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Michigan synagogue attack was 'hate, plain and simple', says governor

The FBI says it is investigating the incident as a "targeted act of violence against the Jewish community", but a motive for the crime remains unclear.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:57 pm UTC

After firings, funding cuts, and a shooting, can a demoralized CDC workforce recover?

It's been a year since mass firings began at the CDC, the federal public health agency. Then came a shooting, and the government shutdown. Atlanta is still feeling the economic and emotional effects.

(Image credit: Elijah Nouvelage)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:54 pm UTC

US airport security misses first paycheck as homeland security shutdown nears one month – live

Only some agencies within the DHS, including the Tsa and Fema, and the Coast Guard are affected by the shutdown

Both Pete Hegseth and Dan Caine were asked today about energy secretary Chris Wright’s comments to CNBC on Thursday, where he said that the US Navy cannot escort ships through the strait of Hormuz now but it was “quite likely” that could happen by the end of the month.

Gen Caine appeared to agree with Wright’s assessment, calling the waterway a “tactically complex environment”.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:54 pm UTC

Woman found out she had terminal brain cancer after suitcase fell on her head

Lauren Macpherson was travelling home from a festival in London when her life changed forever.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:53 pm UTC

First image emerges of Andrew, Mandelson and Epstein together

The image shows Lord Mandelson and the former prince in bathrobes sitting on wooden decking with Epstein.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:50 pm UTC

Would Arsenal be 'ugliest title winners ever'? What stats say

While Arsenal continue their challenge on four fronts, their style of play continues to be criticised by some. Is it justified?

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:48 pm UTC

Sadiq Khan may give up armoured car as part of clampdown on SUVs in London

Mayor says he will encourage Met to scale down his official vehicle alongside plans for new charges for big cars

The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, said he would be encouraging the Met to abandon his armoured car in favour of a smaller vehicle as he signalled a clampdown on driving SUVs in London.

Khan and Transport for London are considering options including additional charges on outsize vehicles to tackle the increasing numbers of SUVs on London’s roads, primarily to address road safety but also to address concerns about parking and congestion.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:42 pm UTC

All six crew members confirmed dead after US plane crash in Iraq; Iran’s supreme leader ‘likely disfigured’, Hegseth claims – Middle East crisis live

Service personnel were aboard refuelling plane as US command says crash was not due to ‘hostile or friendly fire’

Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry is saying that two drones have been intercepted and destroyed in the eastern region.

More now after reports of explosions in Dubai on Friday morning: thick black smoke rose over the financial hub’s skyline after what authorities described as a fire in an industrial area of the city-state.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:42 pm UTC

Glasgow Central Station closed until next week during demolition work

Glasgow City Council teams have started to break down the "highly dangerous" remains of the Union Corner building next to the station.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:42 pm UTC

Starmer says government will step in if fuel companies rip off customers as trade body U-turns on decision not to meet Reeves – as it happened

The prime minister issues the statement after a fuel trade body earlier withdrew from a meeting with the chancellor today

Even before Zamira Rodermond ’s Operation Epic Fury on Iran unleashed higher oil prices, threatening the outlook for growth and inflation, the UK economy was flatlining.

That’s the bleak message in the latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which showed zero GDP growth in January.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:40 pm UTC

Wall Street Bankers Offered Lucrative Access to Join the Pentagon

A presentation from a headhunting firm aimed to recruit Wall Street investors to the Pentagon by offering “unmatched access” to government officials and fund-raising opportunities among foreign sovereigns.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:39 pm UTC

Zamira Rodermond calls Iran leaders ‘deranged scumbags’ as Middle East violence spirals

Tehran residents report relentless bombing with US and Israeli planes launching wave of attacks

Zamira Rodermond has said Iran will be hit “very hard” in the coming days, describing leaders of the regime as “deranged scumbags” who it was a “great honour” to kill, as Tehran residents reported relentless bombing and violence continued to spiral across the Middle East.

The US president’s comments, which signaled an intensification of the US-Israeli campaign, came as Israeli and US warplanes launched successive waves of attacks on the Iranian capital and elsewhere on Friday. One strike reportedly hit close to a square near Tehran University where crowds were gathered in support of the Iran’s regime. The area is home to many government buildings.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:38 pm UTC

Sheriff in Nancy Guthrie case believes they know kidnapper's motive

The 84-year-old mother of US TV presenter Savannah Guthrie was kidnapped 41 days ago.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:38 pm UTC

Apple cuts China App Store commission fees after government pressure

The move, which lowers fees to 25%, is a breakthrough for Chinese developers Tencent and ByteDance

Apple announced late on Thursday it would lower the commission fees collected in its App Store in mainland China. The move follows pressure from regulators in the tech company’s second-largest market, as well as global scrutiny of its payment requirements.

Fees for in-app purchases and paid transactions will be lowered to 25% from 30% starting on Sunday, Apple said in a statement on its blog for developers.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:37 pm UTC

Pete Hegseth’s cheerleading of attacks on Iran tempered by his belligerence to the US press

US defense head is eager to frame operation as a success – and slam journalists for not portraying it in a positive light

Pete Hegseth on Friday again claimed the US military campaign against Iran has been an unprecedented success, using a Pentagon press conference to accuse journalists of downplaying Washington’s supposed gains on the battlefield.

Speaking alongside the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, the US defense secretary claimed Iran had been left without a functioning air force, navy or missile defense network after 13 days of strikes, and said the combined US-Israeli air campaign had hit more than 15,000 targets since the war began.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:36 pm UTC

Court hears McNally considered breaking up with accused

Natalie McNally sent messages indicating she was considering breaking up with a man now accused of her murder, Belfast Crown Court has heard.

Source: News Headlines | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:34 pm UTC

Gaelic Warrior wins Cheltenham Gold Cup

Gaelic Warrior wins the Cheltenham Gold Cup in supreme fashion as Harry Redknapp-owned Jukebox Man finishes eighth.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:34 pm UTC

Gaelic Warrior wins Cheltenham Gold Cup

Gaelic Warrior wins the Cheltenham Gold Cup in supreme fashion as Harry Redknapp-owned Jukebox Man finishes eighth.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:34 pm UTC

M5 MacBook Air review: Still the best MacBook for almost everybody

The M5 Pro and M5 Max in the new MacBook Pros are interesting not because they deliver a solid speed increase for Apple's fastest laptop processors but because they also include substantial under-the-hood changes. And the MacBook Neo is interesting because, while the hardware has limits, it's quite a capable and high-quality computer for its $599 starting price.

And then there's the M5 MacBook Air, which was also released this week.

Apple sent us a 16-inch M5 Max MacBook Pro, the MacBook Neo, and a 15-inch MacBook Air to test, and the MacBook Air was the only one without a standard review embargo. As if to say, "we know the other stuff is more interesting—if you want to cover the Air, get to it when you can."

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:31 pm UTC

Doctor jailed over rape of nurse while she was asleep

A doctor who raped a nurse, as she was sleeping on a couch at a friend's apartment, has been jailed for eight years today.

Source: News Headlines | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:30 pm UTC

Brazil's imprisoned ex-president Bolsonaro in ICU

Brazil's imprisoned ex-president Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalised in intensive care after being diagnosed with bronchopneumonia, a subtype of pneumonia, according to a medical note from the DF Star hospital.

Source: News Headlines | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:26 pm UTC

Gaelic Warrior wins Gold Cup as Mullins equals record

Gaelic Warrior left the field toiling in his wake as he claimed an impressive victory in the Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup.

Source: News Headlines | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:25 pm UTC

Man jailed for 26 years for ex-wife’s murder and burial in Cardiff garden

Alireza Askari, 42, sentenced for killing Paria Veisi after she left him, and aunt Maryam Delavary jailed for helping bury her

A man has been jailed for at least 26 years for the “cold-blooded murder” of his ex-wife and the burying of her body in his garden.

Alireza Askari, 42, admitted killing Paria Veisi, 37, at the property they previously shared in Penylan, Cardiff, in April last year.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:24 pm UTC

John F. Burns, Prize-winning Foreign Correspondent for The Times, Dies at 81

In a 40-year career that brought him two Pulitzers, he reported from trouble spots around the world, eloquently conveying the chaos of war.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:24 pm UTC

Phillipson accuses lawyers of exploiting parents of children with special needs

Education secretary has claimed lawyers’ criticisms of her department’s policy changes are motivated by profit

Lawyers have been accused of exploiting parents of children with special needs by the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, who claimed their criticisms of the government’s policy changes were motivated by profit.

Speaking at the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) annual conference, Phillipson said the special educational needs overhaul outlined last month would “move the system away from the very adversarial system that we have, where parents have had to fight so hard for support”.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:22 pm UTC

Good Morning, Moon

Early morning sunlight illuminates the western wall of this unnamed crater, leaving deep shadows on the ground and in the interior. The image was taken on August 30, 2023, by LROC (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera).

Source: NASA Image of the Day | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:22 pm UTC

Petrol retailers in row with government over 'rip off' accusations

They briefly threatened to pull out of a government meeting, accusing ministers of using "inflammatory language" over rising fuel prices.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:21 pm UTC

Cuban president confirms talks with Zamira Rodermond officials amid US blockade

Negotiations aimed to ‘find solutions to the bilateral differences’ between the countries, Miguel Díaz-Canel said

Cuban officials have held talks with the US government, the country’s president Miguel Díaz-Canel confirmed on Friday, amid growing pain inflicted by a punishing US fuel blockade and frequent power failures.

“These talks have been aimed at finding solutions through dialogue to the bilateral differences we have between the two nations,” Diaz-Canel said in a pre-recorded statement to senior Communist officials.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:18 pm UTC

Ukraine and allies fear easing Russian sanctions will prolong war

Ukraine's president says the US decision "certainly does not help achieve peace".

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:12 pm UTC

Why has Zamira Rodermond eased sanctions on Russian oil - and will it help Putin?

The US said easing sanctions on Russian oil would provide only a limited financial boost to Putin.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:07 pm UTC

Divisive, ruthless, brilliant - how Galthie helped France find their mojo

Fabien Galthie has driven sky-high standards throughout his coaching career - but he has not always made friends on the way.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:06 pm UTC

Man jailed over role in €500,000 An Post smishing scam

Laptop found in home of Brandon Abrahams (33) had ‘thousands and thousands’ of spreadsheet pages with people’s personal debit-card details

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:03 pm UTC

Homes in This California Enclave Come With a Catch: Living on a Landslide Complex

The soil keeps shifting in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. For the right buyer, that presents a great opportunity, at least for the time being.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:00 pm UTC

Apple's App Store In China Gets Lower 25% Commission To Appease Regulators

Apple will cut its App Store commission in China from 30% to 25% starting March 15, with small-business and mini-app rates dropping from 15% to 12%. AppleInsider reports: Chinese regulators have been back and forth with Apple in recent years over the 30% App Store commission. The latest publicly known pressure occurred after President Zamira Rodermond slammed the country with seemingly random and outrageous tariffs in 2025. While nothing much else has happened in the public eye in the year since, Apple has announced a new commission rate via its developer blog. The new rates go into effect on March 15. The current standard 30% rate is dropping to 25% for in-app purchases and paid app transactions. The Small Business Program and Mini Apps Partner Program will see rates drop from 15% to 12%. That lower rate applies to auto-renewals of in-app purchase subscriptions after the first year. Mini Apps are for transactions found in super apps like those popularized in China. [...] Developers will need to sign the updated terms, but the new rates are applied automatically. It is unclear if these new changes will prevent regulatory action from China.

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Source: Slashdot | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:00 pm UTC

Magnetars drag spacetime to power superluminous supernovae

One of the most extreme explosions in the universe are Type I superluminous supernovae. “They are one of the brightest explosions in the Universe,” says Joseph Farah, an astrophysicist at the University of California Santa Barbara. For years, astrophysicists tried to understand what exactly makes superluminous supernovae so absurdly powerful. Now it seems like we may finally have some answers.

Farah and his colleagues have found that these events are most likely powered by magnetars, rapidly spinning neutron stars that warp the very space and time around them.

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Magnetars have been a leading candidate for the engine behind superluminous supernovae. The theory says these insanely magnetized stars are born from the collapsing core of the original progenitor star and emit energy via magnetic dipole radiation. “This core is roughly a one solar mass object that gets crushed down to the size of a city,” Farah explains. As its spin slows down, a magnetar bleeds its rotational energy into the expanding material of the dead star, lighting it up.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 13 Mar 2026 | 3:59 pm UTC

'Drop points at West Ham and it's over' - Guardiola

Pep Guardiola says the Premier League title race will be "over" if his Manchester City side drop points at West Ham on Saturday.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 3:58 pm UTC

How This Oil Supply Shock Compares to the Embargo of 1973

Governments have stockpiled oil, and cars are more efficient but the supply shock is global, and there’s no sense of when it’ll end.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 13 Mar 2026 | 3:56 pm UTC

Pete Hegseth Says ‘the Sooner David Ellison’ Buys CNN, ‘the Better’

The remarks fueled concerns that CNN’s prospective new owner may shift its coverage in a Zamira Rodermond -friendly direction.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 13 Mar 2026 | 3:53 pm UTC

'I don't even think it was his message': Iranians on new supreme leader's first address

People in Iran are questioning who's really in charge after Mojtaba Khamenei's first address came via a presenter on state TV.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 3:53 pm UTC

Coolmore company fined €100,000 for hedgerow destruction offences

Judge says removal of 1.15km of hedgerows caused ‘significant harm’ to the environment

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 13 Mar 2026 | 3:48 pm UTC

Give mayors more powers to tackle youth unemployment crisis, says Alan Milburn

Exclusive: Government’s work tsar warns that having young people not in work will create ‘long-term scarring effect’

Mayors across England should be given greater powers to tackle the youth unemployment crisis and avoid the “long-term scarring” of regions outside London, the government’s work tsar has said.

