TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisian police on Tuesday arrested prominent opposition lawyer and longtime human rights defender Ayachi Hammami at his home outside the capital, acting on a five-year prison sentence issued against him last week in a prominent “conspiracy against state security” case, his family said. Hammami is among at least 40 individuals, including politicians […]
House lawmakers working on a package of bills to protect children online say they are trying to strike the appropriate balance between forcing Big Tech to implement safeguards and protecting users’ rights. The House Energy and Commerce subcommittee with jurisdiction over the issue held a hearing Tuesday to debate 19 bills designed to create a […]
The death of Tom Stoppard impacted far more than just the stage, although his theatrical work was enough to forge a considerable legacy. The celebrated playwright behind “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” “Arcadia” and “Travesties” won an Oscar for co-writing 1998’s “Shakespeare in Love.” He also helped Steven Spielberg polish scripts for “Schindler’s List” and […]
BOSTON — Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers was banned for life Tuesday from an academic society in the latest fallout over recently released emails showing he maintained a friendly relationship with Jeffrey Epstein after the disgraced financier pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor. The American Economic Association, a nonprofit scholarly association dedicated […]
Tuesday on MS NOW’s “Deadline,” network host Rachel Maddow predicted Republican lawmakers will ask Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to resign because of a report alleging impropriety over his handling of drug boat strikes in the Caribbean Sea. Maddow said, “I don’t understand why we’re going to war with Venezuela, and I’m not sure the administration is […]
To address the growing global health challenge of obesity, which affects more than 1 billion people, the World Health Organization (WHO) has released its first guideline on the use of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 (GLP-1) therapies for treating obesity as a chronic, relapsing disease. Obesity affects people in every country and was associated with 3.7 million deaths worldwide in […]
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 DeepSeek has unveiled two new experimental AI models DeepSeek-V3.2 is designed to match OpenAI’s GPT-5’s reasoning capabilities. (Bloomberg $)+ Here’s how DeepSeek slashes its models’ computational burden. (VentureBeat)+ It’s achieved these results despite its limited access to powerful chips. (SCMP $) […]
