Black Friday used to actually just be one day long. Shoppers would camp outside of stores, paper circulars in hand, eagerly awaiting the chance to bust down some doors and save a ton of cash. Over time, the sales event has grown. Now, the entire month of November is... Read more

Chinese hackers automated 90% of an espionage campaign using Anthropic’s Claude, breaching four organizations of the 30 they chose as targets. "They broke down their attacks into small, seemingly innocent tasks that Claude would execute without being provided the full context of their malicious purpose," Jacob Klein, Anthropic's head... Read more

The MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, which opened in Vegas in 1993, has undergone a massive $300 million room and suite model within the main tower. A new collection of 3,969 rooms and suites have been unveiled, with the interiors being inspired “by the glamour and energy of the... Read more

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? The Saturday puzzle is always the longest of the... Read more

As scam compounds in Southeast Asia continue to rake in billions of dollars in stolen funds from victims around the world, United States law enforcement aims to cut scammers off at the source by issuing seizure warrants for Starlink satellite internet terminals that provide cybercriminals with connectivity. Two US... Read more

Researchers at Google Cloud and UCLA have proposed a new reinforcement learning framework that significantly improves the ability of language models to learn very challenging multi-step reasoning tasks. Supervised Reinforcement Learning (SRL) reformulates problem-solving as a sequence of logical “actions,” providing rich learning signals during the training process. This... Read more

The Social Gaming Leadership Alliance (SGLA) has this week (November 13) testified before a Massachusetts committee on a bill that contains provisions that could see Social Plus games banned in the Commonwealth. Just the day before, the alliance announced the introduction of ‘Social Plus’ which they say is a... Read more

The days of shockingly orange-powdered fingers — and the resulting Cheetle dust all over your couch — may be on their way out. PepsiCo, parent of Frito-Lay’s snack stalwarts Cheetos and Doritos, announced Thursday that it’s making a new version of the famously flame-colored snack foods without artificial flavors... Read more

You may be familiar with the various memes detailing the fact that once you reach middle age, you’re automatically sorted, Harry Potter hat–style, into one of a handful of hobbies, such as sourdough bread making, gardening, or bird-watching. I can’t contradict this, since I’m a middle-aged person who got... Read more

A report by PwC for the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) shows that increased UK gambling tax and regulation would both reduce tax revenue and encourage illegal offshore betting. Hot on the heels of the BGC CEO’s warning that increased gambling taxes in the UK could see an uptick... Read more