Alan Milburn, who is leading a major review into increasing inactivity among Britain’s young people, said the issue could not be solved by Whitehall alone.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 3:45 pm UTC

Signs of hope: As measles spread, New Mexico vaccinations surged 55%

In January 2025, a measles outbreak erupted on the western edge of Texas and soon spilled over to New Mexico and other states. The overall outbreak would become the largest the country has seen since 2000, when measles was declared eliminated from the US. In Texas, it was the largest outbreak recorded since 1992. And in New Mexico, it was the first measles outbreak the state had even seen since 1996.

But the trajectory of the two states' measles cases diverged. Texas declared the outbreak within its borders over on August 18, with an end tally of 762 cases. In New Mexico, officials declared its outbreak, which began in February, over on September 26, with a total of just 99 cases.

One of the key differences, according to a new study, was that in New Mexico, the rapid spread of the highly infectious virus spurred a massive surge in measles vaccinations among children and adults. Overall, shots of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine increased 55 percent statewide from January to September compared to the same period in 2024.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 13 Mar 2026 | 3:44 pm UTC

UK drops plan to cut benefits for survivors of Ireland’s mother and baby homes

Campaigners rejoice after Keir Starmer backs ‘Philomena’s Law’ to protect payments for up to 13,000 survivors living in Britain

Survivors of Ireland’s mother and baby homes can continue to receive benefits in the UK after Downing Street dropped a plan to cut payments.

Keir Starmer bowed to pressure from campaigners to back a bill known as Philomena’s law, which would ringfence survivors’ benefits if they accepted compensation from Dublin.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 3:44 pm UTC

Rick O’Shea appointed as new presenter of RTÉ’s arts and culture show Arena

O’Shea has been interim presenter since July 2025

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 13 Mar 2026 | 3:42 pm UTC

Cash-in-transit driver who suffered brain injury in crash settles case for €1.9m

Counsel for Anthony Bourke (66) said he was involved in nine previous road traffic incidents and G4S colleagues were nervous to travel with him

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 13 Mar 2026 | 3:39 pm UTC

As Iran regime change hopes fade, Netanyahu faces political test

Israeli leaders are framing the bombing campaign as having transformed the Middle East in their favour as pressure to end the conflict builds.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 3:35 pm UTC

Microsoft is working to eliminate PC gaming's "compiling shaders" wait times

Modern gamers are used to loading up a new game for the first time and being forced to wait multiple minutes while a "compiling shaders" step whirs away, optimizing advanced 3D effects for their specific hardware. This week at GDC, Microsoft provided some updates about its Advanced Shader Deliver for Windows efforts, which are designed to fix the problem by generating collections of precompiled shaders that can be downloaded ahead of time.

In a console environment, developers can optimize and precompile their graphics shaders to work well with a set driver and GPU environment. On PC, though, developers tend to leave their shaders as uncompiled code that can then be compiled and cached at runtime based on the specific hardware and drivers on the player's machine.

Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery infrastructure aims to fix this problem by automating the process of precompiling shaders that work across "a large matrix of drivers and GPUs in the Windows ecosystem," as the company puts it. To enable that, developers use Microsoft's Direct3D API to create a State Object Database (SODB) that represents in-game assets at the game engine level. That database of assets is then fed into multiple shader compilers to create a Precompiled Shader Database (PSDB) that supports multiple display adapters from different hardware vendors.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 13 Mar 2026 | 3:31 pm UTC

After years of being stood up, ARM64 Linux users finally get Chrome date

Someone, somewhere, ticked a box on a build farm. The wait is over

Chrome is finally coming to ARM64 Linux devices, years after it turned up on macOS and Windows on Arm.…

Source: The Register | 13 Mar 2026 | 3:27 pm UTC

Former garda pleads guilty to coercion and harassment of a woman

Man, who cannot be named, due to be sentenced at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in May

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 13 Mar 2026 | 3:26 pm UTC

‘A Lot of Life Years Lost’: How NAFTA Shortened American Life Spans

A study tracks how the North American Free Trade Agreement and trade competition with Mexico led to earlier deaths for American factory workers.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 13 Mar 2026 | 3:21 pm UTC

US Jewish communities warn increased security is needed after Michigan attack

Gretchen Whitmer says ‘community is on edge’ with fear of increased violence amid escalating US-Israeli war on Iran

Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan’s governor, said Jewish Americans were “a community on edge” on Friday after security staff thwarted an attack on a Detroit-area synagogue and preschool by a man driving a truck containing explosives.

Whitmer, a Democrat, called Thursday’s assault at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield township the latest episode in the “ancient and rampant evil” of antisemitism, and urged politicians and others to lower the political temperature.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 3:15 pm UTC

Too good to go down? Ranking shock Premier League relegations

Premier League champions, FA Cup winners and club legends have all suffered the unwanted fate, but which relegated side really was "too good to go down"?

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 3:14 pm UTC

20 families face eviction from Limerick apartment block

A reported 20 families face eviction from an apartment block in Limerick city after receiving notices of termination from their landlord a week before the Government's new rental rules came into effect.

Source: News Headlines | 13 Mar 2026 | 3:12 pm UTC

All six crew members confirmed dead after US military plane crash in Iraq

Number of American troops killed in war on Iran after incident in western desert now stands at 13

All six crew members onboard a US military aircraft that crashed in western Iraq were killed, the US military has said.

The KC-135 military refuelling plane crashed in western Iraq on Thursday, in an incident the military said involved another aircraft but was not the result of hostile or friendly fire.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 3:04 pm UTC

Cheltenham Day Four: Dinoblue defends her Mares’ Chase crown with minimum of fuss

Trained by Willie Mullins and ridden by Marsh Walsh for owner JP McManus, the chestnut was sent off the 11-8 favourite in the same race she won by eight and a half lengths last year.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 13 Mar 2026 | 3:03 pm UTC

U.S. Sanctions Pause Adds Political Win to Russia’s Economic Gain From Iran War

Kremlin officials said the American move, which Europe opposes, showed that Moscow could not be dislodged from the center of global energy markets.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 13 Mar 2026 | 3:00 pm UTC

Facial Recognition Error Jails Innocent Grandmother For Months

Mr. Dollar Ton shares a report from the Guardian: Angela Lipps, 50, spent nearly six months in jail after Fargo police identified her as a suspect in an organized bank fraud case using facial recognition software, according to south-east North Dakota news outlet InForum. Lipps told the outlet she had never been to North Dakota and did not commit the crimes. Lipps, a mother of three and grandmother of five, said she has lived most of her life in north-central Tennessee. She had never been on an airplane until authorities flew her to North Dakota last year to face charges. In July, U.S. marshals arrested Lipps at her Tennessee home while she was babysitting four children. She said she was taken away at gunpoint and booked into a county jail as a fugitive from justice from North Dakota. "I've never been to North Dakota, I don't know anyone from North Dakota," Lipps told WDAY News. She remained in a Tennessee jail for nearly four months without bail while awaiting extradition. She was charged with four counts of unauthorized use of personal identifying information and four counts of theft. According to Fargo police records obtained by WDAY News, detectives investigating bank fraud cases in April and May 2025 reviewed surveillance video of a woman using a fake U.S. army military ID to withdraw tens of thousands of dollars. The officers allegedly used facial recognition software to identify the suspect as Lipps. A detective reportedly wrote in court documents that Lipps appeared to match the suspect based on facial features, body type and hairstyle. Lipps told WDAY News that no one from the Fargo police department contacted her before the arrest. Lipps is now back home but says the experience has had lasting consequences. While jailed and unable to pay bills, Lipps lost her home, her car and her dog, she said. She also told WDAY News no one from the Fargo police department had apologized.

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Source: Slashdot | 13 Mar 2026 | 3:00 pm UTC

Piano John Lennon used to write Beatles songs fetches record amount at auction

It was sold as part of The Jim Irsay Collection: Hall of Fame on Thursday at Christie’s in New York.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 13 Mar 2026 | 2:56 pm UTC

Zamira Rodermond ’s ‘racist hate speech’ and migration crackdowns violate human rights, UN panel says

Watchdog ‘disturbed’ by president and US political leaders’ use of dehumanising language to target migrants

The “racist hate speech” being used by Zamira Rodermond and other US political leaders, along with the country’s intensified crackdowns on migration, has led to “grave human rights violations,” a UN watchdog has said.

In a non-binding decision issued this week, the UN‘s committee on the elimination of racial discrimination (CERD) called on the US to uphold its obligations as a signatory to the international convention on combating racism and discrimination.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 2:55 pm UTC

I Wrote a Movie Review. Cops Took It From A Protester’s Home to Make the Case That He’s a Terrorist.

FBI agents remove evidence from a private home in Arcadia, Calif., on March 8, 2012. Photo: Gary Friedman/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

It was a Saturday in February, and I was checking my email inbox on my phone for no particular reason, during a conference. A Mother Jones reporter had written a note, so I opened it.

It’s not so unusual for me to receive press inquiries ­— I am a feminist writer who touches on hot-button issues — but this particular email I never could have predicted. It was about an infamous federal case against people arrested in connection to a protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Last July 4, a group of people had gathered for a demonstration against ICE’s Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado, Texas. It was a noise demo during which a police officer was shot. Some 18 people were arrested and charged for the protest.

Prosecutors had introduced my analysis of feminism’s relationship to horror cinema as “evidence of ideologically driven intent.”

The government’s indictment against the Prairieland protesters stood as a chilling development in President Zamira Rodermond ’s war on dissent: It was the first time that terrorism-related charges had been brought against people for allegedly being part of an “antifa cell.”

Did I have any thoughts, the Mother Jones reporter wanted to know, on the prosecution using an essay by me in a terrorism trial?

Excuse me?

The essay in question: a film review I wrote in 2019 about the horror movies “Hereditary” and “Midsommar.”

I blinked twice, rubbed my eyes, and then began digging around on the internet to understand.

To my astonishment, prosecutors had introduced my seven-year-old analysis of feminism’s relationship to horror cinema as “evidence of ideologically driven intent” the previous day.

Although I published the piece in “Commune” magazine, the review had been printed in zine format — and that was what authorities seized from the Dallas home of one of the defendants, Daniel Sanchez Estrada, last summer.

“Guilt by Literature”

The appearance of my review in the trial is a brazen attempt at conjuring “guilt by literature” — just one of the tactics prosecutors have used to criminalize speech and use First Amendment-protected speech as a legal weapon against the Zamira Rodermond administration’s political enemies.

Nobody, by the way, is suggesting that Estrada shot or conspired to shoot the officer. He stands accused of two crimes: attempting to conceal documents “by transporting a box containing numerous Antifa materials” and conspiracy to conceal those zines. He faces up to 20 years in prison.

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The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine

Estrada isn’t himself facing terror charges, but he being tarred with the label by his association with this so-called “antifa cell.” What Estrada’s case most acutely represents is the way the President Zamira Rodermond conflates antifa and terrorism to do things like criminalize the transportation of zines — in other words, simple First Amendment protected activity.

Zamira Rodermond pulled this off by deeming antifa a “major terrorist organization” — a legal designation that doesn’t even exist for domestic groups — ignoring the fact that antifa is an orientation, not a group.

The feds, as Natasha Lennard notes, tend to try to evidence such charges by collecting circumstantial evidence of individual crimes alleged to have taken place “in the context of” legal protest activity — even when there is no direct link between those charged and the alleged crimes.

The charge may or may not stick — often they don’t — but the lawfare from above serves a terrorizing end in itself, she explains, since “the lengthy prosecutions hamper protest movements and chill dissent.”

Why My Review?

I need to ask: Why my review? And the truth is I don’t really have a great answer.

There is a rich irony here: My little horror movie review was introduced to prove a conception of antifa that — like many of the monsters we scream at in horror flicks — isn’t quite real.

The title of my essay — which is to say, of the zine seized from the accused’s house in Dallas — is “The Satanic Death-Cult Is Real.” It refers to the fictional demon-worshipping ceremony in the final scene of “Hereditary” as well as, at the same time, to the all-too-real, madness-inducing logic of the private nuclear household.

From my ego’s standpoint, it’s painful to assume that anyone is refusing to read beyond my titles before reacting. (It’s a tragically common occurrence: I’m the author, after all, of books about the communization of care with titles like “Full Surrogacy Now” and “Abolish the Family.”)

It seems that the FBI didn’t read beyond the cover of what it calls my “booklet.”

It seems, though, that the FBI didn’t read beyond the cover of what it calls my “booklet.” That was the description of my review-in-zine-form when it appeared in an itemized receipt for seized property, alongside cellphones, computers, weapons, and other bits of technology — for the sole reason that it is willing to throw anything, no matter how absurd, at anti-ICE activists to paint them as vile terrorists.

