2026-01-07 13:00:17
The formal date of England’s creation as a country is contested. Some say we turned 1,100 in 2025, marking the year when the Anglo-Saxon Athelstan was crowned “Rex Anglorum” — king of the English — in Kingston-upon-Thames in what’s now known as Surrey. Others suggest the anniversary falls two years later, commemorating 927, when Athelstan defeated Guthfrith of Ivar, the Irish-Norse claimant to York. That battle unified pretty much all of what we now consider England under his rule.
2026-01-07 12:30:15
When Julie Yukari posted a New Year’s Eve photo in a red dress with her cat, she didn’t expect X users to tag Grok asking it to undress her. Within hours, nude AI-generated images of her had spread across the social-media website — without her consent and without consequences.
2026-01-07 12:00:17
Yields are their highest since 1999 and accelerating under Takaichi.
2026-01-07 12:00:15
On the face of it, gambling on the second coming of Jesus Christ is just funny. Would earthly dollars even matter if the Messiah did return? Still, more than $3 million was wagered between hopeful believers and doubtful skeptics on Polymarket last year; in the final three months of 2025, activity on prediction markets took off and weekly wagers topped $2 billion.
2026-01-07 06:25:26
Running Tesla is but one item on the billionaire’s lengthy to-do list.
2026-01-07 05:00:15
From one angle, the US action to arrest Venezuela’s former President Nicolas Maduro and seize control of the country’s oil industry is an attempt to muscle China’s influence out of the Americas. In a world breaking up into spheres of influence, the Donroe doctrine tells Beijing to keep its meddling hands out of the empire of crude that President Donald Trump is building in the Western Hemisphere.
