After hackers stole more than $6 billion from Binance, the cryptocurrency exchange said Friday it is working to recover the assets, a multi-pronged process that experts said involves coordinating with law enforcement and tracking the movement of the stolen funds. “Binance has begun recovering affected assets for users and continues to work with law enforcement,…
The first case of New World screwworm in wildlife in the United States has been found in an elk in Texas, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday. The elk was discovered on a game ranch in Pecos County and was reported after being harvested by a hunter, the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service…
Washington — The Trump administration on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to resume for now construction of a border wall and other infrastructure through a remote area of West Texas that includes Big Bend National Park. The Justice Department urged the high court to lift a lower court injunction that temporarily bars…
A woman linked to drug cartels and accused of torturing and murdering her daughter in Arizona in 1997 has been captured in Mexico nearly 30 years after the crime, officials said Wednesday. Anna Marlene Somoza was connected to a “major transnational drug trafficking network” along the Arizona border through the 1980s and 1990s, the U.S….
Ten years ago, Norah was diagnosed with melanoma. It was a wakeup call that changed her relationship with the sun and made her want to shine a light on the importance of early skin cancer detection. On this week’s episode of Healthful, Norah’s dermatologist, Dr. Elizabeth Hale, discusses ways to prevent skin cancer, where melanoma…
 19m ago Norwegian teen sentenced in U.K. to 20 years in prison for plotting murder for Iran-linked gang A Norwegian teenager convicted of traveling to Britain to carry out a contract killing on behalf of an international crime gang linked to Iran was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison. Johannes Kongsnes Natland, 19,…
Anthropic is sounding the alarm about a new risk posed by artificial intelligence: Self-replicating “AI worms” could soon infest your “smart” home devices. In a report released on Monday, Anthropic safety researchers said small AI models may be only “months away” from gaining the ability to clone themselves and spread across internet-connected devices, such as…
One startup uses artificial intelligence to help winemakers better predict crop yields. Another uses insights gleaned from AI to enable earlier detection of skin cancer, while a third develops a seaweed-based hydrogel fire suppressant that’s free of “forever chemicals.” The entrepreneurs behind these tech-forward startups have one thing in common: They started the companies from…
Faced with recent questions about the privacy costs of its technology, the surveillance camera startup Flock Safety and its CEO have deployed a tidy statistic to tout its benefits. “Last year we helped clear just over a million crimes in America,” Flock CEO Garrett Langley said in a March 2026 podcast interview. “Over a million…
Scientists have discovered a crater on the moon that’s bigger than the Roman Colosseum and is the result of a powerful impact two years ago that initially went undetected. The steep-sided hole measured about 728 feet across, the length of two football fields, and up to 141 feet deep, equivalent to three vertically stacked yellow…
