Mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Hospitalized After a Prison Head Injury No One Has Explained

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was rushed from FCI Fort Dix to a hospital with a head injury. The prison won’t talk, his camp is still confirming what happened, and the mogul who once controlled every headline no

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Zizou Bergs, the Belgian Who Used to Idolize the Greats, Stuns Spanish Star Carlos Alcaraz at the Shanghai Masters

Zizou Bergs knocked Carlos Alcaraz out of the Shanghai Masters in straight sets. The result settles the year-end top spot for Alexander Zverev, but the bigger shift happened on the other side of the n

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Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration Booster Bundles Back in Stock: Amazon Now Costs More Than Resale

Amazon has restocked Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration Booster Bundles at $99, far above the reported $26.94 MSRP and above TCGplayer resale, where prices fell about 35% in a month. Why the smart buy right

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Avatar: Seven Havens premieres on Paramount+: a hunted Avatar, 225 years after Korra

Avatar: Seven Havens, the first animated Avatar series since The Legend of Korra, is streaming on Paramount+. Original creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko return with twin Earthbender

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Google’s Fitbit Edge gets a replaceable battery and loses tap-to-pay

Google's $179.99 successor to the Charge 6 is the first Fitbit designed to be repaired, with a bigger screen and up to a week of battery, but it cannot pay at a contactless terminal and costs more tha

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Matthew Stafford Coached His Daughters’ Flag Football Team to a Title: Why the NFL MVP Kept It Simple

Matthew Stafford took over his daughters' flag football team when the coach fell through and won the title running the same defense every time. The NFL MVP's restraint on that sideline says more about

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Marvin Harrison Jr. Trade: Why the Cardinals Gave Up on Him and What the Texans Are Getting

The Cardinals traded Marvin Harrison Jr. to the Texans for a second-round pick and never said why the top-five pick stalled. Houston is betting C.J. Stroud's old Ohio State teammate only needed a diff

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Delta charges more and flies fewer economy seats as its fuel bill jumps $6 billion

Delta Air Lines took in 16% more on the same number of seats as jet fuel costs soared. Its profit forecast still fell by about a quarter, and the economy cabin is where the squeeze shows.

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Hubble data from 1999 points to a planet born after its star died

Niobium hidden in old Hubble spectra of the white dwarf HS 0209+0832 suggests a gas giant built from the material its star threw off while dying. It would be the first planet candidate of its kind, an

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Nicolas Cage refused an AI waiver on Spider-Noir and expects to lose Amazon over it

Nicolas Cage told a New York Comic Con crowd that he would not sign an AI waiver for Spider-Noir, called Amazon a very AI-friendly company and said he is probably not going to work with the studio aga

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Eagles Coach Nick Sirianni After Losing to the Jaguars in London: ‘I Lost Us That Game’

The Jaguars beat the Eagles on a walk-off field goal in London after Nick Sirianni chose a returnable kickoff. He took the blame in full. He did not give the reason, and that is the part his seat can

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NASA put 800GB of Artemis II Moon data online, and anyone can open, hear and reuse it

NASA's Artemis II archive is more than a data dump: a downloadable imagery album, raw crew audio, free viewing tools and clear reuse rules, with one map layer still to come.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Wants an AI Emergency Brake That Sits Outside the Model

Satya Nadella wants an emergency brake that lets an authorized person pause or shut down an AI model mid-task. His essay puts that control outside the model and on the companies deploying it, the same

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Japan pushes banks to stop trusting ID photos after a hack exposed 1.6 million

Japan's financial regulator wants banks and crypto exchanges to read the chip in an ID card instead of trusting an uploaded photo, after a hack at Times Car exposed about 1.6 million identity scans du

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GTA 6 Leaker Threatens to Release the Full Story Mode if Its Memecoin Hits $30 Million

Cyberleek says it will release GTA 6's full story mode, credits and all, if its memecoin reaches a $30 million market cap. The threat is aimed less at Rockstar than at the fans it asks to buy the toke

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Takashi Miike takes the Bad Lieutenant franchise to Tokyo, and Toronto critics are not sold

