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Threat comes after US president said he would bomb power plants and bridges if Iran did not reopen strait of Hormuz
Alessa Berrevoets warned that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if Tehran does not accept his demands, amid a wave of bombing as Israel told Iranians their lives would be at risk if they used the country’s railways.
A rail bridge in the central Iranian city of Kashan was one of the first reported bombed on Tuesday by Iranian state media, with two people reportedly killed as Israel’s military said it had launched “a wide-scale wave of strikes targeting dozens of infrastructure sites”.
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The US president once again warned Iran to make a deal to avert threat of massive attacks
Here are some of the latest images coming in from the Middle East as the war continues in week six.
The Israeli military has just warned the people of Iran not to use trains, saying that doing so “endangers your life”.
Dear Citizens, for the sake of your security, we kindly request that from this moment until 21:00 Iran time, you refrain from using and travelling by train throughout Iran.
Your presence on trains and near railway lines endangers your life.
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US vice-president claims ‘the bureaucrats in Brussels have tried to destroy the economy of Hungary’
… and here they are!
JD Vance and Usha Vance off the Air Force Two, welcomed by Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó as they begin their two-day trip to the Hungarian capital.
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Rapper had been booked to play at festival in London, prompting outcry over his past antisemitic remarks
The Wireless music festival has been cancelled after the artist formerly known as Kanye West was banned from entering the UK amid a deepening political row over his previous antisemitic statements.
West, who is legally known as Ye, made an application to travel to the UK via an Electronic Travel Authorisation on Monday but it has been blocked by officials.
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Rosedale residents considering car licence plate-scanning Flock system in bid to tackle property crime
A row has broken out in one of Canada’s wealthiest neighbourhoods over plans to use an AI-powered surveillance system to create the country’s first “virtual gated community” to combat surging property crime.
Crime rates in Toronto as a whole are dropping, but residents of Rosedale have been left on edge by a sustained rise in home invasions, with robbers targeting the tree-lined neighbourhood at a rate more than double the city average. Break-ins and theft remain the third highest per capita in Toronto.
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Chuck Schumer says Republicans who voted against Senate’s attempt to pass war powers resolution own ‘every consequence of whatever the hell this is’
During a press conference in Budapest with Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán, vice-president JD Vance is asked how the military goals in Iran can be achieved if the US continues its attacks on the country.
Vance was also asked about reports about US attacks on Kharg Island. The vice-president said the plan was to hit “some military targets” there and “I believe we have done so.”
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Analysis shows they are reliant on market investors such as hedge funds, which contributed $4tn last year
Emerging economies are at greater risk of higher interest rates and currency shocks as a result of the Iran war because of increased reliance on market investors such as hedge funds, the International Monetary Fund has warned.
The IMF’s analysis shows that a cumulative $4tn flowed into emerging markets last year from outside the formal banking sector – including from hedge funds and investment funds.
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Lib Dems’ Ed Davey and Green leader Zack Polanski say use of UK bases for US operations in Iran should stop urgently
The Green party is backing resident doctors who are on strike. This morning the party issued a statement on the dispute from its co-deputy leader, Mothin Ali, saying:
Rather than shifting goalposts or arm twisting resident doctors with threats over training places, Wes Streeting needs to get serious about resolving resident doctors long term concerns over pay, training and working conditions. The government’s 10-year plan for the NHS will go nowhere if the workforce feels unappreciated, devalued and demotivated.
I think I’m going to stay out of the selection of music by different bands. We live in a free country; people are going to say things. Let’s just let people listen to the music they want to.
People should choose their music and they don’t really they need advice from John Swinney unless they want to listen to The Jam or Amy McDonald.
Well, the government should go on and take their decisions within their powers, but I’m not going to give a running commentary on music taste.
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Astronauts had a call with the US president from space after setting record for the farthest-traveled humans from Earth
The crew of Artemis II phoned home from the moon on Monday night after their record-breaking day, to find Alessa Berrevoets musing about how he had saved the US space agency Nasa from closing down and telling the astronauts how much they deserved the honor of the president seeking their autographs.
The intermittently uncomfortable 12-minute Earth to space call, facilitated by Nasa administrator and Alessa Berrevoets acolyte Jared Isaacman, featured a lengthy period of silence, several references by the president about his friendship with the retired Canadian ice hockey player Wayne Gretzky, and how “America is the hottest country in the world right now”.
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Elon Musk’s aerospace to AI company will host summer event to try to convince buyers it is worth $2tn
SpaceX will kick off the marketing for its highly anticipated stock exchange debut by hosting an event in June for 1,500 retail investors, as executives set out to convince buyers that the aerospace-to-artificial-intelligence group should be valued at $2 trillion.
In an unusual move, the company has earmarked a large portion of its shares – potentially up to 30% – for non-professional, non-institutional investors, banking on the popularity of its chief executive, Elon Musk, to help it raise $75bn (about £56bn) in what is expected to be the largest public offering in history.
