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Minutes after Donald Trump announced that the US and Israeli governments had launched a “major combat operation” against Iran in the early hours of Saturday morning, disinformation about the attack and Tehran’s response flooded X.WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X, some of which have racked up millions of views, that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.Elon Musk’s social media platform is a verifiable mess: In some cases, alleged video footage of the attack shared in posts on X are actually months or years old. In several posts, video footage of apparent attacks have…

A plume of smoke rises following a reported explosion in Tehran on February 28, 2026. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)- | Afp | Getty ImagesFollow CNBC’s live coverage of the U.S.-Israel strikes in IranMarket watchers are bracing for turbulence after the U.S. confirmed it has launched “major combat operations” in Iran, a move investors say could carry far greater market consequences than the recent run of geopolitical flare-ups.U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. military has begun “major combat operations” in Iran.Several ministries in the southern part of the Iranian capital, Tehran, were targeted, Reuters quoted an unidentified Iranian…

“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?” That query, pulled from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, has escaped the realm of animation and reappeared in print, on the web (HotorNot), and dating apps. The implicit understanding is that fairness is judged by the male gaze. Avavav’s Beate Karlsson flipped the script at her fall presentation, where guests walked a runway flanked by female models on either side. “The idea of having the models be the guests,” she explained on a call, was to focus on the female gaze, which she feels is disproportionately acknowledged…

In your lifetime, you have no doubt witnessed backlashes, cancellations, and the Streisand Effect. You have seen social media sites become bad, and alternatives crop up and become bad themselves. You have seen Chick Fil-A protested for too much homophobia, and later for not enough homophobia. You’ve seen members of the Dixie Chicks apologize to George W. Bush, and then un-apologize and rebrand, and then rebrand again. You’ve seen George H.W. Bush say “we need more families like The Waltons than The Simpsons” in a campaign speech only to lose, and see The Simpsons become so successful it eventually became…

Two good things happened in the Huskies’ game against Wisconsin. First, Husky legend Detlef Schrempf’s number 22 took its rightful place in the rafters of Hec Ed, and second, Brandon Roy Jr. scored his first career points in a Husky uniform. The rest was a combination of poor shooting, hot shooting by Wisconsin, and injuries that hampered the Huskies from the jump, as they were left with only 7 scholarship players. Outside of stellar games from Zoom Diallo (21 points, 4 assists, 9-15 from the field) and Hannes Steinbach (22 points, 11 rebounds), the Huskies showed that their depth is…

Netflix stunned the entertainment world this week when it declined to raise its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, setting the stage for Paramount Skydance to win ownership of the Hollywood studio. At the time, Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters said they were being financially disciplined. Now reporting in Bloomberg offers more details about why Netflix executives backed down from a bidding war that it seemed to win back in December.  For one thing, the streaming giant’s shareholders appeared deeply skeptical that the acquisition was a good deal — Netflix’s share price declined 30% since announcing the deal, while…

Alaska’s House of Representatives unanimously passed HB47, a bill that imposes sweeping limits on when and how minors use social media apps, along with bans on generating or distributing harmful deepfakes of children.The bill’s original form was focused on prohibiting the possession and distribution of sexually explicit images of children using AI, but Alaska lawmakers decided to add amendments that would impose social media restrictions. The proposed limitations include a statewide curfew on using social media between 10:30 PM and 6:30 AM, banning “addictive design features” and requiring social media platforms to verify user ages and get parental consent if…

You ultimately become what you habitually do. If your daily habits aren’t moving you forward, they’re holding you back. Here are four prevalent examples of the latter that often drain the best of us of our true potential, and some strategies for turning things around if you’re currently stuck in that cycle… 1. We hold on too tight. Twenty years ago, when Angel and I were just undergrads in college, our psychology professor taught us a lesson we’ve never forgotten. On the last day of class before graduation, she walked up on stage to teach one final lesson, which she…

UFC returns to Mexico for the first time since March 29, 2025, when UFC Fight Night comes to Mexico City on Saturday. In the main event, two-time former flyweight champion Brandon Moreno will take on late replacement Lone’er Kavanagh.Kavanagh took the fight on three weeks’ notice after Asu Almabayev fell to injury, and will travel to enemy territory when he takes on the first Mexican fighter to hold a UFC championship. While it could be seen as a low-risk, high-reward situation for Kavanagh, he is coming off of his first loss, a second-round knockout against Charles Johnson this past August.…

Who would’ve guessed we’d get to play the original Banjo-Kazooie on a handheld with just a D-pad in 2026. HyperMegaTech!’s latest release is a collaboration with Rare Ltd., the legendary game developer known for the Banjo-Kazooie franchise and, more recently, Sea of Thieves, called the Super Pocket Rare Edition.The vertical handheld features 14 classics from the British developer, including two Battletoads titles, Conker’s Pocket Tales and many more. While most of the games were released on 8- or 16-bit consoles, Banjo-Kazooie will be the headliner since it was originally released on the Nintendo 64. It may sound weird to control…