NEW YORK, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Hedge funds are using near-record levels of leverage to trade equities and betting on debt-backed strategies in efforts to juice returns, making the most of markets buoyed ...

As Andy Hertzfeld describes on folklore.org, early Apple employee Chris Espinoza drew a calculator for the Macintosh. He showed it to Steve Jobs. Jobs’s response? “Well,” he said, “it’s a start, but ...

Google was accused in a lawsuit of using its Gemini AI assistant to unlawfully track the private communications of users of its Gmail, instant messaging and videoconference programs. In the past, ...

The US military has undertaken a campaign against alleged drug trafficking boats in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea using a variety of drones, gunships, and fighter jets, according to people ...

For almost two decades, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operated its facility in Broadview without much notice, handling immigration check-ins and other administrative tasks. Most attention ...

With most of Washington shut down, the Bureau of Labor Statistics recalled employees to ensure that one statistic was released on time: the consumer price index. The Social Security Administration ...

With a child in college and a spouse who’s a professor, I have front-row access to the unfolding debacle that is “higher education in the age of AI.” These days, students routinely submit even ...

Coca-Cola has begun rolling out its new cane sugar soda after President Donald Trump publicly pushed the company to move away from using high-fructose corn syrup earlier this year. The ...

What is it with lawyers and AI? We don’t know, but it feels like an inordinate number of them keep screwing up with AI tools, apparently never learning from their colleagues who get publicly crucified ...

College students are being wrongly accused of using AI to cheat on their assignments by their university — based, in a headache-inducing twist, on the findings of another AI system. A student named ...

You don't have to use the command line in Linux. With the help of these free GUIs, Linux becomes much easier. These tools can be easily installed. Linux is becoming ...