I Asked Netflix’s Reality TV Boss Why So Many Men On Dating Shows Are Terrible
Brandon Riegg tells WIRED he empathizes with the struggle to find “quality men” and that Love Is Blind has no MAGA agenda.
I Tried Apt Command's New Rollback Feature Here’s How It Went
APT, or Advanced Package Tool, is the package manager on Debian and its derivatives like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and elementary OS. On these, if you want to install something, remove it, or update the whole system, you do it via APT.It has been around for decades, and if you are on a Debian-based distro, then you have almost certainly used it without giving it much thought. That said, it has seen active development in the last couple of years.We covered the APT 3.0 release this time last year, which...
Google bakes NotebookLM, its research tool, into Gemini
Google has fully integrated NotebookLM, its AI-powered research tool, into the Gemini app. The company launched a standalone NotebookLM app last year, but as it said in its announcement, “keeping track of everything can be a challenge.” It added NotebookLM as a source in the Gemini app last year, but now you can create notebooks right inside the chatbot. You can now find the option to create a new notebook in Gemini’s side panel and then select “Add sources” that the tool can use, such as PDFs, ...
Source: OpenAI is finalizing a model with advanced cybersecurity capabilities that it plans to release only to a small set of companies, similar to Anthropic
Sam Sabin / Axios: Source: OpenAI is finalizing a model with advanced cybersecurity capabilities that it plans to release only to a small set of companies, similar to Anthropic OpenAI is finalizing
Trump trashes MTG after Republican wins contest to fill her old seat 'despite the stench left by Greene'
President Donald Trump blasted former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Wednesday after Republican Clay Fuller won the special election runoff on Tuesday to fill Greene's old seat in Georgia's 14th Congressional District."Marjorie 'Traitor' Brown’s (GREEN TURNS TO BROWN UNDER STRESS!) seat in Congress has been taken over by a wonderful and talented man, Clay Fuller, who won convincingly, and right from the beginning, despite many people running for that 'TRUMP' +37 seat, and despite the stench left...
OpenAI pauses Stargate in the UK, citing the high energy costs and regulatory environment; OpenAI announced it in September 2025 alongside Nvidia and Nscale
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Can the secondary market allay private-credit fears?
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The latest Italian banking whodunnit has it all
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South Korea’s AI industrial policy meets the energy shock
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One of the Messiest Loose Ends from NFT Mania Has Finally Been Tied Up
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Masters fans cheer low prices as Augusta National concessions 'feel unreal' with $1.50 sandwiches
As prices soar across stadiums and arenas nationwide, Augusta National home of the Masters golf tournament is once again standing out for its low prices.The famed golf club in Augusta, Georgia, went viral on social media after journalist Claire Rogers shared a photo of its concession menu during the Augusta National Women's Amateur (ANWA).Rogers' post, shared March 31, highlighted food prices that remain low in 2026.LEFTOVER HACKS EXPLODE ON SOCIAL MEDIA AS AMERICANS FIGHT HIGH PRICES WITH SCRAP...
Prince Harry, Meghan Markle caused ‘unforgivable’ stress for Queen Elizabeth in final years: author
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle reportedly caused "unforgivable" stress for Queen Elizabeth II during the final years of her life.The claim was made by royal biographer Hugo Vickers, who has written a new book, "Queen Elizabeth II: A Personal History." It explores the late monarch’s triumphs and personal challenges based on sources close to the palace.Fox News Digital reached out to Archewell, which handles the offices for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and Buckingham Palace for comment. A spoke...
Colorado’s latest Supreme Court loss adds to growing string of culture war defeats
Colorado’s loss in the Supreme Court’s Kaley Chiles case last week marked the third time in recent years the justices have rebuked the state in a major culture-war dispute, adding to a growing pattern of high-profile reversals in cases over speech, religion and anti-discrimination law.The high court's decision was the latest in a trio of lawsuits that backfired for Colorado, after the Colorado Civil Rights Commission lost in court to a cake baker in a key religious liberty case and after a websi...
