Iranians Brace for War Beneath Veneer of Normalcy
Stores are well-stocked and shortages of food and other essential supplies have not been reported, but many Iranians are in limbo as they wait to see whether U.S. forces will attack.
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Apple will soon make (some) Mac Minis in the US
Apple is preparing to move some of its Mac Mini production to the US as part of the company’s ongoing efforts to appease the Trump administration’s push for domestic investment. Manufacturing is set to begin later this year in north Houston, Texas, at a Foxconn facility that currently assembles Apple’s AI servers. “Apple is deeply…
Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù Criticizes Institutional Racism At BBC
My Father’s Shadow lead Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù shared a lengthy statement on Instagram Monday evening, criticizing what he described as the “institutional racism” behind the BBC’s decision to edit Akinola Davies Jr.’s BAFTA speech but air John Davidson’s involuntary slur. Read the statement in full below. “On a night of incredible joy and celebration, not only…
If you think politics shaped these Winter Olympics, just wait until LA 2028 | Winter Olympics 2026
The Milano Cortina Winter Games ended on Sunday night as the Olympics always do: in light, spectacle and speeches about unity. In Verona, the Olympic flag passed to the French Alps and the twin flames were extinguished. But unofficially, at least, a flame also flickered 6,000 miles west. If these Games felt political, just wait…
The European Union Hits Pause on Its U.S. Trade Deal
The E.U. isn’t throwing out the deal it agreed with the United States before President Trump’s tariffs were overruled, but European officials want more clarity first.
Deepfakes are getting faster than fact-checks, says digital forensics expert Hany Farid
Deepfakes first spread as a tool of a specific and devastating kind of abuse: nonconsensual sexual imagery. Early iterations often were technically crude, with obvious doctoring or voices that didn’t quite sound real. What’s changed is the engine behind them. Generative artificial intelligence has made convincing imitation faster and cheaper to create and vastly easier…
Anthropic says DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax used 24,000 fake accounts to rip off Claude
Anthropic dropped a bombshell on the artificial intelligence industry Monday, publicly accusing three prominent Chinese AI laboratories — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax — of orchestrating coordinated, industrial-scale campaigns to siphon capabilities from its Claude models using tens of thousands of fraudulent accounts. The San Francisco-based company said the three labs collectively generated more than…
bitchy | Princess Kate wore a Gucci gown & a crazy wig to the 2026 BAFTAs
Given the silence around the Prince and Princess of Wales’s BAFTA plans (or lack thereof) this year, I think many of us assumed that Kensington Palace had loosely confirmed that Prince William and Kate would attend this year. If KP had been giving royal reporters the silent treatment about the BAFTAs, we would have gotten…
The Upside of Opening Up DEI Programs to Everyone
There are costs to the decline of targeted diversity programs—but there are also hidden benefits to the new era of universality.
China Amps Up Pressure on Japan With Restrictions on Exports
Beijing placed the restrictions on 20 Japanese entities with ties to the defense industry, the latest ratcheting up of its monthslong feud with Tokyo.