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The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...

An illustration Anthropic commissioned to mark the release of Opus 4.5. (Anthropic) Hot on the heels of Google's Gemini 3 Pro release, Anthropic has announced an update for its flagship Opus model.

Mr. Trump announced on social media that he had signed the legislation, but the release of all the files is not guaranteed. Luke Broadwater Reporting from Washington President Trump announced in a ...

President Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law, officially directing the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release all unclassified records and documents connected to the convicted ...

President Donald Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law Wednesday, one day after the Senate passed the legislation by unanimous consent, requiring the Department of Justice to ...

Microsoft says that the File Explorer (formerly Windows Explorer) now automatically blocks previews for files downloaded from the Internet to block credential theft attacks via malicious documents.

Defendants in four murder cases in Massachusetts will soon get their hands on new evidence originally produced by federal officials as part of the Karen Read case. The U.S. Attorney’s Office produced ...

You can create Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files from the Copilot chat interface. You can create Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files from the Copilot chat interface. is a senior editor and author of ...

Anthropic has begun rolling out a small but significant update to Claude. Starting today you can use the chatbot to create and edit Excel spreadsheets, documents, PowerPoint slide decks and PDFs. In ...