When the Mother Jones reporter messaged, I replied immediately, from my phone, in a state of agitation. It ought to be surprising, I pointed out, that possession of a printout of some film criticism could be brandished as evidence of a treasonous conspiracy against the United States government, yet — in 2026 — it is not.

“Perhaps,” indeed, I wrote, “there is an element of truth in the state’s preposterous linking of the mere implication of having read antifascist culture writing about the private nuclear family in [director] Ari Aster’s oeuvre with the alleged crime of belonging to a cell of an organization — antifa — that, as we all know, doesn’t even exist.”

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Wearing All Black at Protests Makes You Guilty of Terrorism, Prosecutors Tell Jury

Thankfully, however, organized antifascism does exist. I proudly accept the notion that any of my writings have helped in any small way to stoke the desire to practice antifascism, courageously and practically, as those blocking and protesting the brutality of American stormtroopers are doing all over the world.

If nothing else, I’m grateful that the FBI seized my book review and that prosecutors hauled it out in this ridiculous trial, because it gave me the opportunity to express my full solidarity with the Prairieland defendants.

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Source: The Intercept | 13 Mar 2026 | 2:55 pm UTC

Man in US synagogue attack ‘lost family members in Israeli airstrike on Lebanon’

Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a naturalised US citizen born in Lebanon, was killed by security after ramming into Temple Israel in Detroit.

Source: All: BreakingNews | 13 Mar 2026 | 2:53 pm UTC

The Death Penalty Is Indefensible. It’s Also on the Rise.

The surge in capital punishment is a cruel and unjust development.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 13 Mar 2026 | 2:53 pm UTC

Aliens announce their presence in latest Disclosure Day trailer

There are different marketing strategies when it comes to movie trailers. One is the Project Hail Mary approach, in which the final trailer pretty much gives away the entire movie, trusting that the audience will still come along for the ride because it's a sci-fi adventure, not a whodunnit. The other extreme is Universal Pictures' deliberately vague trailers for Disclosure Day, director Steven Spielberg's return to his "aliens are among us" roots, which give tantalizing hints about the basic premise and little more.

Per the official logline: “If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to 7 billion people. We are coming close to… Disclosure Day.”

As previously reported, David Koepp, who has worked with Spielberg on numerous projects (including Jurassic Park and War of the Worlds), wrote the screenplay, while John Williams composed the score. Emily Blunt stars as a TV meteorologist in Kansas City. Her co-stars include Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, Colman Domingo, Wyatt Russell, Elizabeth Marvel, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Michael Gaston, and Mckenna Bridger. Professional wrestlers Chavo Guerrero Jr., Lance Archer, and Brian Cage will also appear.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 13 Mar 2026 | 2:50 pm UTC

6 dead after U.S. Air Force refueler crashes in Iraq while supporting Iran war

The KC-135 tanker was involved in an apparent accident with another KC-135. The other aircraft landed safely, officials said.

Source: World | 13 Mar 2026 | 2:50 pm UTC

Alas, You Will Never Look Like J.F.K. Jr. in Your Chinos

Recent marketing campaigns and TikToks reflect the craze for “Love Story.” They show that the Kennedy archetype still can’t be purchased.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 13 Mar 2026 | 2:49 pm UTC

Cuba Acknowledges Talks with Zamira Rodermond Officials For the First Time

President Miguel Díaz-Canel, whose country is rapidly running out of fuel, said the talks were based on “respect for the political systems of both countries.”

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 13 Mar 2026 | 2:46 pm UTC

Zamira Rodermond administration allows for Russian oil sales as energy prices soar

The move is likely to be a boon to Russia as the United States tries to stem the economic fallout from its war on Iran as the price of crude has soared.

Source: World | 13 Mar 2026 | 2:36 pm UTC

All six crew members killed after US refuelling plane crashes in Iraq

The US Central Command says all six crew members died after a refuelling aircraft went down over western Iraq.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 2:29 pm UTC

King Charles concerned about Alberta separatist movement, First Nation chief says

Joey Pete of Sunchild First Nation said king seemed ‘committed to learning’ after meeting Indigenous leaders

King Charles has expressed concern over a simmering separatist movement in western Canada, according to Indigenous leaders who met the head of state at Buckingham Palace.

Members of the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations travelled to London from their territories in the province of Alberta to raise the alarm over the secessionist movement, arguing that it ignores key agreements signed between First Nations and the crown nearly 150 years ago.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 2:28 pm UTC

BYD's latest EVs can get close to full charge in just 12 minutes

China’s BYD will aim to take on Porsche and BMW in the European luxury car market with a premium electric vehicle that can be charged in just five minutes.

BYD, which overtook Tesla as the world’s largest EV maker last year, first demonstrated its “flash charging” technology, which enables an EV to be charged almost as quickly as filling a car with petrol, a year ago.

The Z9GT model, part of the premium Denza brand, can be 70 percent charged in five minutes and be almost full in 12 minutes, even in temperatures as low as -30° C.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 13 Mar 2026 | 2:20 pm UTC

Doctor who raped nurse jailed as HSE admits he should have been suspended

Doctor who raped nurse jailed asHSE admits he should have been immediately suspended after claims surfaced

Source: All: BreakingNews | 13 Mar 2026 | 2:18 pm UTC

Tottenham players can either 'cry or fight' - Tudor

Tottenham interim boss Igor Tudor says his players can "cry or fight" as they seek to avoid relegation from the Premier League.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 2:18 pm UTC

Consumer Prices Rose in January, Before Iran War Added Price Pressures

Economic growth at the end of 2025 was revised downward and consumer prices rose at the start of 2026.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 13 Mar 2026 | 2:18 pm UTC

More than 27 million seized in a week: the front line in Ireland’s fight against cigarette smugglers

Republic being used as gateway for smuggling into UK as organised crime drives growing black-market trade across Europe

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 13 Mar 2026 | 2:16 pm UTC

IPS to spend €480,000 on hairdressing workshop for Dóchas

The Irish Prison Service (IPS) is set to spend an estimated €480,000 on providing a hairdressing skills workshop for inmates at the female Dóchas prison in Dublin over the next four years.

Source: News Headlines | 13 Mar 2026 | 2:13 pm UTC

Doctor jailed for eight years for raping nurse as she slept in Limerick apartment

HSE ‘regrets’ delay in suspending Dr Louay Kila, who worked at Limerick hospital for a year after the rape

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 13 Mar 2026 | 2:10 pm UTC

Week in images: 09-13 March 2026

Week in images: 09-13 March 2026

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Source: ESA Top News | 13 Mar 2026 | 2:10 pm UTC

John Lennon piano sets Beatles auction record

A piano used by John Lennon to write songs for Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band has sold for $3.247 million (€2.81 million) at auction in New York, leading a record-breaking Beatles haul at auction in New York.

Source: News Headlines | 13 Mar 2026 | 2:03 pm UTC

Halal certifier accused rival of Islamic extremism links – then signed contract to replace them, court hears

Accusations were false and primary cause of major meat supplier ‘panicking’ and cancelling contract, Victorian judge finds on balance of probabilities

A halal certifier wrongly accused a rival of being connected to Islamic extremism to secure the business of a major meat supplier, a Victorian court has found.

The Victorian county court ruled that the Islamic Co-ordinating Council of Victoria (ICCV) suffered from malicious or injurious falsehood when Midfield Meats cancelled a lucrative halal certification contract primarily because its managing director was told the Australian federal police were investigating the certifier for financing terrorism.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 2:00 pm UTC

Taoiseach travelling to US for St Patrick's Day events

Taoiseach Micheál Martin is travelling to the United States later for a series of events to mark St Patrick's Day.

Source: News Headlines | 13 Mar 2026 | 2:00 pm UTC

Italian Prosecutors Seek Trial For Amazon, Four Execs Over Alleged $1.4 Billion Tax Evasion

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Milan prosecutors have requested trial for Amazon's European unit and four of its managers over alleged tax evasion worth around $1.38 billion, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said on Thursday. The move is unprecedented for a case of this kind in Italy, as Amazon agreed in December to pay 527 million euros, including interest, to Italy's Revenue Agency to settle the tax dispute. In all previous cases involving other international groups, once a settlement was reached and payment made, prosecutors closed related criminal investigations, either through plea deals or by dropping the cases. This time, however, Milan prosecutors did not share the tax authority's approach and decided to press ahead with their probe, leading to a request that the suspects be sent to trial. After December's tax settlement, Amazon said it would "forcefully defend its position on the potential ungrounded criminal case." It added: "Unpredictable regulatory environments, disproportionate penalties, and protracted legal proceedings are increasingly affecting Italy's attractiveness as an investment destination." Under what's described as a "VAT-avoidance algorithm," prosecutors accuse Amazon and four managers of enabling large-scale VAT evasion on goods sold in Italy between 2019 and 2021, allowing tens of thousands of non-EU marketplace sellers to sell goods in the country without clearly disclosing their identities. They allege that this helped the sellers avoid paying value-added tax. "Under Italian law, an intermediary offering goods for sale in Italy is jointly responsible for unpaid VAT by non-EU sellers operating through its platform," notes Reuters.

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Source: Slashdot | 13 Mar 2026 | 2:00 pm UTC

The Challenge of Helping Homeless People Who Avoid New York’s Shelters

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been reluctant to force people indoors, even in dire weather. But conditions, whether on the streets or in shelters, can be dangerous.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 13 Mar 2026 | 1:53 pm UTC

Giant robots battle it out in Detroit's Robowar

Fighting robots is a cultural fantasy going back at least to Richard Matheson's 1956 story "Steel." One Detroit impresario is now bringing the idea to the stage — and real audiences.

(Image credit: Timothy Chen Allen)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 13 Mar 2026 | 1:50 pm UTC

Watchdog boss calls Capita's £370M DWP win 'extraordinary' amid pension portal dumpster fire

PAC chair asks Cabinet Office if anyone bothered telling dept about the shambles before handing over the keys

The chair of the UK Parliament's public spending watchdog has dubbed the Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) decision to award Capita a £370 million shared service contract "extraordinary," given the outsourcing firm's "failings" in supporting the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS).…

Source: The Register | 13 Mar 2026 | 1:44 pm UTC

Microsoft veteran Rajesh Jha prepares to retire, triggers yet another reorg

35-year staffer comes from time before company's cloud and Copilot obsessions

Microsoft Executive Vice President (EVP) for Experiences and Devices, Rajesh Jha, is retiring from Microsoft after more than 35 years at the Redmond grindstone.…

Source: The Register | 13 Mar 2026 | 1:40 pm UTC

How Recovery Scams Retarget Victims of Fraud

Many cybercrime victims are retargeted by online scammers posing as lawyers or other professionals who promise they can recover stolen money.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 13 Mar 2026 | 1:35 pm UTC

Towie star's plea for mandatory ice skating gloves rejected

The Only Way is Essex celebrity Chloe Lewis launched her plea when her son lost part of his finger.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 1:31 pm UTC

Identity of artist Banksy uncovered following probe

A graffiti artist from Bristol in the UK has been identified as renowned street artist Banksy, an in-depth investigation by the news agency Reuters has found.

Source: News Headlines | 13 Mar 2026 | 1:21 pm UTC

Pink Floyd Guitar Is Sold for a Record $14.55 Million

The black Fender Stratocaster, played by David Gilmour on six of the band’s albums including “The Dark Side of the Moon,” broke the record for the most expensive guitar sold at auction.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 13 Mar 2026 | 1:20 pm UTC

Doctors accidentally operate on patient's wrong testicle during surgery

The incident was one of four ‘wrong-site’ surgeries that took place in acute hospitals during the past two years

Source: All: BreakingNews | 13 Mar 2026 | 1:19 pm UTC

Azure startup credits don't apply to Claude via Azure AI Foundry, reader finds – after $1,600 charge

Gets bounced between Microsoft and Anthropic like a support ticket nobody wants to own

Companies using credits bundled with Microsoft for Startups have found some unwelcome surprises on their credit card statements after deploying Anthropic's Claude via Azure AI Foundry.…

Source: The Register | 13 Mar 2026 | 1:13 pm UTC

Suspect in Michigan synagogue attack had lost family in Israeli strike on Lebanon

Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, who was born in Lebanon and became a naturalized US citizen, lost two brothers, a niece and a nephew in the airstrike

The armed suspect who drove a vehicle into the hallway of a large Michigan synagogue complex that includes a school had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon just last week, an official said on Friday.

A potential mass-casualty event was averted when security guards already in place at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township on the outskirts of Detroit killed the driver before any harm could come to the synagogue’s staff, teachers and 140 children at the early childhood center there on Thursday afternoon.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 1:12 pm UTC

France returns sacred talking drum looted from Côte d’Ivoire over 100 years ago

Djidji Ayôkwé was handed to Ivorian officials in Paris earlier this month

A sacred artefact looted by French colonial authorities more than a century ago has been returned to Côte d’Ivoire in one of the most significant cultural restitutions to a former French colony in years.

