Donald Trump's second presidential term has seen a rapid rise in the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. But who are these people, and where is the US government finding them?...
The sun was already beginning to set as Portlanders in weatherproof jackets and fleeces lined up around Revolution Hall. It wasn't yet 5PM on a Wednesday but the crowd was gathering well before the to...
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/01/22/are-we-all-plagiarists-now Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46744968 Points: 28 # Comments: 11...
TJTJ Courtesy of Anne Goldberg Anne Goldberg has been tech-savvy since operating early computer models in the 1980s. 40 years on, she is using her knowledge to teach seniors how to use iPhones and oth...
Article URL: https://lpeproject.org/blog/immigration-agencies-are-openly-defying-federal-courts/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695986 Points: 43 # Comments: 1...
Eryn Bostwick, 37, is delaying having kids because of her student loan debt. Courtesy of Eryn Bostwick Eryn Bostwick, 37, is postponing having kids due to her student-loan debt. As a first-generation ...
Article URL: https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-releases/the-nobel-prize-and-the-laureate-are-inseparable Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46669404 Points: 60 # Comments: 13...
Iranians in exile are being targeted by the regime's secret services, which is believed to be responsible for thousands of deaths since the start of the mass protests in Iran....
Police in India have arrested a woman who accused a man of sexual misconduct on a bus on social media, who then took his own life soon after. His family accused the woman of engagement farming with a ...
Article URL: https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/slop-is-everywhere-for-those-with-eyes-to-see/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46651443 Points: 12 # Comments: 2...
People are taking to Instagram to reminisce 2016 in all its fishnet-stocking glory. Melodie Jeng/Getty Images 2016 is so back — at least on Instagram. Millennials are putting up pictures of them...
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/instagram-ai-influencers-are-defaming-celebrities-with-sex-scandals/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46606633 Points: 16 # Comments: 4...
A network of ordinary people is trying to hold officers involved in Donald Trump’s sweeping Minnesota crackdown to account...
Age prediction is rolling out almost globally, with users in the EU getting it ‘in the coming weeks.’ OpenAI has added age prediction features to ChatGPT , meant to identify and bolster protections fo...
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTugyu2F0pc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46677685 Points: 4 # Comments: 0...
The Senate passed a bill that could give people who've found their likeness deepfaked into sexually-explicit images without their consent a new way to fight back. The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images an...
As President Zelensky says today that peace talks are progressing and that a U.S. security guarantee is “100 percent there,” awaiting only formal approval from President Trump, there has so far been n...
Naomi Osaka plays at the Australian Open 2026. Robert Prange/Getty Images Naomi Osaka's tense Australian Open handshake and post-match interview sparked debate over competitive women. In high-stakes e...
The author and her friend Bryan have a 57-year age gap. Courtesy of Melissa Noble This post originally appeared in the BI Today newsletter. You can sign up for Business Insider's daily newsletter here...
A day after the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) agreed to quit large parts of Syria under a ceasefire, the Syrian army said "a number of" Islamic State (IS) group prisoners, who had been un...