Student loan borrowers in SAVE will soon be booted. What to know
Damircudic | E+ | Getty Images Student loan borrowers who expected smaller monthly payments under the new Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan received some bad news on Feb. 18, when a U.S. appeals court blocked the program. As a result, millions of people will need to switch to a new repayment plan […]
Hackers steal $1.5 billion from exchange Bybit, biggest crypto heist
Ben Zhou, chief executive officer of ByBit, during the Token2049 conference in Singapore, on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. Joseph Nair | Bloomberg | Getty Images Bybit, a major cryptocurrency exchange, has been hacked to the tune of $1.5 billion in digital assets, in what’s estimated to be the largest crypto heist in history. The attack […]
Denise Richards reveals alleged sexual harassment claims in Hollywood
During her rise to fame, Denise Richards avoided being “blacklisted” in Hollywood as she kept quiet about an alleged sexual harassment claim. The 54-year-old reality star confessed there was a point in her early career when she considered filing a sexual harassment lawsuit but was pressured to keep quiet. “I was told I would be […]
Microsoft’s New Majorana 1 Processor Could Transform Quantum Computing
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Researchers at Microsoft have announced the creation of the first “topological qubits” in a device that stores information in an exotic state of matter, in what may be a significant breakthrough for quantum computing. At the same time, the researchers also published a […]
Lazarus Group moves funds to multiple wallets as Bybit offers bounty
The $1.4 billion hack represents the single biggest crypto heist in history as the North Korean Lazarus hacking group strikes again.
How IRS layoffs could impact tax filings and refunds this season
Vithun Khamsong | Moment | Getty Images Thousands of IRS employees are expected to lose their jobs as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, continues widespread cuts to federal spending. The move comes roughly three weeks since the opening of tax season and could impact millions of taxpayers who will file before the […]
Hims & Hers shares fall after FDA says semaglutide no longer in shortage
Products of Hims & Hers displayed. Hims & Hers Shares of Hims & Hers Health tumbled more than 23% on Friday after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that the shortage of semaglutide injection products has been resolved. Semaglutide is the active ingredient in Novo Nordisk‘s blockbuster weight loss drugs Wegovy and diabetes treatment Ozempic. Those […]
Dolly Parton implores Indiana governor not to axe funds for Imagination Library
Dolly Parton is calling on Indiana Governor Mike Braun to reconsider nixing her charitable Imagination Library initiative, which benefits young children. “We are hopeful that Governor Braun and the Indiana Legislature will continue this vital investment by restoring the state’s funding match for local Imagination Library programs,” the Dollywood Foundation’s Vice Chair and President Jeff Conyers […]
Roll Over Shakespeare: ChatGPT Is Here
Sitting in Lincoln Center awaiting the curtain for Ayad Akhtar’s McNeal—a much anticipated theater production starring Robert Downey Jr., with ChatGPT in a supporting role—I mused how playwrights have been dealing with the implications of AI for over a century. In 1920—well before Alan Turing devised his famous test and decades before the 1956 summer […]
Bybit exchange hacked, over $1.4 billion stETH moved
A hacker took control of an ETH cold wallet on the Bybit exchange on Feb. 21, stealing over $1.4 billion in funds in the process.