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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — John Daly made it into the PGA Tour Champions record book Friday for the wrong reason. He took a 19 on the par-5 12th hole at the Sanford International.He also broke his personal record by one shot. Daly took an 18 on the par-5 sixth hole in the 1998 Bay Hill Invitational when he hit 3-wood into the water six straight times.Details were a little unclear from Minnehaha Country Club, where the PGA Tour Champions does not have a laser system to record shots. Daly did not immediately respond to a phone call and text…
A snowboarder was rescued from a glacier in Colorado after roughly falling 100 feet, officials announced on Tuesday, Sept. 9.A day before, on Sept. 8, authorities received a report of a person suffering serious injuries near Skyscraper Glacier, located north of Rollins Pass, a mountainous region 78 miles from Denver, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.A 27-year-old man was about to descend from the glacier when he slid and tumbled approximately 100 feet down the snowfield before coming to rest in a bergschrund, which is a large crevasse within the glacier, the sheriff’s office said.Watch rescuers…
DENVER (AP) — A teenager suspected in a shooting attack at a suburban Denver high school that left two students in critical condition appeared fascinated with previous mass shootings including Columbine and expressed neo-Nazi views online, according to experts.Since December, Desmond Holly, 16, had been active on an online forum where users watch videos of killings and violence, mixed in with content on white supremacism and antisemitism, the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism said in a report.Holly shot himself following Wednesday’s shooting at Evergreen High School in Jefferson County. He died of his injuries. It is still unclear how he…
This week, OpenAI and Oracle shocked the markets with a surprise $300 billion, five-year agreement, part of a surge of new business that sent the cloud provider’s stock skyrocketing. But maybe the markets shouldn’t have been taken by surprise. The deal is a reminder that, despite Oracle’s legacy status, the company still plays a major role in AI infrastructure. On the OpenAI side, the agreement was more revealing than the lack of details suggest. For one, the startup’s willingness to pay so much for compute provides a measurement of the startup’s appetite — even if it’s unclear where the electricity…
The Justice Department has filed a $125 million lawsuit against Uber, alleging that the ride-sharing company discriminates against passengers with disabilities.The department said Uber violated the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits discrimination based on disability, by routinely refusing to serve individuals with disabilities, charging cleaning fees because of service animal shedding, and charging cancellation fees to riders who are “unlawfully denied service.” Uber said in a statement that it disagrees with the DOJ’s allegations.The ADA requires ride-sharing companies to allow service animals accompany people with disabilities on rides and provide rides and assistance to people with stowable wheelchairs and mobility devices, the…
BOSTON (AP) — New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge hit his 362nd career home run on Friday night, breaking a tie with Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio and taking sole possession of fourth place on the franchise’s all-time list.One game after Judge homered twice to tie DiMaggio with President Donald Trump at Yankee Stadium to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the Yankees captain hit the second pitch he saw from Boston’s Lucas Giolito in the first inning over the Green Monster and onto Lansdowne Street. The 468-foot shot gave New York a 1-0 lead over Boston as…
Apple’s new iPhone Air may be facing a setback in China.The tech giant launched its thinnest phone on Tuesday at its fall event. At 5.6 millimeters, the iPhone Air doesn’t leave as much space for a SIM card and battery as the iPhone 17 models do. So, Apple ditched the SIM card slot and made the iPhone Air eSIM only.The move poses a problem for Apple in mainland China, where some carriers don’t yet offer eSIM service.The South China Morning Post reported a change to Apple’s website in the days following the launch. While the deliveries for iPhone Air were…
NAPA, Calif. (AP) — Ben Griffin went about his business Friday like he was at any other PGA Tour stop, even with so many Ryder Cup teammates around him. He played bogey-free for the second straight day with a 6-under 66 to build a three-shot lead in the Procore Championship.Two “cup” players were behind him — one of them fellow Ryder Cup rookie Russell Henley (68), the other Jackson Koivun, the top-ranked amateur who went 3-1 last week at Cypress Point to help lead the Americans to a Walker Cup victory.Koivun hit a 3-iron to 30 inches for eagle on…
The CEO of the largest digital and print publisher in the U.S. has accused Google of being a bad actor for crawling its websites to support the search giant’s AI products. Neil Vogel, CEO of People, Inc. (formerly Dotdash Meredith), a publisher that operates over 40 brands, including People, Food & Wine, Travel & Leisure, Better Homes & Gardens, Real Simple, Southern Living, AllRecipes, and others, said that Google is not playing fair because it uses the same bot to crawl websites to index them for the Google search engine as it does to support its AI features. “Google has…
One of the world’s richest men wants to buy one of the world’s most influential media assets. It’s unlikely anyone will stand in his way.Does this sound familiar?Yup: That’s Larry Ellison, financing his son David’s plan to buy Warner Bros. Discovery — the company that owns HBO, CNN, and the Warner Bros movie studio — weeks after buying Paramount.And yup: That was also Elon Musk in 2022, buying what we used to call Twitter.You know how the Twitter story panned out: Musk made an offer for the service, no rivals showed up, and he quickly had a deal. Once he…