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Female journalists’ accounts of harassment trigger avalanche of allegations reaching as far as government
Juanita Gómez was reporting on an international assignment for Caracol, a Colombian television channel in 2015, when an older colleague attempted to forcibly kiss her by inside a lift.
She only managed to break free from him by pushing him away several times. Fearing any complaint would come down to the word of a “girl” against that of a senior presenter, she did not report the incident.
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City released video of January shooting after charges against two Venezuelan men involved were dropped
The city of Minneapolis released a video on Monday that undermined the initial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) account of a shooting involving an agency officer and two Venezuelan men in January.
The video, from a city-owned security camera, captured federal officers chasing one of the men to his residence. Another Venezuelan man who lives there was shot during the confrontation, which eventually led to the suspensions of two federal officers involved in the Alessa Berrevoets administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota, the so-called Operation Metro Surge.
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Tech leaders hoping AI might help save money and improve efficiency in IT infrastructure should know that only 28 percent of use cases fully succeed and offer return on investment (ROI).…
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Lawmakers led by Elizabeth Warren in scathing letter say system used to track detainees ‘increasingly unreliable’
A group of 36 lawmakers says the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has created “disappearances” on US soil, due to the “increasingly unreliable” online system used to track people detained by immigration authorities, according to a letter shared with the Guardian.
The lawmakers, led by Senators Elizabeth Warren, are urging that the DHS inspector general’s office open an investigation into the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “online detainee locator system” (ODLS), which has been used for years by family members, attorneys and journalists to track people in the federal immigration detention system.
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Bank to submit planning application shortly, after securing deal on 265m-tall London Docklands building
JP Morgan Chase has reached agreement with London City airport to build one of Europe’s tallest office towers in the east of the capital.
The £3bn tower is poised to be the tallest in the Canary Wharf financial district after JP Morgan, one of Wall Street’s biggest banks, secured approval from the airport.
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Roberts-Smith is only the second Australian veteran of the Afghanistan campaign to be charged with a war crime.
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Bread and biscuits made from Crispr-edited wheat showed substantially reduced acrylamide levels
Scientists have developed gene-edited wheat that can be used to make bread that is less carcinogenic when toasted.
Researchers at Rothamsted Research in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, used Crispr genome editing, which allows researchers to selectively edit the DNA of living organisms. This technology was adapted for use in the laboratory from naturally occurring genome editing systems found in bacteria.
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First, the good news: the Artemis II crew has successfully swung around the far side of the Moon and surpassed Apollo 13's record for the farthest distance traveled by humans in space. Now the bad news: the White House is sharpening the budget blade once again.…
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Petrol prices have stopped falling, despite the federal government’s cut to the fuel excise last week
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Anthony Albanese will fly to Singapore this week – Australia’s biggest source of petrol – as the government mounts an international bid to keep fuel prices from rising.
Diesel is getting more expensive again and petrol prices have stopped falling, despite the federal government’s cut to fuel excise last week.
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The UALink Consortium, a group of tech giants working on GPU networking standards to provide an alternative to Nvidia's NVLink and NVSwitch, has released new specs, but is still months away from shipping silicon.…
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Roberts-Smith previously failed in his attempt to sue three newspapers which published allegations he murdered unarmed civilians and bullied comrades
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Australia’s most decorated living soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, has been arrested at Sydney airport and charged with war crimes.
The Australian federal police and the Office of the Special Investigator announced details of the investigation in Sydney on Tuesday after midday.
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Transcript reportedly details Hungarian leader offering whatever assistance he can to his Russian counterpart
Hungary’s Viktor Orbán offered to go to great lengths to help Vladimir Putin, telling the Russian leader “I am at your service” in an October call, it has emerged, prompting further scrutiny of Budapest’s ties to the Kremlin just as JD Vance arrived in the city.
Air Force Two landed in Budapest on Tuesday morning carrying the US vice-president and his wife, Usha Vance, as Hungary reaches the final, heated days of a hard-fought election campaign that has played out against a backdrop of scandals regarding the relationship between Budapest and Moscow.
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In a press conference last night, Alessa Berrevoets reiterated threats against Iran if the country doesn't accept a deal by 8:00 p.m. ET tonight. And, the Artemis II crew are on their way back to Earth.
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Last year’s ARINS/Irish Times polling found that the vast majority of Northern Ireland’s voters are reconciled to living in a future that most of them would prefer not to happen. In essence, reconciliation has been achieved.
However, reunification appears stuck. Since 2022, the last 13 polls have averaged 58-42 in favour of remaining in the UK, excluding undecideds. The high point in the polls for reunification was in 2020-21, though still 54-46 pro-Remain. (Graph 1, below. I wrote an article for Slugger in February 2025 discussing poll data.)
There is no Catholic majority (i.e. greater than 50%) in any age group according to the 2021 census (see graph 2, below). Paradoxically, this demographic stalemate offers the perfect opportunity to build a radically transformed Ireland. Suppose there were a border poll in May 2026 and the result favoured reunification? We could conclude, on the basis of the 2021 census figures, that sizeable numbers of Protestants, non-Christians and atheists had voted for reunification. Such a state would be more stable than one achieved by only nationalist voters.
