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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 California, Florida, and New York with fraudulent messages designed to scare people into handing over their personal and financial information. Now the scammers are back, and they've upgraded their



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Three YouTube channels have banded together and filed a class action lawsuit against Apple, as first spotted by MacRumors. According to the lawsuit, the creators behind h3h3 Productions, MrShortGameGolf and Golfholics have accused Apple of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by scraping copyrighted videos on YouTube to train its AI models.

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NASA's Artemis II crew just set a new distance record in miles traveled away from Earth. The team of four astronauts are in the process of circling the Moon, reaching 5,000 miles beyond the natural satellite. That brings the total distance traveled away from our home to over 250,000 miles. Gene Roddenberry would be proud.

This broke the previous 1970 record set by Apollo 13's crew by around 4,000



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A Pokemon player holds seven playing cards from the game in their hands as they sit at a table with more cards, dice, and other Pokemon-themed merchandise spread out.
Shoppers are still spending on Pokémon cards, movie tickets, and other discretionary items, Mizuho analyst David Bellinger wrote.
  • Rising gas prices aren't taking a huge toll on consumer spending, a Mizuho analyst wrote on Monday.
  • Look no further than Pokémon cards and Needoh sensory toys, the analyst wrote.
  • Gas prices crossed $4 a gallon last week, continuing their Iran-war

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In this photo illustration, a Microsoft Copilot logo is seen displayed on a smartphone with a Microsoft logo in the background

Microsoft has positioned Copilot as a serious tool that can be used as an all-purpose digital assistant, even introducing a new class of laptops: Copilot+ PCs.

But within Microsoft's updated Copilot terms of service — effective October 24, 2025 — is a line that should give pause to anyone using the company's AI assistant for anything more consequential than sorting a list.

The fine print reads:



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One half of the Earth is seen floating in space through the open door of the Orion spacecraft.

As Earth's 8 billion inhabitants beam well wishes up to the sky, the crew of NASA's Artemis II mission is looking back at us with just as much hope.

The mission's Orion spacecraft sent back its first image of Earth on April 2, a beautiful shot of a crescent Earth peeking out through the dark expanse of space, and the crew has gifted us even more stunning high-quality images in the days following.



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Microsoft stands out in how its terms of use describe the limitations of its flagship generative AI tool.
  • Microsoft said it will update Copilot's terms of use after they went viral.
  • Users highlighted terms that said Copilot is "for entertainment purposes only."
  • Microsoft said the phrasing "is legacy language" that dates back to when Copilot was part of Bing

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Christina Koch working in the Orion spacecraft

Artemis II astronauts will watch Earth sink and rise behind the moon's curved edge today and ride through a slow solar eclipse unlike anything anyone has seen from home.

From the windows of the Orion spacecraft, the crew will see Earth as a bright, blue orb hanging above a stark gray foreground. Sunlight reflecting off oceans, clouds, and continents will turn our planet into a luminous beacon in