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Tesla is still on the hook for $243 million after a US judge rejected the EV maker's bid to overturn a jury verdict from last year. On Friday, US District Judge Beth Bloom upheld the jury's decision to hold Tesla partially responsible for a deadly crash that happened in 2019 and involved the self-driving Autopilot feature.

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The House rejected a spending package that would end the partial government shutdown, despite pressure from President Donald Trump.
  • Trump says he will impose a 15% 'worldwide' tariff.
  • He earlier said he would impose a 10% tariff.
  • The Supreme Court struck down many of his tariffs on Friday.

President Donald Trump is not giving up on his tariff strategy.

The president said Saturday in


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A recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that lasted 13 hours was reportedly caused by one of its own AI tools, according to reporting by Financial Times. This happened in December after engineers deployed the Kiro AI coding tool to make certain changes, say four people familiar with the matter.

Kiro is an agentic tool, meaning it can take autonomous actions on behalf of users. In this case, the


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Elon Musk making a gesture that is ALARMINGLY similar to a Nazi salute, set against the backdrop of the American flag.
Of course, it’s the guy who constantly complains about voter fraud who may have committed voter fraud. | Image: The Verge
Of course, it’s the guy who constantly complains about voter fraud who may have committed voter fraud. | Image: The Verge

For all his bluster about voter fraud, Elon Musk has been one of the most flagrant flaunters of US election law. Now his America PAC has been slapped with a reprimand by the Georgia State Election Board for sending out pre-filled absentee ballot applications. State law


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The suspect in the mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Jesse Van Rootselaar, was raising alarms among employees at OpenAI months before the shooting took place. This past June, Jesse had conversations with ChatGPT involving descriptions of gun violence that triggered the chatbot's automated review system. Several employees raised concerns that her posts could be a precursor



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Sarah Canzano's oldest son is training to be an Olympian in 2034.
  • Sarah Canzano is the mother of Gavin Canzano, a 15-year-old aerial skier.
  • She and her husband recognized their son's talent early on.
  • They have been supportive of him in his quest to qualify for the US Ski Team and the 2034 Olympics.

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Pecorino Romano is one of the oldest cheeses in the world, with roots going back to Ancient Rome. But today, most of it is no longer made near Rome at all. In this episode, we visit I Buonatavola, one of the very last producers still making Pecorino Romano in Lazio, the cheese's original territory, to understand how global demand, especially from the United States, reshaped where and how this


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