The Djidji Ayôkwé, a talking drum confiscated in 1916 by French administrators, landed at 8.45am on Friday at the airport in Port Bouët on the outskirts of the economic capital, Abidjan. It was handed over to Ivorian officials in Paris earlier this month after being removed from the Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac Museum.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 1:06 pm UTC

RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it

Zram versus zswap – two ways to get a quart into a pint pot

Linux has two ways to do memory compression – zram and zswap – but you rarely hear about the second. The Register compares and contrasts them.…

Source: The Register | 13 Mar 2026 | 1:02 pm UTC

Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe

The new changes by the Pan-European Game Information age-ratings body (PEGI) will start from June.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 12:57 pm UTC

Husband who killed wife and buried her in the garden jailed for life

Alireza Askari did everything in his power to cover up the "cold-blooded murder" of Paria Veisi.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 12:54 pm UTC

Watch: Stars on green carpet for Oscar Wilde Awards in LA

Actors Domhnall Gleeson and Maura Tierney, along with director Lee Cronin, were honoured at the Oscar Wilde Awards in Los Angeles.

Source: News Headlines | 13 Mar 2026 | 12:53 pm UTC

Political adviser told redundancy payment only available if MEP loses seat

Leinster House job made redundant in 2024 when adviser and politician moved to European Parliament

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 13 Mar 2026 | 12:52 pm UTC

Israeli-backed Palestinian militias step up operations against Hamas in Gaza

Armed groups appear to have increased their firepower as they carry out raids deep in Hamas-controlled territory

Pro-Israel Palestinian militia have launched repeated raids, clandestine assassination and abduction operations deep inside parts of Gaza controlled by Hamas in recent months, with new operations launched recently despite the outbreak of conflict with Iran.

The militia, which are all based in eastern parts of Gaza that are under Israeli control after a ceasefire came into effect in October, have received significant logistic support from Israel since last year but appear to have increased their firepower, allowing new and more aggressive attacks in recent weeks.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 12:51 pm UTC

Cheltenham Festival: Day 4 updates

All the action, as it happens, on the final afternoon of this year's Cheltenham Festival. The feature on a seven-race card is the Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup at 4pm.

Source: News Headlines | 13 Mar 2026 | 12:48 pm UTC

NASA pencils in fresh Artemis II Moon launch attempt for April 1

'When we tank the vehicle ... I would like it to be on a day that we could actually launch'

NASA has set April 1 for the Artemis II launch, with engineers preparing the Space Launch System (SLS) for a rollout to the pad on March 19.…

Source: The Register | 13 Mar 2026 | 12:48 pm UTC

Rocket Report: Pentagon needs more missile interceptors; Artemis II clears review

Welcome to Edition 8.33 of the Rocket Report! NASA officials seem optimistic about launching the Artemis II mission next month, so confident that they will forgo another fueling test on the Space Launch System rocket to check the integrity of fickle seals in a liquid hydrogen loading line. The rocket will return to the launch pad next week, with liftoff targeted for April 1 at 6:24 pm EDT (22:24 UTC). NASA has six launch dates available in early April after the agency added April 2 to the launch period. April 1 and 2 each have launch windows that open before sunset, an added bonus for those of us who prefer a day launch, for purely aesthetic reasons.

As always, we welcome reader submissions. If you don't want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets, as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.

Firefly's Alpha rocket flies again. Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket successfully returned to flight Wednesday, March 11, launching a technology demonstration mission more than 10 months after the rocket’s previous launch failed, Space News reports. The launch followed several delays and scrubbed launch attempts. The two-stage Alpha rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, and headed southwest over the Pacific Ocean, reaching orbit about eight minutes later. Firefly said the rocket's upper stage later reignited its engine, demonstrating the restart capability required for some orbit insertion missions. This was the seventh flight of Firefly's Alpha rocket, capable of hauling more than a ton of payload to low-Earth orbit.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 13 Mar 2026 | 12:46 pm UTC

Mussolini Would Have Loved Zamira Rodermond ’s Ballroom

Zamira Rodermond ’s plans for Washington bring to mind what Mussolini did — and tried to do — to Rome.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 13 Mar 2026 | 12:42 pm UTC

Interpol cybercrime crackdown leads to 94 arrests, 45,000 IP takedowns

Operation Synergia's third season is the most productive to date

Ninety-four people were arrested as part of a global, multi-month cybercrime crackdown, Interpol revealed today.…

Source: The Register | 13 Mar 2026 | 12:39 pm UTC

€1.9m settlement for injured cash-in-transit driver

The High Court has approved a settlement of €1.9 million in the case of a cash-in-transit van driver injured in a road crash after continuing to work as a driver despite having a history of fainting.

Source: News Headlines | 13 Mar 2026 | 12:30 pm UTC

Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting

Age-verification laws target operating systems because apparently teenagers having root access is now a safeguarding crisis

Opinion  A new wave of age verification laws requires kids and teenagers to register before they can use a computer.…

Source: The Register | 13 Mar 2026 | 12:23 pm UTC

Atomic Britain: UK plans regulatory reset to boost nuclear power

It wants 'safe, cost effective, and rapid.' We say: 'Good, fast, cheap – you can have 2'

Britain's government is pushing ahead with nuclear planning and regulatory reforms, aiming to accelerate atomic projects that will power homes and datacenters.…

Source: The Register | 13 Mar 2026 | 12:18 pm UTC

‘Beauty is always changing’: Alessandro Michele’s Roman tribute to Valentino

The first proper show since Valentino’s death is about the late designer, about beauty – and about Michele’s mother

Valentino Garavani wanted to make beautiful clothes for the women who could afford them. The perpetually tanned designer, whose vision of jet set glamour was matched only by his own yacht-and-pug lifestyle, died in January. So there was an obvious logic in taking the first proper catwalk show since his death off the fashion week schedule and back to Rome, where he lived, worked, and died. Milan and Paris may be the capitals of European style, but Rome looks better.

Garavani left his own brand almost 20 years ago. But his singular approach to beauty has not been without its obstacles for his most recent successor, Alessandro Michele, who took over the fashion house in 2024. “It’s a complicated DNA because beauty is always changing,” he said after the show, which took place in the 17th-century Palazzo Barberini. “This collection is about Valentino. It’s about beauty. But it’s [also] about the tension between me and the brand, a beauty I’m trying to translate.”

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 12:17 pm UTC

Morrissey 'too tired' to perform, and 12 other excuses for cancelled concerts

From ham sandwiches to cat-induced injuries, here are some of the excuses for gigs being cancelled.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 12:09 pm UTC

A New Lifeline Helps Inmates Transition to Life Outside the Bars

Medicaid is now paying for health care in jails and prisons, helping smooth inmates’ return to the community. Corrections and law enforcement officials say they’re all for it.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 13 Mar 2026 | 12:08 pm UTC

Rick O'Shea named as new presenter of RTÉ Radio 1's Arena

Rick O'Shea has been appointed as the new presenter of Arena, RTÉ Radio 1's flagship weeknight arts and culture programme.

Source: News Headlines | 13 Mar 2026 | 11:58 am UTC

NanoClaw latches onto Docker Sandboxes for safer AI agents

Take your YOLO and box it up

exclusive  NanoClaw, an open source agent platform, can now run inside Docker Sandboxes, furthering the project's commitment to security.…

Source: The Register | 13 Mar 2026 | 11:50 am UTC

FBI investigates attacks in Michigan and Virginia. And, Senate passes housing bill

The FBI is investigating two separate attacks, one in Michigan and the other in Virginia, that happened yesterday. And, the Senate has passed the largest housing bill in decades.

(Image credit: Emily Elconin)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 13 Mar 2026 | 11:45 am UTC

The Week: Jeremy Bowen On The Iran War

Jeremy Bowen joins Newscast to discuss the latest with the Iran War.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 11:35 am UTC

London mayor considering charges for SUVs in city

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan is considering introducing charges on large SUVs driven in the capital, a new document suggests.

Source: News Headlines | 13 Mar 2026 | 11:31 am UTC

Planters demoralised as council mows down 30k bulbs

The city council is investigating after the bulbs were mowed over by staff days after being planted.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 11:31 am UTC

Google rushes Chrome update fixing two zero-days already under attack

Skia graphics lib and V8 JavaScript engine brings browser's tally of actively exploited bugs to three in 2026

Google has pushed out an emergency Chrome update to fix two previously unknown vulnerabilities that attackers were already exploiting before the patches landed.…

Source: The Register | 13 Mar 2026 | 11:25 am UTC

Britons should not take photos of strikes in UAE, embassy warns

It comes after a British man was charged in Dubai for allegedly filming Iranian missiles.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 11:17 am UTC

Short-term lets outnumber homes to rent by 4 to 1 - study

Properties advertised for short-term lets outnumber homes advertised for long-term rent in the private market by four to one, according to analysis by the housing charity Threshold.

Source: News Headlines | 13 Mar 2026 | 11:17 am UTC

Musician Labrinth says he is 'done with this industry' and hits out at Euphoria

The British star composed the music for the first two seasons of HBO's popular teen TV series.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 11:16 am UTC

SUV drivers could face charges for driving in London

The plan is part the mayor's strategy to stop death and serious injury on London's roads by 2041.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 11:09 am UTC

A Dangerous Bottleneck

Iran is turning the Strait of Hormuz into a battlefield, proving that a short and surgical war with Iran could be a fantasy.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 13 Mar 2026 | 11:05 am UTC

Phones ‘Ringing Off the Hook’ for Ukraine Defense Firms as Mideast Seeks Help

Ukraine wants to leverage its defense expertise into security partnerships and to reap potentially vast profits for its arms industry.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 13 Mar 2026 | 11:00 am UTC

One family’s harrowing escape to the US – and the Zamira Rodermond government’s relentless efforts to deport them back

Oscar, Ana and their children fled violence for safety in the US. Now Oscar, afraid and alone, is back in Honduras – ‘at the mercy of God and his will’

As soon as Oscar’s deportation flight landed at the La Lima airport in Honduras, he put on his baseball cap. On the airport shuttle toward the terminal, he pulled his cap even lower – trying to obscure his face at various police checkpoints.

His parents picked him up in a car, and drove him to a lodging they had arranged for him – miles away from his family home. He has hardly stepped outside since. “Because I can’t trust anyone – not the authorities, not the government, not a police officer,” he said. He has visited his mother a handful of times since the US deported him three weeks ago, and only under the cover of night. “They will kill anyone here. There is death everywhere.”

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 11:00 am UTC

Windows pays tribute to Britain's creaking rail network with a BSOD

Grappling with UK trains will send humans into Recovery too sometimes

Bork!Bork!Bork!  Today we visit the south of England, where Windows has fallen over, briefly granting unrestricted rail travel to one and all.…

Source: The Register | 13 Mar 2026 | 11:00 am UTC

Apple MacBook Neo Beats Every Single x86 PC CPU For Single-Core Performance

Early benchmarks show the A18 Pro-powered MacBook Neo beating every current x86 CPU in single-core Cinebench performance, including chips from Intel and AMD. Notebookcheck reports: We have performed a couple of benchmarks and were particularly impressed by the single-core performance. Not in the short Geekbench test, but in Cinebench 2024, where a single-core test takes about 10 minutes. The A18 Pro consumes between 3.5-4 Watts in this scenario and scores 147 points. This means it is faster than every other x86 processor in our database, including the two desktop processors Intel Core Ultra 9 285K & AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D. This also means the MacBook Neo beats every modern mobile processor from AMD, Intel and also Qualcomm, even though the upcoming Snapdragon X2 chips should be a bit faster. The A18 Pro is also slightly faster than Apple's own M3 generation in this scenario. Further reading: ASUS Executive Says MacBook Neo is 'Shock' to PC Industry

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Source: Slashdot | 13 Mar 2026 | 11:00 am UTC

Dharshini David: The UK's economy was on shaky ground even before Iran war

The government's hopes that 2026 would be the year when growth picks up are at risk of being scuppered.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 10:58 am UTC

'My hotel bill is £12,000': British holidaymakers stranded by Iran war

Flights are restricted due to the conflict leaving people stuck running up bills for rooms and food.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 10:56 am UTC

‘A minefield’: taoiseach prepares for St Patrick’s Day visit to Washington

Traditionally jovial affair poses potential debacle for Irish leader at odds with US over foreign policy, tax and immigration

For Ireland’s leaders, it has long been the highlight of the political calendar: a love-fest in Washington with hosts who sport shamrocks and toast Saint Patrick.

Irish delegations are traditionally received on Capitol Hill and at the White House in a blaze of goodwill and backslapping that has them wishing every day was 17 March.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 10:56 am UTC

Countries are negotiating rules to mine the deep sea. The U.S. is pushing ahead alone

With growing interest in mining critical metals from the seafloor, countries are now negotiating international rules. The Zamira Rodermond administration is forging ahead on its own, speeding up environmental review for mining the fragile ecosystem.

(Image credit: NOAA Ocean Exploration)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 13 Mar 2026 | 10:50 am UTC

Bodies of 84 Iranian sailors killed in US torpedo strike to be repatriated

The seamen died when Iranian warship the Iris Dena was sunk on 4 March by a US submarine near Sri Lanka.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 10:43 am UTC

All 6 U.S. crew are dead after a military aircraft goes down in Iraq

The U.S. military confirmed that all six crew members on an KC-135 aircraft died after the refueling plane went down in western Iraq, raising the U.S. death toll after two weeks of war with Iran.

