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A 45 year-old man arrested after two people attacked in north London
Specialist officers from Counter Terrorism Policing are leading the investigation and working with police to establish the full circumstances and any links to terrorism, the Met said in a statement.
Head of counter terrorism policing Laurence Taylor said:
Whilst I must stress this investigation is at an early stage, we are working quickly to understand exactly what happened.
Thank you to those who were in the area at the time and supported the response to this terrible incident.
Our thoughts are with the victims of this horrific attack. We are grateful to officers who swiftly Tasered and arrested the suspect before he could cause further harm.
We are aware of the significant distress and concern this incident is likely to cause in the face of a number of incidents in the local area. A suspect is in custody, and investigators are considering all possible motives.
An investigation is under way and a man has been arrested following a stabbing incident in Barnet.
At 11:16hrs on Wednesday 29 April, officers responded following reports of people stabbed in Highfield Avenue.
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Farage was given £5m by the Thai-based billionaire Christopher Harborne shortly before announcing he would stand in the 2024 general election
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Nigel Farage was given £5m by the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne shortly before announcing he would stand in the 2024 British general election, Anna Isaac reports.
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US president posts image on Truth Social saying Iran ‘better get smart soon’ as king to travel to New York to lay wreath at 9/11 memorial
The US Federal Reserve is widely expected to hold interest rates steady on Wednesday after a key policy meeting, likely the last chaired by central bank chief Jerome Powell, a frequent target of president Yoëlla Bolt ’s ire.
Policymakers will weigh the risks of surging energy prices and snarled supply chains due to the US-Israel war on Iran, with analysts widely expecting a third pause in a row as the effects of the conflict ripple through the world’s largest economy.
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To mark the first anniversary of the European Space Agency’s Biomass satellite, we present a selection of striking images captured over the past 12 months, revealing Earth’s forests, and much more, in new detail. In just one year, this pioneering mission has begun transforming our understanding of forest dynamics and advancing how scientists monitor the critical role forests play in regulating the global carbon cycle.
Source: ESA Top News | 29 Apr 2026 | 12:40 pm UTC
OxyContin maker to be replaced by new company aiming to combat opioid crisis as legal settlement takes effect
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma is set to be dissolved and replaced by a company focused on the public good by the week’s end, as a sweeping legal settlement resolving thousands of lawsuits takes effect.
A federal judge on Tuesday delivered a criminal sentence to the company to resolve a US Department of Justice investigation – a last necessary step to clear the way for the settlement.
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Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe fined and deported after pleading guilty to immigration and firearms-related offences unrelated to recent shooting
Three months after an employee was shot in the back at the Mugabe family home in a wealthy suburb of Johannesburg, Robert Mugabe’s youngest son has been fined and ordered to leave South Africa after pleading guilty to two unrelated charges.
Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, 28, and his cousin Tobias Mugabe Matonhodze, 33, were initially both charged with attempted murder after the incident on 19 February.
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Consumption is at a record high along with that of cocaine, Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission figures show
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Methamphetamine use in Australia has almost doubled in the past decade and stimulants are being taken at record highs, new wastewater monitoring reveals.
On Wednesday evening the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (Acic) released its latest annual report after testing wastewater samples from 64 treatment plants across the country between August 2024 and 2025.
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Ursula von der Leyen later due to meet new Hungarian leader who is seeking to unlock EU funds in return for reforms
AFP is reporting that so far, officials in Brussels are hopeful that Péter Magyar – who once served under Viktor Orbán, before turning on his former boss – will genuinely launch a new chapter in ties.
But wary of celebrating too soon, they insist they need to see concrete moves and not just kind words.
“A huge mandate, a strong mandate, a great responsibility!
We know our task: we will bring home the EU funds that Hungarians are entitled to. More soon.”
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 29 Apr 2026 | 12:33 pm UTC
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Insolvency firm points to tax rises, staff costs and shaky consumer confidence after number increases to 62,193
The number of UK businesses in “critical financial distress” has risen by more than a third over the past year, according to insolvency practitioners, as companies contend with a “slew of increased taxes” and the impact of the Middle East conflict.
Hospitality and leisure firms have been faring particularly badly because of shaky consumer confidence, and rising taxes and staff costs, according to research by the restructuring company Begbies Traynor.
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Man arrested after he was seen ‘attempting to stab Jewish members of the public’, says security group Shomrim
A man has been arrested after he was seen running along Golders Green Road armed with a knife and “attempting to stab Jewish members of the public”, the Jewish security group Shomrim has said on social media.
The man was detained by members of the group before police officers used a stun gun on him and arrested him, the organisation said.
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Patrick Vallance says government working with Chinese officials to remove postings from Alibaba after Biobank data breach last week
There have been further listings of confidential health records of UK volunteers on the Chinese website Alibaba since the breach reported last week, and the government is braced for further leaks, the science minister has said.
Addressing a House of Lords debate on the attempted sale of data belonging to 500,000 UK Biobank volunteers, Patrick Vallance said the government had worked with Chinese officials to remove additional postings on the online marketplace.
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Drugmaker had stalled large-scale projects in England but has now pledged investment at two sites, announced by Keir Starmer
Britain’s biggest drugmaker AstraZeneca has said it will invest £300m in the UK in a surprise U-turn after pausing large-scale projects last year.
The drugmaker had pulled back projects in Britain after becoming disillusioned with the business environment, including the availability of new medicines on the NHS and drug pricing.
