Israeli military orders the evacuation of nearly two dozen Lebanese communities near the border

Yahoo Personal Finance Savings interest rates today, October 1, 2024 (Top rate at 5.11% APY) Savings interest rates available today are well above historical norms. But that may soon change following the Fed's rate cut. Find out where to get the best savings rates.

Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup A Y Combinator startup named PearAI launched with an X post thread and YouTube video on Saturday and created immediate controversy. The startup's founder Duke Pan has openly said that it's a cloned copy of another AI editor called Continue, which was covered under the Apache open source license. Not only are there legalities involved in violating a software license, but it defeats the whole purpose of open source, which is about community building, sharing, and contributing.

Yahoo News From Asheville, N.C., to Valdosta, Ga., communities hit hard by Helene struggle to cope Cities and towns across the Southeast are reeling in the aftermath of the storm, which left dozens of people dead, hundreds missing and millions without power.

Yahoo News Helene shows that hurricanes in the age of climate change don't wreck just coastlines Unlike hurricanes that might ravage a coastline, push a few miles inland and eventually dissipate, Helene, in part because of its sheer size and the speed with which it was traveling North, ravaged inland parts of the country.

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Cruise gets $1.5 million penalty for keeping pedestrian crash details from safety regulator General Motors' self-driving subsidiary Cruise must pay a $1.5 million penalty to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, after its initial reports to the safety regulator about last year's pedestrian crash omitted that the company's robotaxi dragged the woman 20 feet. The penalty is part of a consent order announced by the regulator on Monday. The order, which the company and NHTSA mutually agreed to, will also require Cruise to submit a "corrective action plan" outlining the changes it has made to better comply with the regulator.

Yahoo News Photos show catastrophic damage from Helene in western N.C. and Georgia After hitting Florida's Gulf Coast, Helene tore through the Southeast, unleashing historic rain and flooding in parts of Georgia and the Carolinas and leaving dozens of people dead and millions without power.

Reddit communities will require permission while going private or switching to NSFW Last year, while opposing Reddit's API changes, a large number of subreddits turned from public to private or turned NSFW (Not Safe for Work) to impact ads on the platform. To prevent this kind of change, Reddit is bringing new rules where moderators will have to submit a request when updating community-type public or private or maturity ratings of SFW (Safe for Work) or NSFW. The social networking site said that these changes will apply from today and will mostly impact large communities.

How to make your own encrypted VPN server in 15 minutes You may have seen plenty of online ads about paid VPN services. In most cases, you don't need to enable a VPN connection before browsing the web as nearly all websites are delivered to your browser over a secure and encrypted connection (called HTTPS).

Yahoo Sports AP Top 25: Alabama is the new No. 1 after defeating Georgia; Ole Miss, Utah, Louisville plunge Alabama jumps to the No. 1 in the AP Top 25 poll, moving up from No. 4 after defeating Georgia. The Bulldogs drop from No. 2 to No. 5.

X faces additional $1.9M fine to end ban in Brazil X (formerly Twitter) could soon resume service in Brazil — if it's willing to pay an additional fine. Reuters and other publications have reported on an order from the country's Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes stating that the Elon Musk-owned social network could "immediately return to its activities in national territory" if it pays a fine of 10 million reais (around $1.9 million). Brazil froze accounts belonging to X and Musk's satellite internet company Starlink in order to pay the fine, but to move forward, Moraes said Starlink needs to drop its appeal against the payments.