Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Kurt Schlosser on Jun 8, 2026 at 9:19 am June 8, 2026 at 9:19 am ...

A person walks past a mural of Martin Luther King Jr. during the celebration of MLK Community Service Day in Washington D.C., days ahead of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, U.S. January ...

Bank security can feel confusing because every account seems to handle it differently. One bank sends a text. Another sends an email. Another asks you to approve a login inside its app. So when ...

Dan Tao is associate research fellow at the Research Institute of Science Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. In early 2025, the Chinese artificial-intelligence company DeepSeek, ...

As tools like Claude Code get better, more and more developers are happy to hand off coding tasks to them. The way software gets built has changed for good. The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, ...

The Vatican’s “Synod Study Group 9” has gone out with a whimper — and an embarrassing one at that. Originally tasked with applying synodality’s emphasis on “listening” to “controversial doctrinal, ...

Your phone buzzes. A text message pops up saying you have an outstanding traffic violation, and if you scan the attached QR code immediately, you can pay a $6.99 balance and avoid a court appearance.

Texting scams are exploding. In 2024 alone, U.S. consumers lost $470 million to them, according to the Federal Trade Commission, a number more than five times what it was just four years earlier. To ...

If you got a sketchy text last year about an unpaid toll or parking ticket, you weren't alone. Those DMV and E-ZPass phishing scams swept across the country in 2025, targeting drivers in states like ...

I would remind my fellow Americans of the devastating hurt caused by the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11. One can only imagine about the thousands of American lives we could have saved if we ...