Soaring bond yields ‘not even close’ to cooling red-hot US economy, investors say
Rising borrowing costs so far show no sign of putting a brake on activity in world’s biggest economy…Continue Reading
New global maps chart 40 years of ocean heat and acidification extremes
Between 2src14 and 2src15, a marine heatwave known as “The Blob” warmed an area of the Pacific Ocean larger than the United States and Mexico combined. The massive event fueled toxic algae blooms, collapsed fisheries, killed off millions of emaciated seabirds, sent dead fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) and sea otters washing up on Alaska andContinue Reading
Following SCOTUS Ruling, Common Cause Vows Immediate Legal Action Against Any Attempts to Disenfranchise Voters Using Flawed System
Common Cause condemned the Supreme Court’s ruling today allowing the federal government to continue using the flawed SAVE system. Statement from Common Cause President & CEO Virginia Kase Solomón: “The Supreme Court’s decision to allow DHS and states to use an error-ridden system is completely unacceptable and didn’t need toContinue Reading
You can try Ubuntu’s new Myna AI dictation tool – here’s how
Ubuntu’s new AI-powered dictation tool Myna isn’t officially ready, but you can give it an early test. Canonical has added the Myna orchestrator snap and a pair of speech-recognition AI models to the Snap Store recently, and made its new desktop Myna Settings tool available to test from a PPA.Continue Reading
Microsoft’s new Copilot ‘super app’ unifies chat, code, agents
Microsoft’s Copilot “super app” has arrived, two months after CEO Satya Nadella confirmed it was in development. It combines conversational Chat, the autonomous Cowork agent, a redesigned coding environment named Code, and Autopilot, the persistent agent formerly known as Scout, into a single Copilot experience. The idea is to makeContinue Reading
Adobe’s next platform for Creative Cloud? Your AI assistant
Adobe is preparing for a future where users increasingly interact with its software through AI assistants, rather than always going directly to its applications. That’s the idea behind its expanded integration with Anthropic’s Claude, as well as the first connector for Google’s Gemini, announced Thursday. The updated Claude integration addsContinue Reading
Susan Collins’s Flimsy Corruption Defense Collapses
Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine, trying to refute corruption allegations, may have just proven them. Earlier this week, ProPublica exposed Collins’s involvement in an alleged illegal pay-to-pay scheme with a defense contractor. Collins has denied the allegations. “The Biden-led Justice Department and FBI totally cleared my office, my campaignContinue Reading
Why intelligence agencies warn Russia could escalate hybrid attacks on Europe | DW News
Mixed messages are coming from Moscow. Russia says it’s open to trilateral peace talks with the US and Ukraine. But new intelligence points to Russia ramping up its hybrid warfare in Europe in the months ahead. How far will Vladimir Putin go and why now? We speak to former NATOContinue Reading
‘I won’t be able to get a whole tank.’ As Iran war goes on, heating oil prices spike
The effects of the war in Iran threaten to leave some Americans in the literal cold this year because of the high cost of heating oil.Continue Reading
Wendy’s just dropped an emo album. Yes, it has songs about Frostys
Beyond dragging us back to the early 2000s, Wendy’s is proving it doesn’t need artificial intelligence to make a splash. It just needed emo.Continue Reading
Could Yemen’s Houthis hold the world to ransom? | The Security Brief
Yemens’ civil war has flared up in recent weeks, as the Iran-backed Houthi movement seized strategically important stretches of the Red Sea coast, in a rapid offensive. Oil prices have risen on fears of further disruption to the global economy, following six months of war between the US, Israel andContinue Reading
Delegates walk out as Netanyahu addresses UN
Many delegates were seen walking out of the UNGA assembly on Thursday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage to deliver his address.Continue Reading
Pope Leo leads prayer service at restored Notre-Dame Cathedral
Enthusiastic crowds greeted Pope Leo as he arrived at the restored Notre-Dame Cathedral to lead a prayer service, in the first papal visit since a devastating fire nearly destroyed the Gothic masterpiece in 2019. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed #popeleo #notredame #cathedral Read the story here: https://reut.rs/4xJtV2g 👉 Subscribe: https://reut.rs/4b8fRGn Keep upContinue Reading