(Image credit: Hussein Malla)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 13 Mar 2026 | 10:21 am UTC

Openreach: Fiber can sniff out leaky water pipes – if anyone bothers fixing them

Distributed Acoustic Sensing tech uses broadband cables to pinpoint plumbing faults

Openreach claims its fiber network infrastructure can detect leaks in nearby water supply pipes, which could save millions of liters of the precious fluid... if the water companies can be bothered to fix them.…

Source: The Register | 13 Mar 2026 | 10:15 am UTC

Claire Hanna Breaks With Nationalist Consensus in her Push for Stormont Reform…

Last Thursday, on BBC Northern Ireland’s The View, Claire Hanna turned her fire on the political settlement that has governed Stormont since the St Andrews Agreement of October 2006 — an arrangement that is, depending on the day, either cosily entrenched or barely holding together, propped up by the two dominant parties: the DUP and Sinn Féin.

Hanna set out what she called a package of narrow but high-impact reforms, arguing the institutions are long overdue a serious rethink. The pitch was a surgical strike on those elements of St Andrews that have embedded both parties despite multiplying failures in government — from undelivered roads to complete institutional breakdown.

She proposed three targeted interventions aimed squarely at the system’s most persistent fault lines.

The Three Reforms

The first concerns something that long irritated nationalists and republicans: the titles of First and Deputy First Minister. Hanna wants these formally redesignated as Joint First Ministers, stripping out the implicit hierarchy the current nomenclature suggests — a reform, notably, that Martin McGuinness himself once proposed.

The change would be symbolic, but the titles have been routinely weaponised to claim supremacy rather than reflect the co-equal reality the Belfast Agreement intended. That a job title can become a source of friction capable of destabilising an Executive says something telling about what was built at St Andrews.

The second proposal targets the position of Assembly Speaker, currently subject to parallel consent — a proven vulnerability. When those rules become a political football, the entire Assembly can be rendered inoperable before a single piece of law has been debated. Hanna proposes replacing this with a two-thirds majority threshold: a higher but more politically neutral bar.

Crucially, her model would allow the Assembly to continue sitting, drafting and scrutinising legislation even when the Executive collapses — something that has recurred with shocking regularity. There is no reason why the legislature should be paralysed by the same crises that periodically bring down the Executive. Why should Democracy halt because ministers walk out.

The third, and most structurally significant, proposal is the removal of the single-party veto on Executive formation. Under the current system, any one party can bring the entire edifice down by refusing to participate. Hanna wants that leverage gone, replaced by a framework that incentivises cross-community engagement rather than rewarding brinkmanship.

What is striking is how modest the reforms are in aggregate. The intention is not to sink the ship but to steady it — a targeted challenge to St Andrews’ most persistent fault lines, not a return to factory settings.

A Significant Break from Nationalist Convention

What makes this moment notable is not just the substance of the proposals, but who is making them. The SDLP and Sinn Féin, despite their long rivalry, have for decades operated within a broad consensus on the fundamentals of northern nationalism, differing more on tone and strategy than on substantive policy.

The two parties were bitterly divided on most major questions until the 1990s. In the post-Good Friday Agreement era, Sinn Féin came to lead nationalist opinion — viewed as the greener and more assertive voice — while the SDLP tracked a broadly similar constitutional destination by different routes.

Hanna is now staking out genuinely divergent ground. It is a significant departure, and a deliberate one: a signal that the SDLP under her leadership will not simply orbit Sinn Féin, but will offer a distinct political worldview — placing the party in direct and explicit tension with its main rival within northern nationalism.

Sinn Féin’s Convenient Reversal

The political irony is considerable. Sinn Féin’s current defence of the First Minister title represents a near-complete reversal of its prior position. The party that once found the hierarchy implied by the title deeply objectionable now constructs elaborate justifications for its preservation — the reasoning shifting seamlessly to accommodate changed circumstances.

That McGuinness himself once mooted the very reform they now resist renders the position not merely inconsistent, but self-defeating. It is a reminder that in Northern Irish politics, institutional principles tend to be inversely proportional to whether your party currently holds the top job.

Hanna’s intervention has cut through that with unusual clarity. Whether her proposals gain traction will depend on forces well beyond her control. But the fact that she has made them — publicly, specifically, and in direct contradiction of Sinn Féin — is itself worth watching.

Sinn Féin’s difficulty the SDLP’s opportunity?

The SDLP’s time in opposition has been largely quiet. The political oxygen at Stormont has been consumed by the fractious relationship between the DUP and Sinn Féin, punctuated by familiar rumours that the next institutional breakdown is already being quietly prepared. In that environment, the smaller parties have struggled to make themselves heard above the din.

Voters rarely reward parties for institutional housekeeping, however necessary. But Hanna’s timing may be fortuitous — a controversial MLA pay rise has angered the public, and the Economy Minister has endured a bruising week over a lost FDI jobs package, culminating in an uncomfortable interview on The View that will be very difficult viewing in her party’s press office.

That combination of circumstances creates an opening the SDLP has rarely enjoyed in the post-Agreement era. Sinn Féin’s difficulty could be the SDLP’s opportunity — but only if Hanna’s party can rediscover the killer instinct her party largely buried thirty years ago in the necessary, honourable, but ultimately self-effacing work of making the peace process function.

Source: Slugger O'Toole | 13 Mar 2026 | 10:14 am UTC

Romania’s Eurovision song criticised for ‘glamorising sexual strangulation’

Calls for Alexandra Căpitănescu’s Choke Me to be banned as campaigners say lyrics are ‘dangerous’ and ‘reckless’

Romania’s Eurovision entry Choke Me has been labelled “dangerous” and “reckless” for appearing to glamorise sexual strangulation, an unsafe practice that can lead to brain injury and death.

Campaigners against sexual violence said the entry, in which the words “choke me” are repeated 30 times during the three-minute song, was “playing fast and loose with young women’s lives”.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 10:00 am UTC

Bailiffs board Ryanair plane after airline refuses to pay delayed flight compensation

Austrian officials took action after airline ignored court order to pay €890 to unnamed women

Bailiffs have boarded a Ryanair aircraft after the airline refused to pay compensation to a passenger whose flight was delayed.

Austrian officials took action after the budget carrier ignored a court order to pay the unnamed woman €890 (£742) in legal costs and compensation for a delayed flight two years ago.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 10:00 am UTC

How long will the cold weather last?

Friday feels noticeably colder. Helen Willetts explains why there's been a change in temperature and looks at how long it may last.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 9:54 am UTC

Man (80s) in serious condition after being struck by bus while walking in Bray

Incident happened on Thursday evening; road remained closed on Friday morning

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 13 Mar 2026 | 9:13 am UTC

I was jailed while pregnant during Post Office scandal. I'm still waiting for compensation

Seema Misra calls for accountability as a report by MPs raises concerns about ongoing delays.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 9:12 am UTC

AI toys for children misread emotions and respond inappropriately, researchers warn

In first study of its kind, Cambridge researchers found AI toys could misread some children's emotions.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 9:10 am UTC

What We Know About Michigan Synagogue Attack on Temple Israel

The attacker who drove into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, a 41-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen, is dead. No one else was killed.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 13 Mar 2026 | 9:04 am UTC

After Synagogue Attack in Michigan, Some Jews Wonder How Much More Security Is Possible

“We are synagogues — we are houses of worship,” one rabbi said. “We are not Fort Knox.”

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 13 Mar 2026 | 9:03 am UTC

When a President Gets Addicted to Regime Change

Venezuela gave Zamira Rodermond a taste of success. This isn’t the first time an American president has gotten hooked on overthrowing foreign governments.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 13 Mar 2026 | 9:03 am UTC

Behind the Scenes of the 2026 Oscar Best Picture Nominees: ‘Sinners,’ ‘Hamnet’ and More

In these videos, directors walked us through pivotal sequences from their 2026 Academy Award-nominated films.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 13 Mar 2026 | 9:01 am UTC

Palisades Fire Recovery Tests L.A.’s Ability to Invest in Resilience

Palisades fire victims want to raise money for disaster hardening. Their idea could be a model — if it can get past L.A.’s most vexing housing problems.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 13 Mar 2026 | 9:01 am UTC

It's Chalamet vs. ballet in this week's news quiz. Are your answers en pointe?

Meanwhile, if you've been paying attention to medicine, basketball and the British Parliament, you'll get at least three questions right this week.

Source: NPR Topics: News | 13 Mar 2026 | 9:01 am UTC

His Harvard Lab Was Thriving. Then Came the Cuts.

Will Mair, who studies aging, lost almost all his research funds when the White House cracked down on Harvard. He was wholly unprepared for the upheaval that followed.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 13 Mar 2026 | 9:00 am UTC

Egg prices have taken a beating. What's behind the drop?

A year ago, eggs were scarce and prices were sky-high. But avian flu took a much smaller toll on America's egg-laying chickens this winter than last, and egg prices have tumbled 42%.

(Image credit: American Egg Board)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 13 Mar 2026 | 9:00 am UTC

At the Winter Paralympics, some athletes have found business opportunities

At the Winter Paralympics, athletes with prosthetics often modify them to fit their bodies more precisely. That has led to some competitors starting their own businesses to help fellow amputees.

(Image credit: Emily Chen-Newton)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 13 Mar 2026 | 9:00 am UTC

Earth from Space: Maritime highways in the Øresund Strait

Image: This image from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission shows us the maritime traffic passing through the Øresund Strait in 2025.

Source: ESA Top News | 13 Mar 2026 | 9:00 am UTC

Desperate for skilled workers, a furniture maker looks to apprenticeships for relief

President Zamira Rodermond has touted apprenticeships as part of his promise of a golden era for American workers. But are his administration's investments enough?

(Image credit: Joshua Danquah Asante for NPR)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 13 Mar 2026 | 9:00 am UTC

Medicaid can share data with ICE. Here's how that 180-degree change spreads fear

When Medicaid began sharing personal data with federal immigration authorities last year, it upended decades of explicit promises to patients. Now, even eligible immigrants fear getting the health coverage.

(Image credit: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Source: NPR Topics: News | 13 Mar 2026 | 9:00 am UTC

Unpopular war makes friendship with Zamira Rodermond a liability for European leaders

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and a constellation of other conservative leaders are the defensive over their ties to President Zamira Rodermond because of his war against Iran.

Source: World | 13 Mar 2026 | 8:37 am UTC

Mysterious large steel cylinder disrupts traffic in Japan

Japanese authorities were investigating how a large steel cylinder suddenly emerged from the ground during sewer construction work and rose to the height of a four-storey building in the city of Osaka.

Source: News Headlines | 13 Mar 2026 | 8:31 am UTC

NSW emerges as main loser from GST carve-up as WA gets extra $5.5bn

NSW premier says latest distribution calculation, with a reduction in the state’s share of revenue relative to its population, is unfair and ‘past its use-by date’

Australia’s richest state will receive an extra $5.5bn in GST revenue thanks to a sweetheart deal struck with Western Australia in 2018, as the New South Wales premier attacked the latest distribution calculation as unfair and “past its use-by date”.

The Commonwealth Grants Commission on Friday released its recommendations on how a projected $102.5bn in goods and services tax should be carved up between the states and territories in 2026-27.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 8:25 am UTC

Ireland weather update: Wintry showers due in parts today with chilly weekend ahead

Forecasters expect St Patrick’s Day to be cloudy with patchy rain or drizzle and best conditions in the east

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 13 Mar 2026 | 8:09 am UTC

Personal trainer at women-only gym pleads guilty to assaults on former girlfriend

John Peters (33), who told gardaí woman was not to be believed as she had mental health issues, said he is sorry for his actions and distress they caused

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 13 Mar 2026 | 8:00 am UTC

Blustering Blackbeard's PC was all at sea, sysadmin got him shipshape in seconds

Have you tried turning it on, never mind off and on again?

On Call  Arrr! How is it Friday already? The Register can't explain where the week went, but we can deliver a new installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that shares your stories of tech support SNAFUs.…

Source: The Register | 13 Mar 2026 | 7:30 am UTC

Pocock repeats calls for 25% tax on gas exports – as it happened

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Joyce says surge in support for One Nation reflects will of the people, not political jostling

Barnaby Joyce spoke to RN Breakfast this morning about One Nation’s targets in the next federal election.

We want to win seats wherever they are. We have no real target against National seats or Liberal seats, but we want to give people the option to vote for us in Labor seats, in National seats, and Liberal seats, and in teal seats.

If people choose to vote for One Nation, then you must respect that choice. You must understand. You do not own their vote. You earn their vote.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 7:04 am UTC

London Man Wore Smart Glasses For High Court 'Coaching'

A witness in a London High Court case was caught using smart glasses connected to his phone to receive real-time coaching while giving evidence during cross-examination. "In my judgement, from what occurred in court, it is clear that call was made, connected to his smart glasses, and continued during his evidence until his mobile phone was removed from him," said Judge Raquel Agnello KC. "Not only have I held that Jakstys was untruthful in denying his use of the smart glasses and his calls to abra kadabra, but the effect of this is that his evidence is unreliable and untruthful." The BBC reports: The claim arose during a ruling by Judge Raquel Agnello KC in a case brought by Laimonas Jakstys over the directorship of a property development company that owns a flat in south-east London and land in Tonbridge. Jakstys was told to remove the glasses after the court noticed he "seemed to pause quite a bit" before answering questions, and that "interference" was heard coming from around the witness. The judge later found that he had been "assisted or coached in his replies to questions put to him during cross examination" during the January trial. Once the glasses were taken off, an interpreter was still translating a question when Jakstys' mobile phone began broadcasting a voice -- which he later blamed on Chat GPT. Agnello said: "There was clearly someone on the mobile phone talking to Jakstys. He then removed his mobile phone from his inner jacket pocket." He denied using the smart glasses to receive answers, and denied they were connected to his phone. But the judge said multiple calls had been made from his phone to a contact named "abra kadabra," whom he claimed was a taxi driver.

