Food insecurity is a tough daily fight, yet quitting smoking can feel even tougher for those who live with it. A new look at an earlier study shows how people dealing with both issues were invited to try a phone-based quit-smoking program. Some got the invite face-to-face and others saw it online. T
Game 4 of the 2026 NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden looked more like a red-carpet event than a basketball game. Taylor Swift arrived with sisters Alana and Este Haim, proving once again that Knicks home games are as much about star power as they are about actual basketball. The pop superstar owns
Federal agents took over 13 website domains recently after discovering they were fronts for an elaborate scheme. These fake companies posed as consulting firms trying to hire current or former U. S. government workers. Their real goal? To trick employees with access to sensitive information into sha
The government now tells agencies to patch critical cyber flaws within three days. Why the rush? Hackers are using AI to find and exploit weaknesses faster than ever before. Experts worry that with smarter tools, attacks can happen before security teams even notice. This forces officials to act quic
A recent chat with interim manager Chad Tracy cleared up rumors that Boston’s locker room was in chaos. Tracy told listeners that, although the team is 10 games below . 500, everyone inside the clubhouse is focused on winning and staying united. He said that any chatter outside of the team’s r
The money that pays out pensions to more than 60 million people is expected to run out in the year 2032. If lawmakers do not act before then, retirees will automatically lose about one‑fifth of their monthly checks. The latest report from the Social Security Trustees says that Congress should sta
Dean Fealk, a partner at the global law firm DLA Piper, will travel to Ankara in July as part of a delegation representing Silicon Valley at the NATO summit. The meeting will address rising tensions with Iran and Ukraine, new cyber threats, and how emerging tech can be used for defense. Fealk’s pres
Meta is sticking to its artificial‑intelligence roadmap even after a wave of Instagram account hijackings. The company decided not to overhaul its strategy following the security breaches. Internal documents show that Meta chose to keep all products running. Only one experiment, the IG Forg
The U. S. trust fund that supports retirement payments is expected to run out of money earlier than thought, with a shortfall projected for late 2032. The change in timing comes after a tax law passed last year that lowered the amount of income taxes collected from Social Security benefits. Earli
Earlier this year a lab quietly rolled out a chatbot that could crack passwords as easily as it answered trivia. Researchers fretted that criminals might swap it for their old toolkits and launch a wave of break-ins. After months of testing, the same lab is now shipping a stripped-down edition that
