Laredo leaders meet to discuss downtown revitalization City leaders, stakeholders, and community members gathered for a summit to revitalize downtown Laredo, a once-vibrant hub now facing economic challenges. 04/24/2024 - 9:17 pm | View Link
California officials debate Prop. 47 changes to curb crime. On the street, the answer isn’t that simple. Recent rising crime — highlighted by tales and videos of shoplifting, robberies and “smash-and-grabs” — has reignited a policy debate among local and state elected officials, who are vowing to curtail ... 04/24/2024 - 1:49 am | View Link
Canadians should expect politicians to support right to bail, Virani's office says The office of Canada's justice minister says the public should expect politicians to support their right to bail and to be presumed innocent - warning that 'immediate' and 'uninformed reactions' only ... 04/24/2024 - 12:34 am | View Link
Big Business’ Plans to Put 30 New Eyes on Downtown Streets Raise Data Privacy Concerns The Downtown Seattle Association (DSA) wants to prop up 30 digital kiosks powered by IKE Smart City to run advertisements, display maps, and to emit free Wi-Fi. The kiosks' ads would raise a projected ... 04/23/2024 - 5:03 am | View Link
4 concerns downtown Green Bay stakeholders raised about 8-story high-rise plan Here's what downtown churchgoers, business owners and residents wanted to know about a potential eight-story development in downtown Green Bay ... 04/22/2024 - 11:03 pm | View Link
Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.
Elon Musk's OpenAI competitor is getting ready to raise some big money from Silicon Valley. According to new, anonymously-sourced reports from The Information and TechCrunch, Musk's AI company xAI is currently raising $6 billion on a $18 billion pre-money valuation, and the deal is expected to close in a matter of weeks.
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Musk's ten-month-old AI company is looking to take OpenAI on directly after Musk openly criticized and feuded with the AI giant that he helped create.
(NEW YORK) — Rooting for Donald Trump to fail has rarely been this profitable.
Just ask a hardy band of mostly amateur Wall Street investors who have collectively made tens of millions of dollars over the past month by betting that the stock price of his social media business — Truth Social — will keep dropping despite massive buying by Trump loyalists and wild swings that often mirror the candidate’s latest polls, court trials and outbursts on Truth Social itself.
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Several of these investors interviewed by The Associated Press say their bearish gambles using “put” options and other trading tools are driven less by their personal feelings about the former president (most don’t like him) than their faith in the woeful underlying financials of a company that made less money last year than the average Wendy’s hamburger franchise.
“This company makes no money.
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Hackers are assailing websites using a prominent WordPress plugin with millions of attempts to exploit a high-severity vulnerability that allows complete takeover, researchers said.
The vulnerability resides in WordPress Automatic, a plugin with more than 38,000 paying customers. Websites running the WordPress content management system use it to incorporate content from other sites.
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On Thursday, the US Department of Energy released its preliminary estimate for the nation's carbon emissions in the previous year. Any drop in emissions puts us on a path that would avoid some of the catastrophic warming scenarios that were still on the table at the turn of the century.
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Spy Pet, a service that sold access to a rich database of allegedly more than 3 billion Discord messages and details on more than 600 million users, has seemingly been shut down.
404 Media, which broke the story of Spy Pet's offerings, reports that Spy Pet seems mostly shut down.