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The Inside Story of Apple Intelligence | Apple’s leaders claim the company wasn’t late to generative AI, but instead following what has become its familiar playbook: try to be the best, not the first.
Google, Meta, and Microsoft, as well as startups like OpenAI and Anthropic, all had well-developed strategies for generative AI by the time Apple finally announced its own push this June. Conventional wisdom suggested this entrance was unfashionably late.
Apple disagrees. Its leaders say the company is arriving just in time—and that it's been stealthily preparing for this moment for years.
That’s part of the message I got from speaking with key Apple executives this fall about how they created what is now called Apple Intelligence. Senior vice president for software engineering Craig Federighi is a familiar character in an ongoing web series in the tech world known as keynote product launches. Less publicly recognizable is senior vice president of machine learning and AI strategy John Giannandrea, who previously headed machine learning at Google. In a separate interview, I spoke with Greg “Joz” Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president for worldwide marketing. (These conversations helped prepare me for my sitdown with Tim Cook, which I did the next day.) All of the executives, including Cook, emphasized that despite the massively disruptive potential of AI, Apple was going to handle this game-changing tech with the same clarity and meticulousness the company is known for. To paraphrase a song by some musicians who also formed a company called Apple, the crew at Cupertino was always waiting for this moment to arise.
“We were doing intelligence in 2015, like predicting which apps you would use next and helping predict routes in maps,” says Joswiak. “We didn’t always talk about it publicly, but we were there and ahead of the curve.”
In 2018, Apple poached Giannandrea from Google, a move that Cook told me showed that Apple anticipated the coming AI transformation. The company created a new senior VP position for him, an unusual move for Apple that broke with its traditional hiring norms. Upon arrival, Giannandrea was struck by how much Apple was already exploiting cutting-edge AI in some of its most popular products. “Face ID is a feature you use every day, many, many times a day to unlock your phone, and you have no idea how it really works,” he says. “There’s a lot of deep learning going on privately on your phone just to make that feature work. But to the user, it just disappears.”
Federighi says that experimenting with OpenAI’s GPT-3 model, which was released in 2020, stoked his imagination. “Things that seemed on their way to becoming possible suddenly appeared eminently possible,” he says. “The next real question was whether it was possible to take advantage of the technology in an Apple way.”
Apple soon had multiple teams working on transformer-based AI models. So when ChatGPT captivated the world in November 2022, there was no need for Apple to assemble an internal task force for developing AI products—work was already underway to create features that would similarly “just disappear.” “We have ways of drawing together functional expertise across the organization to accomplish larger product transformations,” says Federighi. “When it came to making a bigger step in a public way, we pulled together many of those threads, in a way that's just very familiar to us at Apple.”
Apple also had reportedly moved some AI-savvy engineers from its discontinued smart-car project to the Apple Intelligence effort. When I brought this up, Federighi gave me a shrug that signaled, “Hey, I’m not going there.”
Not that any of this was easy. “This is a spot along a journey,” says Giannandrea. “Computer science is changing. For more and more of the things that we want to do, like speech recognition, language understanding, and summarization, the only way to do it is to build. And so this is a progression.”
Apple decided early on that Apple Intelligence wouldn’t be a separate product, but instead something implemented on a systems level. Unlike a number of its competitors, Apple had no interest in producing artificial general intelligence, a quest that to the company seems unrealistic and almost frivolous. “The most credible researchers in the field believe there are many unsolved problems and breakthroughs required,” says Giannandrea. “The idea that you’re scaling up these technologies to go to AGI is very naive.” He says that Apple may very well be involved in important breakthroughs—not to kickstart the Singularity, but to improve its products. “We probably have more engineers working on what we call ‘investigations’ than we do working on what’s going to ship next year,” he says, referring to what is apparently the company's term for basic research.“I would say that people working at Apple are slightly more interested in what the impact of their work is going to be with consumers.”
“Apple is laser focused on things that are going to make your day-to-day life better,” says Joswiak. That ultimately involves making use of personal information, whether it's knowing who your close contacts are when you search for a specific photo, recalling places you’ve visited when you use maps, or keeping track of what you’ve downloaded from Safari. To fully make use of AI, Apple would need to organize the personal information of its users in a comprehensive fashion—a scary proposition the company felt it was uniquely qualified to pitch to its customers because of its very public focus on privacy. Protecting that privacy, however, turned out to be a major technical challenge.
“We had to innovate at the data center level, at the system level, at the OS level, at the cryptographic and security protocol level, at the distributed AI inference level … at every level up the stack to do what no one had done before—extend an on-device processing level of security that you have on your phone, to advance processing in the cloud,” says Federighi. “I hope it is the future of how everyone does this kind of process.” His conviction is so strong that he says he hopes other companies mimic the achievement, even if it means Apple losing its competitive advantage. “There are lots of cases where we have very mixed feelings about people copying what we do, but when it comes to our privacy practices, we were happy to set an example and encourage,” Federighi says.
Only when it built those privacy systems did the company unveil Apple Intelligence, and then small groups of features were released in waves to much fanfare. But the reality is that the first public iteration of Apple Intelligence isn’t quite blowing people away. Critics complain that its inbox summaries, email rewrites, and photo search, as well as a more conversational Siri, don’t seem much different than the gen-AI offerings already unveiled by competitors. But just as Apple crashed its rivals’ parties when it came to digital music streaming and smart watches, the company is confident, if not hubristic, that its Apple-tude will ultimately prevail. “This is a multi-decade thing,” says Giannandrea. “I was very excited about the stuff that we've announced this year, but I think Craig and I are much more excited about, like, what's in the next 10 years.”
Naturally, I asked the two executives to share details of what those future products might be. And also naturally, they refused. “You know us better than that,” says Federighi. Even if some competitors release similar innovations first, Apple will take it in stride. This crowd prides itself on being not first, but best. Generative AI may be the ultimate test to see if that philosophy still works.
Time Travel
This is not the first time I got an exclusive look at Apple’s AI journey. In August 2016, the company gave me a peek into how it was implementing the latest techniques in AI during a day of interviews with Federighi as well as executives Phil Schiller and Eddy Cue, and scientists Tom Gruber and Alex Acero. The message then, as now, was that Apple was on it, but doing AI in its own way.
Even as Apple is bear-hugging machine learning, the executives caution that the embrace is, in a sense, business as usual for them. The Cupertino illuminati view deep learning and ML as only the latest in a steady flow of groundbreaking technologies. Yes, yes, it’s transformational, but not more so than other advances, like touch screens, or flat panels, or object-oriented programming. In Apple’s view, machine learning isn’t the final frontier, despite what other companies say. “It’s not like there weren’t other technologies over the years that have been instrumental in changing the way we interact with devices,” says Cue. And no one at Apple wants to even touch on the spooky/scary speculations that invariably come up in AI discussions. As you’d expect, Apple wouldn’t confirm whether it was working on self-driving cars, or its own version of Netflix. But the team made it pretty clear that Apple was not working on Skynet.
“We use these techniques to do the things we have always wanted to do, better than we’ve been able to do,” says Schiller. “And on new things we haven’t been able to do. It’s a technique that will ultimately be a very Apple way of doing things as it evolves inside Apple and in the ways we make products.”
Ask Me One Thing
Luana asks, “Can Intel resuscitate or is it going to become Xerox?”
Thanks for the question, Luana. When I was watching supremely confident Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at this week’s WIRED Big Interview event, I kept thinking about the plight of Intel, which once stood atop the chip world with similar triumphalism. It invented the microprocessor! Building on that innovation, Intel became the default chip for the personal computer revolution. But ultimately, it fell victim to the Innovator’s Dilemma. The failures of its awkward attempts to elbow its way into the media world could be shrugged off, but not its big misses—the mobile revolution and the importance of graphic chips, earth-shattering events that its rivals exploited. Perhaps the coup de grâce was the rise of custom silicon by companies like Apple and Amazon, which further decreased their reliance on Intel’s offerings. At this point, who needs Intel?
I wouldn’t equate Intel with Xerox, though. The advances of the latter’s PARC division were never really exploited. The clueless top brass at Xerox’s headquarters sat by while Apple, and eventually everyone else, copied its graphical user interface. Intel, in contrast, built a fantastic business—so successful that it was easy to fall into complacency. I can’t say whether resuscitation is possible. (If twice-former CEO Pat Gelsinger can’t figure it out for a huge paycheck, don’t expect me to do it for free.) But Intel does have incredibly valuable expertise and assets, notably its chip fabrication plants. At least until Trump pulls the plug, it also has billions of dollars in funding from the Biden administration to produce those chips in the United States. If Intel doesn’t get bought by one of its competitors, maybe it can hang around until the next big opportunity arises—and a hungry new CEO is smart enough to bet the farm on it. Meanwhile, Huang might consider embroidering the Intel logo in the lining of his famous leather jackets as a persistent reminder of how the mighty can fall.
You can submit questions by leaving a comment below or sending an email to [email protected]. Write ASK LEVY in the subject line.
End Times Chronicle
It’s now official: Björk declared that the apocalypse has already happened. But don’t worry, “biology will reassemble in new ways.”
Last but Not Least
(This is a special Steven Levy–themed assortment of links for this year’s final Plaintext before I use up my vacation days.)
Here’s the complete Tim Cook Big Interview. I love Tim’s answer about Apple giving Stevie Wonder a demo of the Vision Pro mixed-reality headset.
If you want to watch me interviewing Cook, here’s a video.
At the WIRED Big Interview event, Figma CEO Dylan Field apologized for telling me that he wasn’t selling his company—hours after fielding an acquisition offer from Adobe. (The deal ultimately fell apart under scrutiny from regulators.)
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Richard Brody’s The Best Movies of 2024 | The year’s finest works suggest that the art of cinema is expanding.
A year ago, I wasn’t sanguine about the state of ultra-low-budget filmmaking; this year, the D.I.Y. domain accounts for many of the best new releases. What I’m still not sanguine about is the economic prospects for such movies, which, even in the best of times, were shaky box-office propositions. This may not matter for the films themselves, insofar as the best movies, the ones that open new prospects for the art, are made for the future (and the few who see that future in them) as much as for their own time; they reach large audiences only by happy coincidence. But it matters greatly for filmmakers, because early commercial failure may curtail promising careers.
On the other hand, sometimes the few who discern merit in a small, unprofitable movie include producers, financiers, and others with the power to make things happen. RaMell Ross’s exquisite 2018 documentary, “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” took in only $112,282 at the box office, but it got him the chance to direct his first dramatic feature, “Nickel Boys,” with a budget of more than twenty million dollars. That’s good news for Ross, of course, but it’s also good news for the cinema at large—because the remarkable conceptual and aesthetic innovations of his new movie couldn’t have been realized on a shoestring budget. This year’s best releases are crucial reminders of the vitality and the invigorating energy of independent filmmaking—at all levels, ranging from the megamillions that Francis Ford Coppola personally pumped into “Megalopolis” to the hard-scrounged microbudgets of “Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point,” “My First Film,” and “The People’s Joker” (which was launched with a crowdfunding campaign).
A year, though real enough celestially speaking, is a cinematic artifice. It’s hard to glean trends from a year’s releases, because what’s released depends on the vagaries of production and distribution—the happenstance of which directors have movies in the works at a given moment, which movies premièring at festivals get acquired by a distributor for U.S. release. Some films that might have made it to my 2024 list (“On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” “Eephus,” “Misericordia”) are now scheduled for 2025, and others (“Subtraction,” “Suburban Fury,” “Vas-Tu Renoncer?”) have no U.S. distribution. Still, the movies on the list do suggest a shared theme that has been latent in new releases for a while: the expansion of the art.
That may sound vague and grandiose, but a specific kind of expansion has recently been in evidence among many of the best new films. The point-of-view shots in “Nickel Boys” that vertiginously unite viewers and characters, the live performance of an actor who pops up in person and seemingly interacts with Adam Driver during screenings of “Megalopolis,” the pointillistic fragmentation of “Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point,” and the multiple levels of fiction and autofiction in “My First Film” all suggest an expanded cinema that doesn’t so much break film frames as it displaces them off the screen—that doesn’t make movies less cinematic but cinematizes life.
Such concepts and practices have been around for a long while, and so has the term “expanded cinema,” which gained prominence (with an altogether different meaning) as the title of a remarkable 1970 book by Gene Youngblood on the use of advanced technology in avant-garde films. Francis Ford Coppola’s 2017 book “Live Cinema and Its Techniques” is based on concepts that he had been mulling since the nineteen-fifties and developing since the nineteen-seventies. If these ideas are only now being openly advanced in a wide range of works by a multigenerational set of directors, I think it’s no accident: thanks to the prevalence of streaming and the watching of movies on cell phones or wherever, the very notion of the theatre and the fixed gaze at its screen has come to seem secondary and inessential to the cinematic experience.
That’s precisely why this new variety of cinema has come to the fore—not to concede movies to the pocket-size travelling show but to reclaim them from it. These new movies offer a new kind of spectacle, one that’s not just a matter of audiovisual bombast but that inheres in cinematic form, becomes part of a film’s narrative architecture, and creates a distinctive psychological relationship with viewers. This expanded cinema gives life to a movable spectacle, to one that can survive from format to format and won’t generate anything like the now clichéd disproportion of watching “Lawrence of Arabia” on a cell phone. With the new cinema, it isn’t the images that get small but the ideas that get big.
Despite the innovative extremes of the year’s best movies, the most exciting cinematic experience I had in 2024 involved a program, at BAM, in April, of four silent Japanese movies made between 1917 and 1933—one live-action film from each of the the two greatest Japanese filmmakers (a short by Yasujirō Ozu and a feature by Kenji Mizoguchi) and two animated shorts. The movies were presented in the manner that, in their time, was standard in Japan: with live accompaniment by performers, called benshi, who stood next to the screen and functioned as m.c.s, narrators, and actors. Each benshi—one per film—introduces the film and then, while the movie plays (with live musical accompaniment from a small band featuring both Japanese and European instruments), describes the action (with literary flair and dramatic verve) and also gives voice to the characters, providing and performing dialogue with keen interpretive variety.
With the rise of talking pictures in Japan, in the mid-thirties, the art of the benshi largely vanished, but in recent decades it has been cultivated anew and deployed at revival screenings. The result is entrancing, astonishing, even startling, both for its immediate dramatic thrills and for its wider implications. Though I’d felt that I’d seen acting of sublime refinement and inventive magnificence, I also had the sense that I’d experienced something that was neither quite like moviegoing nor like theatre. Rather, just as opera, which combines music and theatre but is an art in itself and different from both, so movies with benshi accompaniment are—despite their practical basis in the ordinary habit of moviegoing—transformed into an altogether separate art.
The lesson is jolting: from the start, the cinema was expanded. Whether with the rise of talking pictures, the radio-based and theatrically inspired innovations of Orson Welles, the development of immersive cinema-vérité documentaries along with their metafictional implications, or the notebook-like immediacy of movies made with lightweight digital video, the cinema has always been breaking out of its onscreen cloister and taking its place in the world. Now it’s doing so openly, boldly, self-consciously, and with a sharp sense of purpose. In 1970, Youngblood understood aesthetic advances in social and political terms: “We can now see through each other’s eyes, moving toward expanded vision and inevitably expanded consciousness.” The new cinema is an inherent part of a struggle for inner and outer liberation, for the reckoning with unacknowledged realities in clearer and more personal ways. Filmmakers whose movies have been part of that struggle this year could certainly not have known in advance how the election would turn out—but they filmed as if affirming that, no matter what, the struggle is ongoing and is inseparable from their artistic quest.
It’s hard to adapt a good novel, because the necessary directorial freedom runs up against the fear of betraying the admirable source, but RaMell Ross, in his first dramatic feature, creates a bolder, riskier, and more imaginative adaptation (of Colson Whitehead’s superb 2019 novel) than any other recent filmmaker. He turns a sharply observed, naturalistic third-person narrative—a story of two Black teen-agers trapped in a cruel and murderous, and segregated, juvenile-detention facility in Florida, in the nineteen-sixties—into the subjective visions of the two friends’ perspectives, shot from their points of view, with the requisite complex choreography of action and camera. The result is a form that elevates the very notion of point of view into a moral and political challenge of the highest order, in movies and in life at large.
In the writer-director Tyler Taormina’s hands, the clichéd premise of a memory-rich family drama set during the holidays yields a comprehensively original film. Its mosaic-like structure and epigrammatic dialogue are propulsive, its characterizations high-relief yet finely etched, its performances prickly yet tenderly observed, and its over-all style as colorfully enticing as it is subtly ambivalent.
The politics of Francis Ford Coppola’s futuristic science-fantasy, which layers ancient Rome and the New York of tomorrow, are as ingenuous as its whiz-bang cinematic inspiration, because its closest parallels are the adolescence of the cinema itself: silent movies. The grand-scale and high-energy images befit the cosmic imagination of silent-era spectacles; the performances delivered in forum-filling diction match the expressionistic fury of nineteen-twenties movies, too.
Another adaptation at an audacious level of form: first, Zia Anger turned the story of the making of her unreleased first feature into a performance piece that she delivered in movie theatres; then she transformed that performance into a new feature. The result dramatizes the making and unmaking of the suppressed film and also weaves in her first-person, frame-breaking retrospective account of the doomed production. This is painfully personal filmmaking that’s principled and diagnostic regarding the practical and ethical conflicts of the art.
Reuniting with Richard Gere for the first time since “American Gigolo” (1980), Paul Schrader makes the years weigh heavily in a drama (adapted from a novel by Russell Banks) about the reckonings of a portrait of a terminally ill filmmaker (Gere) who first came to prominence as a draft evader, in Canada, during the Vietnam War. Despite his infirmities, the filmmaker agrees to be interviewed for a documentary but insists that his wife (Uma Thurman) be in the room so that he can confess to her the story of his youth, in the nineteen-sixties—an era that Schrader depicts, in flashbacks, with passionate energy and equally passionate regret, and a pugnacious sense of form to match.
History writ large on an intimate scale: with fervent melodrama and elemental adventure, Steve McQueen delivers the big story of London uniting under aerial bombardment during the Second World War while also revealing, as with cinematic X-rays, the hidden fractures threatening British society—during the war and long after. Saoirse Ronan, who has long been deployed by lesser directors for her technique, here gets to unleash her temperament and expand her very presence, yielding her most exciting and engaging performance to date.
Nathan Silver’s exuberantly abrasive quasi-romantic comedy, about a widowed cantor (Jason Schwartzman) who’s recruited by his long-ago music teacher (Carol Kane) to give her bat-mitzvah lessons, is also an acerbic view, in the Philip Roth vein, of Jewish norms and institutions—and a loving embrace of disorganized religion.
The writer and director Joanna Arnow crafts a wry and poignant aesthetic and a tense emotional climate for the story of a young Brooklyn woman in a numbing office job who struggles to fulfill her conflicting desires for both a submissive relationship and a romantic one. Arnow, starring as the protagonist, also develops a bold, melancholy choreography for one of the year’s most original performances, in synch with her precise camera style.
Using urgently direct methods with uninhibited freedom, Clint Eastwood fashions a courtroom thriller—about a juror with a personal connection to the case he’s deciding—into a scathing consideration of the ease with which demagogues and deceivers can manipulate the legal system into cruel injustice.
Leos Carax’s barely feature-length self-nonportrait is a free-flowing conjuring of personal connections and emotional attachments, a venting of passions by way of imagistic furies, and a toy chest of exuberant, intimate-scaled inventiveness.
Richard Linklater rings wry changes on the themes of identity and self-transformation in a comic film noir—based on a true story—of a nerdy psychology professor who’s recruited by police to impersonate hit men for sting operations. The resulting romantic and criminological twists are matched by the gleeful energy of the cast, headed by Glen Powell and Adria Arjona.
A marvel of historical re-creation, Robert Kolodny’s fictitious documentary, about the real-life boxer Willie Pep’s attempt at a comeback in 1964, evokes with equal deftness the physical world of Pep’s place and time along with emotional and social worlds that were leaving him behind.
The best documentary moment in the year’s movies (a scene that turns woodchopping into a mini-thriller) is found in this drama, by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, about a factotum in a Japanese mountain village who becomes embroiled in local resistance to the construction nearby of a glamping lodge.
Jane Schoenbrun’s second dramatic feature develops a distinctive trans cinematic aesthetic in its tale of two adolescents whose obsession with a TV superhero enables them to dramatize the agonized self-denial they feel as a result of pressure to reject their identities.
Catherine Breillat’s tale of a dubious (and, in France, illegal) sexual relationship between a woman and her husband’s adolescent son is presented as an idyllic albeit imprudent adventure, and yet it turns into an emotionally brutal drama of power plays and the social and civic institutions that foster them. Great films outleap their creator’s intentions.
This D.I.Y. parody of the superheroic universe, directed by Vera Drew, also stars Drew, as a trans teen who escapes a repressive religious town, arrives in a futuristic urban dystopia, and tries to make a new life as an outlaw comedian. The simple but outrageous special effects and phantasmagorical leaps of imagination are as pointedly critical as they are giddily spectacular.
Mati Diop’s documentary, about France’s repatriation, in 2021, of twenty-six art works plundered in 1892 from the Kingdom of Dahomey, in present-day Benin, looks intimately at the political and cultural legacy of colonialism and at the physical peculiarities of transporting art. In addition, Diop’s fictionalization of a long-ago Dahomeyan monarch, whose sculpted likeness is among those returned, highlights the way that art can embody the living memory of history.
An earnest but fraught friendship that develops between a Palestinian activist and an Israeli Jewish journalist, as they team up to report on—and to resist—Israeli demolitions in and around the activist’s village, gives rise to this documentary, which is at once trenchantly reportorial, revealingly historical, and painfully personal.
The courage of the Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof and his cast and crew in secretly making the film is matched by the unyielding principle of the work itself. A middle-aged official in Tehran is promoted, becomes an investigative judge, and is appalled to learn that he’s required to rubber-stamp death sentences for young protesters. His wife embraces the family’s new privileges, but their two daughters, a teen-ager and a university student, support the protests. When the new judge’s newly issued gun goes missing, he suspects a member of his family, and the movie takes a climactic leap into intense melodrama that borders on grand tragedy. With a blazing yet meticulous combination of action, setting, and performance, the astonishing dénouement is reminiscent of masterworks by D. W. Griffith.
The Zellner brothers, David and Nathan, deliver this story of four members of a forest-dwelling Sasquatch family in the Pacific Northwest utterly straight. The setup risks absurdity—the cast (which includes Nathan) essentially wears gorilla suits—but the premise is developed with meticulous and quasi-biological specificity, anthropological rigor, and imaginative speculation about the creatures’ emotions and senses of selfhood.
Susanna Fogel’s surprisingly breezy yet fervently committed drama, of the N.S.A. contractor Reality Winner’s release of secret documents revealing Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election, has the line of the year: “How is that legal?” ♦ | {
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"A year ago, I wasn’t sanguine about the state of ultra-low-budget filmmaking; this year, the D.I.Y. domain accounts for many of the best new releases. What I’m still not sanguine about is the economic prospects for such movies, which, even in the best of times, were shaky box-office propositions. This may not matter for the films themselves, insofar as the best movies, the ones that open new prospects for the art, are made for the future (and the few who see that future in them) as much as for their own time; they reach large audiences only by happy coincidence. But it matters greatly for filmmakers, because early commercial failure may curtail promising careers.",
"On the other hand, sometimes the few who discern merit in a small, unprofitable movie include producers, financiers, and others with the power to make things happen. RaMell Ross’s exquisite 2018 documentary, “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” took in only $112,282 at the box office, but it got him the chance to direct his first dramatic feature, “Nickel Boys,” with a budget of more than twenty million dollars. That’s good news for Ross, of course, but it’s also good news for the cinema at large—because the remarkable conceptual and aesthetic innovations of his new movie couldn’t have been realized on a shoestring budget. This year’s best releases are crucial reminders of the vitality and the invigorating energy of independent filmmaking—at all levels, ranging from the megamillions that Francis Ford Coppola personally pumped into “Megalopolis” to the hard-scrounged microbudgets of “Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point,” “My First Film,” and “The People’s Joker” (which was launched with a crowdfunding campaign).",
"A year, though real enough celestially speaking, is a cinematic artifice. It’s hard to glean trends from a year’s releases, because what’s released depends on the vagaries of production and distribution—the happenstance of which directors have movies in the works at a given moment, which movies premièring at festivals get acquired by a distributor for U.S. release. Some films that might have made it to my 2024 list (“On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” “Eephus,” “Misericordia”) are now scheduled for 2025, and others (“Subtraction,” “Suburban Fury,” “Vas-Tu Renoncer?”) have no U.S. distribution. Still, the movies on the list do suggest a shared theme that has been latent in new releases for a while: the expansion of the art.",
"That may sound vague and grandiose, but a specific kind of expansion has recently been in evidence among many of the best new films. The point-of-view shots in “Nickel Boys” that vertiginously unite viewers and characters, the live performance of an actor who pops up in person and seemingly interacts with Adam Driver during screenings of “Megalopolis,” the pointillistic fragmentation of “Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point,” and the multiple levels of fiction and autofiction in “My First Film” all suggest an expanded cinema that doesn’t so much break film frames as it displaces them off the screen—that doesn’t make movies less cinematic but cinematizes life.",
"Such concepts and practices have been around for a long while, and so has the term “expanded cinema,” which gained prominence (with an altogether different meaning) as the title of a remarkable 1970 book by Gene Youngblood on the use of advanced technology in avant-garde films. Francis Ford Coppola’s 2017 book “Live Cinema and Its Techniques” is based on concepts that he had been mulling since the nineteen-fifties and developing since the nineteen-seventies. If these ideas are only now being openly advanced in a wide range of works by a multigenerational set of directors, I think it’s no accident: thanks to the prevalence of streaming and the watching of movies on cell phones or wherever, the very notion of the theatre and the fixed gaze at its screen has come to seem secondary and inessential to the cinematic experience.",
"That’s precisely why this new variety of cinema has come to the fore—not to concede movies to the pocket-size travelling show but to reclaim them from it. These new movies offer a new kind of spectacle, one that’s not just a matter of audiovisual bombast but that inheres in cinematic form, becomes part of a film’s narrative architecture, and creates a distinctive psychological relationship with viewers. This expanded cinema gives life to a movable spectacle, to one that can survive from format to format and won’t generate anything like the now clichéd disproportion of watching “Lawrence of Arabia” on a cell phone. With the new cinema, it isn’t the images that get small but the ideas that get big.",
"Despite the innovative extremes of the year’s best movies, the most exciting cinematic experience I had in 2024 involved a program, at BAM, in April, of four silent Japanese movies made between 1917 and 1933—one live-action film from each of the the two greatest Japanese filmmakers (a short by Yasujirō Ozu and a feature by Kenji Mizoguchi) and two animated shorts. The movies were presented in the manner that, in their time, was standard in Japan: with live accompaniment by performers, called benshi, who stood next to the screen and functioned as m.c.s, narrators, and actors. Each benshi—one per film—introduces the film and then, while the movie plays (with live musical accompaniment from a small band featuring both Japanese and European instruments), describes the action (with literary flair and dramatic verve) and also gives voice to the characters, providing and performing dialogue with keen interpretive variety.",
"With the rise of talking pictures in Japan, in the mid-thirties, the art of the benshi largely vanished, but in recent decades it has been cultivated anew and deployed at revival screenings. The result is entrancing, astonishing, even startling, both for its immediate dramatic thrills and for its wider implications. Though I’d felt that I’d seen acting of sublime refinement and inventive magnificence, I also had the sense that I’d experienced something that was neither quite like moviegoing nor like theatre. Rather, just as opera, which combines music and theatre but is an art in itself and different from both, so movies with benshi accompaniment are—despite their practical basis in the ordinary habit of moviegoing—transformed into an altogether separate art.",
"The lesson is jolting: from the start, the cinema was expanded. Whether with the rise of talking pictures, the radio-based and theatrically inspired innovations of Orson Welles, the development of immersive cinema-vérité documentaries along with their metafictional implications, or the notebook-like immediacy of movies made with lightweight digital video, the cinema has always been breaking out of its onscreen cloister and taking its place in the world. Now it’s doing so openly, boldly, self-consciously, and with a sharp sense of purpose. In 1970, Youngblood understood aesthetic advances in social and political terms: “We can now see through each other’s eyes, moving toward expanded vision and inevitably expanded consciousness.” The new cinema is an inherent part of a struggle for inner and outer liberation, for the reckoning with unacknowledged realities in clearer and more personal ways. Filmmakers whose movies have been part of that struggle this year could certainly not have known in advance how the election would turn out—but they filmed as if affirming that, no matter what, the struggle is ongoing and is inseparable from their artistic quest.",
"It’s hard to adapt a good novel, because the necessary directorial freedom runs up against the fear of betraying the admirable source, but RaMell Ross, in his first dramatic feature, creates a bolder, riskier, and more imaginative adaptation (of Colson Whitehead’s superb 2019 novel) than any other recent filmmaker. He turns a sharply observed, naturalistic third-person narrative—a story of two Black teen-agers trapped in a cruel and murderous, and segregated, juvenile-detention facility in Florida, in the nineteen-sixties—into the subjective visions of the two friends’ perspectives, shot from their points of view, with the requisite complex choreography of action and camera. The result is a form that elevates the very notion of point of view into a moral and political challenge of the highest order, in movies and in life at large.",
"In the writer-director Tyler Taormina’s hands, the clichéd premise of a memory-rich family drama set during the holidays yields a comprehensively original film. Its mosaic-like structure and epigrammatic dialogue are propulsive, its characterizations high-relief yet finely etched, its performances prickly yet tenderly observed, and its over-all style as colorfully enticing as it is subtly ambivalent.",
"The politics of Francis Ford Coppola’s futuristic science-fantasy, which layers ancient Rome and the New York of tomorrow, are as ingenuous as its whiz-bang cinematic inspiration, because its closest parallels are the adolescence of the cinema itself: silent movies. The grand-scale and high-energy images befit the cosmic imagination of silent-era spectacles; the performances delivered in forum-filling diction match the expressionistic fury of nineteen-twenties movies, too.",
"Another adaptation at an audacious level of form: first, Zia Anger turned the story of the making of her unreleased first feature into a performance piece that she delivered in movie theatres; then she transformed that performance into a new feature. The result dramatizes the making and unmaking of the suppressed film and also weaves in her first-person, frame-breaking retrospective account of the doomed production. This is painfully personal filmmaking that’s principled and diagnostic regarding the practical and ethical conflicts of the art.",
"Reuniting with Richard Gere for the first time since “American Gigolo” (1980), Paul Schrader makes the years weigh heavily in a drama (adapted from a novel by Russell Banks) about the reckonings of a portrait of a terminally ill filmmaker (Gere) who first came to prominence as a draft evader, in Canada, during the Vietnam War. Despite his infirmities, the filmmaker agrees to be interviewed for a documentary but insists that his wife (Uma Thurman) be in the room so that he can confess to her the story of his youth, in the nineteen-sixties—an era that Schrader depicts, in flashbacks, with passionate energy and equally passionate regret, and a pugnacious sense of form to match.",
"History writ large on an intimate scale: with fervent melodrama and elemental adventure, Steve McQueen delivers the big story of London uniting under aerial bombardment during the Second World War while also revealing, as with cinematic X-rays, the hidden fractures threatening British society—during the war and long after. Saoirse Ronan, who has long been deployed by lesser directors for her technique, here gets to unleash her temperament and expand her very presence, yielding her most exciting and engaging performance to date.",
"Nathan Silver’s exuberantly abrasive quasi-romantic comedy, about a widowed cantor (Jason Schwartzman) who’s recruited by his long-ago music teacher (Carol Kane) to give her bat-mitzvah lessons, is also an acerbic view, in the Philip Roth vein, of Jewish norms and institutions—and a loving embrace of disorganized religion.",
"The writer and director Joanna Arnow crafts a wry and poignant aesthetic and a tense emotional climate for the story of a young Brooklyn woman in a numbing office job who struggles to fulfill her conflicting desires for both a submissive relationship and a romantic one. Arnow, starring as the protagonist, also develops a bold, melancholy choreography for one of the year’s most original performances, in synch with her precise camera style.",
"Using urgently direct methods with uninhibited freedom, Clint Eastwood fashions a courtroom thriller—about a juror with a personal connection to the case he’s deciding—into a scathing consideration of the ease with which demagogues and deceivers can manipulate the legal system into cruel injustice.",
"Leos Carax’s barely feature-length self-nonportrait is a free-flowing conjuring of personal connections and emotional attachments, a venting of passions by way of imagistic furies, and a toy chest of exuberant, intimate-scaled inventiveness.",
"Richard Linklater rings wry changes on the themes of identity and self-transformation in a comic film noir—based on a true story—of a nerdy psychology professor who’s recruited by police to impersonate hit men for sting operations. The resulting romantic and criminological twists are matched by the gleeful energy of the cast, headed by Glen Powell and Adria Arjona.",
"A marvel of historical re-creation, Robert Kolodny’s fictitious documentary, about the real-life boxer Willie Pep’s attempt at a comeback in 1964, evokes with equal deftness the physical world of Pep’s place and time along with emotional and social worlds that were leaving him behind.",
"The best documentary moment in the year’s movies (a scene that turns woodchopping into a mini-thriller) is found in this drama, by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, about a factotum in a Japanese mountain village who becomes embroiled in local resistance to the construction nearby of a glamping lodge.",
"Jane Schoenbrun’s second dramatic feature develops a distinctive trans cinematic aesthetic in its tale of two adolescents whose obsession with a TV superhero enables them to dramatize the agonized self-denial they feel as a result of pressure to reject their identities.",
"Catherine Breillat’s tale of a dubious (and, in France, illegal) sexual relationship between a woman and her husband’s adolescent son is presented as an idyllic albeit imprudent adventure, and yet it turns into an emotionally brutal drama of power plays and the social and civic institutions that foster them. Great films outleap their creator’s intentions.",
"This D.I.Y. parody of the superheroic universe, directed by Vera Drew, also stars Drew, as a trans teen who escapes a repressive religious town, arrives in a futuristic urban dystopia, and tries to make a new life as an outlaw comedian. The simple but outrageous special effects and phantasmagorical leaps of imagination are as pointedly critical as they are giddily spectacular.",
"Mati Diop’s documentary, about France’s repatriation, in 2021, of twenty-six art works plundered in 1892 from the Kingdom of Dahomey, in present-day Benin, looks intimately at the political and cultural legacy of colonialism and at the physical peculiarities of transporting art. In addition, Diop’s fictionalization of a long-ago Dahomeyan monarch, whose sculpted likeness is among those returned, highlights the way that art can embody the living memory of history.",
"An earnest but fraught friendship that develops between a Palestinian activist and an Israeli Jewish journalist, as they team up to report on—and to resist—Israeli demolitions in and around the activist’s village, gives rise to this documentary, which is at once trenchantly reportorial, revealingly historical, and painfully personal.",
"The courage of the Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof and his cast and crew in secretly making the film is matched by the unyielding principle of the work itself. A middle-aged official in Tehran is promoted, becomes an investigative judge, and is appalled to learn that he’s required to rubber-stamp death sentences for young protesters. His wife embraces the family’s new privileges, but their two daughters, a teen-ager and a university student, support the protests. When the new judge’s newly issued gun goes missing, he suspects a member of his family, and the movie takes a climactic leap into intense melodrama that borders on grand tragedy. With a blazing yet meticulous combination of action, setting, and performance, the astonishing dénouement is reminiscent of masterworks by D. W. Griffith.",
"The Zellner brothers, David and Nathan, deliver this story of four members of a forest-dwelling Sasquatch family in the Pacific Northwest utterly straight. The setup risks absurdity—the cast (which includes Nathan) essentially wears gorilla suits—but the premise is developed with meticulous and quasi-biological specificity, anthropological rigor, and imaginative speculation about the creatures’ emotions and senses of selfhood.",
"Susanna Fogel’s surprisingly breezy yet fervently committed drama, of the N.S.A. contractor Reality Winner’s release of secret documents revealing Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election, has the line of the year: “How is that legal?” ♦"
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Elon Musk donated more than $260M to elect Donald Trump | Fresh campaign financing data shows that Elon Musk poured more than $260 million into political groups in 2024 that helped Donald Trump win the presidential election and, consequently, secured a position for himself as the co-head of the Department of Government Efficiency, according to the Federal Election Commission.
The New York Times reported that Musk and the entities he controls disclosed about $277 million in donations to federal groups this election cycle.
Musk is the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, and the owner of X, The Boring Company, and Neuralink. His donations make Musk the largest donor of the election cycle, and they can be viewed as an investment in the future of his own companies. Trump is in favor of deregulation, which could benefit industries Musk is involved in, including AI and space exploration.
Musk’s xAI this week landed $6 billion in fresh funds. The billionaire executive is worth $361.7 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He has seen his wealth surge in the month since Trump won the election.
The bulk of Musk’s donation, roughly $238.5 million, went to the America PAC, a super political action committee he founded in the spring that largely focused on the presidential race. Reports have shown that the America PAC funded ads across social media that impersonated Democrats and their stances with cartoonishly woke and inaccurate sentiments.
Super PACs can accept unlimited donations, and Musk has said he expects the PAC to “keep grinding” through the midterms.
The super PAC’s filing shows it made 18 payments of $1 million to people who served as “spokesperson consultants.” Musk offered $1 million daily giveaways to a registered voter in swing states if they signed a pledge to support free speech and gun rights. A lawsuit from Philadelphia’s district attorney against Musk and America PAC accusing them of running an “unlawful lottery” failed to win an injunction to stop the payments.
Musk also donated $20.5 million to RBG PAC, a super PAC that ran ads claiming Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the late Supreme Court justice, had abortion positions that aligned with Trump’s. Ginsburg was a staunch supporter of abortion rights. Trump has said he is against a national abortion ban but has stacked his cabinet with politicians like Doug Burgum who have passed or support strict abortion laws.
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Emily Morris scores and Wake Forest women advance to program's first College Cup championship match | CARY, N.C. (AP) — Emily Morris scored her fourth goal of the season in the 73rd minute and Wake Forest beat Stanford 1-0 on Friday night to advance to the program’s first College Cup championship match.
Wake Forest (16-3-4), which will play for the title on Monday, was picked to finish ninth in the ACC preseason poll after missing last year’s NCAA tournament with a record of 10-3-5 and a sixth-place ACC finish.
Three-time national champion Stanford (16-5-2) was hoping to return to the title game after losing to eventual champion Florida State last season to snap a string of 36 consecutive unbeaten matches.
Morris calmly volleyed Sierra Sythe’s cross off the hands of Stanford goalkeeper Haley Craig and it landed inside the goal line. Stanford defender Elise Evans cleared it away, but the officials ruled it cross the line.
Craig kept it a one-goal game with nine minutes remaining when she dove to her right to deny Caiya Hanks’ close-range attempt.
Stanford’s best scoring chance came in the first half when Wake Forest goalkeeper Valentina Amaral deflected Andrea Kitahata’s shot off the post and the ball rolled on the goal line before defender Kristin Johnson cleared it away.
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A Windsor water slide has a new weight limit. This woman says the way it's being enforced should change | Southwestern Ontario city says it's waiting on new scale that won't show person's weight
A woman who wasn't allowed to ride an indoor water slide with her son says the City of Windsor needs to come up with a more sensitive way to enforce a new weight restriction for the attraction.
At the end of November, Jessica Cameron went to Adventure Bay Family Water Park with her seven-year-old. A frequent user of the city-run park, Cameron said this was the first time she noticed a new rule for one of the slides, called The Python. It now has a 300-pound weight restriction, which meant she and her son had to be weighed.
As a result, Cameron and her son weren't allowed to go down the slide together. The whole experience left Cameron feeling ashamed and worried about others who may be put in a similar situation.
The regulatory body that oversees safety of these slides told CBC News that recent incidents have forced them to temporarily reduce the slide's weight limit. Cameron said she understands the need for safety, but her experience made her think "there's gotta be a better way to do this."
Scale that flashes weight feels 'intrusive'
After walking up a series of steps to get to the top of The Python, a large blue slide where people sit in a tube and ride down together, Cameron noticed a scale and sign that said weight requirements for the slide were now different.
Cameron said a digital screen flashes the person's weight at the on-duty lifeguard.
"It was unnerving, first of all, to see a scale on the floor that looked like something you would put a dog on," she said.
"I felt embarrassed. I felt like it was intrusive to me."
CBC has not seen the scale.
Cameron said her son stepped on the scale first and she then joined him, even though she knew they would surpass the weight allowed to use the slide. When she turned to the lifeguard to ask what would happen now that they were over the limit, he told her he'd get another lifeguard to go down the slide with her son.
Cameron said she then had to go back down the stairs, which felt like a "walk of shame."
Cameron teaches middle-school girls and said she's been thinking about how such an experience could impact them.
"In 2024, I think we need to be more sensitive towards people, towards mental health and body issues, and all of these things. So while my skin is tough and I can handle that sort of thing, I don't know that everybody can and I don't want them to have to go through that."
2 recent incidents led to new slide weight limit
In an email, a spokesperson for the Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA), which provides safety oversight for amusement rides, told CBC News there were two recent incidents on The Python where "riders fell off the tube."
As a result, TSSA said, it issued an order requiring the total weight limit on the slide be temporarily reduced from 600 pounds to 300 pounds, "until the park owner can complete an engineering assessment and testing of the ride to determine a safe total upper weight limit."
TSSA said it will follow up with an inspection to confirm the maximum capacity.
City says scale it ordered hasn't arrived yet
In an emailed statement, the City of Windsor's senior executive director of community service, Michael Chantler, said the "safety of guests ... is always our number one priority."
"In the case of The Python ride, the weight limit issued by the regulatory body is something with which we must comply. Signs are posted at the front desk, entrance gate and at the bottom of the entrance to the ride," said Chantler.
He said the signs offer information on the weight limit and "notify all guests that they will be weighed discreetly."
But Cameron said there weren't any signs at the bottom, and if she had seen any, she wouldn't have gone up.
"When a guest is on the scale, the only person who can view the number is the lifeguard," said Chantler.
"No numbers are stated out loud and staff are trained on how to communicate kindly with patrons. Weight, age and height restrictions are commonly used throughout the amusement industry and are in place to ensure guest safety."
The city said it continues to follow TSSA direction and "review this [weight] regulation with the authority."
It also said the scale it originally ordered hasn't yet arrived, but the one it plans to get is "designed specifically for the amusement industry."
"The scale has the ability to weigh multiple people at one time to ensure that the combination does not put them over a certain weight for safety reasons. No weight is ever displayed; rather it's just a green or red light."
Expert says moments can trigger body image issues
Kyle Ganson, assistant professor at Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto, has worked with people with eating disorders, body image issues and mental health or addictions issues.
When CBC told Ganson about the water-slide situation, he called it another example of "weight stigma, weight bias — that in order to engage in a life and have fun activities and experience things that people maybe in smaller bodies would experience, you have to be a certain weight."
"Don't develop something and make it publicly available if it can't hold various types of weights and high amounts of weight just because we know that people [who] are going to use them are going to come in all different types of body shapes and sizes," said Ganson.
He added while he's not an engineer or an expert in these sorts of slides, there needs to be a way to make these materials so that they can hold higher amounts.
Ganson said experiences such as the one involving the water slide can cause shame, and create body image issues or reinforce a weight stigma of, "I should be a different size."
That could lead to someone trying to change their body by excessive dieting and overexercising, which could result in problems like eating disorders.
When asked whether a scale with a green or red light for the water slide is any better, Cameron said it still is saying "yes or no" to a group or a person, but she feels it may be better than having someone's weight on display.
After her experience, Cameron made a Facebook post on a local group for mothers to inform other women.
"People [in the post comments] were definitely on the side of this is not appropriate, this is harmful, this is demeaning, you know, especially for the young girls and for the moms like me who are just there with their kids, who are brave enough to put on the bathing suit.... It's a huge step, at my age after having kids to want to put on a bathing suit," she told CBC.
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"Cameron said her son stepped on the scale first and she then joined him, even though she knew they would surpass the weight allowed to use the slide. When she turned to the lifeguard to ask what would happen now that they were over the limit, he told her he'd get another lifeguard to go down the slide with her son.",
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"Cameron teaches middle-school girls and said she's been thinking about how such an experience could impact them.",
"\"In 2024, I think we need to be more sensitive towards people, towards mental health and body issues, and all of these things. So while my skin is tough and I can handle that sort of thing, I don't know that everybody can and I don't want them to have to go through that.\""
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"As a result, TSSA said, it issued an order requiring the total weight limit on the slide be temporarily reduced from 600 pounds to 300 pounds, \"until the park owner can complete an engineering assessment and testing of the ride to determine a safe total upper weight limit.\"",
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"\"In the case of The Python ride, the weight limit issued by the regulatory body is something with which we must comply. Signs are posted at the front desk, entrance gate and at the bottom of the entrance to the ride,\" said Chantler.",
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"\"When a guest is on the scale, the only person who can view the number is the lifeguard,\" said Chantler.",
"\"No numbers are stated out loud and staff are trained on how to communicate kindly with patrons. Weight, age and height restrictions are commonly used throughout the amusement industry and are in place to ensure guest safety.\"",
"The city said it continues to follow TSSA direction and \"review this [weight] regulation with the authority.\"",
"It also said the scale it originally ordered hasn't yet arrived, but the one it plans to get is \"designed specifically for the amusement industry.\"",
"\"The scale has the ability to weigh multiple people at one time to ensure that the combination does not put them over a certain weight for safety reasons. No weight is ever displayed; rather it's just a green or red light.\""
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"When CBC told Ganson about the water-slide situation, he called it another example of \"weight stigma, weight bias — that in order to engage in a life and have fun activities and experience things that people maybe in smaller bodies would experience, you have to be a certain weight.\"",
"\"Don't develop something and make it publicly available if it can't hold various types of weights and high amounts of weight just because we know that people [who] are going to use them are going to come in all different types of body shapes and sizes,\" said Ganson.",
"He added while he's not an engineer or an expert in these sorts of slides, there needs to be a way to make these materials so that they can hold higher amounts.",
"Ganson said experiences such as the one involving the water slide can cause shame, and create body image issues or reinforce a weight stigma of, \"I should be a different size.\"",
"That could lead to someone trying to change their body by excessive dieting and overexercising, which could result in problems like eating disorders.",
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More Isle of Man ferry disruption from Irish Sea gales | Ferry passengers face more travel disruption with the cancellation of ferries to and from Lancashire for the second day running.
While the overnight crossing of the Manxman ran with a delay, the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company called off all of the rest of the day's sailings.
The ferry firm warned that forecast gales meant sailings to Heysham on Friday and Liverpool on Saturday were also at risk of disruption.
Ronaldsway Met Office has also warned of potential disruption on the island’s roads in the coming days due to rain and gales.
A yellow weather warning has been put in place from 15:00 GMT on Friday and 12:00 on Saturday for “persistent and heavy rain”.
A further amber warning is in place for severe gales, possibly reaching storm force at times, from 03:00 on Saturday for the remainder of the day.
With the blustery condition set to continue throughout the period, the Steam Packet warned that all of the Manxman’s sailings were at risk of rescheduling or cancellation.
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The Crypto Industry Hails David Sacks, Its New ‘Czar’ | David Sacks, a member of the infamous “PayPal Mafia,” will lead a group of advisers tasked with steering AI and crypto policy under the Trump administration.
US president-elect Donald Trump has appointed venture capitalist and former PayPal executive David Sacks as White House AI & Crypto Czar, a newly created role meant to establish the country as the global leader in both fields.
Members of the cryptosphere have gathered to congratulate their new czar, a Trump loyalist from Silicon Valley who has previously expressed enthusiasm for crypto technologies and invested in crypto startups. The appointment is being celebrated by crypto executives and policy wonks as “bullish” for the industry, which under the previous administration was bombarded with lawsuits by US regulators. On X, Gemini chief legal officer Tyler Meader wrote, “At long last, a rational conversation about crypto can be had.”
Others have speculated that the dual-faceted nature of the role, covering both AI and crypto, could set the tone for experimentation around potential synergies between the two disciplines. Among VCs, Sacks “was very early in noting the importance of crypto to AI,” says Caitlin Long, CEO at crypto-focused bank Custodia. In his announcement, Trump wrote that the two areas were “critical to the future of American competitiveness.”
“There is no better person than David Sacks to help steer the future of crypto and AI innovation in America,” says John Robert Reed, partner at crypto-focused VC firm Multicoin Capital. “He's a principled entrepreneur and brilliant technologist that deeply understands each of these industries and where they intersect.”
“Initial reactions from the crypto industry on the Sacks appointment has been positive. Given his purview as a venture capitalist, he’s seen a lot of the innovation in crypto and AI that has been stunted in growth due to various political or regulatory issues the past few years,” says Ron Hammond, director of government relations at the Blockchain Association. “What remains to be seen is how much power the czar role will even have and if it will be more a policy driver position versus a policy coordinator role.”
In an X post, Sacks expressed his gratitude to Trump. “I am honored and grateful for the trust you have placed in me. I look forward to advancing American competitiveness in these critical technologies,” he wrote. “Under your leadership, the future is bright.”
In his role as czar, Sacks will lead a council of science and technology advisers responsible for making policy recommendations, Trump says. He will also develop a legal framework that sets out clear rules for crypto businesses to follow—something the industry has long demanded. That will reportedly involve working closely with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), two regulatory agencies that vied for jurisdiction over the crypto industry under the Biden administration. Earlier this week, Trump appointed crypto advocate Paul Atkins as SEC chair; members of the crypto industry contributed to the selection process, sources told WIRED in November.
