The best text-to-speech tools: Expert tested

Speechify is a solid alternative for folks who want realistic text-to-speech on mobile for everything from web pages to e-books, while ElevenLabs has some of the best natural-sounding voices for voice ...

Can a newbie really vibe code an app? I tried Cursor and Replit to find out

I'm not a programmer, but I tried four vibe coding tools to see if I could build anything at all on my own. Here's what I did and did not accomplish.
Dark Reading

Shadow#Reactor Uses Text Files to Deliver Remcos RAT

Attackers use a sophisticated delivery mechanism for RAT deployment, a clever way to bypass defensive tools and rely on the ...
The New York Times

Justice Dept. Is Now Said to Be Reviewing 5.2 Million Pages of Epstein Files

The number represents a more precise, and potentially much larger, figure than earlier estimates. The department is seeking to enlist about 400 lawyers to help in the review. By Devlin Barrett ...
CNN

Exclusive: Justice Department scrambling to find holiday volunteers to redact the Epstein files, internal DOJ email says

The Justice Department’s leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida to volunteer over the “next several days” to help redact the Epstein files, in the latest Trump administration push toward ...
The New York Times

Redacted Material in Some Epstein Files Is Easily Recovered

The ease of recovering information that was not properly redacted digitally suggests that at least some of the documents released by the Justice Department were hastily censored. By Santul Nerkar ...
The Guardian

Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks

Un-redacted text from released documents began circulating on social media on Monday evening People examining documents released by the Department of Justice in the Jeffrey Epstein case discovered ...
The Hill

Inside the new batch of Epstein files

12:30 Report is The Hill’s midday newsletter. Subscribe here. Happy Tuesday of Christmas week! This should be a quiet week, but we just got another batch of Epstein files. Let’s get into it. The ...
techxplore

One pull of a string is all it takes to deploy these complex structures

MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can be transformed from a flat configuration into their curved, fully formed shape with only a single pull of a string. The ...
The Guardian

Schumer to ask Senate to back legal action over partial Epstein files release

Top Democrat to introduce resolution after Department of Justice misses deadline for all files linked to sex offender The Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, announced on Monday he will introduce ...
Newsweek

Chiefs Down to Emergency Third-String Quarterback After Gardner Minshew Injury

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Gardner Minshew has been ruled out. The end of the season could not be going any worse for the Kansas City Chiefs. After Patrick Mahomes suffered a torn ACL, the team ...
Reuters

Justice Department restores Trump photo to public database of Epstein files

NEW YORK, Dec 21 (Reuters) - A photo of U.S. President Donald Trump that had been removed from the cache of Jeffrey Epstein files released by the Department of Justice was restored on Sunday after ...