Romanian PM Ilie Bolojan ousted in no-confidence voteReutersBolojan has clashed with coalition partners over austerity measuresRomanian MPs have voted to remove Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan in a no-confidence vote in parliament.The largest party, the left-wing Social Democrats, abandoned Bolojan's four-party coalition last month and joined the far-right opposition to call for the vote.The Social...

X brings back Voice Notes to X Chat Posting Voice Notes publicly on X may no longer be possible, but you can now share audio messages within X’s direct messaging system, X Chat, once again. The social network announced late on Wednesday that support for Voice Notes is now available within its private messaging service. The feature, which works in both one-on-one messages and group chats, is...

7-Eleven data breach affects over 185,000 people’s personal data Data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned says a data breach at convenience store chain 7-Eleven affects over 185,000 people, including their names, dates of birth, and physical addresses. The data breach, reported in April, also included phone numbers and email addresses. Have I Been Pwned, which collects caches...

Elon Musk testifies that xAI trained Grok on OpenAI models OpenAI and Anthropic have been on the warpath lately against third-party efforts to train new AI models by prompting their publicly-accessible chatbots and APIs, a process known as “distillation.” That conversation has focused on Chinese firms using distillation to create open-weight models that are nearly as capable as U.S. offerings,...

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for June 12 #831Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle was a bit challenging. I actually think the spangram is totally...