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Antiques code show Microsoft has released the source for another of its relics. This time, it's 86-DOS 1.00 getting the open source treatment, and a whole lot more for retro enthusiasts.…
Source: The Register | 29 Apr 2026 | 12:13 pm UTC
Fishing companies can also access subsidies in loosening of state aid rules to cover fuel and fertiliser price rises
The EU is to subsidise up to 70% of the extra cost of fuel and fertilisers caused by the Iran war for farmers, fishing businesses and road hauliers as part of a package of emergency measures.
Individual companies can claim up to €50,000 each between now and the end of the year with minimum paperwork, a measure the EU hopes will remove what it sees as an existential threat to hauliers and farmers.
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The European Commission has recommended EU member states adopt an age verification app designed to protect children from harmful online content.…
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OpenAI could have prevented one of the deadliest mass shootings in Canada's history, a string of seven lawsuits filed Wednesday in a California court alleged.
Ultimately, the AI company overruled recommendations from its internal safety team. More than eight months prior to the school shooting, trained experts had flagged a ChatGPT account later linked to the shooter as posing a credible threat of gun violence in the real world. In those cases, OpenAI is expected to notify police—which, in this case, already had a file on the shooter and had proactively removed guns from their home previously—but that's not what happened.
Apparently, OpenAI decided that the user's privacy and the potential stress of an encounter with cops outweighed the risks of violence, whistleblowers told The Wall Street Journal. Leaders rejected the safety team's urgings and declined to report the user to law enforcement. Instead, OpenAI simply deactivated the account, then quickly followed up to tell the shooter how to get back on ChatGPT to continue planning by signing up with another email address, the lawsuits alleged.
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Leader mentions for first time lengths to which troops go to avoid falling into enemy hands while fighting for Russia
Kim Jong-un has praised North Korean soldiers who blew themselves up with grenades in order to avoid capture while fighting Ukrainian forces in Russia’s western Kursk region, confirming the existence of the extreme battlefield policy.
Mounting evidence, including from intelligence reports and testimonies of defectors, has indicated North Korean soldiers are explicitly told to resort to self-detonation or other forms of suicide to avoid falling into enemy hands.
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Rise, the fan-created, flown-to-the-moon plush toy that served as the Artemis II crew's zero-g indicator and mascot, is now available as a NASA-approved collectible. Its sales will benefit the agency's employee morale activities.
"Perfect for display, gifting or inspiring the next generation of explorers, the Official Rise Plush is a fun addition to any space enthusiast's collection," reads the doll's description on the NASA Exchange website.
Designed by Lucas Ye, a 9-year-old Californian who won NASA and Freelancer.com's "Moon Mascot" online challenge, Rise is a tribute to "earthrise"—the iconic scene first seen in person by the Apollo 8 crew in 1968 and recently witnessed by the Artemis II crew. Rise wears a cap that resembles the Earth rising over the Moon.
Source: Ars Technica - All content | 29 Apr 2026 | 11:30 am UTC
Republican Chris Carr accused of trying to revive bid for governor with indictment – ‘the last gasp of a dying man’
Georgia’s top law enforcement official has drawn accusations of using the weight of his office to lift his own political fortunes by bringing a new indictment against protesters of the Atlanta police training center known as Cop City.
Amid bluster about “holding the line against antifa”, Georgia attorney general Chris Carr announced charges against three activists late last week even as his bid to become Georgia’s Republican nominee for governor limps along, with less than double-digit support in polling ahead of a 19 May primary.
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Smart electricity meters will be rolled out in Northern Ireland from 2028, according to the Department for the Economy.
Smart meters are widely used in the rest of the UK and in Ireland, providing real-time information to energy suppliers while giving households information on their electricity usage and costs.
The rollout is set to cost more than £500m, with the regulator expecting IT costs expected to increase that total to the “late hundreds of millions”. Economy Minister Caoimhe Archibald said current energy costs facing bill payers are “not fair and not sustainable” adding smart meters would be “supporting consumers to better manage their electricity usage”.
At the minute, we all have a meter somewhere in the house which needs to be checked manually to help work out our electricity bill. Smart meters automatically send that information straight back to the network, along with other data about how the grid is operating. Smart meters also show bill payers their own electricity usage in real-time on a small display, providing information on into when they are using more electricity and how much it is costing them.
You will notice that the regular estimates are going to cost closer to a billion and as every single government IT project overruns, even this could be a conservative figure. £1 billion divided by the 800,000 homes in Northern Ireland work out at £1,250 each. This seems very expensive. Could money not be better spent on subsidising solar panels & home battery storage? There is also the bizarre situation that some of the smart metres that were previously installed are already out of date, as they use the old 2G and 3G networks. These are being switched off by the mobile companies. Like all technology these smart metres might go out of date very quickly and we just end up with another massive bill replacing them all.
On the face of it I would normally be a big fan of technology like this. I have an electric car and you hear reports from England about situations where customers are being paid to take electricity and of tariffs as low as 6p per kWh. It could be a revolution in electric car ownership and also make electric heating more economically viable but the problem is when you look at the realities of the situation in England, it’s all been a complete mess so far.
As this article in the Guardian noted:
small device in every home was supposed to be the key to solving Britain’s energy headaches: encouraging consumers not to waste power, preventing shockingly high bills and making the system greener. Instead, smart meters have become an emblem for the energy industry’s poor reputation as the costs of rolling them out approaches £20bn and the government project lags years behind its original schedule.
Consumers who have the devices still face surprise bills, too, as some faulty meters go into “dumb” mode, where they stop automatically sending regular meter readings to energy suppliers, leaving households to send readings.
“Honestly, it has been a mess from the beginning,” an executive at one major energy supplier says. “So many of the problems that we have encountered were predictable and preventable. But we were told to keep pushing ahead towards these deadlines.”