Trump officials did not respond when asked to clarify whether the new position would be internal to the government, or whether Sacks would act as a “special government employee,” allowing him to continue in other private-sector roles. Sacks did not respond to a request for comment.
Sacks first made his name as one of the earliest employees at payments technology firm PayPal, which he built alongside Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, and others. Like other members of the so-called “PayPal Mafia,” Sacks went on to set up multiple other business ventures. In 2012, he sold workplace software company Yammer to Microsoft in a deal worth $1.2 billion. Now he runs his own venture capital firm, Craft Ventures, which has previously invested in companies including AirBnb, Palantir, and Slack—as well as crypto firms BitGo and Bitwise.
Sacks also cohosts the popular All In podcast where he’s used the platform to boost Trump. He’s also shared a host of right-wing takes: At the podcast’s summit this September, Sacks questioned the effectiveness of the Covid vaccine.
Like Musk, Sacks was a vocal proponent of Trump during the presidential race. In an X post in June, he laid out his very Silicon Valley rationale: “The voters have experienced four years of President Trump and four years of President Biden. In tech, we call this an A/B test,” he wrote. “With respect to economic policy, foreign policy, border policy, and legal fairness, Trump performed better. He is the President who deserves a second term.”
That same month, Sacks hosted an exclusive fundraiser for the Trump campaign, reportedly generating as much as $12 million. Attendees reportedly included vice-president-elect JD Vance—who has previously described Sacks as “one of my closest friends in the tech world”—and Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, cofounders of crypto exchange Gemini.
In the weeks since Trump won back the Oval Office, crypto markets have been on a tear. During the race, the president-elect made a host of crypto-friendly pledges, including a promise to set up a national “bitcoin stockpile.” In Sacks, Trump has picked a czar that the crypto industry believes will deliver on his campaign pledges.
On December 6, the price of bitcoin vaulted beyond $100,000 for the first time. “YOU”RE WELCOME!!! [sic]” Trump posted on Truth Social. | {
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"On December 6, the price of bitcoin vaulted beyond $100,000 for the first time. “YOU”RE WELCOME!!! [sic]” Trump posted on Truth Social."
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Ad for the Human Body | Open on an empty football field. It’s night. Rolling fog is illuminated by the bright stadium lights.
The human body is built for glory.
For triumph.
For experiencing sudden, inexplicable knee pain when you walk up stairs too fast.
A montage of faces, determined and beaded with sweat.
So you push.
You forge ahead.
You download a Couch-to-5K app. But you can’t start it this week because you have a cold.
It feels like you’ve had a cold for six years.
Having kids will do that.
Pan over a crowd of cheering fans.
But tenacity runs in your veins.
Your marrow is marbled with grit.
So you get up.
You dust yourself off.
You run six blocks, get shin splints, and sheepishly walk home listening to a playlist called “Trap Tracks to Sweat to 2K24.”
The sun rises over Yankee Stadium.
You were made to recover.
To bounce back.
To do something weird with your arm when you’re putting on a duvet cover, so then you have a “shoulder thing.” But it’s not there all the time and it’s hard to explain.
To persevere.
To achieve greatness.
To hear the orthopedic specialist say that there’s no mechanical problem apparent on the X-Ray and for you to ask, “Can we do an MRI?,” and for the insurance company to not grant a prior authorization unless you complete six weeks of physical therapy first.
Performers in monochromatic costumes dance in the shadow of the Arc de Triomphe.
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So you imagine what other medical stuff you could do while you’re at it and decide to get your moles checked.
And then you kinda drop the ball.
And at some point you just accept not being able to reach overhead anymore.
You wonder, Why do scars make you look “cool” but a torn labrum makes you look “fragile”?
So you shift your focus back to lower-body exercises.
You walk, run, sprint, herniate a disk, run again, but slower, because your knee thing is back.
Horses galloping across the Western plains.
Who told you life was easy?
“Easy” only exists in movies.
Life is not a movie.
If it were a movie, its genre would be body horror. It would be directed by David Cronenberg, and it would thematically explore how disgusting it is to be made of organic stuff.
Montage of Kristi Yamaguchi freestyle skating.
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US appeals court upholds TikTok ban | A federal appeals court has unanimously voted to uphold a law that could ban TikTok in the U.S. unless the social network divests from Chinese ownership.
The decision comes seven months after TikTok filed a lawsuit against the federal government over the ban. Friday’s ruling from the appeals court rejects TikTok’s claims that the law violates the U.S. Constitution’s commitment to free speech and individual liberty.
“The First Amendment exists to protect free speech in the United States,” the court’s opinion reads. “Here the Government acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation and to limit that adversary’s ability to gather data on people in the United States.”
TikTok responded to the ruling by signaling plans to appeal to the Supreme Court.
“The Supreme Court has an established historical record of protecting Americans’ right to free speech, and we expect they will do just that on this important constitutional issue,” TikTok spokesperson Michael Hughes said in a statement to TechCrunch. “Unfortunately, the TikTok ban was conceived and pushed through based upon inaccurate, flawed and hypothetical information, resulting in outright censorship of the American people.”
President Biden signed the sell-or-ban law back in April, giving ByteDance until January 19 to sell the app or face a ban. The bill followed four years of allegations from the U.S. government that TikTok’s ties to China pose a national security risk and that it exposes Americans’ sensitive information to the Chinese government.
While the ban’s terms are set to take effect next month, that doesn’t mean that the app will necessarily be removed from the iOS App Store and Google Play Store right away, as ByteDance indicates that it will take the case to the Supreme Court.
In addition, President-elect Donald Trump’s return to office could change things if he chooses to intervene. During his campaign, Trump promised voters that he would save the popular social media app if elected.
Former Trump adviser and campaign manager Kellyanne Conway also recently told The Washington Post that Trump “appreciates the breadth and reach of TikTok” and that “there are many ways to hold China to account outside alienating 180 million U.S. users each month.”
Although Trump was the one to initiate calls to ban the app during his first term, he took a different approach during his 2024 campaign and is now concerned that a TikTok ban would benefit Meta.
ByteDance has said it won’t sell its U.S. operations. Even if ByteDance wanted to sell the app, the Chinese government would likely block a sale because it would need to approve the transfer of TikTok’s algorithms. Plus, TikTok argued in its lawsuit that a sale would be technologically impossible, as “millions of lines of software code” would need to be moved to a new owner.
The ban would not be a first for TikTok, as the social network has been banned in numerous countries, including India, Senegal, Nepal, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Iran.
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Cierran canal de TV afgano, lo acusan de contenido vulgar y colaborar con medios en el exilio | Una estación de televisión afgana ha sido clausurada por supuestamente transmitir contenido vulgar y trabajar con medios en el exilio, dijo un portavoz gubernamental el jueves.
El Ministerio para la Propagación de la Virtud y la Prevención del Vicio alegó que Arezo TV en Kabul estaba colaborando con medios fuera de Afganistán y que estaba pagando a trabajadores temporales para doblar “series y programas vulgares” que iban en contra de los principios y tradiciones islámicas y afganas.
El portavoz del ministerio, Saif ur Rahman Khyber, añadió que las organizaciones mediáticas fuera de Afganistán proporcionaban apoyo financiero para el trabajo en cuestión. No nombró a los medios en el exilio, pero varios enfrentan restricciones severas, si no prohibiciones totales. En mayo, el gobierno advirtió a los periodistas que no deben cooperar con Afghanistan International.
“Para reformar la sociedad y volver al camino correcto, era necesario investigar estos problemas seriamente”, dijo Khyber. “Los medios son libres de llevar a cabo sus actividades en línea con los principios islámicos y los intereses nacionales”.
El Centro de Periodistas de Afganistán dijo que la policía y trabajadores del ministerio allanaron Arezo TV el miércoles, lo que resultó en el maltrato de los empleados, la confiscación de equipos incluyendo teléfonos y siete arrestos.
Nadie de Arezo TV estaba disponible para comentar.
El mes pasado, un informe de la ONU indicó que ha habido 256 arrestos arbitrarios o detenciones de periodistas, y 130 casos de tortura y maltrato desde que los talibanes volvieron al poder hace tres años.
Afganistán tiene un desempeño deficiente en términos de libertad de prensa, con el último índice de Reporteros sin Fronteras clasificando al país en el puesto 178 de 180. El año pasado, ocupó el puesto 152. | {
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Liberal MP accuses fellow caucus member of threatening him in the House of Commons | MP Chandra Arya shut down fellow Liberal Sukh Dhaliwal's motion on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots
Liberal MP Chandra Arya is accusing his caucus colleague Sukh Dhaliwal of threatening him in the House of Commons on Friday.
The incident allegedly took place after Dhaliwal, MP for Surrey—Newton in B.C., attempted to get unanimous consent from the House on a motion to condemn the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in India as "genocide."
A number of MPs — including Arya, who represents the Ontario riding of Nepean — called out "no" before Dhaliwal was able to finish reading his motion, denying it unanimous support. Arya later claimed he was the only one to say "no."
About 20 minutes later, Arya stood up in the House on a point of order and said Dhaliwal "threatened" him on his way out of the Commons chamber. He also said another unnamed MP "aggressively accosted" him in the lobby.
"As a member of Parliament, I should be able to express my opinion, my views, freely in the House and I should not [feel] threatened by any words or actions of my fellow members," Arya said.
CBC News has reached out to both Arya and Dhaliwal for clarification on what happened Friday, but neither has responded.
More than 3,000 Sikhs died in the anti-Sikh riots that followed the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her two Sikh bodyguards. The Indian government has consistently rejected any push to recognize the anti-Sikh riots as a genocide and has said it estimates the death toll at 2,800.
Dhaliwal later posted on X, formerly Twitter, about his motion, saying that "sadly, some Conservative MPs and one Liberal MP opposed it."
Arya also posted about the House incident on X, calling on Hindu-Canadians to push their MPs to oppose such "divisive" motions.
"There is no guarantee I will be in the House to block it the next time any other Member, from any political party, attempts to bring this motion forward," Arya wrote in his social media post.
"I urge all Hindu-Canadians to act now."
Friday's incident comes at a time of heightened tensions between the Sikh and Hindu communities in Canada. Last month, three men were charged after violent clashes took place between protestors in Brampton and Mississauga, including incidents outside a Hindu temple and Sikh gurdwara.
Arya has been an outspoken advocate for the Hindu community and has consistently spoken out against what he calls "Khalistani extremists" — a reference to a movement pushing for an independent Sikh homeland in northern India.
In August, Arya travelled to India and met with current Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
A statement from Global Affairs Canada at the time said Arya "travelled to India on his own initiative and was not representing the Government of Canada."
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Darrian Williams: Bristol teenagers jailed for murder | The mother of a boy who was stabbed to death confronted his killers in court as they were jailed for his murder.
Darrian Williams, 16 died after being attacked in Rawnsley Park in Easton, Bristol, on 14 February.
Giving a victim statement at Bristol Crown Court earlier, his mother Charlene Williams shouted "was it worth it?" before the two 16-year-old murderers were sentenced to 15 years and 76 days each.
His killers, who were 15 at the time of the killing, denied Darrian's murder but were found guilty by a jury on 1 November.
Being helped to read out her victim impact statement in the witness box by a friend, Ms Williams said living without her son had "broken" her and she felt "lost and traumatised".
"They have taken from me not only my son but the future," she added.
"His life has been stolen and with it the light and joy he brought to our family.
"Darrian was my child, a beloved brother, grandson, nephew and friend, and a source of happiness for all of us. His loss has torn our family apart and has left wounds that will never heal," she said.
"Each day without him is another reminder of what I have lost. I feel that all joy and peace has gone forever."
Meanwhile, Darrian's aunt, Tiffany Williams, who he lived with since the age of eight said she had "lost her sidekick".
"Since he died, I'm a shell of my former self in looks, weight and also in personality.
"I really struggle to eat because of the stress," she added.
'Plague' of knife crime
Sentencing the two boys, the honourable Mr Justice Saini said while he believed the two had not intended to kill Darrian, they "jointly attacked" him and intended to cause him "serious harm" by stabbing him in his back, front and face.
"You are young. You didn't plan to kill him. You are immature," he added.
He said Bristol is in "the middle of a plague of knife crime".
During the trial, the court was told how after the stabbing, Darrian ran from Rawnsley Park to nearby Stapleton Road, where he desperately knocked on the windows of several cars queuing at traffic lights in an attempt to get someone to take him to hospital.
He was eventually helped by Svetlozar Stanchev, a Bulgarian national who had limited English.
"He dived into my van - he said ‘start driving, I’m dying, I will die',” said Mr Stanchev.
He tried to find a police station before driving to a supermarket on West Street, Old Market, where he knew staff spoke English.
Shop staff and other members of the public tried to perform first aid before the emergency services arrived.
Despite efforts from paramedics, Darrian died on the pavement before his mother, who was rushing to the scene, could get to him.
Following searches of the park by officers, a sheath was later recovered which contained DNA belonging to both Darrian and one of the defendants.
During the trial, the court was told how moments before the attack, there was believed to be a verbal confrontation, where the Bristol BS postcodes "1-6" and "2s" - linked to gangs in the city - were exchanged.
Members of the gang are believed to wear different coloured bandana's to show their allegiance.
There was no evidence throughout the trial to suggest Darrian was linked to either group.
'Utterly senseless'
However, the court was told how weeks before the incident, Darrian and a friend were approached by people in balaclavas asking him if he was a member of the 1-6 gang, which is associated with the Fishponds, Hillfields and Oldbury Court areas.
The 1-2s are associated with St Pauls and St Judes.
One of the defendants told the court he started carrying a knife after a youth, unrelated to the case, had been seen with a machete in a city centre Mcdonald's restaurant six days before Darrian was killed.
Calling Darrian's killing "utterly senseless", Avon and Somerset Police Det Insp Neil Meade, said he was a typical 16-year-old boy hanging out with his friends in the park when "he was set upon".
"Darrian's family have spoken bravely about the effect his death has had on them, and they deserve a huge amount of credit for how they have dealt with what has been an unimaginably difficult 10 months for them," he added.
In court: BBC West social affairs correspondent Fiona Lamdin
I've sat in many court cases, but this has to be one of the most dramatic.
At times Darrian's family were so emotional they couldn't stop themselves shouting out in court. The judge, Mr Justice Saini, asked them be quiet four times.
During the trial, the court heard how members of different gangs wore different colour bandanas.
Darrian's mum turned to her son's killers when she stood up to address the court.
Holding up a green bandana, she shouted at them: "You killed my son for this... is it worth it?"
The police had to ask her to sit down.
As the judge jailed the two 16-year-old boys for 15 years each, many of Darrian's family stood up and left the courtroom in protest. Up in the public gallery, one of the killers' mothers banged on the glass screaming before falling to her knees. | {
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A Federal Appeals Court Just Upheld the TikTok Ban. Here’s What Could Happen Next | The Supreme Court, president-elect Donald Trump, or an American buyer could still intervene to save the video platform, which is used by some 170 million Americans.
A federal appeals court upheld a law that could result in TikTok being banned in the United States by the middle of next month, putting the future of one of the largest social media platforms in the country at risk. Citing national security concerns the Justice Department raised about the Chinese-owned app, a panel of judges on the US Court of Appeals in Washington DC decided in a 3:0 vote that the law could stand and TikTok could still be banned in the United States next year.
“We conclude the portions of the Act the petitioners have standing to challenge, that is the provisions concerning TikTok and its related entities, survive constitutional scrutiny. We therefore deny the petitions,” judge Douglas Ginsburg wrote in the court’s majority opinion on Friday. “Consequently, TikTok’s millions of users will need to find alternative media of communication.”
The case will likely now go to the Supreme Court, which could take it on or allow the appeals ruling to stand. Either way, the decision is likely to present questions for President-elect Donald Trump, who first tried banning TikTok in 2020 but more recently said he opposed the move because it would help the video platform’s competitor, Meta.
“The Supreme Court has an established historical record of protecting Americans' right to free speech, and we expect they will do just that on this important constitutional issue,” TikTok spokesperson Michael Hughes said in a statement. “Unfortunately, the TikTok ban was conceived and pushed through based upon inaccurate, flawed and hypothetical information, resulting in outright censorship of the American people.”
The Trump transition team and the Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment from WIRED.
TikTok filed the lawsuit in May after President Biden signed into law the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFACA), which forces ByteDance to sell TikTok’s US operations to a non-Chinese company by January 19 or see its app blocked from app stores in the country. TikTok argued that the law singles out TikTok because of the content on the platform, violating the First Amendment. A coalition of TikTok creators also joined the case, saying that their free speech rights would be infringed upon if over 170 million Americans are forced to leave the platform.
The appeals court ruled today that the PAFACA does not violate TikTok’s free speech rights.
“The Government does not suppress content or require a certain mix of content. Indeed, content on the platform could in principle remain unchanged after divestiture, and people in the United States would remain free to read and share as much PRC propaganda (or any other content) as they desire on TikTok or any other platform of their choosing,” Ginsburg wrote in the majority opinion.
“Congress judged it necessary to assume that risk given the grave national-security threats it perceived. And because the record reflects that Congress’s decision was considered, consistent with longstanding regulatory practice, and devoid of an institutional aim to suppress particular messages or ideas, we are not in a position to set it aside,” the concurring opinion by judge Sri Srinivasan said.
Both the US Department of Justice and TikTok have previously requested an accelerated ruling to come out by today. Since the law is upheld, the TikTok ban could take effect as soon as one day before Trump is inaugurated next month.
In reality, the app is most likely to survive a few more months. A 90-day extension of the deadline remains on the table for the Biden administration, which would leave the issue in Trump’s hands. What’s more certain to happen is that ByteDance would appeal the court decision today and take it to the Supreme Court next, which is expected to take the case and issue its decision later next year.
Friday's ruling will not come as a surprise to people who have been watching the case. In the oral arguments in front of the Appeals Court back in September, the judges appeared to have already bought the idea that the app poses a valid national security concern for the US. The remaining open question was whether a ban was an overcorrection that caused more relative harm to freedom of speech. The judges said definitively today that the answer to that was no.
“Courts tend to give wide latitude to the executive branch on issues of national security,” says Dewardric McNeal, a former Department of Defense official and the current the managing director of DC-based consultancy Longview Global. While Congress can theoretically repeal the PAFACA Act, it will be a tough case for Trump to convince them to do so because there’s a “large majority of the people on Capitol Hill who supported this law,” McNeal says.
In order to save TikTok, Trump could use powers of the executive branch to his advantage. “ While you cannot completely disregard the law, you can decide how heavy you want to focus on the prosecution of the law, and how aggressively you want to execute the law,” McNeal says.
Alan Rozenshtein, an associate professor of law at the University of Minnesota Law School, told WIRED earlier that the PAFACA Act is written so that the US president gets to decide whether TikTok is “no longer being controlled by a foreign adversary.” This carve out could create a legal path for the Trump administration to allow TikTok to continue operating in the US.
An alternative scenario that would allow Trump to avoid causing controversy with his Republican allies in Congress would be brokering a deal for TikTok to be sold to an American investor. At least two prominent bids to buy the app have already emerged, including one from Steven Mnuchin, the former US Treasury secretary, and Frank McCourt, an American real estate investor.
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OpenAI considers ditching provision that would prevent AGI from being used for commercial gain | According to the Financial Times, OpenAI is considering ditching a provision that would shut Microsoft, a major partner and investor, out of its most advanced technology when OpenAI achieves artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Exactly when OpenAI creates AGI, which the startup defines as “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work,” is to be determined by OpenAI’s board of directors, under the current provision. Removing the provision would enable Microsoft to continue accessing — and investing in — OpenAI’s tech after AGI is achieved.
A final decision by the board hasn’t been made yet, according to the Financial Times.
The provision was intended to prevent AGI, assuming it arrives in some form eventually, from being misused for commercial gain. It’d hand ownership of the tech to OpenAI’s nonprofit board, and it would carve AGI out of all of OpenAI’s licensing agreements.
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Winning numbers drawn in Friday’s Arizona Triple Twist | The winning numbers in Friday’s drawing of the “Arizona Triple Twist” game were:
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The Modern-Day Fight for Ancient Rome | Films such as “Gladiator II” underscore our long-standing obsession with the Roman Empire—a fixation that’s evident in both culture and politics. Why are we so desperate to reclaim ancient history?
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Artists owe a great debt to ancient Rome. Over the years, it’s provided a backdrop for countless films and novels, each of which has put forward its own vision of the Empire and what it stood for. On this episode of Critics at Large, Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz discuss the latest entry in that canon, Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator II,” which has drawn massive audiences and made hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office. The hosts also consider other texts that use the same setting, from the religious epic “Ben-Hur” to Sondheim’s farcical sword-and-sandal parody, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.” Recently, figures from across the political spectrum have leapt to lay claim to antiquity, even as new translations of Homer have underscored how little we really understand about these civilizations. “Make ancient Rome strange again. Take away the analogies,” Schwartz says. “Maybe that’s the appeal of the classics: to try to keep returning and understanding, even as we can’t help holding them up as a mirror.”
Read, watch, and listen with the critics:
“Gladiator II” (2024)“I, Claudius” (1976)“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” (1966)“The Last Temptation of Christ” (1988)“Monty Python’s Life of Brian” (1979)“Cleopatra” (1963)“Spartacus” (1960)“Ben-Hur” (1959)“Gladiator” (2000)“The End of History and the Last Man,” by Francis Fukuyama“I, Claudius,” by Robert Graves“I Hate to Say This, But Men Deserve Better Than Gladiator II,” by Alison Wilmore (Vulture)“On Creating a Usable Past,” by Van Wyck Brook (The Dial)Emily Wilson’s translations of the Odyssey and the Iliad
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Dragons 14-18 Montpellier: Hosts suffer opening Challenge Cup loss | European Challenge Cup
Dragons (14) 14
Tries: Basham, O'Brien Cons: O'Brien 2
Montpellier (18) 18
Tries: Tambwe, Tauleigne Cons: Barreau Pens: Barreau 2
The European game survived despite the Welsh sporting weekend's fixture list being decimated by Storm Darragh with an official crowd of 4,012 braving the extreme elements at Rodney Parade.
Dragons played into the driving wind in the first half as Montpellier dominated the opening quarter, inspired by a strong scrum.
Fly-half Aurelien Barreau kicked two penalties before wing Madosh Tambwe and number eight Marco Tauleigne produced fine finishes to establish an 18-point lead.
Dragons regrouped and responded with Wales flanker Taine Basham scoring on his 100th appearance.
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Replacement prop Aki Seiuli was held up over the Montpellier line before a final flourish of pressure and a lengthy television match official (TMO) review came to nothing as the French side celebrated the win.
Both sides were not at full strength as Montpellier, ninth in France's Top14 league, sent a largely second-string side to Wales but fielded a few first-team regulars.
Dragons were missing flanker Shane Lewis-Hughes who has had surgery to amputate the ring finger on his right hand.
Dragons were the first Welsh side in action in the Challenge Cup, with the four professional teams involved in Europe's second-tier tournament in a season where both finals will be held in Cardiff.
It was a second match in charge for Dragons interim head coach Filo Tiatia following Dai Flanagan's departure.
This was another plucky performance from the home side that ultimately ended in yet another defeat.
The Gwent side are bottom of the United Rugby Championship (URC) having lost all six games since winning at home against Ospreys on the opening day of the season.
Dragons interim head coach Filo Tiatia: "The mood is quite sombre and the realisation of opportunities missed again.
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Replacements: Sam Scarfe, Aki Seiuli, Luke Yendle, George Nott, Barny Langton-Cryer, Dane Blacker, Cai Evans, Jared Rosser.
Montpellier: Julien Tisseron; George Bridge, Thomas Darmon, Arthur Vincent (capt), Madosh Tambwe; Aurelien Barreau, Alexis Bernadet; Enzo Forletta, Lyam Akrab, Mohamed Haouas, Florian Verhaeghe, Tyler DuGuid, Nicolas Martins, Youssouf Soucouna, Marco Tauleigne.
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How the Trump Indictments Backfired | “It was ill-fated from the beginning,” Jeannie Suk Gersen says, of the effort to prosecute Donald Trump.
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A year ago, Donald Trump was facing four separate criminal indictments, and months later he became the first President to be charged with and convicted of a felony. Now that Trump is President-elect, and with the Supreme Court having granted sitting Presidents broad immunity, the Justice Department’s efforts to hold Trump accountable appear to be over. Even so, Trump’s legal saga has radically changed American law and politics, the New Yorker staff writer Jeannie Suk Gersen argues. “These prosecutions forced the Supreme Court to at least answer the question [of Presidential immunity],” Gersen says. “It will affect the kind of people who run for President, and it will affect how they think of their jobs.”
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Google Photos launches a '2024 Recap' for a look back at this year's memories | Spotify Wrapped isn’t the only service offering a year-end recap these days. In addition to the year-end reviews from other streamers and social apps, Google Photos is among the apps providing users with a look back at key moments throughout the past year. The feature, “2024 Recap,” introduces a collection of memories, insights, and photos, which can also be augmented with AI captions.
The latter feature is available to select users in the U.S., Google says. Users who have opted in to using AI in Photos will be able to add personalized captions to their photos, generated by Google’s Gemini AI model. The captions will highlight the two biggest moments from your year, like big events, trips, celebrations, and other milestones.
The recap will also include a look at other memories and insights designed to be shared outside the Photos app and onto other social media platforms. This includes personalized metrics about how many photos you took this past year, as well as how many videos and how many hours of footage that equates to.
The challenge with annual recaps of photos is that we don’t always take photos of the good things we want to remember and relive. Sometimes, we’re documenting life’s harder moments, too. In my case, Google Photos reminded me that my house burned down in March, for instance. I would have preferred to skip those memories, though Google is correct that this was a key moment for me in 2024.
Some people also have to encounter other difficult memories — like those showing them with a loved one who has since passed away, happier times with an ex, and more. And unfortunately, AI isn’t yet at the point of understanding us well enough to know which photos we’d rather avoid.
However, if you had a largely positive year, the new Recap can be a fun way to reshare your favorite moments with friends and family.
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India reeling at 128-5 in second innings vs. Australia after Head’s century on Day 2 of 2nd test | ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — Travis Head struck a magnificent 140 off 141 balls as Australia finished Day 2 of the second test against India in dominant style Saturday in the day-night test at the Adelaide Oval.
Head’s eighth test century — including 17 fours and four sixes — helped Australia score 337 runs in its first innings and take a 157-run lead over India’s 180 runs.
In the second innings, India was down to 128-5 in 24 overs at stumps and staring at a potentially colossal defeat on Day 3.
Rishabh Pant was unbeaten on 28 runs, as Pat Cummins (2-33) and Scott Boland (2-39) took a couple of wickets each. India trails by another 29 runs with five wickets remaining.
Earlier in the day, Australia took advantage of good batting conditions to gain the upper hand.
It was placed at 191-4 at lunch with both Head and Marnus Labuschagne scoring half-centuries.
Nathan McSweeney was out caught behind for 39 and Head-Labuschagne added 65 runs for the fourth wicket. In between, Steve Smith was also caught behind for two off Jasprit Bumrah.
Labuschagne fell prior to lunch, out for 64 runs off 126 balls — his second half-century in the past 11 innings.
After lunch though, Head dominated the Indian bowling on his home ground. He smacked Ravichandran Ashwin for three sixes, and hit another one off Mohammed Siraj.
Head had reached 50 off 63 balls before lunch and afterward only accelerated toward his hundred, reaching the milestone off 111 balls.
Wickets did fall at the other end — Mitchell Marsh was caught behind off Ashwin, while Bumrah (4-61) and Siraj finished with four wickets each.
Head was out after Australia crossed the 300 mark, out bowled off Siraj. He walked off to a grand reception from his home crowd while the hosts’ innings finished shortly after the tea break.
It left India to contend with the evening session under lights and its batting lineup failed to rise to the occasion.
Lokesh Rahul was the first to go — caught behind pulling off Cummins for seven.
Yashasvi Jaiswal got off to a start and hit four fours in his 24 off 31 balls. But he was caught behind off Boland in the ninth over.
Virat Kohli struggled against Boland’s disciplined line and was caught behind too — out for 11 off 21 balls as India was down to 66-3 in 14.3 overs.
There was more to come — Mitchell Starc bowled Shubman Gill for a second time in this test. He scored 28 off 30 balls with three fours.
Cummins then bowled Rohit Sharma (6) before stumps. The Indian skipper has tallied only one 50-plus score in his last 12 innings.
Pant and Nitish Reddy (15 not out) saw away the remaining time, even as Australia seemed poised to level the series.
India took a 1-0 lead in the five-match series after winning the first test by 295 runs in Perth.
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Yoon survives impeachment attempt; opposition vows another vote within days | South Korean lawmakers failed Saturday to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his attempt to impose martial law, an outcome that delivers at least a temporary reprieve for the embattled conservative president.
During a tense session at South Korea's National Assembly, nearly all conservative lawmakers of the People Power Party, or PPP, walked out of the legislative chamber just minutes before the vote was to be held, effectively boycotting the opposition-led impeachment motion against Yoon.
For about four hours, opposition forces made an emotional, last-minute plea to persuade their conservative colleagues to return and support the impeachment measure. They ultimately failed to get even enough PPP members in the chamber for a vote to be formally held.
The liberal Democratic Party, which has a solid majority in the unicameral legislature, has vowed to quickly hold another impeachment vote, possibly as soon as next week, raising the prospect of a prolonged period of political instability. To pass, the impeachment effort needed the votes of eight conservative PPP lawmakers.
“The public will continue to demand that the president, the instigator of this rebellion, will face prosecution or arrest,” Representative Kim Min-seok told VOA Saturday.
Kim, a senior Democratic Party leader, said the Korean public is not satisfied with Yoon's explanation for imposing martial law. “Public anger will intensify, and impeachment will just be a matter of time,” he said.
Outside the legislative compound, an estimated 100,000 people gathered to express support for the impeachment measure. The mood was a mixture of festivity and anger, as candle-waving protesters called for the arrest of Yoon and also sang popular Korean pop songs. Activist and labor groups say they will continue to hold regular demonstrations and strikes until Yoon resigns.
The protests could eventually echo those that led to the impeachment of South Korea's former conservative president, Park Geun-hye, in 2016 on corruption-related charges after weeks of demonstrations. Those developments deeply fractured the conservative party — an outcome the PPP would like to avoid this time.
After the failed impeachment effort, a PPP spokesperson said the country cannot repeat the tragedy of another paralyzed government.
Martial law
Yoon declared martial law late Tuesday, claiming it was necessary to "crush anti-state forces" and "protect constitutional order.” The decree was overturned by opposition lawmakers within hours.
Earlier on Saturday, he apologized for causing public anxiety and vowed he would not attempt a second martial law decree.
In an apparent attempt to find a path forward that does not involve his resignation, Yoon also said future governance “will be jointly handled by our party and the government.”
It is not clear how Yoon would yield any presidential authority to his ruling People Power Party, analysts said, since there does not appear to be an established political process for doing so.
Some PPP lawmakers have begun pushing for a compromise proposal, whereby South Korea’s constitution would be amended to shorten presidential terms to four years, rather than the current five.
Under such a rumored proposal, Yoon apparently would step down early and the powers of the presidency could be reduced in some manner.
However, opposition party lawmakers have given no indication they would support such a deal.
"This is a cunning tactic only in order to buy time," Kim Joon-hyung, a lawmaker with the opposition Rebuilding Korea Party, told VOA. "This regime, and the ruling party, is dead and dysfunctional, even if the impeachment vote fails.”
South Korea’s presidential office has not clarified Yoon’s remarks or whether he would support such an arrangement.
A Seoul-based law professor, who preferred not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the ongoing discussions, said there is no process by which the president can transfer the powers of the presidency to the party.
“But more importantly, I don’t think that’s what [Yoon] meant,” he said. “I think he merely meant that he will follow whatever decision the party makes regarding how to stabilize the situation. ... Whether that refers to constitutional revision is unclear.”
Yoon and his party may be trying to avoid a vacancy in the office of the president, because under such a scenario, an election must be held, according to the constitution, he said.
“President Yoon seems to be trying everything he can to hang on to power,” said Hans Schattle, a professor of political science at Yonsei University. “But the idea of him staying in office any longer seems totally out of sync with the public outrage right now.” | {
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Electric cars make up one in four sold in November | One in four cars sold in the UK last month was electric, according to industry figures, but new registrations were driven by steep discounting.
Electric car sales grew in November for the 11th consecutive month, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) as carmakers raced to meet tough targets.
Manufacturers gave "massive" discounts worth around £4bn on electric vehicles (EVs), the SMMT said.
Some firms are expected to miss the government's electric vehicle (EV) sales targets this year and could face fines, but flexibilities in the rules mean this is unlikely.
The rules say carmakers have to sell a certain amount of EVs but they are able to buy sales credits from other firms or "borrow" from their own quotas in future years.
SMMT chief executive Mike Hawes said manufacturers were investing in electric vehicles "at unprecedented levels" and "spending billions on compelling offers".
But he added: "Such incentives are unsustainable – industry cannot deliver the UK’s world-leading ambitions alone."
New electric car registrations bucked a general downwards trend for other vehicles.
Although the bulk of demand for new cars came from fleet sales to businesses, this sector still saw sales fall overall. Private buyer sales also dropped.
Sales of new petrol cars fell by more than 17%, diesel cars fell by more than 10%, while hybrids and plug-in hybrids dropped by more than 3% and 1% respectively.
The government has promised to meet with carmakers to discuss EV targets. It has said the targets "will not be weakened" but it will discuss "flexibilities".
Manufacturers have said they won't be able to meet the current targets, which state EVs must make up 22% of cars sold in 2024, without more customer incentives.
That figure is currently at 18.7%, and they think they may hit 19% by the end of the year.
However, that still leaves them open to paying other manufacturers who have built up credits for selling EVs.
While many of those companies are either Chinese or make cars in China - for example, US firm Tesla - other carmakers may also have credits.
Manufacturers have long argued that it doesn't make sense to subsidise Chinese firms by buying credits.
Earlier this month, both Ford and Stellantis, which owns Vauxhall, announced job cuts, which both partly pinned on the EV targets.
But both firms have previously raised doubts about their future in the UK because of other factors.
Ford closed its Bridgend factory in 2020, getting rid of 1,644 jobs, citing Covid as one of the reasons. Vauxhall's former owner PSA Group suggested in 2019 that Brexit threatened its Luton factory.
In general UK-based companies have been embracing the move to electric, with JLR's Jaguar attracting a lot of attention over its recent rebrand as an electric-only carmaker.
Other car brands are also outperforming the government's EV targets.
Vauxhall's EVs represent 36% of its sales, Peugeot's 29%, Renault's 27%, MG's 27% and Skoda's 23%, according to the non-profit New AutoMotive.
A Department for Transport spokesperson said it was "alive to the global challenges the industry is facing".
It is investing £2.3bn "to support industry and boost the uptake of electric vehicles," the spokesperson said, adding that Labour's manifesto commitment to phase out new cars with internal combustion engines by 2030 "has not changed". | {
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Skip the Sea Kelp Supplements (2024) | Sea kelp, otherwise known as bladderwrack, has become a trendy superfood. But the modern hype doesn’t hold up.
If you're on HealthTok, you may have noticed a buzz around sea moss, sea kelp, or brown seaweed, which has become the latest “superfood” to capture the attention of wellness enthusiasts. Historically, seaweed has been used in indigenous medicine for a variety of ailments; today, you can purchase it in capsules, powders, and teas.
There is some science to back up bladderwrack's more hyperbolic health claims. However, given some of the risks associated with consuming unregulated algae-derived products, you will probably be better off improving your diet in general. We break it down for you here. Interested in more wellness research? Don't forget to check out our advice for living forever in Silicon Valley and whether you should apply snail mucus to your face (you probably should).
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What Is Bladderwrack?
“Bladderwrack is a brown seaweed in the genus Fucus that grows in the intertidal regions of temperate areas,” says Loretta Roberson, an associate scientist at the University of Chicago’s Marine Biological Laboratory. “You can find it here in the United States and in Europe—Ireland to England—and most places on that same latitude.” The name comes from the air-filled sacs, or “bladders,” on the seaweed’s thallus. These teeny bladders help the plant float and stay closer to sunlight for photosynthesis.
Bladderwrack’s medicinal use dates back for centuries. “There was actually a large seaweed industry [in North America] where people would collect big wagonfuls of seaweed, and they would use it for a bunch of different purposes,” Roberson says. Indigenous peoples used it for poultices and teas, and by the early 1800s, it gained a reputation as a remedy for goiter—a swelling caused by thyroid issues. By the 1860s, it was promoted as a metabolism booster and treatment for obesity. Today, bladderwrack is available in various forms, from dried and powdered to capsule supplements and teas.
Why Would You Take Bladderwrack?
Bladderwrack supplements make bold claims: weight loss, glowing skin, thyroid support, and more. Some of the most common reasons why people take bladderwrack include:
What Does the Science Say?
Bethany Marie Doerfler, a gastrointestinal specialist at Northwestern Medicine, says the touted health benefits are tied to bladderwrack’s antioxidant properties, but there have been very few studies evaluating its efficacy or safety in humans.
Like many seaweeds, bladderwrack is packed with antioxidants, including phenolics, phlorotannins, fucoxanthin, alginic acid, fucoidans, and small amounts of vitamins A and C. Doerfler points to alginic acid—found in over-the-counter products like Gaviscon Advance—as a compound with proven effectiveness.
“These derivatives are studied and considered safe, unlike bladderwrack supplements, which remain largely unregulated and untested,” Doerfler explains. “People often leap from identifying healthy components to assuming health outcomes, but [bladderwrack supplements] aren’t backed by research.”
Are Bladderwrack Supplements Safe?
Despite the “natural” label often attached to these kinds of supplements, they come with risks. Algae-derived products can accumulate heavy metals like arsenic and mercury from polluted waters, and even low concentrations over time can lead to serious health problems such as nerve damage or kidney dysfunction.
Another concern is the high iodine content in bladderwrack, which can interfere with thyroid function. According to Roberson, in some countries, there are regulations due to high iodine levels, which can affect thyroid health. There are no clear guidelines in the US on how much iodine is safe to consume, and the risks associated with excess iodine remain misunderstood. “We don’t know thresholds, doses, or potential interactions with other medications due to the absence of research,” Doerfler says.
Bladderwrack harvesting in unregulated regions can also be harmful to ecosystems. Over-harvesting is a real issue, and in some places, it’s led to bladderwrack depletion. Sustainable harvesting practices are crucial, as demonstrated by Iceland, where regulations maintain the health of the seaweed’s native population.
Who Should Avoid Bladderwrack?
Certain groups should be especially cautious about bladderwrack supplements:
Rather than turning to supplements, Doerfler recommends focusing on dietary patterns and quality instead. “All the antioxidants you hope to get from a supplement, you can get from eating fruits and vegetables.”
The American Heart Association suggests five to nine servings of produce a day, with an emphasis on dark leafy greens and plant-based proteins. Think spinach, broccoli, and collard greens. Sustainable seaweeds like kombu, wakame, and sugar kelp, which are cultivated in New England and Alaska, can also offer similar nutrients.
What’s the Bottom Line?
The bottom line is that seaweed consumption in the United States is still a developing industry. While bladderwrack has a long history of medicinal use, its current status as a wellness/proactive-gut-health trend is far more hype than substance.
Keeping in mind the health risks that come from consuming unregulated supplements, it’s better to skip the pill and focus on a balanced diet. “Supplements can’t replicate the food matrix of fiber, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals in whole foods, which interact with gut bacteria to produce health benefits,” Doerfler says. “There’s a role for targeted vitamin supplements for individuals with specific needs, but not for enhancing wellness with trendy products.”
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Winning numbers drawn in Friday’s Texas All or Nothing Night | The winning numbers in Friday evening’s drawing of the “Texas All or Nothing Night” game were:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19
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Former LA Lakers star launches VC firm | Former NBA Lakers star Metta Sandiford-Artest (formerly known as Metta World Peace) has teamed up with Stephen Stokols, the former CEO of Boost Mobile, to launch Tru Skye Ventures, a firm looking to invest in sports and health tech, according to Sportico.
The firm wants to raise $100 million and cut its first formal check to the performance beverage company Barcode, founded by former New York Knicks and LA Lakers performance director Mubarak Malik, Sportico reported. The news comes after more athletes are entering the venture capital space. Just last month, Milwaukee Bucks player Giannis Antetokounmpo announced the launch of a firm called Build Your Legacy to invest in sports and entertainment companies. Steph Curry, Serena Williams, and Kevin Durant also have their own venture firms. | {
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Romania election: Frontrunner Calin Georgescu vows to end Ukraine aid | Calin Georgescu, the fringe nationalist politician leading the presidential race in Romania, has told the BBC that he would end all support for Ukraine if elected.
He is facing a second-round run-off in the elections on Sunday, where he will run against Elena Lasconi, a former TV presenter who is campaigning on a firmly pro-EU platform.
Georgescu, whose only election campaigning has been on social media, said he would make "the Romanian people" his priority.
But he denied that his surprise success so far was the result of a Russian-backed influence operation, saying he did not care about the "lies" of his country's intelligence agencies as he was working with God and the people.
On Wednesday, in a highly unusual move, Romania's outgoing president published declassified documents that detailed what was called a massive and "highly organised" campaign for Georgescu on TikTok co-ordinated by a "state actor".
The papers included an intelligence assessment that Russia was carrying out hybrid attacks on Romania, which it sees as an "enemy state".
The constitutional court is now being flooded with requests to look into the allegations of meddling with a view to possibly cancelling the election.
Prosecutors today announced they were opening a criminal investigation but there is no timeline on when that might conclude.
"They are afraid," is how Georgescu brushed away evidence that hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent pushing campaign content for him, breaking both Romanian election law and TikTok's own rules.
He denied that he was "Moscow's man", referring derisively to Romania's "un-intelligence agencies".
"They can't accept that the Romanian people finally said, 'we want our life back, our country, our dignity'," he said, portraying himself as battling against an unyielding establishment.
In a sometimes tetchy interview in which he praised Donald Trump and the Hungarian populist leader Viktor Orban, Georgescu referred to Vladimir Putin as a "patriot and a leader".
He then added: "But I am not a fan."
But when questioned about Russia's war on Ukraine, he first asked, "Are you sure of that?", appearing to deny the war's very existence.
He then said Romania was interested only in pushing for peace on its border but refused to say that this should be on Kyiv's terms.
When asked whether he agreed with standing by Ukraine, as the EU puts it, "for as long as it takes", Georgescu said "No." He said things would change.
"I agree just that I have to take care of my people. I don't want to involve my people," he replied, clarifying that Romania – an EU and Nato member - would provide no more military or political support for its neighbour.
"Zero. Everything stops. I have to take care just about my people. We have a lot of problems ourselves."
It would be a dramatic change in position for Bucharest, and one that would be music to Russian ears.
The president in Romania has considerable power, including influence on areas such as foreign policy. He is also the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and appoints the prime minister.
Romania shares a long border with Ukraine and has been a staunch supporter of Kyiv since the full-scale invasion in 2022.
It's provided a Patriot missile defence system as well as financial support. It's also become a key export route for Ukrainian grain, as Russian bombardments have crippled the work of ports there.
Under a Georgescu presidency, Romania would join Hungary and Slovakia as Russia-sympathisers on the eastern flank of Nato.
It would also be a serious dent to EU solidarity on Ukraine, just as it faces the prospect of assuming more responsibility for aiding Kyiv with Donald Trump back in the White House.
Georgescu underlined that he would keep Romania inside the EU and Nato, but that everything from now on would be "negotiated" and focus on his country's interests.
He refused to say that Vladimir Putin's Russia was a security threat for the West.
His endorsement of conspiracy theories has also sparked concerns, including denying the Covid pandemic and doubting that anyone ever landed on the Moon.
Romania is home to a giant Nato military base, close to the Black Sea, as well as a US missile defence facility.
Georgescu now describes himself as a university teacher, but has previously worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and with the UN.
He clearly does have supporters – his clean-living, Romania-first message has popular appeal, especially outside Bucharest.
But in the capital many people are worried about the direction their country may be taking.
When asked if he understood why they were scared, Georgescu shook his head: "That's just propaganda."
On Thursday evening, several thousand protesters gathered in central Bucharest to call for Romania to remain closely allied with Europe - many holding the blue EU flag.
Others brought Romanian flags with a circular hole in the centre, a reminder of how after the 1989 revolution people cut out the communist symbols.
Talk of Russian influence - Moscow meddling in any form - is an emotional topic for many. Several chanted "Freedom!" and "Europe!"
One man told the BBC he and his friends had been with protesters on the streets of Bucharest 35 years ago, and couldn't bear to think of Romania going back to the past.
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The Twenty-first Century’s Best Books About Native America | Ned Blackhawk, who won the 2023 National Book Award for his groundbreaking reappraisal of U.S. history, discusses some of the best recent books about Native America.
As Ned Blackhawk points out in his National Book Award-winning “The Rediscovery of America,” most histories of the United States’ origin story are anchored by Europeans: “Puritans governing a commonwealth in a wilderness; pioneers settling western frontiers; and European immigrants huddled upon Atlantic shores.” In that book, and throughout his scholarly career, Blackhawk has attempted to enrich our conception of the American story by placing Native Americans at its center. Not long ago, he spoke to us about a few choice books that aid in this project—and which illuminate how contemporary Native America came to be. His remarks have been edited and condensed.
by Beth H. Piatote
In many ways, the reservation era of the late eighteen-hundreds embodies the nadir of Native America. It’s almost impossible to convey the level of the hardship that Indian communities were subjected to during this time—the extent of the land lost, the number of lives lost, the resources that were destroyed. From roughly 1879, when the Carlisle Indian Industrial School opened, to 1934, when new laws began reforming failed policies, the federal government was immersed in a campaign of assimilating Native Americans. It did so through the military, through new political structures, and through religious and educational institutions. Piatote’s book is about how Native American writers from this period confronted the changes that came to their communities in the form of the imposition of private property, the destruction of agrarian practices, and the extraction of children to boarding schools—but also in quotidian places like marriage, citizenship, and even the application of Anglophone names. Today, we can still feel the ramifications of assimilation, and Piatote’s book—along with some of the others I talk about—help us really understand what these people went through, and why we continue to deal with the legacy of these practices.
by Renya K. Ramirez
This is a pathbreaking joint biography of two exceptional people, Elizabeth Bender Cloud and Henry Roe Cloud, who were also the author’s grandparents. The couple met at a gathering of the Society of American Indians, which was the first pan-Indian national political association. The Clouds worked to counteract the destructive influences of assimilationist policies. One of the Clouds’ primary focusses was education: in 1915, Henry Cloud established a small but extraordinary institution, the American Indian Institute, in Wichita, which was essentially a Native American preparatory academy. The couple ran the school together. Their reform efforts helped inspire similar reforms in the fifties and sixties—from the study of this one family, you can see a larger culture of opposition that forms across Indian America throughout the twentieth century.
by Charles Wilkinson
This book provides an incredibly informed legal history of contemporary Native America after the Second World War and the rise of Native American activism in the nineteen-sixties and seventies. In 1934, the U.S. government began new policies aimed at reforming the many assaults that it had levelled against Indian communities. But, in the early years of the Cold War, federal policymakers attempted to return the country to a pre-New Deal period of American Indian political assimilation, and began trying to undo the federal government’s historic commitments to tribal communities—a policy broadly known as “termination.” Wilkinson documents how what we might call the modern American Indian sovereignty movement emerged in the shadow of these initiatives. Placing special focus on reservation leaders—which hadn’t really been done much—he shows that they were central organizers of resistance, and introduces a wide range of figures whose biographies aren’t that well known.
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by Nick Estes
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Heartcore Capital closes $180M fund to pivot toward infrastructure, synthetic biology, climate | Back in the heady days of 2021, Heartcore Capital planned to focus on consumer technology with a $200 million fund. Fast-forward to 2024, and its latest fund will now “leaven the bread” of that thesis, with a fresh $180 million (€170 million) to go broader and more generalist than that earlier thesis.
Some 17 years into the game, Heartcore’s Fund V will continue to be an early-stage fund and now counts companies like Boozt, Neo4j, Peakon, Tink, GetYourGuide, TravelPerk, and Podimo in its portfolio.
Aiming to be the first institutional money into startups, it is also ranked the 9th best VC globally in the HEC Paris-Dow Jones VC ranking.
Jimmy Nielsen, partner and co-founder, told TechCrunch over a call: “Basically, this fund is broader [than the last fund]. … We did a lot of consumer at the tail end of fund three and the beginning of fund four. The pendulum swung to the question of ‘Where does technology really pick up?’ So this fund is more generalistic in focus, more focused on productivity, software, infrastructure.”
That includes more of a focus on the compute stack, synthetic biology, productivity/AI, software infrastructure, travel, and climate tech. They plan to make 25 to 30 early-stage investments with Fund V and have so far put money into LLM compute infrastructure, database software, software for carbon capture, and consumer travel.
LPs in the fund include repeat investor Industriens Pension. It also has a smaller, dedicated, web3 fund.
“We had pretty much all existing LPS re-up,” said Nielsen. “We have had a really nice run in the last years on DPI. So in the last eight years, on average, every time we draw one euro, we have returned 1.6 and if you accumulate that, that stacks up in terms of fund return.”