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'Revolution' or 'chaos': The massive stakes if a Republican becomes California governor
If California gets its first GOP governor since Arnold Schwarzenegger, it could allow new cooperation with the White House but also cause gridlock in Sacramento.
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Near the shrinking Salton Sea, children's lungs may pay a price
Scientists find that children who live near California's Salton Sea, where dust is a problem, suffer from diminished lung development.
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Inside California's audacious bid to build the world's deepest floating wind farm
Readying California for offshore wind power will require a perfect concert of major port upgrades, hundreds of miles of new transmission lines and wind turbines as tall as the Eiffel Tower.
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Arellano: Huntington Beach MAGAs want to take their revolution to Sacramento
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Fire survivors call for audits of Edison's wildfire prevention spending
Survivors of the deadly Eaton fire call on state lawmakers to pass a bill requiring audits of spending by Southern California Edison and the state's two other big for-profit electric companies on wildfire prevention.
Politicians Are Spending More Money on Security as They Increasingly Become Targets
Political candidates are purchasing more home alarms, bulletproof vests, and other protections amid rising fears of political violence.
TCL NXTVISION Art TV Review: Just Fine
This low-cost art display can’t compete with the Samsung Frame Pro.
Paulina Gretzky returns to the Masters Par 3 Contest caddying for Dustin Johnson
Paulina Gretzky, the daughter of NHL legend Wayne Gretzky and wife of LIV Golf star Dustin Johnson, was at the Masters Par 3 Contest caddying for her husband on Wednesday.The Masters Par 3 Contest is the event that takes place before the Masters tees off. It’s one of the lighthearted events of the week as golfers were able to test whether they can get some aces on specific holes at Augusta National. It’s an event meant for fun and family.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMGretzky ...
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Meteorologists Warn About Super El Nino Event
Meteorologists Warn About Super El Nino Event Weather forecasters are sounding the alarm about what could become a "super" El Niño event, potentially one of the strongest on record. "Strongest El Niño on record this year?!" meteorologist Ben Noll wrote on X. Noll said the latest ECMWF outlook indicates a 75% chance of a super El Niño by October, with "some scenarios suggesting the most intense event in more than a century." Strongest El Niño on record this year?! New ECMWF guidan...
Meta releases first new AI model since shaking up team
Meta on Wednesday released an artificial intelligence model, Muse Spark, it touts as smarter and faster than what it offered before shaking up its Superintelligence Labs unit.
Falcons lineman Kaleb McGary suddenly retires at 31 after missing last season with injury, agent says
The Atlanta Falcons suddenly had a key vacancy along their well-regarded offensive line on Wednesday. After starting at the right tackle spot for six seasons in Atlanta, right tackle Kaleb McGary’s agent, Colin Roberts, announced that the Falcons right tackle is stepping away from the NFL."Congrats to Kaleb McGary on his retirement and an amazing career," Roberts wrote on X.The announcement comes less than a year after McGary suffered a knee injury on the final day of training camp that sideline...
How skipping prom led Scarlett Bordeaux on path to pro wrestling stardom
There is no one way to get into professional wrestling.Fans have learned through the last few decades that superstars can come from anywhere. The traditional route is going through a wrestling school then finding out what it takes in independent promotions. A few of the other ways include being discovered through bodybuilding competitions and various other sports that really don’t have anything to do with wrestling.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMFor professional wrestler Scarl...
WATCH: Son of former top Iranian official seen living comfortable life in Los Angeles
The son of a former top-level Iranian official, who acted as the spokesperson for hostage takers occupying Tehran's U.S. Embassy in 1979, is yet another relative of Iran's hard-lined Islamist regime caught living a comfortable and affluent Western lifestyle in Los Angeles. Petitioners have been calling for Eissa Hashemi, 43, to be investigated and deported, arguing it is unfair for the relatives of these Iranian leaders to enjoy the freedom and privileges afforded to people in the West, and more...
The OpenAI Foundation’s New Alzheimer’s Effort Helps Demystify ‘AI Will Cure All Diseases’
You know what speeds up medical research? Money.