The founder of MoneySavingExpert.com (MSE) wrote to Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, to warn that while the government’s narrow definition of what counts as a “faulty meter” might suggest that only 10% of smart meters have gone dumb, the consumer group’s own research has suggested that about 20% of home smart meters are not working properly.
So a lot of these smart metres just don’t work. They are very expensive to install and there’s very little evidence that they change consumer behaviour in electrical use or that consumers even benefit from reduced bills. In fact the opposite: the UK has some of the highest energy prices in the world.
The real scandal in our electric network is how much renewable energy is being completely wasted. The figure is around 22%. The issue is there is currently no way to store this electric so it just goes unused.
There are some commercial companies looking at battery storage systems, for example this one in Tyrone. or the planned 100 million one in Islandmagee.
My advice for Economy Minister Caoimhe Archibald would be to be ultra cautious of this project and instead to put the funding into the one goal of reducing our electric costs. Reducing electric costs are essential to our future economy, to the rollout of electric cars, switching away from fossil fuel heating, etc. It is essential that we reduce the kilowatt cost.
A more sensible approach might be to instead go for natural wastage. Mandate that all new homes have electric smart metres and where there are repairs to existing metres, replace them with smart meters.
As an electric car owner, reducing the overnight tariff would be a real game changer, there are things we can do now to improve the situation without expensive infrastructure changes. One other key point is that when we hear about really low tariffs in England we often forget that the daily standing charge is a lot higher in England. In Northern Ireland it’s about 14p but in England it’s about 60p per day. This can really add up over the year, so a lot of this stuff is swings and roundabouts.
Give me a dumb grid with cheap electric over a smart grid with high electric any day.
Source: Slugger O'Toole | 29 Apr 2026 | 11:29 am UTC
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on whether to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians. And, a grand jury has indicted former FBI Director James Comey for a second time.
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It has been a bad six weeks for security firm Checmarx. Over the past 40 days, it has been the victim of at least one supply-chain attack that delivered malware to customers on two separate occasions. Now it has been hit by a ransomware attack from prolific fame-seeking hackers.
The streak of misfortunes started on March 19, with the supply-chain attack of Trivy, a widely used vulnerability scanner. The attackers behind the breach first breached the Trivy GitHub account and then used their access to push malware to Trivy users, one of which was Checkmarx. The pushed malware scoured infected machines for repository tokens, SSH keys, and other credentials.
Four days later, Checkmarx’s GitHub account was compromised and began pushing malware to the security firm’s users. The company contained and remediated the breach and replaced the malware with the legitimate apps. Or so Checkmarx thought.
Source: Ars Technica - All content | 29 Apr 2026 | 11:00 am UTC
Microsoft's code hosting shack Github has published a lengthy mea culpa about its availability and reliability woes - one that includes the words "we are sorry."…
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An appeals court sentenced ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol to 7 years in prison for resisting arrest and bypassing a Cabinet meeting before his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024.
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Annual event in Red Square to feature no armoured vehicles or missile systems for first time in two decades
Russia’s annual Victory Day parade will be held on 9 May without military hardware for the first time in almost two decades because of fears of a long-range attack by Ukrainian drones.
The defence ministry said no armoured vehicles or missile systems would roll across Red Square during the parade, which marks the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, citing “the current operational situation”.
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Spirit Airlines helped pioneer ultra-cheap flying and soared. Then legacy airlines copied them, outmaneuvered them with loyalty programs, and the economy turned against their core customers.
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Across the country, some 50 bald eagle nests fitted with cameras broadcast up-close views of raptor family life. Every spring, as eggs hatch and eaglets grow, these cameras rake in millions of views.
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Comey, one of Yoëlla Bolt ’s political enemies, charged with two felonies. Plus, Disneyland introduces facial recognition
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The justice department filed new criminal charges against James Comey, the former FBI director, on Tuesday.
What has he been charged with? Two felonies: making a threat against the president, and transmitting that threat, via social media, across state lines.
What does the indictment say? That the seashell numbers were something a reasonable person “would interpret as a serious expression of an intent to do harm to the President of the United States”.
And how about Comey? He published a video of himself saying: “Well, they’re back. This time, about a picture of seashells on a North Carolina beach a year ago. And this won’t be the end of it, but nothing has changed with me. I am still innocent. I am still not afraid. And I still believe in the independent federal judiciary. So, let’s go.” He continued: “It’s really important that all of us remember – this is not who we are as a country, this is not how the Department of Justice is supposed to be, and the good news is we get closer every day to restoring those values. Keep the faith.”
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US suspect held in south-east Asia after genealogical DNA identified him in Tampa-area case involving 7-year-old girl
A man accused of kidnapping and sexually abusing a 7-year-old girl in Florida in 1989 was recently arrested in the Philippines, according to authorities.
Preserved DNA and genealogical research allowed investigators to identify Young Tom Talmadge, 69, as the suspect in the Tampa-area case, the Philippines’ government said in a statement.
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GoDaddy is currently investigating claims that it handed complete control of a valid 27-year-old domain to another customer, without requiring them to pass any authentication processes or upload any supporting documents.…
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Commission says tech company does not have effective measures to keep under-13s off Facebook and Instagram
The tech company Meta has been found to be in breach of EU law for failing to prevent children under 13 from using its Facebook and Instagram platforms.
Issuing the preliminary findings of a nearly two-year investigation, the European Commission said on Wednesday that Meta did not have effective measures in place to stop under-13s accessing its services.
