The death toll in the wildfires devastating the Los Angeles area was raised to at least 25 people, the County of Los Angeles Department of Medical Examiner said Tuesday night. The deaths are still under investigation by the department. Nine of the deaths were attributed to the Palisades Fire, while …
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The AI rush has brought with it thorny questions of copyright and ownership of data as tech companies train bots like ChatGPT on existing texts, but it seems Meta largely brushed these aside as they worked to integrate such tools into Facebook and Instagram. As first revealed in a motion …
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The Securities and Exchange Commission sued Elon Musk, claiming the world’s richest person of deliberately waiting too long to disclose his purchase of more than five percent of Twitter shares in 2022. Alex Spiro, a lawyer for Musk, told Reuters that the lawsuit was the culmination of the SEC’s “multi-year …
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Author Neil Gaiman denied allegations of sexual assault and abuse made by multiple women and reported in a New York magazine story earlier this week. In a new statement posted to his website today,Gaiman wrote, “I have never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone. Ever.” His denial arrives a …
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After losing her Malibu home in the ongoing Los Angeles fires, Paris Hilton has raised $800,000 in emergency relief funds in 72 hours. Working with her non-profit, 11:11 Media Impact, Hilton quickly mobilized to help in the wake of the disastrous fires. She initially pledged $100,000 to help families affected …
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XO, Kitty fans start your engines. The Netflix original and To All the Boys spinoff series returns for a second season on Jan. 16 — and Rolling Stone can exclusively reveal a first look at both the soundtrack and several key images from the new episodes. While author Jenny Han‘s …
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Kate Middleton is in remission from an undisclosed cancer. The Princess of Wales shared the positive news on Instagram, which comes months after she first let the public know about her diagnosis. “It is a relief to now be in remission and I remain focused on recovery,” Middleton wrote in …
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More women have come forward with sexual assault allegations against author Neil Gaiman, including a woman who worked as a babysitter for him. The story in New York Magazine, which was published early this morning, offers a deep dive into Gaiman’s life, marriage, and split with Amanda Palmer, and the …
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The Palisades fire, which started the morning of Jan. 7 and is the largest of the four blazes ravaging Los Angeles County, has moved east, forcing evacuations in Brentwood and parts of Encino. On Saturday, the fire spread to Mandeville Canyon. The flames’ direction headed into “a heavily populated area …
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When Max Baumgarten and Penelope Gazin first learned the catastrophic Eaton fire had gutted their 1940s adobe brick home on the edge of the San Gabriel mountains in Altadena, California, they couldn’t fully absorb it. A neighbor sent them a video of their ravaged cul-de-sac, but they watched it in …
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