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Stripping U.S. citizenship en masse is harder than Trump vowed
President Trump's vow to revoke citizenship worries immigrant advocates, legal scholars and naturalized Americans — but so far it's proving harder to ...
The NTSB tries to keep cockpit audio recordings private. AI is making that harder
The National Transportation Safety Board temporarily pulled its docket system offline after digital images were used to reconstruct cockpit voice reco...
Uber president says AI spending is getting ‘harder to justify’
After reportedly exhausting its annual AI budget just four months into 2026, Uber is now questioning whether it's actually seeing meaningful returns o...
The year’s weirdest game is hard to explain and even harder to put down
The first rule of Titanium Court is that you can't explain Titanium Court. Not because we're living under the omerta of an 8-bit Fight Club, but becau...
