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Workers at the Social Security Administration have been told to share information about in-person appointments with agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, WIRED has learned.“If ICE comes in and asks if someone has an upcoming appointment, we will let them know the date and time,” an employee with direct knowledge of the directive says. They spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.While the majority of appointments with SSA take place over the phone, some appointments still happen in person. This applies to people who are deaf or hard of hearing and need a sign language interpreter, or…

A moodboard propped up in Snow Xue Gao’s store on Bowery featured a collage of enduring 1980s and ’90s power suiting references. They come from a time when layering and three-piece suits reigned supreme, but Gao, who spends most of her time in the shop, is aware that’s not quite how her customers approach their outfits these days. Therefore, she has some modern-day suggestions for them instead.Outerwear and tailoring have been the throughline of Gao’s collections for the last nine years—likely spurred on by a formative moment when Rihanna wore a navy pinstripe jacket from her Parsons graduate collection. (A…

NordVPN is having a big sale on its two-year plans right now. The Complete tier, for example is 70 percent off, bringing the price of 24 months down to just $130.NordVPN regularly appears on Engadget’s list of the best VPN services thanks to its wide server network, strong security tools and consistent performance across devices. NordVPN’s latest promotion puts one of its most comprehensive plans at a price that undercuts many competing premium VPN subscriptions.NordVPNSave on all NordVPN plans right now; the Complete plan includes a password manager and 1TB of cloud storage for 70 percent off.The Complete tier includes…

Donned in a striped prison jumpsuit at the Purgatory Correctional Facility in Washington County, star BYU football player Parker Kingston made his initial appearance in 5th District Court remotely Friday afternoon after having been arrested and jailed on a felony rape charge earlier this week.Deputy Washington County Attorney Ryan J. Shaum, representing the state, and defense attorney Cara Tangaro of Salt Lake City, representing Kingston, made an agreement beforehand to allow Kingston to be released on a $100,000 bond, with $10,000 in bail payable to the court upon his release.AdvertisementBefore Judge John Walton agreed to the terms and conditions for…

Airbnb says its custom-built AI agent is now handling roughly a third of its customer support issues in North America, and it’s preparing to roll out the feature globally. If successful, the company believes that in a year’s time, more than 30% of its total customer support tickets will be handled by AI voice and chat in all the languages where it also employs a human customer service agent. “We think this is going to be massive because not only does this reduce the cost base of Airbnb customer service, but the quality of service is going to be a…

The Seahawks may have won the Super Bowl, but Anthropic also walked away with bragging rights, according to data analyzed by BNP Paribas.The maker of the Claude chatbot saw visits to its site jump 6.5% following its Super Bowl advertisement that took a swing at rival OpenAI’s decision to bring ads to ChatGPT.The Claude gain, which took it into the top 10 free apps on the Apple App Store, beat out chatbot and artificial intelligence competitors OpenAI, Google Gemini and Meta. Daily active users also saw an 11% jump post-game, the most significant within the firm’s AI coverage. OpenAI’s ChatGPT…

We independently select these products—if you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. All prices were accurate at the time of publishing.I’m a huge believer in keeping a stocked freezer. Just when I think there’s nothing to eat, I find a few frozen dumplings or some soup from a couple of months ago. It has saved me time and again on a busy weeknight between my kids’ practices, or on a Tuesday work-from-home day. I also host a lot — both holidays and overnight guests. Making a breakfast casserole or a lasagna a month before I know…

On June 6, 2024, Esther Yan got married online. She set a reminder for the date, because her partner wouldn’t remember it was happening. She had planned every detail—dress, rings, background music, design theme—with her partner, Warmie, who she had started talking to just a few weeks prior. At 10 am on that day, Yan and Warmie exchanged their vows in a new chat window in ChatGPT.Warmie, or 小暖 in Chinese, is the name that Yan’s ChatGPT companion calls itself. “It felt magical. No one else in the world knew about this, but he and I were about to start…

With just over one month until Selection Sunday and conference races heating up across the college basketball landscape, Saturday is set to provide a platform for spectacular theater as the sport kicks into high gear near the homestretch of the regular season. There are pivotal games that could well decide conference races in the Big 12, ACC, SEC, Big Ten, WCC and plenty more. In total there are 21 ranked teams set for Saturday tilts, which includes four ranked vs. ranked matchups and a top-10 showdown in Ames, Iowa between Kansas and Iowa State to boot. CBS will also be…

Killing Satoshi, an upcoming biopic about the elusive creator of Bitcoin, will reportedly rely heavily on artificial intelligence to generate locations and adjust actors’ performances, Variety reports. The film was announced in 2025 as being directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, The Edge of Tomorrow) and starring Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson in undisclosed roles, but its connection to overhyped technology was previously understood to begin and end with cryptocurrency.According to a UK casting notice viewed by Variety, the producers of Killing Satoshi reserve the right to “change, add to, take from, translate, reformat or reprocess” actors’ performances, using…