Ethically, the power to covertly track things with AirTags is a doubled-edged sword.The tiny Bluetooth devices from Apple are notoriously creepy. However, according to the Portland Tribune, they also helped one Portland, Oregon, lawyer prove that a city contractor was illegally sending unhoused people's property to the landfill. Michael Fuller, a lawyer working to stop city-sponsored sweeps of homeless encampments, reportedly attached 16 AirTags to personal items belonging to people living in Portland's Laurelhurst Park. He did so with the people's permission, hoping to show that a city contractor conducting the sweeps was dumping those possessions at the Recology Oregon… [...]

Seeing a dozen different types of cheese congeal between the rhinestones on Paris Hilton’s serving spoon, I felt closer to the heiress-turned-influencer than ever before. Not only did I learn we both have an affinity for overly decadent macaroni and cheese, but using an obviously decorative utensil in a way sure to ruin it is the kind of kitchen shenanigan I relate to deeply. And watching Paris shrug off the incident like it hadn’t happened at all? That’s just pure fantasy. In Netflix’s Cooking with Paris, an unconventional cooking show that sees Hilton invite guests over for meals she only… [...]

Ready to feel old?He's All That, Netflix's gender-swapped reimagining of She's All That (1999) will star TikTokker Addison Rae. Rae plays Padgett, a high schooler and beauty influencer who catches her boyfriend cheating on her mid-livestream. To recover from her viral humiliation, Padgett takes on a bet: make over unpopular classmate Cameron (Tanner Buchanan) and get him to win prom king. Of course, hijinks ensue when Padgett finds herself falling for her pet project. He's All That's first trailer puts Rae front and center and includes an unfortunate (but maybe romantic?) trip to a stable, a whole lot of social… [...]

The sailor will become a Special Warfare Combatant-Craft crewman, one of the smallest special-operations career fields. [...]

Check out all of the best deals on fashion, beauty, and home goods still available during the second week of the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale. [...]

A US official said that the situation looked like a shakedown and had "all the hallmarks of international piracy." [...]

At a time when we are witnessing record VC activity, founders would be well served to go back to the basics and focus on the principles of fundraising when determining who sits on their cap table. [...]

Investors often ask founders about their board: It says a lot about their character, their judgment and their willingness to be challenged. [...]

Twitter may have shut down its Stories features known as Fleets, but the Stories format will continue to invade other social platforms. TikTok today confirmed it’s piloting a new feature, TikTok Stories, which will allow it to explore additional ways for its community to bring their creative ideas to life. The company notes the new […] [...]

 By 2023, 75% of DTC brands will have a subscription offering, but the days of one-size-fits-all are long gone. [...]

Prompt-based learning, a relatively new way of training large language models, is potentially quite powerful. [...]

Electronic Arts reported better-than-expected earnings today for the first fiscal quarter ended June 30, thanks to Apex and FIFA results. [...]