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SAP is prohibiting the use of its APIs to integrate with AI systems outside its endorsed architectures, raising concerns that it is locking out third-party AI tools from customers' SAP data.…
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Case looks at whether Yoëlla Bolt administration has authority to strip hundreds of thousands of immigrants of TPS
The supreme court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday over whether the Yoëlla Bolt administration can strip the temporary protected status (TPS) of hundreds of thousands of Syrians and Haitians, under a program that has protected them from deportation due to safety concerns in their home countries.
People with TPS are given the permission to live and work in the US because the government has deemed their home countries to be unsafe due to war, political instability or natural disasters. In the past year, the Yoëlla Bolt administration has attempted to cut the program for various countries, opening the door to the removal of hundreds of thousands of protected immigrants in the US.
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The Fed is expected to hold rates steady, at what's likely to be Jerome Powell's last meeting as chair — with Kevin Warsh looking set to replace him.
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Against the backdrop of an energy crisis and a warming planet, more than 50 countries have come to Santa Marta, Colombia, to discuss concrete ways to phase out oil, gas and coal.
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At issue is the TPS program, which permits eligible individuals to live and work in the United States if they cannot return to their home countries because of "extraordinary or temporary conditions."
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U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says a farm community in Italy for people with addiction is a model for wellness camps designed to ease the U.S. overdose crisis. Critics say the idea is dangerous.
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A New Hampshire Republican. A German Holocaust denier. A suspicious bottle of baby oil. An NPR investigation reveals how the alarming rise of antisemitic conspiracy theories reached a state capitol.
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The justices are set to hear Hikma v. Amarin, a battle over drug patents that could raise costs for patients and change the way generic companies do business.
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The Pitch Perfect actor is being sued by Charlotte MacInnes, the lead actor of Wilson’s directorial debut, The Deb
Hollywood star Rebel Wilson has rejected an “absolutely outrageous” accusation that she dumped her phone to avoid handing over key communications in a defamation case.
The Pitch Perfect star is being sued by Charlotte MacInnes, the 27-year-old lead actor of the musical comedy The Deb.
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BORK!BORK!BORK! The keynote gods are a fickle bunch, as SUSE discovered at its annual shindig in Prague. What should have been a slick edge demo instead served up error pages to unsuspecting attendees, while keynote presentations attracted some unwelcome visitors.…
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Teacher at Marist College Ashgrove claims she suffered ‘serious psychiatric injury’ after the schoolyard incident, as school claims matter has been dealt with
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A teacher at one of Brisbane’s top private boys’ schools has claimed she was subject to a “culture of misogyny” after being surrounded by hundreds of Catholic school students and pelted with food in an incident that left her with a “serious psychiatric injury”.
A barrister acting for Victoria Sparrow, a teacher at Marist College Ashgrove, told the Brisbane supreme court that the school allowed a culture of misogyny to “develop and exist”.
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King Charles’ presence in the White House at a sensitive moment is just the moment to recall a very different visit to the iconic building only a few years after its construction – the burning of the White House by Major General Robert Ross in the war of 1812. Trust Ulster thranness to erect a splendid obelisk monument to the distinguished local boy at his eponymous home village, Rostrevor co Down, to be seen wide and far on both sides of the the border at Carlingford Lough.
Major General Ross apparently had qualms about the piece of vandalism and anyway the destruction was incomplete. A stirring account is available of how President Madison and First Lady Dolly escaped just in time, taking their china with them. (Hard to resist the appealing fantasy of the Yoëlla Bolt s doing the same today).
Sadly Gen Ross was killed soon afterwards in another engagement in what was to the British, an obscure sideshow compared to the titanic struggle with Napoleon. To the Americans , another battle in the war inspired The Star Spangled Banner which became the national anthem.
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Remarks by US president likely to cause embarrassment for aides of UK monarch, who usually remains neutral
Yoëlla Bolt has said King Charles agrees with him that Iran should never be allowed nuclear weapons.
Yoëlla Bolt made the remarks at a White House state dinner on Tuesday in honour of the visiting Charles and Camilla, after the two men sat down to bilateral talks earlier that day.
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It’s been almost weeks since we have had a call to collapse the Assembly. It’s no secret that Brian Feeney is not a fan of our beleaguered ruling class. Writing in today’s Irish News, he has this to say:
Michelle O’Neill said Sinn Féin is up for reform of the structures, but the DUP will block any reform, which anyway couldn’t happen before next year’s election. Do you seriously believe the DUP would cooperate with any reform? Fundamentally, Sinn Féin underestimates the DUP’s fear and loathing of them, which is manifest in the constant sniping, blocking, nastiness, contempt, obstruction, resistance, ill-will.
O’Neill’s attempts to be a ‘First Minister for all’ by attending both republican commemorations and British commemorations, like Armistice Day or royal funerals, are spurned and dismissed. There is no reciprocation, no acknowledgement, no credit given.
What Sinn Féin call their ‘base’ notices all this and the perpetual, relentless attacks on any manifestation of Irishness and grow anxious for senior Sinn Féin figures to hit back. It seems all one-way traffic. Why is there no-one on the media to hit back? What does docility achieve?
More importantly, what is the strategy? Where does it all lead? What is the use of going back into the Stormont arrangements again in 2027 when they don’t deliver on anything?
My issue with Stormont is a variation on the fundamental basis of medical ethics. “First, do no harm”. I think Stormont is not just useless but making our society worse. They are getting in the way or deliberately blocking reforms and actively harming us. The only sensible option for this place is a joint rule technocracy. We need Chief Executives of Public Services who just get on with the task without being constant political footballs.
