New website names and shames companies that still don’t offer passkeys to users

According to a new site, 24% of the most popular websites in the world don't offer support for passkeys, which are considered the most secure way to log in to apps and services.

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Companies are scrambling to stop employees from maxing out AI budgets with small tasks

The tokenmaxxing era was brief. We now appear to be entering the era of token rationing.

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Judge Orders Trump Admin To Explain Reason For Tarp At Kennedy Center

A federal judge is demanding an explanation for the tarp that now hides where President Donald Trump's name once stood on the Kennedy Center's façade.

U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper issued the order Tuesday in Beatty v. Trump, the lawsuit brought by Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) over Trump's illegal renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Cooper ordered the parties to file a joint status report addressing "the purpose for and status of the tarp and scaffolding that Defendants have erected on the front portico of the Center."

Workers put up the tarp on June 13 — the night Trump's name came down under Cooper's court order. It has not come down since.

The Kennedy Center says the covering is needed for marble maintenance. Beatty's lawyers aren't buying it.

"Willfully sabotaging Kennedy Center's iconic façade to assuage Defendants' vanity or massage broken egos is a clear breach of fiduciary duty," her attorneys wrote.

Mallory Miller co-founded the activist group Hands Off the Arts and got behind the tarp to photograph the façade. She told NBC News the administration's motive was plain.

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Here’s why Slate changed the battery in its cheap EV truck

While there was probably a moment when Slate’s leadership had to green-light the switch from one battery type to another, the momentum toward that decision had been building for years.

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Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta to launch its own prediction market

The app would be independent of Meta's other social media offerings, although sources told the NYT that those social sites could direct users to engagement with the app.

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'I Saw It': Trump's Reflecting Pool Excuse Gets Bigger Every Time He Tells It

Donald J. Trump's whole vandalism narrative is collapsing in real time. The president claimed a "350-foot slit" was cut through the pool's lining with a "box-cutter or a knife of some kind," saying, "I saw it. They cut it. They cut it very violently."

However, it got interesting when CBS's Ed O'Keefe pressed him on it. O'Keefe noted that reporters had visited the site and found no evidence of a slit, and Trump's response was essentially, "go ask the Parks Department."

Here's the kicker: neither the Interior Department nor the White House has provided any evidence that the pool lining was cut. And the story keeps changing — on Saturday, Trump claimed the gash was 250 feet long, and by Monday, it had grown to 350 feet. Classic.

Meanwhile, the actual story, in real life, is pretty straightforward: the Reflecting Pool has been plagued with algae and peeling paint since the Trump administration completed the renovation, which cost more than $16 million — $4 million over the original estimate.

To top this shitshow off, Trump is threatening to sue ABC for reporting on the Reflecting Pool cost overruns, saying, "I like their money."

The pattern is classic: another expensive government project fails, so he manufactured a villain rather than admit the $16M paint job didn't work.

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Google DeepMind bets $75M on AI’s future in Hollywood with A24 deal

Google DeepMind and A24 are teaming up to build AI filmmaking tools.

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