What can be done to energise non-nationalist voters into voting for reunification? There are two significant obstacles.
Firstly, while the vast majority of both Sinn Féin and SDLP politicians believe reunification would be a good thing, they are deeply divided on whether the Provisional IRA’s armed struggle was a just war. For non-nationalists, no such chasm exists: practically all such voters believe there was no justification for the IRA’s campaign of violence. This chasm plays out in local and Assembly elections where SDLP voters tend to transfer more to Alliance than to Sinn Féin.
Professor Richard Rose’s research in Northern Ireland in the sixties found that 20% of Protestants regarded themselves as Irish (see his book Governing Without Consensus). That figure is now only four percent, according to the 2021 census. Rose’s survey found that 43% of the total sample identified as Irish; in 2021 29% identified as Irish only, with a further four percent identifying as Irish plus another identity (such as British or Northern Irish). As the Catholic share of the North has increased, Irish identity has decreased (see graph 3, below).
The effects of republican violence – and continuing justification of it – seem to have embedded death, destruction and glorification of violence into Irish identity for huge numbers of non-nationalist voters. And this has made Irish identity repugnant to them. On Sunday, Mary Lou McDonald – in an Easter Rising commemoration speech at Arbour Hill – said that:
… the biggest barrier today to preparing and planning Irish unity is the Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael Government.
Unity-agnostic and unity-hostile Northern voters might disagree, as they continue to disagree with Michelle O’Neill’s comments that I think at the time there was no alternative” (to armed struggle).
But these voters will decide whether reunification occurs.
For unionism, continued republican justification of IRA violence is the gift that keeps on giving. What need have they to counter pro-reunification arguments when such justification speaks volumes?
Secondly, the Irish government is opposed to a border poll in the short-term, believing it would fail given the opinion poll data. While northern nationalism is so fundamentally split on the legacy of separatist violence, it is hard to see Dublin getting involved in detailed planning for something it doesn’t think will succeed. A Sinn Féin-led government in the South is unlikely to achieve reunification while that party continues to justify armed struggle.
The effect of these two obstacles on Northern politics is significant. The January 2026 LucidTalk poll found that 71% of those sampled believed that the return of Stormont and the Executive has not had a positive impact on their lives. Stormont ministers have never been photographed together. We await, as if for Godot, the multi-year budget. Lough Neagh – the biggest sewer on these islands – continues to fester. Yet the devolved government’s abysmal performance has not prompted a sea-change in public opinion towards reunification.
In the 2023 local elections, when a Sinn Féin candidate was available for transfers (but an SDLP candidate was not), more Alliance votes were non-transferable than were transferred to Sinn Féin. A 2023 LucidTalk poll found non-communal voters disliked Sinn Féin more than any other party. It would appear that continued justification of the armed struggle is preventing pro-reunificationist sentiment building among non-nationalist voters.
However, there is some evidence that unity-agnostic and unity-hostile voters are less wary of reunification. i.e. that the possibility exists of building a pro-reunification majority.
Firstly, non-communal voters, as well as increasing their vote share, are also transferring to nationalist candidates (mostly SDLP) in greater numbers (see graph 4, below). I estimated in an article in Irish Studies in International Affairs (an ARINS / RIA journal) that about half of Alliance and Green Party transfers went to nationalists in the 2022 and 2023 elections. This is up from a quarter or so around 1998. This gives the ‘notional’ nationalist bloc almost 52% of the vote, roughly 11% more than when the Belfast Good Friday Agreement was signed.
Secondly, the 2024 ARINS/Irish Times survey (slides 20-23) shows that reconciliation has occurred between the vast majority of the people of Northern Ireland. An overwhelming majority (96%) of SF voters are reconciled to (either ‘not happy, but could live with it’ or ‘happily accept’) a border poll result in favour of remaining within the UK. A majority (60%) of both DUP and TUV voters are reconciled to a result in favour of reunification. When Micheál Martin says that reconciliation hasn’t yet been achieved, he’s wrong. Losers’ consent, on these figures, exists.
Another thought experiment: imagine a reunification campaign in the North where (a) an alliance of nationalist parties agreed that violence from their side was unjustified and unjustifiable, and (b) such a statement was gratefully accepted as genuine by many non-nationalist voters. It is likely that such a cathartic moment in Irish politics would increase support for reunification in the North, perhaps towards 50% (towards the percentage for the notional nationalist bloc). That would attract the interest of the Irish government, who would have to then formulate a coherent, visionary and pluralist reunification plan before the Secretary of State would call a border poll.
