The EPA on Wednesday said it would change a rule intended to protect Americans from forever chemicals in their drinking water. The agency plans to extend a compliance deadline to limit two key chemicals, and rescind and reconsider regulations on four others. Last year, the Biden administration released a... Read more

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has sought to compete with category leaders like OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic for individual consumers and app developers as customers, but a new development... Read more

More than 45 million people will travel this coming Memorial Day, according to a report from AAA. Although I’m a full-time digital nomad who’s usually on an airplane, I log a lot of my miles by car when in the US to visit family and friends. Last year, I... Read more

Violent threats and calls for impeachment on social media platforms against US judges have skyrocketed by 327 percent since last year, according to new research from the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE). Many of the posts are violent and politically charged. “THIS JUDGE NEEDS TO BE REMOVED... Read more

Minutes into my mission, I’m having second thoughts. Gunning down a dozen zombie-like enemies is a lot for a lowly office worker in the Federal Bureau of Control. At first, it’s hard to have faith in my gear — a backpack water jug with a cannon for drenching enemies.... Read more

Escaping the screen isn’t easy. When I tested the Light Phone III in March—a phone designed to strip away apps and focus on the basics—I quickly found how many little things I needed my smartphone for, from accessing my home’s security cameras to authentication apps so I could sign... Read more

Square Enix announced that it has canceled Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link, a GPS-based action role-playing game (ARPG) for mobile devices. The company said, “The Kingdom Hearts series will continue. We are hard at work on Kingdom Hearts IV, and hope you’ll continue to support the series as you keep an... 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. Today’s NYT Mini Crossword is one of those nice solid blocks, so if you get all the Across... Read more

If you don’t know where to start—and use—your HP coupon code, there’s a wide variety of options available at HP.com in terms of budget and use case, but my eye goes first to the high-end HP Omen gaming monitors, like the fantastic HP Omen Transcend 32. This 4K 240Hz... Read more

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Productivity platform Notion is betting on large language models (LLMs) powering more of its new enterprise capabilities, including building OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 and Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 into their dashboard. Even as... Read more