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A Dark Money Group Is Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers

In a private group chat in June, dozens of Democratic political influencers discussed whether to take advantage of an enticing opportunity. They were being offered $8,000 per month to take part in a secretive program aimed at bolstering Democratic messaging on the internet. But the contract sent to them from Chorus, the nonprofit arm of a liberal influencer marketing platform, came with some strings. Among other issues, it mandated extensive secrecy about disclosing their payments and had restr

Google warns that mass data theft hitting Salesloft AI agent has grown bigger

Google is advising users of the Salesloft Drift AI chat agent to consider all security tokens connected to the platform compromised following the discovery that unknown attackers used some of the credentials to access email from Google Workspace accounts. In response, Google has revoked the tokens that were used in the breaches and disabled integration between the Salesloft Drift agent and all Workspace accounts as it investigates further. The company has also notified all affected account hold

The best MacBook accessories for 2025

There is a mouse graveyard in my office cabinet — devices I’ve tried and discarded because they didn’t help with my shoulder aches. The solution was a roller ball mouse and Logitech’s MX Ergo is the best I’ve found. It tilts for a more natural “handshake” grip and has a slow-mo option for more precise movements in Photoshop and other apps. The scroll wheel is speedy but precise, as is the trackball and you can switch between two devices with the pairing button. You can even program the various b

The 11 Best Greens Powders, Tested and Reviewed (2025)

I took a deep dive on my hunt for the best greens powders, speaking with dietitians and trying popular brands to uncover whether or not they're worth the money. The health supplement market is booming. Thanks to a 1994 FDA ruling that supplements are food and not medicine, it's also unregulated—people are purchasing products that may or may not work, and which could have almost anything in them. Spoiler alert: Greens powders aren’t harmful, ultimately, but the dietitians I spoke to agreed that

Kick accuses French authorities of politicising streamer's death

Kick accuses French authorities of politicising streamer's death 12 hours ago Share Save Graham Fraser Technology Reporter Share Save @jeanpormanove Raphaël Graven, also known as Jean Pormanove, died during a live stream on the Kick website. The streaming platform Kick has accused French authorities of politicising the death of a content creator who passed away during a livestream. Raphaël Graven, also known as Jean Pormanove, was found dead in a residence near the city of Nice last week. Pro

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 29, #340

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition was relatively simple for what I consider to be the toughest of the New York Times' puzzles. If you're struggling but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunda

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 29, #810

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle wasn't terribly tough. Need help finding the answers? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program

Show HN: Grammit – Local-only AI grammar checker (Chrome extension)

Check your grammar and refine your writing with local AI. ✦ AI-Powered Corrections Grammit's AI is great at correcting spelling and grammar mistakes. But it also catches other errors. Did you accidentally write "The theory of evolution was developed by Charles Dickens"? No worries, Grammit will correct that to "Charles Darwin". ✦ AI Rephrasing and Drafting You can ask Grammit to help you with your writing tasks. Just ask it to rephrase your writing to make it more professional and it will do th

Group Borrowing: Zero-cost memory safety with fewer restrictions

Child groups That's a useful rule, and it can get us pretty far. But let's make it even more specific, so we can prove more programs memory-safe. For example, look at this snippet: rs ref hp_ref = d.hp # Ref to contents damage = a.calculate_damage(d) a_energy_cost = a.calculate_attack_cost(d) d_energy_cost = d.calculate_defend_cost(a) a.use_energy(a_energy_cost) d.use_energy(d_energy_cost) d.damage(damage) print(hp_ref) # Valid! The previous (invalid) program had a ring_ref referring to an ele

Group Borrowing: Zero-Cost Memory Safety with Fewer Restrictions

Child groups That's a useful rule, and it can get us pretty far. But let's make it even more specific, so we can prove more programs memory-safe. For example, look at this snippet: rs ref hp_ref = d.hp # Ref to contents damage = a.calculate_damage(d) a_energy_cost = a.calculate_attack_cost(d) d_energy_cost = d.calculate_defend_cost(a) a.use_energy(a_energy_cost) d.use_energy(d_energy_cost) d.damage(damage) print(hp_ref) # Valid! The previous (invalid) program had a ring_ref referring to an ele

