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CEOs are finally speaking out about ICE. Is corporate activism back?

For weeks, corporate leaders across the country largely stayed silent as immigration officers descended on the city of Minneapolis, eventually killing two civilians. In recent days, however, CEOs and prominent tech figures have slowly raised their voices in protest—though many of them have been careful not to mention President Trump by name or directly criticize…

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These popular air purifiers are being recalled over a fire risk

Airova is recalling 191,390 Aroeve air purifiers over concerns that they could “overheat and ignite, posing fire and burn hazards to consumers,” according to a recent notice from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Airova received 37 reports of the air purifiers overheating—including one incident that resulted in a fire—however, there have been no reports of injuries…

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Townfall takes the series’ trademark fog to an eerie coastal community

Coming off the success of Slient Hill f, which moved the series’ psychological horror to the Japanese countryside, Konami, Annapurna Interactive and developer Screen Burn Interactive have chosen a foggy island as the setting for Silent Hill: Townfall. The first gameplay trailer for Townfall, introduced during Sony’s latest State of Play, follows Simon Ordell, a…

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More Americans than ever love being single. But they feel penalized for it by our financial system

Single this Valentine’s Day? You’re not alone. New research from The Harris Poll shows that nearly half of Americans (46%) are not in relationships—many of them on purpose. The report, shared exclusively with Fast Company, calls it a “cultural revolution,” in which people are using singlehood as a way to prioritize their agency rather than…

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An AI agent just tried to shame a software engineer after he rejected its code

Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first documented case of an AI publicly shaming a person as retribution.  Matplotlib, a popular Python plotting library with roughly 130 million monthly downloads, doesn’t…

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