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A 70-year-old woman died in November after riding the Revenge of the Mummy roller coaster at Universal Studios in Orlando, according to a report from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.The woman became unresponsive while riding the attraction on Nov. 25, the state agency said in its latest quarterly report on injuries at theme parks, which covers the last three months of 2025. She later died at a hospital, it said. The report did not provide additional details about the circumstances surrounding her death.CBS News reached out to Universal Orlando; the company declined to comment.Revenge of the Mummy…

YouTube is close to reaching a tipping point in TV advertising.Google has been coveting lucrative TV ad budgets for more than a decade. But despite stats showing that an increasing amount of YouTube viewing takes place on TV sets in the living room, its ad sellers faced a hurdle. Many advertisers and agencies classified YouTube as “online video” or “social media,” treating it as a separate part of the media plan from TV.With TV ad spending expected to reach $167.4 billion globally in 2026, per ad giant WPP Media, these budget classifications were holding YouTube back from capturing a crucial…

What happens when an AI agent decides the best way to complete a task is to blackmail you?  That’s not a hypothetical. According to Barmak Meftah, a partner at cybersecurity VC firm Ballistic Ventures, it recently happened to an enterprise employee working with an AI agent. The employee tried to suppress what the agent wanted to do, what it was trained to do, and it responded by scanning the user’s inbox, finding some inappropriate emails, and threatening to blackmail the user by forwarding the emails to the board of directors.  “In the agent’s mind, it’s doing the right thing,” Meftah…

Meta’s enormous bet on virtual reality ended last week, with the company reportedly laying off roughly 1,500 employees from its Reality Labs division — about 10% of the unit’s staff — and shutting down several VR game studios, according to The Wall Street Journal. It’s a huge reversal for a company that, just four years ago, staked its entire identity on the concept. Few are going to miss it. As industry watchers might remember, Facebook rebranded itself as Meta in 2021, promising to usher in a new era of technology led by VR devices. In part, the decision was a…

In Silicon Valley, AI is fueling the rise of the star individual contributor.Just take a look at what happened after The Browser Company was acquired by Anthropic. Josh Miller, CEO of this browser startup, recently described how Anthropic’s Claude Code radically changed his hiring strategy.His post gets at something many creative orgs have struggled to name: there’s a huge, underserved group of very senior designer ICs who want to stay close to the work, coach others, and shape direction — without becoming full-time people managers. The “Design Producer” role he describes feels like a credible answer to that gap.AI-native tools…

The fast-moving South Carolina measles outbreak has spread to Clemson University.The state’s Department of Public Health has told Clemson officials that an “individual affiliated with the University” has come down with a confirmed case of the contagious disease, Clemson said in a statement.”The individual has isolated per DPH requirements, and DPH is conducting contact tracing with individuals who may have been exposed and outlining isolation and quarantine protocols,” the statement said. “DPH will provide email notifications to any individuals identified as possible contacts who may need to quarantine.”The statement gave no other details about the latest person to come down…

More than 13,000 pounds of frozen chicken breast have been recalled due to a potential listeria contamination.Suzanna’s Kitchen, based in Georgia, recalled about 13,720 pounds of ready-to-eat grilled chicken breast fillets because they may pose a risk of listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) announced on Jan. 16.The potential contamination was discovered when a third-party lab sample reported positive for listeria in the chicken breast fillets. As of Jan. 16, there were no confirmed reports of illness due to consumption of the chicken breasts, according to the FSIS.Here’s what to know about…

It rarely hurts to have Batman on your side. Michael Burry may have the next thing after Ben Affleck revealed he’s also skeptical of the AI boom.The Hollywood star, speaking on the latest episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, echoed the investor’s skepticism of grand claims around AI and Big Tech’s massive investments in the nascent tech.”I think a lot of that rhetoric comes from people who are trying to justify valuations around companies, where they go: ‘We’re going to change everything in two years, there’s going to be no more work,'” Affleck said.”Well, the reason they’re saying that…

A Georgia-based food company has recalled thousands of pounds of ready-to-eat chicken products, which were sold in seven different states, after determining the products may have been contaminated with listeria, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced.Suzanna’s Kitchen, headquartered in Norcross, Georgia, recalled roughly 13,720 pounds of its ready-to-eat grilled chicken breast fillet products, according to the Food Safety and Inspection Service, a branch of the Department of Agriculture.The recalled products were produced on Oct. 14, 2025, and sold in 10-pound cases containing two 5-pound bags of cooked grilled chicken breast fillets with rib meat, health officials said. They were sent…

Protein just got a big boost from U.S. health officials.The latest federal dietary guidelines tell Americans to “prioritize protein foods at every meal” and advise increasing daily intake — up to double the amount of previous recommendations.“We are ending the war on protein,” Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a White House post on social media.The guidance — including a new food pyramid — emphasizes red meat, whole milk and other animal sources of protein, while downplaying plant-based offerings.But top nutrition experts question the protein push, saying Americans already consume more protein than they need, and there’s no…