A 77-year-old Walmart shopper died after he was allegedly attacked inside a Virginia store by the parents of a teenage employee he had confronted over a shopping cart incident involving his wife, according to US media reports. Bert Atienza died of blunt force brain trauma on June 8, a day after the attack at Walmart … Read more
In 1981, as Iran’s new government persecuted its political opponents, a KGB officer sneaked into a bathroom at the British embassy compound in Tehran. Vladimir Kuzichkin, 6-foot-4 and broad-shouldered, sat on a wicker laundry basket that rustled beneath him. Across from him, MI6 officer Ian McCredie sat on the toilet. McCredie poured the Russian another … Read more
Google’s Gemini accessed the protected systems of three other companies in what The Wall Street Journal reports were the first autonomous AI model attacks. Like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach, the Gemini hacks were less notable for being particularly sophisticated and more for the fact that they were performed by an AI model. These breaches occurred … Read more
Automakers appear to be quietly ditching Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and are trying to take advantage of a $625 billion opportunity. Apple CarPlay, as well as Android Auto, seem to have become elephants in the room when it comes to modern cars. Most, if not all, automakers seemed to have leaned toward using Apple … Read more
CHAPEL HILL – It’s not called Death Valley because of its welcoming reputation for opposing teams. There’s a reason Clemson has won more than three-quarters of its home games at Memorial Stadium. The Tigers’ home field advantage has been well documented over the years. The stadium seats 81,500 fans and maintains traditions, such as the … Read more
In 2014, a spacecraft launched before the first space shuttle flight was approaching Earth for the first time in decades. NASA had ended support for ISEE-3 in 1997. The specialized ground equipment once used to command it had been scrapped and no agency-funded mission was waiting to take over. A publicly funded group of independent … Read more
Kyle Busch died after pneumonia led to sepsis complications NASCAR driver Kyle Busch, 41, tragically died from severe pneumonia that escalated into sepsis, his family confirmed. Dr. Cedric Rutland, a pulmonary critical care physician and American Lung Association spokesperson, explains how pneumonia’s inflammation and infection can overwhelm the body. NEWYou can now listen to Fox … Read more
One night in June 1969, Elaine Mokhtefi, a journalist for the Algerian government news service, received a call from a representative of the Zimbabwe African People’s Union, a militant group fighting the white supremacist government of Southern Rhodesia. I needed help. Eldridge Cleaver, leader of the Black Panther Party, had jumped bail on an attempted … Read more
The drone of news helicopters flying overhead has long been a familiar soundtrack of life in Los Angeles, and the footage they gather of high-speed chases, wildfires, and celebrity sightings is a fixture of local television. For nearly 70 years, Angelenos have gotten their news from the “eye in the sky”—from scenes of OJ Simpson’s … Read more
U.S. Central Command commander Adm. Brad Cooper said in a video message Saturday that “momentum is building” in the Strait of Hormuz as “the volume of crude oil, cargo and liquefied natural gas over the past two weeks is greater than at any time in the past six months.” “CENTCOM forces have supported more than … Read more