Tents fill Lisbon square as protesters highlight Portugal’s housing crisis
Protesters camped overnight in central Lisbon over the weekend to denounce Portugal’s housing crisis, as soaring rents leave many struggling to afford accommodation.Continue Reading
A Kelvin wave raised sea levels on the West Coast. More are coming
A large underwater wave moved up the West Coast, raising sea levels. Scientists say it’s driven by El Niño and it’s going to happen again. (Image credit: Dillon J. Amaya)Continue Reading
Fave Five: Cozy Queer Fiction Featuring B&Bs
With All My Haunted Heart by Isabel Sterling Balsam Inn series by Katia Rose Dead & Breakfast Mysteries by Rosiee Thor and Kat Hillis A Christmas Inn, Maine by Aaron Kyte The Burnt Toast B&B by Heidi Belleau and Rachel Haimowitz, Read MoreContinue Reading
Serbian rector’s phone was infected with spyware during student protests, group says
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Spyware from an Israeli company was used to target the phone of the rector of the Belgrade university who has played a prominent role in nearly two years of protests against Serbia ‘s populist leader Aleksandar Vucic, a digital rights group said on Monday. The BalkanContinue Reading
AI agents are only as good as the personal information you share. That raises privacy concerns
Matt Robb wanted to sell his computer keyboard. So he made a listing on Facebook Marketplace — and, as an experiment late last month, he put Meta’s new artificial intelligence agent Muse in the driver’s seat. “I kind of went into it like a guinea pig,” said Robb, a Toronto-basedContinue Reading
Dozens killed after Houthi strike on military camp in Shabwa
Dozens of Yemenis are feared dead after a Houthi strike targeted a military camp in Yemen’s Shabwa governorate., Dozens killed after Houthi strike on military camp in Shabwa NewsFeed Dozens of Yemenis are feared dead after a Houthi strike targeted a military camp in Yemen’s Shabwa governorate. The spokesman forContinue Reading
Russia’s Lavrov to discuss US war and regional security during Tehran visit
GCC states have pressed Moscow to help halt Iranian attacks and reopen the Strait of Hormuz., Tehran, Iran – Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is due to meet with senior Iranian officials in Tehran to discuss the war with the United States and efforts to end it. Lavrov landed inContinue Reading
Supreme Court to hear a new case on race and school admissions, this time in Maryland
The Supreme Court agreed to hear a new challenge to school admissions policies on diversity, taking up a case on magnet programs in Montgomery County, Maryland., Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading
Linux Mint’s new system monitor does more than you’d expect
December’s Linux Mint 27 release will include a brand new system monitor tool preinstalled. The app is called Superlight (well, that’s the project and package name; the user-facing label is just System Monitor). It shows hardware, app and process usage, relays battery stats and has an interactive storage page toContinue Reading
4 ways to tame shadow AI (hint: you need them all)
In olden days — last year, say — employees using unsanctioned AI tools might copy-and-paste sensitive data that could end up in the AI company’s training data set. Today, an unsanctioned AI can hack into another company for an employee even if they didn’t explicitly ask it to. This doesn’tContinue Reading
Transcript: The Traitor Rages over Texas Senate Race—and Even Fox Is Rattled
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 19 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here . Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. In the last few days,Continue Reading
Victims killed after pickup truck drove through soccer game in Wichita identified by police
The child who died is a six-year-old boy, and the adult is a 35-year-old man, Aaron Moses, of the Wichita Police Department, said.Continue Reading
Pope’s brother says family awaits biopsy results after lung cancer surgery
Pope Leo XIV’s brother says surgeons removed all cancerous lung tissue, but the family awaits final biopsy results.Continue Reading