This Reggae Band Is in a Nightmare Battle Against AI Slop Remixes
The California-based reggae band Stick Figure has been around for 20 years, eight albums, and countless hours on the road,...
Teenagers Bond With the Help of an Eclectic Soundtrack
As a heartfelt remembrance of Northern California teen culture in the 1990s, Mixtape feels like a gamified jukebox musical film...
Trump’s blockade is an act of war, not the end of war
President Trump recently described the U.S. naval blockade of Iran as “a very friendly blockade.” There is no such thing....
Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web
As AI increasingly takes over the work of modern programmers, the cybersecurity world has warned that automated coding tools are...
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky regrets not obsessing over hiring sooner
Brian Chesky is the founder and CEO of Airbnb. Jason Henry/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBrian Chesky said he personally gets involved...
‘Mortal Kombat II’ Review: Eye-Popping Pyrotechnics
Two different movie franchises have come into being since the video game “Mortal Kombat” stunned arcades in 1992. That game’s...
The Clown Show
Photographs by Kevin Wurm “My dad was a big Lakers fan,” Kobe Shaquille Robinson told me, indulging an admittedly obvious...
Five Ways A.I. Search Beats an Old-School Google Search
When Google added a new button for searching the web with generative artificial intelligence, the feature debuted with such glaring...
Fast-Food Sales Rise Despite Higher Gas Prices
Consumers continued to pick up chicken nuggets, burgers and fries from McDonald’s despite concerns that higher gas prices from the...
U.S. Treasury will have to borrow $2 trillion this year just to continue functioning—more than $166 billion every month
The U.S. Treasury will likely have borrowed more than $2 trillion by the end of the fiscal year, according to...