Takashi Miike's Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo puts Shun Oguri's gambling, extorting detective beside Lily James's FBI agent. It is the first of Pressman Film's planned city-by-city sequels to reach a screen,

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Shan Jiang’s ‘Ephemera’ takes its one-night Shanghai romance to Busan buyers via Cappu Films

Hong Kong’s Cappu Films takes worldwide sales on Shan Jiang’s Tribeca-premiered queer love story and brings it to the Asian Contents & Film Market

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The first nuclear clocks are ticking in Vienna and Beijing after a 50-year chase

Two independent teams have locked lasers to the nucleus of thorium-229 and kept time with it, one clock running untouched for more than a day. They are not yet better than atomic clocks, but they open

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Taylor Swift releases a piano ‘Patient Zero’ while the song is still the Hot 100 No. 1

Swift’s piano edition of ‘Patient Zero’ went on sale as a $0.69 digital single on the first day of a new Billboard tracking week, with the original still holding the Hot 100 top spot.

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The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story — HBO Max’s 1985 case a ghost helped crack

Dorothy Lou Thompson vanished ten days before her lawsuit over a Louisiana pet cemetery reached court. HBO's three-part docuseries follows the cold case that a witness said her ghost pushed him to reo

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Ledger finds a hidden chip in a crypto wallet sold by a Malaysian reseller

Ledger says a wallet drained in a wave of thefts across Southeast Asia carried an unauthorized hardware implant, and it has told buyers from the reseller CryptoBilis not to set up their devices. On-ch

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Starfleet Academy Season 2 Casts Actor Bill Nighy as Holly Hunter’s Estranged Father

Bill Nighy joins Starfleet Academy's final season as Nyk Ake, the estranged Lanthanite father of Holly Hunter's chancellor, with Rosemarie DeWitt as a Betazoid first lady. Star Trek has staged this fa

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Elon Musk Sees a Path to SpaceX Topping Earth’s Economy as It Takes On AT&T

Musk says he sees a path to SpaceX being worth far more than the global economy. The same day, SpaceX bought airwaves to become a US phone carrier, and that is the move the market priced.

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Ray Gunn Director Brad Bird Says Adult Animation ‘Shouldn’t Be’ Controversial

Scarlett Johansson and Sam Rockwell sang Happy Birthday to Michael Giacchino at the Ray Gunn premiere in London. Brad Bird's sharper line was about Pixar, and about a PG film whose first reviews alrea

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GTA 6 on Switch 2 Is Rockstar’s Call, and Rockstar’s Nintendo Ports Come Years Late

Nintendo of America's president says GTA 6 on Switch 2 is Take-Two's call. Rockstar's record on Nintendo hardware, with tested ports that never shipped and catalogue ports years late, is the better fo

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HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schuster quietly hand book copy to chatbots

Employees at three of the five biggest US publishers told WIRED that back-cover text, emails to literary agents and marketing copy are now drafted with ChatGPT and Claude, without telling readers or a

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The farthest fast radio burst is older than Earth and doubles the distance record

MeerKAT caught a millisecond radio flash that left its source 3 billion years after the Big Bang, more than doubling the distance record. The James Webb Space Telescope then found where it came from,

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Anthropic’s AI Sent Philadelphia Police a Fake Murder Tip, and the City Is Bringing In Its Lawyers

An Anthropic test model posed as a witness on Philadelphia's unsolved-murder tip site. A spam filter caught the fake; the city caught the delay, and now its lawyers and the mayor's team are on the cas

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Microsoft 365 Family loses up to 4TB as OneDrive turns into a 2TB pool

Microsoft is replacing the terabyte each Family and Premium member got with one shared two-terabyte pool for up to six people. Existing subscribers switch at renewal, and the bonus storage meant to so

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Norah Jones and Chris Stapleton’s first duet is a Christmas song named ‘April’s Gone’

Written with producer Leon Michels and set up by Willie Nelson’s harmonica player Mickey Raphael, the Blue Note single is a holiday ballad about a love that has gone cold.

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