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Wednesday, Oct 15th, 2025 -
Decision to reopen came after Israel was informed of Hamas's intention to return four more bodies, report says The only border crossing between Gaza and Egypt was expected to open on Wednesday to allow hundreds of trucks carrying desperately needed aid into the devastated Palestinian territory. Aid agencies said they were hoping for a surge in humanitarian assistance, especially to the north of Gaza , to where more ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Oct 15th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump has renewed his threat to cut "Democrat programmes" as the United States government shutdown heads into its fifteenth day without resolution. "The Democrats are getting killed on the shutdown because we're closing up programmes that are Democrat programmes that we were opposed to… and they're never going to come back in many cases," Trump told reporters on Tuesday, according to ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Oct 15th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress are growing concerned over a lack of information from the Trump administration about the intelligence and strategy underlying its strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean, six sources told NBC News. Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill have left briefings about the strikes frustrated with the lack of information, said these people: five congressional ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Oct 15th, 2025 -
By Add Miami International Airport to the list of airports that aren't airing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's video blaming Democrats for the ongoing shutdown of the federal government. Noem's video is meant to replace the traditional message from Homeland secretaries welcoming passengers to federal security screening areas. Some airports — including Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International — ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Oct 15th, 2025 -
No operating system is without its merits, and that includes Windows 11, even as much as I complain about Microsoft's latest operating system. Its handful of useful features continues to grow as time goes on, with more and more being rolled out every year . But with helpful utilities and settings trickling out slowly, it's easy to miss a few here and there, especially when the flashier features hog the news ...
Source: pcworld.com
Wednesday, Oct 15th, 2025 -
SpaceX closed a troubled but instructive chapter in its Starship rocket program Monday with a near-perfect test flight that carried the stainless steel spacecraft halfway around the world from South Texas to the Indian Ocean. The rocket's 33 methane-fueled Raptor engines roared to life at 6:23 pm CDT (7:23 pm EDT; 23:23 UTC), throttling up to generate some 16.7 million pounds of thrust, by a large measure more ...
Source: wired.com
Wednesday, Oct 15th, 2025 -
Meta has removed a Facebook page used to track the presence of immigration agents in Chicago at the request of the Department of Justice, the company confirmed on Tuesday. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a post on X that "following outreach" from the DOJ, Facebook removed a "large group page" that was being used to target Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the city. In the post, Bondi said the page ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Oct 15th, 2025 -
By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court is slated on Wednesday to hear arguments in a dispute over the composition of Louisiana electoral districts in a case that could imperil a key section of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark 1965 federal law enacted by Congress to prevent racial discrimination in voting. A group of Black voters has appealed a lower court's finding that a ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Oct 15th, 2025 -
Parents may also choose an even more restrictive setting for their children Instagram will moderate the content for users under 18 using filters guided by the PG-13 movie rating system, the platform's parent company Meta announced on Tuesday in its latest effort to address concerns about teenagers' online safety. The new system will restrict posts featuring strong language, risky stunts, drugs or other content that ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Wednesday, Oct 15th, 2025 -
Leaders in both parties are locked in competition to encourage tech giants to put sprawling data centers in their states, looking for an economic leg up and an innovation edge in the early days of the artificial intelligence boom. Now, those same leaders are dealing with a downside that's more apparent by the month: Those electricity-hungry data centers are a major contributor to rising utility bills for ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Oct 15th, 2025 -
By Kanishka Singh, Ella Cao and Joe Cash WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said he was considering terminating some trade ties with China, singling out cooking oil, which traders and analysts said would have little impact as such shipments had already plummeted from China over the past year. "I believe that China purposefully not buying our Soybeans, and causing difficulty for our Soybean ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Oct 15th, 2025 -
– More than a dozen Afghan civilians were killed and over 100 others were wounded as renewed fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan broke out along their shared border early Wednesday, officials said. The countries have since Saturday, when dozens were killed across multiple border regions. in overnight operations in retaliation for what it called repeated violations of Afghan territory and airspace. ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Oct 15th, 2025 -
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian government delegation has met with prominent American weapons manufacturers during a U.S. visit, a senior Kyiv official said Wednesday, before President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's meeting with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump at the White House later this week. A delegation led by the head of the Ukrainian president's office, Andrii Yermak, and Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko met ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Rep. Moulton challenges Sen. Markey in Massachusetts, calls for new generation of Democratic leaders
Wednesday, Oct 15th, 2025 -
BOSTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. , a moderate Massachusetts Democrat, said Wednesday that he will challenge U.S. Sen. for the Democratic nomination in next year's Senate race, arguing it's time for the party to embrace a new generation of leadership. The announcement makes the race one of the most anticipated primary contests in the country and pits two of the heavily Democratic state's top politicians against one ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Oct 15th, 2025 -
Bruine de Bruin is director of the Behavioral Sciences and Policy Initiative at the USC Schaeffer Institute for Public Policy and Government Service. Blum is a nonresident senior scholar at the USC Schaeffer Institute and the former principal deputy administrator and chief operating officer at the CMS. Nearly 69 million Americans who are disabled or 65 or older receive health insurance through Medicare. Most of ...
