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When we first tested Sora, the new AI video app from OpenAI, we noted that the app's social feed was full of memes depicting Martin Luther King Jr.

And on Thursday, OpenAI announced that it has now paused the ability for users to create AI-generated videos featuring the likeness of the civil rights icon. In the year 2025, deepfakes like this are a well-known problem, and it's a frankly predictable


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Newegg is selling three months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for $52, which is a fantastic deal. The list price is $60, but drops down to $52 by entering the code SSE2589 at checkout. The sale ends soon, so don't dilly-dally.

This is a discount of $38, thanks to Microsoft mandating a price hike that brought a single month of Game Pass Ultimate up to $30. That controversial move has irked fans of the



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A U.S. government entity is pleading with customers to stop using certain NordicTrack home rowing machines. The recall affects about 44,800 rowing machines, the vast majority of which were sold to U.S. customers.

The Consumer Protection Safety Commission (or CPSC) issued a recall statement this week alerting consumers to a fire hazard caused by some iFit home workout equipment from NordicTrack



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For too long, playing Santa for the holidays has been man's work. But that stops with My Secret Santa. Alexandra Breckenridge plays the jolly gift-giver in red in this daffy Netflix romantic comedy whose trailer begins by channeling Mrs. Doubtfire.

Yes, in that much-loved Robin Williams movie, a father of three sought to get closer to his kids — and pay his bills — by masquerading as a warm and



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Alexandra Roberts (left) and Jascha Kaykas-Wolff (right), creators of the Eleanore cocktail brand

Jascha Kaykas-Wolff is a veteran Silicon Valley executive who's seen waves of different technology sweep across the industry as CMO of Mozilla




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Bose took a different approach with its new products in 2025. Instead of entirely redesigning  its QuietComfort Ultra lineup, the company unveiled upgraded second-generation models of the flagship-level earbuds and headphones. Like the QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds that debuted earlier this year, the new Quiet Comfort Ultra headphones ($449) don’t offer a comprehensive overhaul. However, the changes


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Dmytro Chubenko of the Kharkiv regional prosecutor's office stands beside the remains of a Russian-made, Iran-designed Shahed-136 drone, known as a Geran-2 in Russia, with a cheap decoy known as a Gerbera, to the left, as the prosecutor's office maintains a collection of Russian drones, glide bombs, missiles and rockets launched at Ukraine as evidence for eventual war crimes prosecutions against Russia, on July 30, 2025 in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Ukraine continues to find foreign parts in Russian weapons.
  • Ukraine is still finding foreign-made parts in Russian missiles and drones years deep into the war.
  • The discoveries highlight how Russia bypasses sweeping Western restrictions.
  • Western officials said there are growing efforts to clamp down on the trend.

Over three and a half years into the war, Ukraine is still