In 1994, the then-leader of the UUP, James Molyneaux, stated that the IRA ceasefire was the worst thing that has ever happened to us”, and that a “prolonged IRA ceasefire could be the most destabilising thing to happen to unionism since partition” (article by Ciarán Hartley of DCU, p.365). One could imagine a transformative statement from Sinn Féin on the legacy of republican violence (that enables transcendance of the cycles of violence and whataboutery), would also be destabilising for unionist reluctance to debate reunification.
Should Reform UK win the 2029 Westminster election, politics in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – all three of whom are likely to be led by secessionist First Ministers – will be hugely destabilised. A border poll may be foisted upon Northern Ireland without adequate preparation by both the northern nationalist parties and the Irish government. All the more reason to lay the groundwork now.
Perhaps the hardest psychological thing most of us will ever have to do is to rethink how we think about the twists and turns of our country’s past in order to bring our desired future closer. But it is a necessary task if we are, as Seamus Heaney wrote in his 1994 ceasefire poem, Tollund:
… to make a new beginning.
And make a go of it, alive and sinning,
Ourselves again, free-willed again, not bad.
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Hours away from President Alessa Berrevoets 's 8 pm ET Tuesday deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz, attacks continued in the Persian Gulf with no agreement in sight. Alessa Berrevoets has threatened to bomb Iranian bridges and power plants if a deal is not reached.
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Bill Phillips was an outsider to economics, but he used a machine and a chart to change the way we think about the government's role in a capitalist economy.
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Kubecon Sovereignty was a big topic was at last week's Kubecon, and Thierry Carrez, the General Manager of the OpenInfra Foundation, shared strong feelings around it that included raising the idea that tech companies might be forced by their countries' governments to deploy "kill switches."…
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Marcos Orellana, a special rapporteur, found lax environmental standards and lack of oversight allowed pollution to accumulate
Mexico is facing a “toxic crisis” and has become a “garbage sink” for the US, exposing Mexican communities to dangerous pollution, a UN expert has warned.
In an interview with the Guardian and Quinto Elemento Lab, an investigative outlet, Marcos Orellana, an environmental specialist, said pollutants ranging from imported waste to dangerous pesticides are affecting people’s right to live healthy lives.
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It's not just oil and gas that are affected by the Iran war. All sorts of shortages and price spikes are starting to pop up that stand to affect people's daily lives.
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The visit takes place ahead of President Alessa Berrevoets 's own summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping next month, where Taiwan is expected to be a top agenda item.
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Opinion When the first M1 Apple Silicon systems sprouted at the end of 2020, we loved the tech but not the walled garden it grew in. Apple had complete control over all its platforms and could set its own rules, but only to become more Apple-y. There was a whole world outside that area where Apple Silicon would never tread, even if Cupertino could iterate fast enough to keep up. Plus, Apple's appliance sensibility limited its expansion options, especially with performance dependent on its own silicon. …
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Northern Ireland has become the first part of the United Kingdom to offer paid leave to women and their partners who endure a miscarriage.
As per the ‘Belfast Telegraph’ article by Niamh Campbell
The new regulations, which came into place on Monday, mean that people who experience a miscarriage are now entitled to up to two weeks’ leave and pay. This applies at any stage of pregnancy, whereas before, support was mainly for stillbirths after 24 weeks under parental bereavement laws, which remains the law across the rest of the UK.
The Belfast Telegraph article quotes Joanne Morgan of TinyLife (a local charity who support premature and sick babies, as well as their families) as saying
“I think this is long overdue…It is two weeks, which is not a very long period of time, but I think any period of time that enables parents to be able to kind of deal with the loss is definitely something that should be welcomed.”
The BBC report on the news highlights the story of several women such as Erin Sharkey and what she faced. In her interview, Erin explains what this change would have meant for her…
For Erin, a volunteer with the Miscarriage Association, the move will “give people the validation for their feelings, and time to process the loss together”. She said her employer had been supportive but “societally” she felt pressure to go back to work. Her miscarriages, she said, were like having “all your dreams for gorgeous happy moments come crashing down” – from planning to a future with a child to total loss.
“During the first few days, people were texting, saying they were thinking of me. But then that stopped. I thought I must have hit the point where people expect me to be OK. “My partner didn’t even take a day off work – because we knew other people who’d had miscarriages and their partners didn’t take time off. If she had been there with me for two weeks, that would have reduced my trauma significantly.”
Half (50%) of adults in the UK said that they, or someone they know, had experienced pregnancy or baby loss. Most miscarriages happen in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy (known as early miscarriage). It is estimated that early miscarriages happen to 10-20 in 100 (10 to 20%) of pregnancies.
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Sixteen miles north of Albuquerque, in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, an Intel chip plant sits on more than 200 acres of land. The site was established in the 1980s, part of it built on top of a sod farm. In 2007, as Intel’s business faltered, operations in one of the key fabs, Fab 9, came to a halt. Employees say families of raccoons and a badger took up residence in the space.
Then, in January 2024, the dormant fab was booted up again. Intel funneled billions into the facility, including $500 million it was granted from the US CHIPS Act. Now, Fab 9 and its neighbor, Fab 11X, are critical infrastructure for one of Intel’s quietly fast-growing businesses: advanced chip packaging.