Source: statnews.com
Wednesday, Oct 15th, 2025 -
Earth's Magnetic Field Is Warping — And Scientists Don't Know Why An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Scientists have detected a dramatic expansion in the South Atlantic Anomaly — a weak zone in Earth's magnetic field, which shields our planet from harmful solar and cosmic radiation. The area in the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Africa has grown by nearly half the size of ...
Source: forbes.com
Tuesday, Oct 14th, 2025 -
You are not logged into your account. You have a registered email address and password on pressherald.com, but we are unable to locate a paid subscription attached to these credentials. Please Thank you for your support of local journalism! Gov. Janet Mills' entrance into the U.S. Senate race on Tuesday immediately shook up the Democratic primary, prompting one of her competitors to drop out of the race. Maine Beer ...
Source: pressherald.com
Tuesday, Oct 14th, 2025 -
Support Fearless Journalism. Trump's Defense Department wants HuffPost's reporters to sign a restrictive and clearly unconstitutional document. Our response? Hell no! Join today and stand with a press that reports without restrictions. Already contributed? Former President Barack Obama is urging voters to support Gov. Gavin Newsom's redistricting campaign in California, warning that next month's special election ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, Oct 14th, 2025 -
Three insights you might have missed from theCUBE's coverage of Cloudera EVOLVE25 Enterprises are moving rapidly from AI experimentation to large-scale deployment, accelerating demand for hybrid cloud and AI-ready data architecture. The industry is shifting toward secure, scalable platforms that enable artificial intelligence to operate seamlessly across environments. , industry analyst and principal at SanjMo. ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Tuesday, Oct 14th, 2025 -
A Madagascar army colonel says the military has taken charge of the African island nation after its parliament voted to impeach President Andry Rajoelina, following weeks of youth-led antigovernment protests. There were celebrations in the streets of the capital, Antananarivo, following Colonel Michael Randrianirina's announcement, which came almost immediately after parliament voted on Tuesday to impeach ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Oct 14th, 2025 -
Infowars founder and conspiracy theorist had been ordered to pay because of false claims about Sandy Hook massacre The US supreme court has refused an appeal from Alex Jones and left in place his $1.4bn defamation penalty that was awarded to the families of victims from the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting. The Infowars founder and conspiracy theorist had sought to overturn the judgment, which he was ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Oct 14th, 2025 -
President presented award to Kirk's widow, Erika, on what would have been the far-right commentator's 32nd birthday Donald Trump posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States, to the assassinated far-right commentator Charlie Kirk at the White House on Tuesday. Kirk, who was shot at an event at Utah Valley University in September, was among the most ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Oct 14th, 2025 -
Award-winning R&B and soul singer D'Angelo has died aged 51 after a cancer diagnosis, his family has said. In a statement, they wrote that the star, whose real name was Michael Eugene Archer, left behind a "legacy of extraordinarily moving music" and asked fans to celebrate "the gift of song that he has left for the world". The influential singer was known for pioneering neo-soul, a genre blending R&B with other ...
Source: bbc.com
Tuesday, Oct 14th, 2025 -
A Florida judge issued a restraining order Tuesday against Republican Rep. Cory Mills of Florida for "protection against dating violence" after In a petition filed in August, Lindsey Langston alleged that after they broke up, Mills threatened to blackmail her using nude images and videos and to physically harm anyone she dated. "Cory continued to message me on Instagram accounts I run after blocking him and asking ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Oct 14th, 2025 -
Financial markets widely expect the Federal Reserve to cut borrowing costs again later this month, and the central bank's chair kept those expectations alive in remarks on Tuesday. Despite the government shutdown depriving the central bank of its most crucial economic data , Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the inflation and unemployment situation seemed similar to that in September, when the Fed cut its benchmark ...
Source: investopedia.com
Tuesday, Oct 14th, 2025 -
Oct 14 (Reuters) - A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration had violated his previous court order by implementing a nearly identical policy that again made state cooperation with federal immigration enforcement a condition for receiving grant funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. U.S. District Judge William Smith in Providence, Rhode Island, wrote that the U.S. Department of ...
