Congressman Paul D. Tonko has sent letters to various major sports leagues, calling on them to support his federal gambling safety act. As the world of sports betting continues to grapple with the knock-on effects of the NBA scandal, Congressman Paul D. Tonko has written letters to various major... Read more

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today’s NYT Connections puzzle has a neat purple category today. It’s fun, but it’s not easy... Read more

Rangefinders can include a slew of features, which makes shopping as a novice confusing. The most important options in our testing include slope measurement (elevation gained or lost), a pinspotter (which zeroes in on the pin when tracking), weatherproofing, tournament mode, a cart magnet, and last but definitely not... Read more

Recently, there has been a lot of hullabaloo about the idea that large reasoning models (LRM) are unable to think. This is mostly due to a research article published by Apple, "The Illusion of Thinking" Apple argues that LRMs must not be able to think; instead, they just perform... Read more

A former police officer in South Yorkshire has been jailed for blackmailing a suspect to pay off gambling debts. Marie Thompson, 29, has been jailed for three years and four months after an investigation by South Yorkshire Police’s Professional Standards Department (PSD), as detailed in a report from the... Read more

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today’s NYT Strands puzzle is a real puzzler. You runners might have a better shot at... Read more

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Fueled by unusually warm waters, Hurricane Melissa this week turned into one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever recorded. Now a new rapid attribution study suggests human-induced climate change made the deadly tropical... Read more

GitHub is making a bold bet that enterprises don't need another proprietary coding agent: They need a way to manage all of them. At its Universe 2025 conference, the Microsoft-owned developer platform announced Agent HQ. The new architecture transforms GitHub into a unified control plane for managing multiple AI... Read more

Americans are gambling more than ever in 2025, with a rising interest in sports betting and casinos. The American Gaming Association (AGA) has shared new research that shows Americans have been gambling more than ever over the last twelve months. That’s driven by a rising interest in both sports... Read more

Freakier Friday is bringing nostalgia, body-swapping and rock music to Disney Plus, but not on the day of the week you might think. Disney has revealed that the sequel to 2003’s Freaky Friday will premiere on the streaming service on a Wednesday (but you could always wait and watch... Read more