This AI Wearable From Ex-Apple Engineers Looks Like an iPod Shuffle
Two former Apple Vision Pro developers made an AI wearable that only listens when you tap it. They hope to win where other AI gadgets have fumbled: privacy.
This AI Wearable From Ex-Apple Engineers Looks Like an iPod Shuffle
Two former Apple Vision Pro developers made an AI wearable that only listens when you tap it. They hope to win where other AI gadgets have fumbled: privacy.
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Bedbugs on the Subway? He Wants to Know About It.
A state assemblyman’s bill would require the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to disclose when the bugs are found on buses or in the subway.
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Homes for Sale in Manhattan andQueens
This week’s properties are in Greenwich Village, the Upper East Side and Astoria.
What happens when a fighter pilot ejects? Inside the split-second escape after F-15E hit over Iran
A U.S. Air Force crew had only seconds to react after their F-15E Strike Eagle was hit by enemy fire over Iran Friday. Both airmen ejected.The escape from the aircraft triggered in an instant set off a high-risk rescue mission deep inside hostile territory, as U.S. forces raced to recover the crew before Iranian forces could reach them.In those few seconds, the ejection seat transforms from a last-resort safety system into an explosive escape mechanism launching the crew out of the aircraft and ...
MORNING GLORY: President Trump leads the West to a big win against Iran
"A big win for President Trump IF the Strait opens and stays open."As part of The Panel on Special Report, that was my instant reaction when Bret Baier asked all five of us to assess the just announced two week cease-fire in the battle with Iran. While Dasha Burns, Mark Penn and Juan Williams demurred one way or the other, Kellyanne Conway agreed with me and elaborated, citing President Trump’s long established pattern of negotiation having brought about at least a temporary win.The test of how ...
The Nazis’ Most Notoriously Complex Cryptographic Machine Is Now Available Online
Explore the byzantine inner workings of... the Hitler Mill.
We could win the AI war and still lose all of our freedoms if we aren’t careful
I have spent half a century tracking threats to American security from Soviet armored columns to jihadist networks to the accelerating military machine of communist China. In all that time, I have never watched a danger develop quite like this one: a threat born not only from our adversaries, but one we are building ourselves, with our own capital and our own engineering genius, moving faster than we have decided what rules should govern it.That is the unspoken risk inside this technology race. ...
Pence launches GOP messaging blitz on One Big Beautiful Bill ahead of midterms
FIRST ON FOX: Advancing American Freedom (AAF), the conservative group founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, is launching a campaign to boost GOP messaging on the One Big Beautiful Bill as midterms ramp up.The effort aims to give GOP lawmakers and staff a messaging playbook on taxes and energy as midterm campaigning intensifies, with the economy emerging as a defining issue for voters.Central to the effort is a 90-page report, "One Big Beautiful Booklet: 60 Key Reforms in the One Big Beau...
SEN RICK SCOTT: The lesson of Artemis? Purge woke politics and let NASA do its job
This week, Americans and people around the world have been awed and inspired by an incredible journey that began in my home state of Florida. After a successful launch at Cape Canaveral, NASA has sentNASA has sent human beings around the Moon for the first time in 54 years. Artemis II has now completed its lunar flyby, traveling more than 250,000 miles from Earth and venturing farther into space than any crewed mission in modern history.As exciting as this mission is, it’s only the beginning of ...
VA Dem rejects ‘power grab’ claims on Spanberger redistricting as GOP warns 10–1 map would split rural vote
A top Virginia Democrat is defending support for the redistricting effort critics are calling a "power grab" on the part of Gov. Abigail Spanberger and Richmond leadership, dismissing claims that rural Virginians will have their voices diluted by an urban-centric map.The redistricting referendum, before voters through April 21, would redraw Virginia’s 6-5 Democrat-majority congressional map to a likely 10-1 spread, leaving only Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Va., from the Old Dominion’s mountainous far...
Artemis II Astronauts Witnessed 6 Meteorites Colliding With the Moon
The moon gets hit by space debris all the time, but some of it is so large that the impact generates light that can be seen thousands of kilometers away.
