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There’s zero concrete evidence that the @AdrianDittmann account on X, formerly Twitter, is controlled by site owner Elon Musk. But since 2023, many users have convinced themselves that the billionaire is masquerading as this now-prominent influencer, using a pseudonymous identity to sing his own praises. The conspiracy theories have only …

A longtime editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post resigned from her position Friday after the newspaper rejected a cartoon that depicted tech and entertainment giants — including Post owner Jeff Bezos — kneeling before President-elect Donald Trump. Ann Telnaes, who worked at the Post since 2008 and previously won a …

Net neutrality rules have been axed again, this time thanks to a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, The New York Times reports. These rules were first codified in 2015 and broadly aimed to regulate internet providers like utilities to create a more open, accessible …

There’s currently no magic routine that will make humans live forever. But for tech millionaire Bryan Johnson, the quest to live longer lies in a routine of pills, shots, blood draws, and experimental therapy regimes he says are rewinding his biological clock. And in Netflix’s new documentary Don’t Die: The …

Facebook and Instagram parent Meta, whose platforms are already flooded with AI-generated content, recently floated an idea to make the problem even worse: letting users create bot characters in their AI Studio that would then become functional “users” of these sites themselves, appearing to have their own accounts that engage …

Sun pours through the lush foliage of a jungle, bleaching the pale limestone as a rotting man stands in the center of an otherwise empty arena, his yellow eyes leering from beneath a fringe of limp, blonde hair. Positioned around the edge are a hundred bodies, Orcs and Trolls and …

It’s not yet known what led to the detonation of incendiary materials in a Tesla Cybertruck on the morning of New Year’s Day in front of Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, in a blast that killed the driver and injured seven others. So far, law enforcement has only confirmed …

Don’t expect to see Simone Biles at the 2028 Olympic Games. In a new interview with Sports Illustrated, as she was named Sportsperson of the Year, Biles said it would be “greedy” to return to the Los Angeles Olympics for another run. “Because I’ve accomplished so much, there’s almost nothing …

Meghan Markle launched a new Instagram account, her first since 2020, on New Year’s Day. The account, @meghan, was confirmed to be an official account of the Duchess of Sussex by the Associated Press. Markle debuted the account with a black and white video of herself at a deserted beach. …

More details have emerged about the suspect in the New Year’s Day morning terror attack that killed 15 people in New Orleans. Authorities previously identified the man who drove a pickup truck into New Year’s revelers on Bourbon Street as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Texas native and an Army veteran …