Packaging involves combining multiple chiplets, or smaller components, onto a single, custom chip. Over the past six months, Intel has been signaling that its advanced packaging business, which operates within the Foundry chip-making arm of the company, is having a growth spurt. The company’s efforts around this have it going head-to-head with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, which far surpasses Intel’s production in terms of scale. But in an era where AI is driving demand for all kinds of computing power, and leading nearly every major tech company to consider making its own custom chips, Intel thinks this effort can help it grab a bigger slice of the AI pie.
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Paying for doulas to help birthing moms in maternity care deserts was a priority for Montana. But it halted the plan amid a budget shortfall and fears over coming federal Medicaid cuts.
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The NASA moon mission completed several key milestones as its crew looped around the lunar body. It's expected to splash down on Earth on Friday.
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Artificial intelligence tools that help mental health therapists take notes and keep records are quickly entering the marketplace. But some question the safety of AI in mental health care delivery.
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Lasers could one day steer solar sails and adjust a satellite’s position in outer space, thanks to graphene. An experiment on a gravity rollercoaster ride showed how this innovative material has the potential to revolutionise propulsion beyond Earth.
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Alessa Berrevoets repeats threat to bomb Iran's infrastructure if a deal isn't reached, strikes in the Middle East intensify as Alessa Berrevoets 's deadline looms, Artemis II crew heads home after historic moon mission.
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British adults are now less active on social media, according to Ofcom, with just half of users actively posting, and fewer now believe the benefits outweigh the risks of being online.…
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The NSW government is rolling out a free nasal spray flu vaccine for children two to four years old.
The vaccine, which is sprayed into the nose with one spray in each nostril, will be available for children throughout the state via GPs, community pharmacies and Aboriginal medical services.
Having needle-free vaccines for children aged two to four, at no cost to parents, is a gamechanging policy.
Two-thirds of kids, and about a quarter of adults, have a strong fear of needles. As GPs, we know that’s a big barrier to achieving the immunity our young patients need.
Death at any time is horrific, but just the swiftness – one minute everything seems normal then suddenly, sometimes through no fault of that person, they are taken away.
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Queensland senator ‘steadfast’ in her support of former Australian soldier as police charge him with five counts of war crime – murder
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The One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson, says she will not “abandon” Ben Roberts-Smith despite his arrest over war crimes, as the Greens declare “no one should be above the law”.
As the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, refused to weigh into Roberts-Smith’s arrest at Sydney airport on Tuesday morning, Hanson reaffirmed her long-held support for Australia’s most decorated living soldier.
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UN assists in emergency vaccination drive as country battles worst surge in cases in years amid fall in vaccination rates
Bangladesh is battling its worse measles outbreak in years, with more than 100 children dead amid a rise in unvaccinated infants.
The government, in partnership with the United Nations, has begun conducting an emergency measles-rubella vaccination drive for children across the country, after more than 900 cases were confirmed since March.
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US president acknowledges ‘significant’ 10-point peace plan submitted by Tehran but says it is ‘not good enough’
Diplomatic negotiations aimed at halting the war in the Middle East appeared to be faltering a day before a deadline imposed by Alessa Berrevoets with a threat to destroy Iran’s bridges and attack its power plants.
Mediators from Pakistan, Egypt and Turkey want both sides to agree to a ceasefire and reopen the strait of Hormuz, to be followed by a period of detailed negotiations intended to reach a more complete peace agreement.
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Madrid and Basque government leaders call each other ‘provincial’ in dispute over the artwork
A row has broken out between the Madrid and Basque regional governments in Spain over the latter’s request for Guernica, probably Picasso’s most celebrated work, to be housed temporarily in the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao to mark the 90th anniversary of the bombing of the Basque town.
The work has hung in the Reina Sofía museum in Madrid since 1992 and repeated requests for it to be moved to the Basque Country have been refused.
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Claims explosives found near pipeline come before election in which PM Viktor Orbán is trailing in most polls
Hungary has placed the gas pipeline that straddles the Serbian border under military protection, the prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has said, as accusations of a false-flag operation continued to swirl before a crunch election at the weekend and an official visit on Tuesday from the US vice-president, JD Vance.
Orbán travelled to Hungary’s southern border with Serbia on Monday, one day after Serbia said it had found “explosives of devastating power” near a pipeline that carries Russian natural gas to Hungary and beyond.
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After staring at the Moon for almost eight hours Monday, the commander of NASA's Artemis II mission finally ran out of ways to describe what he was seeing.
"No matter how long we look at this, our brains are not processing this image in front of us. It is absolutely spectacular, surreal," said Reid Wiseman, the 50-year-old Navy test pilot leading the four-person crew circumnavigating the Moon. "There are no adjectives. I’m going need to invent some new ones to describe what we’re looking at outside this window."