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Will Europe Have Its Own FBI? Polish MEP Sounds Alarm Over EU's Planned Expansion Of Powers For Europol
Will Europe Have Its Own FBI? Polish MEP Sounds Alarm Over EU's Planned Expansion Of Powers For Europol Via Remix News, Polish Law and Justice (PiS) MEP Mariusz Kamiński raises alarm about the European Commission’s plans to change Europol’s operations, warning that “the European Commission is quietly building EU law enforcement agencies,” reports Do Rzeczy. There are now fears that Europe could have its own FBI, with vastly expanded and centralized powers. “The European Public P...
Tubi becomes the first streamer to launch a native app within ChatGPT, allowing viewers to find movies or shows to watch by using conversational phrases
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Tubi becomes the first streamer to launch a native app within ChatGPT, allowing viewers to find movies or shows to watch by using conversational phrases Tubi, the Fox-
Waiting for DeepSeek: new model to test China's AI ambitions
For weeks now, the global tech industry has been waiting for a major artificial intelligence launch from DeepSeek, seen as a benchmark for China's progress in the fast-moving field.
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Cost Of Living Dominates Many Nations' Biggest Worries
Cost Of Living Dominates Many Nations' Biggest Worries According to Statista Consumer Insights, prices and the cost of living are considered the biggest challenge in around half of the 32 countries included in a recent survey. This is also true for United States, where the issue ranks first among the 18 surveyed options, with 50 percent citing it as a main concern. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz shows in the chart below, the issue is also collectively seen as the biggest proble...
She travelled 900 km for an abortion. Years later, Quebec access issues remain urgent
Rose Gervais was about 12 weeks pregnant with her third child in 2023 when she had to travel from Gaspé, Que., to Montreal for an abortion. She should have been able to get the procedure done much closer, in Quebec City, but doctors say delays in getting appointments combined with limited capacity are pushing people to seek help even farther.
Liberals descend on Montreal for convention on the cusp of a majority government
Liberals are gathering in Montreal for the next few days, buzzing on a fifth floor crossing and with a sought-after majority government in sight.
Why human eyes are better at observing the moon than cameras
Human eyes are a wonder of nature. While we've invented the camera to work like our eyes, it's not as good as the real thing, something that was highlighted during Artemis II's lunar flyby.
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Escaped wolf forces school closure in South Korea
Daejeon Sanseong Elementary School has shut for the day over safety.
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Balmain woman allegedly ‘smashed’ man with hammer for stealing her brother’s ashes
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Trump’s last-minute delay: Why he was never going to obliterate Iran in the first place
I’ve been telling anyone who would listen – yes. I can get rather tiresome – that President Donald Trump would not bomb Iran back to the Stone Ages.Even after he said he would destroy Iran’s civilization and it would never recover, I knew that he would never go through with it. That was the last thing he wanted to do.So I was confident he would find some kind of last-minute off-ramp.And, of course, he didn’t want to be seen as backing off his increasingly dire threats.WHY TRUMP’S WAR SPEECH FAIL...
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Mamdani Asserts Control Over N.Y.P.D., Saying He Would Overrule Tisch
Although Mayor Zohran Mamdani often seems to defer to his police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, he insisted that he had the final say in policing matters.
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Former Sergeant Faces Years in Prison After Throwing Cooler at Bronx Man
In February, Erik Duran became the first New York Police Department officer in a decade to be found guilty of killing a civilian while on duty.
Apple's Foldable iPhone Is 'On Track' To Launch In September
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple's foldable iPhone is still "on track" for a September unveiling alongside the iPhone 18 Pro lineup. 9to5Mac reports: The report notes that Apple's stock took a hit earlier today after Nikkei Asia indicated the iPhone Fold was having serious production issues. Clearly, sources within Apple were motivated to share positive news via Gurman. Not long ago, Gurman himself said that he was expecting an iPhone Fold release date that was a little bit later than iPhone 1...