He also thinks the EU market will “warm up” next year: “We’re seeing more M&A now and there’s something happening, for sure, with IPOs next year. The real question is, what are we Europeans doing on the IPO side, right? Are we all going to drive towards the U.S. or not?”
The firm now has €800 million cumulative committed capital with offices in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Berlin, and Paris.
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Tice leads Quinnipiac against Sacred Heart after 20-point performance | Sacred Heart Pioneers (4-5, 1-0 MAAC) at Quinnipiac Bobcats (4-5, 1-0 MAAC)
Hamden, Connecticut; Sunday, 2 p.m. EST
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The Bobcats have gone 2-0 at home. Quinnipiac has a 2-5 record in games decided by 10 points or more.
The Pioneers are 1-0 against MAAC opponents. Sacred Heart has a 1-3 record against teams over .500.
Quinnipiac averages 69.0 points per game, 5.0 fewer points than the 74.0 Sacred Heart allows. Sacred Heart averages 72.2 points per game, 1.7 fewer than the 73.9 Quinnipiac allows.
The Bobcats and Pioneers square off Sunday for the first time in MAAC play this season.
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Labour MP Julia Buckley's Shrewsbury office targeted by vandals | The MP for Shrewsbury's parliamentary office has been vandalised.
A photo, shared by Labour's Julia Buckley on Facebook, showed black paint on the windows and sign of the office on Wyle Cop, in Shrewsbury.
She said the vandalism had been reported to police and happened overnight.
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Lucy Grealy Understood What It Meant to Be Seen | Three decades later, “Autobiography of a Face,” a sensation when it was published, has lost none of its force.
Lucy Grealy was an unsparing observer of human physiognomy. She was a poet, with the requisite eye for piercing detail, but her attention to personal appearance—and its effect on the observer—had a particularly bracing lack of euphemism. Here is her description of the person she calls “Dr. Woolf,” the pediatric oncologist who had administered chemotherapy to her: “Tall, large-featured, and balding, he had a peculiar large white spot on his forehead, which caught the light in an unflattering, sinister way. His nose was tremendous, his lips invisible. He scared me.”
Dr. Woolf appears in “Autobiography of a Face,” Grealy’s memoir, which recounts her arrival in his office after her diagnosis, at age nine, with Ewing’s sarcoma, a bone cancer that had caused a tumor in the right side of her jaw. Grealy describes her illness and its treatment (surgery, radiation, chemotherapy) with staunch fidelity to her child’s-eye view—which means that being sick seems at first like a chance to get out of school, that hospital stays hold out the promise of adventure, and that she has no idea what chemotherapy entails. The realization of the last arrives, with an overpowering force, only once Dr. Woolf has the needle in her arm. “I had never known it was possible to feel your organs, feel them the way you feel your tongue in your mouth, or your teeth,” Grealy writes. “My stomach outlined itself for me.” She vomits convulsively, and continues vomiting for much of the following week, in a cycle that would be repeated almost every week for two and a half years. Adults explain little to her—the possibility of death lies beyond her field of vision—which gives the vivid misery of her treatment a fairy-tale quality. (Big bad Dr. Woolf!) Its particulars are monstrous, its logic mysteriously irresistible, its results a transformation. Only once chemotherapy ends and her hair grows back does she realize that strangers haven’t been staring at her because she’s bald: they have been staring because of her face.
To Grealy, at the time, the surgery that removed her sarcoma had seemed insignificant compared with those weekly sessions with Dr. Woolf. But, as she leaves the cloistered world of cancer treatment, she learns that her looks—and her life—have been altered irrevocably. “Half my jaw was missing, which gave my face a strange triangular shape, accentuated by the fact that I was unable to keep my mouth completely closed,” Grealy writes. Quickly, her face comes to stand in her mind for all possible deficiencies or unhappiness. Even away from the torments of high school, where taunting boys prowl the hallways and cafeteria, “I was my face, I was ugliness. . . . Everything led to it, everything receded from it—my face as personal vanishing point.” In the first part of her story, she sees her body as an adversary to be mastered. Pain is an opportunity to win adult approval by showing that she can be “brave.” In the second, she finds that she can’t hold her physical form at the same remove: she is her body, and that body seems to preclude the world’s approval.
“Autobiography,” a sensation when it was published, in 1994, has been reissued this week in honor of its thirtieth anniversary. The book started out as an essay called “Mirrorings”; Grealy had written it for a grad-school friend’s anthology of women writers titled “Minding the Body,” after which it appeared in Harper’s, winning a National Magazine Award and earning her a book deal. The resulting memoir was a frank account of her childhood pain and a meditation on identity. “I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life,” she writes of facing the world’s gaze as an adolescent. Even her description of chemotherapy—her stomach outlined, her internal organs individually asserting themselves—suggests that what her ordeal gave her was a kind of unbearable self-awareness. Grealy, uninterested in therapeutic platitudes, offered unflinching precision: on the page, she controlled what the reader saw. Her acuity gives equal weight and immediacy to both the intangible reality of human relationships (the social hierarchies among children in a cancer ward, say) and the brute force of physical experience.
When the memoir came out, Grealy was vaulted from a life of fellowship applications and adjunct teaching to one of TV interviews and magazine spreads. Long after the threat of cancer had passed, she remained a denizen of hospitals, undergoing more than thirty reconstructive surgeries in the course of her life. For the most part, these failed: grafts of bone and soft tissue swelled, scarred, reabsorbed, and disappeared, leaving behind the question of how to live in a body that both defined her and refused stable definition. She died in 2002, at age thirty-nine, of a heroin overdose.
In the years since Grealy’s death, the book has become a fixture of college syllabi and also of the sort of recommended-reading lists that promise upper-middlebrow self-help. (Suleika Jaouad, who contributed a foreword to the new edition, has called “Autobiography” her “sick girl bible”; she is the author of a memoir and a TED talk on surviving cancer.) From the beginning, and notwithstanding Grealy’s unsentimental intellect, “Autobiography” was greeted in certain quarters as an inspiring reminder that beauty is only skin-deep. “How many women have never imagined that being beautiful would transform their lives and solve all their problems?” read a review that ran in the South Bend Tribune, under the headline “Our Obsession With Looks: It’s Cruel, Wasteful.” NPR’s “Morning Edition” host asked Grealy about fashion magazines; Newsday characterized the book’s story as an author “learning to accept her appearance in a culture that places a premium on beauty.” (Is there—has there ever been—a culture that does not place “a premium on beauty”?) In “Minding the Body,” Grealy’s essay had been anthologized alongside work by Naomi Wolf, who was then in the heyday of “The Beauty Myth,” her 1990 best-seller on the media’s unrealistic standards and women’s body image. Early press for “Autobiography” sometimes treated it as if Grealy were picking up where Wolf left off.
Yet Grealy’s book gives no warm reassurance that it’s what’s inside that really counts. For better or worse, what’s outside matters very much: the membrane of appearance that holds a person in the world is powerful stuff. (It would perhaps surprise some of these early readers to learn that in her twenties Grealy had got—had indeed delighted in getting—breast implants.) Some people, she told Charlie Rose in a 1994 interview, seemed to want her to say that beauty was unimportant. “That’s entirely not true,” she said. “It’s very important and utterly irrelevant at the same time.” With “Autobiography,” she had hoped to capture this paradoxical reality: “I think it’s really a book about being looked at and being seen.”
The prospect of being seen holds an ambivalent allure, as “Autobiography of a Face” makes clear. Grealy narrates competing desires to stand out and to fit in—hallmarks of any adolescence—under circumstances that render them extreme. She had learned early on what it meant to live constantly under others’ eyes. She hid behind hats and curtains of hair as a child and a teen-ager, but she was always, finally, visible. Over time, she found ways to wield that visibility—not with anything as straightforward as pride but with a kind of defiant bravado. Ann Patchett, who first encountered Grealy as a fellow-undergrad at Sarah Lawrence, became close with her when they were both getting M.F.A.s (Patchett in fiction, Grealy in poetry) at the University of Iowa. In “Truth and Beauty,” a memoir by Patchett, from 2004, about their friendship, she describes the figure that Grealy cut in college, where she established herself as a campus celebrity. “Even at Sarah Lawrence, a school full of models and actresses and millionaire daughters of industry, everyone knew Lucy,” Patchett writes. “We knew things about Lucy the way one knows things about the private lives of movie stars.” Grealy, who had a “reputation for being the smartest student in all of her classes,” ran a campus film series on weekends. When she’d take the stage before a screening, “the crowd of students cheered her so wildly, screaming and applauding and chanting her name,” Patchett recalls. “She would wrap her arms around her head and twist from side to side, mortified, loving it.”
In “Autobiography,” Grealy writes wryly of the “artistic persona” afforded by her growing love of poetry: she’d pull classmates aside and (“without any sense of irony”) announce, “You have to hear this, it will change your life,” before reciting Rilke or Ashbery. “One’s looks were still of paramount importance,” she notes. “Only the aesthetic had changed. . . . I went with the I-don’t-care-I’m-an-artist look, which required that everything I wore came from The Bargain Box, the local thrift store, and cost no more than a dollar fifty.” Later, in her twenties, she took to miniskirts and heels—“I even got dressed up to go to the supermarket,” she writes. A hypersexual posture became a way of seeking validation while daring onlookers to judge her. Patchett recalls being scandalized when Grealy, in her thirties, gave a reading of an essay that described bringing home a stranger and masturbating in front of him.
Grealy relished the public profile that came with her book’s success. “This was exactly what I wanted all along,” she told an interviewer for the Guardian, when it was published in the U.K. “I got recognised this morning in a shop, and I genuinely enjoyed it.” Patchett writes that her friend revelled in the swirl of publicity: touring for a year on behalf of her book’s hardcover and again for the paperback, posing nude in a tree for a photoshoot, being greeted by supermodels on the streets outside her SoHo loft—“she loved all of it.” But (as Patchett also writes) the rush of public adoration did not stop Grealy from insisting to friends that she was ugly, unloved, and, ample romantic partners notwithstanding, certain to wind up alone. The fact of her face remained a “personal vanishing point.” The endless succession of reconstructive surgeries held out the promise of a new face, and, with it, a new life; what they delivered more reliably was pain, arduous recoveries, and further medication. “I looked forward to the pleasant, sleepy feeling they offered,” Grealy writes, of a teen-age prescription for codeine pills. “No matter how bad I felt about the world, about my position in it, I felt safe and secure and even rather happy thirty or forty minutes after I’d downed a couple pills.” The drugs that came with surgery set her on course for a heroin addiction, which finally killed her.
Grealy struggled to follow up on the promise of her first book. A contract for a novel went unfulfilled; her 2000 essay collection, “As Seen on TV,” had a muted reception. “Autobiography of a Face” was subsumed into the nineteen-nineties memoir boom. “In an era when ‘Oprah’ reigns supreme and 12-step programs have been adopted as the new mantra, it’s perhaps only natural for literary confession to join the parade,” James Atlas wrote in a 1996 essay for the New York Times Magazine. He went on to name-check Grealy’s book as one of “two memoirs of facial disfigurement” recently published (the other was “Road Song,” by Natalie Kusz), which he cited, along with first-person accounts of alcoholism, mental illness, and sexual transgression, as an exemplar of an emergent “culture of confession.” The Atlas essay was just one entry in a long line of arguments over confessional writing and its merits. In 2014, when, after publishing a widely lauded collection of personal essays, “The Empathy Exams,” Leslie Jamison felt compelled to defend her chosen genre against the “bad rap” that it was “self-absorbed, solipsistic, self-indulgent,” she pointed to Grealy’s book as an example of the value of intimate first-person prose.
By the time Jamison was writing, such prose was seemingly everywhere: the growth of the blogosphere had opened the way for a “personal-essay boom” that has grown and shrunk but never totally gone away. Meanwhile, the therapeutic language and traumatic topics at which critics such as Atlas had looked askance in the nineties found more intense and widespread expression with social media. There are more chances than ever to feel the appeal and the agony of being seen—and, in reading “Autobiography of a Face” today, this is the aspect of Grealy’s insight that comes to the fore. Her experience taught her both the power and the abjection of a life lived on public display.
In an essay from “As Seen on TV,” about going on an unnamed daytime talk show, Grealy recalled first contemplating what it meant to be on TV, as a child watching footage of the Beatles at Shea Stadium. “Though I couldn’t articulate it this way at the time,” she wrote, “what I felt was that to be seen by that many people would somehow make you realer than other people.” She goes on to consider why someone might crave this sensation:
Grealy understood the power of celebrity on an intimate, almost cellular level. Just as she refused to dismiss the desire for beauty, she refused to scoff at a desire for fame; she saw why it might seem to offer access to the sublime. This moment of reverie in her essay is soon undercut by an encounter with a stalker. The tantalizing prospect of being seen is never without peril, and even as she testifies firsthand to its allure Grealy is clear-eyed about its risks. Her work explored the gap between a private self and a public appearance—a gap that, in her case, was dramatic, and represented by the mediating fact of her face. But in the time since “Autobiography of a Face” was published, technology (phone cameras, the social Internet) has made it easier for anyone to hone self-consciousness into a torture device. The rigor and empathy Grealy brings to her subject would have made her an uncommon critic today. ♦ | {
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"Dr. Woolf appears in “Autobiography of a Face,” Grealy’s memoir, which recounts her arrival in his office after her diagnosis, at age nine, with Ewing’s sarcoma, a bone cancer that had caused a tumor in the right side of her jaw. Grealy describes her illness and its treatment (surgery, radiation, chemotherapy) with staunch fidelity to her child’s-eye view—which means that being sick seems at first like a chance to get out of school, that hospital stays hold out the promise of adventure, and that she has no idea what chemotherapy entails. The realization of the last arrives, with an overpowering force, only once Dr. Woolf has the needle in her arm. “I had never known it was possible to feel your organs, feel them the way you feel your tongue in your mouth, or your teeth,” Grealy writes. “My stomach outlined itself for me.” She vomits convulsively, and continues vomiting for much of the following week, in a cycle that would be repeated almost every week for two and a half years. Adults explain little to her—the possibility of death lies beyond her field of vision—which gives the vivid misery of her treatment a fairy-tale quality. (Big bad Dr. Woolf!) Its particulars are monstrous, its logic mysteriously irresistible, its results a transformation. Only once chemotherapy ends and her hair grows back does she realize that strangers haven’t been staring at her because she’s bald: they have been staring because of her face.",
"To Grealy, at the time, the surgery that removed her sarcoma had seemed insignificant compared with those weekly sessions with Dr. Woolf. But, as she leaves the cloistered world of cancer treatment, she learns that her looks—and her life—have been altered irrevocably. “Half my jaw was missing, which gave my face a strange triangular shape, accentuated by the fact that I was unable to keep my mouth completely closed,” Grealy writes. Quickly, her face comes to stand in her mind for all possible deficiencies or unhappiness. Even away from the torments of high school, where taunting boys prowl the hallways and cafeteria, “I was my face, I was ugliness. . . . Everything led to it, everything receded from it—my face as personal vanishing point.” In the first part of her story, she sees her body as an adversary to be mastered. Pain is an opportunity to win adult approval by showing that she can be “brave.” In the second, she finds that she can’t hold her physical form at the same remove: she is her body, and that body seems to preclude the world’s approval.",
"“Autobiography,” a sensation when it was published, in 1994, has been reissued this week in honor of its thirtieth anniversary. The book started out as an essay called “Mirrorings”; Grealy had written it for a grad-school friend’s anthology of women writers titled “Minding the Body,” after which it appeared in Harper’s, winning a National Magazine Award and earning her a book deal. The resulting memoir was a frank account of her childhood pain and a meditation on identity. “I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life,” she writes of facing the world’s gaze as an adolescent. Even her description of chemotherapy—her stomach outlined, her internal organs individually asserting themselves—suggests that what her ordeal gave her was a kind of unbearable self-awareness. Grealy, uninterested in therapeutic platitudes, offered unflinching precision: on the page, she controlled what the reader saw. Her acuity gives equal weight and immediacy to both the intangible reality of human relationships (the social hierarchies among children in a cancer ward, say) and the brute force of physical experience.",
"When the memoir came out, Grealy was vaulted from a life of fellowship applications and adjunct teaching to one of TV interviews and magazine spreads. Long after the threat of cancer had passed, she remained a denizen of hospitals, undergoing more than thirty reconstructive surgeries in the course of her life. For the most part, these failed: grafts of bone and soft tissue swelled, scarred, reabsorbed, and disappeared, leaving behind the question of how to live in a body that both defined her and refused stable definition. She died in 2002, at age thirty-nine, of a heroin overdose.",
"In the years since Grealy’s death, the book has become a fixture of college syllabi and also of the sort of recommended-reading lists that promise upper-middlebrow self-help. (Suleika Jaouad, who contributed a foreword to the new edition, has called “Autobiography” her “sick girl bible”; she is the author of a memoir and a TED talk on surviving cancer.) From the beginning, and notwithstanding Grealy’s unsentimental intellect, “Autobiography” was greeted in certain quarters as an inspiring reminder that beauty is only skin-deep. “How many women have never imagined that being beautiful would transform their lives and solve all their problems?” read a review that ran in the South Bend Tribune, under the headline “Our Obsession With Looks: It’s Cruel, Wasteful.” NPR’s “Morning Edition” host asked Grealy about fashion magazines; Newsday characterized the book’s story as an author “learning to accept her appearance in a culture that places a premium on beauty.” (Is there—has there ever been—a culture that does not place “a premium on beauty”?) In “Minding the Body,” Grealy’s essay had been anthologized alongside work by Naomi Wolf, who was then in the heyday of “The Beauty Myth,” her 1990 best-seller on the media’s unrealistic standards and women’s body image. Early press for “Autobiography” sometimes treated it as if Grealy were picking up where Wolf left off.",
"Yet Grealy’s book gives no warm reassurance that it’s what’s inside that really counts. For better or worse, what’s outside matters very much: the membrane of appearance that holds a person in the world is powerful stuff. (It would perhaps surprise some of these early readers to learn that in her twenties Grealy had got—had indeed delighted in getting—breast implants.) Some people, she told Charlie Rose in a 1994 interview, seemed to want her to say that beauty was unimportant. “That’s entirely not true,” she said. “It’s very important and utterly irrelevant at the same time.” With “Autobiography,” she had hoped to capture this paradoxical reality: “I think it’s really a book about being looked at and being seen.”",
"The prospect of being seen holds an ambivalent allure, as “Autobiography of a Face” makes clear. Grealy narrates competing desires to stand out and to fit in—hallmarks of any adolescence—under circumstances that render them extreme. She had learned early on what it meant to live constantly under others’ eyes. She hid behind hats and curtains of hair as a child and a teen-ager, but she was always, finally, visible. Over time, she found ways to wield that visibility—not with anything as straightforward as pride but with a kind of defiant bravado. Ann Patchett, who first encountered Grealy as a fellow-undergrad at Sarah Lawrence, became close with her when they were both getting M.F.A.s (Patchett in fiction, Grealy in poetry) at the University of Iowa. In “Truth and Beauty,” a memoir by Patchett, from 2004, about their friendship, she describes the figure that Grealy cut in college, where she established herself as a campus celebrity. “Even at Sarah Lawrence, a school full of models and actresses and millionaire daughters of industry, everyone knew Lucy,” Patchett writes. “We knew things about Lucy the way one knows things about the private lives of movie stars.” Grealy, who had a “reputation for being the smartest student in all of her classes,” ran a campus film series on weekends. When she’d take the stage before a screening, “the crowd of students cheered her so wildly, screaming and applauding and chanting her name,” Patchett recalls. “She would wrap her arms around her head and twist from side to side, mortified, loving it.”",
"In “Autobiography,” Grealy writes wryly of the “artistic persona” afforded by her growing love of poetry: she’d pull classmates aside and (“without any sense of irony”) announce, “You have to hear this, it will change your life,” before reciting Rilke or Ashbery. “One’s looks were still of paramount importance,” she notes. “Only the aesthetic had changed. . . . I went with the I-don’t-care-I’m-an-artist look, which required that everything I wore came from The Bargain Box, the local thrift store, and cost no more than a dollar fifty.” Later, in her twenties, she took to miniskirts and heels—“I even got dressed up to go to the supermarket,” she writes. A hypersexual posture became a way of seeking validation while daring onlookers to judge her. Patchett recalls being scandalized when Grealy, in her thirties, gave a reading of an essay that described bringing home a stranger and masturbating in front of him.",
"Grealy relished the public profile that came with her book’s success. “This was exactly what I wanted all along,” she told an interviewer for the Guardian, when it was published in the U.K. “I got recognised this morning in a shop, and I genuinely enjoyed it.” Patchett writes that her friend revelled in the swirl of publicity: touring for a year on behalf of her book’s hardcover and again for the paperback, posing nude in a tree for a photoshoot, being greeted by supermodels on the streets outside her SoHo loft—“she loved all of it.” But (as Patchett also writes) the rush of public adoration did not stop Grealy from insisting to friends that she was ugly, unloved, and, ample romantic partners notwithstanding, certain to wind up alone. The fact of her face remained a “personal vanishing point.” The endless succession of reconstructive surgeries held out the promise of a new face, and, with it, a new life; what they delivered more reliably was pain, arduous recoveries, and further medication. “I looked forward to the pleasant, sleepy feeling they offered,” Grealy writes, of a teen-age prescription for codeine pills. “No matter how bad I felt about the world, about my position in it, I felt safe and secure and even rather happy thirty or forty minutes after I’d downed a couple pills.” The drugs that came with surgery set her on course for a heroin addiction, which finally killed her.",
"Grealy struggled to follow up on the promise of her first book. A contract for a novel went unfulfilled; her 2000 essay collection, “As Seen on TV,” had a muted reception. “Autobiography of a Face” was subsumed into the nineteen-nineties memoir boom. “In an era when ‘Oprah’ reigns supreme and 12-step programs have been adopted as the new mantra, it’s perhaps only natural for literary confession to join the parade,” James Atlas wrote in a 1996 essay for the New York Times Magazine. He went on to name-check Grealy’s book as one of “two memoirs of facial disfigurement” recently published (the other was “Road Song,” by Natalie Kusz), which he cited, along with first-person accounts of alcoholism, mental illness, and sexual transgression, as an exemplar of an emergent “culture of confession.” The Atlas essay was just one entry in a long line of arguments over confessional writing and its merits. In 2014, when, after publishing a widely lauded collection of personal essays, “The Empathy Exams,” Leslie Jamison felt compelled to defend her chosen genre against the “bad rap” that it was “self-absorbed, solipsistic, self-indulgent,” she pointed to Grealy’s book as an example of the value of intimate first-person prose.",
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"In an essay from “As Seen on TV,” about going on an unnamed daytime talk show, Grealy recalled first contemplating what it meant to be on TV, as a child watching footage of the Beatles at Shea Stadium. “Though I couldn’t articulate it this way at the time,” she wrote, “what I felt was that to be seen by that many people would somehow make you realer than other people.” She goes on to consider why someone might crave this sensation:",
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How ChatGPT’s Canvas Can Help You Use AI More Productively | Canvas, which is available to OpenAI’s paid subscribers, is a little bit like an AI-powered Google Docs. Here’s how to use it.
With multiple AI platforms and bots competing against each other—there's Copilot, Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity, to name just a few—we're seeing new updates and upgrades appear on a frequent basis. One of the newest additions OpenAI has pushed out to ChatGPT is called Canvas, and it's a little bit like an AI-powered Google Docs.
OpenAI describes it as “a new way of working with ChatGPT to write and code,” and it means you're essentially collaborating with the AI on a text document or on program code. You can already do this in the main chat interface of course, but with Canvas it's a bit more like having an AI coworker with you.
Right now, you have to be a ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Pro, or ChatGPT Plus user (from $20 a month) to access the Canvas model. You'll find it in the drop-down menu at the top of the conversation screen, in the top left corner.
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With Canvas selected as the AI model, you can start interacting with ChatGPT just as you would normally. Use the prompt box to describe the kind of code you need to write, or the type of text you need to generate. You do need to say something to indicate you want a new canvas to be created, though—something like “Create a document” or “Start a canvas” somewhere in your prompt will do it.
When the ChatGPT Canvas interface launches in full, you'll see the familiar chat conversation on the left, and whatever it is you're working on on the right. You've got a few different options here. You can enter a new prompt to get more text (or code), you can manually type in something yourself in the canvas pane, or you can select something ChatGPT has generated and ask for revisions.
Those different options are what makes Canvas a more collaborative mode. Up in the top right corner you'll find shortcuts for viewing earlier versions of your document, or copying the text elsewhere. Down in the lower right corner, meanwhile, you'll find a pop-up toolbox that gives you a variety of options, depending on whether you're writing text or programming code with ChatGPT.
If you're writing, you can find tools for suggesting edits, adjusting the length of the output ChatGPT has created, changing the reading level of the text, polishing up the written output, or adding emoji to the document. For example, click Reading level, and you can use the slider to make the text more or less complex.
For programming, the same pop-up toolbox gives you options for reviewing the code, porting it to a different language, fixing bugs, adding logs, and adding comments. For example, you can choose Add Logs, then click the arrow that appears, and ChatGPT will drop in log statements for the code.
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As I'm a writer rather than a coder, I'll talk through the writing options in ChatGPT Canvas in more depth than the coding options. Just know that if you’re using Canvas for programming, the tools and options work in a similar way.
If you want to, you can just click inside the text the ChatGPT has produced and make changes. You can also add or insert entirely new paragraphs. Any text, whether it's been written by you or the bot, can be selected: That will then bring up a ChatGPT prompt window, where you can make changes to the selected text only. For example, you might want the selected text to be phrased more clearly, or you might want to expand on the ideas in the text to make it longer.
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Uber and WeRide launch robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi | Ride-hail giant Uber and Chinese autonomous vehicle technology company WeRide have launched a commercial robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi. The launch marks Uber’s first international autonomous vehicle offering.
Uber has been snatching up partnerships with autonomous vehicle companies across sectors, including ride-hail, delivery, and trucking. Other partners include Wayve, Serve Robotics, Aurora Innovation, Waabi, and others.
Still, investors are wary that incumbents like Uber won’t be able to compete with the companies building the technology, like Waymo and potentially Tesla. On Thursday, Uber’s stock dropped nearly 10% after Waymo announced plans to launch a robotaxi service in Miami — this despite the fact that a true autonomous vehicle-flavored disruption to the ride-hail industry will take years and that Uber may be one of the apps where riders end up connecting to those robotaxis.
Uber’s launch with WeRide, which went public on the Nasdaq in late October, will be small-scale, according to an Uber spokesperson. Neither Uber nor WeRide shared how many vehicles would hit Abu Dhabi’s streets initially. The first rollout will take place between Saadiyat Island and Yas Island, and along routes to and from Zayed International Airport, with plans to expand in the future.
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Ravens have a chance to reset before a December stretch run they handled so impressively in 2023 | OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — December was when the Baltimore Ravens really hit their stride a season ago. Lamar Jackson took control of the MVP race, and the team finished with the best record in the NFL thanks to emphatic wins over San Francisco and Miami.
A year later, Baltimore has plenty of opportunities ahead — but also looks like a team in need of a quick reset.
The Ravens are way behind in the race for the top seed in 2024, and although they still lead the league in total offense by a healthy margin — and the defense is showing signs of much-needed improvement — they’ve had a few unexpected problems to deal with. Kicker Justin Tucker has been a liability after over a decade of excellence, and earlier this week, Baltimore suspended newly acquired receiver Diontae Johnson, saying he refused to enter their game against Philadelphia.
The Ravens (8-5) are off this week. They enter the weekend 1 1/2 games behind Pittsburgh for the AFC North lead, but they get a chance to face the Steelers at home on Dec. 21.
“We don’t need to worry about the Steelers. We need to worry about us. That’s the first thing — worry about what we need to clean up on this side,” Jackson said after last weekend’s 24-19 loss to the Eagles. “Forget every other team. We are beating ourselves out there.”
In a five-day stretch, the Ravens will face the Steelers followed by a Christmas road game against Houston. That could determine whether they win the division, since Pittsburgh has games against Philadelphia, Baltimore and Kansas City in an 11-day span.
Of course, the Ravens can’t overlook games against the New York Giants (Dec. 15) and Cleveland (Jan. 5). They’ve already lost to the Browns, and a Week 2 defeat against a Las Vegas team that’s won only one other game continues to hurt Baltimore.
The Ravens have beaten enough other playoff contenders — including blowout victories over Buffalo and Denver — that they need to be taken seriously, but they haven’t been able to show the type of consistent excellence they displayed for much of last season.
That’s not to say they don’t have award candidates. Jackson is third in the MVP race in the betting odds at BetMGM. He’s on pace for a career-best passer rating of 116.3, with 29 touchdown throws and three interceptions so far. Derrick Henry has been a terrific free agent signing, rushing for 1,407 yards in his first 13 games with the Ravens.
For a while, the defense wasn’t even close to keeping up with the standard the offense was setting. That’s improved of late. Baltimore held four of its last five opponents to 24 points or fewer.
“The message kind of became a little bit clear: ‘If you want to play ball, then we’ll get you out there, but if you don’t, you’re going to have to sit on the sidelines.’ I think guys responded really well to what was being preached amongst the coaches, amongst the players,” cornerback Marlon Humphrey said. “We’re holding guys more accountable now.”
Penalties have been a problem — Baltimore is averaging nearly 10 of them per game — and lately Tucker’s erratic kicking has cost the Ravens points. He’s already missed eight field goals and two extra points this season, and although his track record suggests he could fix his struggles at some point, time is now running short before the postseason.
“I said this to some of the guys earlier. I said, ‘I think this is normal for kickers, but we’ve just been so blessed by Tucker’s eliteness that we kind of take it for granted,’” Humphrey said. “There’s not much I know about kicking, but I do know Tucker is a guy to get things turned around.”
If Baltimore closes the regular season like it did a year ago, a division title and at least one playoff home game are very much within reach. But right now the Ravens are still waiting for everything to click.
“Bill Parcells had a great quote. He said, ‘The season starts after Thanksgiving,’” coach John Harbaugh said. “Wow. What a truth for the teams that are still in it, and we’re one of those teams. So we have an opportunity now. The season starts now.” | {
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Exasperation over misspelt road repainting in Cirencester | Newly repainted road markings reading "Ceep Klear" near a school have caused dismay among residents.
The misspelling appeared on a re-patched section of Watermoor Road in Cirencester, Gloucestershire.
Pictures of the sign, near Paternoster School, attracted hundreds of comments on social media, with locals complaining the error was part of a wider problem with the town's roads.
Paul Skuse, who runs a Cirencester group on Facebook, posted: "Another top quality repair carried out."
One group member said: "Must be a joke. No one can be that bad at spelling!"
Another complained that poor repairs were making the town's roads and pavements dangerous for push chairs and wheelchair users.
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Fly Ventures sets its eyes on technical founders with a fresh €80M fund | Fly Ventures, the Berlin-based VC that invests in seed-stage European startups within enterprise and deep tech, has launched its third fund at €80 million. The firm raised its last €53 million fund in 2020.
Aiming at technical founders, the firm claims Fund III was oversubscribed and raised in a single closing. Meanwhile, the small increase in fund size reflects the firm’s desire to operate as a boutique firm.
Founded by Gabriel Matuschka and Fredrik Bergenlid, Fly Ventures invests €1 million to €4 million in rounds of €2 million to €10 million at the inception stage.
Matuschka told TechCrunch: “We like doing things that at the time, other people think, what the … material science and AI?! These days, more people do it, but our game plan is to do these kinds of investments two or three years before anybody else cares.”
With Matt Wichrowski, Marie Brayer, Bergenlid, and Matuschka, the firm operates in an equal-GP model of four partners each distributed across Berlin, London, Paris, and Zurich.
“I think the Berlin/London thing specifically is also plus Munich, because from Berlin you can cover Munich. And for the more technical stuff, Munich tends to be a bit stronger. But it was always clear you had to do Germany and the UK. Then I guess over the last four years or so, Paris, on the more technical side, also really accelerated, which is the reason why we also added Marie, who is based in Paris,” said Matuschka.
Bergenlid previously worked at Google on Google Assistant, and Matuschka previously founded travel shopping club TripHunter (acquired by brands4friends, now owned by eBay).
AI has so far accounted for about 45% of Fly’s investments, with vertical applications and industrial tech taking up 35%, and dev tools/infrastructure taking up 20%.
In its portfolio exists clinical trials marketplace Inato, anti-money-laundering startup Salv, and cybersecurity startup GitGuardian.
Another, Wayve, recently raised $1.05 billion in a Series C round led by SoftBank to progress autonomous driving with self-learning technology.
It’s also invested in Lakera, a Zurich-based startup that aims to protect enterprises from LLM vulnerabilities, and Orbital Materials, a U.K.-based company developing foundation models for materials science. | {
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Winning numbers drawn in Thursday’s Illinois Pick 3 Evening | The winning numbers in Thursday evening’s drawing of the “Illinois Pick 3 Evening” game were:
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Finding the Real ‘Midnight Diner’ | The restaurant featured in the hit TV show Midnight Diner is a wholly a fictitious izakaya. On a recent trip to Tokyo, I set out to find it anyway.
Every night in the darkest, most depressing depths of the pandemic, one TV show, which I watched over and over, helped get me through. Midnight Diner, a series on Netflix set in a Tokyo restaurant, became a healing balm and a reminder of the warmth of being around people.
The chef at this izakaya, referred to only as “Master,” cooks surrounded by a service counter on three sides, at which loyal regulars sit bathing in each others’ company. Perhaps thought of as a quirky cousin to the 1980s NBC sitcom Cheers, every episode tells a sweet, sad, or occasionally heartbreaking story. Master, a man of few words with a mysterious scar on his face, is like their conscience and a confidant, helping make sense of the world. Characters are kind, quirky, and loyal.
As a taxi glides dreamily through the Shinjuku neighborhood in the opening credits, Master gives a little voice-over: “When people finish their day and hurry home, my day starts … My diner is open from midnight to seven in the morning. They call it ‘Midnight Diner.’ Do I even have customers? More than you would expect.”
A little research confirmed that the izakaya in the show is wholly fictitious, yet I wanted to believe a place with that kind of food and that kind of feeling was real. On a recent trip to Tokyo, I set out to find one just like it.
“An Ideal in Your Heart”
I start seeing elements of what I hoped to find surprisingly quickly. I immediately find a postage-stamp-sized bar in my neighborhood where people are friendly and curious. At my first dinner out at an izakaya in the Nakano neighborhood, the food is surprisingly good for a casual spot: generous and unfussy sashimi, fish collar, smashed cucumbers with sesame, seared mushrooms, and an Asahi Super Dry or two. The busy, cheery waitstaff still takes the time to help me navigate the menu.
Barely 24 hours into my trip, I meet restaurant reviewer Mackey Makimoto at Toranomon Yokocho, a multi-restaurant project he has helped put together that's like a food court in heaven. He's sporting a short-brimmed fedora and is talking with a chef when I arrive with my fixer and translator, Mai Nomura. Over fried chicken, grilled sardines, fried oysters, and fried tofu, we bond over a love of Midnight Diner, but my first real question for him is whether a place like that exists.
“Izakaya is very Japanese. They started from sake shops, where customers wanted something to eat to go with their drink,” he says, “Communities would have a liquor shop, and people would buy sake to go, but then in the Edo period, they wanted to stay. At first it was only standing, but over time they wanted to sit. Eventually, they got hungry.”
This, Makimoto explains, is where the word izakaya comes from, its three characters roughly translating into “a liquor store you stay at.”
Over time, in this densely populated but sometimes lonely city, something else blossomed.
“I go to over 700 restaurants a year, but I don't always feel happy or cheerful in them. Here, I feel happy when I speak to the chef,” he says, gesturing into the central kitchen. “The food is good, but most important is that this is where you can meet people you want to meet. Customers become friends, and friends become community.”
“On the show, almost everyone comes in by themselves. They are lonely inside,” he says. “People who are single and lonely inside can be cheered by places like this. They can show us how to be warmhearted.”
So is it real? Is there one place like it? Can I go to Midnight Diner?
“There is none. It's utopia. It's an ideal in your heart.”
Yet he also knows what he would order there.
“Yakisoba with Worcestershire sauce,” he says in a nod to his neighborhood. “They always serve this at the summer festival in Nakano.”
This simultaneously raises and lowers my hopes, but he also pulls up an address on his phone for a place that might fit the bill and sends me off into the night.
Found in Translation
The next evening, following his instructions, I take a train out to the Keisei Hikifune station, walk through a residential neighborhood, then up to the restaurant's frosted glass sliders. Opening them reveals a bar with four women working behind it wreathed by customers and a handful of tiny tables along the opposite wall.
Everyone looks up as I poke my head in and, to my amazement, I am meeting people before I sit on a green stool at the corner of the bar. The guy two seats to the left is five cigarettes in. I meet my neighbors to the right: a rental car agent who works in the Tokyo Station and her chef friend who works at an izakaya. As we talk, a fish broker sits in the empty seat to my left.
Almost immediately, we've opened the translation apps on our phones and are chattering away.
“Do you like to drink?” the fish broker asks while sharing some sake. “I love alcohol.”
The apps and everyone’s willingness to use them allow us to have surprisingly intimate and detailed conversations. In all my years of travel writing, I've never used a translation app this way, and I'm stunned at how quickly it allows you to create a conversation with some depth to it.
First, I get them to tell me what to eat. I start with an herby meatball on a stick, ham tonkatsu, and an only-in-Tokyo casserole-like dish called monja. These are followed by slabs of wasabi-dabbed cheese wrapped in nori, horse mackerel sashimi, and grilled dried anchovies with mayonnaise. It's all good to very good, and there's a fair amount of sharing among strangers.
I ask about the clientele and how they all seem to know each other, and the rental car agent tells me that even if you're by yourself, “there are many people who often come, so everyone gets along well.”
The vibe of the evening is a slow crescendo, our chatter building to the point where three or four of us are simultaneously talking into our phones and thrusting them in front of one another, all with a remarkable sense of good cheer.
The fish broker is jokey and friendly, and it turns out he comes in about once a week. People sit close, lean in, and touch each other on the shoulder while they speak. Someone says, “The toilet here is interesting. You should go.” I comply, and it turns out to have a surprisingly large and vibrant fish tank. At one point, an elderly couple comes in, and along with ordering dinner and drinks they've brought in a bag full of homemade fried chicken for the owner. She distributes pieces of it to her patrons at the bar, a move received with great excitement. As this happens, I just look around, appreciating the happy bubble surrounding the restaurant and marvel at my luck. I've found something more magic than I dared to hope for. In all my years of writing about food and restaurants, this memory will be among the most indelible.
“You may have discovered the best shop in Tokyo,” says the fish broker.
While this was the most magical night of my trip, the bonhomie was not at all uncommon. In fact, it’s closer to the norm. So many nights end up with me walking out of a restaurant and snapping a selfie with a gaggle of new friends. To find these places, I’d wander smaller neighborhoods, take my time, look for little places with the right vibe, and keep my heart open. For semi-outgoing travelers who like to eat and meet locals, it's wonderful.
Local Flavors
A few days later, my intrepid interpreter Mai and I meet Takanori Nakamura, a food writer and television personality and the Japan chair for Asia's 50 Best Restaurants. He’s wearing a blue blazer with a puffy pocket square over a yellow argyle sweater and low-top cowboy boots, a dandy in a diner. The spot, an izakaya called Tohachi, is a few steps from the Nakameguro station, and one stop from where he lived as a university student in the 1980s. There's a mix of Eastern and Western seating styles, and the walls are festooned with paper tags called tanzaku that list menu items. Customers' personal shochu bottles line the half wall in front of our sunken bar seats.
Over little macaroni-salad otōshi—amuse-bouche–style appetizers—along with fish cakes, croquettes, sashimi, and delicious thin slices of fatty cured sausage, all washed down by fantastic regional sakes, he explains the importance of izakaya in personal terms.
“There are so many kinds of food at a place like this. It's very cozy and very inexpensive. If this restaurant is famous, it's because everything is homemade,” he says, noting how many restaurants now outsource work to centralized industrial kitchens. Here, it's homemade and familiar. “It's always maintained the same taste. The same! And the same family runs it. Yet when I came here 40 years ago, the competition between mom-and-pop and industrial was already happening. That's when I knew that I wanted to be a food writer.”
“This was a vital moment for me, and coming back here helps me remember that time,” he says, drawing a line in the air from the present to the past. As he talks, my eyes settle on the half wall in front of me where a laminated article with his photo on it sings the praises of the very fish cakes we are eating. “In Japan, each region has a different cuisine. It's kind of a wonderland. The sake here comes from all over the country. Izakaya is an assembly of all of the different parts.”
I'm about to ask what he'd order at his dream izakaya, then realize it's right in front of us.
Mai adds a little aside to her translating: “He's brought us to his Midnight Diner.”
I keep this in my head throughout the rest of the trip and keep finding that with that bit of openness on my part, I'd receive even more in return, having conversations with curious locals at almost every place I visit. On my last night, I go to the little neighborhood bar where for one week I've been a local, take a selfie with my new friends as I walk out and make my way back to my guest house, thinking up my own little variation on Master’s opening-credit monologue:
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"“I go to over 700 restaurants a year, but I don't always feel happy or cheerful in them. Here, I feel happy when I speak to the chef,” he says, gesturing into the central kitchen. “The food is good, but most important is that this is where you can meet people you want to meet. Customers become friends, and friends become community.”",
"“On the show, almost everyone comes in by themselves. They are lonely inside,” he says. “People who are single and lonely inside can be cheered by places like this. They can show us how to be warmhearted.”",
"So is it real? Is there one place like it? Can I go to Midnight Diner?",
"“There is none. It's utopia. It's an ideal in your heart.”",
"Yet he also knows what he would order there.",
"“Yakisoba with Worcestershire sauce,” he says in a nod to his neighborhood. “They always serve this at the summer festival in Nakano.”",
"This simultaneously raises and lowers my hopes, but he also pulls up an address on his phone for a place that might fit the bill and sends me off into the night."
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"The vibe of the evening is a slow crescendo, our chatter building to the point where three or four of us are simultaneously talking into our phones and thrusting them in front of one another, all with a remarkable sense of good cheer.",
"The fish broker is jokey and friendly, and it turns out he comes in about once a week. People sit close, lean in, and touch each other on the shoulder while they speak. Someone says, “The toilet here is interesting. You should go.” I comply, and it turns out to have a surprisingly large and vibrant fish tank. At one point, an elderly couple comes in, and along with ordering dinner and drinks they've brought in a bag full of homemade fried chicken for the owner. She distributes pieces of it to her patrons at the bar, a move received with great excitement. As this happens, I just look around, appreciating the happy bubble surrounding the restaurant and marvel at my luck. I've found something more magic than I dared to hope for. In all my years of writing about food and restaurants, this memory will be among the most indelible.",
"“You may have discovered the best shop in Tokyo,” says the fish broker.",
"While this was the most magical night of my trip, the bonhomie was not at all uncommon. In fact, it’s closer to the norm. So many nights end up with me walking out of a restaurant and snapping a selfie with a gaggle of new friends. To find these places, I’d wander smaller neighborhoods, take my time, look for little places with the right vibe, and keep my heart open. For semi-outgoing travelers who like to eat and meet locals, it's wonderful."
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"“There are so many kinds of food at a place like this. It's very cozy and very inexpensive. If this restaurant is famous, it's because everything is homemade,” he says, noting how many restaurants now outsource work to centralized industrial kitchens. Here, it's homemade and familiar. “It's always maintained the same taste. The same! And the same family runs it. Yet when I came here 40 years ago, the competition between mom-and-pop and industrial was already happening. That's when I knew that I wanted to be a food writer.”",
"“This was a vital moment for me, and coming back here helps me remember that time,” he says, drawing a line in the air from the present to the past. As he talks, my eyes settle on the half wall in front of me where a laminated article with his photo on it sings the praises of the very fish cakes we are eating. “In Japan, each region has a different cuisine. It's kind of a wonderland. The sake here comes from all over the country. Izakaya is an assembly of all of the different parts.”",
"I'm about to ask what he'd order at his dream izakaya, then realize it's right in front of us.",
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"I keep this in my head throughout the rest of the trip and keep finding that with that bit of openness on my part, I'd receive even more in return, having conversations with curious locals at almost every place I visit. On my last night, I go to the little neighborhood bar where for one week I've been a local, take a selfie with my new friends as I walk out and make my way back to my guest house, thinking up my own little variation on Master’s opening-credit monologue:",
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Shropshire Christmas events cancelled over Storm Darragh fears | Christmas events have been cancelled in Shropshire as heavy rain and strong winds are forecast, prompting serious safety concerns.
Bridgnorth Town Council said it had reluctantly decided to cancel its Christmas lights switch-on event on Friday, while Madeley Town Council postponed its touring Santa Christmas float planned for Friday and Saturday.
Much Wenlock Christmas Fayre will also no longer go ahead on Saturday over concerns for stallholders and visitors.
The Met office has issued yellow warnings for wind and rain in the county from Thursday to Sunday.
Bridgnorth Town Council added the lights would be turned on at a safe time during the weekend.
The Christmas float was due to tour around Madeley, Sutton Hill and Woodside.
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MobiKwik's IPO will value it at $250M, 73% less than its last private valuation | MobiKwik, an Indian financial services startup, has cut the size of its planned IPO for the third time, setting a price band of ₹265 to ₹279 ($3.1 to $3.3) that values it at $250 million — down sharply from its last private valuation of $924 million in 2021.
The Gurugram-based fintech, backed by Peak XV and ADIA, is seeking to raise about $69 million in the IPO, well below the $255 million it initially targeted back in 2021. The IPO opens on December 11, and the stock will start trading on December 18.
The 15-year-old startup operates one of the most widely used mobile wallet apps in India. But it has struggled to maintain relevance after a government-backed protocol, UPI, saw broader adoption. The company has raised more than $268 million to date.
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11 Best Cold-Brew Coffee Makers (2024): Oxo, KitchenAid, and More | Good cold-brewed coffee tastes like magic. Learn how to make it right—no barista necessary.
A classic cold-brew maker is a little like a kindergarten art teacher for coffee. It requires a whole lot of patience—and really it’s just there to let the coffee express itself.
And so the best cold-brew coffee maker isn’t necessarily the most high-tech. It’s often the device that best gets out of the way, granting cool-steeped coffee grounds the space to slowly release their natural sweetness and most delicate flavors—not to mention a bracing hit of caffeine. The result is a refreshing and low-acidity brew that’s gentle on both the stomach and the palate. But as with all subtle things, what goes wrong while making cold brew can also be subtle.
We carefully tested dozens of cold-brew devices to find our favorites, the ones that consistently lead to a full-flavored and full-bodied cup without off-notes or unwanted grittiness. We assessed ease of use, consistency of brews, simple messiness, and simple beauty. And we also tried a new generation of devices that aim to hurry up the process, from slow-drip coffee devices that look like chemistry sets to some of the most hyped new devices in the coffee world—to see whether any of them can match up to the long, slow process of just letting coffee be itself.
Be sure to check out our other coffee guides to round out your coffee tool set, like the Best Espresso Machines, Best Latte & Cappuccino Makers, Best Portable Coffee Makers, Best Coffee Subscriptions, and Best Coffee Grinders.
Updated December 2024: We've added the Fellow Aiden, Cumulus, Bodum Melior and Bean, Kinto Capsule, Ovalware Cold Brew Maker, and Mueller Smoothbrew, and adjusted picks, pricing, and product descriptions throughout.
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Best Brewers
If you want the sweet, smooth, full-bodied character of classic cold brew, it turns out nothing beats a full-immersion device like the Oxo Compact. The robust and lovely coffee we’ve made with this device compared favorably to the best packaged cold brews—but at a fraction of the cost per cup. The Oxo’s brewing chamber is basically a bucket, with grounds steeped directly in the water and then filtered out. A device like this, so simple you can hardly call it a device, is almost certainly what your local cafe uses to make the cold brew you pay $5 or more a cup to receive.
So what gives the Oxo Compact the edge over similar devices, including the iconically classic Toddy? Ease, elegance, flexibility, a lack of mess, and a firm respect for shelf space. The Oxo’s “rainmaker” lid provides the water agitation needed to extract a full-flavored brew without additional stirring. Filtration is as easy as placing the immersion chamber atop Oxo’s glass carafe, and waiting 15 minutes.
You can adjust your desired strength to your heart’s content. And the device’s mesh filter can be augmented with an optional additional paper filter for a cleaner-tasting, fine-free cold brew that’ll keep its flavor longer. All parts unscrew easily and can be cleaned with ease, and the device’s design is low-key graceful, with a cork-topped and airtight carafe that a previous Wired reviewer has called “adorable.” When you want to stow the Oxo, the carafe fits inside the device’s other half like a Russian nesting doll.
One overnight steep makes about a pint of cold brew, meaning the Oxo Compact is best suited for making strong cold brew concentrate that you can dilute one-to-one with water or milk. We recommend 110 grams (about 4 ounces) of course-grind coffee, plus 600 milliliters (about 20 ounces) of water. Why? This uses up about one-third of a standard 12-ounce coffee bag, and yields four to five sturdy cups of cold brew after you dilute to drinking strength. If you need larger cold-brew batches for a big household or a serious caffeine habit, we’ll steer you to the larger Oxo Good Grips or the Toddy.
