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Amazon Shuts Down Mechanical Turk After 21 Years, Leaving Behind the Workers Who Built AI

SEATTLE, Aug. 28 -- There was no press conference. No farewell statement from a named executive. On Tuesday, Amazon posted a brief notice on the Mechanical Turk website: "Following an assessment, we'v... Read More


Daily Horoscope for August 28, 2026 - Pisces Lunar Eclipse Speaks to Every Sign

LONDON, Aug. 28 -- Something that has been building since February arrives at a conclusion today. The Pisces full moon at 4 degrees of the twelfth sign peaked at 4:12 this morning UTC, drawing 96 perc... Read More


Pisces Lunar Eclipse August 28, 2026: What Every Zodiac Sign Needs to Know

New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- Two nights from now, 96 percent of the moon will vanish. Not completely. Nothing about this eclipse is total. But at 4:12 in the morning Greenwich time on August 28, Earth's shad... Read More


Russia-Ukraine War: Moscow Warns It Could Strike UK Military Targets Over Storm Shadow Missile Deal

LONDON, Aug. 28 -- For the first time since the start of Russia's military operation in Ukraine, Moscow placed British military installations - including those beyond Ukrainian borders - explicitly in... Read More


Trump Signs Executive Order Renaming Lake Ontario 'Lake America' as Canada Trade War Deepens

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 -- Along the New York shoreline of one of the world's largest freshwater bodies, the fishing boats and ferry terminals now exist, on paper at least, beside a lake with a different ... Read More


NYT Wordle Answer Today - August 28, 2026 (#1896)

New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- Wordle #1896 - Friday, August 28, 2026 The answer to today's Wordle (#1896) is TWEEN. If you would rather solve it first, three spoiler-free hints are waiting below. Scroll past... Read More


Ukraine War: Russia Strikes Kyiv Drone Factories and Odessa Ports in Massive Overnight Attack

New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- Workers at the San-Park logistics complex on the eastern edge of Kyiv reported seeing the orange glow before the sound reached them. By the time Ukrainian emergency services arri... Read More


OpenAI's AI Agents Autonomously Attacked Hugging Face - Company Took 11 Days to Notice

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 28 -- The most unsettling detail in OpenAI's account of last July's attack on Hugging Face is not the scale, though seven hundred autonomous AI agents independently coordinating an... Read More


Moon Phase Today, August 28, 2026: Full Sturgeon Moon Hours After the Eclipse

New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- auto;-webkit-overflow-scrolling:touch} .teh-bd-tbl{border-collapse:collapse;width:100%;min-width:520px;margin:24px 0;font-size:14px} .teh-bd-tbl caption{font-weight:700;font-size... Read More


Iran and Oman Open Strait of Hormuz Shipping Corridor in Deal That Leaves the US Outside

New Delhi, Aug. 28 -- The tanker captains who have been rerouting around the Arabian Peninsula since February finally have something to track: a seven-mile lane through the Strait of Hormuz, carved ou... Read More