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The agency imposed penalties on a company it blamed for supporting the Chinese hacking group Flax Typhoon in a 2022-23 infiltration.

Modern religious leaders are experimenting with A.I. just as earlier generations examined radio, television and the internet.

Turo, which investigators say was used to acquire the vehicles involved in the attack in New Orleans and explosion in Las Vegas, was emerging as an alternative car-rental service.

Joel Kaplan, a former senior adviser to George W. Bush, replaces Nick Clegg, a former deputy prime minister of Britain, as Meta’s head of policy.

After nearly two decades of fighting, the battle over regulations that treat broadband providers as utilities came to an end on Thursday.

Here are some key events to look forward to in space and astronomy in the year ahead.

As the science of skin care continues to expand, some of those advances have landed directly in consumers’ hands. Is that a good thing?

The episode comes at a particularly sensitive moment, just as the Biden White House is dealing with one of the most far-reaching, and damaging, hacks into American infrastructure in the cyberage.

In a year of continued A.I. progress, “founder mode” drama and a Trump election win, a few tech projects stood out for their clear benefits to humanity.

Photographers and other men offer to build online followings for young girls, but some are pedophiles who work with parents to sexualize them.

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s picks for the F.C.C. and F.T.C. have vowed to remove censorship online. That conflicts with European regulators who are pushing for stricter moderation.

He said in an interview that he had used the visas for skilled workers “many times.” But he has mainly used visas for unskilled workers like housekeepers.

In 2020, he moved to ban the Chinese-owned app. Now, he is opposing the Biden administration’s effort to do just that.

The company, owned by the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, also received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to launch the vehicle to orbit.

Sales of the company’s cars are flagging, but investors are focusing on the potential of autonomous driving and Mr. Musk’s ties to President-elect Donald J. Trump.

A fierce dispute erupted in the president-elect’s camp between immigration hard-liners and tech industry leaders including Elon Musk.

OpenAI said it would be restructured as a public benefit corporation, and that the nonprofit that controls the organization would receive shares in the new company.

Quality kitchen gear can last a lifetime — but not every pot, pan or knife is made to last.

In the 1960s and ’70s, he developed the PLATO computer system, which combined instant messaging, email, chat rooms and gaming on flat-screen plasma displays.

As the technology is widely adopted, some once-struggling midsize cities in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and South may benefit, new research predicts.

President-elect Donald J. Trump is expected to roll back many of the rules and subsidies that have attracted billions of dollars from the private sector to renewable energy and electric vehicles.

“A lot of compute is needed,” Mr. Musk said in a post about the financing, in which BlackRock, Fidelity and Sequoia participated.