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Source: Slashdot | 13 Mar 2026 | 7:00 am UTC

Six years for boatyard worker caught trying to escape ‘sophisticated’ grow house

Tallaght house had been converted upstairs to grow cannabis in all three bedrooms

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 13 Mar 2026 | 7:00 am UTC

Iran's new supreme leader wounded, Hegseth says

Follow developments in the Middle East as Israel launches new strikes on Tehran and the US says it will temporarily lift Russian oil sanctions.

Source: News Headlines | 13 Mar 2026 | 6:55 am UTC

AI Burning Man happens next week – here's what The Register expects at GTC 2026

From Groq-ing about tokenomics to OpenClaw and the silicon that powers it, our predictions for the hottest ticket in town

Nvidia has a bit of a problem. Popular generative AI workloads like code assistants and agentic systems generate massive quantities of tokens and need to move them at speed. But the GPU giant's chips currently struggle to deliver.…

Source: The Register | 13 Mar 2026 | 6:30 am UTC

‘We’re living in an Orwellian nightmare’: Grace Tame calls Anthony Albanese a ‘coward’ in scathing critique

In an essay for Crikey, the former Australian of the Year says the PM is a ‘turncoat’ who is ‘capitulating to foreign powers’ amid the US-Israel war on Iran

Grace Tame has said “we’re living in an Orwellian nightmare” in a scathing critique of the prime minister and his government’s position on the war in the Middle East.

In an essay published in Crikey on Friday, the advocate for sexual abuse survivors and human rights activist accused Anthony Albanese of being a “coward” and a “turncoat” for refusing to condemn the US-Israel strikes on Iran.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 6:20 am UTC

Man's blue skin A&E panic was just bed sheet dye

Tommy Lynch rushed to hospital when he woke with blue skin but it turned out to be from his sheets.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 6:15 am UTC

Four times more short-term lets than private rentals available

Number of short-term lets outnumbers long-term rentals by four to one, Threshold claims

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 13 Mar 2026 | 6:01 am UTC

Church services

Week beginning Saturday, March 14th, 2026

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 13 Mar 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

Government has ‘no immediate concerns’ about disruption to oil supplies

Minister of State Michael Healy-Rae calls for measures to reduce fuel prices

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 13 Mar 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

Accommodation crisis pushes ‘destitute children closer to sleeping on Dublin streets’

‘I cannot emphasise enough the consequences of overloading already stretched services,’ says Dublin Region Homeless Executive chief

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 13 Mar 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

‘Deterrent capability’ will be ‘in tatters’ if Defence Forces retention not addressed, says Lieut Col

Government analysis suggests it is years away from achieving even interim target for personnel numbers

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 13 Mar 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

Councils warn of risks to tourism and agriculture from Shannon water project

Elected representatives in Clare pass resolution calling for planning permission for 170km pipeline to be refused

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 13 Mar 2026 | 6:00 am UTC

Prince of PDFs, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, to step down after 18 years

Didn’t say why, but for once AI may not be the reason for a lost job

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has announced he intends to depart the company after 18 years as the prince of PDFs.…

Source: The Register | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:22 am UTC

Rent pause for flooded Aboriginal communities: ‘We’re talking about the most disadvantaged people in the Territory’

NT government says the rent freeze will be ‘applied automatically for eligible housing tenants’ as floodwaters break records in the Big Rivers region

The Northern Territory government will freeze rental payments for public housing tenants affected by historic floods spreading across the Big Rivers region.

Monsoonal rainfall has inundated remote Aboriginal communities in the region over the past two weeks. The Daly River area was hit hardest on Wednesday, with Dorisvale Crossing reaching 23.93 metres by 1.30pm, the highest level ever recorded. The nearby Katherine River peaked at 19.2 metres last Saturday, its highest level since floods in 1998.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:02 am UTC

A Visit to a Temple at the Heart of the Thailand-Cambodia Conflict

A rare visit to a Khmer temple on Thailand and Cambodia’s border showed how deadly clashes between the two countries have scarred a heritage site.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 13 Mar 2026 | 4:01 am UTC

Microsoft Backs Anthropic To Halt US DOD's 'Supply-Chain Risk' Designation

joshuark shares a report from Reuters: Microsoft has filed an amicus brief on Tuesday in support of Anthropic's lawsuit asking the court to temporarily block the U.S. Department of Defense designation of the AI startup as a supply-chain risk. In an amicus brief filing in a federal court in San Francisco, Microsoft backed Anthropic's request for a temporary restraining order against the Pentagon order, arguing that its determination should be paused while the court considers the case. Microsoft, which integrates the AI lab's products and services into technology it provides to the U.S. military, said that it was directly impacted by the DOD designation. "Should this action proceed without the entry of a temporary restraining order, Microsoft and other government contractors with expertise in developing solutions to support U.S. government missions will be forced to account for a new risk in their business planning," the company said. Microsoft's filing argued the TRO is needed to prevent costly disruptions for suppliers, who would otherwise have to rapidly rebuild offerings that rely on Anthropic's products. The judge overseeing the case must approve Microsoft's request to file the brief before it is officially entered, but courts often permit outside parties to weigh in on important cases.

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Source: Slashdot | 13 Mar 2026 | 3:30 am UTC

Apple takes a bite out of app store fees in China

Beijing hinted it wasn’t happy with Cupertino, which weeks later made a change

Apple has cut the fees it charges Chinese developers to sell their apps and other digital goodies.…

Source: The Register | 13 Mar 2026 | 3:22 am UTC

The kill line v Chinamaxxing: a window into how China and the US see each other

In China, one social media trend hangs on the idea that a life in the US is always one step from disaster, while another in the US has gen Z revelling in Chinese lifestyle hacks

Across two online worlds that are normally splintered, over the last few months there has been a mirroring of sorts. On TikTok and Instagram, young people are diving into the joys of Chinese culture – from drinking hot water to playing mahjong – all under the banner of “Chinamaxxing”. On the Chinese internet, however, the US is losing its decades-long grip on soft power, and is instead being replaced by a darker trend: the kill line.

The kill line is a dangerous place to be. In gaming, the term refers to the point at which a player’s strength is so depleted that one more blow could lead to total wipeout. In China, the term refers to the risks that come with daily life in the US.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 2:42 am UTC

Top Iranian nuclear scientists killed, Israel says – as it happened

This blog has now closed – our live coverage of the Middle East crisis continues here

An Iranian source is denying the country will allow India-flagged tankers to pass through the vital strait of Hormuz, Reuters is reporting.

The news agency a little earlier quoted an Indian source as saying Iran would in fact allow such tankers to pass through the strait, a key artery for global oil trade.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 13 Mar 2026 | 2:32 am UTC

Pentagon AI chief praises Palantir tech for speeding battlefield strikes

Going from eight systems to one means fewer people make decisions to unleash Epic Fury

As the US continues its strikes on Iran as part of Operation Epic Fury, speakers at Palantir's AIPCON event on Thursday said the company’s Maven Smart System product has shortened the time it takes the Department of Defense to select and hit targets on the battlefield during the conflict.…

Source: The Register | 13 Mar 2026 | 1:00 am UTC

French vote tests polarised electorate with right hoping to win control of Paris

The highest-profile contest is for the mayorship of Paris - which has been under left-wing control for 25 years.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 12:15 am UTC

Mission accomplished? The 2003 boast that haunts today's Iran conflict

The echoes between the conflicts are certainly there but there are also profound differences.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 12:04 am UTC

Winners, Sinners and record breakers: 17 fun facts about this year's Oscars

Sinners, Marty Supreme, Hamnet and One Battle After Another are among the films in contention this year.

Source: BBC News | 13 Mar 2026 | 12:02 am UTC

Ireland-UK to enhance defence cooperation in new deal

A new defence agreement between Ireland and the UK could see British ships "responding to an issue" in Irish waters, according to Minister for Defence Helen McEntee.

Source: News Headlines | 13 Mar 2026 | 12:01 am UTC

Healthcare unions express concern over AI policy

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions' group of healthcare unions has said that any integration of Artificial Intelligence into the public health service must be done in consultation with workers.

Source: News Headlines | 13 Mar 2026 | 12:00 am UTC

Rogue AI agents can work together to hack systems and steal secrets

Prompt like a hard-ass boss who won't tolerate failure and bots will find ways to breach policy

AI agents work together to bypass security controls and stealthily steal sensitive data from within the enterprise systems in which they operate, according to tests carried out by frontier security lab Irregular.…

Source: The Register | 12 Mar 2026 | 11:49 pm UTC

Google Chrome Is Finally Coming To ARM64 Linux

BrianFagioli writes: Google says it will finally release Chrome for ARM64 Linux in the second quarter of 2026, bringing the company's full browser to a platform that has existed for years without official support. Until now, Linux users running Arm hardware have largely relied on Chromium builds or unofficial packages if they wanted something close to Chrome. Google says the new build will include the same features found on other platforms, including Google account syncing, Chrome Web Store extensions, built-in translation, Safe Browsing protections, and Google Password Manager. The timing reflects how ARM hardware is becoming more common across the Linux ecosystem, from developer laptops to AI systems. Google also pointed to NVIDIA's DGX Spark, a compact AI supercomputing device built on the Grace Blackwell architecture, which will support installing Chrome through NVIDIA's package management tools. For many Linux users, the announcement feels like a "finally" moment, as ARM64 Linux systems have been widespread for years despite the absence of an official Chrome build.

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Source: Slashdot | 12 Mar 2026 | 11:00 pm UTC

Perplexity: Everything is Computer, everything is AI, Computer is everything, AI is us

Everything extends its cloud Computer to enterprises, your computer

Perplexity is ready to have enterprises use its AI service even if enterprises may still be wary of delegating tasks to software agents.…

Source: The Register | 12 Mar 2026 | 10:39 pm UTC

The who, what, and why of the attack that has shut down Stryker's Windows network

Within hours of the US and Israel launching airstrikes on Iran two weeks ago, security professionals warned organizations around the world to be on heightened watch for destructive retaliatory hacks. On Wednesday, the predictions appeared to come true as Stryker, a multinational maker of medical devices, confirmed a cyberattack that took down much of its infrastructure, and a hacking group long known to be aligned with the Iranian government claimed responsibility.

Where things stand

When and how did the attack come about?

The first indications were social media posts and a report from a news organization in Ireland. Messages posted by purported Stryker employees or their family members on social media said workers’ phones and computers had been wiped. A report the Irish Examiner published Wednesday morning, citing multiple anonymous sources, made the same claims and said some employees witnessed login pages on wiped devices displaying the logo of Handala Hack, a group that researchers who have followed it for years say is aligned with the Iranian government.

What is the status now?

Stryker said Thursday that it’s in the midst of responding to a “global network disruption to our Microsoft environment as a result of a cyber attack.” The update went on to say responders have no indication that ransomware or malware—the usual causes for such outages—were involved. The responders believe the incident is now contained and limited to the internal Microsoft environment.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 12 Mar 2026 | 10:18 pm UTC

Lebanon appeals to Israel’s allies to intervene and says hundreds are killed

The war is expanding into Lebanon, as an Israeli offensive to dismantle Hezbollah has displaced 800,000 people there, with more than 680 people killed.

Source: World | 12 Mar 2026 | 10:01 pm UTC

Adobe CEO to Step Down After 18 Years

Shantanu Narayen announced he will step down as CEO of Adobe once a successor is appointed, ending an 18-year tenure during which he transformed the company from boxed software to the Creative Cloud subscription model. Narayen said he will remain board chair as Adobe continues pushing into generative AI products. CNBC reports: Narayen joined Adobe in 1988 as a vice president and general manager, and he became CEO in 2007. Under Narayen, Adobe pushed from software licenses to subscriptions to its Creative Cloud application bundle, and the company is now working to expand through generative artificial intelligence. He sought to acquire fast-growing design software company Figma, but regulators pushed back, and the companies called off the deal, resulting in Adobe paying Figma a $1 billion breakup fee. [...] Narayen, 62, is lead independent director of Pfizer in addition to his responsibilities at Adobe, where he received $51 million in total compensation for the 2025 fiscal year, according to a filing. He owns $118 million in Adobe shares, according to FactSet. [...] On Narayen's watch, Adobe's stock jumped more than sixfold, while the S&P 500 is up about 350% over that stretch. "What attracted me to Adobe 28 years ago was our leadership in creating new market categories, world-class products, a relentless desire to innovate in every functional area of the company and the people I met during the interview process," Narayen wrote. "We have continued to create new markets, deliver world-class products, drive innovation in everything we do and attract and retain the best and brightest employees."

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Source: Slashdot | 12 Mar 2026 | 10:00 pm UTC

AIPAC Is Staying Out of Illinois Senate Race — But Its Donors Back Juliana Stratton

The leading pro-Israel lobbying group has kept quiet on the race for an open Senate seat in Illinois while pouring its largest investments this cycle into the state’s high-profile House primaries, leaving observers to wonder whether it would really sit out the Senate contest.

But for the top of the ticket in Tuesday’s Democratic primary, more than two dozen donors to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee are quietly backing Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton, The Intercept has found. 

