Tennessee National Guard members assigned to a federal anti-crime task force in Memphis fatally shot an armed 20-year-old man in the back in July, an autopsy report obtained by The Associated Press shows, contradicting police accounts that the man was facing the troops when they fired.

Earlier this week, I was at OpenAI's annual DevDay conference where it launched Dots, a personal agent that lives inside the ChatGPT app. I set up my Dot and named it Puck after the mischievous sprite in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. In the days since then, I've found myself using Puck more and more.

Attorney General Todd Blanche has moved slowly in abortion pill litigation and department officials have told advocates to wait until after the election.

Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously in the background with minimal oversight.

Reddit has announced that it will stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026. This change will affect users who follow...

I can’t believe I live in a time that I have to say this, but I don’t want to read blog posts or work memos or marketing materials that are clearly written by AI. That the human behind …

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Sen. John Kennedy has proposed barring living politicians from having buildings named after them as Trump pushes to rename the Kennedy Center.

The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.

Two big TV news outlets, CBS and CNN, will now be controlled by Trump allies. Some journalists are worried about pressure on their coverage.

Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content.

Stephen Collinson: "The world feels like it’s spinning out of control.""The planet’s two major wars, in Iran and Ukraine, are no longer contained. Experts warn of doomsday scenarios in which AI could wipe out humanity. Soaring energy prices rock industrialized economies blighted by inequalit

Hunted by ICE, Haitians flee across the border to hide in Canada.

HBO Max and BritBox Sept. 17 announced the return of “The Best of British TV by BritBox” to the Warner Bros. Discovery streaming platform. Through Dec. 15, more than 100 episodes of British-themed dramas, mysteries, crime thrillers, and comedies are available on HBO Max subscribers in the United States. Launched in the United States in … Continue reading "‘The Best of British TV by BritBox’ Collection Returns to HBO Max Through Dec. 15"

The far-right parties the White House favors have a foreign-policy agenda that won’t serve American interests.

No, the US does not now own the island

The press obsession with software-powered doomsday is a misdirection overshadowing a much deadlier reality: our public interest regulators no longer function.

While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.

Ex-Googler Claire Stapleton and the Standard’s Heather Kelly on the AI industry’s doom spiral.

The Woodstock Film Festival has unveiled its 2026 lineup featuring 'The Debut,' 'I Play Rocky,' 'Club Kid,' 'Musk' and more.

Steve recalls reading an article in Scientific American when he was 12 years old. The authors measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species (e.g....

A letter from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum revealed new details about warning signs the White House will install near the American-history museum.

iLands and its AI agents are doing completely useless tasks, then begging for money.

Apple recently announced an upcoming feature for their new Apple Watches called “Audio Intelligence,” which will always be listening to a...

According to new Gallup polling, 27% of US workers worry that technology will render their jobs obsolete.

The incident came less than a day after NATO leaders pledged that strikes close to the alliance's territory would drive the trans-Atlantic organization to increase support for Kyiv.

The Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s bid to take unprecedented control...

I think what really happened is a random employee at one of the companies who gives a good interview appeared on the talk shows, and the news people recognize a good story when they see one, and they don't have to have any idea what he's talking about because he's an expert. I have no idea if th…