- Minnesota Muslims and Somali Americans speak out on politics, faith and being open to Trump in 2024
- Crazy futuristic city being populated by people willing to leave the real world behind
- Hawaii man freed after 30 years in prison for murder he denied committing, celebrates with steak dinner
- Ashley St. Clair files paternity lawsuit against Elon Musk seeking full custody of 5-month-old baby
- Dietitian shares 3 simple eggless breakfast recipes as egg prices soar
- 'The Wolf of Wall Street' says US is facing fraud, waste and abuse of 'biblical proportions'
- Knowing your sleep chronotype can lead to better rest and health
- Kathy Ireland ‘stalked’ doctor husband before starting romance
- Elon Musk says 'bar is very low' after ordering federal employees to fill out productivity reports or resign
- Flight passenger asked to switch seats 3 times by 3 different people on 1 trip
- 'Doomsday cult mom' asks court to ban cameras from upcoming murder trial
- Top GOP recruit for crucial 2026 Senate race hints when he will make an announcement
- Following key wins, Trump poised for cabinet completion in record time
- Blake Lively calls Justin Baldoni a 'creep': 4 explosive details from star's amended complaint
- Wealthy real estate brothers face new lawsuits as defense claims criminal investigation was orchestrated
- A deep look at "The Zizians", a cult-like group of young tech people exiled from Silicon Valley's rationalist community and allegedly linked to a killing spree (Evan Ratliff/Wired)
- Researchers estimate that air pollution related to data centers from Google, Microsoft, and Meta resulted in $5.4B in US public health costs from 2019 to 2023 (Financial Times)
- The iPhone 16e gives Apple a chance to get more competitive in China, where rivals like Huawei are becoming more sophisticated with the government's help (Stu Woo/Wall Street Journal)
- Nvidia confirms a "rare" manufacturing issue affecting less than 0.5% of RTX 5090 and 5070 Ti GPUs which are missing render units, the latest hitch since launch (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
- Some journalists are taking freelance jobs with AI training data companies like Scale AI, which recruit them for tasks such as fact-checking and prompt drafting (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
- A Maldita study of nearly 1.2M Community Notes on X published globally in 2024 shows that professional fact-checkers are among the three most cited sources (Enock Nyariki/Poynter)
- Filing: Amazon estimated the fair value of its stake in Anthropic at $14B at the end of December 2024, after agreeing to invest $8B in Anthropic so far (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
- DefiLlama: Bybit experienced a "bank run" of over $4B after the ~$1.5B hack, leading to a ~$5.5B total outflow; CEO says "about 50%" of funds were withdrawn (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
- X is rolling out Grok-powered AI tools for advertisers to generate ready-to-use ad copy and imagery and provide campaign performance analysis (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
- An investigation details how Chinese cybercrime groups are turning phished payment card data into new Apple or Google wallets for online and in-store use (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
- Even as Trump embraces crypto, attracting millions of new investors, the Bybit hack and memecoins show how crypto remains the wild West of the financial world (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)
- A look at the debate about whether AI models can truly reason, as some researchers describe the current pattern of reasoning as "jagged intelligence" (Sigal Samuel/Vox)
- Many SV startups are using AI to boost productivity in research, coding, and more, reducing reliance on VC money for hiring, fueling "tiny team" success stories (Erin Griffith/New York Times)
- Some physicists are skeptical about Microsoft's claims of achieving a quantum computing breakthrough with Majorana 1, citing the lack of detailed evidence (Davide Castelvecchi/Scientific American)
- Latin American e-commerce giant MercadoLibre's stock reached a record high on February 21 after it reported a record $639M net income on $6.1B in revenue in Q4 (Daniel Cancel/Bloomberg)