Wright ThompsonJun 12, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Close Wright Thompson is a senior writer for ESPN and is executive producer of TrueSouth and co-executive producer of Backstory. He is the author of New York Times bestselling The Cost of These Dreams. AARON JUDGE LAUGHED when I asked him about nap time. He’s got a four-month-old…
Axel Arigato’s latest sneaker, Eris, launched only last month but has seen strong demand so far with extra colourways and larger sizes for men requested. The brand clearly anticipated this and has added both to the offer as of this week. Axel Arigato Eris is unisex but mainly targeted women at launch when it debuted…
[This is a Guest Diary by William Constantino, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] In the beginning of my Internet Storm Center (ISC) internship, I wasted too much time trying to build my SIEM from an old computer I had lying around, or a new Raspberry Pi I purchased. I keep…
A second suspect has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping and torturing an Italian tourist in an upmarket Manhattan home for weeks in an effort to steal his cryptocurrency. William Duplessie, 32, turned himself in to authorities on Tuesday after his alleged accomplice was arrested last week. Their alleged victim told police he was hung off…
An artist’s impression of the exoplanet 2M1510 (AB) b’s unusual orbit around a pair of brown dwarfs ESO/L. Calçada In a first, a pair of unusual stars has been revealed to have an equally unusual companion – an exoplanet that orbits them perpendicularly. Astronomers may think they know what is normal for stars and planets,…
Ethar Shalaby BBC News Arabic Noura’s family archive Noura and Mohamed at their home in Gaza City before the war began, where they hoped to raise a family “My nerves are shattered,” says Noura, a 26-year-old Palestinian woman, explaining that she has been “left with nothing”. After years of IVF treatment, she became pregnant in…
ALPHARETTA, GEORGIA – JUNE 24: Magic Johnson on stage during the TSP Live 2022 conference at The … More Hotel at Avalon on June 24, 2022 in Alpharetta, Georgia. (Photo by Derek White/Getty Images) Getty Images Now that the Knicks players have signed off on firing Tom Thibodeau, Magic Johnson says “there’s a lot of…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK has agreed that no goods can enter Gibraltar except after Spanish checks as part of its deal to remove border controls for people moving between the two territories, according to British and European…
Data and AI tools enable broad surveillance of social media Tada Images/Shutterstock The US government is expanding its surveillance of social media to monitor millions of visitors and immigrants – and its embrace of more data analytics and artificial intelligence tools could increase scrutiny of US citizens as well. “It is nearly – if not…
For an AI model to perform effectively in specialized domains, it requires access to relevant background knowledge. A customer support chat assistant, for instance, needs detailed information about the business it serves, and a legal analysis tool must draw upon a comprehensive database of past cases. To equip large language models (LLMs) with this knowledge,…
