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Social media users are spreading elaborate and entirely unsubstantiated theories about what happened to the conservative commentator.

The Federal Trade Commission said it was starting an inquiry of how six major tech companies monitor activity that could harm minors.

Enterprising students have been bringing the contraband of yesteryear to school in what they see as a “loophole” in cellphone bans.

Movers, roofing companies and others are being bombarded with phony one-star reviews on Google Maps. Then they’re asked to pay up.

The 77-year-old former banker, who lives in Toronto, said he was “shocked” by the speed at which his photograph spread online.

First posted to X, they amassed millions of views on Instagram, Threads, YouTube and Telegram within hours.

The funding covers more than half of the A.I. data centers that OpenAI plans to build in the U.S. over the next several years.

Three Republican senators sent a letter to Meta’s chief executive on Wednesday asking him to respond to whistle-blower allegations over security flaws.

The London institution is creating “RBO/Shift,” a technology festival whose first year will ask how far A.I. can push the boundaries of opera.

Facebook has repeatedly flagged his accounts, he says, for “impersonating” the company’s founder, Mark E. Zuckerberg.

The Silicon Valley giant also introduced updates to its traditional smartphones, as well as its AirPods and Apple Watch.

The oil giant said Tuesday that it was acquiring assets from a Chicago company as it looks to start producing graphite, a key battery ingredient, by the end of the decade.

The Persian Gulf nation has “open sourced” technology meant to compete with OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek.

Rankling national security experts, the chipmaker has stepped up attacks on lawmakers who are pushing restrictions.

ASML, the Dutch maker of semiconductor equipment, is investing about $1.5 billion in Mistral, the French A.I. start-up.