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In 1960, scholars decided Vision of Zacharias in the Temple wasn't a Rembrandt. A private buyer snapped it up the following year, and for 65 years, nobody outside that collector's home could examine it. The painting simply vanished from art history.

A tenant facing eviction at 11 p.m. asks a chatbot, "Can my landlord do this?" A parent types, "What does this rash look like?" Under a bill moving through the New York Senate, both of those interactions could make the chatbot's operator liable for ...

For a few dollars, anyone can buy your full name, where you live, and how to reach you. Data brokers collect this information from public records, old accounts, and scraped websites, then resell it with no questions asked. Google indexes those broker ...

Filmmaker Jodi Wille has spent years embedded in the archives and living rooms of American intentional communities -- interviewing former members and earning the kind of trust that grants access to their photographs, documents, and ritual objects.

Good luck getting a quartz crystal back from a chimpanzee. Researchers at Spain's Rainfer Fundación Chimpatia near Madrid handed crystals to two groups of rescued chimps and quickly discovered the hard part wasn't the science -- it was the ...

"You are not choosing to die. You are choosing to arrive." That's what Google's Gemini chatbot told Jonathan Gavalas, a 36-year-old from Jupiter, Florida, according to The Guardian. When Gavalas said he was terrified of dying, it continued: "The ...

The DOJ says it hasn't "deleted" any Epstein files. It just took 47,000 of them offline. That's the department's response to a CBS News analysis that counted the pages in the government's Epstein document release. About 2.7 million pages currently ...

Apple finally built a cheap MacBook. The MacBook Neo starts at $599 -- $499 for education buyers, making it the least expensive Mac laptop the company has ever sold. To get there, Apple is using the A18 Pro, the same chip inside the iPhone 16 Pro,

A fox swiped a chicken leg right out of Charles Foster's hand, and he counted it among the best moments of his life. Foster is an Oxford don and practicing barrister who set out to experience the world as various animals and wrote a book in 2016 ...

Video clips of Sen. John Fetterman stammering through questions from reporters went viral on Tuesday, shared by journalist Aaron Rupar and racking up tens of thousands of views. Fetterman, who relies on real-time transcription devices due to auditory ...