Pentagon-backed Jericho Security raises $15 million to combat deepfake fraud that has already cost North American businesses $200 million in 2025, using AI to detect increasingly convincing voice and video impersonations.Read More
Evan Mobley has won 2024-25 NBA Defensive Player of the Year honors, the league announced Thursday. Mobley is the first Cleveland Cavalier to win the award and, at 23, is the second-youngest player ever to win it, trailing only Dwight Howard, who beat him by a few months in 2008. Now Mobley gives the Cavaliers…
Over three decades have passed since filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt and his daughter, actor Pooja Bhatt, appeared on a now-infamous magazine cover where they were photographed sharing a kiss. The image caused a huge controversy and still lingers in discussions surrounding the Bhatt family. Recently, Mahesh’s son, Rahul Bhatt, was asked to share his thoughts on…
Eighty years since the end of World War II, Mayor Femke Halsema of Amsterdam apologized on Thursday for the city’s role in the persecution of its Jewish residents during the Holocaust, in a rare acknowledgment of a collective moral failure by a city leader. “Amsterdam’s government was, when it mattered, not heroic, not determined and…
Shannon Sharpe announced Thursday that he has decided to temporarily step away from his ESPN duties, four days after a woman filed a $50-million civil lawsuit in which she accuses the “First Take” panelist of raping her while they were in a two-year relationship. The lawsuit, filed Sunday in Clark County, Nev., seeks damages for…
RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Bianca Castro, known by her drag name Jiggly Caliente, was hospitalized following a “severe infection” and had one of her legs amputated. As a result of her health, Castro will also not be appearing on the fourth season of Drag Race Philippines, where she had been a judge since the first…
Ziff Davis, the digital publisher behind tech sites like Mashable, PCMag and Lifehacker, sued OpenAI on Thursday, joining a wave of media companies accusing the artificial intelligence giant of stealing its content. Ziff Davis is one of the largest publishers in the United States, with more than 45 sites globally that together attract an average…
Trump to Putin: ‘Vladimir, STOP!’ Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv killed at least 12 people and injured 90 others yesterday. The attack prompted President Trump to express rare disapproval of Moscow. “Vladimir, STOP!” Trump posted on social media, addressing Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin. “I am not happy with the Russian strikes on KYIV….
Rare cosmic events can feel like being smiled down upon from up above. However, on the morning of April 25, an actual smiley face will appear in the sky—kind of. Venus, Saturn, and the moon will align in a pattern called a triple conjunction. Given the moon will be in its crescent form, the lineup…
Jamal CollierApr 24, 2025, 08:00 AM ET Close Jamal Collier is an NBA reporter at ESPN. Collier covers the Milwaukee Bucks, Chicago Bulls and the Midwest region of the NBA, including stories such as Minnesota’s iconic jersey swap between Anthony Edwards and Justin Jefferson. He has been at ESPN since Sept. 2021 and previously covered…
