Grok began 2026 as it began 2025 : under fire for its AI-generated images. Elon Musk's chatbot has spent the last week flooding X with nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes of adults and minors. Circula...
The South Korean Supreme Court confirmed that Bitcoin stored on crypto exchanges can be seized under criminal law, rejecting an appeal....
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Just over a year after being sentenced to five years in prison for the theft of billions of dollars in Bitcoin , hacker Ilya Lichtenstein is free. Lichtenstein announced his release in a post on X, sp...
Authorities say left-wing extremists likely carried out an arson attack that has left many Berliners without power. And alcohol can be purchased more cheaply in Germany than almost anywhere else in th...
PRESS REVIEW – Thursday, January 8: US immigration authorities ICE kill a woman in Minneapolis in "self-defence" amidst anti-ICE protests in the city. It brings back painful reminders of George Floyd'...
Malaysia’s football authorities are under mounting pressure to convince Fifa that they can clean up after a forgery scandal that has shaken the national game, with experts warning that failure to act ...
The first video I saw of the Minneapolis shooting was bad enough. Shortly after I saw it, I had the terrible realization that there were multiple people in the clip holding their phones up - another a...
Miles Guo in his NYC apartment in 2017 TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images Miles Guo's homes, luxury cars, and private jets are being sold off in bankruptcy court. The former billionaire, meanwhile,...
Thieves broke into the vault of one branch of Germany's Sparkasse Gelsenkirchen. Christoph Reichwein/picture alliance via Getty Images Thieves stole valuables worth at least $36 million from a German ...
Isaac Wasserman/NCAA Photos via Getty Images A California judge said that Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman can proceed to trial. She rebuffed OpenAI lawyers' efforts to end the case. ...
A $400,000 lobster shipment was stolen en route to Costco stores in Illinois and Minnesota. LAUREN OWENS LAMBERT/REUTERS A $400,000 lobster shipment was stolen en route to Costco stores in Illinois an...
Amazon settled with the FTC for $2.5 billion following an investigation by Business Insider. Leon Neal/Getty Images Amazon settled with the FTC for $2.5 billion last year over claims it mis-sold Prime...
Sean Combs' private jet, which he is attempting to sell, is available to charter. Paras Griffin/Getty Images Sean "Diddy" Combs sold his Gulfstream G550 private jet. Silver Air Private Jets pr...
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The scene at MDC on Saturday evening as Maduro was transported to the prison Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images Nicolás Maduro and his wife have reportedly been transferred to a federal prison in Br...
Rippling's CPO said he prefers to understaff than overstaff all his projects. Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Rippling's product chief Matt MacInnis says he deli...
The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) has asked a judge to grant the fired GTA 6 developers interim relief at a preliminary employment tribunal hearing held in the UK this week. Rocks...
X users are asking Elon Musk's Grok AI to create sexualized deepfakes of women and minors. VINCENT FEURAY/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images X users have used Elon Musk's Grok image generator to create s...