A Coding Guide to Build Advanced Document Intelligence Pipelines with Google LangExtract, OpenAI Models, Structured Extraction, and Interactive Visualization
In this tutorial, we explore how to use Google’s LangExtract library to transform unstructured text into structured, machine-readable information. We begin by installing the required dependencies and
Michigan woman arrested for allegedly starving, torturing disabled sister-in-law she locked in basement
A Michigan woman was arrested and hit with felony charges after she allegedly kept her disabled sister-in-law locked in a basement for two years, where she nearly starved the victim to death and blasted a radio non-stop.Tasha Beamon, 48, was charged with vulnerable adult abuse and unlawful imprisonment.The victim managed to escape the basement and broke a neighbor’s window on March 15 as she sought to enter the home, alert police and flee captivity, according to MLive.The neighbor called 911 and...
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Sea Change: 'Very Unfavorable' Views of Israel Triple Among US Adults
Sea Change: 'Very Unfavorable' Views of Israel Triple Among US Adults Amid a major war on Iran waged in partnership with the United States, Israel's reputation among Americans has continued to deteriorate, with 60% of US adults viewing Israel unfavorably. That's a hefty 18-point increase from 2022, according to a new survey from Pew Research. Over the same stretch, Israel's "favorable" share cratered by 18 points. While the top-line unfavorable rating is bad news for Israel, th...
As AI transforms white-collar work, executives across sectors say trust, not AI, is the key differentiator where accuracy, accountability, and regulation matter (Financial Times)
Financial Times: As AI transforms white-collar work, executives across sectors say trust, not AI, is the key differentiator where accuracy, accountability, and regulation matter Executives across fi
Sources: Arm CEO Rene Haas is in line for an additional role at SoftBank Group to advance Project Izanagi, the Japanese group's AI chip strategy (Financial Times)
Financial Times: Sources: Arm CEO Rene Haas is in line for an additional role at SoftBank Group to advance Project Izanagi, the Japanese group's AI chip strategy New job driving Japanese group's AI
UAE's leading AI company G42 says its data center campus and overseas plans are on track despite regional tensions and Iranian attacks on UAE infrastructure (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: UAE's leading AI company G42 says its data center campus and overseas plans are on track despite regional tensions and Iranian attacks on UAE infrastructure Despite attacks on regional in
South Carolina pastor, wife arrested after alleged sexual, physical abuse of foster children
A South Carolina pastor and his wife were arrested after a foster child reported being a victim of sexual abuse, according to officials.Rodney Gibson and Kawiana Young, both 50, were charged with unlawful conduct with a minor, the Richland County Sheriff's Department said, according to WIS News 10.Gibson is also facing charges of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor, unlawful conduct toward a minor and contributing to the delinquency of a minor...
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Primrose Hill stabbing: Grandson of acclaimed Kiwi film-maker killed in brawl
Finbar Sullivan was a keen film-maker who shot drill and rap videos as 'Sully Shot It'.
Poke, an AI agent that lets users automate tasks via text message, raised $10M, on top of a $15M seed last year, at a $300M post-money valuation
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Poke, an AI agent that lets users automate tasks via text message, raised $10M, on top of a $15M seed last year, at a $300M post-money valuation Is Poke an OpenClaw for the
Poke, an AI agent that lets users automate tasks via text message, raised $10M, on top of a $15M seed in 2025, at a $300M post-money valuation
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Poke, an AI agent that lets users automate tasks via text message, raised $10M, on top of a $15M seed in 2025, at a $300M post-money valuation Is Poke an OpenClaw for the r
John Deere To Pay $99 Million In Monumental Right-To-Repair Settlement
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Drive: Farmers have been fighting John Deere for years over the right to repair their equipment, and this week, they finally reached a landmark settlement. While the agricultural manufacturing giant pointed out in a statement that this is no admission of wrongdoing, it agreed to pay $99 million into a fund for farms and individuals who participated in a class action lawsuit. Specifically, that money is available to those involved who paid John Deere's...
