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Tunisia jails opposition politician for four years over social media posts
A Tunisian military court sentenced opposition politician Olfa Hamdi to four years in prison on charges stemming from social media posts critical of President Kais Saied.
Protesters and police in Albania fight in seventh day of violent clashes
Albania faces its seventh consecutive day of violent clashes between student-led protesters demanding Prime Minister Edi Rama’s resignation and riot police, with nearly 300 people reported injured.
Cornell case spotlights ‘confusing’ web of systems for reporting campus assaults
A civil lawsuit against Cornell University highlights confusion surrounding how colleges and law enforcement handle sexual assault reports, with advocates noting the overlap between university and criminal justice systems creates barriers for survivors.
Captain Smit Machchhar: The ‘hero’ India pilot who was stabbed on Israel-bound flight
An Indian pilot was stabbed during a Flydubai flight bound for Israel on Wednesday, but managed to allow passengers and crew to overpower the attacker and prevent a crash, saving 174 people.
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Trump’s US Fed nominee Warsh vows independence, says he’s no ‘sock puppet’
Kevin Warsh, United States President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Reserve, has addressed concerns about his independence pending his appointment to the bank amid fears that Trump could sway his decisions on monetary policy.On Tuesday, Warsh — who served on...
Two CIA agents reportedly killed in car crash in Mexican state of Chihuahua
Two agents reportedly from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the United States have been killed in a car crash in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, leading to questions about their activities in the country.On Tuesday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum...
Stanford’s sports teams capture an NCAA championship for a 50th straight year
STANFORD, Calif. -- Dick Gould has been around Stanford sports long enough as a tennis player and coach — a remarkable run of seven decades — that he clearly remembers some down years for the university's sports programs.He heard the excuses by coaches and...
Pope Leo’s delicate task in Equatorial Guinea: Bless the faithful, not the regime
MALABO, Equatorial Guinea (RNS) — Pope Leo XIV arrived in Equatorial Guinea on Tuesday morning (April 21), greeted by cheering crowds and a Catholic Church that sees his visit as both a spiritual embrace and a moment for national reflection. “This visit is like a sign...
AI research lab NeoCognition lands $40M seed to build agents that learn like humans
Investors are aggressively courting AI researchers to build startups that can make AI more reliable and efficient. Yu Su, an Ohio State professor leading an AI agent lab, said he initially resisted the pressure from VCs to commercialize his work. He finally took the...
Apple’s Cal AI crackdown signals it’s still policing the App Store
Apple’s recent crackdown on the MyFitnessPal-owned Cal AI food-logging app demonstrates that the tech giant is still enforcing its strict App Store rules around the use of external payments. The calorie-counting app, which was briefly removed from the App Store last...
Council ‘will listen’ to weedkiller objections
Demonstrations are held outside the council HQ as the use of weedkiller is debated. Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source
Council ‘will listen’ to weedkiller objections
Demonstrations are held outside the council HQ as the use of weedkiller is debated. Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source
The AI governance mirage: Why 72% of enterprises don’t have the control and security they think they do
Decision makers at 72% of organizations claim to have two or more AI platforms that they identify as their "primary" layer, according to a survey of 40 enterprise companies conducted by VentureBeat last month, revealing real gaps in security and control. For...
SusHi Tech Tokyo isn’t a conference — it’s a deal room with 60,000 people
There’s a version of a tech conference where you fly somewhere expensive, sit through panels, collect business cards you’ll never follow up on, and fly home. SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 was deliberately designed to be the opposite of that. When 60,000 attendees descend on...
ChatGPT’s new Images 2.0 model is surprisingly good at generating text
It used to be easy enough to distinguish between human-made and AI-generated imagery — just two years ago, you couldn’t use image models to create a menu for a Mexican restaurant without inventing new culinary delights like “enchuita,” “churiros,” “burrto,” and...
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Images 2.0 is here and it does multilingual text, full infographics, slides, maps, even manga — seemingly flawlessly
It's been only a few months since OpenAI released its last big improvement to AI image generations in ChatGPT and through its application programming interface (API) — namely, a new image generation model known as GPT-Image-1.5, released in December 2025, which...