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Iran is under suspicion of trying to hack figures associated with the upcoming U.S. presidential election and plotting the assassination of former President Donald Trump

Shares of Ubisoft surged more than 30% Friday, following reports that Tencent and the Guillemot family are considering a buyout of the video game maker

Solar storms may cause faint auroras across fringes of the northern United States this weekend

The chief of the Shawnee Tribe grew up playing video games, including hundreds of hours colonizing a distant planet in the 1999 title Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri

The European Union’s top court has said that social media company Meta can’t use public information about a user’s sexual orientation obtained outside its platforms for personalized advertising under the bloc’s strict data privacy rules

Google says it will stop linking to New Zealand news content and will reverse its support of local media outlets if the government passes a law forcing tech companies to pay for articles displayed on their platforms

Wars, a refugee crisis, famine, and artificial intelligence could all be recognized with Nobel Prizes

IronNet, a cybersecurity startup, had promised it would combat hackers using a unique blend of expertise and software

U.S. authorities and Microsoft say hackers linked to Russian intelligence targeted dozens of former military and intelligence officials, journalists and civil society groups with a sophisticated campaign designed to steal information

Pro Football Focus changed how many fans followed the NFL by providing grades and advanced statistics to help quantify how every player performed on a play-by-play basis from high-profile quarterbacks like Patrick Mahomes to more anonymous guards and l...

Tesla is recalling more than 27,000 Cybertrucks because the rearview camera image may not activate immediately after shifting into reverse, the fifth recall for the vehicle since it went on sale late last year

The Dutch government believes that a cyberattack that accessed work-related contact details of all Dutch police officers was almost certainly carried out by hackers working for a foreign government

Winter sports are facing a long-time crisis because of climate change and the International Ski and Snowboard Federation has teamed up with the United Nations weather agency

It’s tarantula mating season on the Colorado plains, when male spiders scurry out of their burrows in search of a mate

The devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene has brought climate change to the forefront of the presidential campaign

South Korea is fighting a deluge of non-consensual, explicit deepfake videos and images primarily targeting women online

A federal judge has blocked a new California law allowing any person to sue for damages over election deepfakes

Google is pumping more artificial intelligence into its search engine

OpenAI says it has raised $6.6 billion in venture capital investments as part of a broader shift by the ChatGPT maker away from its nonprofit roots

NASA has switched off another scientific instrument on its Voyager 2 spacecraft to save power

A new study says hurricanes in the United States are hundreds of times deadlier in the long run than the government calculates

Toyota is investing another $500 million in Joby Aviation as part of a partnership aimed at helping get the American air taxi company’s commercial business off the ground

Low interest financing, sweet lease deals and free charging boosted Tesla’s global deliveries in the third quarter, the first increase this year for the electric vehicle maker

What lies beneath the Great Lakes' waves is largely unknown, but there's a new push to learn more about thousands of shipwrecks, underwater infrastructure and the impacts of climate change on the bottom of the world's largest freshwater system

Two North Carolina facilities that manufacture the high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors, solar panels and fiber optic cables have been shut down by Hurricane Helene

Snapchat has failed to act on rampant reports of child grooming, sextortion and other dangers to minors on its platform

The Indiana Court of Appeals has reinstated a lawsuit filed by the state accusing TikTok of deceiving its users about the video-sharing platform’s level of inappropriate content for children and the security of its consumers’ personal information

Experts say the volume of Switzerland’s glaciers shrank again this summer and compounded the negative impact of climate change after a devastating two-year run that depleted the ice by more than 10%

NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has identified new clues about the surface of Pluto’s largest moon

Australia’s government says a code of conduct will be enforced on the online dating industry to better protect Australian users after research found that three-in-four people suffer some form of sexual violence through the platforms

Sony’s PlayStation Network went down, frustrating gamers around the world who complain they weren’t able to sign in to their accounts

The scientific center that is home to the world’s largest particle accelerator and is billed as the world’s biggest machine is celebrating its 70th anniversary

Meteorologists calculate that more than 40 trillion gallons of rain drenched the Southeast United States in the last week from Hurricane Helene and a run-of-the-mill rainstorm that sloshed in ahead of it

Arkansas has sued YouTube and its parent company Alphabet, saying the video-sharing platform is deliberately addictive and fueling a mental health crisis among youth

Some Verizon customers have been hit by a service outage

Video game maker Epic Games has sued Google and Samsung

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle division will pay a $1.5 million penalty as part of a consent order after the unit failed to fully report a crash involving a pedestrian

Malcolm Gladwell revisits the concept of social epidemics in his latest book “Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the rise of Social Engineering.”

New companies emerge to serve the "non-car" market with compact alternatives.

DirecTV will buy rival Dish to create massive pay-TV company after yearslong pursuit

DirecTV is buying Dish and Sling as the company, a deal it has sought to complete for years as seeks to better compete against streaming services that have become dominant

AT&T exits entertainment industry with a $7.6 billion sale of its majority stake in DirecTV to private equity firm TPG

An 81-year-old Montana has been sentenced to six months in federal prison and ordered to pay $24,000 in penalties for using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to illegally create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hu...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the two proposals.

The two astronauts stuck at the International Space Station since June are welcoming their new ride home

NASA's stuck astronauts welcome the arrival of a SpaceX capsule that'll bring them back to Earth next year

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a landmark bill aimed at establishing first-in-the-nation safety measures for large artificial intelligence models

California governor vetoes bill that would have set first-in-the-nation AI safety measures

SpaceX has launched a rescue mission for the two stuck astronauts at the International Space Station

SpaceX launches rescue mission for two NASA astronauts who are stuck at the International Space Station until next year