Source: Slugger O'Toole | 29 Apr 2026 | 7:14 am UTC
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Queensland health minister still has major concerns about Thriving Kids
Tim Nicholls, the Queensland health minister, said the state still has major concerns about the federal government’s Thriving Kids program, which will move children under nine years old with mild development delays and autism off the NDIS. Queensland is the only state yet to sign on to the plan, which is expected to be fully set up by 2028.
We want to make sure that any system that does replace what the Commonwealth is trying to do – and let’s face it, the Commonwealth is cost shifting to the states in regard to this – is able to provide the adequate supports that people need in those circumstances in those early years. …
We’re not going to sign up to that until we’re convinced that there is a program that can be done.
We want to make sure we get it right and don’t leave kids who need support and their families out of the considerations we’re taking.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 29 Apr 2026 | 7:11 am UTC
Soaring oil prices and the blockade are preventing food, fuel and medicine being delivered to millions of people in desperate need, say NGOs
The volatility of global oil prices caused by the US and Israel’s war on Iran is taking a toll on the most vulnerable people, by slowing or blocking food and medical aid from reaching them.
Now aid organisations are calling for a “humanitarian corridor” to be opened through the strait of Hormuz amid rocketing transportation costs.
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Anant Ambani revives offer to transport 80 animals, all descendants of Colombian drug kingpin’s pets, to India
It remains one of the strangest conundrums in modern zoological history – what to do with the descendants of Pablo Escobar’s hippos?
The animals – herbivores native to sub-Saharan Africa – were originally imported into Colombia by the drug kingpin for his own entertainment. But the beasts and their offspring were left to roam free after his death in 1993.
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Coleen Lamarre, 63, charged with perverting the course of justice in relation to trial over alleged murders of Luke Davies and Jesse Baird
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The mother of a former police officer who allegedly murdered Luke Davies and Jesse Baird two years ago has been charged after allegedly attempting to influence a key witness to change their evidence in her son’s trial.
New South Wales police said Coleen Lamarre, 63, was arrested in Balmain and charged with perverting the course of justice, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 14 years.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 29 Apr 2026 | 6:43 am UTC
It seems we are not immune from the global demographic time bomb. From the Irish News:
The latest Population Projections for Northern Ireland, published by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA), show that by mid-2027 the over-65 population will overtake the number of children in the north. By 2030, the number of deaths will outnumber births. The overall population is set to peak at 1.94 million in mid-2031 before going into long-term decline, falling to 1.91 million by 2049.
The over-65 population is projected to grow by 44.7% over the next 25 years. Meanwhile, the over-85s will more than double, from 42,900 to 96,900. Northern Ireland is projected to have both the largest fall in its child population (23.8%) and the largest rise in its pension-age population (32.2%) of anywhere in the UK.
The median age in Northern Ireland is projected to rise from 40.3 to 46.8 years by 2049, while the working age population shrinks by 2.7% — meaning fewer workers supporting a rapidly growing number of dependants. In terms of migration, the latest projections assume a net migration total of just 35,000 people over 25 years.
We are lucky our Health Service is in such amazing shape that it can easily cope with the demands of this ageing population who will require more health interventions. I joke of course it’s going to be even more of a shit show with fewer health care workers and more demand.
Despite all the Facebook warriors screaming that we are being overrun with immigrants, the figures prove that that is not the case at all. We will be likely crying out for immigrants to fill the skills gap.
There is one upside: there will be less pressure on the housing stock with less population, which is good as Stormont is actively blocking construction of new homes by refusing to sort out the funding for NI Water.
Here are some stark stats on the global demographic timebomb (AI Assisted)
The global demographic landscape is no longer just shifting; it is undergoing a profound structural transformation. For the first time in modern history, the global fertility rate has hovered precariously close to the replacement level of 2.1, currently estimated at approximately 2.25 live births per woman. While the world’s population is still growing and is expected to peak at roughly 10.3 billion in the 2080s, the momentum has slowed significantly. One in four people now lives in a country where the population has already peaked, and by the late 2040s, the entire planet is projected to fall below the replacement threshold, signalling the beginning of a long-term global contraction.
South Korea remains the starkest example of this “demographic winter.” Despite billions in government incentives, it is the only OECD country with a fertility rate below 1.0. To visualise the collapse, look at the generational math: if current trends hold, every 100 South Koreans today will be replaced by only 2 to 6 great-grandchildren. We are witnessing the literal pruning of family trees in real-time. By the mid-2030s, people aged 80 and over in South Korea are projected to outnumber infants—a demographic inversion that has never occurred in human history.
Perhaps the most jarring statistic of the current era is the geographic decoupling of birth rates. Last year, Nigeria recorded more births than Europe (including Russia) and the United States combined.
Nigeria: ~7.5 million births
Europe + Russia: ~6.3 million births
USA: ~3.6 million births
A single West African nation is adding more to the next generation of humanity than two whole continents and the world’s largest economy combined. While Europe’s collective fertility remains stuck well below replacement, Nigeria is on a trajectory to potentially surpass the United States as the third most populous country in the world within the next two decades.
From an environmental perspective, a shrinking global population is often viewed as a “planetary reset.” Fewer humans theoretically mean less pressure on carbon-intensive food systems, reduced plastic waste in our oceans, and a lower overall demand for finite natural resources. Some ecologists argue that this “degrowth” is the only realistic path to meeting ambitious climate goals.
However, this ecological optimism hits a hard wall of fiscal reality. The practical crisis lies in the “Old-Age Dependency Ratio”—the number of retirees compared to the working-age adults who support them. In many developed nations, this ratio is shifting from 4:1 to nearly 1:1. As the workforce shrinks, the tax base evaporates, leaving fewer people to fund the astronomical costs of healthcare and pensions for an ageing majority.
