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Chinese hackers tried to penetrate specific State Department email accounts in the weeks before Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken traveled to Beijing in June, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. The investigation of the efforts by the Chinese hackers, who likely are affiliated with China’s military or spy services, is ongoing, American officials said. But U.S. officials have downplayed the …

Ukraine’s counteroffensive slowed down visibly in the 72nd week of the war because of entrenched Russian defences as NATO allies pledged more heavy weaponry for the fight. That assessment was given by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an interview, but even as he spoke, the United States was helping to move Ukraine past that obstacle, pledging to give it cluster …

In 1984, a game was released for the Apple II that was totally unlike anything that had come before. Casting you as a martial artist who must infiltrate a warlord’s castle fortress, Karateka had breathtaking animation that was far more lifelike than anything that had preceded it. It also set new standards for martial arts combat and dramatic, movie-like presentation …

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Basketball star Brittney Griner pleaded guilty to drug charges in a Russian courtroom on Thursday, but not before she was handed a note from President Joe Biden. With the hope that a guilty plea might be her best shot at a lenient sentence in what experts fear is a sham trial, the WBNA player admitted to taking hashish oil into …

Modern video game libraries require an astonishing amount of space these days, and between your Call of Duties and Red Dead Redemptions, it’s easy to run out of storage on your PS5. For Prime Day 2023, you can give your PS5 a quick upgrade in this department with the Crucial P5 Plus, a Gen 4 NVMe solid-state drive that’s available …

We’re inching closer and closer to television’s biggest night. On Wednesday morning, actress Yvette Nicole Brown and Television Academy chairman and CEO Frank Scherma revealed the nominees for the 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards, which will air live on Fox at 8/7c on September 18. We don’t yet know the host of the ceremony. But you can scroll down to …

Tom Giles / Bloomberg: Elon Musk forms xAI, a startup he will lead to “understand the true nature of the universe”; the staff has worked at Google, Microsoft, Tesla, OpenAI, and more  —  Elon Musk, who has hinted for months that he wants to build an alternative to the popular ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot …

Ted Lasso, The White Lotus, Wednesday and Abbott Elementary are among the other nominees.