TikTok’s Chinese parent company reportedly intended to use the app to surveil specific Americans’ locations

Lionel Bonaventure/Getty Images TikTok’s parent ByteDance planned to use the app to surveil specific Americans’ locations, Forbes reported. A China-based team intended to gather location data on at least two specific US users, per the report. The report is sure to raise more privacy and national-security concerns over TikTok. ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of…

Putin declared martial law in occupied Ukraine, but it changes little and highlights his desperation, experts and officials say

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the plenary session of the Commonwealth of the Independent States (CIS) Summit, October 14, 2022. Getty Images Putin’s declaration of martial law in occupied Ukrainian territories is being decried as a symbolic, desperate move. The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said the martial law decree is “largely legal…

Nearly 600,000 people on LinkedIn listed Apple as their employer on one day in October. The next day, half the profiles disappeared as the platform cracks down on fake accounts.

In this photo illustration the logo of LinkedIn can be seen on a smartphone on March 10, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images Last week, a developer who tracks LinkedIn spotted massive drops in people claiming to work at Apple and Amazon.  LinkedIn confirmed to Insider that the purge is part of…

Trump’s yearslong crusade against Ukraine has finally come home to roost as Republicans call for abandoning Kyiv

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California. Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images US aid to Ukraine could be in jeopardy if Republicans win the House in the midterms. Several GOP lawmakers and candidates have signaled they would support reducing or cutting off Ukraine aid. “Ukraine unfortunately has been hijacked sometimes in domestic politics….

The asteroid NASA crashed into looks like a comet now, with a forked tail, Hubble image reveals

Hubble Space Telescope image shows the Didymos-Dimorphos asteroid system with two tails of dust, after the DART spacecraft impact. NASA, ESA, Jian-Yang Li (PSI), Joe Depasquale (STScI) NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a comet-like forked tail streaming from the asteroid Dimorphos. NASA’s DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid in September, as practice for saving Earth….

Jeb Bush says Ron DeSantis would be a ‘formidable candidate’ if the Florida governor ran in 2024

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and current Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Carline Jean/South Florida Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images ;Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP Jeb Bush offered effusive praise for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Bush, a former governor, said DeSantis would also be a “formidable” 2024 candidate. Bush also appeared dumbfounded by Trump’s latest attack…

A 19th-century shipwreck and human remains were uncovered as the Mississippi River recedes

A man walking along the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, stops to look at a shipwreck revealed by the low water level on October 17, 2022. Sara Cline/AP Photo Drought has unearthed a sunken 19th-century shipwreck and human remains in the Mississippi River. The Mississippi River is receding to historic lows amid drought across the Midwest. More discoveries are…