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Aileen M. Cannon, United States District Judge, Southern District of FloridaCourtesy: US CourtsA Florida federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump blocked the public release of a final report by former special counsel Jack Smith on his prosecution of Trump for retaining classified documents after leaving the White House at his Mar-a-Lago club and for blocking efforts to retrieve them.Judge Aileen Cannon in her Monday ruling cited her July 2024 ruling that Smith was not legally appointed as special counsel, which led to her dismissing the criminal case against Trump, as the key reason she said that Volume II of…

An AI news app called Particle, from former Twitter engineers, can now keep up with news breaking on podcasts as well as news published on the web. Just ahead of its recent Android release, Particle has introduced a feature called Podcast Clips, which finds the most interesting and relevant moments across many different types of podcasts, and then includes those clips alongside the related news stories in its feed. So instead of listening to a lengthy podcast just to catch the 45 seconds of interesting comments, you can play back the clip as you’re reading the news on Particle. You…

CBS Sports graphic Duke should and will move to No. 1 in the Associated Press Top 25 poll when it updates Monday. It’ll be the byproduct of the Blue Devils’ 25-2 record that features a national-best 12 Quadrant 1 wins, zero losses outside of Q1 and a victory this weekend over last week’s No. 1 — Michigan.Incredible season, so far.As I noted on Sunday’s episode of the Eye On College Basketball Podcast, the way Duke coach Jon Scheyer talked postgame, he seems to know, for the second straight season, that he has both the sport’s best player and a team good enough…

In February 2021, software giant Ivanti discovered that Chinese hackers had breached the network of Pulse Secure, one of its subsidiaries that provided VPN appliances to dozens of companies and government agencies around the world, according to new reporting by Bloomberg. The hackers exploited a secret backdoor they had planted in Pulse Secure’s VPN software, Bloomberg reported, citing Ivanti’s chief security officer at the time and other sources. The backdoor allowed the hackers to gain access to 119 other unnamed organizations that used the company’s same VPN product. Mandiant was reportedly aware of the breaches as well, alerting Ivanti that…

Getting dressed for a night out can be a frustrating endeavor, a high-wire act of dressing to feel comfortable, sexy, and—most importantly—confident.Searching for an example? Look no further than Bella Hadid, who mixed her Western-tinged style with party staples at the Chateau Marmont last night. The base of her look was perfect for a night out: Hadid wore a ruched raspberry halter top—an instant entrant into the going-out top canon—with a pair of medium wash straight-legged jeans, and classic black pointy-toe heels. She added a touch of ’70s glam to the look with a pair of sepia-tinted sunglasses and oversized…

Today, 400 years in the future, and 45,000 years in the past. Those are the three settings of In the Blink of an Eye, the new live-action film from animation legend Andrew Stanton. With this film, the Oscar-winning director of Wall-E, Finding Nemo, John Carter, and this year’s Toy Story 5 tackles a sprawling sci-fi drama that shows the beauty and frailty of life across generations. And, in this new video, you can get a really good clue of how it all comes together. io9 is excited to exclusively debut this brand-new featurette from the film, which gives an idea…

Does everything feel like too much these days? Get When Life Sucks: 21 Days of Laughs and Light for free when you join the Tiny Buddha list. “If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.” ~S. N. Goenka  I recently completed my third Vipassana meditation course. There is a moment at the beginning of the course when you surrender your phone (and receive it back at the end). That transition feels deeply symbolic. The outer world goes quiet, not all at once, but unmistakably.…

Feb 22, 2026, 04:49 PM ETVERONA, Italy — The Milan Cortina Olympics ended Sunday as the twin flames in co-host cities Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo were extinguished during a closing ceremony inside the ancient Verona Arena, roughly mid-distance between the far-flung mountain, valley and city venues that made these the most spread-out Winter Games ever.In declaring the 2026 Games over, International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry told local organizers that they “delivered a new kind of winter Games and you set a new, very high standard for the future.”The next Winter Games will be held in neighboring France, which received…

A decision to ban Telegram on home soil may have backfired on the Kremlin. Last week, Russia went on a , banning a number of Western apps in an effort to push domestic users towards Max, an unencrypted state-owned app. One of the restricted apps was WhatsApp (which was also blocked) rival Telegram, a move that drew rare internal from soldiers and pro-war bloggers, with the army being heavily reliant on the cloud-based messaging service for communications.As reported by , pro-Russian military channels are now complaining that the sudden Telegram blackout — coupled with Elon Musk Russia’s access to Starlink…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Friday defended the resource demands of artificial intelligence, calling concerns about data centers’ water use “fake” and comparing the energy used by AI systems to that of humans.Altman was speaking on the sidelines of the India AI Impact summit in an interview with The Indian Express when he was asked to address common criticisms of AI, such as its energy and water consumption. The CEO responded that claims circulating online that ChatGPT uses gallons of water per query were “completely untrue, totally insane,” and have “no connection to reality.” Data centers traditionally use large amounts of…