Source: reuters.com
Tuesday, Oct 14th, 2025 -
Topics More from TechCrunch Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch Google is making a $15 billion investment to set up a 1-gigawatt data center and AI hub in India, even as the Indian government pushes for reduced reliance on U.S. tech giants. said it would build the data center in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, in the port city of Visakhapatnam. The investment will take place over the next five years through 2030, the ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Tuesday, Oct 14th, 2025 -
ChatGPT is treading cautiously right now, but the chatbot may become more risqué by the end of the year. In recent weeks, the generative AI chatbot has been operating under somewhat stringent limitations, as OpenAI tried to address concerns that it was not handling sensitive mental health issues well. But CEO Sam Altman said in a post on X Tuesday that the company would ease some of those ...
Source: cnet.com
Tuesday, Oct 14th, 2025 -
reading time 3 minutes Apple hopes users are ready to settle deep into the couch hollow made by their tushy and repeatedly rewatch Severance until that new F1 The Movie film starts streaming. Among a host of new products Apple is likely to launch this week, we're expecting a new set-top box to replace that aging 4K unit from 2022. But that's not all it's up to on the streaming front: It's also rebranding Apple TV+ ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Tuesday, Oct 14th, 2025 -
Microsoft has announced MAI-Image-1, its first image generation model developed entirely in-house. The company stated the model will be available on Copilot and Bing Image Creator "very soon" and is currently available for testing at LMArena, a platform where users evaluate two anonymous chatbots and vote for the best response. On LMArena's text-to-image leaderboard, MAI-Image-1 ranked ninth, achieving a score of ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Tuesday, Oct 14th, 2025 -
California governor Gavin Newsom on Monday signed into law a first-of-its-kind law regulating artificial intelligence chatbots, defying a push from the White House to leave such technology unchecked. "We've seen some truly horrific and tragic examples of young people harmed by unregulated tech, and we won't stand by while companies continue without necessary limits and accountability," Newson said after signing the ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Tuesday, Oct 14th, 2025 -
More than 150 unvaccinated students in South Carolina are under mandatory 21-day quarantine due to a measles outbreak affecting two schools in Spartanburg County. State health officials confirmed measles cases at both schools — Global Academy of South Carolina and Fairforest Elementary School — as part of an outbreak that has contributed to South Carolina's total of 11 confirmed measles cases this year. ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Oct 14th, 2025 -
Google announced the integration of its Nano Banana AI image editor into several of its products, including Search, NotebookLM, and Photos. The tool gained significant user attention after its launch last month. The integration with NotebookLM introduces substantial changes to the Video Overviews feature. Users will have access to six new visual styles, such as watercolor and anime. The update also enables the ...
Source: techbriefly.com
Tuesday, Oct 14th, 2025 -
Netflix is making its first major foray into video podcasts with a deal to feature some of Spotify's top shows on its global streaming platform. Under a multi-year licensing partnership announced on Tuesday, video versions of Spotify-owned The Ringer and Spotify Studios podcasts, including "The Bill Simmons Podcast," "The Rewatchables," and "Conspiracy Theories," will stream simultaneously on Netflix and Spotify ...
Source: insider.com
Tuesday, Oct 14th, 2025 -
PARIS — French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu on Tuesday announced he would suspend a much-debated plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64, in a move aimed at preventing his fragile minority government from being toppled. After a week of political turmoil, the newly reappointed Lecornu said in a policy speech at the National Assembly that the law, a flagship initiative of President Emmanuel ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Oct 14th, 2025 -
Oct. 14 (UPI) -- The Trump administration recently began charging fees for Chinese ships docking at U.S. ports, prompting China to retaliate. The move, which has been long planned, is intended to correct the imbalance between American and Chinese shipbuilding businesses . The U.S. shipbuilding business has dwindled over the years as China has become dominant. On Friday, China vowed reciprocal fees on American-made ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Oct 14th, 2025 -
reading time 3 minutes Data transmitted via satellite may not be as secure as previously thought. A new study published on Monday found that communications from cellphone carriers, retailers, banks, and even militaries are being broadcast unencrypted through geostationary satellites. Researchers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Maryland scanned 39 of these satellites from a ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Monday, Oct 13th, 2025 -
856,870 7,102 Market yield on U.S. treasury securities at 10-year constant maturity. Updated daily. Welcome, + Article Summary Doug Lebda, founder and CEO of LendingTree, died in an ATV accident. Scott Peyree has been appointed as the new CEO, ensuring continuity in leadership. AI Summary Doug Lebda, the founder, chairman and CEO of LendingTree , died Sunday in an all-terrain vehicle accident, the company's ...
Source: housingwire.com
Monday, Oct 13th, 2025 -
OpenAI is collaborating with chip maker Broadcom to develop and deploy newly designed AI chips, the companies said in blog posts on Monday. Don't miss any of our unbiased tech content and lab-based reviews. Add CNET as a preferred Google source. The deal will involve OpenAI designing systems and accelerators, which are specialized hardware used for demanding calculations, and Broadcom deploying these chips. ...
Source: cnet.com