Donald Trump hush-money trial: David Pecker returns to witness stand...

Pecker testifies Cohen said Trump 'furious' over refusal to pay Stormy DanielsLauren ArataniLots of irony in a text from David Pecker read to the court from former National Enquirer editor-in-chief Dylan Howard.Howard communicated to Michael Cohen that Donald Trump should be paying Stormy Daniels: I spoke to [Cohen], all sorted. …

Google parent announces first-ever dividend; beats on sales, profit; shares...

By Greg Bensinger and Akash Sriram(Reuters) - Alphabet (NASDAQ:) announced its first-ever dividend on Thursday and a $70 billion stock buyback, cheering investors who sent the stock surging nearly 16% after the bell. The Google parent is returning capital while spending billions of dollars on data centers to catch up …

HMD steps out of Nokia’s shadow and launches its own...

(Image credit: HMD) HMD is breaking into new territory by launching its first smartphone line under an original name. It’ll no longer be known as just a manufacturer of Nokia phones. In total, there are three mid-range devices in the series: the HMD Pulse, Pulse Plus, and Pulse Pro. The third …

Eli Russell Linnetz Launches a “Made in California” Collection of...

“I forgot to talk about the sheep living at the studio,” Eli Russell Linnetz texts me a minute after our FaceTime ends. The Californian designer shares a picture of his fluffy friends as they mill about outside the wave-like space (once belonging to Dennis Hopper) that he uses as ERL’s …

US campus protests over Israel-Gaza war – in pictures

Columbia University professors dressed in commencement regalia and other supporters protest against the university’s recent actions against a pro-Palestinian students’ camp on campus, on the steps of Low Memorial Library in New York …

Could ChatGPT be the next big cybersecurity worry — researchers...

LLMs such as ChatGPT might just be the next cybersecurity worry, according to the latest findings by researchers. Previously believed to only be able to exploit simpler cybersecurity vulnerabilities, LLMs have shown a surprisingly high proficiency in exploiting complex ones as well. Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) found …

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