The CIA used a Star Wars fan site to secretly communicate with spies.

The internet has seen its fair share of weird, but a Star Wars fan site secretly run by the CIA to communicate with overseas spies might top the list. StarWarsWeb.net looked like any other 2010-era fan page, complete with lightsabers, Yoda quotes ("Like these games you…

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Fire Breaks Out at a Data Center Leased by Elon Musk’s X.

A fire broke out Thursday morning at a data center in Hillsboro, Oregon, leased by Elon Musk’s X, forcing an extended response from emergency crews, according to multiple sources who spoke to WIRED. The sources required anonymity as they aren’t authorized to speak publicly …

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Harvard Law School bought a copy of Magna Carta for $27. Turns out, it’s actually an original.

A “copy” of Magna Carta bought decades ago by Harvard Law School for just $27.50 is now understood to be an extremely rare original from 1300, according to new research. British historians were able to verify the document’s true authenticity after an academic stumbled across…

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Ancient home shows evidence of how Pompeiians tried to shelter from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that four people, including a child, in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii used furniture to block a bedroom door and shield themselves from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Ultimately, the home became their final resting place, …

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WHO declares polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea.

The World Health Organisation has declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea and called for an "immediate" vaccination campaign. Samples of the highly infectious virus were found in two healthy children during a routine screening in Lae, a coastal city in the co…

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Princess Diana's Ice-Blue Cannes Dress paid tribute to a royal fashion icon 38 years ago.

Princess Diana attended the Cannes Film Festival on May 15, 1987, alongside then-husband Prince Charles. The Princess of Wales’s strapless blue tulle gown paid tribute to Princess Grace of Monaco, who had died five years prior in a 1982 car accident, and her famous role in &…

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Mexican-American singer Johnny Rodriguez, whose dies at 73.

Country-music star Johnny Rodriguez, a popular Mexican-American singer best known for chart-topping hits in the 1970s, including “I Just Can’t Get Her Out of My Mind,” “Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico” and “That’s the Way Love Goes,” has died. He was 73. Rodriguez died Friday, acc…

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Bill Gates to give away $200 billion by 2045.

Bill Gates pledged on Thursday to give away $200 billion via his charitable foundation by 2045 and lashed out at Elon Musk, accusing the world's richest man of "killing the world's poorest children" through huge cuts to the U.S. foreign aid budget. The 69-y…

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Satellites show 28 US cities are sinking, including NYC and Chicago.

A new study has found that the 28 most populous cities in the United States — including New York, Chicago, Dallas and Denver — are sinking at rates between two and 10 millimeters (0.08 and 0.4 inches) per year. Using satellite-based radar measurements, a team of researchers …

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Boeing now plans to deliver new Air Force One jets in 2027.

Long-delayed next Air Force One jets from Boeing might now be delivered by 2027 — in time for President Donald Trump to use them, according to a top Air Force official. While that’s still years behind the original delivery date of 2022, it’s one to two years earlier than Boe…

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Trump Names Jeanine Pirro as Interim U.S. Attorney in Washington.

President Trump said on Thursday that he would name the Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro, whose false statements about the 2020 election were part of a lawsuit against the network, the interim U.S. attorney for Washington, hours after he was forced to pull his first choic…

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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let DOGE access Social Security systems.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to clear the way for Elon Musk ’s Department of Government Efficiency to access Social Security systems containing personal data on millions of Americans. The emergency appeal is the first in a string of applications…

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Tesla sales have collapsed in Sweden.

Tesla’s sales have now collapsed in Sweden, with only just over 200 cars delivered in the country last month – down 80% year-over-year. In 2024, Tesla had its best year yet in Sweden. The automaker delivered on average 1,825 vehicles per month. That was a great result amid Te…

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A massive explosion at an Iranian port linked to missile fuel shipment kills 14, injures some 750.

A massive explosion and fire rocked a port Saturday in southern Iran purportedly linked to a shipment of a chemical ingredient used to make missile propellant, killing 14 people and injuring around 750 others. Helicopters and aircraft dumped water from the air on the raging …

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California now 4th largest economy in the world.

California is now the fourth largest economy in the world, according to new data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). The data shows California's nominal GDP reached $4.1 trillion, surpassing Japan's $4.02 trillio…

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Nvidia reveals it will make AI supercomputers in the U.S. for the first time.

Nvidia announced Monday that it will produce its artificial intelligence supercomputers in the United States for the first time. The tech giant said it has commissioned more than one million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test its specialized Blackwell chips…

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Trump administration looking at closing nearly 30 overseas embassies and consulates.

The Trump administration is looking at closing nearly 30 overseas embassies and consulates as it eyes significant changes to its diplomatic presence abroad, according to an internal State Department document obtained by CNN. The document also recommends reducing the footprin…

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China’s Kuaishou unveils ‘world’s most powerful’ AI video generator to rival OpenAI’s Sora.

Chinese short video giant Kuaishou Technology on Tuesday unveiled an upgraded version of its Kling video generation artificial intelligence (AI) model, touting it as “the world’s most powerful” as competition intensifies in the race to develop video-generating models. “This …

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Hong Kong suspends postal service to the US after Trump’s tariff hikes.

Hong Kong’s postal service will stop handling packages coming from or going to the United States, in the latest retaliatory move amid an escalating trade war between Washington and Beijing. In a statement published Wednesday announcing the decision, the government of Hong Ko…

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50,000 killed in Gaza since start of Israel-Hamas war, health ministry says.

More than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Israel’s war with Hamas began, the territory’s health ministry said Sunday, a grim milestone for a war with no end in sight as Israel resumes fighting and warns of even tougher days ahead. The ministry on Sunday re…

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