China's Communist Party investigates ex-Xinjiang leader Ma Xingrui BANGKOK — The disciplinary body for China 's Communist Party said Friday it has placed the former Xinjiang party chief under investigation over suspected violations of discipline and law. Ma Xingrui is a member of the party's Central Committee and served as party secretary of the Xinjiang region in China's northwest from...

Anthropic vs. the Pentagon: What’s actually at stake? The past two weeks have been defined by a clash between Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as the two battle over the military’s use of AI.  Anthropic refuses to allow its AI models to be used for mass surveillance of Americans or for fully autonomous weapons that conduct strikes without human input. At the...

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for March 17, #540 Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle No. 540 for Tuesday, March 17. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as...

Artemis II Is Slingshotting Around the Moon in Fortnite, and You Can Join In on the FunYou may not be able to explore the vast majesty of space in the same way that the four-person crew of the Artemis II is, but you can get an up-close-and-personal view of the spacecraft during its lunar slingshot…in Fortnite, at least.The Lunar Horizons Fortnite map is a creative collaboration between the...

Samsung's New AI Wine Fridge Will Keep Tabs on That Vintage Merlot for You The new Infinite AI Wine Refrigerator is only available in South Korea for now, priced at $4,300. Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping content into the Internet river for quite a while, including stints at MSNBC.com, MSN, Bing, MoneyTalksNews, Tipico and more. He admits to being somewhat...