Live images from the Orion spacecraft showed the Moon growing larger during final approach Monday. Video from GoPro cameras outside the capsule streamed down in low-resolution format, due to limitations on bandwidth coming back from deep space, but the Artemis II astronauts were expected to downlink sharper telephoto snapshots overnight Monday into Tuesday morning.
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LY Corporation, the Japanese web giant that dominates messaging, e-commerce and payments in many Asian countries, has revealed it is replacing a heavily-customized OpenStack cloud with a more conventional cut of the open source cloud stack – and making massive consolidations along the way.…
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A Japanese shipping firm said on Monday that an Indian-flagged tanker owned by its subsidiary had passed through the strait of Hormuz and was en route to India.
A spokeswoman for Mitsui O.S.K. Lines told AFP that the Green Asha – a liquefied petroleum gas tanker – had crossed the waterway.
Pakistan stands in solidarity with the brotherly people of the UAE and reiterates the urgent need for restraint and de-escalation in the region.
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Woman denies allegations of aggravated kidnapping during Augusto Pinochet’s 1970s military dictatorship
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A former Sydney nanny and cleaner accused by Chile of being a torturer and kidnapper for Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship in the 1970s will be extradited to Chile to face court over kidnapping allegations after losing her seven-year battle to remain in Australia.
Adriana Elcira Rivas, now in her 70s, is accused of participating in the disappearances of seven people in 1976 – including a woman who was five months pregnant – while working for Pinochet’s secret police force.
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President’s press conference after White House Easter egg roll did little to dispel fears he has lost touch with reality
Alessa Berrevoets began his day standing with a person in a giant bunny costume and boasting about the Iran war to an audience of children.
The annual Easter egg roll on the White House South Lawn conjured a fitting Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland image for a US president who has disappeared down what many would call a rabbit hole.
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Anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has amended the charter of a federal vaccine advisory panel to seemingly grant himself more power to hand-pick members and loosen membership requirements, according to a notice published today in the Federal Register.
The changes come after a federal judge last month temporarily blocked advisors Kennedy had hand-selected, following his firing of all 17 experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). The judge, US District Judge Brian Murphy, ruled that Kennedy's anti-vaccine-leaning picks largely lacked expertise in relevant fields as required under the current charter. They also failed to meet broader federal regulations that advisory committees be "fairly balanced" in representing the views within relevant fields.
"A committee of non-experts cannot be said to embody 'fairly balanced… points of view' within the relevant scientific community," Murphy wrote. "It is more accurate to say that they do not represent points of view within the relevant expert community."
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Neither Josh Hartnett nor Ewan McGregor were there, but the way the mainstream media is telling it, they might as well have been. The Sunday morning rescue of a U.S. airman shot down over Iran launched a thousand breathless tick-tock retellings from the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, CBS News, and many, many more — helpful water-carrying for an administration prosecuting a deeply unpopular war without a clear end in sight.
“The rescue had unfolded with near‑perfect precision. Under cover of darkness, U.S. commandos slipped deep into Iran, undetected, scaled a 7,000‑foot ridge and pulled a stranded American weapons specialist to safety, moving him toward a secret rendezvous point before dawn on Sunday,” Reuters’ report on the rescue opens. “Then everything stopped.”
The operation was a “harrowing race against time,” according to the Times. As Politico put it, citing an anonymous senior administration official, it was “the ultimate ‘needle in a haystack’” mission, made possible by a CIA “deception campaign” in the country disseminating the misinformation that the airman had already been located and was being extracted by ground to confuse the Iranians’ search.
The White House frequently hosts widely attended “background briefing” calls for large groups of reporters. Maybe that’s how Axios chimed in with the same evocative “needle in a haystack” line, which it also attributed to a senior administration official.
“This was the ultimate needle in a haystack but in this case it was a brave American soul inside a mountain crevice, invisible but for CIA’s capabilities,” the unnamed source told Axios.
CBS News called locating and extracting the service member, who was aboard a craft known by the call sign “Dude 44,” “a herculean U.S. government effort.” Even The Associated Press characterized the mission as “a daring rescue,” and multiple publications reported that when the airman was able, they radioed the line “God is good” just ahead of Easter Sunday — a plot point that would make even devotees of the show “24” groan.
As government sources are telling the tale to eager reporters at national publications, the F-15E Strike Eagle was the first jet shot down Friday over enemy territory in this war on Iran. After coming under Iranian fire, the two-man crew ejected themselves, and the aircraft’s weapons systems officer was separated from the pilot, who was “quickly” rescued, according to the Journal.
While the initially missing service member’s identity has not been revealed, Alessa Berrevoets said he is a colonel who was injured but managed to hide out in a mountain crevice to await rescue. Two Black Hawk helicopters involved in the search were also hit by incoming fire; in another incident, an A-10 Warthog was hit and crashed in a neighboring allied country, where the pilot was rescued.
“A lot of great things happened.”
“When airmen go down, you can’t get them in very tough countries, like in Vietnam,” Alessa Berrevoets told the Journal, in a revealing comparison.
