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Ukraine's Zelenskyy Claims Strikes on Russian Data Centers Silenced Social Media Bots
Gizmodo - Oct 12, 2026 10:13pm EDT
‘Didn’t foot the bill’: Telstra outage cost the economy half a billion dollars, modelling finds
Households and small businesses carried the cost of Telstra’s July outage, consumer advocates say, as the Senate debates mobile reliability laws this week.
Sydney Morning Herald - Oct 12, 2026 8:55pm EDT
Houston man run over by ICE vehicle will need additional surgery, advocates say
ICE has said he wasn’t the target of the attempted traffic stop. His team said he fled because the vehicle was unmarked and didn’t use sirens.
NBC News - Oct 12, 2026 8:45pm EDT
I get paid £120,000 a year to make social media videos go viral
Social media "clippers" make short, vertical videos that appear on the likes of Instagram and TikTok.
BBC News - Oct 12, 2026 7:24pm EDT
AI is creating a 'human premium' for art created by people
Amid a surge in AI content, many are placing extra value on art that's obviously made by a human. But can that last, asks Ros Atkins
BBC News - Oct 12, 2026 6:38pm EDT
Trump says ‘we’re looking at’ firing Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece
The president’s remarks come days after a Trump donor alleged Guilfoyle tried to get him to pay $100,000 to get rid of her credit card debt shortly before her confirmation hearing.
NBC News - Oct 12, 2026 6:32pm EDT
Meta claims reaching AI 'frontier' with release of 2 new models
Tech giant Meta unveiled two new artificial intelligence models, called Wonder and Wonder Full, on Monday, which the company claims perform at a level...
Daily Sabah - Oct 12, 2026 5:32pm EDT
Chicago police find killer in 65-year-old cold case murder of little girl — one of their own
DNA technology that didn’t exist when Gloria Kowalewicz, 8, was killed in 1960 led investigators to Thomas F. McInerney Jr., who was a homicide detective for the Chicago Police Department.
NBC News - Oct 12, 2026 5:13pm EDT
“I’m furious,” U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes told a Justice Department lawyer. “I trusted you all not to do precisely what you have done.”
NBC News - Oct 12, 2026 3:29pm EDT
A Guide to Which AI CEOs Now Say 'Super Intelligence' and Which Don't
Gizmodo - Oct 12, 2026 2:56pm EDT
GOP ad buyer mixes up Portlands, spends money meant to help Maine Sen. Susan Collins in Oregon
An outside group mistakenly spent nearly $25,000 to boost Collins in Portland, Oregon, rather than Portland, Maine. The buyer admitted to the error and refunded the PAC.
NBC News - Oct 12, 2026 2:15pm EDT
Tech leaders call for AI kill switch as guardrails debate intensifies | Fox News Video
The 'Outnumbered' panel discusses the tech leaders advocating for an artificial intelligence kill switch as Anthropic bans abusive language toward bots.
Fox News - Oct 12, 2026 2:15pm EDT
Russia was not ready for the data center war it started with Ukraine
Russian bloggers warn Russia’s hyper-centralized digital economy is vulnerable.
Ars Technica - Oct 12, 2026 1:56pm EDT
OpenAI claims we've entered the AGI era — has GPT-6 Astra really demonstrated general intelligence?
Live Science - Oct 12, 2026 1:24pm EDT
Meta debuts Muse Wonder AI model in latest test of users' willingness to pay
Meta introduced Muse Wonder, its latest AI model, but users have to pay for subscriptions to the Muse app to access it.
CNBC - Oct 12, 2026 1:23pm EDT
HCLTech, Anthropic Partner To Scale Governed Agentic AI Across Global Enterprises
Deccan Chronicle - Oct 12, 2026 1:09pm EDT
Gizmodo - Oct 12, 2026 12:24pm EDT
Anthropic’s Claude AI submits a false tip on a Philadelphia unsolved homicide case
Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5 submitted a false tip on an unsolved Philadelphia homicide case during an AI testing task.
One America News Network - Oct 12, 2026 11:06am EDT
Social media star from Jersey joins Blue Peter
Leo Olsson joins the series after building an online following doing "bucket list" challenges.
BBC News - Oct 12, 2026 10:57am EDT
Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 Keeps Its Prime Day Price Tag as Amazon Quietly Lets the Discount Linger
Gizmodo - Oct 12, 2026 10:13am EDT
He Journeyed Deep Into Elon Musk’s Brain. Spoiler: It Wasn’t Pretty.
Alex Gibney on his “traumatizing” new documentary.
Slate - Oct 12, 2026 9:55am EDT
In new Elon Musk documentary, his lieutenants are the most damning voices
“Musk,” the new film from Alex Gibney, features interviews with more than the usual critics of the Tesla and SpaceX CEO.
NBC News - Oct 12, 2026 9:30am EDT
Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.
CNBC - Oct 12, 2026 9:12am EDT
Some OpenAI math discoveries are ‘jewels,’ if verified. But mathematicians are wary of ‘slop.’
OpenAI says it solved more than 370 math problems. Mathematicians say there could be breakthroughs in the bunch, if verified — but that’s no easy task with unpolished work.
NBC News - Oct 12, 2026 9:01am EDT