a report from Reuters: BYD on Monday unveiled a new platform for electric vehicles (EVs) that it said could charge EVs as quickly as it takes to pump gas and announced for the first time that it would build a charging network across China. The so-called "super e-platform" will be capable of peak charging speeds of 1,000 kilowatts (kW), enabling cars that use it to travel 400 km... Read more ›
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Roku is testing autoplaying video ads that play before users can access the home screen. While Roku claims this is just an experiment, users are threatening to abandon the platform if the change becomes permanent. Ars Technica reports: Reports of Roku customers seeing video ads automatically play before they could view the OS' home screen started appearing online this week. A Reddit user, for example, posted yesterday: "I just turned... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some unsolicited career advice. According to a bug report on Cursor's official forum, after producing approximately 750 to 800 lines of code (what the user calls "locs"), the AI assistant halted work and... Read more ›
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Harvard University on Monday announced that tuition will be free for students from families with annual incomes of $200,000 or less starting in the 2025-26 academic year. From a report: "Putting Harvard within financial reach for more individuals widens the array of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives that all of our students encounter, fostering their intellectual and personal growth," Harvard University President Alan M. Garber said in a statement. "By bringing... Read more ›
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After Meta convinced an arbitrator to temporarily prevent a whistleblower from promoting their book about the company, the book climbed to the top of Amazon's best-seller list. And the book's publisher Macmillan released a defiant statement that "The arbitration order has no impact on Macmillan... We will absolutely continue to support and promote it." (They added that they were "appalled by Meta's tactics to silence our author through the use... Read more ›
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Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan said startups are reaching $1-10 million annual revenue with fewer than 10 employees due to "vibe coding," a term coined by OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy in February. "You can just talk to the large language models and they will code entire apps," Tan told CNBC (video). "You don't have to hire someone to do it, you just talk directly to the large language model that... Read more ›
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Microsoft says that some USB printers will start printing random text after installing Windows updates released since late January 2025. From a report: The known issue affects Windows 10 (version 22H2) and Windows 11 (versions 22H2 and 23H2), but according to an update to the Windows release health dashboard, the latest Windows 11 24H2 is not impacted. "After installing the January 2025 Windows preview update (KB5050092), released January 29, 2025,... Read more ›
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U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance text for hampering American innovation in a speech to entrepreneurs and venture capitalists on Tuesday, arguing that offshoring has eroded U.S. technological leadership. "Our workers have been failed by the government of the last 40 years," Vance told the American Dynamism Summit, criticizing two "conceits" of globalization: that nations manufacturing products wouldn't eventually design them too, and that cheap foreign labor benefits innovation. "As they... Read more ›
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Across high-income countries, humans' ability to reason and solve problems appears to have peaked in the early 2010s and declined since. Despite no changes in fundamental brain biology, test scores for both teenagers and adults show deteriorating performance in reading, mathematics and science. In an eye-opening statistic, 25% of adults in high-income countries now struggle to "use mathematical reasoning when reviewing statements" -- rising to 35% in the US. This... Read more ›
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