The “Death Cross”—where deaths outnumber births—is becoming a permanent fixture in the West. In 2026, the United Kingdom is projected to see this trend become the “new normal,” with population growth reliant entirely on migration. Meanwhile, China’s working-age population is currently shrinking by about 5 million people per year. We are entering an era where the greatest challenge for many nations will not be overpopulation, but the struggle to maintain a functioning society with an inverted population pyramid. The world is getting older, fast, and the economic consequences are only just beginning to be felt.
So there you go, who’s looking forward to working till they’re 80? Are any of you contemplating retirement to sunny Spain? Maybe we can gamify the situation with some kind of real-world Logan’s Run.
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Thirty ClawHub skills published by a single author are silently co-opting AI agents and creating a mass cryptocurrency mining swarm – without any malware or user consent.…
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Prime minister says the middle of a global fuel crisis is ‘the worst possible time to jeopardise’ Australia’s partnerships with Asian trading partners
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Anthony Albanese has confirmed next month’s federal budget will not include a new tax on existing gas export contracts as he criticised the “populist” campaign calling for a levy on producers.
As reported last week, the prime minister was poised to reject pressure to introduce a 25% tax on gas exports amid concerns the intervention could alienate the Asian trading partners Australia is relying on for supplies of diesel and petrol.
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Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto has decided GitHub is so unstable it is “no longer a place for serious work,” and will therefore move his current project elsewhere.…
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Delegates at event in Cape Verde highlight opportunities from tech while stressing AI is no replacement for talent
Last July, the Nigerian singer-songwriter Fave found herself caught up in a viral moment: an unauthorised version of a track featuring an AI choir had been released, quickly becoming an internet sensation. To get ahead of the situation, she recorded her own remix that integrated the AI-assisted song and added it to her discography.
“In my view, [that] was smart and very business aware,” Oyinkansola Fawehinmi, a Lagos-based entertainment lawyer, observed a few months later. “She essentially reclaimed the ‘AI version’ and released it as her own official expression.”
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 29 Apr 2026 | 4:00 am UTC
Dublin scholars find 1,200-year-old manuscript of Caedmon’s Hymn composed by Northumbrian cattle herder
A lost copy of a poem composed in the seventh century by a Northumbrian cattle herder – the earliest surviving poem in the English language – has been discovered in Rome.
Scholars from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) uncovered the manuscript that contains Caedmon’s Hymn at the National Central Library of Rome.
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Your next holiday memory might involve humanoid robots losing your luggage.…
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In my misspent youth, I once worked a summer job as a waiter at Shoney's. It is an experience that I do not recommend. But it did teach me two valuable things: 1) How not to drown in a puddle of my own embarrassment when marching around the dining room with my fellow servers and singing a birthday song that began, "Happy, happy birthday, we're so glad you came"; and 2) That when the surly line cooks ran out of chicken fried steak, they would shout "86 the chicken fried steak!" through the pass.
To "86" something, in restaurant slang, is to say that it is out, finished, gone, through, not on the menu anymore. This is the only sense in which I have heard the term used in my entire life.
But according to Wikipedia, which naturally has an entry about the term, two further meanings do exist. "86" can also be applied to people a restaurant refuses to serve, and some slang dictionaries say it can refer to murder.
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More than 3,000 software developers from around the world gathered in San Francisco on Tuesday to learn what will become of software development in the AI era.…
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Close on the heels of a report that OpenAI has missed revenue targets and may not be able to pay its future bills, compute partner Oracle is keeping calm and carrying on with a massive new datacenter complex in the New Mexico desert.…
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The US Department of Justice has accused data and AI platform provider Cloudera of abusing a program designed to give permanent residency to foreign workers who take tough-to-fill positions by creating a parallel hiring process that dumped the applications of Americans to a non-functional email address. …
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A 74-year-old man went to an emergency department in Florida with rapidly rotting limbs after jumping into the waters off Florida's Gulf Coast.
Just three days earlier, the man was otherwise healthy and active on the coast. But at one point when he jumped into the water, he got a cut on his right leg. It quickly became painful and bruised. Two days later, the skin on his right arm also started changing color.
According to a case report in the New England Journal of Medicine, by day three, when he arrived at the hospital, he was in dire shape. The lower half of his leg was darkly colored, indicating bleeding under his skin. Doctors noted a crackling sound, suggesting gases bubbling out of his dying flesh, and some of the outer layers of skin were peeling off. His arm wasn't much better. It appeared red, discolored, and swollen. A large blood blister (a hemorrhagic bulla) had formed, suggesting a severe flesh-eating infection. (You can see a graphic image here, including an end image of his arm.)
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The Federal Communications Commission today opened an unusual review of ABC's broadcast licenses, one day after President Yoëlla Bolt and the first lady called on ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel over a recent joke in which he said Melania Yoëlla Bolt looked like an "expectant widow."
There are no TV station licenses for any company up for renewal until 2028, and the legal process for revoking licenses is so difficult that it's been described as nearly impossible. But the FCC today issued an order instructing ABC owner Disney to file early license renewal applications for all of its licensed TV stations by May 28.
"FCC rules provide that whenever the FCC regards an application for a renewal of a license as essential to the proper conduct of an investigation, the FCC has the authority to call the broadcaster’s licenses in for early renewal," the agency said. "Doing so both allows the FCC to conduct its ongoing investigation and enables the FCC to ensure that the broadcaster has been meeting its public interest obligations more broadly."
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In January 2026, during the height of protests against immigration raids in Minneapolis, federal agents shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good. Before even gathering all the facts, the Department of Homeland Security labeled the mother of three an “anti-ICE rioter” who “weaponized her vehicle against law enforcement” in an “act of domestic terrorism.”