Japanese-style iced coffee, aka “Flash Brew,” took the internet by storm in the waning days of the pandemic. It sounds fancy and exotic, but the mechanics are simple: Use your preferred drip device (most very-online coffee geeks agree a pour-over is the only correct option) to slowly brew coffee directly over a pot or carafe filled with ice, thus cooling the coffee in a “flash.” The magic is in the ratio of water to grounds as well as the timing, which is simple in theory but a pain in the ass in practice. Yet again the Fellow Aiden (8/10, WIRED Recommends) handles the annoying stuff for you, while doing things its own way. Aiden's “Cold Brew” function is not flash coffee, nor quite a cold brew. The Aiden uses a hot initial bloom of water to aid full extraction, but brews the rest of the way with a slow drip of cool water. The result is a faster, brighter cold-drip coffee without the bitter character of some iced coffee.
Dial in your desired output in ounces, and the machine tells you how many grams of ground coffee you’ll need. Pop in the correct brew basket, dial in the matching brew head, then spend the next hour or so doing literally anything else. In our tests, an output setting of 16 ounces required 35 grams of grounds and a 90-minute brew time. We used our trusty Kirkland Signature Organic Ethiopia ground on a setting just a few clicks coarser than an espresso grind. After the machine beeped, the pot was filled with a rich 75-degree-Fahrenheit liquid that barely melted the ice it was poured over, eschewing any bitter notes caused by shocking the brew in ice for a smooth cup with mild grassy notes and the beans' signature wine-y aftertaste. The machines are coming for our barista jobs, and in this case I’m totally OK with it. —Pete Cottell
The WIRED Gear team has liked Oxo’s full-sized cold brew maker for years (8/10 and our WIRED Recommends). It’s a cold brew connoisseur's dream rig that’s meant to sit proudly on your kitchen counter.
Oxo’s full-sized offers similar upsides to the Compact model, including the rainmaker pouring device and paper/mesh filter options. The difference is the larger model can produce 24 to 28 ounces of full-flavored cold brew. The trade-off for the added capacity is that the stand will require significantly more dedicated shelf space, both in height and breadth. And for me at least, counter space is always at a premium.
After letting your coffee sit on the counter or in the fridge for 12 to 24 hours, flip a switch and your brew cleanly drains into the decanter. It also comes with a measuring lid. Perhaps most important, the coffee it makes tastes just as fantastic as the Compact.
I have a perhaps irrational affection for the Kinto Capsule, both for its pleasing heft and shape and an elegant omnidirectional pouring device that doubles as a lid. I’ll be honest: I have little love for most pitcher-style devices. In theory, they’re designed to remove the mess and fuss of making cold brew. In practice, most make weak and inconsistent coffee even after a full day of steeping. This is a sad situation usually caused by simple geometry. The ratio of coffee to water is generally inflexible and too dilute. The coffee grounds can clump inside the filter basket if they’re packed too densely, and extraction is often unpredictable. It’s a lot to think about.
And yet over and over, I came back to this one-liter Kinto, which makes about five servings of satisfying, complex, ready-to-drink cold brew. The mesh filter is easy to clean and doesn’t clog like the laser-cut metal filters on some similar devices. Its thin-cylindered shape provides lots of surface-area contact between the coffee basket and the water reservoir, making for both good extraction and a snug fit in a fridge door. Plus, that little cap atop the Capsule’s coffee filter chamber, allowing you to agitate the carafe without getting grit in your cold brew? Chef’s kiss.
The simplicity of the Mizudashi's design makes it an absolute joy to use. It’s an elegant, understated device that works just as well for coffee as it does for tea. The reusable filter provides less filtration than a paper filter—which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The presence of microscopic coffee particles in a cup of cold brew will leave some sediment in the bottom of the cup, but they also provide a little more body to the brew itself. A silken mouthfeel that, in my opinion, helps the cold brew stand up to the addition of milk a bit better without getting watery.
The thing I love the most about the Mizudashi is its size. The 600-milliliter version is perfect for the amount of cold brew I usually want to have on hand, and the shape and build quality of the Mizudashi just makes me want to make cold brew, and that's an important quality.
Hario is a Japanese company with a long record of making quality glassware, and it shows in the craftsmanship of this simple carafe. Japan has a long history with cold brew, by some accounts going as far back as the 1600s. The Mizudashi is named after the cold-steeping method used for tea that was reportedly the inspiration for early Japanese coffee drinkers to first try cold-steeping coffee grounds. It's an acknowledgment of the history of this preparation method, and it speaks to the care and thought that went into the design of this cold brew maker. —Jaina Grey
The Bruer is the device that truly opened our reviewers’ eyes to the magic of iced slow-drip brewing—a process that can evince lighter and brighter flavors that better showcase single-origin beans than the gentler, more muted results of cold brew. And though it’s called “slow-drip,” the process is quite a bit faster than traditional cold brew. Unlike some lesser slow-drip makers that have had mixed results for WIRED testers, the Cold Bruer Drip makes delightful, concentrated, virtually grit-free slow-drip coffee.
Instead of asking you to pour a bunch of grounds into water and let it sit, the Bruer lets water drip through the grounds using gravity. It looks a little bananas at first, but it's simple. You fill the bottom of a glass container with coarse coffee grounds. Below the grounds is a steel mesh filter. After you dampen those grounds, put a paper filter on top, snap in the silicone seal, and place the container into the glass carafe. Fill up the top section with water and ice, then twist the knob in the center to slow or speed up the drip—you want a drop per second—as needed.
It's not foolproof. You must follow the directions precisely, including using ice—and if your coffee grind is too fine, water may form pathways through it, like an ant colony. If what's dripping out doesn't look dark, or it's coming out quickly, adjust your tactics. It also holds only 20 ounces of water, and since it's made of glass, it's fragile. Some buyers have complained of drip-valve issues, but I have not encountered any yet. —Jeff Van Camp
Never in our memory has a cold-brew device arrived with as much hoopla and fanfare as the Cumulus. Why? It is the promise of a unicorn: a frothing cup of nitro cold brew, made near instantaneously at home by a whizzbangy machine conceived by former Starbucks innovation czar Mesh Gelman. Look closely, and you’ll realize what the device actually does is make cold brew out of … cold brew. Cumulus brews it the old-fashioned way, in cold water, over the course of many hours, then vacuum distills the brew to condense it into a minuscule and proprietary coffee capsule that costs about $2.50 a pop.
Insert that capsule into a Cumulus Machine, and it’ll unpack that super-dense concentrate into a frigid 10-ounce glass of cold brew, or a fabulously frothy nitro version made by pressure-injecting air into the coffee. Another novelty? A bracing double-shot of cold espresso, complete with actual crema—ready for a milk mixer or service in an espresso martini.
We’re still testing the many flavors, from light to dark to decaf to capsules specially designed for espresso. But early worries are that vacuum distillation might impart a somewhat processed character to the coffee’s flavor—a rubbery tang that not everyone will be sensitive to. My mother, on a visit, raved about the abundant froth in the nitro, and preferred the result to packaged nitro cold brew. So far, I'm less convinced. But the nitro bubbles are indeed abundant and impressive. And the cold espresso feels like more than a novelty: it’s an actual treat. We don’t expect the device will win over cold brew nerds or the craft coffee crowd. But on-demand nitro cold brew at home will be an extravagant luxury for those who like to mix cold brew with milk and sugar. If you’d otherwise be shelling out $7 for the complicated cold concoctions at Gelman’s alma mater, Starbucks, you might even make back the device’s $700 entry fee.
Yes, you can make good cold brew in an Aeropress! All you have to do is pour some grounds in the Aeropress and top them off with cold water all the way up to the 4 on the cylinder. Give it a stir and place the plunger in the top, but don’t press down. At this point I’ve found I get my best results by putting the whole thing in the fridge overnight. Once it has steeped, put the fully loaded Aeropress on your cup of choice and press the plunger down about a third of the way. I like my cold brew small, over ice, with two to three parts milk. I find I can get three to four cold brews out of one steeping with this method, but I treat it like espresso and only use about one shot-glass-worth at a time for a full cup. If you like yours a bit stronger, you might only get about two big glasses of cold brew out of this method. —Jaina Grey
The Toddy has been around since the 1960s. It’s similar to the Oxo brewing system, just a little more DIY. It’s basically a big bucket with grounds in it and a glass carafe to hold the coffee when it's done brewing. The brew bucket is made of plastic, and it requires paper liners and filter pads that you’ll have to keep buying (filter pads last about 10 brews, or three months). You have to remove a rubber stopper to drain the coffee after 24 hours, which will always get your hands messy—cleanup is time-consuming.
Fortunately, it makes rich, full-bodied cold brew that tastes as robust as any other method I’ve tried, sometimes better. Those pads and paper filters are annoying, but they work. If you’re OK with a little inconvenience, the Toddy makes a damn good cold-brew concentrate. It's similar to the Filtron Brewer, but more well constructed. There's even a giant 2.5-gallon Toddy that's used in coffee shops. —Jeff Van Camp
I used French presses as a quasi-control in my testing, and the Secura is the nicest I’ve tried. To my dismay, I haven’t been able to get any French press to produce cold-brewed coffee with flavor that’s as smooth or rich as with other methods. It’s usually a little bitter and too gritty. But it’s still quite drinkable, and if you play around enough or find the right coffee grounds, you can probably make a batch that you like.
You might already own a French press for hot coffee; if you don’t, I recommend the Secura. It’s made of stainless steel and well insulated to keep cold brew cold or hot coffee hot, and the handle doesn’t get too hot. —Jeff Van Camp
KitchenAid doesn't make the absolute best cold brew I've had, but more care went into its design than almost any other pot I've listed. It's made of steel and thick glass, with a built-in handle and a spigot for dispensing cold brew—perfect if you have a shelf to set it on, in or out of the fridge. (There's an XL version that holds 40-ish ounces of coffee and has a stand to sit on the countertop.)
It has a stainless steel grounds tray (with a handle!) that you set in the larger glass container. Dampen your grounds, then fill it with water. It says it holds 28 ounces, but I easily fit 32. Let it sit for at least 12 hours, as usual (24 if you fridge it), and you're good to go. The steel filter is too porous and lets a lot of sediment through, but KitchenAid smartly has a textured bottom that lets the grit settle on the sides of the bottom. It doesn't seem to come through the spigot, so after my first gritty glass, the coffee was a lot smoother and quite rich. I haven't had any issues, but a few users have reported the spigot leaking. —Jeff Van Camp
Coffee & Accessories
I like the Fellow Prismo for all my Aeropress use, and it’s great for cold brew. It comes with a reusable filter and replaces the cap that goes on the end of your Aeropress with one that’s a little thicker and has single hole. This config makes the coffee come out of the Aeropress under more pressure than with the standard Aeropress cap. That way you get a little aeration and, in my experience, a cleaner cup than from just metal filters in the traditional Aeropress cap. —Jaina Grey
If you prefer cold brew with as little coffee silt as possible, the Shimmy can definitely help. It’s a sieve you fill with coffee grounds, then shake to separate out more of the fine particles, or fines, from your coffee. During testing, I found it significantly reduced the silty dregs from the bottom of my cup, but a little bit remained, though not nearly enough to spoil that last sip the way too much sediment can. —Jaina Grey
These ready-to-brew pouches from Partners are like big tea bags full of coffee. They’re great for turning any pitcher or big jar into a cold brew maker. Given their size, I found I got the best coffee after at least 24 hours of steeping, and it was fully flavored, rich, silky, and sweet with just a hint of acidity. —Jaina Grey
The perfect cold-brew coffee beans are in the eye of the beholder, but there are a few schools of thought. Most cold brew blends tend to reinforce the brew’s smoothness and drinkability, of course. But those who mix with milk might favor roasty and chocolatey dark beans that loudly scream “coffee” amid the dairy. For those whose hot-side tastes veer closer to pour-over, try cold brewing or slow-dripping a medium roast, fruit-intensive African.
After multiple blind taste tests over the years, I always come back to Portland’s Stumptown Coffee for sweet and balanced cold-brew flavors. Its excellent Original Cold Brew blend is sadly only seasonal, but its Homestead blend also makes for a deliciously sweet and smooth cold brew. If you blindfold me, spin me around, confuse me by shouting, and then ask me what classic cold brew tastes like? This is probably closest to the flavor I’d describe.
That said, the best and most interesting cold brew we’ve had from Stumptown comes from its single-origin Ethiopia Guji—whose seasonal bottled version wins national blind taste tests the way Englishmen win at darts. Cold brew made with the Guji is a heady mix of caramel smoothness and bright berry pop. The first time I tried it seven years ago, it changed what I look for in a cold-brew bean.
The Playlist blend from Oakland’s Blue Bottle also makes for a wildly bright and fruity take on cold brew, but it’s hardly for the budget-conscious. Otherwise, Stone Street’s Arabica Colombian Supremo dark roast and Bizzy's organic Smooth & Sweet Blend are two favorites of former WIRED reviewer and cold-brew aficionado Jeff Van Camp. Each is also made specifically with cold brewing in mind and come coarsely ground (a coarse grind is usually best for cold brew), or as whole beans if you own a grinder.
Below are some cold brew makers we liked but didn't exactly love, or they had features we enjoyed but some drawbacks that kept them from making our best-of list.
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"A classic cold-brew maker is a little like a kindergarten art teacher for coffee. It requires a whole lot of patience—and really it’s just there to let the coffee express itself.",
"And so the best cold-brew coffee maker isn’t necessarily the most high-tech. It’s often the device that best gets out of the way, granting cool-steeped coffee grounds the space to slowly release their natural sweetness and most delicate flavors—not to mention a bracing hit of caffeine. The result is a refreshing and low-acidity brew that’s gentle on both the stomach and the palate. But as with all subtle things, what goes wrong while making cold brew can also be subtle.",
"We carefully tested dozens of cold-brew devices to find our favorites, the ones that consistently lead to a full-flavored and full-bodied cup without off-notes or unwanted grittiness. We assessed ease of use, consistency of brews, simple messiness, and simple beauty. And we also tried a new generation of devices that aim to hurry up the process, from slow-drip coffee devices that look like chemistry sets to some of the most hyped new devices in the coffee world—to see whether any of them can match up to the long, slow process of just letting coffee be itself.",
"Be sure to check out our other coffee guides to round out your coffee tool set, like the Best Espresso Machines, Best Latte & Cappuccino Makers, Best Portable Coffee Makers, Best Coffee Subscriptions, and Best Coffee Grinders.",
"Updated December 2024: We've added the Fellow Aiden, Cumulus, Bodum Melior and Bean, Kinto Capsule, Ovalware Cold Brew Maker, and Mueller Smoothbrew, and adjusted picks, pricing, and product descriptions throughout.",
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"If you want the sweet, smooth, full-bodied character of classic cold brew, it turns out nothing beats a full-immersion device like the Oxo Compact. The robust and lovely coffee we’ve made with this device compared favorably to the best packaged cold brews—but at a fraction of the cost per cup. The Oxo’s brewing chamber is basically a bucket, with grounds steeped directly in the water and then filtered out. A device like this, so simple you can hardly call it a device, is almost certainly what your local cafe uses to make the cold brew you pay $5 or more a cup to receive.",
"So what gives the Oxo Compact the edge over similar devices, including the iconically classic Toddy? Ease, elegance, flexibility, a lack of mess, and a firm respect for shelf space. The Oxo’s “rainmaker” lid provides the water agitation needed to extract a full-flavored brew without additional stirring. Filtration is as easy as placing the immersion chamber atop Oxo’s glass carafe, and waiting 15 minutes.",
"You can adjust your desired strength to your heart’s content. And the device’s mesh filter can be augmented with an optional additional paper filter for a cleaner-tasting, fine-free cold brew that’ll keep its flavor longer. All parts unscrew easily and can be cleaned with ease, and the device’s design is low-key graceful, with a cork-topped and airtight carafe that a previous Wired reviewer has called “adorable.” When you want to stow the Oxo, the carafe fits inside the device’s other half like a Russian nesting doll.",
"One overnight steep makes about a pint of cold brew, meaning the Oxo Compact is best suited for making strong cold brew concentrate that you can dilute one-to-one with water or milk. We recommend 110 grams (about 4 ounces) of course-grind coffee, plus 600 milliliters (about 20 ounces) of water. Why? This uses up about one-third of a standard 12-ounce coffee bag, and yields four to five sturdy cups of cold brew after you dilute to drinking strength. If you need larger cold-brew batches for a big household or a serious caffeine habit, we’ll steer you to the larger Oxo Good Grips or the Toddy.",
"Japanese-style iced coffee, aka “Flash Brew,” took the internet by storm in the waning days of the pandemic. It sounds fancy and exotic, but the mechanics are simple: Use your preferred drip device (most very-online coffee geeks agree a pour-over is the only correct option) to slowly brew coffee directly over a pot or carafe filled with ice, thus cooling the coffee in a “flash.” The magic is in the ratio of water to grounds as well as the timing, which is simple in theory but a pain in the ass in practice. Yet again the Fellow Aiden (8/10, WIRED Recommends) handles the annoying stuff for you, while doing things its own way. Aiden's “Cold Brew” function is not flash coffee, nor quite a cold brew. The Aiden uses a hot initial bloom of water to aid full extraction, but brews the rest of the way with a slow drip of cool water. The result is a faster, brighter cold-drip coffee without the bitter character of some iced coffee.",
"Dial in your desired output in ounces, and the machine tells you how many grams of ground coffee you’ll need. Pop in the correct brew basket, dial in the matching brew head, then spend the next hour or so doing literally anything else. In our tests, an output setting of 16 ounces required 35 grams of grounds and a 90-minute brew time. We used our trusty Kirkland Signature Organic Ethiopia ground on a setting just a few clicks coarser than an espresso grind. After the machine beeped, the pot was filled with a rich 75-degree-Fahrenheit liquid that barely melted the ice it was poured over, eschewing any bitter notes caused by shocking the brew in ice for a smooth cup with mild grassy notes and the beans' signature wine-y aftertaste. The machines are coming for our barista jobs, and in this case I’m totally OK with it. —Pete Cottell",
"The WIRED Gear team has liked Oxo’s full-sized cold brew maker for years (8/10 and our WIRED Recommends). It’s a cold brew connoisseur's dream rig that’s meant to sit proudly on your kitchen counter.",
"Oxo’s full-sized offers similar upsides to the Compact model, including the rainmaker pouring device and paper/mesh filter options. The difference is the larger model can produce 24 to 28 ounces of full-flavored cold brew. The trade-off for the added capacity is that the stand will require significantly more dedicated shelf space, both in height and breadth. And for me at least, counter space is always at a premium.",
"After letting your coffee sit on the counter or in the fridge for 12 to 24 hours, flip a switch and your brew cleanly drains into the decanter. It also comes with a measuring lid. Perhaps most important, the coffee it makes tastes just as fantastic as the Compact.",
"I have a perhaps irrational affection for the Kinto Capsule, both for its pleasing heft and shape and an elegant omnidirectional pouring device that doubles as a lid. I’ll be honest: I have little love for most pitcher-style devices. In theory, they’re designed to remove the mess and fuss of making cold brew. In practice, most make weak and inconsistent coffee even after a full day of steeping. This is a sad situation usually caused by simple geometry. The ratio of coffee to water is generally inflexible and too dilute. The coffee grounds can clump inside the filter basket if they’re packed too densely, and extraction is often unpredictable. It’s a lot to think about.",
"And yet over and over, I came back to this one-liter Kinto, which makes about five servings of satisfying, complex, ready-to-drink cold brew. The mesh filter is easy to clean and doesn’t clog like the laser-cut metal filters on some similar devices. Its thin-cylindered shape provides lots of surface-area contact between the coffee basket and the water reservoir, making for both good extraction and a snug fit in a fridge door. Plus, that little cap atop the Capsule’s coffee filter chamber, allowing you to agitate the carafe without getting grit in your cold brew? Chef’s kiss.",
"The simplicity of the Mizudashi's design makes it an absolute joy to use. It’s an elegant, understated device that works just as well for coffee as it does for tea. The reusable filter provides less filtration than a paper filter—which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The presence of microscopic coffee particles in a cup of cold brew will leave some sediment in the bottom of the cup, but they also provide a little more body to the brew itself. A silken mouthfeel that, in my opinion, helps the cold brew stand up to the addition of milk a bit better without getting watery.",
"The thing I love the most about the Mizudashi is its size. The 600-milliliter version is perfect for the amount of cold brew I usually want to have on hand, and the shape and build quality of the Mizudashi just makes me want to make cold brew, and that's an important quality.",
"Hario is a Japanese company with a long record of making quality glassware, and it shows in the craftsmanship of this simple carafe. Japan has a long history with cold brew, by some accounts going as far back as the 1600s. The Mizudashi is named after the cold-steeping method used for tea that was reportedly the inspiration for early Japanese coffee drinkers to first try cold-steeping coffee grounds. It's an acknowledgment of the history of this preparation method, and it speaks to the care and thought that went into the design of this cold brew maker. —Jaina Grey",
"The Bruer is the device that truly opened our reviewers’ eyes to the magic of iced slow-drip brewing—a process that can evince lighter and brighter flavors that better showcase single-origin beans than the gentler, more muted results of cold brew. And though it’s called “slow-drip,” the process is quite a bit faster than traditional cold brew. Unlike some lesser slow-drip makers that have had mixed results for WIRED testers, the Cold Bruer Drip makes delightful, concentrated, virtually grit-free slow-drip coffee.",
"Instead of asking you to pour a bunch of grounds into water and let it sit, the Bruer lets water drip through the grounds using gravity. It looks a little bananas at first, but it's simple. You fill the bottom of a glass container with coarse coffee grounds. Below the grounds is a steel mesh filter. After you dampen those grounds, put a paper filter on top, snap in the silicone seal, and place the container into the glass carafe. Fill up the top section with water and ice, then twist the knob in the center to slow or speed up the drip—you want a drop per second—as needed.",
"It's not foolproof. You must follow the directions precisely, including using ice—and if your coffee grind is too fine, water may form pathways through it, like an ant colony. If what's dripping out doesn't look dark, or it's coming out quickly, adjust your tactics. It also holds only 20 ounces of water, and since it's made of glass, it's fragile. Some buyers have complained of drip-valve issues, but I have not encountered any yet. —Jeff Van Camp",
"Never in our memory has a cold-brew device arrived with as much hoopla and fanfare as the Cumulus. Why? It is the promise of a unicorn: a frothing cup of nitro cold brew, made near instantaneously at home by a whizzbangy machine conceived by former Starbucks innovation czar Mesh Gelman. Look closely, and you’ll realize what the device actually does is make cold brew out of … cold brew. Cumulus brews it the old-fashioned way, in cold water, over the course of many hours, then vacuum distills the brew to condense it into a minuscule and proprietary coffee capsule that costs about $2.50 a pop.",
"Insert that capsule into a Cumulus Machine, and it’ll unpack that super-dense concentrate into a frigid 10-ounce glass of cold brew, or a fabulously frothy nitro version made by pressure-injecting air into the coffee. Another novelty? A bracing double-shot of cold espresso, complete with actual crema—ready for a milk mixer or service in an espresso martini.",
"We’re still testing the many flavors, from light to dark to decaf to capsules specially designed for espresso. But early worries are that vacuum distillation might impart a somewhat processed character to the coffee’s flavor—a rubbery tang that not everyone will be sensitive to. My mother, on a visit, raved about the abundant froth in the nitro, and preferred the result to packaged nitro cold brew. So far, I'm less convinced. But the nitro bubbles are indeed abundant and impressive. And the cold espresso feels like more than a novelty: it’s an actual treat. We don’t expect the device will win over cold brew nerds or the craft coffee crowd. But on-demand nitro cold brew at home will be an extravagant luxury for those who like to mix cold brew with milk and sugar. If you’d otherwise be shelling out $7 for the complicated cold concoctions at Gelman’s alma mater, Starbucks, you might even make back the device’s $700 entry fee.",
"Yes, you can make good cold brew in an Aeropress! All you have to do is pour some grounds in the Aeropress and top them off with cold water all the way up to the 4 on the cylinder. Give it a stir and place the plunger in the top, but don’t press down. At this point I’ve found I get my best results by putting the whole thing in the fridge overnight. Once it has steeped, put the fully loaded Aeropress on your cup of choice and press the plunger down about a third of the way. I like my cold brew small, over ice, with two to three parts milk. I find I can get three to four cold brews out of one steeping with this method, but I treat it like espresso and only use about one shot-glass-worth at a time for a full cup. If you like yours a bit stronger, you might only get about two big glasses of cold brew out of this method. —Jaina Grey",
"The Toddy has been around since the 1960s. It’s similar to the Oxo brewing system, just a little more DIY. It’s basically a big bucket with grounds in it and a glass carafe to hold the coffee when it's done brewing. The brew bucket is made of plastic, and it requires paper liners and filter pads that you’ll have to keep buying (filter pads last about 10 brews, or three months). You have to remove a rubber stopper to drain the coffee after 24 hours, which will always get your hands messy—cleanup is time-consuming.",
"Fortunately, it makes rich, full-bodied cold brew that tastes as robust as any other method I’ve tried, sometimes better. Those pads and paper filters are annoying, but they work. If you’re OK with a little inconvenience, the Toddy makes a damn good cold-brew concentrate. It's similar to the Filtron Brewer, but more well constructed. There's even a giant 2.5-gallon Toddy that's used in coffee shops. —Jeff Van Camp",
"I used French presses as a quasi-control in my testing, and the Secura is the nicest I’ve tried. To my dismay, I haven’t been able to get any French press to produce cold-brewed coffee with flavor that’s as smooth or rich as with other methods. It’s usually a little bitter and too gritty. But it’s still quite drinkable, and if you play around enough or find the right coffee grounds, you can probably make a batch that you like.",
"You might already own a French press for hot coffee; if you don’t, I recommend the Secura. It’s made of stainless steel and well insulated to keep cold brew cold or hot coffee hot, and the handle doesn’t get too hot. —Jeff Van Camp",
"KitchenAid doesn't make the absolute best cold brew I've had, but more care went into its design than almost any other pot I've listed. It's made of steel and thick glass, with a built-in handle and a spigot for dispensing cold brew—perfect if you have a shelf to set it on, in or out of the fridge. (There's an XL version that holds 40-ish ounces of coffee and has a stand to sit on the countertop.)",
"It has a stainless steel grounds tray (with a handle!) that you set in the larger glass container. Dampen your grounds, then fill it with water. It says it holds 28 ounces, but I easily fit 32. Let it sit for at least 12 hours, as usual (24 if you fridge it), and you're good to go. The steel filter is too porous and lets a lot of sediment through, but KitchenAid smartly has a textured bottom that lets the grit settle on the sides of the bottom. It doesn't seem to come through the spigot, so after my first gritty glass, the coffee was a lot smoother and quite rich. I haven't had any issues, but a few users have reported the spigot leaking. —Jeff Van Camp"
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Departamento de Agricultura de EEUU ordena pruebas de gripe aviar en leche a nivel nacional | El gobierno de Estados Unidos ordenó el viernes la realización de pruebas en el suministro nacional de leche para detectar la gripe aviar y así monitorear mejor la propagación del virus en las vacas lecheras.
A partir del 16 de diciembre, será necesario realizar pruebas en la leche cruda o no pasteurizada de granjas lecheras y procesadoras de todo el país cuando se solicite, informó el Departamento de Agricultura de Estados Unidos (USDA, por sus siglas en inglés). Las pruebas comenzarán en seis estados: California, Colorado, Míchigan, Mississippi, Oregon y Pensilvania.
Los funcionarios indicaron que la medida tiene como objetivo “contener y finalmente eliminar el virus”, conocido como Tipo A H5N1, que se detectó por primera vez en vacas lecheras de Estados Unidos en marzo. Desde entonces, se ha confirmado que más de 700 hatos en 15 estados están infectados.
“Esto dará a las granjas y a los trabajadores agrícolas una mayor confianza en la salubridad de sus animales y en su capacidad para protegerse, y nos ayudará a controlar y detener rápidamente la propagación del virus a nivel nacional”, dijo en un comunicado el secretario de Agricultura, Tom Vilsack.
El riesgo para las personas por la gripe aviar sigue siendo bajo, dijeron los funcionarios del USDA. La pasteurización mata el virus en la leche, de manera que es segura para el consumo.
Veterinarios, agricultores, científicos y académicos han estado solicitando pruebas de leche a nivel nacional durante meses, dijo Keith Poulsen, director del Laboratorio de Diagnóstico Veterinario de Wisconsin, quien lideró los esfuerzos.
“Es otro paso en la dirección correcta”, dijo Poulsen. “Están llegando a la conclusión de que necesitamos un mejor control sobre esto”.
Los productores y procesadores de lácteos en Estados Unidos han sido reacios a realizar pruebas en animales o leche para detectar el virus, por temor a repercusiones económicas o de otro tipo. Jamie Jonker, director científico de la Federación Nacional de Productores de Leche, dijo que el gremio apoya los esfuerzos del USDA para eliminar el virus.
Bajo la orden federal, los productores de lácteos y aquellos que manejan leche cruda destinada a la pasteurización deben proporcionar muestras de la leche a pedido para las pruebas diagnósticas de gripe aviar. Requiere la notificación de pruebas positivas al USDA y exige que los propietarios de rebaños proporcionen información básica para permitir el rastreo de la enfermedad en el ganado.
La medida se suma a una orden federal del 24 de abril que exigía hacer pruebas a cierto ganado lechero antes de que pudiera ser trasladado entre estados y requería la notificación de cualquier prueba que resultara positiva. A pesar de esa orden, el virus ha seguido propagándose, señaló Poulsen.
Las pruebas han demostrado que la leche cruda de vacas infectadas contiene altas cargas de virus vivo.
Al menos 58 personas en Estados Unidos han sido infectadas con gripe aviar, principalmente trabajadores agrícolas que se enfermaron levemente después de un contacto cercano con vacas infectadas, incluyendo su leche, o con aves de corral infectadas.
La gripe aviar también se ha estado propagando entre aves silvestres y varios otros animales.
Los funcionarios federales continúan recomendando que no se consuma leche sin pasteurizar, ya que ésta puede contener una serie de gérmenes que enferman a las personas. En California, los funcionarios pusieron en cuarentena una granja y detuvieron la distribución de leche después de que se detectara el virus de la gripe aviar en leche cruda vendida en tiendas. Raw Farm de Fresno emitió un retiro voluntario de leche cruda y de crema producida después del 9 de noviembre. | {
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In Syria, a ruthless dictator is under siege. Will anyone step up to save him? | Front lines are collapsing and Bashar al-Assad's enemies are celebrating
Across northern and central Syria this week, families who've been torn apart by more than a decade of civil war have been holding joyous reunions.
"I didn't believe it, it was very emotional," said Ismail Alabullah, a volunteer with the Syrian NGO the White Helmets, as he described returning to the city of Aleppo for the first time since 2013 and reuniting with his sister.
"I couldn't believe I was seeing her again," he told CBC News from northern Syria. "I lost my brother, my mother and father over the past two years — I couldn't say goodbye to any of them. Now, it's just me and my sister."
The White Helmets, a first responders' group best-known for rescuing and evacuating civilians from active war zones, are considered arch enemies of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
Since 2016, Assad's forces have controlled Aleppo. But with his army now retreating from territory where just days ago it seemed to be firmly in charge, families stranded on opposite sides of the front lines are able to be together again.
Dynamic situation
After years of stalemate, Syria's map of control is being redrawn almost by the hour.
First, Aleppo — a city of more than 2.3 million people and the second-largest in the country — fell to opposition forces on Nov. 27. In the days that followed, so did many towns to the south.
On Thursday, Assad's forces abandoned the strategic centre of Hama when rebel forces pushed in.
Most observers expect an assault on a key Assad power base — the city of Homs, 40 kilometres to the south of Hama — is only hours away.
If opposition forces are successful, the move would cut off Assad's strongholds along the Syrian coast from the capital, Damascus.
"It's clear that the regime itself cannot defend these territories," said Haid Haid, a Syria analyst with Chatham House, a London-based think-tank.
This conclusion leads to inevitable speculation over whether Assad's government may be hurtling faster than almost anyone expected toward its demise, after surviving years of intense fighting in a civil war.
"No one can give any absolute answers," Haid told CBC News from Istanbul. "I think it's safe to say that Assad is not 100 per cent secure, but no one knows when and if the regime will collapse completely."
Political dynasty
Assad and his family have ruled Syria with an iron fist for more than 50 years. Since he took over as president in 2000 after his father's death, the UN says Assad's forces have killed more than 350,000 opponents, jailed and tortured countless thousands more and used banned nerve gas on opposition towns to deter any challengers to his rule.
In 2011, Syria was rocked by anti-Assad protests, inspired by anti-regime demonstrations across the wider region, known as the Arab Spring.
Assad responded with a violent crackdown that evolved into a full-scale civil war. By 2015, opposition groups — and forces of the Islamic State (IS) — had seized vast swaths of the country. But intervention from Russia turned the tide.
A devastating aerial bombing campaign by Vladimir Putin's forces secured Assad's position, but at a horrendous cost. Humanitarian groups accused Russia and Syria of war crimes for indiscriminately bombing civilians using cluster munitions.
After a concerted effort led by the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces in the east — and with help from Russia — IS was eventually pushed back into a few pockets in the desert.
Since 2016, the battle lines of the conflict have remained largely in stasis, with Assad's Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in control of most of the country's major cities.
Major successes
In Idlib province, next to Turkey, forces belonging to a one-time al-Qaeda spinoff, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), have controlled most of the territory. And the group has spearheaded most of the battlefield successes over the past 10 days.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has been listed as a terrorist entity by Canada since 2013. But more recently, its 42-year-old leader, Abu Muhammed al-Jolani, has disavowed any connection with the group or its radical ideology.
In a social media post on Thursday, HTS unusually referred to him by his given name — Ahmad al-Shara — rather than al-Jolani, which he uses in military settings. This appeared to showcase him as a statesman or politician rather than the leader of a banned militia.
Al-Jolani also gave a rare interview to a Western media outlet, telling CNN his goal is to overthrow Assad's regime and replace it with a new government for all Syrians.
The Institute for the Study of War, a U.S.-based think-tank that studies global conflict zones, noted that a major reason HTS has gained territory so rapidly has been its willingness to negotiate deals with local communities to avoid fighting.
ISW said two majority-Christian towns and one largely Shia city had all come to agreements with HTS, allowing the group's fighters to avoid costly combat in rural areas.
Longtime Syria watcher Charles Lister, who publishes a weekly newsletter on the Syrian conflict, has written that HTS has built a formidable diplomatic presence beyond its base in Idlib province, by engaging with local Syrian tribes and other social bodies to improve the group's outreach.
Lister says as a result, there have been few clashes with other Syrian opposition groups — particularly the powerful Kurds — as HTS's forces have moved rapidly through the countryside.
Finally, Lister says al-Jolani has attempted to "replicate a sovereign government" in Idlib province, with HTS issuing ID cards, administering the banking system and taking on many of the functions usually performed by municipalities.
Nonetheless, HTS's listing as a terror entity has put NGOs and Western governments in a challenging position, with most unwilling to directly help the group, resulting in a worsening humanitarian situation in places such as Aleppo.
Ismail Alabduallah, the White Helmet worker, told CBC News the city is already seeing food shortages.
"The situation is very difficult. Some NGOs we co-ordinate with have this responsibility, and now no one is distributing bread every day in Aleppo," he said. "They are working to make the bakeries operate again as before."
Foreign actors
With the city of Homs, another key power base for Assad, just a half-hour drive away from advancing HTS forces, the key question is whether any of the regime's allies will intervene militarily to stop the latest opposition push.
The Iranian government has reportedly ordered some of the militias it controls in neighbouring Iraq to cross the border to help its ally Assad. But their presence on the battlefield has yet to be felt.
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said Thursday that his group will help Assad, and there reports that what the group calls "supervising forces" arrived in Syria overnight.
Until recently, Iran-backed Hezbollah was arguably the most powerful militia in the Middle East. But Israeli assassinations of its top leadership and an immense aerial campaign against its fighters in southern Lebanon have severely weakened the group.
One neighbour Assad won't be able to count on is Turkey. Its government has been a major supplier of weapons and money to several opposition groups, and on Friday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he hopes the Syrian opposition forces continue to make gains.
That leaves Vladimir Putin, who most observers credit with saving Assad the last time opposition forces encroached in 2016.
"It's not clear where Moscow is heading or what its main priority is at this point," said Chatham House's Haid Haid.
Russian bombing of the Aleppo area and of the key approaches to Homs has resumed in recent days, but with Putin's war in Ukraine a drain on its combat resources, Russia's options for intervention may be limited.
Russia has leased a naval base in the Syrian city of Tartus since the 1970s. It also has a sizeable airbase outside Latakia, further to the north.
Both could be vulnerable to opposition forces if Assad's lines continue to collapse.
Haid Haid says even if Assad manages to fend off the opposition advances, Russia has already emerged as one of major losers of renewed fighting.
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M&S Oxford Street redevelopment plan given government approval | Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has granted permission for Marks & Spencer to demolish and redevelop its flagship London store.
Rayner approved plans to flatten and rebuild the retail giant's Marble Arch store in Oxford Street.
M&S previously took legal action against the Conservative government in the High Court over its "unusual" decision to refuse permission for the scheme.
M&S CEO Stuart Machin said he was delighted at Rayner's decision, adding that the company would "move as fast as we can" to make progress.
"After three unnecessary years of delays, obfuscation and political posturing at its worst under the previous government, our plans for Marble Arch – the only retail-led regeneration proposal on Oxford Street – have finally been approved," he said.
"We can now get on with the job of helping to rejuvenate the UK's premier shopping street."
Mr Machin said the shop would support 2,000 jobs.
Westminster City Council originally approved M&S's plans to tear down Orchard House, an Art Deco building, and replace it with a modernised shop featuring a new café, offices and a gym in 2021.
But Michael Gove, then communities secretary, launched an inquiry and eventually blocked the proposals.
However, the High Court ruled that Mr Gove had misinterpreted the national planning policy framework and "erred in law".
Adam Hug, leader of Westminster City Council, welcomed the approval, adding: "This scheme has significant implications for the future of the West End and it was right to consider the detail carefully."
Charles Begley, chief executive of the London Property Alliance, said the uncertainty had damaged growth.
"The fact that the property industry had been waiting the outcome of this case for clarity is clearly a failure of national policy," he said.
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GitLab names Bill Staples as its new CEO | GitLab, the popular developer and security platform, has named a new CEO, Bill Staples, effective immediately.
Staples, who has also been appointed to the company’s board of directors, succeeds CEO Sid Sijbrandij, who’s battling a rare form of cancer. Sijbrandij will transition to executive chair of the board.
“I believe [Bill’s] passion for software, commitment to customers, and strong track record make him the right person to lead the company going forward,” Sijbrandij said in a statement. “This is the right time to focus on my cancer treatment and health.”
Staples was previously the CEO at New Relic, the web tracking and analytics firm. Prior to his tenure there, Staples headed Microsoft’s Azure application platform, where he helped incubate products like the streaming infrastructure that once powered Azure and Office 365 video services. Staples was also an Adobe VP for several years, spearheading the development of cloud services and analytics tooling. | {
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Environmental Sensing Is Here, Tracking Everything from Forest Fires to Threatened Species | The internet of things turned every device in your house into a smart something. Now it’s coming for nature—to track forest fires and tree health or to listen out for threatened animals.
You are in a lush forest. Sunlight filters through the bright green canopy, casting dappled shadows on the ground. Towering trees rise over delicate ferns, wildflowers, and colorful mushrooms. A deer slinks behind a shrub. But there are subtle signs of human intervention: small electronic devices gathering vital data on potential threats such as drought or pests and transmitting them miles away.
Although technology has long been used to study animals and plants in forests, it’s evolving rapidly—becoming smaller, smarter, and more interconnected. Some devices are so small they can be placed on a single leaf. “For developers of such devices, the forest presents a completely new challenge,” says Ulrike Wallrabe, a professor of microsystem technology. Here, tech must withstand ever-changing conditions, from fluctuating temperatures to rain and snowfall, and even curious creatures, such as mice.
Once up and running, the new generation of smart devices will offer unprecedented insights into the forest. “Drones already monitor large areas of forest, but they cannot explain why one tree is thriving and another is struggling,” says Wallrabe. “We need to understand what’s happening on a small scale and over time.”
Wallrabe and her fellow researchers are working on a range of devices that will be deployed from the ground to the treetops, transmitting data from Germany’s Black Forest to their labs at the University of Freiburg. At the same time, scientists and engineers at other companies are also focused on making their devices unobtrusive and, ultimately, self-sustaining.
Silvanet Wildfire Sensor
Time is of the essence when fighting forest fires. Sensors attached to trunks “smell” tell-tale gases like hydrogen and carbon monoxide, and alert firefighters within the first hour—before satellites or cameras can spot open flames. German startup Dryad Networks has built AI into its solar-powered sensors to ensure that they can distinguish between real fires and, say, passing diesel trucks.
Treevia
Digital dendrometers relieve foresters of tedious work. As trees grow, the elastic band wrapped around their trunk stretches and transmits data directly to a computer. The lightweight device from Brazilian startup Treevia can even be attached to saplings. It also contains a humidity and heat sensor, providing insights into climatic impacts on reforested areas.
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What does it take to catch illegal loggers or poachers? A smartphone is a good start. Rainforest Connection’s recycled, solar-powered smartphone listens for the sound of chain saws or gunshots within a 1-mile radius. The recordings are transmitted to the cloud for analysis and alert local authorities in near real time. This device also provides insights into the distribution and calling behavior of animals.
BiodivX Drone
As animals move through trees, they shed DNA through feces, skin, and hair. This innovative drone collects what is known as environmental DNA (eDNA) from leaves and branches—with particles sticking to its adhesive strips. Scientists from Switzerland programmed the drone so it can navigate autonomously through dense forests and hover steadily around branches to take samples.
Leaf Sensor
Wallrabe and her team at the University of Freiburg have developed a glass capsule that measures gas exchange between a leaf and its surroundings. It can detect specific chemicals that trees emit under stress, for example, in the event of a drought, infestation, or disease. The capsule is transparent so that sunlight can reach the leaf without impairing its function.
Plant-e
When sunlight is limited, most devices are powered by batteries. Plant-e, a Dutch company spun out of Wageningen University, makes use of a natural process: Plants produce organic material through photosynthesis; some they use for growth, the rest ends up into the soil. Bacteria break down this material and release electrons that Plant-e uses to power its sensors.
Seed-dropping drones
To scale up and accelerate tree planting efforts, several companies, including UK-based Dendra Systems, have developed cutting-edge drones. These drones, loaded with an array of seeds, hover over target areas and release their precious cargo. This is particularly helpful in remote areas that are difficult for humans to access. By recording the exact location of drop sites, foresters can monitor growth and health of the newly planted trees.
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Feds approve scaled-down Idaho wind farm near historic Japanese American incarceration site | TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — The federal government on Friday approved a scaled-down wind farm in Idaho over local opposition, including from groups concerned about its proximity to a historic site where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II.
The Bureau of Land Management signed off on a final plan for the Lava Ridge Wind Project northeast of Twin Falls that decreases the number of wind turbines to 241 from 400 and imposes a maximum height of 660 feet (201 meters). The agency said the area “disturbed” by the project has been reduced by half from the initial proposal, with 992 acres (401 hectares) disturbed within a 38,535-acre (15,594-hectare) area.
The agency said the project could power up to 500,000 homes and that its approval “reflects a careful balance of clean energy development with the protection of natural, cultural, and socioeconomic resources on this historically significant landscape.”
Some groups have expressed concern over the high desert site’s potential impacts on the Minidoka National Historic Site, where thousands of Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II.
Friends of Minidoka, a group that works to preserve the site and educate about its history, said it was reviewing the decision but that it remained disappointed by a project it views as harming the area’s “sacredness.”
“Minidoka National Historic Site holds deep significance to both the nation as a whole and to the Japanese American community about the lessons of a gross violation of constitutional rights on a group of American citizens,” Robyn Achilles, the group’s executive director, said in an email.
Under the final version of the project, the closest turbine to the historic site would be 9 miles (14 kilometers) away.
Two months after the Japan’s Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. Roughly 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were taken from their homes and incarcerated in camps as a potential threat against the U.S. Many were elderly, disabled, children or infants.
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South Korea's president apologizes to nation for declaring martial law | In televised address, President Yoon Suk Yeol tells public he's 'very sorry'
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol apologized for his attempt to impose martial law this week but did not resign, defying intense pressure to step down even from some in his ruling party and only hours ahead of a planned impeachment vote.
Yoon said he would not seek to avoid legal and political responsibility for his decision to declare martial law for the first time in South Korea in decades. He said the decision was born of desperation and also promised not to make another attempt to impose martial law.
Yoon's speech was the embattled leader's first public appearance since he rescinded the martial law order early on Wednesday, just six hours after it was declared, after parliament defied military and police cordons to vote against the decree.
"I am very sorry and would like to sincerely apologize to the people who were shocked," Yoon said in a televised address to the nation, during which he bowed.
"I leave it up to my party to take steps to stabilize the political situation in future, including the issue of my term in office," he added.
Han Dong-hoon, leader of Yoon's People Power Party (PPP), said after the addres the president was no longer in a position to carry out his public duties and that his resignation was now unavoidable.
On Friday, Han said Yoon was a danger to the country and needed to be removed from power, increasing the pressure on him to quit even though PPP members later reaffirmed a formal opposition to his impeachment.
Han was scheduled to meet Prime Minister Han Duck-soo on Saturday, local Yonhap News reported. Under the constitution if Yoon resigns or is impeached then the prime minister, who was appointed by Yoon, becomes South Korea's interim president.
It remained unclear ahead of the vote as to whether the impeachment motion will obtain the support of two-thirds of lawmakers it needs to move forward.
On Saturday, most ruling party lawmakers were boycotting the parliamentary vote on the main opposition Democratic Party's motion to impeach Yoon.
Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the Democratic Party, told reporters that Yoon's speech was "greatly disappointing" and the only way forward is his immediate resignation or impeachment.
A shock to the nation
Yoon shocked the nation late on Tuesday when he gave the military sweeping emergency powers in order to root out what he called "anti-state forces" and overcome obstructionist political opponents.
Some PPP members urged Yoon to resign before the vote, saying they did not want a repeat of the 2016 impeachment of then-president Park Geun-hye, who left office following months of candlelit protests over an influence-peddling scandal. Her downfall triggered the implosion of the party and a victory by liberals in presidential and general elections.
In scenes reminiscent of those protests, thousands of demonstrators holding candles assembled outside parliament on Friday night demanding Yoon's impeachment.
More demonstrations are expected on Saturday during the vote.
Prosecutors, the police and the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials have all launched probes into Yoon and senior officials involved in the martial law decree, seeking to pursue charges of insurrection and abuse of power, among others.
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Man found beside A47 in King's Lynn died of head injury - police | Police have said a man whose body was found beside a major road died from a "head injury".
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Norfolk Police said a Home Office post-mortem examination took place on Tuesday and the preliminary findings were that the man, aged in his 20s, died as "a result of a head injury".
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Spotify Wrapped, TikTok—Maybe the Algorithms Are Losing Touch | Once an internet cause célèbre, this year lots of folks turned cold on Spotify Wrapped. TikTok’s year in review also felt unsurprising. Maybe our platforms know less about us than we think.
If there’s one term that’s been used more than others when describing this year’s Spotify Wrapped, it’s this: flat. The New York Times said it. So did TikTokkers. Between its “Pink Pilates Princess Roller Skating Pop” phases and AI-generated mini-podcasts, lots of listeners took time away from the time-honored tradition of posting their cringiest Wrapped stats to say that this year’s offerings were milquetoast at best.
“Spotify Wrapped is a bit … underwhelming this year,” wrote one X user. “NOT worth the hype,” offered another. The annual tradition “lost what made it so dynamic in the first place,” wrote a third, citing things like location- and music-based Sound Towns that rolled out with Wrapped in previous years. “Which is to say that PEOPLE make things better. Those layoffs are showing.”
Quite a few frustrated Spotify users referenced layoffs at the company and questioned whether its shedding of key talent was to blame for Wrapped’s fizzle. The company let go of some 1,500 people, 17 percent of its workforce, this time last year, something CEO Daniel Ek later acknowledged “did disrupt our day-to-day operations more than we anticipated.”
Seemingly, Wrapped relied on AI more than ever this year, with AI podcasts to analyze your listening habits, an algorithmic playlist hosted by Spotify’s AI DJ, and bizarre, probably AI-generated genre descriptions.
Yet it seems unlikely the layoffs were the only thing that impacted the quality of Wrapped this year. It could be that the algorithms are just losing touch.
That’s not to say they’re not tracking stream numbers the way they used to—although there are conspiracy theories to that effect—but rather that everyone now knows they’re being tracked, and algorithms just aren’t able to pick up on organic trends the way they used to.
After years of embarrassingly finding out that they spent more time listening to My Chemical Romance breakup songs than they did listening to their friends’ advice, people are now self-conscious about what they play and in what volume. Just as much as everyone went into this year’s Wrapped season prepared to brag about their Brat Summer, they were just as worried about telling on their Sad Bastard autumn. Parents, once again, found that their Wrapped wasn’t about their own tastes, but their children’s.
Wrapped has ceased being about one person’s surprising listening habits and more about nebulous shifts in vibe. Yes, lots of people listened to Chappell Roan and Kendrick Lamar this year. Is anyone the least bit stunned?
