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Director M. Night Shyamalan has launched his own YouTube channel, giving him a direct platform to speak with audiences outside traditional press. The channel offers a space for him to share thoughts on his films, including past hits like 'The Sixth Sense' and 'Signs,' as well as recent work such as 'Trap.'
An operator behind more than 22 companies at DRC Ventures argues that small, undocumented decisions—not major pivots or funding rounds—are what most often slow organizational growth. He points to Asana research showing knowledge workers lose about 209 hours annually to duplicated work caused by unclear ownership and unresolved processes.
Ross Cohen, who runs SBA lender B:Side Capital and AI firm Main & Machine, describes how his staff's first reaction to an AI adoption announcement was fear of layoffs. His fix was to define upfront which tasks—like credit decisions, hardship conversations, and commitments to borrowers—AI would never handle, before choosing any software.
Prediction market Kalshi has permanently banned former Rep. George Santos and fined him $71,356, citing his lack of cooperation during an internal insider-trading probe. Santos had profited over $17,500 by betting he'd skip the State of the Union, then selling those contracts after publicly claiming he'd attend. He previously settled separate CFTC charges over the same scheme, paying more than $35,000 and receiving a three-year trading ban from the agency.
Hobbyist developers have successfully ported Windows NT 4.0 to Nintendo's GameCube console, building on groundwork laid by a project called Entii for Workcubes hosted on GitHub. The feat was recently showcased in a video by Jiga Tech, demonstrating the modding process used to get Microsoft's decades-old operating system running on the aging Nintendo hardware.
Multiple Pixel 11 Pro and Pro XL owners say their screens wake up on their own from minor vibrations, like something being set down nearby or driving over a bump, rather than actually being picked up. The only current fix reported is disabling the 'Lift to check phone' feature entirely, and some users say the feature feels far more sensitive than on earlier Pixel models.
According to CBS News sources, the FBI has quietly relaxed vetting standards for new hires, now permitting candidates with a history of paying for sex up to three times and even those with juvenile incidents of bestiality or animal cruelty, provided they occurred before age 18. The bureau says such allowances are limited to narrow cases, including childhood sexual abuse involving animals, but sources say no distinction is made between willing and coerced acts.
The Federal Trade Commission, joined by 22 state attorneys general, filed suit against Amazon alleging it covertly altered its ad auction rules starting in 2019 to overcharge advertisers by more than $20 billion. The complaint targets Amazon's sponsored products, brand, and display ads, claiming the company misrepresented its 'second-price' auction system while quietly adding surcharges. Amazon has rejected the allegations, calling the lawsuit misguided and saying its auction changes actually saved advertisers billions.
Asus' new ProArt PA279cdv pairs a 27-inch QD-OLED panel with HDR support and extensive physical adjustability, including swivel, tilt, portrait rotation, and a 5-inch height range. It offers a broad port selection, with dual USB-C connections for 96W laptop charging and KVM switching, plus USB-A, HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4, and DisplayPort Out for daisy-chaining, alongside a Windows/macOS companion app for managing its many picture settings.
Brave has rolled out a new 'email aliases' tool in its browser that lets users generate disposable email addresses which forward messages to their real inbox. Users can create up to five free aliases by verifying their main email through Brave's settings, then right-clicking any email field on a website to generate and insert an alias.
OpenAI reported elevated errors and latency on ChatGPT Work, its enterprise AI agent, for about three hours on Monday, while Microsoft separately confirmed degraded functionality across Exchange Online. Downdetector logged over 1,100 reports for OpenAI products and nearly 4,600 for Microsoft Outlook around 2:24 p.m. ET, though the companies gave no indication the two incidents were related.
A collection of Rolodex-style business cards from Los Alamos National Laboratory has been compiled and shared publicly, offering a glimpse into the institution's personnel and administrative history. The cards represent a range of roles and eras at the storied nuclear research facility.