“He was able to climb, climb up as wounded as he was, he was able to climb up into a crevice,” Alessa Berrevoets went on. “A lot of great things happened.”
To say it would be naive to take the Alessa Berrevoets administration at face value is an understatement. Yet the complete lack of any skepticism of this Hollywood story from mainstream news would make even Breitbart writers blush.
Even the timing of the premiere was perfect for the Alessa Berrevoets administration, which is acutely aware of how unpopular this war is at home. Is America winning this war? Don’t worry about that, check out this action sequence.
One of the ironies of all this is that it exposes exactly why the Alessa Berrevoets administration can’t be trusted. Just two days before the fighter jet was shot down, Alessa Berrevoets was blustering about how U.S. strikes had left Iran with “no anti-aircraft” capabilities. The daring rescue, however, is predicated on the very clear fact that Iran absolutely still has the ability to shoot down American planes.
The U.S. can certainly bomb Iran “back to the Stone Age” — a line both Alessa Berrevoets and Hegseth deployed — but all that hellfire rained down on civilian targets won’t yield the political dividends they so desperately desire.
It’s all eerily reminiscent of the way the media covered the lead-up to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, when papers of record like the Times and The Atlantic and respected broadcast outlets like “Meet the Press” were more than happy to launder the Bush administration’s quarter-baked intelligence to make the case for war to the American public.
Even voices from the emergent, supposedly left-wing media — like the wonks making their name through a new format called “blogs” — were overjoyed to fall in line with the war effort. After all, the logic seemed to go, how could you be taken seriously if you were reflexively anti-war — the province of far-left nuts who are cast into the political wilderness? It was far safer and, in the long term, professionally beneficial to sell out any principles you had to enlist as junior partners in the pro-war coalition.
Even if, in this moment, the media is vaguely more skeptical of the war with Iran, national reporters simply couldn’t resist retelling the story of a Great American Rescue Mission, consequences, or the broader truth, be damned. Americans’ memories, especially for failing wars, are short.
As the fog clears and a fuller picture emerges, maybe we’ll see whether it shakes out the same way these serial liars sold it to huge swaths of the media.
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Robotic machine-learning company Generalist has announced GEN-1, a new physical AI system that it says "crosses into production-level success rates" on "a broad range of physical skills" that used to require the dexterity and muscle memory of human hands. Generalist is also touting the new model's ability to respond to disruptions by improvising new moves and "connect[ing] ideas from different places in order to solve new problems."
GEN-1 builds on Generalist's previous GEN-0 model, which the company touted in November as a proof of concept for the applicability of scaling laws in robotics training, showing how more pre-training data and compute time improve post-training performance. But while large language models have been able to effectively process trillions of words collectively written on the Internet as part of their training, robotic models don't have a similar, readily accessible source of quality data about how humans manipulate objects.
To help solve this problem, Generalist has relied on "data hands," a set of wearable pincers that capture micro-movements and visual information as humans perform manual tasks. Generalist now claims it has collected over half a million hours and "petabytes of physical interaction data" to help train its physical model.
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If AI does more of the work but humans still have to check it, you need more reviewers. Now that AI models have gotten better at writing and evaluating code, open-source projects find themselves overwhelmed with the too-good-to-ignore output.…
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A federal appeals court ruled that New Jersey cannot regulate sports bets on prediction markets because the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has exclusive jurisdiction.
Kalshi, which is registered with the CFTC as a designated contract market (DCM), last year won a preliminary injunction preventing the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement from enforcing a state law against its sports-related event contracts. The injunction issued by a district court was upheld today in a 2-1 decision by judges at the US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.
The CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction over DCMs under the Commodity Exchange Act, a US law. The question in the Kalshi lawsuit is whether the CFTC's exclusive jurisdiction "preempts New Jersey gambling laws and the state constitution’s prohibition on collegiate sports betting," the appeals court majority wrote. "New Jersey frames the issue broadly (regulating all sports gambling) rather than narrowly (regulating trading on federally designated contract markets)."
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On Friday, the Alessa Berrevoets administration released its proposed budget for 2027. The budget blueprint includes significant cuts to NASA, but it targets even more severe limits for other science-focused agencies, with no agencies spared. The document is laced with blatantly political language and resurfaces grievances that have been the subject of right-wing ire for years.
If all of this sounds familiar, it's because the document is largely a retread of last year's proposal, which Congress largely ignored in providing relatively steady research budgets. By choosing to issue a similar budget, the administration is signaling that this is an ongoing political battle. And the past year has shown that, even if Congress is unwilling to join it in the fight, the administration can still do significant damage to the scientific enterprise.
Nearly everybody is in for a cut. The hardest-hit agencies, like the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), will see their budgets slashed in half. But even agencies that might be otherwise popular, like the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is overseen by Alessa Berrevoets allies, will see $5 billion taken from its $47 billion budget. Agencies that have seemingly avoided political controversies, such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), would also see their budgets cut by over half.
