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Marklyn Johnson drove to the grocery store in March 2025 with her boyfriend and 5-month-old son. They needed groceries, and welcomed a warm indoor diversion on a cold Connecticut winter day. As they were checking out at the register, Johnson looked out the window and noticed her car was gone.…
The younger version of myself would never have foreseen I’d end up living with my mummy and daddy at age 40, but sometimes life throws a spanner in the works.Earlier this year, my family of five moved to my hometown of the Gold Coast in Australia. I’d been living overseas,…
Joaquin Garcia spent 24 of his 26 years with the FBI working undercover. “I’ve done over a hundred undercover investigations,” he told Business Insider.His investigations spanned the Italian Mafia, Mexican and Colombian cartels, Russian and Asian organized crime groups, police corruption rings, jury bribery schemes, murder-for-hire setups, and large-scale narcotics…
After more than 25 years building Palo Alto Networks into a $125 billion security giant, billionaire Nir Zuk is making a contrarian bet again.His new startup, Cylake, is rejecting the cloud-based model he once championed, instead building an AI-powered, hardware-based security system for governments, defense contractors, and other highly regulated…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Griffin Johnson. It has been edited for length and clarity.I grew up on a farm in the Midwest. Like a lot of farm kids, I was around horses, but I didn’t know anything about the sport of horse racing. My dad…
Catching a ride on Uber or Lyft got more expensive last year, and some riders are cutting back as a result, new data and a survey show.The prices that customers paid on these apps rose 9.6% in 2025, according to an annual report on gig mobility from data analytics company…
In the opening hours of Operation Epic Fury, the US targeted Iranian combat assets with firepower that isn’t as visible as a missile but is devastatingly effective in modern warfare.The “first movers” were US space and cyber forces, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine said Monday.…
The US military is launching new ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and attack drones at Iran, using the conflict to test experimental weapons in combat for the first time.Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of US Central Command, confirmed on Tuesday that US Army units fired the Precision Strike Missile, or PrSM,…
I’ve been writing about money for over 30 years. Lots of things have changed during that time, but here’s something that hasn’t: corporate America’s love for hidden fees. Example: You see a U-Haul truck roll by with “$19.95” painted on the side in numbers the size of a billboard. You’ll…
If Ben Zabihi had started his career five years ago, his workday would have looked very different than it does today.A few years ago, he might have spent much of his time formatting code and writing documentation. Now Zabihi, who has been working as a software engineer at a small…
