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Nicki Minaj has been spiraling ever since she listened to Megan Thee Stallion‘s new song “Hiss.” Megan released the track on Friday, and received an almost immediate reaction from Minaj, who seems to believe she (and her convicted sex offender husband) are being dissed in one particular lyric. In the hours since the drop, Minaj has tweeted several times about Megan, calling her a liar, a flop, all while claiming she doesn’t “condone ‘bullying.'” In a 3,100-character post on X Friday and an Instagram Live…

The Indian government privately pressed Apple officials to soften their warnings to Indian journalists and opposition politicians that state-sponsored attackers could be targeting their phones, according to The Washington Post. Senior officials in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration reportedly called Apple India’s managing director, Virat Bhatia, after reports emerged about the notifications in late October and asked the tech giant to withdraw the warnings. Soon after, Apple India sent out…

Apple’s warnings in late October that Indian journalists and opposition figures may have been targeted by state-sponsored attacks prompted a forceful counterattack from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. Officials publicly doubted Apple’s findings and announced a probe into device security. Behind closed doors, senior officials from Modi’s administration went further, demanding Apple soften the political impact of the warnings, Washington Post reports. Senior officials summoned Apple…

For the last decade and beyond, you’ve been able to set your watch to Christopher Nolan being pressured, questioned, and interrogated on his lifelong love of James Bond anytime he’s got a brand new movie to promote, so why should Oppenheimer be any different? It’s become a fact of life that the acclaimed filmmaker will always find the conversation circling back around to 007, and he’s never exactly been shy in admitting he’d love the opportunity. The downside, if there is such a thing when you’re talking about someone of…

As the ride-share company has struggled with competition from Uber UBER 1.64% Technologies Inc., some people within the company had been questioning the leadership of its co-founders—Chief Executive Logan Green and President John Zimmer —for months. Some investors and stock analysts also had urged change. On Monday, Lyft said the founders would be stepping down from day-to-day management. The company tapped as…

WASHINGTON—House lawmakers pummeled TikTok’s chief executive over the popular app’s ties to China, just hours after Beijing said it would fight any U.S. attempt to force the company’s sale by its Chinese owners.The hearing Thursday, peppered with withering attacks on TikTok from both Democrats and Republicans, ran more than five hours and underscored growing concerns about Beijing’s potential influence over the app. It pushed TikTok to the forefront of U.S.-China relations, which already are frayed over trade, Taiwan,…

The Drug Enforcement Administration told makers of medication for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder that it was concerned that “aggressive marketing practices” by companies including telehealth providers could be driving excessive prescriptions, according to a letter from the agency. While the letter doesn’t cite specific companies, it reflects the DEA’s concerns about marketing efforts for ADHD treatment by telehealth companies such as Cerebral Inc. and Done Global Inc., whose prescribing practices the agency has…

Three US lawmakers questioned Amazon.com Inc.’s plans for rebuilding an Illinois warehouse that collapsed. Three US lawmakers questioned Amazon.com Inc.'s plans for rebuilding an Illinois warehouse that collapsed in a tornado last year, killing six workers and prompting an investigation by workplace safety regulators. The lawmakers said the e-commerce company should be constructing the warehouse with stronger safety features than existed before the collapse. Amazon is a tenant in the facility owned by a separate…

WASHINGTON—The Biden administration finds itself caught between its domestic-policy goals and some of its closest allies as it races against the clock to set the ground rules for new electric-vehicle subsidies.The Treasury Department’s Internal Revenue Service faces a year-end deadline to propose a guideline for how to qualify for EV tax incentives of up to $7,500 per vehicle under the tax and climate spending legislation known as the Inflation Reduction Act that President…

Scientists have recently had success in curing mice of a serious type of pneumonia, using what are described as "microrobots." The bots were actually live algae cells, which carried life-saving medication throughout the rodents' lungs.Led by professors Joseph Wang and Liangfang Zhang, a team at the University of California - San Diego set about treating a group of mice whose lungs were infected with pneumonia-causing Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria. If left unchecked, such infections can prove fatal.For the treatment,…