But this isn’t even just a Spotify issue. Lots of platforms now offer year-in-review wrap-ups, and nearly all of them feel like a collective shrug. Over on TikTok, the company touted that its users were very interested in being demure, very into Moo Deng. Yeah, no kidding. These revelations are about as shocking as the fact that there were 1.2 million BookTok posts in the first 10 months of the year, something anyone who has ever opened the app could probably tell you is a big part of the platform.
Reading its annual report, I was reminded that, perhaps, TikTok’s algorithm has gotten too good at pointing people in the direction of sure-fire hits and less good at loading FYPs with videos people will find incredibly inventive or fascinating.
In other unsurprising news, horniness was big on Grindr this year. The hookup app’s Unwrapped report also named Charli XCX as Mother of the Year and found that the Sex Position of the Year was missionary. Actually, maybe that is surprising. For Grindr, at least.
My final thought, though, comes from a year-end mainstay that (I don’t think) is algorithmically based: Oxford University Press’ Word of the Year. Determined by popular vote, input from experts, and, as Oxford Languages president Casper Grathwohl told The New York Times, a little bit of “dark art,” this year’s word is … drumroll … “brain rot.” Er, you know, the degeneration that comes from too much time looking at dumb stuff online.
First, yes, that’s two words. Second, other people also noticed this discrepancy, proving that maybe all of the internet’s beloved year-end traditions are feeling the heat of social media scrutiny this year. “Brain rot” also beat out “demure” and “romantasy,” the frequent BookTok topic. So, ultimately, maybe algorithms did impact this one, too, just not in the way you might expect. Maybe the real brain rot was all the decisions we made along the way.
Loose Threads:
Martial law on Bluesky. Earlier this week South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol briefly declared martial law in the country. The country’s opposition parties have already moved to impeach him, but while it was happening, it served as one of Bluesky’s first big news events to unfold on the platform. If you missed it, I highly suggest going back and reliving the moment through Verge features editor Sarah Jeong’s semi-drunk skeets.
Tsunami warning on Bluesky. On Thursday, Bluesky had another big news event: a tsunami warning that kept much of Northern California, including the San Francisco Bay Area, on edge for over an hour, sharing updates, cracking jokes, and relishing the fact that there was a new place to go to discuss these things.
An astute skeet. About Chappell Roan and Twisted Sister.
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Zopa, the UK neobank, snaps up $87M at a $1B+ valuation, eschewing the IPO route | Some believe Klarna’s planned IPO in 2025 could set the stage for other fintech startups to go public. But with the tech IPO market still sluggish, one of the candidates hotly tipped to follow suit has instead just announced a fundraise, and its CEO says going public is “not a priority.”
Zopa, the U.K. neobank that provides loans, credit cards and savings accounts to some 1.3 million customers, has raised €82 million ($86.8 million based on current exchange rates) in equity funding. The company is not disclosing an exact valuation, but from what we understand it is an upround and values Zopa at well over $1 billion.
For some context, that figure is an increase on Zopa’s last big valuation reveal, when it raised $300 million in 2021. The company is profitable and has been growing its customer base at a rate of around 35% annually. Zopa expects to end the year with 1.4 million customers, £5 billion in deposits, and its profit doubling compared to the year before to £32 million (around $40 million) and revenues to “north of” £300 million ($383 million).
The lead investor in this round is an interesting one: it’s A.P. Moller Holding, a giant in Danish business that owns not just the shipping behemoth Maersk but also Danske Bank, among other assets. Other investors are not being disclosed except to note they are existing backers. Zopa’s previous investors include SoftBank, which led that $300 million round in 2021; as well as Silverstripe, Northzone, and Uprising. (Some of the details of this investment were leaked earlier in the week, although the amount and investors were not accurate.)
But while Zopa’s numbers look strong, especially for the current market where later-stage startups continue to struggle to raise growth rounds — let alone grow — they also speak to how the company has had to take a longer time to get to where it has wanted to go.
In 2021, when Zopa announced a $300 million fundraise that first catapulted it to a $1 billion valuation, CEO Jaidev Janardana described it to TechCrunch as a “pre-IPO round” ahead of an offering at the end of 2022. It also said it expected to be profitable by the end of 2021.
Not only did that IPO never materialize, but it’s largely off the table for the foreseeable. “We will wait for the markets to revive and be more positive,” Janardana said in an interview on Thursday, noting that it has plenty of cash in the bank and just £75 million in debt payable years from now. Meanwhile, Zopa reached its profit milestone — a full year of profit — only in April 2024.
A recent, recurring theme in fintech has been high valuations attached to very fast-growing startups that have subsequently struggled to live up to lofty projections, but Zopa is not your typical fintech startup.
The company has actually been around since 2005, when it started out as a pioneer in the peer-to-peer lending space competing against startups like Prosper, providing a platform to match up investors with borrowers at rates more competitive than traditional banks and returns that were more attractive than other investment opportunities.
By 2020, it started to move out of that business — which had become more tricky over the years due to regulation, reduced returns and a lot of high profile players exiting the space after Covid-19 killed the model. Zopa picked up a banking license that year and started a pivot into savings and non-P2P loan products. (By the end of 2021, Zopa’s P2P lending was shut down completely.)
But bucking the “hypergrowth” mantra of so many fintech companies, in the years since, rather than using that pivot to spin up a lot of new services, it’s largely doubled down on those first products.
Crypto is nowhere in its roadmap for now, for example. “As of now, we still remain arm’s length,” Janardana said in reference to decentralized currencies. “Ultimately, we have a responsibility that we give our customers products that we think are suitable for them, and that they understand. I don’t feel that as of today, that the average of a customer, at least in our mind, passes that bar.”
Nor has it felt the need yet to expand outside the U.K. “The U.K. has a lot of road to run, so we remain focused there,” he said. “International continues to be longer term and opportunistic.”
Plans for 2025 do include Zopa launching its first current account products — checking accounts as they are typically called in the U.S. — and bringing more AI into the company, he said.
Janardana said that Zopa is already using AI, for example developers are leaning on it to help write code. AI will expand to the front office next year, he said. He company is building a generative AI platform to help customers manage their money, and to help them buy more Zopa products in a more personalized way. “We are really looking forward to how our interactions with customers can move beyond the mobile app into something bit more warm, personal, and ‘human,’” he said of the GenAI plans.
Putting GenAI to work in fintech is a holy grail in the space, and some efforts are extremely ambitious. One Zero out of Israel, one of the many startups being founded by Mobileye’s Amnon Shashua, is aiming to build the GenAI equivalent of a private banking specialist — typically the kind of service reserved for high net-worth individuals. Its plans will be eventually to turn that into a service it sells to other banks, and likely others will, too, so Zopa may have options beyond what it choose to build itself.
Building itself has been the other USP for Zopa up to now. Unlike other neobanks that essentially pull together fintech-as-a-service APIs to power their products, Zopa has built its platform itself from the ground up, and that’s allowed it to gradually become the fintech supplier itself, powering financial services for other companies. These have included partnerships with electricity supplier Octopus Energy, and with the retailer John Lewis to offer personal loans directly to its 23 million customers.
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Suspect in CEO's fatal shooting may have left NYC on bus, police say | Backpack found in Central Park as hunt continues for gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO earlier this week
The gunman who killed the CEO of the largest U.S. health insurer likely left New York City soon after the brazen ambush that has shaken corporate America, police officials said Friday. But he left something behind: a backpack that was discovered in Central Park.
Three days after the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, police still did not know the gunman's whereabouts or have a motive for the killing. Investigators were looking at whether the shooter may have been a disgruntled employee or client of the insurer, the NYPD's Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told reporters.
Video of the gunman fleeing Wednesday's shooting showed him riding a bicycle into Central Park and later taking a taxi to a bus terminal that offers commuter service to New Jersey and Greyhound routes to Philadelphia, Boston and Washington, D.C., according to Kenny.
Police have video of the man entering the bus station but no video of him exiting, leading them to believe he left the city, Kenny said. CNN first reported that the suspect may have escaped the city by bus.
Abandoned backpack found in Central Park
Investigators on Friday found a backpack in the park that had been worn by the gunman during the shooting, police said, following a massive sweep through a vast area with lakes and ponds, meadows, playgrounds and woods.
Police didn't immediately reveal what, if anything, the backpack contained, but said it would be analyzed for clues.
The gunman made sure to conceal his identity with a mask during almost all of his time in the city — including during the attack and while he ate — yet left a trail of evidence in view of the nation's biggest city and its network of security cameras.
The gunman arrived in New York City on Nov. 24, and shot Thompson 10 days later, outside his company's annual investor conference at a hotel just blocks from Radio City Music Hall and Rockefeller Center.
The gunman got off a bus that originated in Atlanta and made several stops along the way, Kenny said. Police have not determined where he got on the bus.
Investigators believe the suspect used a fake identification card and paid cash, Kenny said, when he checked in at the hostel, which has a café, along with shared and private rooms and is blocks from Columbia University.
Police test discarded items
Investigators have tested a discarded water bottle and protein bar wrapper in a hunt for the gunman's DNA. They also were trying to obtain additional information from a cellphone found along his escape route.
Photos of the suspected shooter that were taken in the lobby of a hostel on Manhattan's Upper West Side appear to be from the only time he removed his mask, Kenny said.
The images show a man smiling in the lobby of the HI New York City hostel. They are among a collection of photos and video circulated since the shooting — including footage of the attack, as well as images of the suspected gunman at a Starbucks beforehand.
"From every indication we have from witnesses, from the Starbucks, from the hostel, he kept his mask on at all times except for the one instance where we have him photographed with the mask off," Kenny said.
His roommates at the hostel also said he didn't speak to them. Nothing of investigative value was found in a search of the suspected shooter's room.
Kenney was asked Friday how close he felt police were to making an arrest.
"This isn't Blue Bloods. We're not going to solve this in 60 minutes," he said. "We're painstakingly going through every bit of evidence that we can come across. Eventually, when an apprehension is made, we will have to present all of these facts to a judge and jury, so we're taking our time, doing it right and making sure we're going to get justice for this victim and closure for his family."
Words on ammunition
Security video of the shooting shows the killer approaching Thompson from behind, firing several shots with a gun equipped with a silencer, barely pausing to clear a jam while the executive fell to the sidewalk.
The words "delay," "deny" and "depose" were scrawled on the ammunition, one word on each of three bullets, Kenny said. A law enforcement official previously told The Associated Press that the words scrawled on the ammunition were "deny," "defend" and "depose." The messages mirror the phrase "delay, deny, defend," which is commonly used by lawyers and critics about insurers that delay payments, deny claims and defend their actions.
Thompson, a father of two sons who lived in a Minneapolis suburb, had been with Minnesota-based UnitedHealthcare since 2004 and served as CEO for more than three years.
After Thompson's death, the insurer's parent company, UnitedHealth Group Inc., abruptly ended the annual investors conference being held in New York.
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Freeman leads Siena against Niagara after 21-point game | Siena Saints (4-4) at Niagara Purple Eagles (3-5)
Lewiston, New York; Friday, 6:30 p.m. EST
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Glastonbury Tor : Homes within view of landmark 'a travesty' | A bid to build new homes within view of Glastonbury Tor in Somerset has been called a "travesty".
Developer T&A Land Associates Ltd wants to attach 24 homes to a new estate next to Cullen Farm Road, in Glastonbury.
But Somerset Council's planning committee refused the application on Tuesday, with councillor Susanna Hart, whose Glastonbury division includes the site, saying “it would be a travesty if we allow this to happen".
Glastonbury's mayor, councillor Lokabee Lokabandhu, added: “We are pursuing applying to become a world heritage site, the only one in Somerset, and we would love to preserve the tor and the landscape around it as much as possible as part of that process.”
The site was not included in the former Mendip District Council local plan in December 2021, before the council merged with others into Somerset Council.
However, the process is being revised after a successful legal challenge, the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) says.
The LDRS added Glastonbury was expected to deliver a significant amount of new housing over the next decade.
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The mayor added: “We would hate for our landscape around the tor to be filled up with housing, spoiling the views."
Hart added: “This is hugely unpopular in the town. It’s in open pasture land, near the most important site in the south west until we get to Stonehenge."
The planning committee argued it was important to “protect what’s left” of the beloved landscape
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Planet A Foods nabs $30M to make tons more cocoa-free chocolate | Turning sunflower seeds into sustainable, cocoa-free chocolate has netted Munich-based B2B food tech startup Planet A Foods (formerly QOA) a $30 million Series B funding round. Now, the Y Combinator alum is gearing up for industrialization, with the funds set to be deployed to scale its production capacity by around 7.5x. The round fast follows a $15.4 million Series A back in February.
Currently, the startup is producing 2,000 tons of ChoViva, as it calls its cocoa-free, lower carbon chocolate alternative, per year. It plans to step that up to over 15,000 tons as it adds capacity and kicks off international expansion outside an initial trio of European markets.
Opening its first U.S.-based production facility is on the cards. Building on the three local markets (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland) where its chocolate substitute is already in food products that aim to tempt sweet-toothed consumers, it is also eyeing launches into the U.K. and France during the first quarter of 2025. Brands buying into ChoViva so far include Lambertz, Lindt, Rewe Group, and even the German train operator, Deutsche Bahn, which doubtless pops a lot of chocolate treats on customers’ tea trays every day.
So far, the startup has around 20 customers for its alt chocolate ingredients, mostly major European food manufacturers but also some U.S. brands. As it grows capacity, it’ll be aiming to add more strategic partners too.
Cocoa, not so sweet
The problem Planet A Foods is tackling is making a staple sweet treat (chocolate) less of an environmental horror. Traditional cocoa-based chocolate production raises serious sustainability issues, since the crop grows in areas with rainforest, which can be cut down to make way for cocoa bean plantations. Global demand is also outstripping an increasingly fragile (and ethically fraught) supply, leading to inflated costs and fears for the future of the cocoa bean in a rapidly warming world.
Supplying the food industry with an alternative chocolate-esque ingredient that — just like the real deal — can be baked into or folded onto snack products like breakfast cereals, confectionary, and cakes is Planet A’s mission. And it’s not a trivial goal: The startup reckons an annual toll of some 500 million tons of CO2 could be avoided through switching bulk chocolate production away from cocoa beans to its more sustainable method that avoids deforestation and localizes ingredients sourcing.
The ingredients it uses to produce ChoViva have been selected in part as they can be grown locally (oats are another of its staples) — hence it claims a carbon footprint that’s up to 80% lower than conventional chocolate (but note that higher bound is for the vegan version of ChoViva which, unlike other blends, doesn’t contain any milk products).
“We’re not against chocolate,” stresses co-founder and CEO Dr. Maximilian Marquart, one half of the brother-sister founder team behind Planet A Foods. CTO Dr. Sara Marquart is the food scientist who developed the process for making the cocoa-free chocolate. “That’s very important. So we’re not taking away your [premium] chocolate. We’re after all the snacking applications — [confectionary such as] M&Ms, Snickers, Mars, Bounty, you know, all that stuff.”
Premium chocolate is a tiny market compared to the bulk business of mass market confectionary that Planet A Foods is targeting. And in this domain, where environmental degradation occurs at terrible scale, the quality of the chocolate that’s used is generally lower, often because it’s lower in actual cocoa-content — hence [Maximilian] Marquart argues there’s no difference between how ChoViva tastes, and the stuff consumers are routinely being sold in mass market products. “It’s indistinguishable,” he suggests.
“My sister Sara . . . found out that actually 80% of the typical chocolate flavors come from the processing of the cocoa beans and not from the beans itself — so . . . if eight out of 10 flavors are actually coming from fermentation roasting, why do you need cocoa beans?”
Scaling for impact
The economics also make ChoViva an attractive switch for the industrial food industry, as the startup tells it, since the product is not subject to the price volatility that can hit cocoa beans as a limited resource. But for such a switch to happen, the startup needs to be able to produce its alternative at the volumes that food giants demand — so there’s a long road of scaling ahead for the team.
At this point, the production capacity for ChoViva still represents an incredibly tiny portion of the global cocoa bean harvest — which [Maximilian] Marquart notes is between 4 million and 5 million tons annually. So it will require giant leaps in production capacity to have the massive positive sustainability change the Marquarts want.
“We’ve already acquired the machines [for this stage of industrialization]. So we are already in the scale-up runs, and we have some real industrial clients already, so we’re currently just trying to cope with the demand in Europe,” he says, adding: “We’re automating. We’re improving the processes. We are also commissioning new machines. Plus, we are currently planning another facility in the States.”
They are also exploring how the business might respond to demand from Asia ([Maximilian] Marquart happens to be on a business trip to Japan when we talk). But he says they also recognize that, as a startup, they do need to focus, too.
“We’re a startup . . . we’re not naive. So we can’t conquer the world alone,” he tells TechCrunch. “I think U.K. and U.S. are the main markets where we will expand. However, in Asia we have a lot of demand, so we’re currently investigating what we do here — what we can do alone, and together with partners eventually.”
Supply chain all-nighters
Being in the (quasi) chocolate-making business might conjure up quaint images of high-hatted chocolatiers gently whipping batches of sweet stuff in charmingly rustic environs. But don’t be fooled: the business of manufacturing ChoViva is already sweating toil.
Having everything in place to be able to precisely produce tons of cocoa-free chocolate to ship out exactly when customers need it has required the founders to pull some all-nighters at the plant. And [Maximilian] Marquart says a big focus for this tranche of scaling is automation — so they can reduce the risk of human errors causing supply chain headaches.
“I think currently we’re at a scale — industrial scale — that no one else is,” he suggests when asked about the competitive landscape for cocoa-free chocolate. Other startups he name-checks are Foreverland, Nukoko, WinWin, and Voyage Foods. They are using various methods and base ingredients (including cereals, broad beans, carob, grape seeds, and more) to blend up rival cocoa-free chocolate products. So there’s a range of approaches in play.
In this context, and, indeed, for almost any kind of startup, succeeding “takes more than just developing a product” — or, in this case, an ingredient in a lab — and [Maximilian] Marquart says this invention element represents only 5% of the challenge they’ve set themselves.
“The main challenge lies in building up production, building up quality management, building up the supply chain. Every day, two 40-ton lorries leave our factory with our product. And that’s something that someone else needs to figure out. It’s really a challenge,” he emphasizes, adding: “Sara — my sister — and I, we slept under those machines. We really figured out the supply chain. It’s a big hassle. Every day our life is a hell given the challenges that we have in the supply chain.”
“Most of the other competitors, they have great products, but they need to bring that into reality, and need to be really able to deliver it to their customers, and that lies ahead of them. It’s incredibly difficult to deliver 40 tons of chocolate to a customer in time, at the right place, at the right recipe, the right quality.”
Planet A Foods’ Series B was co-led by Burda Principal Investments and Zintinus, with participation from AgriFoodTech Venture Alliance, Bayern Kapital, Cherry Ventures, Omnes Capital, Tengelmann Ventures, and World Fund.
R&D
Scaling aside, funding will also go on further research and development, as the team is working on an alternative to cocoa butter, which is another key ingredient for the food industry. Being able to offer a replacement for palm oil is another goal, as that also creates huge sustainability problems. The startup also believes its approach could work to replace other specialty fats that are used in food production, such as stearin, an animal fat, or coconut oil, per [Maximilian] Marquart.
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US to observe 83rd anniversary of attack on Pearl Harbor | Pearl Harbor "changed the future of the world," U.S. President Joe Biden said at a White House event for veterans and their families on Friday, the eve of the anniversary of Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
The president recalled that he "heard so much" about Pearl Harbor when he was growing up and talked about his uncles who enlisted in the military after the attack.
"During World War II, we stood at an inflection point," the president said. "We still stand at an inflection point. The decisions we make now in the next four to five years will determine the course of our future for decades to come. ... We owe it to the next generation to set that course on a more free, more secure and more just path."
Saturday, December 7, marks the 83rd anniversary of Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, a U.S. naval base on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, near Honolulu.
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes unleashed bombs, bullets and aerial torpedoes on America’s Pacific Fleet in the Sunday morning attack.
More than 2,400 U.S. sailors, soldiers and civilians were killed that day. About half of them died on the USS Arizona battleship.
The Japanese succeeded in sinking four of the eight U.S. battleships at Pearl Harbor and damaging the remaining four.
According to the Naval History and History Command website, "That more Japanese aircraft were not shot down had nothing to do with the skill, training or bravery of our Sailors and other servicemembers.
"Rather, U.S. antiaircraft weapons were inadequate in number and capability, for not only had the Japanese achieved tactical surprise, they achieved technological surprise with aircraft and weapons far better than anticipated — a lesson in the danger of underestimating the enemy that resonates to this day."
The day after the attack, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt appeared before a joint session of Congress, seeking a declaration of war. After he delivered his famous "Day of Infamy" speech, the Senate unanimously supported the declaration. In the House, there was one dissenter, Montana’s Representative Jeanette Rankin, a pacifist.
Roosevelt signed the declaration Monday afternoon. The United States had now been officially drawn into World War II.
Before the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States had imposed economic sanctions on Japan as a way of stopping Japan’s expansion goals in Asia. The sanctions affected Japan’s access to aircraft exports.
The attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor was part of Japan’s plan to prevent any challenges to those goals in Asia.
There is now a USS Arizona Memorial that expands over the hull of the sunken vessel without touching it.
Earlier this week, a 104-year-old survivor of Pearl Harbor returned to Hawaii to participate in this year’s commemorations. Ira “Ike” Schab Jr. of Portland, Oregon, who was a Navy musician, was greeted at the airport in Honolulu with a water cannon salute and music from the U.S. Pacific Fleet Band.
When asked what he remembers about that day, Schab told the Hawaii News Now website, “Being scared, more than anything else.” Schab said he made the trip because he is one of the Pacific Fleet’s “very few” survivors remaining from that day.
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"Saturday, December 7, marks the 83rd anniversary of Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, a U.S. naval base on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, near Honolulu.",
"Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes unleashed bombs, bullets and aerial torpedoes on America’s Pacific Fleet in the Sunday morning attack.",
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"When asked what he remembers about that day, Schab told the Hawaii News Now website, “Being scared, more than anything else.” Schab said he made the trip because he is one of the Pacific Fleet’s “very few” survivors remaining from that day.",
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Princeton plays Furman on 3-game win streak | Princeton Tigers (7-3) at Furman Paladins (8-1)
Greenville, South Carolina; Saturday, 12 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Princeton aims to keep its three-game win streak intact when the Tigers take on Furman.
The Paladins have gone 4-0 in home games. Furman has a 2-0 record in games decided by less than 4 points.
The Tigers have gone 3-0 away from home. Princeton ranks third in the Ivy League allowing 71.6 points while holding opponents to 44.3% shooting.
Furman makes 48.0% of its shots from the field this season, which is 3.7 percentage points higher than Princeton has allowed to its opponents (44.3%). Princeton has shot at a 46.0% clip from the field this season, 5.7 percentage points above the 40.3% shooting opponents of Furman have averaged.
TOP PERFORMERS: Pjay Smith Jr. is scoring 17.4 points per game with 3.3 rebounds and 4.0 assists for the Paladins.
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East Renfrewshire Council puts off decision on social care charges | East Renfrewshire Council has deferred a decision on the introduction of non-residential care charges until February.
The council had planned to start charging for elements of care, such as social support and day trips, however, campaigners had called the £20 per hour fees "unfair" and "immoral".
They said the charges could lead to people who relied on support becoming socially isolated.
The council had said it hoped the charges would raise £1.5m to help plug a £12m gap in East Renfrewshire's health and social care partnership (HSCP) budget.
The charges do not affect personal care or services for children.
Non-residential care includes social supports, charges for meals, day opportunities and community-based services.
Tracey Campbell, whose 18-year-old daughter Leia needs 24-hour support, told the BBC earlier this week she was worried about the impact of the charges.
She said Leia receives a self-directed support budget which is "mainly spent on support workers to keep her safe".
Ms Campbell says her daughter, who has Angelman syndrome, relies on trips out and hobbies such as horse riding to avoid social isolation and keep her feeling safe and well.
Leia's condition means she has severe physical and learning disabilities.
Ms Campbell said she feared the new charge would mean her daughter would not be able to pay for the support to be able to continue her hobbies and still be financially independent.
Social isolation
Almost 1,000 people had backed a petition from the Netherlee mum which asked health chiefs in East Renfrewshire to drop the proposed charges.
The petition said: "For my daughter, going to the cinema, shows, and pantomime is not a pastime. It's a lifeline in her battle against social isolation.
"This proposal would potentially strip away 60% of affected individual's disposable income, making it almost impossible for them to participate in much-needed social activities."
Members of the council's cabinet discussed the proposal and agreed to defer the decision until the implications of Wednesday's Scottish government budget were clear.
Council leader Owen O'Donnell said: "This is a proposal that has implications for some of our most vulnerable residents, so we need to ensure that we give it the time and care it deserves.
"While we don't want to give people false hope, it's only right we pause and have all the facts available before we make this difficult decision."
The council said it had spent many years avoiding proposing these charges and it was the only HSCP in Greater Glasgow and Clyde that did not charge for non-residential care.
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Why Soccer Players Are Training in the Dark | Sports science company Okkulo has shown that its specially lit training environment can improve players’ visual-motor skills—and a growing number of sports are starting to test it out.
I stand in the darkened silence of a rectangular chamber, 8 meters long and 6 meters wide, balanced on the tips of my toes. On the wall in front of me are the outlines of two circles. Beyond these walls is an enormous insulated hangar decked with artificial grass and filled with highly paid professional soccer players. The lower circle glows a brilliant white in the dim light. I brace, as though waiting for the Death Star to ready its superlaser.
One second passes.
Two seconds.
Clunk—pause—whoosh!
A soccer ball fires from the illuminated hole, accelerating to 35 miles per hour and shooting through the darkness, before slapping onto my right foot and spinning awkwardly off behind. I turn, and it takes another two touches before I’ve brought the ball fully under my control. A professional player would have managed it in one, and would have done so without making a sound. The next four balls are fired with similarly dismal outcomes. I fear that I am going to be escorted from the facility on the grounds of supreme incompetence.
There is, however, a glimmer of hope. Okkulo, the English company that has created this training environment, has just published research that found that consistent training under restricted lighting can have remarkable effects on certain visual motor skills. Spend enough time doing drills in this specially lit environment, and I might just end up being a better player in the park on a Saturday afternoon.
“The athlete will go inside of this box, and when they come out they’ll be better prepared for their match or for their training,” suggests Okkulo’s founder, Mel O’Connor. The idea is simple: The more you train the processes that coordinate the eyes, body, and brain during difficult light conditions, the faster and more refined their coordination should be under normal light. “We can speed up and slow down the information between the eye and the brain, and that in turn works with the [connection between] the brain and the muscle,” O’Connor says. “It’s about maximizing the processing power.”
I am trialling Okkulo’s technology at Thorp Arch in West Yorkshire, a $6 million sports facility that serves as base camp for one of England’s top soccer clubs—Leeds United. Today, I’m using a temporary model designed to be toured around sports clubs and universities. It’s been here at Leeds for six weeks. Should they opt for a permanent installation, Okkulo’s in-house manufacturing process can create a bespoke model in collaboration with the club’s goalkeeping coaches and sports scientists.
The overhead lights change from being simply dim to a dark, low-level blue. O’Connor watches from the side of the chamber, while Jack Woodburn, the company’s head of sports science, controls the lighting and ball-release mechanisms from a laptop on the other side of the wall. I’m working at a specifically chosen frequency of light that forces a 10 percent delay in the processing speed between the eye and the brain.
Okkulo can switch between different light modes that have varying effects on the brain’s processing of visual information. Low blue light is used to test visual focus and anticipation; green light is cruelly designed to challenge our peripheral vision and powers of identification. Switching to dim red light alters powers of depth perception. The final, boss-level light mode combines aspects of all three settings for a 23 percent reduction in eye, brain, and muscle coordination. It feels almost psychedelic.
Another ball fires out under Okkulo’s blue lights, and I feel as though my body belongs to someone else, as though the ball has found a second wind halfway through its flight path and is accelerating past the point where it would naturally begin to slow. I seem to have accidentally consumed three beers, three chasers, and a tequila slammer.
Next, O’Connor and I toss a tennis ball back and forth. The best way to describe the sensation is to try and recall the first time you wore 3D glasses at the cinema—both familiar and unerring at once.
Five more soccer balls are fired my way. I’m warming up, I think, until O’Connor switches Okkulo to its green light setting and bounces a tennis ball gently off the wall towards me. I’m left hopelessly grasping at air. I never claimed to be much of a soccer player, but it is a different feeling entirely to find yourself suddenly unable to play catch.
But give it enough time, and the brain begins to adapt. Twenty-two professional soccer players at Sunderland AFC—another big club with a storied history, currently playing in the second tier of English soccer—recently took part in a six-week study of Okkulo. First, the players had their visual-motor skills assessed with software. Onscreen tests measured how well they could focus on small moving objects, their reaction times, and their peripheral vision. The software also assessed how well they could anticipate the movement of an object, and how much time they needed to recognize a target object surrounded by other distracting stimuli.
Then they were split into two equal groups and completed training drills twice a week under the supervision of an Okkulo coach—one group using Okkulo’s lighting system, and the other under normal conditions. Outside these sessions, both groups trained as normal. Then, after six weeks, they had their visual-motor skills reassessed using the software.
Compared to the control group, on average players using the Okkulo system found that their recognition time was enhanced by almost 60 percent, allowing them to identify relevant activity faster among crowded fields. Furthermore, their identification of stimuli in their peripheral vision was 10 percent more accurate and 20 percent quicker, their depth perception 45 percent more accurate, and their sensory reaction time up by 17 percent.
The overall result for those in the study, the company claims, is a 36.3 percent improvement in motor reaction time—meaning the players appeared both quicker and more effective in responding to stimuli. When reassessed with the software, they were 17 percent faster in stopping one action, then 36.3 percent faster in beginning the next. Should this improvement be replicable in a real-world, in-game sports scenario, it could represent a holy grail in improving sporting performance.
O’Connor began to dream up Okkulo more than 20 years ago while working on a film set as a costume designer, having become fascinated by how the cameras reacted to different types of light. He contacted a scientist who’d written a paper on seeing movement in the dark—and who, by pure chance, lived only 20 minutes down the road—and by the end of the afternoon the pair were scheming on how this might relate to sports training, over a cup of tea. Within four weeks they were given a £20,000 research grant from the University of Durham and started work on a rudimentary predecessor of Okkulo, which they tested out with the university's cricket team.
This initial research elicited encouraging results. Cricketers subjected to lower light levels in training saw greater improvement in their batting skills than those in the equivalent control group. Later case studies, including a remarkable improvement in match day performance for a goalkeeper in the English Football League, indicated similar improvements—but up until the release of this latest study, O’Connor had been unable to objectively explain how his technology seemed to be bettering athletic performance. “We could see that we were improving athletes, but we needed to find out exactly why [the technology] was doing that. Now we’ve got it in data.”
Alex Cairns, a vastly experienced goalkeeper at Leeds United with more than 300 appearances in the English Football League, describes working with Okkulu as a “shock to the system.” For his goalkeeper teammate Harry Christy, 10 years younger and at the other end of his career, time spent training in the chamber was an opportunity to be grabbed with both hands: “I’m looking for every little gain I can get, every edge I can have over every other goalkeeper in the country,” Christy says. Neither goalkeeper was involved in the study at Sunderland AFC.
“What’s interesting is that they haven’t just changed the light levels, they’ve changed the specific quality and waves of that light,” says Niall Macfarlane, a professor in physiology and sports science at the University of Glasgow who wasn’t involved in the research. Experimenting with different types of low light—blue, red, green—has far more scope for generating improvements than just using dimmed light on its own, he believes.
Macfarlane does, however, harbor some reservations about how smoothly the research’s positive results would be translated into improvements in performance in a real-life soccer match. “I think it is far better suited to something like baseball or cricket where you can replicate the game scenario more closely,” he says. Unlike in the highly variable environment of a soccer game, with batting sports “you know where the ball is going to come from, you know roughly the speed it’s going to come at, so [through the training] you can refine the tracking of that ball and the consistency of the contact.”
It is little surprise then that when I arrived earlier this afternoon, O’Connor was in the process of booking flights to Arizona. He is currently in contact with more than half of the teams in Major League Baseball.
But there’s still more work to do. Further research is needed to see how long the benefits of the light training last, as well as to confirm that there was no performance bias at work in the recent study—it was obvious to the participants which group was receiving the Okkulo intervention and which was not, which may have subconsciously influenced the participants’ performance in testing. Future tests could account for this by involving some lighting adjustment for the control group as well, to avoid indicating to the participants which group they are in.
Outside of elite sports, Okkulo is in the early stages of collaborating with several universities to delve deeper into the potential medical benefits of the technology, leading O’Connor to imagine a future in which hospitals and clinics have ambient light rooms to help patients to recover from severe brain injuries or paralysis. He hopes one day to move Okkulo into the home use and commercial gym sectors, following in the footsteps of companies such as Peloton.
But for now, it is my turn. Redemption awaits. The room returns to normal light levels. I stand on my mark and wait to receive the ball. My systems are finely tuned, my heart rate is slightly raised, and my senses are on high alert. It’s time for me to flourish.
Clunk—pause—whoosh!
I control the ball. It’s perfect. Deft and soundless, falling under my spell like a lost duckling returning gratefully to the embrace of its nest. It belongs here. I experience a few seconds of immense pride before O’Connor reveals that we’ve been working with a ball-speed setting recommended for 10-year-olds. The technology may be exemplary, but even science cannot perform miracles. | {
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"“The athlete will go inside of this box, and when they come out they’ll be better prepared for their match or for their training,” suggests Okkulo’s founder, Mel O’Connor. The idea is simple: The more you train the processes that coordinate the eyes, body, and brain during difficult light conditions, the faster and more refined their coordination should be under normal light. “We can speed up and slow down the information between the eye and the brain, and that in turn works with the [connection between] the brain and the muscle,” O’Connor says. “It’s about maximizing the processing power.”",
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"Okkulo can switch between different light modes that have varying effects on the brain’s processing of visual information. Low blue light is used to test visual focus and anticipation; green light is cruelly designed to challenge our peripheral vision and powers of identification. Switching to dim red light alters powers of depth perception. The final, boss-level light mode combines aspects of all three settings for a 23 percent reduction in eye, brain, and muscle coordination. It feels almost psychedelic.",
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"Five more soccer balls are fired my way. I’m warming up, I think, until O’Connor switches Okkulo to its green light setting and bounces a tennis ball gently off the wall towards me. I’m left hopelessly grasping at air. I never claimed to be much of a soccer player, but it is a different feeling entirely to find yourself suddenly unable to play catch.",
"But give it enough time, and the brain begins to adapt. Twenty-two professional soccer players at Sunderland AFC—another big club with a storied history, currently playing in the second tier of English soccer—recently took part in a six-week study of Okkulo. First, the players had their visual-motor skills assessed with software. Onscreen tests measured how well they could focus on small moving objects, their reaction times, and their peripheral vision. The software also assessed how well they could anticipate the movement of an object, and how much time they needed to recognize a target object surrounded by other distracting stimuli.",
"Then they were split into two equal groups and completed training drills twice a week under the supervision of an Okkulo coach—one group using Okkulo’s lighting system, and the other under normal conditions. Outside these sessions, both groups trained as normal. Then, after six weeks, they had their visual-motor skills reassessed using the software.",
"Compared to the control group, on average players using the Okkulo system found that their recognition time was enhanced by almost 60 percent, allowing them to identify relevant activity faster among crowded fields. Furthermore, their identification of stimuli in their peripheral vision was 10 percent more accurate and 20 percent quicker, their depth perception 45 percent more accurate, and their sensory reaction time up by 17 percent.",
"The overall result for those in the study, the company claims, is a 36.3 percent improvement in motor reaction time—meaning the players appeared both quicker and more effective in responding to stimuli. When reassessed with the software, they were 17 percent faster in stopping one action, then 36.3 percent faster in beginning the next. Should this improvement be replicable in a real-world, in-game sports scenario, it could represent a holy grail in improving sporting performance.",
"O’Connor began to dream up Okkulo more than 20 years ago while working on a film set as a costume designer, having become fascinated by how the cameras reacted to different types of light. He contacted a scientist who’d written a paper on seeing movement in the dark—and who, by pure chance, lived only 20 minutes down the road—and by the end of the afternoon the pair were scheming on how this might relate to sports training, over a cup of tea. Within four weeks they were given a £20,000 research grant from the University of Durham and started work on a rudimentary predecessor of Okkulo, which they tested out with the university's cricket team.",
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Uber will need to fingerprint drivers in California to transport teens | Uber has 30 days to require certain drivers to get fingerprinted if the ride-hail giant intends to continue transporting unaccompanied teens in California.
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) issued a ruling Thursday that requires taxi and ride-hail drivers who are carrying unaccompanied minors in the state to pass a fingerprint background check. The ruling also requires transport companies to pay for the cost of those background checks.
Uber has a history of fighting back against fingerprint-based background check requirements for drivers. Seven years ago, Uber and Lyft blocked a similar effort in California to fingerprint drivers. The company has argued that its current name-based background checks and other guardrails are sufficient, and that such an inconvenient step would discourage drivers from signing up to the platform and would disproportionately affect minorities.
All that goes out the window when it comes to transporting kids safely and ensuring they’re not getting into the car with a potential sex offender.
“When an adult is being tasked to provide a service to a minor, the adult is placed in a position of trust, responsibility, and control over California’s most vulnerable citizenry — children,” reads the decision. “Not conducting a fingerprint-based background check to identify adults with disqualifying arrests or criminal records would place the unaccompanied minor in a potentially dangerous, if not life-threatening situation.”
Uber launched Uber for Teens, its service that allows teens aged 13 to 17 to hail an Uber without a parent or guardian, in February 2024. The CPUC sent a warning letter to Uber strongly recommending that Uber stop the service until a 2016 rulemaking around background checks could be resolved. In March, Uber asked for clarity on the rule, specifically the part that stated any business involved “primarily” in transporting minors would need to enforce strict background checks. The company said this summer that fewer than 10% of the company’s total rides involve unaccompanied minors.
At the core of the debate has been whether Uber should be required to participate in the Department of Justice’s Trustline program. Trustline is a registry maintained by the California Department of Social Services that uses fingerprinting to screen caregivers for criminal arrests and convictions. It also screens applicants against the Child Abuse Central Index, which contains reports of suspected child abuse and neglect.
Uber has said its own name-based screening system via Checkr, as well as safety features like live trip tracking included in Uber for Teens, is adequate to keep riders of any age safe. Uber also says it only pairs the most experienced and highly rated drivers with teens.
Uber has also been accused of not taking enough steps to protect riders from dangerous situations, including child trafficking. In July, two families in South Carolina sued Uber alleging the company allowed their teen daughters to be taken across state lines to a predator’s home where one of the girls was sexually assaulted.
The CPUC’s ruling is bad news for Uber, which launched Uber for Teens in California in February 2024, but good news for HopSkipDrive, a startup that provides a ride-sharing service for kids and advocated in favor of this ruling.
HopSkipDrive refers to its drivers as “CareDrivers” and says they all have caregiving experience and go through a 15-point certification before being onboarded — including a fingerprint-based background check. The startup also uses telematics to detect unsafe driving behavior and enable real-time ride tracking, and has a dedicated team monitoring each ride.
The CPUC’s ruling also requires transport companies that intend to transport minors share information with the agency on how they implement live trip tracking for parents, what safety procedures they implement at pickup and drop-off locations, and what sort of driver training the companies implement specifically around transporting unaccompanied minors.
The ruling also says that each company is responsible for paying for the checks.
Uber has also argued against this stipulation, saying that forcing the company — which has a market cap of around $150 billion as of December — to pay for fingerprinting would result in a price hike for the Uber for Teens service. Uber, like many large companies, has a history of offloading costs associated with rulings and legislation onto the customer. For example, California riders can expect to see the following message at the bottom of their Uber receipts: “In California, on average, roughly 33% of the customer price went towards covering government-mandated commercial insurance for rideshare in July 2024, one of the highest rates in the country.”
HopSkipDrive pays for the cost of fingerprint checks for its drivers. The Commission wrote in its ruling that “if small [transportation network companies] like HopSkipDrive can cover the cost of a TrustLine background check, Uber should do so as well.”
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"At the core of the debate has been whether Uber should be required to participate in the Department of Justice’s Trustline program. Trustline is a registry maintained by the California Department of Social Services that uses fingerprinting to screen caregivers for criminal arrests and convictions. It also screens applicants against the Child Abuse Central Index, which contains reports of suspected child abuse and neglect.",
"Uber has said its own name-based screening system via Checkr, as well as safety features like live trip tracking included in Uber for Teens, is adequate to keep riders of any age safe. Uber also says it only pairs the most experienced and highly rated drivers with teens.",
"Uber has also been accused of not taking enough steps to protect riders from dangerous situations, including child trafficking. In July, two families in South Carolina sued Uber alleging the company allowed their teen daughters to be taken across state lines to a predator’s home where one of the girls was sexually assaulted.",
"The CPUC’s ruling is bad news for Uber, which launched Uber for Teens in California in February 2024, but good news for HopSkipDrive, a startup that provides a ride-sharing service for kids and advocated in favor of this ruling.",
"HopSkipDrive refers to its drivers as “CareDrivers” and says they all have caregiving experience and go through a 15-point certification before being onboarded — including a fingerprint-based background check. The startup also uses telematics to detect unsafe driving behavior and enable real-time ride tracking, and has a dedicated team monitoring each ride.",
"The CPUC’s ruling also requires transport companies that intend to transport minors share information with the agency on how they implement live trip tracking for parents, what safety procedures they implement at pickup and drop-off locations, and what sort of driver training the companies implement specifically around transporting unaccompanied minors.",
"The ruling also says that each company is responsible for paying for the checks.",
"Uber has also argued against this stipulation, saying that forcing the company — which has a market cap of around $150 billion as of December — to pay for fingerprinting would result in a price hike for the Uber for Teens service. Uber, like many large companies, has a history of offloading costs associated with rulings and legislation onto the customer. For example, California riders can expect to see the following message at the bottom of their Uber receipts: “In California, on average, roughly 33% of the customer price went towards covering government-mandated commercial insurance for rideshare in July 2024, one of the highest rates in the country.”",
"HopSkipDrive pays for the cost of fingerprint checks for its drivers. The Commission wrote in its ruling that “if small [transportation network companies] like HopSkipDrive can cover the cost of a TrustLine background check, Uber should do so as well.”",
"Uber did not respond in time to TechCrunch’s request for comment."
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TikTok loses bid in appeal court to halt law that could lead to U.S. ban | TikTok and parent company ByteDance expected to bring case to U.S. Supreme Court
A U.S. federal appeals court panel on Friday unanimously upheld a law that could lead to a ban of TikTok as soon as next month, handing a resounding defeat to the popular social media platform as it fights for its survival in the U.S.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied TikTok's petition to overturn the law — which requires TikTok to break ties with its China-based parent company ByteDance or be banned by mid-January — and rebuffed the company's challenge of the statute, which it argued had ran afoul of the First Amendment.
"The First Amendment exists to protect free speech in the United States," said the court's opinion, which was written by Judge Douglas Ginsburg. "Here the Government acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation and to limit that adversary's ability to gather data on people in the United States."
TikTok and ByteDance — another plaintiff in the lawsuit — are expected to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, though it's unclear whether the court will take up the case.
"The Supreme Court has an established historical record of protecting Americans' right to free speech, and we expect they will do just that on this important constitutional issue," TikTok spokesperson Michael Hughes said in a statement.
"Unfortunately, the TikTok ban was conceived and pushed through based upon inaccurate, flawed and hypothetical information, resulting in outright censorship of the American people," Hughes said.
Unless stopped, Hughes argued the statute "will silence the voices of over 170 million Americans here in the US and around the world on January 19th, 2025."
Trump could offer a lifeline
Though the case is squarely in the court system, it's also possible the two companies might be thrown some sort of a lifeline by U.S. president-elect Donald Trump, who tried to ban TikTok during his first term but said during the most recent presidential campaign that he is now against doing so.
"He wants to save TikTok," Rep. Michael Waltz, Trump's pick for national security adviser, told Fox Business on Friday.
The law, signed by U.S. President Joe Biden in April, was the culmination of a years-long saga in Washington over the short-form video-sharing app, which the government sees as a national security threat due to its connections to China.
"Today's decision is an important step in blocking the Chinese government from weaponizing TikTok to collect sensitive information about millions of Americans, to covertly manipulate the content delivered to American audiences, and to undermine our national security," U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement Friday.
The U.S. has said it's concerned about TikTok collecting vast swaths of user data, including sensitive information on viewing habits, that could fall into the hands of the Chinese government through coercion.
Officials have also warned the proprietary algorithm that fuels what users see on the app is vulnerable to manipulation by Chinese authorities, who they say can use it to shape content on the platform in a way that's difficult to detect — a concern mirrored by the European Union on Friday as it scrutinizes the video-sharing app's role in the Romanian elections.
TikTok, which sued the U.S. government over the law in May, has long denied it could be used by Beijing to spy on or manipulate Americans. Its attorneys have accurately pointed out that the U.S. hasn't provided evidence to show that the company handed over user data to the Chinese government, or manipulated content for Beijing's benefit in the U.S.
They have also argued the law is predicated on future risks, which the U.S. Department of Justice has emphasized pointing in part to unspecified action it claims the two companies have taken in the past due to demands from the Chinese government.
TikTok has also faced increasing hurdles on this side of the border, with Canada's own government — citing national security concerns — recently forcing the company to shutter its Canadian operations, though usage of the app is still allowed. In response, TikTok said it would challenge the order in court.
Prior to that, Ottawa banned the app from federal government devices in 2023. Similar bans have occurred at the provincial and territorial government levels.
Two years ago, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that Canada's electronic spy agency was watching for security threats from the app.
Court heard oral arguments in September
Friday's ruling came after the appeals court panel, composed of two Republican and one Democrat appointed judges, heard oral arguments in September.
WATCH | TikTok loses bid to strike down law that could bring ban:
In the hearing, which lasted more than two hours, the panel appeared to grapple with how TikTok's foreign ownership affects its rights under the Constitution and how far the government could go to curtail potential influence from abroad on a foreign-owned platform. On Friday, all three of them denied TikTok's petition.
In the court's ruling, Ginsburg, a Republican appointee, rejected TikTok's main legal arguments against the law, including that the statute was an unlawful bill of attainder or a taking of property in violation of the Fifth Amendment.
He also said the law did not violate the First Amendment because the government is not looking to "suppress content or require a certain mix of content" on TikTok.
"Content on the platform could in principle remain unchanged after divestiture, and people in the United States would remain free to read and share as much PRC propaganda (or any other content) as they desire on TikTok or any other platform of their choosing," Ginsburg wrote, using the abbreviation for the People's Republic of China.
Judge Sri Srinivasan, the chief judge on the court, issued a concurring opinion.
Some U.S. lawmakers celebrate ruling
TikTok's lawsuit was consolidated with a second legal challenge brought by several content creators — for which the company is covering legal costs — as well as a third one filed on behalf of conservative creators who work with a nonprofit called BASED Politics Inc. Other organizations, including the Knight First Amendment Institute, had also filed amicus briefs supporting TikTok.
"This is a deeply misguided ruling that reads important First Amendment precedents too narrowly and gives the government sweeping power to restrict Americans' access to information, ideas, and media from abroad," said Jameel Jaffer, the executive director of the organization. "We hope that the appeals court's ruling won't be the last word."
Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, lawmakers who had pushed for the legislation celebrated the court's ruling.
"I am optimistic that President Trump will facilitate an American takeover of TikTok to allow its continued use in the United States and I look forward to welcoming the app in America under new ownership," said Republican Rep. John Moolenaar of Michigan, chair of the House Select Committee on China.
Democratic Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, who co-authored the law, said "it's time for ByteDance to accept" the law.
To assuage concerns about the company's owners, TikTok says it has invested more than $2 billion US to bolster protections around U.S. user data.
The company has also argued the government's broader concerns could have been resolved in a draft agreement it provided the Biden administration more than two years ago during talks between the two sides. It has blamed the government for walking away from further negotiations on the agreement, which the Justice Department argues is insufficient.
Attorneys for the two companies have claimed it's impossible to divest the platform commercially and technologically. They also say any sale of TikTok without the coveted algorithm — the platform's secret sauce that Chinese authorities would likely block under any divestiture plan — would turn the U.S. version of TikTok into an island disconnected from other global content. | {
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Taliban shutter Afghan broadcaster over foreign content | The Taliban said Thursday it had shuttered an Afghan TV station over what it said was "vulgar" programming.
Around eight Taliban officials, including at least one who was armed, raided the Kabul office of Arezo TV on Wednesday morning.
Men and women were separated, and their phones taken, according to an employee who spoke with Agence France-Presse on the condition of anonymity. At least six staff members were detained and placed under investigation.
The offices were sealed and the staff told to wait for further orders, the employee said.
The Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice said Thursday that Arezo TV had been working with foreign media to dub TV programs into the Afghan language. The content appears to have been foreign TV dramas.
"Some people were using the name of Arezo TV to carry out actions that were contrary to Islamic values and national traditions," the ministry said in a statement.
"It became clear that some people had used the name and building of Arezo TV as well as their position in the media outlet to pay temporary workers to dub vulgar serials and programs that were against Islamic and Afghan principles and traditions with the financial support of exiled media outlets outside the country," it said.