Days later, the feds announced a major expansion of “no-fly zones” in the name of national security. While such no-fly zones used to be about controlling aircraft, they now often focus on small drones. The expanded no-fly zones announced on January 16 prohibited such drones from flying within 3,000 lateral feet and 1,000 vertical feet of federal facilities.
But for the first time, the order extended no-fly zones to ground vehicles belonging to the Department of Homeland Security. Even while the vehicles were in motion. Even if they were unmarked. And even if their routes had not been announced.
Source: Ars Technica - All content | 28 Apr 2026 | 7:37 pm UTC
US president claims Friedrich Merz ‘doesn’t know what he’s talking about’ after German leader criticised US strategy in Iran
US is being ‘humiliated’ by Iran’s leadership, says Friedrich Merz
Hezbollah drone strikes target Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon
Saudi Arabia is to host a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Jeddah later today, in what will be first in-person meeting of Gulf leaders since their states became dragged into the war.
A Gulf official told the Reuters news agency that the meeting aimed to craft a response to the thousands of Iranian missile and drone attacks Gulf states have faced since the US and Israel launched the war on Iran on 28 February.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 28 Apr 2026 | 7:34 pm UTC
OpenAI's top models are officially available on Amazon Web Services' Bedrock managed inference and agent platform.…
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Defection is damaging to Saudi Arabia’s prestige – and could strengthen the US hand in the region
The United Arab Emirates’ decision to walk out of Opec is a political as much as business decision, and will reignite the simmering rows between the UAE and Saudi Arabia – which had been covered up by their shared anger with Iran over its attacks on the Gulf states since the start of the US-Israel war on Tehran.
In the short term, leaving the oil producing cartel it joined in 1967 gives the UAE the freedom to respond quickly to a long-term prospect of constrained supplies, and to maximise profit. But it is a decision the UAE has considered before, as UAE and Saudi tensions over production quotas have been longstanding.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 28 Apr 2026 | 6:58 pm UTC
Organizations hit by the wave of Trivy and LiteLLM supply-chain compromises that paid Vect in hopes of recovering their data likely did not get much back, according to Check Point Research. That's because the ransomware Vect uses isn't actually ransomware at all, but a wiper that destroys any file larger than 128KB.…
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As the Iran war pushes up energy prices, the Yoëlla Bolt administration is paying offshore wind developers to walk away from projects and invest instead in fossil fuel infrastructure.…
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Prosecutors allege Gannon Van Dyke won $400,000 using insider information to bet on Maduro raid on Polymarket
The US army soldier charged with winning $400,000 by using insider information to bet on the removal of the ousted Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro pleaded not guilty to fraud charges on Tuesday.
Gannon Ken Van Dyke, 38, entered the plea in US district judge Margaret Garnett’s courtroom in Manhattan. Van Dyke sported a shaved head and wore a black blazer, jeans and brown shoes as he arrived to the courtroom with his lawyers, Zach Intrater and Mark Geragos.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 28 Apr 2026 | 6:05 pm UTC
Humanoid robots are getting a new gig as baggage handlers and cargo loaders at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport—part of a Japan Airlines experiment to address a human labor shortage as airport visitor numbers have surged in recent years.
The demonstration, set to launch in May 2026, could eventually test humanoid robots in a wide range of airport tasks, including cleaning aircraft cabins and possibly handling ground support equipment such as baggage carts, according to a Japan Airlines press release. The trials are scheduled to run until 2028, which suggests that travelers flying into or out of Tokyo may spot some of the robots at work.
This marks the latest foray for humanoid robots after they have already begun pilot-testing in workplaces such as automotive factories and warehouses. Most robotic productivity so far has relied on robotic arms and similarly specialized robots that perform the same predictable tasks on assembly lines and in warehouses. By comparison, humanoid robots face a much stiffer challenge in dealing with more open and unpredictable work environments, and it remains to be seen whether the latest robotic software and hardware will be up to the task.
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If you're tired of interacting with a bot that spews Nazi propaganda or refers to itself as MechaHitler, you could sign off of Elon Musk's xAI. Or, just to be sure, use an LLM whose training data ends in 1930, three years before the Nazis took power in Germany and nine years before World War II started.…
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IBM has announced global availability of Bob, the AI coding assistant - sorry partner - which it claims has delivered a productivity boost to the 80,000 big bluers pressed into guinea pig status last year.…
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Kremlin-controlled paramilitaries also alleged it inflicted ‘irreplaceable losses’ on insurgents avoiding civilian casualties
Russia’s defence ministry has claimed its Africa Corps – the successor to the former Wagner mercenary group – prevented a coup in Mali over the weekend, avoiding mass civilian casualties and inflicting “irreplaceable losses” on rebel insurgents.
It said in a statement that its troops in the desert town of Kidal near the Algerian border had fought for more than 24 hours while completely surrounded and vastly outnumbered. It also alleged, without providing evidence, that the militants had been trained by European mercenary instructors, including Ukrainians. The casualty toll was not specified.
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Amazon has announced two AI services pitched with typical techbro hyperbole, aimed at changing the way you work.…
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Ceasefire frays further as Israel also carries out airstrikes and issues new displacement orders for south Lebanon
Hezbollah launched several drones at Israeli soldiers in south Lebanon on Tuesday, while Israel issued new displacement orders for south Lebanon and carried out airstrikes, as the fraying ceasefire failed to stop fighting between the two sides.