Microsoft fires two employee protesters who occupied its president’s office

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft has fired two employees that were involved in a sit-in protest in vice chair and president Brad Smith’s office. Software engineers Riki Fameli and Anna Hattle were both dismissed today, after being part of a group of seven protesters that managed to get inside Smith’s office in Bu

Nothing used stock photography in Phone 3 on-device ad (Updated: Explanation)

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A Nothing Phone 3 retail demo was spotted making misleading claims about photo samples. Android Authority has spoken to two of the photographers who shot the pics, who confirm they did not use the Phone 3 at all. Asked for comment, Nothing didn’t immediately deny the claims, but later offered an explanation. Update, August 27, 2025 (07:40 AM ET): Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis has provided a detailed explanation for the stock photos found on Nothing

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 28, #809

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Oh, come on, puzzle editors! Today's NYT Connections puzzle has a word in it that I have never heard of before. Fortunately, it just placed itself in the purple category and it was the only completely loopy word in the mix. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 28, #339

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition is just always tough for me these days. You too? If you're struggling but still want to solve it, Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game h

IDC nearly doubles worldwide smartphone forecast for 2025, cites ‘accelerated iOS growth’

To say 2025 has been an unpredictable year for the smartphone market would be an understatement. Early in February, IDC had forecast a 2.6% growth, followed by a decrease to just 0.6% in May. Now, the institute has once again adjusted its forecast, thanks in part to “accelerated” iOS growth. Here are the details. Tariff uncertainty now ‘just background noise’ When IDC lowered its 2025 worldwide smartphone market forecast from 2.6% to just 0.6% in late May, it cited “high uncertainty, tariff vo

Is Taylor Swift’s Engagement Ring an Ethical Lab-Grown Diamond, or a Horrible Blood-Soaked Conflict Diamond?

After so many years searching for someone to fill the "Blank Space" in her heart, billionaire chanteuse Taylor Swift has, it seems, finally found her person in Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce. After two years of dating, the celebrity couple announced this week that they're engaged to be married in an Instagram post that featured, as seen below, a beautiful photoshoot in a rambling English garden, complete with the caption "your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married." Almo

Google has a new program to protect that Pixel you just ordered

TL;DR Google has launched a new device protection program called Pixel Care Plus. Pixel Care Plus offers new benefits like $0 screen and battery repairs, $0 post-warranty malfunction claims, and more. Current monthly subscribers of Google Preferred Care and Fi Device Protection will be migrated over to this new program in the coming months. If you were worried about having an accident with your Pixel phone, Google offered an insurance program called Preferred Care to help protect your device.

This Is No Illusion—Just the Best Wildlife Photo Entries of the Year

Can you spot the second coyote in the image above? It may look like this amber-eyed pup is peering out from beneath his own tail, but that’s actually his sister’s. The Natural History Museum in London released this illusionary photo in a sneak peek of some of the best submissions for this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. The jaw-dropping images, selected from a record-breaking 60,636 entries, feature cheetahs, jellyfish, slime molds, and so much more. But let’s not forget t

People With Ties to Trump Accused of Carrying Out ‘Covert’ Influence Operations in Greenland

Earlier this year, the Trump administration raised eyebrows and inspired scoffs when it announced it wanted to buy Greenland. Since then, the government has ignored the laughs and continued to pursue its stated objective. Now, a new report from a Danish news outlet alleges that multiple Americans with direct ties to Trump have been engaged in covert “influence operations” aimed at Greenlanders. The purpose of these propaganda efforts is to sow division between the Nordic territory and its parent

Taylor Swift Is Engaged. Her Post Is Climbing Instagram's Most-Liked List

Nobody is shaking this off: Pop superstar Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce announced their engagement on Instagram on Tuesday, and the likes exploded like pyrotechnics at a concert. The post broke Instagram's record for reposts, even though, to be fair, reposting just started on Instagram in August. Still, the post hit 1 million reposts in less than 6 hours and earned 14 million likes in just the first hour. By Wednesday, it had topped 30 million likes, vaulting it to

CNET Editors Tested Camping Gear All Summer: Here Are Our Top Picks for Labor Day