Arezo TV, which was founded in 2006, produces news, wildlife documentaries and "Islamic series" that are dubbed from Turkish. The broadcaster has a staff of about 70 in Kabul, according to a local journalists' association.
The raid and arrests will have a negative impact on media in Afghanistan, media associations said.
Mohammad Graan, president of the Afghanistan chapter of the South Asian Association of Reporters Club and Journalists Forum, or SJF, said that detaining Arezo TV staff could "dishearten" journalists.
"It is clear that it will pressure journalists psychologically and demotivate them," he told VOA.
Graan said that under the law, no one has the right to search an individual's phone or computer but, he said, "the Taliban are doing that, and that would have a negative impact on all journalists."
He said that the Taliban are selective in dealing with the media and journalists.
"It is clear that whoever is against them or whatever damages their image, they would take action against it," said Graan.
When the Taliban seized power in August 2021, they said media were free to report, if they didn't publish content that is "contrary to Islam."
Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid has said that there are no restrictions on journalists, if they "consider the national interest and Islamic values and avoid spreading rumors."
But journalists say a lack of clarity around rules makes reporting in Afghanistan hard.
A Kabul-based journalist who did not want his identity to be disclosed told VOA that the Taliban actions "show that they are not committed to their words on respecting freedom of speech."
"It is not the first time, and it won't be the last time in Afghanistan that the Taliban closed a TV [station]," he said. The journalist said that the Taliban have closed stations in the capital and other provinces for years.
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders says that since the Taliban takeover, more than 40% of media outlets have disappeared and that media work under strict conditions.
The watchdog ranks Afghanistan as the third-worst country globally for press freedom.
The Kabul journalist said journalists are working under a lot of pressure.
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Crave Vesper 2 Review: A Discreet Vibrator | Roughly 10 years since the original, this vibrating pendant is a reminder that good things can come in small packages.
Crave first launched the Vesper back in 2014. At the time, the world had never seen anything like this vibrator necklace, and because of its originality, it garnered fans worldwide.
When I first got my hands on one shortly after Vesper hit the market, I was blown away by the concept. Slick and sophisticated, Vesper wasn’t simply about looks. It was a symbol of sex positivity, a reminder that owning our sexual pleasure is an essential facet of being human—plus it's a great conversation starter. It also made me feel like I belonged to a private club, especially if I ran into someone else rocking one around their neck. From the moment I slipped it on, I was in love and wore it all the time.
Now we have the Vesper 2—born out of a Kickstarter campaign in late 2022 and officially launched in the summer of 2023. When it arrived at my doorstep, I had mixed feelings. Could it live up to my expectations? How could Crave upgrade something that was already close to perfection? Well, let me just say if you’re a fan of the original Vesper, you’ll love this one too.
Intense Upgrade
Visually, there’s no difference between Vesper and Vesper 2. Both products are the same size, shape, and weight, meaning the second generation is just as elegant as the original. Your color options are monochrome black, rose gold, and the same 24-karat gold plating option as its predecessor. One new thing is the Vesper 2 is fully submersible, and that’s great news for those of us who constantly forget to remove their jewelry before getting into the shower.
While both the Vesper and Vesper 2 have four vibration intensities to choose from, the pattern setting on the newer model is now a wave-like sensation as opposed to the original's pulsing. I usually have no interest in patterns, but the wave is better than the pulse, if only because it’s a continuous sensation whereas the pulse felt like someone playing staccato on my clit.
Where Vesper 2 stands out is in its intensity. Granted, my original Vesper is 10 years old at this point, so I imagine some of the magic has been lost, but using them both back-to-back (it’s called due diligence!), the Vesper 2 is significantly stronger. Thanks to its shape, it’s perfect for precise stimulation of not only the clitoris, but also nipples, perineum, frenulum, or other specific external spots on the body that love a good buzz.
In fact, on the highest intensity, the Vesper 2 doesn’t even have to be directly on whatever erogenous zone you’re looking to stimulate because it sends vibrations that run deep enough to result in an orgasm—at least that was my experience when I was experimenting with direct versus nondirect contact around my vulva. This can be a great technique for anyone who has a sensitive clitoris or body parts that can’t handle too much stimulation.
Plain Sight
As I said in my review of Unbound Flick, jewelry is for everyone. Jewelry is a fun way to express yourself and decorate your body, and it can make people feel more attractive and confident.
I’d be doing all of us a disservice if I angled this review toward only people with vulvas. If you have a penis and like to enjoy vibrations either solo or during partnered sexual activities, then there’s no reason why you can’t rock the Vesper 2 outside the bedroom. Then turn it on for some orgasmic fun inside the bedroom. (Or in the bathroom at your favorite seedy bar. It’s whisper-quiet so you can use it anywhere.)
Unfortunately, I didn’t get to try Vesper 2 with my penis-wielding partner, but that’s fine. For me, the Vesper has always been about empowerment. Every time I wore it, I was expressing my sexuality in a way that would have had me burned at the stake in 17th-century Salem. Because the Vesper 2 makes me feel the same way, it’s not something I even wanted to share with my partner. I wanted the discovery, the pleasure, and the orgasms to be on my terms with my brand-new vibrator necklace—a sentiment, I’m sure, some people will understand once they get their hands on Vesper 2.
The Vesper 2 is great. I stand by the fact that it didn’t really need an upgrade in the first place, but the waterproof design is especially welcome. The 40-minute battery life just isn’t enough some days, but I might be greedy. Frankly, I don’t need more than a couple minutes with the Vesper 2 to orgasm, so unless I’m making it a whole hour-long sexual self-care session, 40 minutes is enough.
This sex toy does have a higher price than the original, but considering that my Vesper from 2014 is still working—it’s a worthy investment. You’ll also get to be part of a club of bold and fearless people who know that sometimes, the best place for your favorite vibrator is around your neck. | {
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Lioness' England debut inspires Worcester pupils at her former school | Students at England Lioness Laura Blindkilde Brown's former school said her England debut was inspirational and encouraged them to pursue a career in football.
The footballer studied at Tudor Grange Academy before going on to play for Aston Villa and Manchester City.
Pupils at the school in Worcester said watching her play against Switzerland on Saturday filled them with pride.
"I think it's really impressive how she can start from somewhere like this and be able to get to the point of playing for the Lionesses. I just think that's amazing," said 14-year-old Ellie.
"It is impressive she's played for the Lionesses and Man City and it's something to be very proud of."
Ellie said Laura's success and the support she was getting from school staff made her want to play professional football.
"We've got PE teachers who want girl's football to progress and they do such a good job getting fixtures for us all the time and keep us playing to get us to the same level as the boys, because that's what we deserve," she said.
Blindkilde Brown joined City from Aston Villa in January after being bought for £200,000 after she had made more than 50 senior appearances for her former club before she turned 21.
She made her senior England debut in the Lionesses' 1-0 win over Switzerland.
Maya, 15, said watching her play was "inspiring to everyone who comes here"
"To know that she played here and she would have played for a school team as well, you feel like you're following her footsteps," she said.
"It's great for her to reach the highest level of football, playing for her country, especially at such a young age."
Teacher Bethany Merriman said she remembered that when she was younger at the school, Blindkilde Brown always showed determination and talent on the pitch.
"At the time, we didn't have a lot of girl's football here so she was playing with the boys, and held her own," she said.
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Bucks' Khris Middleton makes his season debut against defending champion Celtics | BOSTON (AP) — Milwaukee Bucks forward Khris Middleton didn’t have to wait long to test his body during his season debut against the Boston Celtics.
Within two minutes of checking into his first game since having offseason offseason surgeries on both of his ankles, Middleton was bodychecked to the floor on a foul by Boston’s Sam Hauser.
“I love it. Get it out of the way,” said Middleton who had 11 points, five assists and three rebounds in 23 minutes of the Bucks’ 111-105 loss on Friday night. “That’s something that’s been happening to me in play groups, 1-on-1 sessions, workouts. Just feeling that contact. Of course the contact was a little bit more during the game, but I needed to feel that and feel like what it is to be hit, fall down on the floor and not really worry about anything.”
Bucks coach Doc Rivers said the three-time All-Star would be on a minutes restriction, but Middleton wound up finishing the game after an illness sidelined Taurean Prince in the second half. Two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo, who is dealing with right patella tendinopathy, also played on his 30th birthday.
Though he acknowledged being winded multiple times, Middleton said he came through well physically.
“Everybody wants to start and everybody wants to finish games,” Middleton said. “I didn’t get to start tonight, but I definitely was happy I got to finish the game. Just wish I could have executed a little better. I thougth I missed one shot that I normally hit. ... It was a ball game the whole time up until maybe the last two or three possessions.”
Middleton missed the Bucks’ first 21 games this season. The 33-year-old appeared in 55 games last season and just 33 in 2022-23 because of injuries. Also, a knee injury forced him to miss the Bucks’ final 10 playoff games in 2022.
It was just the ninth time that Rivers, who took over as the Bucks’ coach for the final 36 games last season, had the All-Star trio of Antetokounmpo, Middleton and Damian Lillard on the floor together. It was the 43rd time overall the trio shared the court.
“Every coach, you want your key guys, and the more games you have them the better,” Rivers said. “Every time we can get them on the floor in a practice. Every time we can get them on the floor in a game and it’s him, Giannis and Dame — it’s going to help our team grow. That’s where we’re behind with other teams who have had their key guys play together. It will come. It’s just going to take a minute.”
Rivers acknowledged it would be tough working Middleton back into the rotation. The Bucks opened the season 2-8, but entered Friday having won nine of 11 since a 113-107 loss at Boston on Nov. 10.
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“They’re a great team. We want to get back to where they were last year,” Middleton said. “It’s just about putting our best foot forward and trying to be the best team. We’re not worried about anything else really.” | {
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Lucid Motors completes its first Gravity SUV | The first Lucid Motors Gravity SUV has rolled off the company’s production line in Casa Grande, Arizona, according to a post on X. The company will now set its aim on ramping up production of the new electric vehicle and making the first deliveries — though the company is staying quiet about when it will hand those first vehicles over to customers.
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The Air has been off to a much slower start than Lucid originally predicted. And while sales have increased the last few quarters, the company has kept going back to its majority owner, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, for more money to make sure it can stay afloat through the first year of Gravity production and deliveries.
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Russian LGBTQ+ activists describe a climate of fear amid new laws, court rulings | In the year since Russia's Supreme Court effectively outlawed any promotion of LGBTQ+ rights, activists say they are experiencing a climate of fear and intimidation in the country.
LGBTQ+ rights have been under legal and public pressure for over a decade under President Vladimir Putin, but especially since the Kremlin launched its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Putin has argued the war is a proxy battle with the West, which he says aims to destroy Russia and its "traditional family values."
Putin insists Russia doesn't discriminate against LGBTQ+ people, but he also decries "perversions that lead to degradation and extinction." Parliament speaker Vyacheslav Volodin last year called gender transitioning "pure satanism" that should stay in the U.S.
Any public representation of gay and transgender people is banned. Gender-affirming medical care and changing one's gender in official documents is prohibited. With the Supreme Court's ruling in November 2023 that found "the international LGBT movement" to be extremist, members of the LGBTQ+ community can be prosecuted and imprisoned for up to six years.
As a result, many people like Gela Gogishvili and Haoyang Xu have fled Russia. They lived a happy life in the republic of Tatarstan, where Gogishvili was a pharmacist and Xu was a student from China.
They were detained after the Kremlin in December 2022 expanded its ban of "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations" from minors to adults, effectively outlawing any public endorsement of LGBTQ+ activities.
Authorities accused them of spreading "LGBT propaganda" among minors. Gogishvili was fined, while Xu was put in a detention center for migrants pending deportation. They eventually fled abroad separately and are seeking asylum in France.
"I'm scared for the queer community in Russia that remains in the country," Gogishvili said.
Targeting nightclubs, rainbow flags and gay tourism
Those who remain find themselves pushed into the shadows, marginalized even further and dogged by fear of repression and prison.
"Six years, it's not a joke," said Olga Baranova, head of the Moscow Community Center for LGBT+ Initiatives. She says activists must decide if what they're doing is worth that kind of a prison sentence.
Just days after the Supreme Court ruling in 2023, the LGBTQ+ community was rattled by news of police raiding gay bars, nightclubs and venues that hosted drag shows in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities.
Last spring, the first criminal case on charges of involvement with the "LGBT movement" extremist group was lodged against the owner and staff of a bar in the city of Orenburg that held drag performances.
Charges have been filed for displaying symbols such as a rainbow flag — even though many of those accused had nothing to do with the LGBTQ+ community, said human rights lawyer Max Olenichev.
More raids of bars and nightclubs were reported in Moscow last month, almost exactly a year since the Supreme Court ruling.
One man arrested for allegedly running a travel agency for gay customers faces charges of organizing activities of an extremist organization. Independent news outlet Mediazona reported that Andrei Kotov, 48, rejected the charges and said police beat him and administered electric shocks during his arrest, even though he didn't resist.
Fear, intimidation and terror
This "speaks more about the desire of the authorities to create some kind of atmosphere of fear. It's not repressions, it's terror," said Vladimir, an LGBTQ+ rights advocate in Russia who like many interviewed by AP insisted on being identified only by a first name out of security concerns.
Ikar, a fellow activist and transgender man, described the actions by authorities as "an attempt to intimidate ... to make people lose their social connections, stay silent, stay home."
Vladimir and Ikar belong to an underground LGBTQ+ rights group offering legal aid. Activists thoroughly verify identities of anyone seeking its help.
The group sees a growing number of cases related to violence against LGBTQ+ people, Vladimir said.
Some regional organizations have closed and others have changed their operations. The Moscow Community Center for LGBT+ Initiatives moved much of its work to online chats and meetings so people can still "support each other," according to Baranova.
Help for hard-hit transgender community
The ban and other repressive laws and rulings have delivered a harsh blow to the already-vulnerable trans community, says Yan Dvorkin, head of the Center T trans rights group.
Finding a job is more difficult, both for those who haven't changed their gender marker in documents and those who have. Access to gender-affirming medical care is a major issue. Violence has spiked, Dvorkin said, as has harassment and discrimination, including blackmail attempts, by threatening to report them to authorities.
Anna, a 25-year-old transgender Muscovite, said being part of the community provided the courage to transition last year, after the ban on gender-affirming care was enacted.
Anna considers herself lucky to have a good paying job to afford a doctor advising her from abroad on hormonal therapy, and is able to get the medicine in Moscow.
But she said she hasn't come out to her colleagues for fear of losing her job, and she is sometimes harassed on the street because of her appearance.
She says she has a support network of friends and doesn't want to leave Russia, even though she' knows the risks.
Uncertainty for those staying in Russia
Yulia, another transgender woman, also says she wants to stay, describing it as a kind of mission to show that "people like me are not necessarily weak." In her mid-40s, she has a family and children, a successful career, and the respect and acceptance from colleagues and friends.
For her, "it's about normalizing" being trans, she said.
But much "normalizing" is possible now and in the future is uncertain.
The ban on "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations" forces print, TV and movie censorship of LGBTQ+ relations. In a recent example, two Russian streaming services cut a trans character from the 1990 drama series Twin Peaks.
At the same time, there is abundant official rhetoric condemning LGBTQ+ people.
Gela Gogishvili, the gay man who fled Russia last year, worries about the next generation of LGBTQ+ people who are currently growing up and "will be taught that (being queer) is bad." | {
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"Just days after the Supreme Court ruling in 2023, the LGBTQ+ community was rattled by news of police raiding gay bars, nightclubs and venues that hosted drag shows in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities.",
"Last spring, the first criminal case on charges of involvement with the \"LGBT movement\" extremist group was lodged against the owner and staff of a bar in the city of Orenburg that held drag performances.",
"Charges have been filed for displaying symbols such as a rainbow flag — even though many of those accused had nothing to do with the LGBTQ+ community, said human rights lawyer Max Olenichev.",
"More raids of bars and nightclubs were reported in Moscow last month, almost exactly a year since the Supreme Court ruling.",
"One man arrested for allegedly running a travel agency for gay customers faces charges of organizing activities of an extremist organization. Independent news outlet Mediazona reported that Andrei Kotov, 48, rejected the charges and said police beat him and administered electric shocks during his arrest, even though he didn't resist.",
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"Finding a job is more difficult, both for those who haven't changed their gender marker in documents and those who have. Access to gender-affirming medical care is a major issue. Violence has spiked, Dvorkin said, as has harassment and discrimination, including blackmail attempts, by threatening to report them to authorities.",
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Body of missing grandmother recovered from Pennsylvania sinkhole | Elizabeth Pollard, 64, was last seen searching for her cat Pepper
The remains of a woman who fell into a sinkhole were recovered Friday, four days after she went missing while searching for her cat, a state police spokesperson said.
Trooper Steve Limani said the body of Elizabeth Pollard, 64, was being taken to the Westmoreland County Coroner's Office for an autopsy.
More details will come during a news conference planned for this afternoon at a nearby fire hall.
The announcement came in the fourth day of the search for Pollard, who had last been seen Monday evening, looking for her cat Pepper near a restaurant less than a kilometre from her home in the village of Marguerite, Pa.
Axel Hayes, Pollard's son, said a state trooper told him and other family members that her body had been found.
"I was hoping for the best, I really was," Hayes said in a phone interview. "I was hoping she was still alive, maybe in a coma or something. I wasn't expecting all of this."
Pollard's family reported her missing around 1 a.m. Tuesday as the temperature in the area dropped below freezing.
The search for her focused on a sinkhole with a manhole-sized surface gap that may have only recently opened up in the village of Marguerite. The sinkhole was above a former coal mine, which last operated about 70 years ago.
Police said they found Pollard's car parked about six metres from the sinkhole. Pollard's five-year-old granddaughter was found safe inside the car.
Hunters and restaurant workers who were in the area in the hours before Pollard's disappearance told police they hadn't noticed the sinkhole.
State to see whether mine created sinkhole
The effort to find Pollard included lowering a pole camera with a sensitive listening device into the hole, although it detected nothing. Crews removed a massive amount of soil and rock to try to reach the area where they believed the grandmother fell into the nine-metre-deep chasm.
Pollard grew up in Jeanette, about nine kilometres from Unity Township, where she lived for much of her adult life. She previously worked at Walmart and had been married for more than 40 years.
Neil Shader, spokesperson with the Department of Environmental Protection, said the state's Bureau of Abandoned Mine Reclamation will examine the scene to see if the sinkhole was indeed caused by mine subsidence.
In June, a giant sinkhole in southern Illinois swallowed the centre of a soccer field built on top of a limestone mine, taking down a large light pole and leaving a gaping chasm where squads of kids often play. No one was hurt.
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Leeds: No decision yet on Lower Kirkgate collapsed buildings work | One of Leeds' oldest streets remains closed to traffic as the council waits for a decision on whether it can carry out urgent repairs on derelict buildings.
In August, Leeds City Council applied to the government for permission to issue the owner of several buildings on Lower Kirkgate an urgent works notice, which would allow the authority to carry out structural work.
Four months on, the council was still waiting for a decision from the secretary of state for Culture, Media and Sport, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.
The government department said it had requested advice from Historic England and a decision would be shared "in due course".
The move comes after a former shop on the street partially collapsed in April, leading to the road being closed to traffic for most of 2024.
Nearby businesses previously said they feared the safety risk posed by the condition of the buildings.
The council said it had attempted to work with the owner of the impacted buildings, City Fusion Ltd, for more than a decade but had been unable to agree a proposal to renovate 83-89 Kirkgate.
The authority wanted to serve the company with an urgent works notice, which would enable it to carry out emergency works and then recover the costs, estimated at £700,000, from the firm.
A Leeds City Council spokesperson said: “We recognise that the ongoing closure of the road and the dilapidated condition of some buildings on Lower Kirkgate is proving frustrating for local businesses and residents.
“As a council, we are working hard to find a solution to the issues in the area."
They continued: “Matters relating to historic buildings such as these clearly require careful consideration and the proper use of established procedures by all parties.”
The council previously said it was also seeking to acquire seven buildings on the street from City Fusion Ltd.
A feasibility study was being carried out into the redevelopment of the buildings.
The spokesperson added: "We thank businesses and residents for their patience and remain fully committed to driving forward the continued regeneration of a street that has already seen many hugely positive changes over the last decade.” | {
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"The authority wanted to serve the company with an urgent works notice, which would enable it to carry out emergency works and then recover the costs, estimated at £700,000, from the firm.",
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Amp Robotics raises $91M to build more robot-filled waste-sorting facilities | Recycling today kind of sucks. People are generally confused about what can be recycled and where. As a result, only about 32% of eligible waste actually gets recycled.
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Enter robots. Myriad companies, from small startups like Glacier to large multinationals like Apple, have been working to automate recycling. Most of that work has centered on the robots, placing them in existing facilities to help humans recover more waste.
More recently, Amp Robotics, an early entrant, changed its business model to focus on running entire facilities. That shift has now netted the company $91 million in fresh funding.
The decade-old company has deployed around 400 robots, and it operates three facilities with another in the works. Companies can specify how many sorting modules depending on how much trash they need to sort or which material they’re looking for. Inside, cameras watch the flow of trash, using AI to identify what can be recycled, and robotic arms pluck bits from the conveyor belt.
Amp handles operations, maintenance, and upgrades, with the contracting company handling waste sourcing, offtake of any valuable materials, and disposal of anything that can’t be recycled. It’s basically another “as a service” business model, with the company charging per ton of waste sorted.
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A Kid Made $50,000 Dumping Crypto He’d Created. Then Came the Backlash | In less than 10 minutes, a US teen made a small fortune selling off a memecoin he’d made on a lark. Traders, feeling swindled, sought revenge.
On the evening of November 19, art adviser Adam Biesk was finishing work at his California home when he overheard a conversation between his wife and son, who had just come downstairs. The son, a kid in his early teens, was saying he had made a ton of money on a cryptocurrency that he himself had created.
Initially, Biesk ignored it. He knew that his son played around with crypto, but to have turned a small fortune before bedtime was too far-fetched. “We didn’t really believe it,” says Biesk. But when the phone started to ring off the hook and his wife was flooded with angry messages on Instagram, Biesk realized that his son was telling the truth—if not quite the full story.
Earlier that evening, at 7:48 pm PT, Biesk’s son had released into the wild 1 billion units of a new crypto coin, which he named Gen Z Quant. Simultaneously, he spent about $350 to purchase 51 million tokens, about 5 percent of the total supply, for himself.
Then he started to livestream himself on Pump.Fun, the website he had used to launch the coin. As people tuned in to see what he was doing, they started to buy into Gen Z Quant, leading the price to pitch sharply upwards.
By 7:56 pm PT, a whirlwind eight minutes later, Biesk's son’s tokens were worth almost $30,000—and he cashed out. “No way. Holy fuck! Holy fuck!” he said, flipping two middle fingers to the webcam, with tongue sticking out of his mouth. “Holy fuck! Thanks for the twenty bandos.” After he dumped the tokens, the price of the coin plummeted, so large was his single trade.
To the normie ear, all this might sound impossible. But in the realm of memecoins, a type of cryptocurrency with no purpose or utility beyond financial speculation, it’s relatively routine. Although many people lose money, a few have been known to make a lot—and fast.
In this case, Biesk’s son had seemingly performed what is known as a soft rug pull, whereby somebody creates a new crypto token, promotes it online, then sells off their entire holdings either swiftly or over time, sinking its price. These maneuvers occupy something of a legal gray area, lawyers say, but are roundly condemned in the cryptosphere as ethically dubious at the least.
After dumping Gen Z Quant, Biesk’s son did the same thing with two more coins—one called im sorry and another called my dog lucy—bringing his takings for the evening to more than $50,000.
The backlash was swift and ferocious. A torrent of abuse began to pour into the chat log on Pump.Fun, from traders who felt they had been swindled. “You little fucking scammer,” wrote one commenter. Soon, the names and pictures of Biesk, his son, and other family members were circulating on X. They had been doxed. “Our phone started blowing up. Just phone call after phone call,” says Biesk. “It was a very frightening situation.”
As part of their revenge campaign, crypto traders continued to buy into Gen Z Quant, driving the coin’s price far higher than the level at which Biesk’s son had cashed out. At its peak, around 3:00 am PT the following morning, the coin had a theoretical total value of $72 million; the tokens the teenager had initially held were worth more than $3 million. Even now the trading frenzy has died down, they continue to be valued at twice the amount he received.
“In the end, a lot of people made money on his coin. But for us, caught in the middle, there was a lot of emotion,” says Biesk. “The online backlash became so frighteningly scary that the realization that he made money was kind of tempered down with the fact that people became angry and started bullying.”
Biesk concedes to a limited understanding of crypto. But he sees little distinction between what his son did and, say, playing the stock market or winning at a casino. Though under California law someone must be at least 18 years old to gamble or invest in stocks, the unregulated memecoin market, which has been compared to a “casino” in risk profile, had given Biesk’s teenage son early access to a similar arena, in which some must lose for others to profit. “The way I understand it is he made money and he cashed out, which to me seems like that's what anybody would've done,” says Biesk. “You get people who are cheering at the craps table, or angry at the craps table.”
Memecoins have been around since 2013, when Dogecoin was released. In the following years, a few developers tried to replicate the success of Dogecoin, making play of popular internet memes or tapping into the zeitgeist in some other way in a bid to encourage people to invest. But the cost and complexity of development generally limited the number of memecoins that came to market.
That equation was flipped in January with the launch of Pump.Fun, which lets people release new memecoins instantly, at no cost. The idea was to give people a safer way to trade memecoins by standardizing the underlying code, which prevents developers from building in malicious mechanisms to steal funds, in what’s known as a hard rug pull.
“Buying into memecoins was a very unsafe thing to do. Programmers could create systems that would obfuscate what you are buying into and, basically, behave as malicious actors. Everything was designed to suck money out of people,” one of the three anonymous cofounders of Pump.Fun, who goes by Sapijiju, told WIRED earlier in the year. “The idea with Pump was to build something where everyone was on the same playing field.”
Since Pump.Fun launched, millions of unique memecoins have entered the market through the platform. By some metrics, Pump.Fun is the fastest-growing crypto application ever, taking in more than $250 million in revenue—as a 1 percent cut of trades on the platform—in less than a year in operation.
However, Pump.Fun has found it impossible to insulate users from soft rug pulls. Though the platform gives users access to information to help assess risk—like the proportion of a coin belonging to the largest few holders—soft rug pulls are difficult to prevent by technical means, claims Sapijiju.
“People say there’s a bunch of different stuff you can do to block [soft rug pulls]—maybe a sell tax or lock up the people who create the coin. Truthfully, all of this is very easy to manipulate,” he says. “Whatever we do to stop people doing this, there’s always a way to circumnavigate if you’re smart enough. The important thing is creating an interface that is as simple as possible and giving the tools for users to see if a coin is legitimate or not.”
The “overwhelming majority” of new crypto tokens entering the market are scams of one form or another, designed expressly to squeeze money from buyers, not to hold a sustained value in the long term, according to crypto security company Blockaid. In the period since memecoin launchpads like Pump.Fun began to gain traction, the volume of soft rug pulls has increased in lockstep, says Ido Ben-Natan, Blockaid founder.
“I generally agree that it is kind of impossible to prevent holistically. It’s a game of cat and mouse,” says Ben-Natan. “It’s definitely impossible to cover a hundred percent of these things. But it definitely is possible to detect repeat offenders, looking at metadata and different kinds of patterns.”
Now memecoin trading has been popularized, there can be no putting the genie back in the bottle, says Ben-Natan. But traders are perhaps uniquely vulnerable at present, he says, in a period when many are newly infatuated with memecoins, yet before the fledgling platforms have figured out the best way to protect them. “The space is immature,” says Ben-Natan.
Whether it is legal to perform a rug pull is also something of a gray area. It depends on both jurisdiction and whether explicit promises are made to prospective investors, experts say. The absence of bespoke crypto regulations in countries like the US, meanwhile, inadvertently creates cloud cover for acts that are perhaps not overtly illegal.
“These actions exploit the gaps in existing regulatory frameworks, where unethical behavior—like developers hyping a project and later abandoning it—might not explicitly violate laws if no fraudulent misrepresentation, contractual breach, or other violations occur,” says Ronghui Gu, cofounder of crypto security firm CertiK and associate professor of computer science at Columbia University.
The Gen Z Quant broadcast is no longer available to view in full, but in the clips reviewed by WIRED, at no point does Biesk’s son promise to hold his tokens for any specific period. Neither do the Pump.Fun terms of use require people to refrain from selling tokens they create. (Sapijiju, the Pump.Fun cofounder, declined to comment on the Gen Z Quant incident. They say that Pump.Fun will be “introducing age restrictions in future,” but declined to elaborate.)
But even then, under the laws of numerous US states, among them California, “the developer likely still owes heightened legal duties to the investors, so may be liable for breaching obligations that result in loss of value,” says Geoffrey Berg, partner at law firm Berg Plummer & Johnson. “The developer is in a position of trust and must place the interests of his investors over his own.”
To clarify whether these legal duties apply to people who release memecoins through websites like Pump.Fun—who buy into their coins like everyone else, albeit at the moment of launch and therefore at a discount and in potentially market-swinging quantities—new laws may be required.
In July 2026, a new regime will take effect in California, where Biesk’s family lives, requiring residents to obtain a license to take part in “digital financial asset business activity,” including exchanging, transferring, storing or administering certain crypto assets. President-elect Donald Trump has also promised new crypto regulations. But for now, there are no crypto-specific laws in place.
“We are in a legal vacuum where there are no clear laws,” says Andrew Gordon, partner at law firm Gordon Law. “Once we know what is ‘in bounds,’ we will also know what is ‘out of bounds.’ This will hopefully create a climate where rug pulls don't happen, or when they do they are seen as a criminal violation.”
On November 19, as the evening wore on, angry messages continued to tumble in, says Biesk. Though some celebrated his son's antics, calling for him to return and create another coin, others were threatening or aggressive. “Your son stole my fucking money,” wrote one person over Instagram.
Biesk and his wife were still trying to understand quite how their son was able to make so much money, so fast. “I was trying to get an understanding of exactly how this meme crypto trading works,” says Biesk.
Some memecoin traders, sensing there could be money in riffing off the turn of events, created new coins on Pump.Fun inspired by Biesk and his wife: QUANT DAD and QUANTS MOM. (Both are now practically worthless.)
Equally disturbed and bewildered, Biesk and his wife formed a provisional plan: to make all public social media accounts private, stop answering the phone, and, generally, hunker down until things blew over. (Biesk’s account is active at the time of writing.) Biesk declined to comment on whether the family made contact with law enforcement or what would happen to the funds, saying only that his son would “put the money away.”
A few hours later, an X account under the name of Biesk’s son posted on X, pleading for people to stop contacting his parents. “Im sorry about Quant, I didnt realize I get so much money. Please dont write to my parents, I wiill pay you back [sic],” read the post. Biesk claims the account is not operated by his son.
Though alarmed by the backlash, Biesk is impressed by the entrepreneurial spirit and technical capability his son displayed. “It’s actually sort of a sophisticated trading platform,” he says. “He obviously learned it on his own.”
That his teenager was capable of making $50,000 in an evening, Biesk theorizes, speaks to the fundamentally different relationship kids of that age have with money and investing, characterized by an urgency and hyperactivity that rubs up against traditional wisdom.
“To me, crypto can be hard to grasp, because there is nothing there behind it—it’s not anything tangible. But I think kids relate to this intangible digital world more than adults do,” says Biesk. “This has an immediacy to him. It’s almost like he understands this better.”
On December 1, after a two-week hiatus, Biesk’s son returned to Pump.Fun to launch five new memecoins, apparently undeterred by the abuse. Disregarding the warnings built into the very names of some of the new coins—one was named test and another dontbuy—people bought in. Biesk’s son made another $5,000. | {
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"That equation was flipped in January with the launch of Pump.Fun, which lets people release new memecoins instantly, at no cost. The idea was to give people a safer way to trade memecoins by standardizing the underlying code, which prevents developers from building in malicious mechanisms to steal funds, in what’s known as a hard rug pull.",
"“Buying into memecoins was a very unsafe thing to do. Programmers could create systems that would obfuscate what you are buying into and, basically, behave as malicious actors. Everything was designed to suck money out of people,” one of the three anonymous cofounders of Pump.Fun, who goes by Sapijiju, told WIRED earlier in the year. “The idea with Pump was to build something where everyone was on the same playing field.”",
"Since Pump.Fun launched, millions of unique memecoins have entered the market through the platform. By some metrics, Pump.Fun is the fastest-growing crypto application ever, taking in more than $250 million in revenue—as a 1 percent cut of trades on the platform—in less than a year in operation.",
"However, Pump.Fun has found it impossible to insulate users from soft rug pulls. Though the platform gives users access to information to help assess risk—like the proportion of a coin belonging to the largest few holders—soft rug pulls are difficult to prevent by technical means, claims Sapijiju.",
"“People say there’s a bunch of different stuff you can do to block [soft rug pulls]—maybe a sell tax or lock up the people who create the coin. Truthfully, all of this is very easy to manipulate,” he says. “Whatever we do to stop people doing this, there’s always a way to circumnavigate if you’re smart enough. The important thing is creating an interface that is as simple as possible and giving the tools for users to see if a coin is legitimate or not.”",
"The “overwhelming majority” of new crypto tokens entering the market are scams of one form or another, designed expressly to squeeze money from buyers, not to hold a sustained value in the long term, according to crypto security company Blockaid. In the period since memecoin launchpads like Pump.Fun began to gain traction, the volume of soft rug pulls has increased in lockstep, says Ido Ben-Natan, Blockaid founder.",
"“I generally agree that it is kind of impossible to prevent holistically. It’s a game of cat and mouse,” says Ben-Natan. “It’s definitely impossible to cover a hundred percent of these things. But it definitely is possible to detect repeat offenders, looking at metadata and different kinds of patterns.”",
"Now memecoin trading has been popularized, there can be no putting the genie back in the bottle, says Ben-Natan. But traders are perhaps uniquely vulnerable at present, he says, in a period when many are newly infatuated with memecoins, yet before the fledgling platforms have figured out the best way to protect them. “The space is immature,” says Ben-Natan.",
"Whether it is legal to perform a rug pull is also something of a gray area. It depends on both jurisdiction and whether explicit promises are made to prospective investors, experts say. The absence of bespoke crypto regulations in countries like the US, meanwhile, inadvertently creates cloud cover for acts that are perhaps not overtly illegal.",
"“These actions exploit the gaps in existing regulatory frameworks, where unethical behavior—like developers hyping a project and later abandoning it—might not explicitly violate laws if no fraudulent misrepresentation, contractual breach, or other violations occur,” says Ronghui Gu, cofounder of crypto security firm CertiK and associate professor of computer science at Columbia University.",
"The Gen Z Quant broadcast is no longer available to view in full, but in the clips reviewed by WIRED, at no point does Biesk’s son promise to hold his tokens for any specific period. Neither do the Pump.Fun terms of use require people to refrain from selling tokens they create. (Sapijiju, the Pump.Fun cofounder, declined to comment on the Gen Z Quant incident. They say that Pump.Fun will be “introducing age restrictions in future,” but declined to elaborate.)",
"But even then, under the laws of numerous US states, among them California, “the developer likely still owes heightened legal duties to the investors, so may be liable for breaching obligations that result in loss of value,” says Geoffrey Berg, partner at law firm Berg Plummer & Johnson. “The developer is in a position of trust and must place the interests of his investors over his own.”",
"To clarify whether these legal duties apply to people who release memecoins through websites like Pump.Fun—who buy into their coins like everyone else, albeit at the moment of launch and therefore at a discount and in potentially market-swinging quantities—new laws may be required.",
"In July 2026, a new regime will take effect in California, where Biesk’s family lives, requiring residents to obtain a license to take part in “digital financial asset business activity,” including exchanging, transferring, storing or administering certain crypto assets. President-elect Donald Trump has also promised new crypto regulations. But for now, there are no crypto-specific laws in place.",
"“We are in a legal vacuum where there are no clear laws,” says Andrew Gordon, partner at law firm Gordon Law. “Once we know what is ‘in bounds,’ we will also know what is ‘out of bounds.’ This will hopefully create a climate where rug pulls don't happen, or when they do they are seen as a criminal violation.”",
"On November 19, as the evening wore on, angry messages continued to tumble in, says Biesk. Though some celebrated his son's antics, calling for him to return and create another coin, others were threatening or aggressive. “Your son stole my fucking money,” wrote one person over Instagram.",
"Biesk and his wife were still trying to understand quite how their son was able to make so much money, so fast. “I was trying to get an understanding of exactly how this meme crypto trading works,” says Biesk.",
"Some memecoin traders, sensing there could be money in riffing off the turn of events, created new coins on Pump.Fun inspired by Biesk and his wife: QUANT DAD and QUANTS MOM. (Both are now practically worthless.)",
"Equally disturbed and bewildered, Biesk and his wife formed a provisional plan: to make all public social media accounts private, stop answering the phone, and, generally, hunker down until things blew over. (Biesk’s account is active at the time of writing.) Biesk declined to comment on whether the family made contact with law enforcement or what would happen to the funds, saying only that his son would “put the money away.”",
"A few hours later, an X account under the name of Biesk’s son posted on X, pleading for people to stop contacting his parents. “Im sorry about Quant, I didnt realize I get so much money. Please dont write to my parents, I wiill pay you back [sic],” read the post. Biesk claims the account is not operated by his son.",
"Though alarmed by the backlash, Biesk is impressed by the entrepreneurial spirit and technical capability his son displayed. “It’s actually sort of a sophisticated trading platform,” he says. “He obviously learned it on his own.”",
"That his teenager was capable of making $50,000 in an evening, Biesk theorizes, speaks to the fundamentally different relationship kids of that age have with money and investing, characterized by an urgency and hyperactivity that rubs up against traditional wisdom.",
"“To me, crypto can be hard to grasp, because there is nothing there behind it—it’s not anything tangible. But I think kids relate to this intangible digital world more than adults do,” says Biesk. “This has an immediacy to him. It’s almost like he understands this better.”",
"On December 1, after a two-week hiatus, Biesk’s son returned to Pump.Fun to launch five new memecoins, apparently undeterred by the abuse. Disregarding the warnings built into the very names of some of the new coins—one was named test and another dontbuy—people bought in. Biesk’s son made another $5,000."
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Big 12 championship: Arizona State faces Iowa State in Sun Devils' 1st season in conference | ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — There was just something about coach Matt Campbell and his program at Iowa State that intrigued Kenny Dillingham.
“His culture and his realness, I think he’s one of the most real people in the sport. You see the passion and emotion on the sideline,” said Dillingham, the second-year coach at Arizona State. “That was the program that I wanted to study from because I thought that they were overachieving at that time early in his career at a high level before he had built it up. Now he’s built it up.”
The 34-year-old Dillingham has overseen a program-record improvement of seven wins over last year at his alma mater in its Big 12 debut. The 12th-ranked Sun Devils (10-2, 7-2, No. 15 CFP) now play in the league championship Saturday — against Campbell and the No. 16 Cyclones (10-2, 7-2, No. 16 CFP).
After Dillingham became Auburn’s offensive coordinator in 2019, then-Tigers coach Gus Malzahn gave him two days to go study any team. Dillingham went to Iowa State to visit Campbell, who was only 32 when he became a first-time head coach at Toledo late in 2011, and went to his current Big 12 school in 2016.
“I’m like, ‘man, this culture that he created, I feel like is sustainable. I feel like this is a winning formula.’ ... I was really trying to get a vibe and a feel for how did he create that culture,” Dillingham recalled this week about that visit.
The Cyclones already have their first 10-win season and Campbell is now their winningest coach (63-50).
Campbell was once that “young” head coach like Dillingham is now.
“Just a lot of respect from my standpoint for him, what he’s been able to accomplish as a young head football coach,” Campbell said. “Being in those same shoes not long ago, you have appreciation for somebody that the spirit his football team plays with, you can tell they believe in their head football coach and their coaching staff.”
Big 12 teams in the CFP
Arizona State and Iowa State, part of a four-way tie for first place in the Big 12, advanced to the title game on a series of tiebreakers that eliminated BYU and Colorado. The winner at AT&T Stadium will be the league’s only team in the expanded 12-team College Football Playoff.
Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark has publicly expressed his displeasure about the College Football Playoff rankings. Current projections have the league’s champion as the No. 12 seed playing a first-round game on the road.
The Big 12 will receive $4 million for each team that makes the CFP and each team that advances to the quarterfinals and $6 million for each team that advances to the semifinals and championship game. In addition, each conference will receive $3 million to cover expenses from each round for a team participating in the CFP.
Top WR Tyson out for the Sun Devils
Arizona State will be without top receiver Jordyn Tyson, who is out indefinitely after suffering an unspecified injury in the second half against Arizona. Tyson landed hard on his left side while being tackled, and left the stadium last Saturday wearing a sling on his left arm.
Tyson has 75 catches for 1,101 yards and 10 touchdowns, ranking third in the Big 12 with 91.8 yards receiving a game. The Sun Devils will have to lean more on seniors Xavier Guillory and Melquan Stovall, who have combined for 30 catches for 453 yards and three TDs.
Cyclones through the air
Iowa State’s Rocco Becht has thrown a touchdown in 16 consecutive games. He is the only quarterback in the nation with a pair of 1,000-yard receivers.
Jayden Higgins and Jaylin Noel are the first set of Cyclones receivers with 1,000 yards in the same season. Higgins has 80 catches for 1,068 yards and nine TDs, while Noel has caught 67 passes for 1,013 yards and six scores.
Punishing Skattebo
Arizona State running back Cam Skattebo can do a little bit of everything – use his quick feet to dart past defenders, catch passes out of the backfield, even pooch punt in a pinch.
What Skattebo does best is inflict damage. The senior doesn’t wait to be tackled, instead initiating contact and punishing anyone who would dare try to take him down.
Skattebo is third nationally in most missed tackles forced with 93, and is fourth in yards after contact rushing and receiving with 1,141, according to Sportradar.
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While the Cyclones have one of the league’s best overall defenses, they rank 14th allowing 173.7 yards rushing per game.
Trio of Cyclones remain from title-game team
The Cyclones have only three players who were on the roster for their only other Big 12 title game, a loss to Oklahoma in 2020. Defensive back Darien Porter was the only one to get in that game. The other remaining players are offensive lineman Jarrod Hufford and defensive lineman J.R. Singleton.
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Which of Your Selves Should Win? | In today’s newsletter, Alice Gregory on the philosophy of L. A. Paul, and then:
To whom should we have allegiance—the version of ourself making choices, or the version of ourself who will be affected by them?
Before she presented the paper that became her book “Transformative Experience,” L. A. Paul remembers thinking, “This is going to ruin my career.” She was forty-six, a philosopher with tenure at the University of Arizona, and she was asking her colleagues to consider the experience of having a child—a vital area of concern in millions of people’s lives, but rarely discussed in the world of academic philosophy. “It’s all going to be over, because here I am talking about babies.”
In fact, the opposite happened. Paul won the 2020 Lebowitz Prize for philosophical achievement, and “Transformative Experience” has been translated into several languages and is widely read outside academic circles. It is an investigation of personal change, those “special types of situations that change not only what we know but also who we are,” Alice Gregory writes, in a Profile of the philosopher for this week’s issue. Childbirth, or going to war, or taking LSD, could be considered a transformative experience. So could divorce, Paul realizes, in the wake of her breakup after twenty-two years with her husband. Paul is now at Yale, and her work has been used by others to examine issues such as gender transitioning, whistle-blowing, treating Alzheimer’s—and it provides a framework for Gregory to reflect on aspects of her own pregnancy. “Choosing to undergo such an experience, on the occasions when choice is even possible,” Gregory notes, “requires us to violate who we take our current self to be.” Read or listen to the story »
The President-elect is on the verge of beating most, if not all, of the criminal charges against him. In general, “Presidents have become less, not more, subject to criminal law,” Jeannie Suk Gersen writes, “and have become more, not less, likely to view criminal law as an option for use against political opponents.” What will be the long-term consequences? Read the story »
P.S. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake shook California yesterday, prompting a tsunami warning. It wasn’t quite “the really big one,” a long-predicted quake that would be somewhere between 8.7 and 9.2 on the Richter scale and would leave the region unrecognizable. Read Kathryn Schulz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting on the next full-margin rupture, and follow up with her piece on how to stay safe when it comes. 🌊 | {
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Maternal mortality review panels are in the spotlight. Here's what they do | Efforts to reduce the nation's persistently high maternal mortality rates involve state panels of experts that investigate and learn from each mother's death.
The panels — called maternal mortality review committees — usually do their work quietly and out of the public eye. But that's not been the case recently in three states with strict abortion laws.
Georgia dismissed all members of its committee in November after information about deaths being reviewed leaked to the news organization ProPublica. Days later, The Washington Post reported that Texas' committee won't review cases from 2022 and 2023, the first two years after the state banned nearly all abortions. In Idaho, the state let its panel disband in 2023 only to reinstate it earlier this year.
"They've become more of a lightning rod than they were before," said epidemiologist Michael Kramer, director of the Center for Rural Health and Health Disparities at Mercer University in Georgia.
Here's what maternal mortality review committees across the nation do and what might happen next:
What are they?
"Maternal mortality review committees are important because they are the most comprehensive source of information about maternal mortality that we have," said David Goodman, who leads the maternal mortality prevention team at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The panels review deaths that occur during pregnancy or within a year after it ends, whether directly related to the pregnancy or not. Causes of death can range from hemorrhage during childbirth to drug overdoses to traffic accidents.
The goal, Kramer said, is to examine maternal deaths and help "decide what we can do about them."
All states, a few cities and Puerto Rico have these committees. Their membership varies and may include OB-GYNs, maternal-fetal medicine doctors, nurses, midwives, mental and public health experts and members of patient advocacy groups. Most have representatives from several areas of expertise, which the CDC recommends.
How members are selected also varies; people may apply, submit letters of interest or be invited to serve.
The selection shouldn't be politically motivated, Kramer said, because "if there's a systematic exclusion of certain data or certain perspectives" it's difficult to truly understand what's happening.
How do they look at deaths?
First, the panels work with state vital statistics offices and epidemiologists to identify deaths associated with pregnancy by examining death certificates and looking for a pregnancy checkbox or a related cause of death. They may also search for links to birth and fetal death records, or delve into hospital discharge data, media reports and obituaries.
Once they identify cases, they collect as much information as possible, such as prenatal care records, hospital and social service records, autopsy reports and interviews with family members. Professional "abstractors" distill all this into case narratives, which committee members pore over. Most use a standardized review process developed by the CDC — and all panels can get help and guidance from the agency.
They consider questions such as: Was the death pregnancy-related? What was the underlying cause? Was it preventable? What factors contributed?
States generally have privacy rules that protect committee members and people who provide information on the deaths.
The groups then issue public reports that don't name moms or hospitals but include overall findings, trends and recommendations. Some come out a couple of years or more after the deaths.
Across the nation in 2023, Goodman said, 151 recommendations from those reports were implemented by communities, hospitals, medical professionals and policymakers.
What about Georgia, Texas and Idaho?
Georgia will rebuild its committee through a new application process, the state public health commissioner said.
Texas' committee has been reviewing 2021 deaths and will start on 2024 cases at its next meeting, Texas Department of State Health Services spokesperson Lara Anton said in an email to The Associated Press.
"Reviewing cases is a lengthy process and legislators have asked for more recent data. Starting the next review cycle with 2024 cases will allow us to provide that in the next report," Anton said, adding that maternal and child health epidemiologists will continue to analyze and publish data for 2022 and 2023.
In Idaho, the reconstituted review committee now falls under the state board of medicine, which licenses doctors, instead of the state's health and welfare department. It will operate like it always has, said Bob McLaughlin, spokesperson for the medical board. Members met for the first time in November and plan to issue a report by Jan. 31. Because the legislature wanted the most up-to-date information, McLaughlin said the first report will cover only 2023 cases, and the group will review 2022 deaths next.
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Romanian court orders election redo after allegations of pro-Russia propaganda campaign on TikTok | Declassified files allege pro-Russia campaign of many TikTok users promoting Calin Georgescu
A top Romanian court on Friday annulled the first round of the country's presidential election, days after allegations that Russia ran a co-ordinated online campaign to promote the far-right outsider who won the first round.
The Constitutional Court's unprecedented decision — which is final — came after President Klaus Iohannis declassified intelligence on Wednesday that alleged Russia ran a sprawling campaign comprising thousands of social media accounts to promote Calin Georgescu across platforms like TikTok and Telegram.
Despite being a huge outsider who declared zero campaign spending, Georgescu emerged as the frontrunner on Nov. 24.
He was due to face reformist Elena Lasconi of the Save Romania Union party in a runoff on Sunday, with some 951 voting stations having already opened abroad on Friday. A new date will now be set to rerun the first round.
But Lasconi strongly condemned the court's decision, saying it was "illegal, immoral and crushes the very essence of democracy."
"We should have moved forward with the vote. We should have respected the will of the Romanian people. Whether we like it or not, from a legal and legitimate standpoint, nine million Romanian citizens, both in the country and the diaspora, expressed their preference for a particular candidate through their votes. We cannot ignore their will!" she said.
She said the issue of Russian interference should have been tackled after the election was completed. Some 9.4 million people — about 52.5 per cent of eligible voters — had cast ballots in the first round.