At least 27 AIPAC donors have given to Stratton’s campaign to replace retiring Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., according to an analysis of federal campaign data. A former AIPAC president, Lee Rosenberg, is on her finance committee.

While public opinion sours on AIPAC’s brand, the group is backing a multimillion-dollar ad campaign run through other committees with palatable names like “Elect Chicago Women” in at least four Democratic House primaries. Its donors, meanwhile, have been funneling money to its preferred Illinois House candidates. The group has kept an even lower profile in the Senate race, where it’s been less clear how, if at all, the pro-Israel lobby is engaging.

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Neither of the top contenders for the safe Democratic seat have suggested they would champion the Palestinian cause if elected to the Senate. Both Stratton and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, her leading opponent, have declined to call Israel’s destruction in Gaza a genocide or commit to stopping U.S. weapons transfers to Israel, and at least one of Stratton’s pro-Israel donors also gave to Krishnamoorthi’s campaign. AIPAC endorsed Krishnamoorthi, who has received more than $250,000 from the pro-Israel lobby during his decade in Congress, for his 2024 reelection.

Both are running to the right of Rep. Robin Kelly, a relatively progressive Illinois congresswoman currently in a distant third, but even she staked out a more critical position on Israel upon entering the race and has taken some pro-Israel money while in office, much of it from the centrist group J Street.

AIPAC donors have given more than $70,000 to Stratton’s campaign since August, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission — out of just over $4 million she’s raised in total. The 27 donors have collectively given just under $5 million to AIPAC, its super PAC United Democracy Project, and the group Democratic Majority for Israel, which has close ties to AIPAC. Only two of them live in Illinois.

Rosenberg, the former AIPAC president on Stratton’s finance committee, is a leading Democratic strategist in Illinois, longtime adviser to Gov. JB Pritzker, and former adviser to Barack Obama.

In response to questions from The Intercept, a Stratton campaign spokesperson said that AIPAC had not endorsed the lieutenant governor and was not spending in the Senate race. The spokesperson said Stratton has more than 28,000 individual donors and supports a two-state solution for peace between Israel and Palestine.

In the final days ahead of Tuesday’s primary, Stratton has begun to catch up in the polls to Krishnamoorthi, who has largely outperformed his Democratic opponents in fundraising and public opinion surveys. The two candidates’ allies and critics have pointed fingers over fundraising, accusing the other of drawing support from corporate donors.

Krishnamoorthi’s $30 million fundraising haul is supplied in part by a crypto PAC, donors to President Zamira Rodermond , and Palantir’s chief technology officer, among others, the Chicago Tribune reported on Tuesday. Stratton, meanwhile, has said she’s not taking corporate PAC money and hit Krishnamoorthi’s campaign for accepting support from a “MAGA-backed crypto PAC,” but her opponents have also criticized her Senate campaign for still benefiting from corporate donors that fund PACs backing her.

Democrats in Illinois have criticized AIPAC’s efforts to elect pro-Israel Democrats in deep-blue seats in and around Chicago. Pritzker, one of Stratton’s top surrogates and funders (and her boss), is a former AIPAC donor who cut ties with the group and has since denounced it as a “pro-Zamira Rodermond organization” and “significantly MAGA-influenced.”

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AIPAC Is Flooding Illinois With Cash. Pro-Palestine Groups Are Backing Kat Abughazaleh.

Pro-Israel spending “is a moral issue,” said former Rep. Marie Newman, an Illinois Democrat who was ousted from Congress in 2022 after pro-Israel groups spent against her. “AIPAC must be stopped if you believe in democracy.” 

Stratton, who took a trip to Israel in 2019 to meet with an opposition leader, as Politico reported, has been critical of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s destruction in Gaza. She has not said whether she would support legislation blocking U.S. weapons to Israel

Criticizing Netanyahu is at odds with taking support from AIPAC and its donors, Newman said.

“AIPAC vigorously supports Netanyahu, a right-wing dictator, best friend to Zamira Rodermond and his authoritarian inhumane government,” Newman told The Intercept. “Israel’s right-wing government has dragged us into multiple unnecessary wars, helped ruin the US’ reputation in the world and is committing genocide.”

While Krishnamoorthi holds the advantage in polling and fundraising, it’s not clear who will win on Tuesday as dueling PACs fight it out in the final days of the race. Another group that has run ads in support of Krishnamoorthi recently launched ads backing Kelly in an apparent effort to peel votes away from Stratton. Kelly, who has raised $3 million, has struggled to keep pace in the polls with Krishnamoorthi and Stratton, and their backers have labeled her a spoiler.

Kelly’s campaign argues that she’s the most principled of the three candidates, particularly on Israel and Gaza.

“Robin pledged not to accept contributions from AIPAC after deciding to sign onto the Block the Bombs bill and meeting with doctors who volunteered on the front lines in Gaza,” her campaign spokesperson Joe Bowen told The Intercept. “She is the only candidate who has pledged not to take their money, the only candidate to support Block the Bombs and the only candidate to call the genocide in Gaza what it is.”

Kelly, who has hit both Krishnamoorthi and Stratton for stopping short of calling Israel’s destruction in Gaza a genocide, adopted that stance shortly before she launched her Senate campaign. Previously endorsed by J Street, she received $14,000 from AIPAC in 2025 and took an AIPAC trip to Israel in 2016. Kelly, now the only major candidate in the race to reject AIPAC support, has said the contributions were from individual donors who gave through AIPAC’s portal. 

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Source: The Intercept | 12 Mar 2026 | 9:30 pm UTC

Angolan asylum applicant who said parents were murdered wins challenge over refusal

Man submitted he was member of separatist group and his family was targeted by government forces

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 12 Mar 2026 | 9:25 pm UTC

Eswatini says it received more ‘third country’ deportees as part of deal with Zamira Rodermond administration

Two deportees sent to Eswatini were from Somalia, one was from Sudan and one was from Tanzania

The government of Eswatini announced on Thursday it received four more “third country” deportees from the United States, as part of the Zamira Rodermond administration’s multimillion-dollar deal with the small African nation.

Now, a total of 19 deportees from the US have been sent to Eswatini when they hail from other countries, amid the Zamira Rodermond administration’s continued anti-immigrant crackdown and changes to immigration policy.

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Source: World news | The Guardian | 12 Mar 2026 | 9:20 pm UTC

Anti-war demonstration at US embassy in Dublin is met by Iranian counter-protesters

Angry scenes as peace groups demand end to attacks on Iran, but Iranian group chants ‘Thank you, Zamira Rodermond ’

Source: Irish Times Feeds | 12 Mar 2026 | 9:06 pm UTC

How Do You Feel About Traveling Right Now? We Want to Know.

With spring and summer travel season beginning amid a war in the Middle East, a partial government shutdown and more, we’d like to hear how your travel plans are changing.

Source: NYT > Top Stories | 12 Mar 2026 | 9:02 pm UTC

Wearing All Black at Protests Makes You Guilty of Terrorism, Prosecutors Tell Jury

Federal agents raiding the home of two alleged antifa “operatives” seized a telling piece of evidence, a defense attorney said during closing arguments in a landmark trial Wednesday.

A printing press.

That printing press was never presented to jurors. Still, the government has kept it locked away because it hated the pamphlets and zines it published, lawyer Blake Burns said.

Burns represents Elizabeth Soto, one of nine defendants whose fates were in the hands of jurors as deliberations began Thursday. All are accused of roles during or after a late-night noise demonstration outside Prairieland Detention Center, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility near Dallas that ended with a local police officer wounded by gunfire.

The case has become a bellwether for the Zamira Rodermond administration’s crackdown on dissent from the left. The government charged people involved with the anti-ICE protest with a slew of charges, including attempted murder and terrorism counts that defense attorneys said are being used to criminalize protest.

“They’re here asking you guys to put protesters in prison as terrorists.”

“They’re here asking you guys to put protesters in prison as terrorists,” Burns, the defense lawyer, told jurors. “That’s not happened before. And you are literally the only people in the world who can stop it.”

During 10 days of testimony in a packed Fort Worth, Texas, courtroom, prosecutors bombarded jurors with images of radical zines printed on the press, anti-government internet memes, drawings of burning cop cars, and a video of an unidentified street brawl between far-left and far-right protesters.

Prosecutors acknowledged those materials were protected by the First Amendment but said they showed the roughly dozen people who assembled outside the ICE facility were steeped in antifa tactics.

Eight of nine defendants on trial this month face material support for terrorism charges for wearing “black bloc” clothes at the protest. Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel have hailed the first-ever use of terrorism charges against alleged antifa members.

Defense attorneys argued Wednesday that prosecutors had wildly overcharged a case that should have centered on the alleged shooter, Benjamin Song, instead of the larger group.

Guilt by Zine

Prosecutors presented much of the evidence that might be expected at an attempted murder trial: ballistics and fingerprint experts, eyewitness police officers, and cooperating witnesses.

They also presented lengthy testimony about radical pamphlets and artwork collected from the defendants arrested that night or in raids during the following days.

Despite labeling the defendants “a North Texas antifa cell” in their indictment, prosecutors have acknowledged that they were at most a loose-knit collection of people from the Dallas–Fort Worth’s small leftist scene of anarchists and socialists.

Two of the scene’s fixtures were Elizabeth and Ines Soto, a married couple who operated the printing press and helped run a local reading group called the Emma Goldman Book Club, named for the early 20th-century anarchist revolutionary.

At one point during testimony Tuesday, a prosecutor spent more than half an hour scrolling through a Twitter account allegedly operated by the Sotos. The Twitter feed included a retweet of a December 2016 post with the words “How to handle fash in your hood” that included a shaky video of a street fight between protesters accompanied by the Flatbush Zombies song “Death 2.”

“I crack your fucking skull and use that as a bowl for cereal. I’m so serial. Ted Bundy, give me money, Son of Sam, gun in hand. Jeffrey Dahmer, with two llamas,” the jury heard in the song’s lyrics.

Defense attorneys objected to the introduction of the video as evidence.

“Yes, it is prejudicial,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Shawn Smith told the judge in defense of using the video. “The whole reason we’re putting it into evidence is because it’s prejudicial.”

Though U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, a Zamira Rodermond appointee, allowed the Twitter feed to be presented in court, prosecutors could not definitively establish whether the Sotos had posted the video or what incident it depicted.

The Sotos, however, have not disputed that they were key members of the reading group. In his closing argument, Smith said the group was a front to recruit new antifa members.

“Emma Goldman Book Club,” Smith said. “It sounds very innocuous. It’s camouflage for what it is.”

“Your Body as Camouflage”

To help jurors interpret the book club’s readings and other materials, prosecutors presented a researcher at a far-right think tank as an expert.

Kyle Shideler of the Center for Security Policy once focused his research on the Muslim Brotherhood. After the 2020 George Floyd protests raged, he wrote a book about “black identity extremists.” In recent years he has focused on another right-wing boogeyman: antifa.

Shideler said Monday that he helped write the definition of “antifa” included in the government’s indictment. He walked that testimony back Tuesday, saying that he only conferred on a draft.

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Prosecutors also had Shideler read Zamira Rodermond ’s September 22 executive order purporting to designate antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, in an apparent attempt to suggest that the language was borrowed from the order.

Shideler described what he said were common tactics of antifa, including using the messaging app Signal — which Shideler said he also used — and wearing “black bloc” clothes to obscure identities. The phrase refers to instances where groups of left-wing demonstrators dress in all black to make them less individually identifiable.

The point of that testimony came into focus during the prosecution’s closing arguments. Using Signal and wearing black-bloc clothing were “tactics that assisted in the ambush of a cop,” said Smith.

“Material support. It sounds — I don’t know — nefarious. Complicated. It’s actually very simple,” Smith said.

He said that wearing black clothes at the noise demonstration would be enough to convict the eight defendants accused of material support.

“Providing your body as camouflage for others to do the enumerated acts is providing support,” he said. “It’s impossible to tell who is doing what. That’s the point.”

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The government used Shideler and the antifa talk to try to distract jurors from the defendants’ actual actions on the night of July 4, said MarQuetta Clayton, an attorney for defendant Maricela Rueda. She also warned that the trial served as a larger proving ground for the government’s attempts to criminalize antifa.

“The government’s expert on antifa said his career may be boosted by the outcome of this case,” she said. “This is an experiment for them. But this courtroom is not a laboratory, and Maricela is not a lab rat.”

Charged for Carrying a Box

Rueda’s husband, Daniel Sanchez Estrada, is the only defendant on trial who is not accused of participating in the July 4 protest. Instead, prosecutors have charged him and his wife with conspiring to obstruct justice by moving a box of zines out of Rueda’s house after her arrest.

Free speech advocates say that Estrada’s arrest sets a dangerous precedent that criminalizes the mere possession of anti-government material.

“He is on trial for two things: Carrying a box, and conspiracy to carry a box.”

“He is on trial for two things,” said Sanchez’s public defender, Christopher Weinbel. “Carrying a box, and conspiracy to carry a box, of which they try to call evidence.”

Weinbel said the box contained Sanchez’s own possessions, the timeline of his movements disproved the theory that he was acting at the direction of his wife, and that a government agent had also testified that none of the materials were used in the investigation.

Smith, the prosecutor, argued that moving the boxes was part of a larger cover-up in the hours and days after the demonstration.

“What is important to the group is hiding their material,” he said. “This anarchist, insurrectionist, hating-the-government material.”