Google AI Research Introduces PaperOrchestra: A Multi-Agent Framework for Automated AI Research Paper Writing
Writing a research paper is brutal. Even after the experiments are done, a researcher still faces weeks of translating messy lab notes, scattered results tables, and half-formed ideas into a polished,
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The Great Retreat: Beijing's Digital Currency Ambitions Are Faltering
The Great Retreat: Beijing's Digital Currency Ambitions Are Faltering Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), For years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has positioned the digital yuan (e-CNY) as the ultimate weapon of financial totalitarianism. It was intended to be the crowning achievement of the surveillance state. With a programmable, traceable digital currency, Beijing thought it would finally break the back of private payment giants like Alipay and WeC...
Volkswagen Beetle removed from rock face in Squamish, B.C.
A group claiming to represent a group of anonymous University of B.C. engineering students took credit for suspending the car last week, as part of a long-running tradition of pranks.
Man charged after allegedly threatening to kill Ohio dad 'in the name of Allah' in terrifying video encounter
Surveillance video captured a terrifying and apparent late-night random act of violence in Ohio, when a knife-wielding man allegedly told a homeowner he intended to kill him "in the name of Allah."The harrowing encounter, which unfolded in the early hours of Easter Sunday morning in Warren County, began when the suspect appeared to be praying in the family's driveway before approaching the home multiple times, prompting an alarmed father to eventually go outside.Authorities later identified the ...
Dem lawmaker calls for TSA to bring back shoes-off airport security policy
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., is demanding that the Transportation Security Administration reintroduce its controversial policy requiring travelers to take off their shoes before going through airport security checkpoints.Duckworth called on the TSA to immediately reverse its move to end the "shoes-off" policy, calling former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's decision last summer to scrap the policy a "reckless act" that may put travelers at risk."Secretary Noem’s decision ...
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Federal Appeals Court Allows Pentagon To Designate Anthropic As A Supply-Chain Risk
Federal Appeals Court Allows Pentagon To Designate Anthropic As A Supply-Chain Risk In a significant development for the intersection of artificial intelligence policy and national security, a federal appeals court in Washington ruled on April 8 that the Department of War may designate Anthropic as a supply-chain risk while a full judicial review plays out. The decision came after the AI company sought an emergency stay to block the controversial designation. Pages from the Anthropi...
Nava, which develops cloud infrastructure for AI workloads by combining data centers, GPUs, and software tools, raised a $22M Series A led by Greenoaks Capital
Samreen Ahmad / Tech in Asia: Nava, which develops cloud infrastructure for AI workloads by combining data centers, GPUs, and software tools, raised a $22M Series A led by Greenoaks Capital Nava, a
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Liberals Advance Bill That Could Criminalize Quoting The Bible As Hate Speech
Liberals Advance Bill That Could Criminalize Quoting The Bible As Hate Speech Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Canada is barreling toward a chilling new reality where quoting certain Bible passages could be treated as a criminal hate speech offense. Bill C-9, the so-called Combatting Hate Act, cleared the House of Commons on March 25 and now moves to the Senate. Critics say the legislation guts a decades-old legal safeguard that protected sincere religious expressi...
Former Fort Bragg employee charged with leaking classified military information to journalist
A former Fort Bragg employee with top-secret clearance is accused of leaking classified military tactics to a journalist, then admitting to her mother that she could be arrested for exposing sensitive operations, according to a federal complaint.Courtney P. Williams, 40, an Army veteran assigned to a Special Military Unit (SMU) at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday and charged with unlawfully transmitting national defense information, including classified tactics us...
Florida bus driver faces child neglect charges after train clips vehicle on railroad tracks
A Florida bus driver was charged with nearly 30 counts of child neglect as well as reckless driving after she narrowly avoided catastrophe and was clipped by a train last week.No one was injured as the bus, transporting children in the Sumter County school district, was clipped by a CSX train with 29 students and one aide aboard. The driver, Yvonne Hampton, was employed by the district since 2015, according to Sumter County Superintendent Logan Brown, who posted a video about the incident on Fac...
