Lola Brooke may be in her soft girl era, but she’s also on her grind. When I caught up with the Brooklyn, New York rapper late last year, she was eager to talk about her rise in the music industry, her single, “You,” featuring Bryson Tiller, and her new album, Dennis Daughter. Friendly and open,...
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Snoop Dogg’s film ‘The Underdoggs’ brings his Los Angeles youth football story to life
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — On an unusually rainy day in Los Angeles County, Adan James Carrillo is playing a video game in Snoop Dogg’s Clubhouse arcade along with a slew of other middle school aged kids and their parents. There’s a Raising Cane’s food truck in the parking lot along with a couple other classic cars,...
(BPRW) Lanny Smoot to Be the First Disney Imagineer Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
(Black PR Wire) Lanny Smoot, a Disney Research Fellow and longtime member of Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development, is being inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He is the first Disney Imagineer to receive this p…
The Sleepy Copyright Office in the Middle of a High-Stakes Clash Over A.I.
The office is reviewing how centuries-old laws should apply to artificial intelligence technology, with both content creators and tech giants arguing their cases.
Microsoft, Amazon and Google Face F.T.C. Inquiry Over A.I. Deals
The agency plans to scrutinize Microsoft, Amazon and Google for their investments in the A.I. start-ups OpenAI and Anthropic.
Apple Overhauls App Store in Europe, in Response to New Digital Law
An E.U. law taking effect in March forced Apple to loosen its grip on the App Store, changes it had long resisted.
N.S.A. Buys Americans’ Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says
The disclosure comes amid congressional scrutiny and a Federal Trade Commission crackdown on commercial data brokers.
L.A. County to Pay $5 Million to Election Executive Wrongly Charged With Data Breach
Eugene Yu, the owner of an election software company, was arrested in 2022 on charges of breaching election data. Those charges were dropped weeks later.
Microsoft cancels Blizzard survival game, lays off 1,900
Enlarge / Blizzard shared this image teasing a now-cancelled game in 2022. (credit: Blizzard Entertainment/Twitter) The survival game that Blizzard announced it was working on in January 2022 has reportedly been canceled. The cut comes as Microsoft is slashing jobs a little over four months after closing its $69 billion Activision Blizzard acquisition. Blizzard’s game...
AI will increase the number and impact of cyberattacks, intel officers say
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Threats from malicious cyberactivity are likely to increase as nation-states, financially motivated criminals, and novices increasingly incorporate artificial intelligence into their routines, the UK’s top intelligence agency said. The assessment, from the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters, predicted ransomware will be the biggest threat to get a boost from AI over the...