The president serves a five-year term and has significant decision-making powers in areas such as national security, foreign policy and judicial appointments. Romania is a member of both the European Union and NATO.
Accounts activated in vote run-up, files suggest
Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said in a statement the annulment was "the only correct solution" following the intelligence drop which revealed the "Romanian people's vote was flagrantly distorted as a result of Russian interference."
"At the same time, investigations by the authorities must uncover who is responsible for the massive attempt to influence the outcome of the presidential election," he added in a Facebook post.
George Simion, the leader of the far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians, said the development was a "coup d'état in full swing" but urged people not to take to the streets.
The intelligence files were from the Romanian Intelligence Service, the Foreign Intelligence Service, the Special Telecommunication Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The same court last week ordered a recount of the first-round votes, which added to the myriad controversies that have engulfed a chaotic election cycle.
Declassified files suggest a pro-Russia campaign used the messaging app Telegram to recruit thousands of TikTok users to promote Georgescu. Romania's intelligence services alleged one TikTok user paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to influencers on the platform to promote content about the candidate.
Some of the thousands of social media accounts used in the campaign were allegedly created years ago but were only activated in the weeks leading up to the first-round vote, the files indicated.
It is unclear from the intelligence release whether Georgescu was even aware of the alleged campaign, let alone that he assisted in it.
EU wants to hear from TikTok
The European Union said Friday it sent TikTok an urgent request for more information. The commission previously asked the Chinese-owned platform to retain all Romania election-related files and evidence.
"We are concerned about mounting indications of coordinated foreign online influence operation targeting ongoing Romanian elections, especially on TikTok," said Henna Virkkunen, the European Commission's executive vice-president for tech sovereignty, security and democracy, in a post on X.
TikTok has 24 hours to respond to the EU request, officials told a press briefing in Brussels.
Cristian Andrei, a political consultant based in Bucharest, said the court's decision amounts to a "crisis mode situation for the Romanian democracy."
"In light of the information about the external interference, the massive interference in elections, I think this was not normal but predictable, because it's not normal times at all. Romania is an uncharted territory," he told The Associated Press. "The problem is here, do we have the institutions to manage such an interference in the future?"
EU lawmakers last week urged a rerun of the parliamentary vote of Georgia's October election within a year, to be run by an independent election administration and undertaken with international supervision.
The Georgian president, who has a largely ceremonial role, has accused the ruling Georgia Dream party of rigging that election with the help of Russia, which previously ruled Georgia from Moscow when it was part of the Soviet Union. | {
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The Brazilian joined Philippe Clement's side in the summer of 2023 on a five-year deal but after injuring his knee against Hearts last December, Danilo has had to bide his time.
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OpenAI wants to pair online courses with chatbots | If OpenAI has its way, the next online course you take might have a chatbot component.
Speaking at a fireside on Monday hosted by Coeus Collective, Siya Raj Purohit, a member of OpenAI’s go-to-market team for education, said that OpenAI might explore ways to let e-learning instructors create custom “GPTs” that tie into online curriculums.
“What I’m hoping is going to happen is that professors are going to create custom GPTs for the public and let people engage with content in a lifelong manner,” Purohit said. “It’s not part of the current work that we’re doing, but it’s definitely on the roadmap.”
Purohit says that already, she’s observed professors uploading a “semester’s worth” of content to create custom GPTs with OpenAI’s existing tools, and then making those GPTs available to their students. “Students engage with that finite knowledge … [which] I think is a really powerful and good way to let them research,” she added.
OpenAI is aggressively going after the education market, which it sees as a key area of growth.
In September, the company hired former Coursera chief revenue officer Leah Belsky as its first education GM and charged her with bringing OpenAI’s products to more schools. And this spring, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Edu, a version of ChatGPT built for universities.
According to Allied Market Research, the AI in education market could be worth $88.2 billion within the next decade. But growth is off to a sluggish start, in large part thanks to skeptical pedagogues.
The GPTs Purohit described might look something like Khanmigo, a chatbot Khan Academy, the e-learning platform, launched in collaboration with OpenAI last year. Khanmigo can give students pointers on homework assignments, test prep, and more, tightly integrating with Khan Academy’s educational content library.
Illustrating the pitfalls of AI today, Khanmingo makes mistakes. When The Wall Street Journal tested the chatbot in February, it struggled with basic math, and often didn’t correct errors when asked to double-check solutions.
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“All of our models keep getting better, and our goal is to help translate that into what works in learning and teaching,” she said.
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Morgan State plays Cent. Conn. St., aims to break road slide | Morgan State Bears (4-7) at Central Connecticut State Blue Devils (1-9)
New Britain, Connecticut; Saturday, 1 p.m. EST
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The Blue Devils are 1-3 on their home court. Cent. Conn. St. gives up 70.3 points to opponents and has been outscored by 16.6 points per game.
The Bears have gone 0-7 away from home. Morgan State is 1-0 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.
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Irish YouTuber moves millions of followers to donate millions for charity | Sean McLoughlin wears a lot of hats: YouTuber. Voice actor. Coffee entrepreneur. But McLoughlin, better known by his pseudonym Jacksepticeye, likes to say he would be a therapist if he wasn't posting video game playthroughs for his nearly 31 million subscribers.
The 34-year-old Irish creator finds that gaming enthusiasts aren't just drawn by his expressive reactions to the latest action role-playing games; fans also resonate with his candid discussions of mental health. The supportive responses from his niche but passionate following make McLoughlin feel "less alone," he said, forging the same camaraderie that brought him to online gaming communities as a lonely 20-something living at his family's remote home.
That shared connection is also central to his annual fundraiser, "Thankmas." The charity livestream is one of many online specials emerging as a modern spin on the classic telethon. Total donations have increased more than 50% over the last year on Tiltify, a digital platform that integrates giving tools into streams. The spaces are credited for allowing more authentic interactions between nonprofits and young donors — and encouraging benevolence in a corner of the web marked by incendiary rhetoric.
"If you want to do good things, the people are there, and they'll listen," McLoughlin said. "They're already following you for what you do for a reason. So they'll follow you to help out people as well."
Follow they have. His streams have raked in more than $26 million, according to partner Tiltify. This year's goal is to collect $6 million for two nonprofits supporting mental health: Crisis Text Line and Samaritans.
A seven-figure target would have seemed a longshot when McLoughlin entered the space. The initial idea was to hold monthly fundraisers. He hosted seven charitable streams in 2018, Tiltify records show, for causes including pediatric cancer and clean water. The year culminated in the inaugural "Thankmas," which pulled over a quarter of a million dollars.
But McLoughlin said the pace became "a bit much." That same year he announced a brief break from YouTube, in part due to unhappiness from the demands he felt for high content volumes. He resolved to focus on one big holiday event at the end of the year, when he said people are "a bit more giving and heartfelt."
It wasn't until 2020 that Tiltify CEO Michael Wasserman said the two began working closely to maximize the streams' reach. McLoughlin reached out, according to Wasserman, and said he wanted something "more impactful." With communities worldwide reeling from the pandemic, they put together the #HopeFromHome campaign: a peer-to-peer event where multitudes could simultaneously rally around the same cause. McLoughlin served as a tent pole supporting the other streamers.
Their first effort together yielded $1.9 million for United Way Worldwide and more than one-third came from McLoughlin's stream alone. The following "Thankmas" generated more than $4.7 million. Wasserman said he'd never seen his technology used so collaboratively.
"That's what really made this a regular, multimillion-dollar event," Wasserman said. "Not just making it, 'Hey I'm going to fundraise and just watch me,' but, 'We as a community can do this and get involved together.'"
Specials feature calls, celebrities
This year's "Thankmas" will be performed before a live audience in Los Angeles but broadcast online. Recent specials have seen McLoughlin make surprise calls into streams that are also pooling contributions. Comedic segments sometimes feature traditional celebrities; actor Jack Black played a life-sized game of Jenga in 2022.
The idea resembles the star-studded telethon pioneered last century by comedian Jerry Lewis. But new technologies and web cultures enable more engaging experiences. Wasserman said charitable livestreams like McLoughlin's are not a "passive watching experience."
It's "a much more personable approach to giving," according to Yvette Wohn, a professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology who studies human-computer interaction.
A streamer's audience "cares about them," Wohn said, and donors flock to their content because "they really like that person." Social media and chat boxes allow fans to feel seen by hosts in ways television viewers could never expect. Followers might get shoutouts by name upon contributing. McLoughlin has previously shared fan art submitted through specific hashtags.
Fandoms also develop subcultures. McLoughlin's gaming catchphrases are especially popular among his circles. Jacksepticeye content often starts with him shouting, "Top of the morning to ya, laddies!" and fans have uploaded video compilations of the expression. Members then form friendships with others in the fandom. That creates a "positive social pressure" to donate, according to Wohn, helping new generations "dip their toes into building an identity as somebody that gives."
"Giving habits are things that build over time," Wohn said. "If younger people start to engage in this culture of giving, I feel like the general culture of giving might expand in ways that cannot be done from a top-down perspective."
Online communities offer kinship
Still, McLoughlin describes online communities as a "double-edged sword." The "monetization of hate," he said, is "bigger than it's ever been." And the desire for acceptance can introduce lonely people to dark pockets of the internet that nevertheless provide kinship.
"Thankmas" aims to prove it's easy to do good online. Yes, he acknowledged, charity work is "quite intimidating." Where is the line between promoting the fundraiser and promoting himself? McLoughlin doesn't know. He just hopes people trust it's coming from the right place.
At least one longtime follower was drawn by McLoughlin's ties to this year's cause. Jack Worthey, a 20-year-old from Texas, said McLoughlin brought much comfort growing up with "similar family troubles." It had been several years since he watched Jacksepticeye content, he said, but he was pulled back by an October video where McLoughlin detailed his journey finding mental health treatment.
Worthey said he wouldn't have looked into "Thankmas" had McLoughlin had not made the promotion so personal. He now plans to raise awareness through digital art. For Worthey, returning to the channel as an adult and seeing the "positive product" has been "really amazing."
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"The 34-year-old Irish creator finds that gaming enthusiasts aren't just drawn by his expressive reactions to the latest action role-playing games; fans also resonate with his candid discussions of mental health. The supportive responses from his niche but passionate following make McLoughlin feel \"less alone,\" he said, forging the same camaraderie that brought him to online gaming communities as a lonely 20-something living at his family's remote home.",
"That shared connection is also central to his annual fundraiser, \"Thankmas.\" The charity livestream is one of many online specials emerging as a modern spin on the classic telethon. Total donations have increased more than 50% over the last year on Tiltify, a digital platform that integrates giving tools into streams. The spaces are credited for allowing more authentic interactions between nonprofits and young donors — and encouraging benevolence in a corner of the web marked by incendiary rhetoric.",
"\"If you want to do good things, the people are there, and they'll listen,\" McLoughlin said. \"They're already following you for what you do for a reason. So they'll follow you to help out people as well.\"",
"Follow they have. His streams have raked in more than $26 million, according to partner Tiltify. This year's goal is to collect $6 million for two nonprofits supporting mental health: Crisis Text Line and Samaritans.",
"A seven-figure target would have seemed a longshot when McLoughlin entered the space. The initial idea was to hold monthly fundraisers. He hosted seven charitable streams in 2018, Tiltify records show, for causes including pediatric cancer and clean water. The year culminated in the inaugural \"Thankmas,\" which pulled over a quarter of a million dollars.",
"But McLoughlin said the pace became \"a bit much.\" That same year he announced a brief break from YouTube, in part due to unhappiness from the demands he felt for high content volumes. He resolved to focus on one big holiday event at the end of the year, when he said people are \"a bit more giving and heartfelt.\"",
"It wasn't until 2020 that Tiltify CEO Michael Wasserman said the two began working closely to maximize the streams' reach. McLoughlin reached out, according to Wasserman, and said he wanted something \"more impactful.\" With communities worldwide reeling from the pandemic, they put together the #HopeFromHome campaign: a peer-to-peer event where multitudes could simultaneously rally around the same cause. McLoughlin served as a tent pole supporting the other streamers.",
"Their first effort together yielded $1.9 million for United Way Worldwide and more than one-third came from McLoughlin's stream alone. The following \"Thankmas\" generated more than $4.7 million. Wasserman said he'd never seen his technology used so collaboratively.",
"\"That's what really made this a regular, multimillion-dollar event,\" Wasserman said. \"Not just making it, 'Hey I'm going to fundraise and just watch me,' but, 'We as a community can do this and get involved together.'\"",
"Specials feature calls, celebrities",
"This year's \"Thankmas\" will be performed before a live audience in Los Angeles but broadcast online. Recent specials have seen McLoughlin make surprise calls into streams that are also pooling contributions. Comedic segments sometimes feature traditional celebrities; actor Jack Black played a life-sized game of Jenga in 2022.",
"The idea resembles the star-studded telethon pioneered last century by comedian Jerry Lewis. But new technologies and web cultures enable more engaging experiences. Wasserman said charitable livestreams like McLoughlin's are not a \"passive watching experience.\"",
"It's \"a much more personable approach to giving,\" according to Yvette Wohn, a professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology who studies human-computer interaction.",
"A streamer's audience \"cares about them,\" Wohn said, and donors flock to their content because \"they really like that person.\" Social media and chat boxes allow fans to feel seen by hosts in ways television viewers could never expect. Followers might get shoutouts by name upon contributing. McLoughlin has previously shared fan art submitted through specific hashtags.",
"Fandoms also develop subcultures. McLoughlin's gaming catchphrases are especially popular among his circles. Jacksepticeye content often starts with him shouting, \"Top of the morning to ya, laddies!\" and fans have uploaded video compilations of the expression. Members then form friendships with others in the fandom. That creates a \"positive social pressure\" to donate, according to Wohn, helping new generations \"dip their toes into building an identity as somebody that gives.\"",
"\"Giving habits are things that build over time,\" Wohn said. \"If younger people start to engage in this culture of giving, I feel like the general culture of giving might expand in ways that cannot be done from a top-down perspective.\"",
"Online communities offer kinship",
"Still, McLoughlin describes online communities as a \"double-edged sword.\" The \"monetization of hate,\" he said, is \"bigger than it's ever been.\" And the desire for acceptance can introduce lonely people to dark pockets of the internet that nevertheless provide kinship.",
"\"Thankmas\" aims to prove it's easy to do good online. Yes, he acknowledged, charity work is \"quite intimidating.\" Where is the line between promoting the fundraiser and promoting himself? McLoughlin doesn't know. He just hopes people trust it's coming from the right place.",
"At least one longtime follower was drawn by McLoughlin's ties to this year's cause. Jack Worthey, a 20-year-old from Texas, said McLoughlin brought much comfort growing up with \"similar family troubles.\" It had been several years since he watched Jacksepticeye content, he said, but he was pulled back by an October video where McLoughlin detailed his journey finding mental health treatment.",
"Worthey said he wouldn't have looked into \"Thankmas\" had McLoughlin had not made the promotion so personal. He now plans to raise awareness through digital art. For Worthey, returning to the channel as an adult and seeing the \"positive product\" has been \"really amazing.\"",
"\"It makes you see what I was enjoying when I was younger in a different light,\" Worthey said. \"It brings a different type of joy.\""
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'Charred body pieces everywhere' after Israeli strike sets tents ablaze in Gaza safe zone | Strike kills some 20 people in designated humanitarian zone in southern Gaza
Palestinians were digging through burnt debris searching for bodies Thursday after some 20 people were killed a day earlier in an Israeli strike that set ablaze tents sheltering displaced families in a designated humanitarian zone in southern Gaza.
Residents carried a body wrapped in carpets out of the charred wreckage of the makeshift shelters in Al-Mawasi, near the beach west of Khan Younis, where tens of thousands of people have sheltered in the crowded tent camp for months.
The tent camp was designated a humanitarian zone by Israeli authorities, who have long told Palestinians to go there for safety.
Mohamed Abu Shahla was sheltering in the tent camp when the strike hit "all of a sudden and without any warning."
"It didn't spare any people or anything," Abu Shahla told CBC News on Thursday.
The strike set several large tents ablaze, and the fire was worsened by the explosion of cooking gas canisters and the burning furniture of the displaced people. On Thursday, the area was strewn with charred clothing, mattresses and other belongings among the twisted frames of scorched shelters.
He said displaced Palestinians were looking for some 15 children missing following the attack.
"You heard the screams of women and children while they burned … there isn't a single body that's whole. All of them are in pieces," he said.
Majority of victims are women, children: Civil defence
Eyewitnesses said the strike on the tent camp caused a fireball to erupt.
"[Al-]Mawasi is not safe … nowhere in the Gaza Strip is safe," Ahmad Al-Siqali said.
Muhammad Abdul Raouf, a night director with the volunteer-run Palestinian Civil Defence group, said the majority of the 20 confirmed killed were women and children.
"The place was scattered with martyrs [when we arrived], charred body pieces everywhere," he told CBC News Wednesday.
Israel said the strike targeted senior Hamas operatives, whom it did not identify.
"We don't see anyone from the whole world standing by us or helping us in this situation. Let them stop this crazy war that's against us. Let them stop the war," said Abu Kamal Al-Assar, a witness at the site.
At a funeral in Khan Younis, where relatives wept over the white-shrouded bodies of people killed the day before, resident Abu Anas Mustafa called the Amnesty report, which accuses Israel of commiting genocide in Gaza, "a victory for Palestinian diplomacy," although he said it "came late."
"It is the 430th day of the war today, and Israel has been carrying out massacres and a genocide from the first 10 days of the war," he said.
House in Gaza City destroyed in attack
The attack was one of several others across the Gaza Strip that killed a total of 39 Palestinians, according to medics.
In Gaza City, medics said an attack destroyed a house where an extended family had taken shelter and damaged two nearby homes, killing at least three people.
The Israeli army says militants frequently use residential buildings, schools and hospitals for operational cover. Hamas denies this, accusing Israeli forces of indiscriminate attacks and ignoring the plight of civilians in harm's way.
In Rafah, near the border with Egypt, an Israeli strike killed three Palestinians on Thursday, medics said. Three others were killed in a separate airstrike in Shejaia, in eastern Gaza City, they added.
On Thursday, Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya in the north of the enclave, said a 16-year-old boy who used a wheelchair was killed, and several people, including medics, were wounded by Israeli drone fire against the medical facility.
There was no Israeli comment on Abu Safiya's account. The health ministry said the three hospitals that are barely operational on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip have come under repeated attack since Israeli forces sent tanks to Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun towns and the nearby Jabalia camp in October.
Israel launched its assault on Gaza after Hamas-led fighters attacked Israeli communities on Oct. 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and capturing more than 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies.
Since then, it has laid much of the Gaza Strip to waste, forcing nearly the entire population of 2.3 million people from their homes. Authorities in the Hamas-run territory say more than 44,500 Gazans have been killed, with thousands of others feared dead under the rubble. | {
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Guernsey warning to boat owners with 75mph winds expected | Winds gusting up to 75mph (120km/h) are expected to hit Guernsey at the weekend as Storm Darragh sweeps in.
Winds are expected to increase on Friday evening and through Saturday and be at their strongest on Saturday afternoon, said the States of Guernsey.
Boat owners have been warned by Guernsey Harbours to secure their vessels by double checking covers and hatches and ensuring mooring lines are correctly rigged.
The States of Guernsey said islanders "should consider cancelling any activities which may put them at risk".
Coastal areas vulnerable
The warnings come amid a red wind warning from 03:00 to 11:00 GMT on Saturday, covering western and southern coastal regions of Wales as well as the Bristol Channel in England.
The States said: "Anything on the coast, particularly on the west coast, could be very dangerous and people should avoid these areas.
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"Unlike Jersey, our tides are expected to be high, so we are expecting some degree of flooding on the west coast.
"There will almost certainly be major disruption at the ports and airport tomorrow, with the possibility it extends into Sunday."
Guernsey Football Club has postponed its fixture with Ashford Town on Saturday.
The National Trust of Guernsey cancelled its Christmas market at Saumarez Park on Monday.
"Our hearts go out to all the stallholders, suppliers, staff and volunteers who have worked so hard to make this one of Guernsey's favourite Christmas events," it said.
The States of Alderney urged people to "take extra care when venturing out".
"Particular emphasis is placed on avoiding the west coast of the island on Saturday when the most severe period of weather is forecast," it said.
Access to the Commercial Quay would be restricted to "essential personnel only" and people were discouraged from attempting to visit the Admiralty Breakwater and surrounding areas during the severe weather.
Aurigny offers flexibility
Aurigny warned customers booked on flights on Saturday and Sunday of the potential for disruption.
It offered a free change, which would let passengers move to an alternative flight within seven days of the original scheduled departure, or the opportunity to travel earlier on Friday.
Chief commercial officer Sudeep Ghai said: "We hope the extra flexibility offered will provide some reassurance and a little extra certainty to our communities at this time."
Guernsey's house waste and recycling centre and the Mont Cuet green waste site will be closed on Saturday as a precaution.
The fourth named storm of the season, Darragh comes only weeks after Storm Bert and Storm Conall caused disruption at the end of last month.
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Canva Revolutionized Graphic Design. Will It Survive the Age of AI? | Generative AI could have been an existential threat for Canva, which made billions by making graphic design quick and easy. But for CEO Melanie Perkins, it’s simply making the world more visual.
Design platform Canva launched in 2013 with the aim of democratizing visual creation through features like templates and drag-and-drop graphics. It focused on ease, offering a design suite less daunting for nonprofessionals than tools like Adobe’s Photoshop, and simplified access with a web platform and freemium model. Since then, the Sydney-headquartered company has grown to 220 million monthly active users and an 11-figure valuation.
But with the advent of generative AI, it’s having to innovate to keep its place. Cofounder and CEO Melanie Perkins insists she never saw AI as an existential threat and is excited to embrace it: This year, Canva acquired text-to-image generator Leonardo.ai and launched its Magic Studio suite of AI design tools. In October, it launched an AI generator, Dream Lab, which can help users refine their work—changing data into visuals, for instance—or offer design inspiration.
Previously focused on individuals and small businesses, the company is now going after larger corporate clients, acquiring business-focused design platform Affinity in March and courting CIOs with a rap battle that went viral for its extreme levels of cringe. Alongside lofty growth ambitions, Perkins and her cofounder (and husband) Cliff Obrecht have committed to putting most of their equity—totalling 30 percent—into giving back. Perkins told WIRED how they plan to reach both goals. This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
WIRED: What was your reaction when generative AI tools emerged, and suddenly designing visuals became as simple as typing a prompt?
MELANIE PERKINS: Canva’s vision has always been to enable you to take your idea and turn it into a design, and reduce the friction between those two points. I think because that has always been our ambition, we were very early to start to adopt AI in our product. The first really big piece for us was with Background Remover [Canva acquired AI background removal tool Kaleido in 2021], and we’ve continued to invest heavily in this space ever since. So when I first saw LLMs and generative AI, it was extraordinarily exciting, because I think it really helps us to achieve that initial mission.
There wasn't a moment of concern that this might be an existential threat?
No, not at all.
Talk me through your AI game plan …
We have what we call our three-pronged approach. The first is taking the world’s latest and greatest technology and integrating it into our product and ensuring it’s a seamless user experience. Then in areas where we need to invest deeply, we’re investing really deeply, which was why we acquired Leonardo.ai recently, why we acquired Kaleido, and why we’re continuing to invest heavily at the forefront of AI. And the other is our app ecosystem, which means that companies can integrate into Canva’s platform and access our huge user base.
There's a broader discussion about the impact of AI on human creativity. Do you have any concerns that AI could go too far—that it could take some of the fun out of design, or risk homogenizing it?
The tools designers have used over the years have changed and transformed with technology that’s available, and it feels very reminiscent of what’s happening now.
The world of visual communication has changed so radically. When we started out with Canva, 10 years ago, we were like, “The world’s going to become visual.” Over the last decade, that’s certainly proven to be more true. A decade ago, a marketer might create one billboard for a company or very minimal amounts of visual content, and now, pretty much every single touch point is an opportunity to express their brand and to be visual. It feels like the number of assets a company creates—even a student or a teacher, every profession and industry—has just grown exponentially. So I don’t think there’s going to be less room for creativity by any stretch of the imagination.
You’re currently leaning into the enterprise market. Where is Canva mainly being used within larger businesses?
It’s pretty extraordinary how widespread the use is across these organizations. We’ve done a deep dive with certain companies, and it’s surprisingly spread across everything from software teams creating technical diagrams to HR teams doing onboarding, to accounting teams doing presentations. I think we’ve particularly hit a sweet spot with marketing teams and sales teams. And then earlier this year, we launched Courses, which was a really exciting unlock for HR teams specifically.
In this new enterprise space, who do you see as your key competitors? Are you coming up against Microsoft Office and Google Workspace?
Right from the start, we had this Venn diagram: On one side is creativity, and on the other side is productivity. And you might guess, right in the center is Canva. We really believe that people on the productivity side actually want to be more creative, and that people on the creative side want to be more productive. And so we really found that to be the sweet spot—it was a huge gap in the market that we saw right in the early days, and it’s where we're continuing to invest very heavily.
What about you? How does Canva use Canva?
Extremely extensively, for literally everything. Our engineers do their engineering docs in Canva, we do all-hands, I do all of my product mock-ups in it. I’ve used it for decision decks and vision decks and onboarding and hiring and recruitment—name something, we're using Canva for it very extensively.
Your peak valuation was $40 billion in 2021. A year later, this was cut to $26 billion. What happened?
I think it was purely the macro shift in the market. During that time, Canva has continued to grow rapidly, both on revenue and active users. We’ve been profitable for seven years as well, so even though the market [switched to caring] more about profitability, we were fortunately already on that trend. Markets are going to value different things over time, and markets are going to be frothy and then not frothy. We are just always caring about building a strong, enduring company with good foundations that serves our community. So it’s not a particular bother what’s happening out there in the market.
You’ve pledged 30 pecent of Canva—the majority of your and Obrecht’s equity—to doing good in the world. What does that mean to you?
It seems completely absurd that we have the prosperity that we do across the globe, and there are people that still don’t have basic human needs being met. The first step that we’ve taken is partnering with GiveDirectly, where we give money directly to people who are living in extreme poverty. [Canva has so far donated a total of $30 million to people living in poverty in Malawi.] I love the empowerment that gives them to be able to spend the money on their community, on their family, on their basic human needs—sending their kids to school, getting a roof over their head. We have an extremely long way to go, but we’re really excited that we’ve started that process.
You aim to reach 1 billion users. What's the plan to get there?
When we set that as a goal a number of years ago, it seemed completely ridiculous, but over the years, it’s becoming less ridiculous. We need about one in five internet users in every country to reach a billion. Now in the Philippines it’s one in six internet users, and in Australia it’s one in eight internet users. In Spain, it’s one in 11. In the USA, it’s one in 12. So at 200 million now, we’re a fifth of the way towards the billion number, and if we can continue to grow as rapidly as we have been, we'll hopefully get there.
Any plans to IPO?
It’s definitely something on the horizon.
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Elon Musk's xAI lands $6B in new cash to fuel AI ambitions | xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, has raised $6 billion, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday.
Investors gave a minimum of $77,593, per the filing (97 participated, but the document doesn’t reveal their identities). The Wall Street Journal previously reported that Valor Equity Partners, Sequoia Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz were expected to contribute to the round, along with Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund.
The new cash brings xAI’s total raised to $12 billion, adding to the $6 billion tranche xAI raised this spring. CNBC reported in November that xAI was aiming for a $50 billion valuation — double its valuation as of six months ago.
According to the Financial Times, only investors who’d backed xAI in its previous fundraising round were permitted to participate in this one. Reportedly, investors who helped finance Musk’s Twitter acquisition were given access to up to 25% of xAI’s shares.
Ramping up AI
Musk formed xAI last year. Soon after, the company released Grok, a flagship generative AI model that now powers a number of features on X, including a chatbot accessible to X Premium subscribers and free users in some regions.
Grok has what Musk has described as “a rebellious streak” — a willingness to answer “spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems.” Told to be vulgar, for example, Grok will happily oblige, spewing profanities and colorful language you won’t hear from ChatGPT.
Musk has derided ChatGPT and other AI systems for being too “woke” and “politically correct,” despite Grok’s own unwillingness to cross certain boundaries and hedge on political subjects. He’s also referred to Grok as “maximally truth-seeking” and less biased than competing models, although there’s evidence to suggest that Grok leans to the left.
Over the past year, Grok has become increasingly ingrained in X, the social network formerly known as Twitter. At launch, Grok was only available to X users — and developers skilled enough to get the “open source” edition up and running.
Thanks to an integration with the open image generator Flux, Grok can generate images on X (without guardrails, controversially). The model can analyze images as well, and summarize news and trending events (imperfectly, mind).
Reports indicate that Grok may handle even more X functions in the future, from enhancing X’s search capabilities and account bios to helping with post analytics and reply settings.
xAI is sprinting to catch up to formidable competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic in the generative AI race. The company launched an API in October, allowing customers to build Grok into third-party apps, platforms, and services. According to The Wall Street Journal, xAI is preparing to release a standalone consumer app similar to OpenAI’s in December.
Musk asserts that it hasn’t been a fair fight.
In a lawsuit filed against OpenAI and Microsoft, OpenAI’s close collaborator, attorneys for Musk accuse OpenAI of “actively trying to eliminate competitors” like xAI by “extracting promises from investors not to fund them.” OpenAI, Musk’s counsel says, also unfairly benefits from Microsoft’s infrastructure and expertise in what the attorneys describe as a “de facto merger.”
Yet Musk often says that X’s data gives xAI a leg up compared to rivals. Last month, X changed its privacy policy to allow third parties, including xAI, to train models on X posts.
Musk, it’s worth noting, was one of the original founders of OpenAI, and left the company in 2018 after disagreements over its direction. He’s argued in previous suits that OpenAI profited from his early involvement yet reneged on its nonprofit pledge to make the fruits of its AI research available to all.
An xAI ecosystem
xAI has outlined a vision according to which its models would be trained on data from Musk’s various companies, including Tesla and SpaceX, and its models could then improve technology across those companies. It is already powering customer support features for SpaceX’s Starlink internet service, according to The Wall Street Journal, and the startup is said to be in talks with Tesla to provide R&D in exchange for some of the carmaker’s revenue.
Tesla shareholders, for one, object to these plans. Several have sued Musk over his decision to start xAI, arguing that Musk has diverted both talent and resources from Tesla to what’s essentially a competing venture.
Nevertheless, the deals — and xAI’s developer and consumer-facing products — have driven xAI’s revenue to around $100 million a year. For comparison, Anthropic is reportedly on pace to generate $1 billion in revenue this year, and OpenAI is targeting $4 billion by the end of 2024.
Musk said this summer that xAI is training the next generation of Grok models at its Memphis data center, which was apparently built in just 122 days and is currently powered partly by portable diesel generators. The company hopes to upgrade the server farm, which contains 100,000 Nvidia GPUs, next year. (Because of their ability to perform many calculations in parallel, GPUs are the favored chips for training and running models.)
In November, xAI won approval from the regional power authority in Memphis for 150MW of additional power — enough to power roughly 100,000 homes. To win the agency over, xAI pledged to improve the quality of the city’s drinking water and provide the Memphis grid with discounted Tesla-manufactured batteries. But some residents criticized the move, arguing it would strain the grid and worsen the area’s air quality.
Tesla is also expected to use the upgraded data center to improve its autonomous driving technologies.
xAI has expanded quite rapidly from an operations standpoint in the year since its founding, growing from just a dozen employees in March 2023 to over 100 today. In October, the startup moved into OpenAI’s old corporate offices in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood.
xAI has reportedly told investors it plans to raise more money next year.
It won’t be the only AI lab raising immense cash. Anthropic recently secured $4 billion from Amazon, bringing its total raised to $13.7 billion, while OpenAI raised $6.6 billion in October to grow its war chest to $17.9 billion.
Megadeals like OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s drove AI venture capital activity to $31.1 billion across over 2,000 deals in Q3 2024, per PitchBook data.
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US 30-year mortgage rate drops to 6.69% | The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. eased again this week, slipping to its lowest level since late October.
The rate dropped to 6.69% from 6.81% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago, the rate averaged 7.03%.
Borrowing costs on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, popular with homeowners seeking to refinance their home loan to a lower rate, also eased this week. The average rate fell to 5.96% from 6.1% last week. A year ago, it averaged 6.29%, Freddie Mac said.
Mortgage rates are influenced by several factors, including the moves in the yield on U.S. 10-year Treasury bonds, which lenders use as a guide to price home loans.
The average rate on a 30-year mortgage is now at its lowest level since October 24, when it was at 6.54%.
Mortgage rates have been mostly rising in recent weeks since sliding to a two-year low of 6.08% in late September after the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate from a two-decade high for the first time in more than four years. While the central bank doesn’t set mortgage rates, its actions and the trajectory of inflation influence the moves in the 10-year Treasury yield.
Many expect that the Fed will cut its main interest rate again when it meets in two weeks.
Elevated mortgage rates and rising home prices have kept homeownership out of reach of many would-be homebuyers. U.S. home sales are on track for their worst year since 1995.
Despite an overall uptick in mortgage rates since September, applications for a home loan have been rising. Mortgage applications rose 2.8% last week from the previous week, adjusting for the Thanksgiving holiday, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.
And the MBA’s seasonally adjusted index of purchase loan applications rose for the fourth week in a row last week, reaching its highest level since January.
“The recent strength in purchase activity continues, supported by lower rates and higher inventory levels, which are giving prospective buyers more options compared to earlier in the year,” said Joel Kan, MBA’s deputy chief economist.
Still, with home prices near all-time highs and still rising nationally, albeit more slowly, many would-be homebuyers are likely holding out for mortgage rates to ease further in coming months.
But there may not be much relief, given that many housing economists predict the average rate on a 30-year mortgage will generally hover around 6.5% next year.
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Climber from Canada among 3 hikers believed to have died in fall on New Zealand mountain | Hikers reported missing after they did not arrive to meet prearranged transport after climb
Three mountain climbers — one from Canada and two from the U.S. — missing for five days on Aoraki, New Zealand's tallest peak, are believed to have died in a fall, local authorities said Friday.
The men's bodies were not found. But based on footprints glimpsed in the snow during an aerial survey, and items believed to belong to them retrieved from the slopes this week, the search for them has ended, Police Area Commander Inspector Vicki Walker told reporters.
The Americans — Kurt Blair, 56, from Colorado and Carlos Romero, 50, of California — were certified alpine guides, according to the website of the non-profit American Mountain Guides Association.
New Zealand authorities have not named the Canadian climber at the request of his family.
Reported missing Monday
The men flew to a hut partway up the mountain on Saturday to begin their ascent and were reported missing on Monday when they did not arrive to meet their prearranged transport after the climb. Searchers hours later found several climbing-related items believed to belong to the men, but no sign of them, police said.
A search stalled for three days due to harsh weather conditions in the area. On Friday, drone operators spotted footprints in the snow and more items that authorities believe belong to the men.
"After reviewing the number of days the climbers have been missing, no communication, the items we have retrieved, and our reconnaissance today, we do not believe the men have survived," Walker said. "We believe they have taken a fall."
The search would resume if more evidence came to light, but the men's deaths have been referred to a coroner, Walker added.
Aoraki is 3,724 metres high and is part of the Southern Alps, the scenic and icy mountain range that runs the length of New Zealand's South Island. A settlement of the same name at its base is a destination for domestic and foreign tourists.
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University of Glasgow warned over foreign student sponsor breach | The University of Glasgow has been warned it has three months to fix several compliance issues with its sponsor system for foreign students.
Problems were raised in a Home Office audit of the university's systems in June.
The university has now put together a taskforce to respond to the issues and process student visa applications. The details of the problems have not been disclosed.
The union Unison said that before this group was assembled, four members of staff were processing applications for more than 13,000 students.
Branch secretary Kirsteen Fraser said the process had "ground to a halt", a scenario she said staff had repeatedly warned the university about.
"We've gone from a situation where we had 3,000 sponsored students 10 years ago to 13,000 in 2024," she said.
"What has happened is the senior management group has failed to invest in staff and in systems at the university.
"The focus for a long time has been constant growth without upscaling."
The university said the audit had raised "several compliance issues" that needed to be addressed in the next three months.
A spokesperson added: "We are confident that we can complete the required actions in the specified timescale.
"In the meantime, all activities continue as normal."
What are the sponsor rules?
The audit was carried out by UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI), which is part of the Home Office.
Institutions that want to host foreign students - a vital part of university finances in Scotland - have to comply with sponsorship duties, external.
These duties include doing everything possible to ensure students are genuine, that they comply with immigration rules and see their courses through to the end.
If there is a breach of these conditions, UKVI will examine the circumstances and decide what action is appropriate.
A serious breach, one that "constitutes a serious threat to immigration control" for instance, could result in the university losing its sponsor licence.
Unison's Kirsteen Fraser said the union hoped that the impact of the situation on students will be an "absolute minimum".
She said the union had faith that staff would be able to resolve problems.
A Home Office spokesperson said: "It is essential that sponsoring institutions comply with their sponsorship duties to avoid abuse of the system."
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Here's What OpenAI's $200 Monthly ChatGPT Pro Subscription Includes | OpenAI just unveiled a new subscription tier called ChatGPT Pro. Users can pay $200 a month for almost unlimited access to ChatGPT’s tools, and an exclusive new AI model.
Earlier today, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Pro, a $200 monthly subscription for its flagship chatbot. This release is the first of many expected during the next 12 days, as the San Francisco startup has scheduled a slew of announcements to roll out starting today.
Everything from OpenAI’s $20 monthly subscription is included at this price level as well as significantly more access to the GPT-4o and o1 artificial intelligence models. With a ChatGPT Pro subscription—which will cost $2,400 for a full year—users can also use an exclusive model from OpenAI called o1 pro mode that wields more computing power to process answers.
“Power users of ChatGPT, at this point, they really use it a lot, and they want more compute than $20 can buy,” said CEO Sam Altman during the video broadcast announcing the new premium tier. While the hefty price tag may be a shock to many consumers, this subscription is targeted at hyper-engaged users who desire almost unlimited access and at researchers who potentially want to experiment with using ChatGPT for more complex, intensive tasks.
No change to the pricing of OpenAI’s other subscription plans were announced, and the free option remains available. The startup’s first subscription option for its consumer chatbot, called ChatGPT Plus, originally launched in February of last year for $20 a month, and remains that price for now. At the Plus level, users unlock most of ChatGPT’s new features and generative AI models. These subscribers are also not rate-limited as much by OpenAI as free users. How many ChatGPT requests users can make a day, or the amount of time they can spend gabbing with ChatGPT's best voice interface, is determined by their subscription tier.
The company is targeting its new $200 monthly subscription at those using OpenAI’s generative AI model for more technical work. “People will find o1 pro mode the most useful for hard math, science, or programming problems,” said Jason Wei, an OpenAI research scientist, during the video stream. WIRED has not yet tried a ChatGPT Pro subscription out firsthand to see how it handles these types of requests, though I look forward to testing out the tool as part of helping readers better understand its strengths and limitations, similar to our past work on ChatGPT Plus, as well as its specific features, like Advanced Voice Mode and AI web browsing.
Even though subscribers to ChatGPT Pro receive what OpenAI calls “unlimited access” to the o1 model, GPT-4o model, and Advanced Voice Mode feature, the startup is clear its terms of use still apply. So, actions like sharing an account between multiple people or using the Pro plan to power your own service is not allowed and may get your account banned. Users can request a refund for the $200 subscription within the first two weeks of purchasing it if they are dissatisfied, by going through OpenAI’s online help center.
In addition to ChatGPT Pro, OpenAI announced that the o1 model, which focuses on “reasoning” capabilities and multi-step processing of user input, is no longer in a limited preview. According to the startup, this fully released o1 model answers questions more quickly, can now accept images as inputs, and makes fewer errors. The startup plans to add web browsing and file upload features for ChatGPT’s o1 setting in the future.
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Fox, Kings to visit Wembanyama, Spurs | Sacramento Kings (10-13, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (11-11, 11th in the Western Conference)
San Antonio; Friday, 8 p.m. EST
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Kings -3.5; over/under is 227.5
BOTTOM LINE: The San Antonio Spurs host the Sacramento Kings in Western Conference play Friday.
The Spurs are 10-10 in conference matchups. San Antonio is 6-2 when it has fewer turnovers than its opponents and averages 14.3 turnovers per game.
The Kings are 7-10 in conference matchups. Sacramento is 1-4 in games decided by less than 4 points.
The Spurs are shooting 45.5% from the field this season, 0.8 percentage points lower than the 46.3% the Kings allow to opponents. The Kings are shooting 47.8% from the field, 1.4% higher than the 46.4% the Spurs’ opponents have shot this season.
TOP PERFORMERS: Victor Wembanyama is averaging 23.5 points, 10.4 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 3.4 blocks for the Spurs.
De’Aaron Fox is averaging 26.8 points, 5.1 rebounds, 5.8 assists and 1.9 steals for the Kings.
LAST 10 GAMES: Spurs: 5-5, averaging 112.1 points, 43.9 rebounds, 28.6 assists, 7.9 steals and 6.1 blocks per game while shooting 44.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.8 points per game.
Kings: 3-7, averaging 110.5 points, 42.2 rebounds, 25.3 assists, 7.7 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 46.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.0 points.
INJURIES: Spurs: Victor Wembanyama: day to day (back), Tre Jones: day to day (shoulder).
Kings: Trey Lyles: out (calf), Devin Carter: out (shoulder). | {
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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot | ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies.
That growth has propelled OpenAI itself into becoming one of the most-hyped companies in recent memory. And its latest partnership with Apple for its upcoming generative AI offering, Apple Intelligence, has given the company another significant bump in the AI race.
2024 also saw the release of GPT-4o, OpenAI’s new flagship omni model for ChatGPT. GPT-4o is now the default free model, complete with voice capabilities. But after demoing GPT-4o, OpenAI paused one of its voices, Sky, after allegations that it was mimicking Scarlett Johansson’s voice in “Her.”
OpenAI is facing internal drama, including the sizable exit of co-founder and longtime chief scientist Ilya Sutskever as the company dissolved its Superalignment team. OpenAI is also facing a lawsuit from Alden Global Capital-owned newspapers, including the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune, for alleged copyright infringement, following a similar suit filed by The New York Times last year.
Here’s a timeline of ChatGPT product updates and releases, starting with the latest, which we’ve been updating throughout the year. And if you have any other questions, check out our ChatGPT FAQ here.
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On day one of its 12 Days of OpenAI event, the company announced a new — and expensive — subscription plan. ChatGPT Pro is a $200-per-month tier that provides unlimited access to all of OpenAI’s models, including the full version of its o1 “reasoning” model.
The full version of o1, which was released as a preview in September, can now reason about image uploads and has been trained to be “more concise in its thinking” to improve response times.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be updating all the news from OpenAI as it happens on our live blog. Follow along with us!
OpenAI announced “12 Days of OpenAI,” which will feature livestreams every weekday starting December 5 at 10 a.m. PT. Each day’s stream is said to include either a product launch or a demo in varying sizes.
At the New York Times’ Dealbook Summit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that ChatGPT has surpassed 300 million weekly active users. The milestone comes just a few months after the chatbot hit 200 million weekly active users in August 2024 and just over a year after reaching 100 million weekly active users in November 2023.
ChatGPT users discovered an interesting phenomenon: the popular chatbot refused to answer questions asked about a “David Mayer,” and asking it to do so caused it to freeze up instantly. While the strange behavior spawned conspiracy theories, and a slew of other names being impacted, a much more ordinary reason may be at the heart of it: digital privacy requests.
OpenAI is toying with the idea of getting into ads. CFO Sarah Friar told the Financial Times it’s weighing an ads business model, with plans to be “thoughtful” about when and where ads appear — though she later stressed that the company has “no active plans to pursue advertising.” Still, the exploration may raise eyebrows given that Sam Altman recently said ads would be a “last resort.”
A group of Canadian media companies, including the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail, have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI. The companies behind the suit said that OpenAI infringed their copyrights and are seeking to win monetary damages — and ban OpenAI from making further use of their work.
OpenAI announced that its GPT-4o model has been updated to feature more “natural” and “engaging” creative writing abilities as well as more thorough responses and insights when accessing files uploaded by users.
ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode feature is expanding to the web, allowing users to talk to the chatbot through their browser. The conversational feature is rolling out to ChatGPT’s paying Plus, Enterprise, Teams, or Edu subscribers.
OpenAI announced the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS can now read code in a handful of developer-focused coding apps, such as VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, Terminal, and iTerm2 — meaning that developers will no longer have to copy and paste their code into ChatGPT. When the feature is enabled, OpenAI will automatically send the section of code you’re working on through its chatbot as context, alongside your prompt.
Lilian Weng announced on X that she is departing OpenAI. Weng served as VP of research and safety since August, and before that was the head of OpenAI’s safety systems team. It’s the latest in a long string of AI safety researchers,policy researchers, and other executives who have exited the company in the last year.
OpenAI stated that it told around 2 million users of ChatGPT to go elsewhere for information about the 2024 U.S. election, and instead recommended trusted news sources like Reuters and the Associated Press.
In a blog post, OpenAI said that ChatGPT sent roughly a million people to CanIVote.org when they asked questions specific to voting in the lead-up to the election and rejected around 250,000 requests to generate images of the candidates over the same period.
Adding to its collection of high-profile domain names, Chat.com now redirects to ChatGPT. Last year, it was reported that HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah acquired Chat.com for $15.5 million, making it one of the top two all-time publicly reported domain sales — though OpenAI declined to state how much it paid for it.
The former head of Meta’s augmented reality glasses efforts is joining OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware. Kalinowski is a hardware executive who began leading Meta’s AR glasses team in March 2022. She oversaw the creation of Orion, the impressive augmented reality prototype that Meta recently showed off at its annual Connect conference.
Apple is including an option to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus inside its Settings app, according to an update to the iOS 18.2 beta spotted by 9to5Mac. This will give Apple users a direct route to sign up for OpenAI’s premium subscription plan, which costs $20 a month.
In a Reddit AMA, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted that a lack of compute capacity is one major factor preventing the company from shipping products as often as it’d like, including the vision capabilities for Advanced Voice Mode first teased in May. Altman also indicated that the next major release of DALL-E, OpenAI’s image generator, has no launch timeline, and that Sora, OpenAI’s video-generating tool, has also been held back.
Altman also admitted to using ChatGPT “sometimes” to answer questions throughout the AMA.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Search, an evolution of the SearchGPT prototype it unveiled this summer. Powered by a fine-tuned version of OpenAI’s GPT-4o model, ChatGPT Search serves up information and photos from the web along with links to relevant sources, at which point you can ask follow-up questions to refine an ongoing search.
OpenAI has rolled out Advanced Voice Mode to ChatGPT’s desktop apps for macOS and Windows. For Mac users, that means that both ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode can coexist with Siri on the same device, leading the way for ChatGPT’s Apple Intelligence integration.
Reuters reports that OpenAI is working with TSMC and Broadcom to build an in-house AI chip, which could arrive as soon as 2026. It appears, at least for now, the company has abandoned plans to establish a network of factories for chip manufacturing and is instead focusing on in-house chip design.
OpenAI announced it’s rolling out a feature that allows users to search through their ChatGPT chat histories on the web. The new feature will let users bring up an old chat to remember something or pick back up a chat right where it was left off.
With the release of iOS 18.1, Apple Intelligence features powered by ChatGPT are now available to users. The ChatGPT features include integrated writing tools, image cleanup, article summaries, and a typing input for the redesigned Siri experience.
OpenAI denied reports that it is intending to release an AI model, code-named Orion, by December of this year. An OpenAI spokesperson told TechCrunch that they “don’t have plans to release a model code-named Orion this year,” but that leaves OpenAI substantial wiggle room.
OpenAI has begun previewing a dedicated Windows app for ChatGPT. The company says the app is an early version and is currently only available to ChatGPT Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu users with a “full experience” set to come later this year.
OpenAI struck a content deal with Hearst, the newspaper and magazine publisher known for the San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, ELLE, and others. The partnership will allow OpenAI to surface stories from Hearst publications with citations and direct links.
OpenAI introduced a new way to interact with ChatGPT called “Canvas.” The canvas workspace allows for users to generate writing or code, then highlight sections of the work to have the model edit. Canvas is rolling out in beta to ChatGPT Plus and Teams, with a rollout to come to Enterprise and Edu tier users next week.
OpenAI has closed the largest VC round of all time. The startup announced it raised $6.6 billion in a funding round that values OpenAI at $157 billion post-money. Led by previous investor Thrive Capital, the new cash brings OpenAI’s total raised to $17.9 billion, per Crunchbase.
At the first of its 2024 Dev Day events, OpenAI announced a new API tool that will let developers build nearly real-time, speech-to-speech experiences in their apps, with the choice of using six voices provided by OpenAI. These voices are distinct from those offered for ChatGPT, and developers can’t use third party voices, in order to prevent copyright issues.
OpenAI is planning to raise the price of individual ChatGPT subscriptions from $20 per month to $22 per month by the end of the year, according to a report from The New York Times. The report notes that a steeper increase could come over the next five years; by 2029, OpenAI expects it’ll charge $44 per month for ChatGPT Plus.
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announced that she is leaving the company after more than six years. Hours after the announcement, OpenAI’s chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, also left the company. CEO Sam Altman revealed the two latest resignations in a post on X, along with leadership transition plans.
