A German research team has shown that a passive listener sitting within range of an ordinary Wi-Fi network can recognize individual people walking through that network’s signal field, without a camera, without the target carrying a phone, and without ever joining the network. The finding is real, it is peer-reviewed, and it was presented at...
A study published Tuesday, Aug. 25, in The BMJ found that at least one in four former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head impacts. The work was led by Daniel H. Daneshvar of Mass General Brigham and Harvard Medical School, with...
A federal watchdog report examining how the companies that run America’s 401(k) plans handle participant data found that most of the privacy policies it reviewed placed no limit on selling or sharing that information for marketing and that four separate federal agencies each explained why enforcement was not their responsibility. The Government Accountability Office published...
Five of the largest credit card lenders in the United States told investors this summer that American consumers are paying their bills better than expected. Three of them lowered their forecasts for how much money they expect to lose to defaults this year. In the same weeks, consumer sentiment fell to a level below the...
The U.S. naval blockade of Iran is frequently described as a total maritime cutoff. By the U.S. military’s own definition, it is not. It covers Iran’s southern coastline the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman and nothing else. Iran has a second coastline. It runs roughly 650 kilometers along the southern shore of the...
With 73 days until the November 3 midterm elections, the country is heading toward the polls with less reliable information about the electorate than at any point in modern memory and the failures of the past 20 months have come from opposite directions. In August alone, a fabricated poll in the Los Angeles mayoral race...
In April, senior U.S. officials predicted that a naval blockade would fill Iran’s oil storage tanks within days and force the country to shut in its wells. Four months later, Iran is still producing roughly 2.5 million barrels per day. What happened between the prediction and the outcome is a case study in how a...
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman has cut Gov. Kathy Hochul’s lead in the New York governor’s race to 10 points, according to the Siena College Research Institute survey released Aug. 12- down from a 20-point gap in the same pollster’s June measurement. The 10-point figure has driven a week of coverage framing the contest as...
The Democratic Socialists of America released a national program in July 2026 called “Workers Deserve More,” and buried inside the coverage of its more incendiary planks is a structural argument that deserves a hearing on its own terms: the platform calls for expanding the House of Representatives, implementing proportional representation and ranked-choice voting, and abolishing...
Introduction On July 22, 2026, Midwest Poultry Services, L.P. pulled 1,589,577 dozen shell eggs roughly 19 million eggs off the market because they might be carrying Salmonella Enteritidis. Three weeks later, the Food and Drug Administration upgraded that recall to Class I, its most severe designation, meaning the agency believes eating the product could reasonably...