Folk-pop star Noah Kahan and his co-writer demanded the White House stop using their music after President Donald Trump posted a social media video set to their song "American Cars" on Monday. Kahan ...

Last December, Milwaukee Police Department internal affairs detectives began investigating an officer accused of misusing Flock, the department’s automated license-plate reader system. The detectives ...

Xteink’s tiny e-readers have gone viral among book lovers on social media, and for good reason: What could be more delightful than an e-reader that can fit in your wallet? Xteink has the answer. The ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Flock cameras—solar-powered, automated license plate readers, weighing less than 3 ...

Users of OpenAI’s latest coding and cybersecurity-oriented flagship model, GPT-5.6 Sol, are posting horrifying accounts on social media, claiming the model just up and deleted their files, data, even ...

Hardwood has been released as an open-source library designed to optimise the reading of Apache Parquet files within JVM environments. Kickstarted by Gunnar Morling, it aims to provide a faster, ...

The creator runs you through three rapid-fire math problems — 9+2, 5+3, 10-6 — then asks you to think of a number between 5 and 12. If you said 7, you're in the majority and you weren't random at all.

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“Read and Listen” (formerly known as Whispersync for Voice) lets you seamlessly switch between reading a Kindle eBook and listening to its companion Audible audiobook without losing your place. Amazon ...

A YouTuber has built a tiny e-reader with a 3D-printed shell and DIY electronics. The e-reader, only slightly bigger than an adult human thumb, can hold roughly six to 10 books. The creator estimates ...

Adobe has released an emergency security update for Acrobat Reader to fix a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-34621, that has been exploited in zero-day attacks since at least December. The flaw ...