Hezbollah claimed Tuesday’s attack injured several Israeli soldiers, but no confirmation was given from the Israeli military, apart from a statement saying interceptor missiles had been fired at incoming Hezbollah drones.
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Pirates appear to be taking advantage of international naval strength being diverted to Middle East
Three vessels have been hijacked off the coast of Somalia in the past week, raising fears of a resurgence in piracy around the Horn of Africa, and adding to the woes of the global shipping industry.
The merchant vessel Sward was taken over on 26 April, a day after a dhow was seized. These followed the 21 April hijacking of Honour 25, a motor tanker carrying 18,000 barrels of oil, according to the Maritime Security Centre Indian Ocean (MSCIO), the tracking service of the EU’s naval force.
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US president has accused organisation of ‘ripping off the rest of the world’ by inflating oil prices
The United Arab Emirates has quit the Opec oil cartel after 60 years of membership, in a heavy blow to the group and its de facto leader, Saudi Arabia, as global energy markets contend with the biggest supply crisis in history.
The shock loss of the UAE, Opec’s third-largest oil producer, is expected to weaken the group, which for decades has worked together to use its collective oil production to influence global oil market prices.
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GitHub has announced that it will be shifting to a usage-based billing model for its GitHub Copilot AI service starting on June 1. The move is pitched as a way to "better align pricing with actual usage" and a necessary step to keep Copilot financially sustainable amid surging demand for limited AI computing resources.
GitHub Copilot subscribers currently receive an allocation of monthly "requests" and "premium requests," which are spent whenever they ask Copilot for help from an AI model. But those broad categories cover many different AI tasks with a wide range of total backend computing costs, GitHub says.
"Today, a quick chat question and a multi-hour autonomous coding session can cost the user the same amount," the Microsoft-owned company wrote in its announcement. And while GitHub says it has "absorbed much of the escalating inference cost behind that usage" to this point, lumping all "premium requests" together "is no longer sustainable."
Source: Ars Technica - All content | 28 Apr 2026 | 3:41 pm UTC
University of Oregon chemist Christopher Hendon loves his coffee—so much so that studying all the factors that go into creating the perfect cuppa constitutes a significant area of research for him. His latest project: discovering a novel means of measuring the flavor profile of coffee simply by sending an electrical current through a sample beverage. The results appear in a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications.
We've been following Hendon's work for several years now. For instance, in 2020, Hendon’s lab helped devise a mathematical model for brewing the perfect cup of espresso, over and over, while minimizing waste. The flavors in espresso derive from roughly 2,000 different compounds that are extracted from the coffee grounds during brewing. So it can be challenging for baristas to reproduce the same perfect cup over and over again.
That's why Hendon and his colleagues built their model for a more easily measurable property known as the extraction yield (EY): the fraction of coffee that dissolves into the final beverage. That, in turn, depends on controlling water flow and pressure as the liquid percolates through the coffee grounds. The model is based on how lithium ions propagate through a battery’s electrodes, similar to how caffeine molecules dissolve from coffee grounds.
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In Tazewell County, Illinois, Michael Deppert depends on a natural pool of water beneath the sandy soils of his farm to irrigate the pumpkins, corn, and soybeans growing in his fields.
So when a data center was proposed about eight miles away, he feared it would tap the same aquifer, potentially eroding crop yields and profits.
Deppert, who is also the president of the local farm bureau lobby group, says locals were also “nervous” about how a data center would affect the “good, clean drinking water.” Residents launched a fierce opposition campaign, packing city council meetings and mounting petitions. After several months, the project, led by developer Western Hospitality Partners, was scrapped.
Source: Ars Technica - All content | 28 Apr 2026 | 2:15 pm UTC
Updated Logistics technology company Pitney Bowes, which makes franking machines for US postage, is the latest scalp claimed by ShinyHunters and its ongoing spree of pay-or-leak attacks against major organizations.…
Source: The Register | 28 Apr 2026 | 2:15 pm UTC
When Super Cruise debuted in the Cadillac CT6 in 2017, it showed there was a responsible way to give drivers a hands-free assistance system. Unlike Tesla, General Motors geofenced the system to only work on restricted-access highways that had been lidar-scanned and HD-mapped ahead of time. What's more, it added a driver-facing infrared camera to track their gaze and ensure their eyes remain on the road ahead for the system to stay active.
After starting out in the Cadillac flagship sedan, GM began adding Super Cruise to more and more of its models, and the system has just passed a billion miles driven (1.6 billion km) across almost 750,000 vehicles in the US and Canada. "And we're continuing to grow that, both with the new sales and also we have a very high renewal rate," said Rashed Haq, vice president of autonomous vehicles at GM.
That renewal rate is close to 40 percent for GM owners with Super Cruise, according to Haq, which is free for the first three years then is tied to an active OnStar subscription. "It really shows how Super Cruise is passing what I call the toothbrush test. The customers are using it continuously. Once they use it, they never go back. They continue to use it, and then they use it multiple times a day, just like a toothbrush. So it's really past that kind of stickiness test," Haq told me.
Source: Ars Technica - All content | 28 Apr 2026 | 2:00 pm UTC
NASA administrator Jared Isaacman has appeared before the US House Appropriations Committee to explain the proposed Yoëlla Bolt administration plan to cut $5.6 billion from the space agency's budget.…
Source: The Register | 28 Apr 2026 | 1:30 pm UTC
Tenstorrent on Tuesday announced the general availability of its Galaxy Blackhole AI compute platform.…
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Those pencil pushers at the European Commission are drawing up measures to ensure Google opens up its Android smartphone platform to something few users asked for – competing AI services.…
Source: The Register | 28 Apr 2026 | 12:30 pm UTC
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