French police and Europol searched the local office of X, the Paris prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday. The raid is part of an ongoing investigation launched in 2025 on allegations of “fraudulent extraction of data” of an automated data-processing system “by an organized group.” French prosecutors’ cybercrime unit said the investigation has now been expanded … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: Lindsay Nead’s Parker Management, one of the digital talent management companies falling under the Propagate Content umbrella, is expanding its footprint in the creator space with the acquisition of Estate 5 (also known as Estate Five Media), the digital talent management agency founded in 2017 by Lynsey Eaton, Suzanne Droese, and Tina Chen Craig. … Read more
Philip Cheung has covered the Russian invasion of Ukraine and last year’s fires in Los Angeles, where he lives. He also photographed the massive street protests that emerged in response to the surge of ICE agents in Los Angeles last June. In Minneapolis, he has captured local residents’ evolving resistance to the immigration agents in … Read more
Henry Soong is trying to make vertical microdrama series that don’t suck. That makes the Watch Club founder quite unique within this multibillion dollar industry of apps that churn out formulaic, cringe-worthy content and use aggressive tactics to maximize in-app spending. “Ninety percent of these stories are, ‘I’m a poor girl! I fell in love … Read more
“Hellloooo, Vogue!” trills the one and only Miss Piggy as she sets about revisiting her Life in Looks. “Took you long enough, don’t you think?” To be fair, Miss Piggy has been redefining porcine chic since the mid-1970s (though we don’t know her exact age, because a lady never tells), so she was certainly overdue … Read more
VistaShares has launched BTYB, an actively managed exchange-traded fund (ETF) listed on the New York Stock Exchange that allocates most of its assets to US Treasurys while using options strategies to provide weekly income and Bitcoin-linked price exposure. According to the Tuesday announcement, the fund allocates about 80% of its portfolio to US Treasury securities … Read more
It’s Christmas of 1994, and I am 16 years old. Sitting on the table in our family room next to a pile of cow-spotted boxes is the most incredible thing in the world: a brand new Gateway 66MHz Pentium tower, with a 540MB hard disk drive, 8MB of RAM, and, most importantly, a CD-ROM drive. … Read more
Amid the Trump administration’s attack on universities, Harvard has emerged as a particular target. Early on, the administration put $2.2 billion in research money on hold and shortly thereafter blocked all future funding while demanding intrusive control over Harvard’s hiring and admissions. Unlike many of its peer institutions, Harvard fought back, filing and ultimately winning a … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The Epstein files offer America the opposite of closure. They are the latest widening of a scandal that has become a leitmotif of our time — not only because half the material remains … Read more
A growing number of people are asking OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other LLMs about their health, often discovering that the chatbots provide remarkably useful medical insights. KJ Dhaliwal (pictured left), who in 2019 sold the South Asian dating app Dil Mil for $50 million, says he has been thinking about the inefficiencies of the U.S. healthcare … Read more