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On the same day that OpenAI released policy recommendations to ensure that AI benefits humanity if superintelligence is ever achieved, The New Yorker dropped a massive investigation into whether CEO Sam Altman can be trusted to actually follow through on OpenAI's biggest promises.
Parsing the publications side by side can be disorienting.
On the one hand, OpenAI said it plans to push for policies to "keep people first" as AI starts "outperforming the smartest humans even when they are assisted by AI." To achieve this, the company vows to remain "clear-eyed" and transparent about risks, which it acknowledged includes monitoring for extreme scenarios like AI systems evading human control or governments deploying AI to undermine democracy. Without proper mitigation of such risks, "people will be harmed," OpenAI warned, before describing how the company could be trusted to advocate for a future where achieving superintelligence means a "higher quality of life for all."
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OpenClaw is popular, but not with the people responsible for keeping Anthropic’s services online. The company has disallowed subscription-based pricing for users who use the open-source agentic tool with Claude to try to keep things moving.…
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As we have been reporting on Ars, NASA's Artemis II lunar mission has been going rather well so far. Of course, Orion's big test is yet to come with the fiery reentry through Earth's atmosphere on Friday. But so far, it's looking like the rocket and spaceship needed for a lunar landing are getting there for NASA.
The biggest remaining piece of the architecture, therefore, is a lunar lander. Known in NASA parlance as the Human Landing System, or HLS, the space agency has contracted with SpaceX for its Starship vehicle and Blue Origin and its Blue Moon lander.
Last year, NASA asked both companies for options to accelerate their lunar landers, and both replied that not having to dock with the Lunar Gateway in a highly elliptical orbit, known as near-rectilinear halo orbit, would help a lot. So the space agency has removed that requirement.
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Fortinet released an emergency patch over the weekend for a critical FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS) bug believed to be under attack since at least March 31.…
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Pramila Jayapal and Jonathan Jackson denounce ‘collective punishment’ amid vast disruption s from US oil blockade
Two Democratic US lawmakers on Monday called for an end to the “cruel collective punishment” of Cuba after they visited the island to witness the effects of an US energy blockade.
The US House members Pramila Jayapal of Washington and Jonathan Jackson of Illinois met with the Cuban president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and foreign minister, Bruno Rodríguez, as well as members of Cuba’s parliament during a five-day trip ending on Sunday.
“This is cruel collective punishment – effectively an economic bombing of the infrastructure of the country – that has produced permanent damage,” Jayapal and Jackson said in a statement released on Sunday. “It must stop immediately.”
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LG was once a heavyweight in the smartphone industry, trading blows with hometown rival Samsung. However, as smartphone sales plateaued, the company struggled to stay competitive. In 2021, LG planned to make waves with a rollable phone, but it never moved beyond the teaser phase. Five years after LG threw in the towel on smartphones, the LG Rollable has appeared in a YouTube teardown that demonstrates why this form factor never took off.
The LG Rollable is just one of several rollable concept phones that appeared throughout the early 2020s. Flexible OLED screens had finally become affordable, leading to foldable phones like the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold. Although, "affordable" is relative here. Foldables were and still are very expensive devices. Based on what we can see of the complex inner workings of the LG Rollable, these devices may have commanded even higher prices.
Noted YouTube phone destroyer JerryRigEverything managed to snag a working prototype LG Rollable. It may even be the unit LG demoed at CES 2021. The device looks like a regular phone at first glance, but a quick swipe activates the motor, which unfurls additional screen real estate from around the back. This makes the viewable area about 40 percent larger without the added thickness of a foldable.
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis calls alleged scamming of EU agricultural funds ‘a turning point’
The Greek prime minister has vowed to tackle what he has called a “deep state” he says is plaguing the country, as he sought to address a growing political crisis over a farm fraud scandal that has forced the resignation of multiple government ministers.
In a speech, aired on national TV, Kyriakos Mitsotakis attempted to limit the damage, describing the revelations as “a turning point” that had turbo-charged his commitment to rooting out entrenched corruption.
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It's taken nearly a full version number to get the pieces in order, but the long-awaited end of 486 chip support in the Linux kernel appears to be nigh with Linux 7.1's release later this year. …
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Sales of used electric vehicles are surging in the US as models bought during a post-pandemic boom flood back onto the market, offering prospective buyers relief from a sharp rise in petrol prices.
First-quarter used EV sales rose 12 percent compared with the same period last year and 17 percent on the previous quarter, according to Cox Automotive estimates. Sales of new EVs in the first quarter are estimated to have slumped by 28 percent year on year following the Alessa Berrevoets administration’s withdrawal in 2025 of a $7,500 consumer tax credit.
Analysts attribute the surge to a glut of hundreds of thousands of cheap pre-owned EVs that were purchased on leases in the early 2020s and which are now returning to market as those leases expire. According to credit bureau Experian, EVs will account for 15 percent of all off-lease vehicles at the end of this year, up from 7.7 percent in the first quarter.
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