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California Engineer Identified in Suspected Shooting at White House Correspondents' Dinner

WIRED

The 31-year-old engineer and self-described indie game developer is suspected of firing shots at the annual event attended by President Donald Trump, high-profile media figures, and US government officials. US President Donald Trump listens as acting attorney general Todd Blanche speaks during a press briefing shortly after a shooting incident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on April 25, 2026. A 31-year-old engineer and computer scientist was identified by media reports and President Donald Trump as the suspected shooter at the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday night. Cole Tomas Allen, of Torrance, California, was apprehended following the firing of shots at the Washington Hilton, where Trump was scheduled to deliver remarks to a ballroom full of journalists, cabinet officials, and Hilton staff. Allen's name surfaced in media reports shortly before Trump posted two photos of a suspect following his apprehension.


I brought my husband back for his funeral as a hologram

BBC News

When Pam Cronrath's husband Bill died last year, after nearly 60 years of marriage, she knew what she wanted to do, but not exactly how. I promised him a super wake, she told the BBC. What she didn't expect was that keeping the promise would lead her into the world of holograms, technology more commonly associated with celebrities than memorial services in rural America. A self-confessed tech enthusiast, she says her outlook was shaped by a career that stretched back to the early days of the internet. Several years ago, while speaking at a medical conference, she watched a doctor appear as a full-body hologram broadcast live across the United States.


How scammers build a profile on you using data brokers

FOX News

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Anthropic's Mythos AI found over 2,000 unknown software vulnerabilities in just seven weeks of testing

FOX News

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset . Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions . Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG . Toyota's CUE7 robot shoots hoops using AI You don't need an SSN to open a credit card: Scammers know that Mexico's climate supercomputer could change forecasting Watters' Cooler: America got catfished US has to'get creative' in combat in Iranian waters: Joey Jones Michael Easter and Gary Brecka discuss the'choice' to live to be 100 Microsoft Anthropic's Mythos AI found over 2,000 unknown software vulnerabilities in just seven weeks of testing Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on FoxNews.com.


Facing AI and a tough job market, gen Z turns to entrepreneurship: 'I have to prove myself'

The Guardian

'There is no guaranteed outcome with any job,' said Shola West, 25, a media consultant. Working for yourself at least allows you some control over your fate. 'There is no guaranteed outcome with any job,' said Shola West, 25, a media consultant. Working for yourself at least allows you some control over your fate. Facing AI and a tough job market, gen Z turns to entrepreneurship: 'I have to prove myself' When Ashley Terrell graduated from the University of Hawaii in 2024, she planned to find a job in marketing, maybe for a tech company.


Best Apps for Focus (2026): Focus Friend, Forest, Focus Traveller

WIRED

Here are our recommendations for apps that help you stay focused on the task at hand. And with attention spans crumbling in the TikTok era, we now have an entire category of apps dedicated to helping you stick to what you're supposed to be doing. These apps all work more or less in the same way, giving you a straightforward method of tracking how long you're spending on a task, and offering some sort of incentive to keep going for the allotted amount of time. Sometimes you get a few extra features as well, like the ability to block access to other apps. In the interest of trying to write this specific article without switching between browser tabs and apps every two minutes, I gave three of the best focus tools a try.


Vampire Crawlers, Peter Molyneux's return and other new indie games worth checking out

Engadget

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. If you're looking for something new to play this weekend, we've got a bunch of options for you. We've also got some interesting upcoming games to tell you about as well. In a press release announcing that Playdate Season 3 is coming later this year, Panic included a line that I've been thinking about a lot this week. Panic is currently relieved and happy that people can make amazing games for Playdate with just 16 megabytes of RAM, it said, a nod toward the ongoing RAM crisis .


Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic's Mythos

WIRED

Plus: Spy firms tap into a global telecom weakness to track targets, 500,000 UK health records go up for sale on Alibaba, Apple patches a revealing notification bug, and more. As researchers and practitioners debate the impact that new AI models will have on cybersecurity, Mozilla said on Tuesday it used early access to Anthropic's Mythos Preview to find and fix 271 vulnerabilities in its new Firefox 150 browser release. Meanwhile, researchers identified a group of moderately successful North Korean hackers using AI for everything from vibe coding malware to creating fake company websites--stealing up to $12 million in three months. Researchers have finally cracked disruptive malware known as Fast16 that predates Stuxnet and may have been used to target Iran's nuclear program. It was created in 2005 and was likely deployed by the US or an ally.


The Online Civil War About 'Michael' Is a Battle Over Truth

WIRED

Fans want to reclaim the music and myth of Michael Jackson in the new biopic while critics call for accountability. Still from, which opened April 24. Is truth determined by the size of the audience it reaches? If so, --a new film about the pop singer Michael Jackson that is on track to have the biggest-ever opening for a music biopic, with projected earnings of $70 million at the US box office, despite critics saying it sanitizes the reality of who Jackson actually was--intends to supplant the King of Pop as the apotheosis of artistic virtue. The film's release has sparked a familiar but newly intensified civil war online, between those eager to reclaim the music and myth of Jackson, and those who see any celebration of him as a failure of accountability.


With A.I., Anyone Can Be an Influencer

The New Yorker

With A.I., Anyone Can Be an Influencer TikTok and Instagram made it easy to monetize the physical self. Now the social-media-savvy can use A.I. to play with their identity, or overhaul it entirely. A few months ago, a forty-five-year-old homemaker living in Georgia, whom I'll call Robin, started playing around with an A.I. image generator. Growing up, Robin had loved reading; she dabbled in writing, too, but after her first child was born, the habit faded. A.I. offered something different--a kind of world-building that allowed her to project herself into places and situations she'd never inhabited.