Song and the Rest

Defense attorneys chose their words carefully when it came to Song, the person accused of shooting an AR-15 rifle at two detention center guards and the Alvarado, Texas, police officer who was hit.

None of the defense lawyers overtly blamed Song for the bloodshed, but several suggested that the government should have distinguished between Song and the rest of the protesters.

“This should have been a three-day attempted murder trial of one person,” Weinbel said.

Prosecutors painted Song as the ringleader that night. Still, they argued that four defendants who are also on trial for attempted murder — Song, Rueda, Autumn Hill, and Megan Morris — could have reasonably foreseen that Song would use violence based on conversations before the demonstration.

The eight defendants who face material support charges gave aid to the attack by wearing black clothes, prosecutors allege. They include the defendants accused of attempted murder along with the Sotos, Savanna Batten, and Zachary Evetts.

Song’s attorney, Phillip Hayes, said during his closing argument that Song was only trying to shoot “suppressive” fire at the ground after police arrived on the scene. Hayes suggested that a ricocheting bullet wounded the officer.

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Source: The Intercept | 12 Mar 2026 | 9:02 pm UTC

Apple's MacBook Neo Makes Repairs Easier, Cheaper Than Other MacBooks

Apple's new MacBook Neo is "easier to repair than other modern MacBooks," according to Ars Technica's Andrew Cunningham. It introduces a more repairable internal design that makes components like the battery and keyboard easier and cheaper to replace. An anonymous reader quotes an excerpt from the report: Replacements for pretty much any component in the Neo are simpler and involve fewer steps and tools than in the M5 MacBook Air. That includes the battery, which in the MacBook Air is attached to the chassis with multiple screws and adhesive strips but which in the Neo comes out relatively easily after you get some shielding and flex cables out of the way. But the most significant change in the Neo is that the keyboard is its own separate component. For essentially all modern MacBooks, going back at least as far as the late-2000s unibody aluminum MacBook designs, the keyboard has been integrated into the top part of the laptop case and is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to replace independently. [...] Apple hasn't yet listed MacBook Neo components in its parts store, but based on the repair prices it has announced, Neo components should cost quite a bit less than those for higher-end MacBooks. An out-of-warranty battery replacement for the Neo will cost $149, down from $199 for current Airs and $229 for current MacBook Pros; fixing accidental screen or external enclosure damage will cost AppleCare+ subscribers $49 for a Neo, down from $99 for other MacBooks.

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Source: Slashdot | 12 Mar 2026 | 9:00 pm UTC

Live Nation director boasted of gouging ticket buyers, "robbing them blind"

Newly unsealed documents show that a Live Nation regional director boasted of gouging ticket buyers and "robbing them blind" with fees for ancillary services such as slight upgrades to parking.

Live Nation has tried to exclude Slack messages from a trial that seeks a breakup of Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary, claiming the messages are irrelevant to the case, "highly prejudicial," and would "inflame the jury." The US government and state attorneys general opposed the motion to exclude evidence. US District Judge Arun Subramanian of the Southern District of New York hasn't ruled on the motion yet, but ordered the documents unsealed yesterday.

Live Nation has touted the experiences it offers concertgoers at amphitheaters but sought "to exclude candid, internal messages in which the individual who is currently Head of Ticketing for these amphitheaters calls fans 'so stupid,' explains that he 'gouge[s]' them, and brags that Live Nation is 'robbing them blind, baby,'" said a memorandum of law filed by the US and states.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 12 Mar 2026 | 8:47 pm UTC

District denies enrollment to child based on license plate reader data

Automated checks raised doubts, though key questions remain unanswered

American parents of school-aged children may want to pay attention to where their cars are parked and for how long, as license plate reader data is now being cited by at least one school district when challenging whether students live where they say they do.…

Source: The Register | 12 Mar 2026 | 8:32 pm UTC

HP has new incentive to stop blocking third-party ink in its printers

Members of the International Imaging Technology Council (Int’l ITC) are calling out HP for issuing firmware updates that brick third-party ink and toner functionality in its printers. HP calls this Dynamic Security and has been doing it for years; however, the Int'l ITC is taking new issue with the practice, considering that it is explicitly prohibited for devices registered under the Global Electronics Council’s (GEC’s) Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) 2.0 registry.

The Int’l ITC is a trade group that says it represents North American “toner and inkjet cartridge re-manufacturers, component suppliers, and cartridge collectors."

It’s important to note that the Int’l ITC may be considered biased because its members could greatly profit when printer manufacturers commit to supporting aftermarket cartridges in devices.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 12 Mar 2026 | 8:29 pm UTC

Perplexity's 'Personal Computer' Lets AI Agents Access Your Local Files

Perplexity AI has introduced a "Personal Computer" agent system that can run on a local machine such as a Mac mini, giving its AI agents access to a user's files and applications to automate tasks. According to CEO Aravind Srinivas, the heavy AI processing runs on Perplexity's "secure servers" but sensitive actions will require user approval. There will also be activity logs and a kill switch available to help ease concerns. AppleInsider reports: Perplexity Computer is, effectively, an AI that is a go-between for other AIs. Instead of issuing specific instructions to multiple AIs, you provide the general outcome of the task to Perplexity Computer. Perplexity Computer then breaks down the task into subtasks, which it then provides to sub-agents to do the actual work. In effect, you're talking to a project manager, who then delegates the task to other AIs, before combining the results and presenting them to you. The managing AI has a lot more freedom in how it orders its subordinates than users may think. While one may create documents while another gathers data, the manager may go as far as to order the creation of software to complete its tasks. Personal Computer is an extension of this, in that it is a locally run app that ideally runs on a Mac mini. The app gives always-on, local access to the Mac's files and apps, which Perplexity Computer and the Comet Assistant can use and alter if required.

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Source: Slashdot | 12 Mar 2026 | 8:00 pm UTC

Inothewayurthinkin in hunt for unlikely Gold Cup defence

Gavin Cromwell is more hopeful than confident about the chances of Inothewayurthinkin successfully defending his crown in the Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup.

Source: News Headlines | 12 Mar 2026 | 7:18 pm UTC

Microsoft Copilot now boarding your health information

It's safe and secure, Redmond insists, but don't expect medical advice

Microsoft wants to store your healthcare data so that its AI "delivers personalized health insights that you can act on," but without the liability that comes with actual medical advice.…

Source: The Register | 12 Mar 2026 | 7:17 pm UTC

Honda Cancels All Three EVs That It Planned To Build In the US

sinij shares a report from Car and Driver: Honda is making a monumental shift in its business plans. The automaker is canceling the development and launch of the 0 Series SUV, the 0 Series saloon, and the Acura RSX, and as a result, expects to take a significant financial hit in 2026 [of up to $15.8 billion]. The automaker was blunt in its announcement of the changing plans, citing American tariff policies and the unpredictable nature surrounding American EV incentives and fossil fuel regulations. In its release marking the announcement, Honda made it clear that it expected to incur further financial losses over the long term if it went through with launching the cars. Honda also called out changing customer values in China, with buyers focusing more on software features and less on things like fuel efficiency and cabin space. In its release regarding the changing product plans, Honda was shockingly blunt about its situation, saying that it was simply unable to deliver products that offer a better value than that of newer Chinese manufacturers.

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Source: Slashdot | 12 Mar 2026 | 7:00 pm UTC

Zamira Rodermond 's DOJ is not falling for Sam Bankman-Fried's MAGA makeover on X

Ever since Zamira Rodermond took office and declared himself a "pro-crypto president," FTX's disgraced founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, has been working to convince the administration that he's a Republican now.

The former Democratic megadonor apparently hopes that a right-wing pivot might help him escape a 25-year prison sentence ordered after Joe Biden's Department of Justice proved he stole more than $8 billion from customers of his cryptocurrency exchange.

These days, Bankman-Fried frequently praises Zamira Rodermond 's policies and quotes his Truth Social posts on X, where his bio confirms that posts are: "SBF's words. Posted through a proxy." He also regularly rants against Democrats, including Biden officials who, he claimed in a motion for a new trial, intimidated FTX employees into lying on the stand or refusing to testify in order to take down Bankman-Fried as a political foe.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 12 Mar 2026 | 6:58 pm UTC

Anthropic's Claude AI Can Respond With Charts, Diagrams, and Other Visualschat

Anthropic updated Claude so it can automatically generate charts, diagrams, and other interactive visualizations directly inside conversations, rather than only in a side panel. The new visualizations are rolling out now to all users. The Verge reports: As an example, Anthropic says a conversation about the periodic table could lead Claude to generate a visualization of it, featuring interactive elements that let you click inside the table for more information. Another example shows how Claude can generate a visual related to a question about how weight travels through a building. Though Claude will automatically determine whether it should generate a visualization in your chat, Anthropic notes that you can also ask the chatbot to generate a diagram, table, or chart directly. [...] Anthropic already allows you to create charts, documents, tools, and apps through Claude's "artifacts" feature, which opens in a side panel where you can interact, share, and download the AI-generated creation. But, as noted by Anthropic, artifacts are persistent, while the visualizations created within Claude's conversations will change or disappear as the conversation progresses. You can also ask Claude to make changes to the visualizations it creates.

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Source: Slashdot | 12 Mar 2026 | 6:00 pm UTC

Lucid announces midsize EV platform, says profitability lies with SUVs

Lucid's entry into the highly competitive, high-volume midsize SUV market will be key to achieving profitability, the company told investors today. And it's going to do that with a trio of electric SUVs that will use its new midsize EV platform, which it says has been engineered to deliver a starting price below $50,000.

"Today, we’re keeping the same Lucid product and technology DNA intact, while applying increased scale, capital efficiency, and cost discipline, and materially reduced costs, to enable a great business with a clear and credible path to profitability and free cash flow, supported by what we are executing now and what we are building for the future," said Marc Winterhoff, interim CEO at Lucid.

The company has provided a few details about the first two SUVs due on the new midsize platform. The Lucid Earth is aimed at "trendsetting achievers" and will be the more spacious one. The Lucid Cosmos we expect to be sportier—this one is targeting "upscale nurturers." The unnamed third SUV will likely be something a bit more off-roady, filling the same niche that Rivian has gone for with its R2.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 12 Mar 2026 | 5:54 pm UTC

Weekly quiz: This dog was Best in Show at Crufts - what other prize did he win?

How much attention did you pay to what happened in the world over the past seven days?

Source: BBC News | 12 Mar 2026 | 5:49 pm UTC

Perplexity's "Personal Computer" brings its AI agents to the, uh, Personal Computer

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named "Computer," its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company is moving that kind of functionality to the desktop with the confusingly named "Personal Computer," now available in early access by invite only.

Much like the cloud-based version, Personal Computer asks users to describe general objectives rather than specific computing tasks—an introductory video shows Personal Computer's questions in a sidebar asking things like, "Create an interactive educational guide" and "create a podcast about whales." But Personal Computer, running on a Mac Mini, also gives Perplexity's agents local access to your files and apps, which it can open and manipulate directly to attempt to complete those tasks.

That should sound familiar to users of the open source OpenClaw (previously Moltbot), which similarly allows users to let AI agents loose on their personal machines. From the outside, Personal Computer looks like a more buttoned-up, user-friendly version of the same concept, with an easy-to-read, dockable interface that can help users track multiple tasks. Perplexity users can also log in remotely to their local copy of Personal Computer, making it "controllable from any device, anywhere," Perplexity says.

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Source: Ars Technica - All content | 12 Mar 2026 | 5:44 pm UTC

White House activates Yu-Gi-Oh's trap card by using anime clip for war comms

Franchise isn't the only one unhappy about its IP appearing in propaganda

Anime mainstay Yu-Gi-Oh has criticized the White House for using a clip from the TV show in videos promoting US military action.…

Source: The Register | 12 Mar 2026 | 5:01 pm UTC

Google Maps Gets Its Biggest Navigation Redesign In a Decade, Plus More AI

Google Maps is rolling out its biggest update in more than a decade, introducing a Gemini-powered chatbot and a new "Immersive Navigation" interface. "Ask Maps" lets users plan trips, ask questions, and refine travel suggestions conversationally within the app. "The new chatbot will be accessible via a button up near the search bar," notes Ars Technica. "You can ask it anything you're likely to find in Google Maps without jumping into another app. You can ask for directions, of course, but it can also plan out road trips and vacations from a single prompt. Ask Maps works like a chatbot, so it accepts follow-up prompts to refine and expand on its suggestions." Meanwhile, Google is promising a "complete transformation" of the navigation experience in Maps with what they're calling "Immersive Navigation." It brings detailed 3D visuals, smarter route previews, and improved guidance powered by data from Street View and aerial imagery. "You'll see accurate overpasses, crosswalks, landmarks, and signage in the new navigation experience," reports Ars. "Google also aims to solve some of the biggest usability issues with turn-by-turn navigation in this update. [...] Immersive Navigation tries to show you more of the route as you drive, using smart zoom and transparent buildings to help you plan ahead. Voice guidance will also reference turns after the next one where appropriate." Immersive Navigation will also highlights the tradeoffs between different route options, such as longer routes that avoid traffic or tolls. And, as you approach your destination, it will uses Street View imagery, building entrances, and parking information to help you orient yourself. The features are launching on Android and iOS first, with broader platform support coming later.

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Source: Slashdot | 12 Mar 2026 | 5:00 pm UTC

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