Wisconsin couple allegedly starved six children for years, forcing them to eat mold, bugs and dog food
A Wisconsin couple was arrested after allegedly starving their six children for years, forcing them to eat mold, bugs and dog food as they endured repeated abuse, authorities said.Casey Cano, 38, and Mary Cano, 35, face six counts each of repeated physical abuse of a child causing great bodily harm and child neglect, along with one count of causing a child under 13 to view or listen to a sex act, according to court records.Prosecutors alleged that from January 2018 through April 2022, the couple...
John Deere agreed to pay $99M into a fund to settle a 2022 right-to-repair class action lawsuit, and make digital repair tools available to farmers for 10 years (Reuters)
Reuters: John Deere agreed to pay $99M into a fund to settle a 2022 right-to-repair class action lawsuit, and make digital repair tools available to farmers for 10 years U.S. agriculture equipment m
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US couple sued by landlord after bad Google reviews over rental fines
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Ceasefire tested as Iran closes Strait of Hormuz, Israel and Lebanon trade strikes
Ceasefire agreement tested after Iran closed Strait of Hormuz.
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Raising A Child Now Costs About $303,000: Study
Raising A Child Now Costs About $303,000: Study Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, Parents who start raising a child in 2026 will spend around $303,418 from birth to 18 years old, according to a study published April 6 by Lending Tree. The cost increased 1.9 percent from last year. The average annual cost works out to about $16,857 over 18 years, pushing this year’s estimate over $300,000 for the first time since Lending Tree began calculating it in 2023, the onlin...
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Disabled 4-year-old boy found face down in SoCal elementary school pool. Mother sues district
A disabled 4-year-old boy was airlifted to a hospital for emergency medical treatment after he was found face down and unresponsive in an elementary school pool. Now his mother is suing the school district.
Blue Jays players hit by nasty bug as they struggle through early season
A mix of illness and injuries have hit the Blue Jays hard as the defending American League champions have struggled to maintain a winning record in the early days of the new season.
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Mamdani Acknowledges ‘Troubling’ Job Losses in 100 Days’ Interview
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is focused on economic justice. Some budget watchdogs and business leaders want him to concentrate on economic development.
Dem Senate candidate takes swipe at Joe Rogan after refusing to disavow Hasan Piker's past comments
Michigan Democrat Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, who is running for U.S. Senate, doubled down on his decision to campaign with controversial Twitch streamer Hasan Piker while taking a swing at podcaster Joe Rogan.When asked whether he would disavow Piker's controversial statements, El-Sayed declined, and instead took aim at Rogan."I'm not here to disavow people's views. I'm here to have a conversation about how to get money out of politics, put money back in pockets, and pass Medicare for all. That's the c...
Sources: Anthropic completes an employee tender offer at a $350B valuation, falling short of the $6B investors wanted, as employees held shares ahead of the IPO (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic completes an employee tender offer at a $350B valuation, falling short of the $6B investors wanted, as employees held shares ahead of the IPO Anthropic employees have s
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Zero Hedge
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"Shocking Levels Of Distress": CMBS Delinquencies Unexpectedly Soar To Covid Highs
"Shocking Levels Of Distress": CMBS Delinquencies Unexpectedly Soar To Covid Highs With market focused on private credit as the next credit market crisis vortex, many have forgotten that CMBS, the asset class that was smashed in the aftermath of covid as hundreds of office buildings were suddenly left vacant, has been teetering on the edge for years. For some, it proved to be a lucrative bet as the "next big short" after various office-heavy CMBX tranches collapsed in 2020 and 2021....
‘We're coming after you': Dr Oz revokes Medicare access for LA doctor tied to $71M hospice billing
As allegations of widespread hospice fraud in Los Angeles County continue to intensify, one physician has faced scrutiny after being tied to Medicare claims for thousands of patients across dozens of hospices.Dr. Rajiv Bhuva has been linked to Medicare claims for nearly 2,800 patients across 126 California hospices in 2024, according to CBS News, which cited the last full year of available data. Bhuva is connected to more hospices than any other doctor, according to CBS News, which said that out...
