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Florida wins key ruling allowing it to enforce a law that targets social media use by kids
The state of Florida won a key court decision Wednesday that allows it to enforce a ban on social media accounts for kids under 14 and other restrictions. The law was one of the most restrictive in the U.S. on social media use by children when Gov. R...
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GlobalFoundries to open 2 new chip plants in New York with $21 billion in financing from Japan
MALTA, N.Y. (AP) - Computer chip company GlobalFoundries Inc. said Wednesday it plans to open two factories in Malta, New York, financed by an investment of up to $21 billion from Japan. The company said the deal was made possible by the Trump admini...
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Yemen's Houthis look to build ballistic missiles with more Chinese supplies, report says
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels are attempting to build a new advanced medium-range ballistic missile system with the help of Chinese parts, according to a new report released Wednesday by a group that tracks the use of weapons in conflict zones. T...
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FBI arrests OpenAI employee accused of placing recording device in company conference room
WASHINGTON (AP) - An engineer at OpenAI has been charged with secretly installing a recording device inside a conference room in what officials said Tuesday was an effort to capture sensitive conversations about the company's technology. The employee...
Oct 13, 2026
Police confiscate robot that groped 16-year-old girl, probe whether young men were at the controls
COLOGNE, Germany (AP) - German authorities opened an investigation into possible sexual harassment after a robot controlled by two young men touched the buttocks of a 16-year-old girl and made thrusting movements toward her, police said. Police in th...
Oct 13, 2026
Cyberattacks hit European supermarket chains and disrupt refrigeration systems
PARIS (AP) - Cyberattacks disrupted European supermarket chains, affecting refrigeration systems at hundreds of stores in France and forcing a major grocer to shut down websites serving customers in Europe and the United States. French Finance Minist...
Oct 13, 2026
AI data centers are coming for federal land. They're roiling the Nevada governor's race
BOULDER CITY, Nev. (AP) - Janelle Sorenson loves the clear night skies in Boulder City, less than an hour's drive from the bright lights of the Las Vegas Strip. It's a small, quiet town, and she thinks an artificial intelligence data center would rui...
Oct 13, 2026
Hitters are winning more ABS challenges in the postseason, and teams are challenging more overall
NEW YORK (AP) - Batters have been more successful on robot umpire challenges in the playoffs than during the regular season, and teams are utilizing the Automated Ball-Strike System more overall in its postseason debut. Seventy-one of 121 overall cha...
Oct 12, 2026
Ukraine steps up strikes on Russia's tech infrastructure, damaging third data center in 4 days
A Ukrainian drone attack shut down a data center run by Russian technology giant Yandex, the company said Sunday, the third strike on its facilities in four days as Kyiv widens its campaign against infrastructure deep inside Russia. The attack on the...
Oct 11, 2026
Anthropic's Claude AI submits a false tip on a Philadelphia unsolved homicide case
NEW YORK (AP) - An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false tip to a Philadelphia police website about an unsolved homicide case, authorities and Anthropic said. It's the latest example of AI models acting in unintended ways and mani...
Oct 10, 2026