Why I like it: The Grayl GeoPress is among my best outdoor gear purchases. I feel confident drinking water from lakes, rivers and even the sketchiest of sources with this filtered water bottle -- and that's saying something, because I nearly bit the dust by acquiring three strains of E. Coli from contaminated water at one point (before I knew about Grayl). It efficiently removes waterborne pathogens, including 99.9999% of bacteria, viruses and protozoa, and filters particulates like silt, micro

Nintendo's Latest Updated Switch 2 Game Has Me Hungering for More

Although the Nintendo Switch 2 is only a few months old, new games, or at least updated ones, keep emerging at a steady, slow clip. Kirby and the Forgotten Land, which was one of my favorite late-era Switch games, got an upgraded edition that's available this week. The full title, Kirby and the Forgotten Land Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Star-Crossed World, is unwieldy in name, much like the recent Mario Party Jamboree upgrade. But I found this one a lot more worthwhile. While you don't get too

This Is the Group That's Been Swatting US Universities

A self-proclaimed leader of an online group linked to the violent extremist network The Com tells WIRED he is responsible for the flurry of hoax active-shooter alerts at universities across the US in recent days as students return to school. Known online as Gores, the person says he coleads a group called Purgatory, which is offering its followers a menu of services, including hoax threats against schools—known as swatting—for just $20, while faked threats against hospitals, businesses, and air

John Williams Thinks Film Music Is Mid

John Williams is a composer who needs no introduction. Over the span of his 70-year career, he has crafted scores for over 100 films, earning five Academy Awards and 54 Oscar nominations with his work on seminal pop culture films, including Superman, Jaws, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, and Home Alone. However, the legendary composer, now 93, says he doesn’t think too highly of film music. In a recent interview with the Guardian, Williams said that, despite the power film music has as

Cheetahs Feast and Sloths Snooze in These Stunning Wildlife Photographer of the Year Entries

Can you spot the second coyote in the image above? It may look like this amber-eyed pup is peering out from beneath his own tail, but that’s actually his sister’s. The Natural History Museum in London released this illusionary photo in a sneak peek of some of the best submissions for this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. The jaw-dropping images, selected from a record-breaking 60,636 entries, feature cheetahs, jellyfish, slime molds, and so much more. But let’s not forget t

Save 20 Percent on Our Favorite Android Earbuds

Looking to upgrade your wireless earbuds without reaching deep into your wallet? Our favorite earbuds for most people, the Nothing Ear (a) (8/10, WIRED Recommends) are currently marked down to just $79 when you buy them from Nothing directly. They may be cheap when it comes to dollars spent, but they have it where it counts, with great audio quality, an excellent feature set, and awesome battery life. While the first-party offerings from both Apple and Google make for compelling options, the No

Microsoft’s employee protests have reached a boiling point

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Some Microsoft employees are willing to risk everything to protest their employer. No Azure for Apartheid, a group led by current and former Microsoft employees, started last year as a petition to Microsoft executives. It demanded that Microsoft end all Azure contracts and partnerships with the Israeli military and government, disclose all ties, call for a ceasefire in Gaza, an

Nvidia reports second-quarter earnings after the bell

Nvidia reports fiscal second-quarter earnings on Wednesday after the bell. Here's how Nvidia is expected to do versus LSEG consensus estimates: Earnings per share : $1.01, adjusted : $1.01, adjusted Revenue: $46.02 billion That would represent 53% year-over-year revenue growth for Nvidia, which carries a market cap of more than $4 trillion and is already the most valuable company in the world. That type of growth would add to a streak of explosive growth for the chipmaker, which has been on

This is the most popular AI app - and you might be surprised by the runner-up

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways ChatGPT and Gemini are the top two gen AI platforms. Grok's users have increased, while DeepSeek's are down. Vibe coding continues to be a steadily growing use of gen AI. Consumer generative AI products like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini continue to transform our daily digital lives. These are the web products and mobile apps making the biggest impact. Also: My top 5 free AI too

Efficient Array Programming

Efficient Array Programming This is a wiki-like repo for collecting information and examples for efficient programming in array languages. Most of the explanations here will be written from my understanding of the programs, so I do recommend scrutinizing the programs yourself first before reading them. The general goal of this repository is to help people improve their understanding of array languages, and to have a wealth of examples for well-written array language code.