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Magic City Night in Atlanta is off.The NBA has canceled the Atlanta Hawks’ plans for a celebration of the city’s Magic City strip club, saying Monday that it was responding to concerns from many across the league.The event was supposed to happen March 16 during a game against the Orlando Magic.Atlanta announced the plan last month, calling it a tribute to an “iconic cultural institution” with food — including the club’s lemon pepper wings, a version of which is named for former Hawks guard Lou Williams — along with music and exclusive merchandise.”While we are very disappointed in the NBA’s…

Jay Graber became the first CEO of Bluesky in 2021 when the network and its AT Protocol spun out from life as a Twitter research project to go independent, but now she’s leaving that role, as reported previously by Wired. While venture capitalist and former Automattic CEO Toni Schneider steps in as interim CEO until a permanent replacement is found, Graber says she will become Bluesky’s Chief Innovation Officer, focused on building new things for a platform that has gone from 30 million users about a year ago, to 40 million currently.According to Graber, “Toni believes deeply in the Bluesky…

A cargo ship is loading and unloading foreign trade containers at Qingdao Port in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China, Jan. 13, 2026.Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesChina’s trade surplus rose to its highest on record in the combined January-February period, while exports massively beat expectations, underscoring the resilience of the world’s second-largest economy despite trade tensions with the U.S.China typically combines January and February trade data to smooth distortions from the shifting Lunar New Year holiday. China’s trade balance surged to $213.62 billion, compared with expectations of $179.6 billion.Exports from China rose 21.8% year on year in the combined January-February…

A couple years back, Magda Butrym marked her 10th anniversary with a campaign called “Decade of the Rose,” featuring her supermodel compatriot Malgosia Bela.On Sunday, Bela was back to open Butrym’s show, the most fully-fledged PFW presentation she has staged to date. Backstage, the designer said she approached this collection—entitled Zima, the Polish word for winter—“like a big switch in my head.”The cause of that switch? The sudden realization that Polish New Wave, and specifically the 1969 film Polowanie na muchy (“Hunting Flies”) by director Andrzej Wajda, packed as much inspiration as its French counterparts. “It was so sensual, effortless…

More than 30 employees from OpenAI and Google, including Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean, filed an amicus brief on Monday in support of Anthropic in its legal fight against the US government.“If allowed to proceed, this effort to punish one of the leading US AI companies will undoubtedly have consequences for the United States’ industrial and scientific competitiveness in the field of artificial intelligence and beyond,” the employees wrote.The brief was filed just hours after Anthropic sued the Department of Defense and other federal agencies over the Pentagon’s decision to designate the company a “supply-chain risk.” The sanction, which…

The first day of NFL free agency’s legal tampering period began Monday at 9 a.m. PT, and the Chargers were relatively quiet.Two former Chargers switched teams during free agency, while the team signed a tight end and an offensive lineman and re-signed another offensive lineman.AdvertisementHere are the grades for the moves involving the Chargers so far:Player: TE Charlie KolarContract: Three years, $24.3 million ($17 million guaranteed)Former Team: Baltimore RavensThe Chargers dipped into their Ravens connection by signing Kolar to a three-year deal. He is a player general manager Joe Hortiz previously scouted and helped bring to Baltimore.The biggest part of Kolar’s…

Nvidia is planning to launch an open-source platform for AI agents, people familiar with the company’s plans tell WIRED.The chipmaker has been pitching the product, referred to as NemoClaw, to enterprise software companies. The platform will allow these companies to dispatch AI agents to perform tasks for their own workforces. Companies will be able to access the platform regardless of whether their products run on Nvidia’s chips, sources say.The move comes as Nvidia prepares for its annual developer conference in San Jose next week. Ahead of the conference, Nvidia has reached out to companies including Salesforce, Cisco, Google, Adobe, and…

This Bang Bang sauce is creamy, a bit sweet, a bit spicy, and irresistible with shrimp, chicken, salmon, and so much more! We first fell for Bang Bang sauce at Bonefish Grill, where the shrimp came tossed in this creamy, sweet, and spicy pink sauce. It was so good, we kept going back just for that sauce! This is our homemade version, and we put it on everything. It’s perfect with shrimp (here’s our Bang Bang shrimp recipe), but also chicken, fish, burgers (shrimp burgers are a must), fries, and more. I love keeping a jar of this sauce in…

On Monday, Anthropic filed its lawsuit against the Department of Defense over being designated as a supply chain risk. Hours later, nearly 40 employees from OpenAI and Google — including Jeff Dean, Google’s chief scientist and Gemini lead — filed an amicus brief in support of Anthropic’s lawsuit, detailing their concerns over the Trump administration’s decision and the technology’s risks and implications.The news follows a dramatic few weeks for Anthropic, in which the Trump administration labeled the company a supply chain risk — a designation typically reserved for foreign companies that the government deems a potential risk to national security…

Getty Images Two more automatic bids to the 2026 NCAA Tournament were punched on Monday, with Troy and Furman joining the six other teams that have already qualified for the Big Dance. No. 1 seed Troy defeated Georgia Southern 77-61 in the Sun Belt Tournament title game to clinch its spot in the NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive season and fourth time in program history.Georgia Southern, the No. 10 seed in the Sun Belt, was on one of the most unlikely conference tournament runs after winning five games in five days in the Sun Belt’s “ladder-format.”In the SoCon Tournament…