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by Lacey Pfalz Last updated: 9:20 AM ET, Mon November 24, 2025 Poor winter weather is expected to hit much of the continental United States this holiday week, potentially snarling traffic and impacting flights in regions across the country. According to the National Weather Service, during the first half of this week, the entire eastern portion of the United States from Vermont to Florida and west to Wisconsin, parts of Texas, and all the way to Washington state will see precipitation and storms, some of which might become snow in the more northern regions. The storm will head from the middle…
Pocket Casts, the podcast app owned by Tumblr’s parent company Automattic, launched a new feature that lets you create podcast playlists, allowing you to organize your favorite episodes in just the order you like. You can either create a playlist manually, or Pocket Casts can automatically create one for you. Playlists are designed to better personalize the listening experience for users as Pocket Casts seeks to grow its paid user base and compete with larger platforms. Currently, it has 60,000 subscribers, while Spotify has 281 million. The new feature makes it easy to curate collections based on specific topics and…
The Trump administration has disbanded the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, a controversial team of federal cost-cutters previously led by Elon Musk, despite months left of the unit’s mandate. Reuters first reported this weekend that DOGE had broken up, ending the months-long effort by Musk and his associates — many recruited from his various private-sector companies — to reduce alleged fraud and waste and cut employees across the federal government. DOGE was created by an executive order signed by President Trump in January. The initiative was expected to run for close to two years. As of early November, DOGE…
Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Travel Tuesday are fast approaching, but the savings are already in full effect.That means travelers planning a dream getaway to the Caribbean this holiday season can save on elite accommodations and score awesome perks in myriad ways. Here are some of the can’t-miss Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals at the best resorts in the Caribbean.Sandals and Beaches ResortsAward-winning all-inclusive resort leaders Sandals and Beaches Resorts are offering 65 percent off stays in addition to travel credits of up to $1,500 for stays through 2027. Now through December 2, adults booking Sandals Resorts properties can…
Nuclear startup X-energy raised $700 million in a Series D round, the company told TechCrunch. The new fundraise comes less than a year after it expanded its Series C from $500 million to $700 million, bringing the total raised in the last year or so to $1.4 billion, a sizable amount even in the heady world of nuclear power startups. X-energy has raised $1.8 billion, to date. X-energy said the new infusion will help build the supply chain for its small modular reactors (SMR). So far, the startup says it has orders for 144 SMRs capable of generating 11 gigawatts…
Update: November 24, 2025, at 7:45 a.m. ETThe Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that the computer system outage that impacted John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City was remedied on Sunday night. According to CBSNews.com, the system outage at JFK Airport started at around noon Eastern Time and lasted for 1.5 hours, leaving several flights delayed on the runway and long lines at one of the property’s main terminals.I’m still waiting at the moment, we got here at 11:20 am and the line has not moved at all. We got notified of the issue at the moment we…
On Monday, Anthropic announced Opus 4.5, the latest version of its flagship model. It’s the last of Anthropic’s 4.5 series of models to be released, following the launch of Sonnet 4.5 in September and Haiku 4.5 in October. As expected, the new version of Opus has state-of-the-art performance on a range of benchmarks, including coding benchmarks (SWE-Bench and Terminal-bench), tool use (tau2-bench and MCP Atlas) and general problem solving (ARC-AGI 2, GPQA Diamond). Notably, Opus 4.5 is the first model to score over 80 percent on SWE-Bench verified, a respected coding benchmark. Anthropic also emphasized the Opus’s computer use and…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A coalition of nursing and other health care organizations are angry over a Trump administration plan that could limit access to student loans in some cases.Students pursuing graduate degrees in nursing, physical therapy, public health and some other fields would face tighter federal student loan limits under the plan because it doesn’t consider them professional programs.The revamp is part of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” passed by Congress.While graduate students could previously borrow loans up to the cost of their degree, the new rules would set caps depending on whether the degree is considered a graduate or professional…
Amazon Web Services is making a sizable new investment in infrastructure designed to boost AI capabilities for U.S. government organizations. AWS announced Monday it is investing $50 billion to build AI “high-performance computing infrastructure” purposefully built for the U.S. government. The buildout is meant to expand federal government agencies’ access to AWS AI services. The project will add 1.3 gigawatts of compute and will expand government access to AWS products, including Amazon SageMaker AI, model customization, Amazon Bedrock, model deployment, and Anthropic’s Claude chatbot, among others, according to the company. AWS expects to break ground on these data center projects…
A trial has been set for August 2026 in a lawsuit seeking to block the transfer of a parcel of prime Miami real estate to be used for President Donald Trump’s presidential library. The decision Monday by Circuit Judge Mavel Ruiz in Miami will further delay Miami Dade College’s plans to formally transfer the sizable plot of land to the state of Florida, which intends to gift it to the foundation for the planned library. Miami activist Marvin Dunn, a retired professor and chronicler of local Black history, filed the lawsuit arguing that the college board violated Florida’s Government in…