After a delay, OpenAI is finally rolling out Advanced Voice Mode to an expanded set of ChatGPT’s paying customers. AVM is also getting a revamped design — the feature is now represented by a blue animated sphere instead of the animated black dots that were presented back in May. OpenAI is highlighting improvements in conversational speed, accents in foreign languages, and five new voices as part of the rollout.
A video from YouTube creator ChromaLock showcased how to modify a TI-84 graphing calculator so that it can connect to the internet and access ChatGPT, touting it as the “ultimate cheating device.” As demonstrated in the video, it’s a pretty complicated process for the average high school student to follow — but it might stoke more concerns from teachers about the ongoing concerns about ChatGPT and cheating in schools.
OpenAI unveiled a preview of OpenAI o1, also known as “Strawberry.” The collection of models are available in ChatGPT and via OpenAI’s API: o1-preview and o1 mini. The company claims that o1 can more effectively reason through math and science and fact-check itself by spending more time considering all parts of a command or question.
Unlike ChatGPT, o1 can’t browse the web or analyze files yet, is rate-limited and expensive compared to other models. OpenAI says it plans to bring o1-mini access to all free users of ChatGPT, but hasn’t set a release date.
An artist and hacker found a way to jailbreak ChatGPT to produce instructions for making powerful explosives, a request that the chatbot normally refuses. An explosives expert who reviewed the chatbot’s output told TechCrunch that the instructions could be used to make a detonatable product and was too sensitive to be released.
OpenAI announced it has surpassed 1 million paid users for its versions of ChatGPT intended for businesses, including ChatGPT Team, ChatGPT Enterprise and its educational offering, ChatGPT Edu. The company said that nearly half of OpenAI’s corporate users are based in the US.
Volkswagen is taking its ChatGPT voice assistant experiment to vehicles in the United States. Its ChatGPT-integrated Plus Speech voice assistant is an AI chatbot based on Cerence’s Chat Pro product and a LLM from OpenAI and will begin rolling out on September 6 with the 2025 Jetta and Jetta GLI models.
As part of the new deal, OpenAI will surface stories from Condé Nast properties like The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Appétit and Wired in ChatGPT and SearchGPT. Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch implied that the “multi-year” deal will involve payment from OpenAI in some form and a Condé Nast spokesperson told TechCrunch that OpenAI will have permission to train on Condé Nast content.
TechCrunch’s Maxwell Zeff has been playing around with OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode, in what he describes as “the most convincing taste I’ve had of an AI-powered future yet.” Compared to Siri or Alexa, Advanced Voice Mode stands out with faster response times, unique answers and the ability to answer complex questions. But the feature falls short as an effective replacement for virtual assistants.
OpenAI has banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts linked to an Iranian influence operation that was generating content about the U.S. presidential election. OpenAI identified five website fronts presenting as both progressive and conservative news outlets that used ChatGPT to draft several long-form articles, though it doesn’t seem that it reached much of an audience.
OpenAI has found that GPT-4o, which powers the recently launched alpha of Advanced Voice Mode in ChatGPT, can behave in strange ways. In a new “red teaming” report, OpenAI reveals some of GPT-4o’s weirder quirks, like mimicking the voice of the person speaking to it or randomly shouting in the middle of a conversation.
After a big jump following the release of OpenAI’s new GPT-4o “omni” model, the mobile version of ChatGPT has now seen its biggest month of revenue yet. The app pulled in $28 million in net revenue from the App Store and Google Play in July, according to data provided by app intelligence firm Appfigures.
OpenAI has built a watermarking tool that could potentially catch students who cheat by using ChatGPT — but The Wall Street Journal reports that the company is debating whether to actually release it. An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that the company is researching tools that can detect writing from ChatGPT, but said it’s taking a “deliberate approach” to releasing it.
OpenAI is giving users their first access to GPT-4o’s updated realistic audio responses. The alpha version is now available to a small group of ChatGPT Plus users, and the company says the feature will gradually roll out to all Plus users in the fall of 2024. The release follows controversy surrounding the voice’s similarity to Scarlett Johansson, leading OpenAI to delay its release.
OpenAI is testing SearchGPT, a new AI search experience to compete with Google. SearchGPT aims to elevate search queries with “timely answers” from across the internet, as well as the ability to ask follow-up questions. The temporary prototype is currently only available to a small group of users and its publisher partners, like The Atlantic, for testing and feedback.
A new report from The Information, based on undisclosed financial information, claims OpenAI could lose up to $5 billion due to how costly the business is to operate. The report also says the company could spend as much as $7 billion in 2024 to train and operate ChatGPT.
OpenAI released its latest small AI model, GPT-4o mini. The company says GPT-4o mini, which is cheaper and faster than OpenAI’s current AI models, outperforms industry leading small AI models on reasoning tasks involving text and vision. GPT-4o mini will replace GPT-3.5 Turbo as the smallest model OpenAI offers.
OpenAI announced a partnership with the Los Alamos National Laboratory to study how AI can be employed by scientists in order to advance research in healthcare and bioscience. This follows other health-related research collaborations at OpenAI, including Moderna and Color Health.
OpenAI announced it has trained a model off of GPT-4, dubbed CriticGPT, which aims to find errors in ChatGPT’s code output so they can make improvements and better help so-called human “AI trainers” rate the quality and accuracy of ChatGPT responses.
OpenAI and TIME announced a multi-year strategic partnership that brings the magazine’s content, both modern and archival, to ChatGPT. As part of the deal, TIME will also gain access to OpenAI’s technology in order to develop new audience-based products.
OpenAI planned to start rolling out its advanced Voice Mode feature to a small group of ChatGPT Plus users in late June, but it says lingering issues forced it to postpone the launch to July. OpenAI says Advanced Voice Mode might not launch for all ChatGPT Plus customers until the fall, depending on whether it meets certain internal safety and reliability checks.
ChatGPT for macOS is now available for all users. With the app, users can quickly call up ChatGPT by using the keyboard combination of Option + Space. The app allows users to upload files and other photos, as well as speak to ChatGPT from their desktop and search through their past conversations.
Apple announced at WWDC 2024 that it is bringing ChatGPT to Siri and other first-party apps and capabilities across its operating systems. The ChatGPT integrations, powered by GPT-4o, will arrive on iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and macOS Sequoia later this year, and will be free without the need to create a ChatGPT or OpenAI account. Features exclusive to paying ChatGPT users will also be available through Apple devices.
Scarlett Johansson has been invited to testify about the controversy surrounding OpenAI’s Sky voice at a hearing for the House Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation. In a letter, Rep. Nancy Mace said Johansson’s testimony could “provide a platform” for concerns around deepfakes.
ChatGPT was down twice in one day: one multi-hour outage in the early hours of the morning Tuesday and another outage later in the day that is still ongoing. Anthropic’s Claude and Perplexity also experienced some issues.
The Atlantic and Vox Media have announced licensing and product partnerships with OpenAI. Both agreements allow OpenAI to use the publishers’ current content to generate responses in ChatGPT, which will feature citations to relevant articles. Vox Media says it will use OpenAI’s technology to build “audience-facing and internal applications,” while The Atlantic will build a new experimental product called Atlantic Labs.
OpenAI announced a new deal with management consulting giant PwC. The company will become OpenAI’s biggest customer to date, covering 100,000 users, and will become OpenAI’s first partner for selling its enterprise offerings to other businesses.
OpenAI announced in a blog post that it has recently begun training its next flagship model to succeed GPT-4. The news came in an announcement of its new safety and security committee, which is responsible for informing safety and security decisions across OpenAI’s products.
On the The TED AI Show podcast, former OpenAI board member Helen Toner revealed that the board did not know about ChatGPT until its launch in November 2022. Toner also said that Sam Altman gave the board inaccurate information about the safety processes the company had in place and that he didn’t disclose his involvement in the OpenAI Startup Fund.
The launch of GPT-4o has driven the company’s biggest-ever spike in revenue on mobile, despite the model being freely available on the web. Mobile users are being pushed to upgrade to its $19.99 monthly subscription, ChatGPT Plus, if they want to experiment with OpenAI’s most recent launch.
After demoing its new GPT-4o model last week, OpenAI announced it is pausing one of its voices, Sky, after users found that it sounded similar to Scarlett Johansson in “Her.”
OpenAI explained in a blog post that Sky’s voice is “not an imitation” of the actress and that AI voices should not intentionally mimic the voice of a celebrity. The blog post went on to explain how the company chose its voices: Breeze, Cove, Ember, Juniper and Sky.
OpenAI announced new updates for easier data analysis within ChatGPT. Users can now upload files directly from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, interact with tables and charts, and export customized charts for presentations. The company says these improvements will be added to GPT-4o in the coming weeks.
OpenAI announced a partnership with Reddit that will give the company access to “real-time, structured and unique content” from the social network. Content from Reddit will be incorporated into ChatGPT, and the companies will work together to bring new AI-powered features to Reddit users and moderators.
OpenAI’s spring update event saw the reveal of its new omni model, GPT-4o, which has a black hole-like interface, as well as voice and vision capabilities that feel eerily like something out of “Her.” GPT-4o is set to roll out “iteratively” across its developer and consumer-facing products over the next few weeks.
The company announced it’s building a tool, Media Manager, that will allow creators to better control how their content is being used to train generative AI models — and give them an option to opt out. The goal is to have the new tool in place and ready to use by 2025.
In a new peek behind the curtain of its AI’s secret instructions, OpenAI also released a new NSFW policy. Though it’s intended to start a conversation about how it might allow explicit images and text in its AI products, it raises questions about whether OpenAI — or any generative AI vendor — can be trusted to handle sensitive content ethically.
In a new partnership, OpenAI will get access to developer platform Stack Overflow’s API and will get feedback from developers to improve the performance of their AI models. In return, OpenAI will include attributions to Stack Overflow in ChatGPT. However, the deal was not favorable to some Stack Overflow users — leading to some sabotaging their answer in protest.
Alden Global Capital-owned newspapers, including the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Denver Post, are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. The lawsuit alleges that the companies stole millions of copyrighted articles “without permission and without payment” to bolster ChatGPT and Copilot.
OpenAI has partnered with another news publisher in Europe, London’s Financial Times, that the company will be paying for content access. “Through the partnership, ChatGPT users will be able to see select attributed summaries, quotes and rich links to FT journalism in response to relevant queries,” the FT wrote in a press release.
OpenAI is opening a new office in Tokyo and has plans for a GPT-4 model optimized specifically for the Japanese language. The move underscores how OpenAI will likely need to localize its technology to different languages as it expands.
According to Reuters, OpenAI’s Sam Altman hosted hundreds of executives from Fortune 500 companies across several cities in April, pitching versions of its AI services intended for corporate use.
Premium ChatGPT users — customers paying for ChatGPT Plus, Team or Enterprise — can now use an updated and enhanced version of GPT-4 Turbo. The new model brings with it improvements in writing, math, logical reasoning and coding, OpenAI claims, as well as a more up-to-date knowledge base.
You can now use ChatGPT without signing up for an account, but it won’t be quite the same experience. You won’t be able to save or share chats, use custom instructions, or other features associated with a persistent account. This version of ChatGPT will have “slightly more restrictive content policies,” according to OpenAI. When TechCrunch asked for more details, however, the response was unclear:
“The signed out experience will benefit from the existing safety mitigations that are already built into the model, such as refusing to generate harmful content. In addition to these existing mitigations, we are also implementing additional safeguards specifically designed to address other forms of content that may be inappropriate for a signed out experience,” a spokesperson said.
TechCrunch found that the OpenAI’s GPT Store is flooded with bizarre, potentially copyright-infringing GPTs. A cursory search pulls up GPTs that claim to generate art in the style of Disney and Marvel properties, but serve as little more than funnels to third-party paid services and advertise themselves as being able to bypass AI content detection tools.
In a court filing opposing OpenAI’s motion to dismiss The New York Times’ lawsuit alleging copyright infringement, the newspaper asserted that “OpenAI’s attention-grabbing claim that The Times ‘hacked’ its products is as irrelevant as it is false.” The New York Times also claimed that some users of ChatGPT used the tool to bypass its paywalls.
At a SXSW 2024 panel, Peter Deng, OpenAI’s VP of consumer product dodged a question on whether artists whose work was used to train generative AI models should be compensated. While OpenAI lets artists “opt out” of and remove their work from the datasets that the company uses to train its image-generating models, some artists have described the tool as onerous.
ChatGPT’s environmental impact appears to be massive. According to a report from The New Yorker, ChatGPT uses an estimated 17,000 times the amount of electricity than the average U.S. household to respond to roughly 200 million requests each day.
OpenAI released a new Read Aloud feature for the web version of ChatGPT as well as the iOS and Android apps. The feature allows ChatGPT to read its responses to queries in one of five voice options and can speak 37 languages, according to the company. Read aloud is available on both GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 models.
As part of a new partnership with OpenAI, the Dublin City Council will use GPT-4 to craft personalized itineraries for travelers, including recommendations of unique and cultural destinations, in an effort to support tourism across Europe.
New York-based law firm Cuddy Law was criticized by a judge for using ChatGPT to calculate their hourly billing rate. The firm submitted a $113,500 bill to the court, which was then halved by District Judge Paul Engelmayer, who called the figure “well above” reasonable demands.
ChatGPT users found that ChatGPT was giving nonsensical answers for several hours, prompting OpenAI to investigate the issue. Incidents varied from repetitive phrases to confusing and incorrect answers to queries. The issue was resolved by OpenAI the following morning.
The dating app giant home to Tinder, Match and OkCupid announced an enterprise agreement with OpenAI in an enthusiastic press release written with the help of ChatGPT. The AI tech will be used to help employees with work-related tasks and come as part of Match’s $20 million-plus bet on AI in 2024.
As part of a test, OpenAI began rolling out new “memory” controls for a small portion of ChatGPT free and paid users, with a broader rollout to follow. The controls let you tell ChatGPT explicitly to remember something, see what it remembers or turn off its memory altogether. Note that deleting a chat from chat history won’t erase ChatGPT’s or a custom GPT’s memories — you must delete the memory itself.
Initially limited to a small subset of free and subscription users, Temporary Chat lets you have a dialogue with a blank slate. With Temporary Chat, ChatGPT won’t be aware of previous conversations or access memories but will follow custom instructions if they’re enabled.
But, OpenAI says it may keep a copy of Temporary Chat conversations for up to 30 days for “safety reasons.”
Paid users of ChatGPT can now bring GPTs into a conversation by typing “@” and selecting a GPT from the list. The chosen GPT will have an understanding of the full conversation, and different GPTs can be “tagged in” for different use cases and needs.
Screenshots provided to Ars Technica found that ChatGPT is potentially leaking unpublished research papers, login credentials and private information from its users. An OpenAI representative told Ars Technica that the company was investigating the report.
OpenAI has been told it’s suspected of violating European Union privacy, following a multi-month investigation of ChatGPT by Italy’s data protection authority. Details of the draft findings haven’t been disclosed, but in a response, OpenAI said: “We want our AI to learn about the world, not about private individuals.”
In an effort to win the trust of parents and policymakers, OpenAI announced it’s partnering with Common Sense Media to collaborate on AI guidelines and education materials for parents, educators and young adults. The organization works to identify and minimize tech harms to young people and previously flagged ChatGPT as lacking in transparency and privacy.
After a letter from the Congressional Black Caucus questioned the lack of diversity in OpenAI’s board, the company responded. The response, signed by CEO Sam Altman and Chairman of the Board Bret Taylor, said building a complete and diverse board was one of the company’s top priorities and that it was working with an executive search firm to assist it in finding talent.
In a blog post, OpenAI announced price drops for GPT-3.5’s API, with input prices dropping to 50% and output by 25%, to $0.0005 per thousand tokens in, and $0.0015 per thousand tokens out. GPT-4 Turbo also got a new preview model for API use, which includes an interesting fix that aims to reduce “laziness” that users have experienced.
OpenAI has suspended AI startup Delphi, which developed a bot impersonating Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) to help bolster his presidential campaign. The ban comes just weeks after OpenAI published a plan to combat election misinformation, which listed “chatbots impersonating candidates” as against its policy.
Beginning in February, Arizona State University will have full access to ChatGPT’s Enterprise tier, which the university plans to use to build a personalized AI tutor, develop AI avatars, bolster their prompt engineering course and more. It marks OpenAI’s first partnership with a higher education institution.
After receiving the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for her novel The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy, author Rie Kudan admitted that around 5% of the book quoted ChatGPT-generated sentences “verbatim.” Interestingly enough, the novel revolves around a futuristic world with a pervasive presence of AI.
In a conversation with Bill Gates on the Unconfuse Me podcast, Sam Altman confirmed an upcoming release of GPT-5 that will be “fully multimodal with speech, image, code, and video support.” Altman said users can expect to see GPT-5 drop sometime in 2024.
OpenAI is forming a Collective Alignment team of researchers and engineers to create a system for collecting and “encoding” public input on its models’ behaviors into OpenAI products and services. This comes as a part of OpenAI’s public program to award grants to fund experiments in setting up a “democratic process” for determining the rules AI systems follow.
In a blog post, OpenAI announced users will not be allowed to build applications for political campaigning and lobbying until the company works out how effective their tools are for “personalized persuasion.”
Users will also be banned from creating chatbots that impersonate candidates or government institutions, and from using OpenAI tools to misrepresent the voting process or otherwise discourage voting.
The company is also testing out a tool that detects DALL-E generated images and will incorporate access to real-time news, with attribution, in ChatGPT.
In an unannounced update to its usage policy, OpenAI removed language previously prohibiting the use of its products for the purposes of “military and warfare.” In an additional statement, OpenAI confirmed that the language was changed in order to accommodate military customers and projects that do not violate their ban on efforts to use their tools to “harm people, develop weapons, for communications surveillance, or to injure others or destroy property.”
Aptly called ChatGPT Team, the new plan provides a dedicated workspace for teams of up to 149 people using ChatGPT as well as admin tools for team management. In addition to gaining access to GPT-4, GPT-4 with Vision and DALL-E3, ChatGPT Team lets teams build and share GPTs for their business needs.
After some back and forth over the last few months, OpenAI’s GPT Store is finally here. The feature lives in a new tab in the ChatGPT web client, and includes a range of GPTs developed both by OpenAI’s partners and the wider dev community.
To access the GPT Store, users must be subscribed to one of OpenAI’s premium ChatGPT plans — ChatGPT Plus, ChatGPT Enterprise or the newly launched ChatGPT Team.
Following a proposed ban on using news publications and books to train AI chatbots in the U.K., OpenAI submitted a plea to the House of Lords communications and digital committee. OpenAI argued that it would be “impossible” to train AI models without using copyrighted materials, and that they believe copyright law “does not forbid training.”
OpenAI published a public response to The New York Times’s lawsuit against them and Microsoft for allegedly violating copyright law, claiming that the case is without merit.
In the response, OpenAI reiterates its view that training AI models using publicly available data from the web is fair use. It also makes the case that regurgitation is less likely to occur with training data from a single source and places the onus on users to “act responsibly.”
After being delayed in December, OpenAI plans to launch its GPT Store sometime in the coming week, according to an email viewed by TechCrunch. OpenAI says developers building GPTs will have to review the company’s updated usage policies and GPT brand guidelines to ensure their GPTs are compliant before they’re eligible for listing in the GPT Store. OpenAI’s update notably didn’t include any information on the expected monetization opportunities for developers listing their apps on the storefront.
In an email, OpenAI detailed an incoming update to its terms, including changing the OpenAI entity providing services to EEA and Swiss residents to OpenAI Ireland Limited. The move appears to be intended to shrink its regulatory risk in the European Union, where the company has been under scrutiny over ChatGPT’s impact on people’s privacy.
ChatGPT is a general-purpose chatbot that uses artificial intelligence to generate text after a user enters a prompt, developed by tech startup OpenAI. The chatbot uses GPT-4, a large language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text.
November 30, 2022 is when ChatGPT was released for public use.
Both the free version of ChatGPT and the paid ChatGPT Plus are regularly updated with new GPT models. The most recent model is GPT-4o.
There is a free version of ChatGPT that only requires a sign-in in addition to the paid version, ChatGPT Plus.
Anyone can use ChatGPT! More and more tech companies and search engines are utilizing the chatbot to automate text or quickly answer user questions/concerns.
Multiple enterprises utilize ChatGPT, although others may limit the use of the AI-powered tool.
Most recently, Microsoft announced at its 2023 Build conference that it is integrating it ChatGPT-based Bing experience into Windows 11. A Brooklyn-based 3D display startup Looking Glass utilizes ChatGPT to produce holograms you can communicate with by using ChatGPT. And nonprofit organization Solana officially integrated the chatbot into its network with a ChatGPT plug-in geared toward end users to help onboard into the web3 space.
GPT stands for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer.
A chatbot can be any software/system that holds dialogue with you/a person but doesn’t necessarily have to be AI-powered. For example, there are chatbots that are rules-based in the sense that they’ll give canned responses to questions.
ChatGPT is AI-powered and utilizes LLM technology to generate text after a prompt.
Yes.
Due to the nature of how these models work, they don’t know or care whether something is true, only that it looks true. That’s a problem when you’re using it to do your homework, sure, but when it accuses you of a crime you didn’t commit, that may well at this point be libel.
We will see how handling troubling statements produced by ChatGPT will play out over the next few months as tech and legal experts attempt to tackle the fastest moving target in the industry.
Yes, there is a free ChatGPT mobile app for iOS and Android users.
It’s not documented anywhere that ChatGPT has a character limit. However, users have noted that there are some character limitations after around 500 words.
Yes, it was released March 1, 2023.
Everyday examples include programming, scripts, email replies, listicles, blog ideas, summarization, etc.
Advanced use examples include debugging code, programming languages, scientific concepts, complex problem solving, etc.
It depends on the nature of the program. While ChatGPT can write workable Python code, it can’t necessarily program an entire app’s worth of code. That’s because ChatGPT lacks context awareness — in other words, the generated code isn’t always appropriate for the specific context in which it’s being used.
Yes. OpenAI allows users to save chats in the ChatGPT interface, stored in the sidebar of the screen. There are no built-in sharing features yet.
Yes. There are multiple AI-powered chatbot competitors such as Together, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude, and developers are creating open source alternatives.
OpenAI has said that individuals in “certain jurisdictions” (such as the EU) can object to the processing of their personal information by its AI models by filling out this form. This includes the ability to make requests for deletion of AI-generated references about you. Although OpenAI notes it may not grant every request since it must balance privacy requests against freedom of expression “in accordance with applicable laws”.
The web form for making a deletion of data about you request is entitled “OpenAI Personal Data Removal Request”.
In its privacy policy, the ChatGPT maker makes a passing acknowledgement of the objection requirements attached to relying on “legitimate interest” (LI), pointing users towards more information about requesting an opt out — when it writes: “See here for instructions on how you can opt out of our use of your information to train our models.”
Recently, Discord announced that it had integrated OpenAI’s technology into its bot named Clyde where two users tricked Clyde into providing them with instructions for making the illegal drug methamphetamine (meth) and the incendiary mixture napalm.
An Australian mayor has publicly announced he may sue OpenAI for defamation due to ChatGPT’s false claims that he had served time in prison for bribery. This would be the first defamation lawsuit against the text-generating service.
CNET found itself in the midst of controversy after Futurism reported the publication was publishing articles under a mysterious byline completely generated by AI. The private equity company that owns CNET, Red Ventures, was accused of using ChatGPT for SEO farming, even if the information was incorrect.
Several major school systems and colleges, including New York City Public Schools, have banned ChatGPT from their networks and devices. They claim that the AI impedes the learning process by promoting plagiarism and misinformation, a claim that not every educator agrees with.
There have also been cases of ChatGPT accusing individuals of false crimes.
Several marketplaces host and provide ChatGPT prompts, either for free or for a nominal fee. One is PromptBase. Another is ChatX. More launch every day.
Poorly. Several tools claim to detect ChatGPT-generated text, but in our tests, they’re inconsistent at best.
No. But OpenAI recently disclosed a bug, since fixed, that exposed the titles of some users’ conversations to other people on the service.
None specifically targeting ChatGPT. But OpenAI is involved in at least one lawsuit that has implications for AI systems trained on publicly available data, which would touch on ChatGPT.
Yes. Text-generating AI models like ChatGPT have a tendency to regurgitate content from their training data. | {
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"Over the next few weeks, we’ll be updating all the news from OpenAI as it happens on our live blog. Follow along with us!",
"OpenAI announced “12 Days of OpenAI,” which will feature livestreams every weekday starting December 5 at 10 a.m. PT. Each day’s stream is said to include either a product launch or a demo in varying sizes.",
"At the New York Times’ Dealbook Summit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that ChatGPT has surpassed 300 million weekly active users. The milestone comes just a few months after the chatbot hit 200 million weekly active users in August 2024 and just over a year after reaching 100 million weekly active users in November 2023.",
"ChatGPT users discovered an interesting phenomenon: the popular chatbot refused to answer questions asked about a “David Mayer,” and asking it to do so caused it to freeze up instantly. While the strange behavior spawned conspiracy theories, and a slew of other names being impacted, a much more ordinary reason may be at the heart of it: digital privacy requests.",
"OpenAI is toying with the idea of getting into ads. CFO Sarah Friar told the Financial Times it’s weighing an ads business model, with plans to be “thoughtful” about when and where ads appear — though she later stressed that the company has “no active plans to pursue advertising.” Still, the exploration may raise eyebrows given that Sam Altman recently said ads would be a “last resort.”",
"A group of Canadian media companies, including the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail, have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI. The companies behind the suit said that OpenAI infringed their copyrights and are seeking to win monetary damages — and ban OpenAI from making further use of their work.",
"OpenAI announced that its GPT-4o model has been updated to feature more “natural” and “engaging” creative writing abilities as well as more thorough responses and insights when accessing files uploaded by users.",
"ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode feature is expanding to the web, allowing users to talk to the chatbot through their browser. The conversational feature is rolling out to ChatGPT’s paying Plus, Enterprise, Teams, or Edu subscribers.",
"OpenAI announced the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS can now read code in a handful of developer-focused coding apps, such as VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, Terminal, and iTerm2 — meaning that developers will no longer have to copy and paste their code into ChatGPT. When the feature is enabled, OpenAI will automatically send the section of code you’re working on through its chatbot as context, alongside your prompt.",
"Lilian Weng announced on X that she is departing OpenAI. Weng served as VP of research and safety since August, and before that was the head of OpenAI’s safety systems team. It’s the latest in a long string of AI safety researchers,policy researchers, and other executives who have exited the company in the last year.",
"OpenAI stated that it told around 2 million users of ChatGPT to go elsewhere for information about the 2024 U.S. election, and instead recommended trusted news sources like Reuters and the Associated Press.",
"In a blog post, OpenAI said that ChatGPT sent roughly a million people to CanIVote.org when they asked questions specific to voting in the lead-up to the election and rejected around 250,000 requests to generate images of the candidates over the same period.",
"Adding to its collection of high-profile domain names, Chat.com now redirects to ChatGPT. Last year, it was reported that HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah acquired Chat.com for $15.5 million, making it one of the top two all-time publicly reported domain sales — though OpenAI declined to state how much it paid for it.",
"The former head of Meta’s augmented reality glasses efforts is joining OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware. Kalinowski is a hardware executive who began leading Meta’s AR glasses team in March 2022. She oversaw the creation of Orion, the impressive augmented reality prototype that Meta recently showed off at its annual Connect conference.",
"Apple is including an option to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus inside its Settings app, according to an update to the iOS 18.2 beta spotted by 9to5Mac. This will give Apple users a direct route to sign up for OpenAI’s premium subscription plan, which costs $20 a month.",
"In a Reddit AMA, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted that a lack of compute capacity is one major factor preventing the company from shipping products as often as it’d like, including the vision capabilities for Advanced Voice Mode first teased in May. Altman also indicated that the next major release of DALL-E, OpenAI’s image generator, has no launch timeline, and that Sora, OpenAI’s video-generating tool, has also been held back.",
"Altman also admitted to using ChatGPT “sometimes” to answer questions throughout the AMA.",
"OpenAI launched ChatGPT Search, an evolution of the SearchGPT prototype it unveiled this summer. Powered by a fine-tuned version of OpenAI’s GPT-4o model, ChatGPT Search serves up information and photos from the web along with links to relevant sources, at which point you can ask follow-up questions to refine an ongoing search.",
"OpenAI has rolled out Advanced Voice Mode to ChatGPT’s desktop apps for macOS and Windows. For Mac users, that means that both ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode can coexist with Siri on the same device, leading the way for ChatGPT’s Apple Intelligence integration.",
"Reuters reports that OpenAI is working with TSMC and Broadcom to build an in-house AI chip, which could arrive as soon as 2026. It appears, at least for now, the company has abandoned plans to establish a network of factories for chip manufacturing and is instead focusing on in-house chip design.",
"OpenAI announced it’s rolling out a feature that allows users to search through their ChatGPT chat histories on the web. The new feature will let users bring up an old chat to remember something or pick back up a chat right where it was left off.",
"With the release of iOS 18.1, Apple Intelligence features powered by ChatGPT are now available to users. The ChatGPT features include integrated writing tools, image cleanup, article summaries, and a typing input for the redesigned Siri experience.",
"OpenAI denied reports that it is intending to release an AI model, code-named Orion, by December of this year. An OpenAI spokesperson told TechCrunch that they “don’t have plans to release a model code-named Orion this year,” but that leaves OpenAI substantial wiggle room.",
"OpenAI has begun previewing a dedicated Windows app for ChatGPT. The company says the app is an early version and is currently only available to ChatGPT Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu users with a “full experience” set to come later this year.",
"OpenAI struck a content deal with Hearst, the newspaper and magazine publisher known for the San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, ELLE, and others. The partnership will allow OpenAI to surface stories from Hearst publications with citations and direct links.",
"OpenAI introduced a new way to interact with ChatGPT called “Canvas.” The canvas workspace allows for users to generate writing or code, then highlight sections of the work to have the model edit. Canvas is rolling out in beta to ChatGPT Plus and Teams, with a rollout to come to Enterprise and Edu tier users next week.",
"OpenAI has closed the largest VC round of all time. The startup announced it raised $6.6 billion in a funding round that values OpenAI at $157 billion post-money. Led by previous investor Thrive Capital, the new cash brings OpenAI’s total raised to $17.9 billion, per Crunchbase.",
"At the first of its 2024 Dev Day events, OpenAI announced a new API tool that will let developers build nearly real-time, speech-to-speech experiences in their apps, with the choice of using six voices provided by OpenAI. These voices are distinct from those offered for ChatGPT, and developers can’t use third party voices, in order to prevent copyright issues.",
"OpenAI is planning to raise the price of individual ChatGPT subscriptions from $20 per month to $22 per month by the end of the year, according to a report from The New York Times. The report notes that a steeper increase could come over the next five years; by 2029, OpenAI expects it’ll charge $44 per month for ChatGPT Plus.",
"OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announced that she is leaving the company after more than six years. Hours after the announcement, OpenAI’s chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, also left the company. CEO Sam Altman revealed the two latest resignations in a post on X, along with leadership transition plans.",
"After a delay, OpenAI is finally rolling out Advanced Voice Mode to an expanded set of ChatGPT’s paying customers. AVM is also getting a revamped design — the feature is now represented by a blue animated sphere instead of the animated black dots that were presented back in May. OpenAI is highlighting improvements in conversational speed, accents in foreign languages, and five new voices as part of the rollout.",
"A video from YouTube creator ChromaLock showcased how to modify a TI-84 graphing calculator so that it can connect to the internet and access ChatGPT, touting it as the “ultimate cheating device.” As demonstrated in the video, it’s a pretty complicated process for the average high school student to follow — but it might stoke more concerns from teachers about the ongoing concerns about ChatGPT and cheating in schools.",
"OpenAI unveiled a preview of OpenAI o1, also known as “Strawberry.” The collection of models are available in ChatGPT and via OpenAI’s API: o1-preview and o1 mini. The company claims that o1 can more effectively reason through math and science and fact-check itself by spending more time considering all parts of a command or question.",
"Unlike ChatGPT, o1 can’t browse the web or analyze files yet, is rate-limited and expensive compared to other models. OpenAI says it plans to bring o1-mini access to all free users of ChatGPT, but hasn’t set a release date.",
"An artist and hacker found a way to jailbreak ChatGPT to produce instructions for making powerful explosives, a request that the chatbot normally refuses. An explosives expert who reviewed the chatbot’s output told TechCrunch that the instructions could be used to make a detonatable product and was too sensitive to be released.",
"OpenAI announced it has surpassed 1 million paid users for its versions of ChatGPT intended for businesses, including ChatGPT Team, ChatGPT Enterprise and its educational offering, ChatGPT Edu. The company said that nearly half of OpenAI’s corporate users are based in the US.",
"Volkswagen is taking its ChatGPT voice assistant experiment to vehicles in the United States. Its ChatGPT-integrated Plus Speech voice assistant is an AI chatbot based on Cerence’s Chat Pro product and a LLM from OpenAI and will begin rolling out on September 6 with the 2025 Jetta and Jetta GLI models.",
"As part of the new deal, OpenAI will surface stories from Condé Nast properties like The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Appétit and Wired in ChatGPT and SearchGPT. Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch implied that the “multi-year” deal will involve payment from OpenAI in some form and a Condé Nast spokesperson told TechCrunch that OpenAI will have permission to train on Condé Nast content.",
"TechCrunch’s Maxwell Zeff has been playing around with OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode, in what he describes as “the most convincing taste I’ve had of an AI-powered future yet.” Compared to Siri or Alexa, Advanced Voice Mode stands out with faster response times, unique answers and the ability to answer complex questions. But the feature falls short as an effective replacement for virtual assistants.",
"OpenAI has banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts linked to an Iranian influence operation that was generating content about the U.S. presidential election. OpenAI identified five website fronts presenting as both progressive and conservative news outlets that used ChatGPT to draft several long-form articles, though it doesn’t seem that it reached much of an audience.",
"OpenAI has found that GPT-4o, which powers the recently launched alpha of Advanced Voice Mode in ChatGPT, can behave in strange ways. In a new “red teaming” report, OpenAI reveals some of GPT-4o’s weirder quirks, like mimicking the voice of the person speaking to it or randomly shouting in the middle of a conversation.",
"After a big jump following the release of OpenAI’s new GPT-4o “omni” model, the mobile version of ChatGPT has now seen its biggest month of revenue yet. The app pulled in $28 million in net revenue from the App Store and Google Play in July, according to data provided by app intelligence firm Appfigures.",
"OpenAI has built a watermarking tool that could potentially catch students who cheat by using ChatGPT — but The Wall Street Journal reports that the company is debating whether to actually release it. An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that the company is researching tools that can detect writing from ChatGPT, but said it’s taking a “deliberate approach” to releasing it.",
"OpenAI is giving users their first access to GPT-4o’s updated realistic audio responses. The alpha version is now available to a small group of ChatGPT Plus users, and the company says the feature will gradually roll out to all Plus users in the fall of 2024. The release follows controversy surrounding the voice’s similarity to Scarlett Johansson, leading OpenAI to delay its release.",
"OpenAI is testing SearchGPT, a new AI search experience to compete with Google. SearchGPT aims to elevate search queries with “timely answers” from across the internet, as well as the ability to ask follow-up questions. The temporary prototype is currently only available to a small group of users and its publisher partners, like The Atlantic, for testing and feedback.",
"A new report from The Information, based on undisclosed financial information, claims OpenAI could lose up to $5 billion due to how costly the business is to operate. The report also says the company could spend as much as $7 billion in 2024 to train and operate ChatGPT.",
"OpenAI released its latest small AI model, GPT-4o mini. The company says GPT-4o mini, which is cheaper and faster than OpenAI’s current AI models, outperforms industry leading small AI models on reasoning tasks involving text and vision. GPT-4o mini will replace GPT-3.5 Turbo as the smallest model OpenAI offers.",
"OpenAI announced a partnership with the Los Alamos National Laboratory to study how AI can be employed by scientists in order to advance research in healthcare and bioscience. This follows other health-related research collaborations at OpenAI, including Moderna and Color Health.",
"OpenAI announced it has trained a model off of GPT-4, dubbed CriticGPT, which aims to find errors in ChatGPT’s code output so they can make improvements and better help so-called human “AI trainers” rate the quality and accuracy of ChatGPT responses.",
"OpenAI and TIME announced a multi-year strategic partnership that brings the magazine’s content, both modern and archival, to ChatGPT. As part of the deal, TIME will also gain access to OpenAI’s technology in order to develop new audience-based products.",
"OpenAI planned to start rolling out its advanced Voice Mode feature to a small group of ChatGPT Plus users in late June, but it says lingering issues forced it to postpone the launch to July. OpenAI says Advanced Voice Mode might not launch for all ChatGPT Plus customers until the fall, depending on whether it meets certain internal safety and reliability checks.",
"ChatGPT for macOS is now available for all users. With the app, users can quickly call up ChatGPT by using the keyboard combination of Option + Space. The app allows users to upload files and other photos, as well as speak to ChatGPT from their desktop and search through their past conversations.",
"Apple announced at WWDC 2024 that it is bringing ChatGPT to Siri and other first-party apps and capabilities across its operating systems. The ChatGPT integrations, powered by GPT-4o, will arrive on iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and macOS Sequoia later this year, and will be free without the need to create a ChatGPT or OpenAI account. Features exclusive to paying ChatGPT users will also be available through Apple devices.",
"Scarlett Johansson has been invited to testify about the controversy surrounding OpenAI’s Sky voice at a hearing for the House Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation. In a letter, Rep. Nancy Mace said Johansson’s testimony could “provide a platform” for concerns around deepfakes.",
"ChatGPT was down twice in one day: one multi-hour outage in the early hours of the morning Tuesday and another outage later in the day that is still ongoing. Anthropic’s Claude and Perplexity also experienced some issues.",
"The Atlantic and Vox Media have announced licensing and product partnerships with OpenAI. Both agreements allow OpenAI to use the publishers’ current content to generate responses in ChatGPT, which will feature citations to relevant articles. Vox Media says it will use OpenAI’s technology to build “audience-facing and internal applications,” while The Atlantic will build a new experimental product called Atlantic Labs.",
"OpenAI announced a new deal with management consulting giant PwC. The company will become OpenAI’s biggest customer to date, covering 100,000 users, and will become OpenAI’s first partner for selling its enterprise offerings to other businesses.",
"OpenAI announced in a blog post that it has recently begun training its next flagship model to succeed GPT-4. The news came in an announcement of its new safety and security committee, which is responsible for informing safety and security decisions across OpenAI’s products.",
"On the The TED AI Show podcast, former OpenAI board member Helen Toner revealed that the board did not know about ChatGPT until its launch in November 2022. Toner also said that Sam Altman gave the board inaccurate information about the safety processes the company had in place and that he didn’t disclose his involvement in the OpenAI Startup Fund.",
"The launch of GPT-4o has driven the company’s biggest-ever spike in revenue on mobile, despite the model being freely available on the web. Mobile users are being pushed to upgrade to its $19.99 monthly subscription, ChatGPT Plus, if they want to experiment with OpenAI’s most recent launch.",
"After demoing its new GPT-4o model last week, OpenAI announced it is pausing one of its voices, Sky, after users found that it sounded similar to Scarlett Johansson in “Her.”",
"OpenAI explained in a blog post that Sky’s voice is “not an imitation” of the actress and that AI voices should not intentionally mimic the voice of a celebrity. The blog post went on to explain how the company chose its voices: Breeze, Cove, Ember, Juniper and Sky.",
"OpenAI announced new updates for easier data analysis within ChatGPT. Users can now upload files directly from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, interact with tables and charts, and export customized charts for presentations. The company says these improvements will be added to GPT-4o in the coming weeks.",
"OpenAI announced a partnership with Reddit that will give the company access to “real-time, structured and unique content” from the social network. Content from Reddit will be incorporated into ChatGPT, and the companies will work together to bring new AI-powered features to Reddit users and moderators.",
"OpenAI’s spring update event saw the reveal of its new omni model, GPT-4o, which has a black hole-like interface, as well as voice and vision capabilities that feel eerily like something out of “Her.” GPT-4o is set to roll out “iteratively” across its developer and consumer-facing products over the next few weeks.",
"The company announced it’s building a tool, Media Manager, that will allow creators to better control how their content is being used to train generative AI models — and give them an option to opt out. The goal is to have the new tool in place and ready to use by 2025.",
"In a new peek behind the curtain of its AI’s secret instructions, OpenAI also released a new NSFW policy. Though it’s intended to start a conversation about how it might allow explicit images and text in its AI products, it raises questions about whether OpenAI — or any generative AI vendor — can be trusted to handle sensitive content ethically.",
"In a new partnership, OpenAI will get access to developer platform Stack Overflow’s API and will get feedback from developers to improve the performance of their AI models. In return, OpenAI will include attributions to Stack Overflow in ChatGPT. However, the deal was not favorable to some Stack Overflow users — leading to some sabotaging their answer in protest.",
"Alden Global Capital-owned newspapers, including the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Denver Post, are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. The lawsuit alleges that the companies stole millions of copyrighted articles “without permission and without payment” to bolster ChatGPT and Copilot.",
"OpenAI has partnered with another news publisher in Europe, London’s Financial Times, that the company will be paying for content access. “Through the partnership, ChatGPT users will be able to see select attributed summaries, quotes and rich links to FT journalism in response to relevant queries,” the FT wrote in a press release.",
"OpenAI is opening a new office in Tokyo and has plans for a GPT-4 model optimized specifically for the Japanese language. The move underscores how OpenAI will likely need to localize its technology to different languages as it expands.",
"According to Reuters, OpenAI’s Sam Altman hosted hundreds of executives from Fortune 500 companies across several cities in April, pitching versions of its AI services intended for corporate use.",
"Premium ChatGPT users — customers paying for ChatGPT Plus, Team or Enterprise — can now use an updated and enhanced version of GPT-4 Turbo. The new model brings with it improvements in writing, math, logical reasoning and coding, OpenAI claims, as well as a more up-to-date knowledge base.",
"You can now use ChatGPT without signing up for an account, but it won’t be quite the same experience. You won’t be able to save or share chats, use custom instructions, or other features associated with a persistent account. This version of ChatGPT will have “slightly more restrictive content policies,” according to OpenAI. When TechCrunch asked for more details, however, the response was unclear:",
"“The signed out experience will benefit from the existing safety mitigations that are already built into the model, such as refusing to generate harmful content. In addition to these existing mitigations, we are also implementing additional safeguards specifically designed to address other forms of content that may be inappropriate for a signed out experience,” a spokesperson said.",
"TechCrunch found that the OpenAI’s GPT Store is flooded with bizarre, potentially copyright-infringing GPTs. A cursory search pulls up GPTs that claim to generate art in the style of Disney and Marvel properties, but serve as little more than funnels to third-party paid services and advertise themselves as being able to bypass AI content detection tools.",
"In a court filing opposing OpenAI’s motion to dismiss The New York Times’ lawsuit alleging copyright infringement, the newspaper asserted that “OpenAI’s attention-grabbing claim that The Times ‘hacked’ its products is as irrelevant as it is false.” The New York Times also claimed that some users of ChatGPT used the tool to bypass its paywalls.",
"At a SXSW 2024 panel, Peter Deng, OpenAI’s VP of consumer product dodged a question on whether artists whose work was used to train generative AI models should be compensated. While OpenAI lets artists “opt out” of and remove their work from the datasets that the company uses to train its image-generating models, some artists have described the tool as onerous.",
"ChatGPT’s environmental impact appears to be massive. According to a report from The New Yorker, ChatGPT uses an estimated 17,000 times the amount of electricity than the average U.S. household to respond to roughly 200 million requests each day.",
"OpenAI released a new Read Aloud feature for the web version of ChatGPT as well as the iOS and Android apps. The feature allows ChatGPT to read its responses to queries in one of five voice options and can speak 37 languages, according to the company. Read aloud is available on both GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 models.",
"As part of a new partnership with OpenAI, the Dublin City Council will use GPT-4 to craft personalized itineraries for travelers, including recommendations of unique and cultural destinations, in an effort to support tourism across Europe.",
"New York-based law firm Cuddy Law was criticized by a judge for using ChatGPT to calculate their hourly billing rate. The firm submitted a $113,500 bill to the court, which was then halved by District Judge Paul Engelmayer, who called the figure “well above” reasonable demands.",
"ChatGPT users found that ChatGPT was giving nonsensical answers for several hours, prompting OpenAI to investigate the issue. Incidents varied from repetitive phrases to confusing and incorrect answers to queries. The issue was resolved by OpenAI the following morning.",
"The dating app giant home to Tinder, Match and OkCupid announced an enterprise agreement with OpenAI in an enthusiastic press release written with the help of ChatGPT. The AI tech will be used to help employees with work-related tasks and come as part of Match’s $20 million-plus bet on AI in 2024.",
"As part of a test, OpenAI began rolling out new “memory” controls for a small portion of ChatGPT free and paid users, with a broader rollout to follow. The controls let you tell ChatGPT explicitly to remember something, see what it remembers or turn off its memory altogether. Note that deleting a chat from chat history won’t erase ChatGPT’s or a custom GPT’s memories — you must delete the memory itself.",
"Initially limited to a small subset of free and subscription users, Temporary Chat lets you have a dialogue with a blank slate. With Temporary Chat, ChatGPT won’t be aware of previous conversations or access memories but will follow custom instructions if they’re enabled.",
"But, OpenAI says it may keep a copy of Temporary Chat conversations for up to 30 days for “safety reasons.”",
"Paid users of ChatGPT can now bring GPTs into a conversation by typing “@” and selecting a GPT from the list. The chosen GPT will have an understanding of the full conversation, and different GPTs can be “tagged in” for different use cases and needs.",
"Screenshots provided to Ars Technica found that ChatGPT is potentially leaking unpublished research papers, login credentials and private information from its users. An OpenAI representative told Ars Technica that the company was investigating the report.",
"OpenAI has been told it’s suspected of violating European Union privacy, following a multi-month investigation of ChatGPT by Italy’s data protection authority. Details of the draft findings haven’t been disclosed, but in a response, OpenAI said: “We want our AI to learn about the world, not about private individuals.”",
"In an effort to win the trust of parents and policymakers, OpenAI announced it’s partnering with Common Sense Media to collaborate on AI guidelines and education materials for parents, educators and young adults. The organization works to identify and minimize tech harms to young people and previously flagged ChatGPT as lacking in transparency and privacy.",
"After a letter from the Congressional Black Caucus questioned the lack of diversity in OpenAI’s board, the company responded. The response, signed by CEO Sam Altman and Chairman of the Board Bret Taylor, said building a complete and diverse board was one of the company’s top priorities and that it was working with an executive search firm to assist it in finding talent.",
"In a blog post, OpenAI announced price drops for GPT-3.5’s API, with input prices dropping to 50% and output by 25%, to $0.0005 per thousand tokens in, and $0.0015 per thousand tokens out. GPT-4 Turbo also got a new preview model for API use, which includes an interesting fix that aims to reduce “laziness” that users have experienced.",
"OpenAI has suspended AI startup Delphi, which developed a bot impersonating Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) to help bolster his presidential campaign. The ban comes just weeks after OpenAI published a plan to combat election misinformation, which listed “chatbots impersonating candidates” as against its policy.",
"Beginning in February, Arizona State University will have full access to ChatGPT’s Enterprise tier, which the university plans to use to build a personalized AI tutor, develop AI avatars, bolster their prompt engineering course and more. It marks OpenAI’s first partnership with a higher education institution.",
"After receiving the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for her novel The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy, author Rie Kudan admitted that around 5% of the book quoted ChatGPT-generated sentences “verbatim.” Interestingly enough, the novel revolves around a futuristic world with a pervasive presence of AI.",
"In a conversation with Bill Gates on the Unconfuse Me podcast, Sam Altman confirmed an upcoming release of GPT-5 that will be “fully multimodal with speech, image, code, and video support.” Altman said users can expect to see GPT-5 drop sometime in 2024.",
"OpenAI is forming a Collective Alignment team of researchers and engineers to create a system for collecting and “encoding” public input on its models’ behaviors into OpenAI products and services. This comes as a part of OpenAI’s public program to award grants to fund experiments in setting up a “democratic process” for determining the rules AI systems follow.",
"In a blog post, OpenAI announced users will not be allowed to build applications for political campaigning and lobbying until the company works out how effective their tools are for “personalized persuasion.”",
"Users will also be banned from creating chatbots that impersonate candidates or government institutions, and from using OpenAI tools to misrepresent the voting process or otherwise discourage voting.",
"The company is also testing out a tool that detects DALL-E generated images and will incorporate access to real-time news, with attribution, in ChatGPT.",
"In an unannounced update to its usage policy, OpenAI removed language previously prohibiting the use of its products for the purposes of “military and warfare.” In an additional statement, OpenAI confirmed that the language was changed in order to accommodate military customers and projects that do not violate their ban on efforts to use their tools to “harm people, develop weapons, for communications surveillance, or to injure others or destroy property.”",
"Aptly called ChatGPT Team, the new plan provides a dedicated workspace for teams of up to 149 people using ChatGPT as well as admin tools for team management. In addition to gaining access to GPT-4, GPT-4 with Vision and DALL-E3, ChatGPT Team lets teams build and share GPTs for their business needs.",
"After some back and forth over the last few months, OpenAI’s GPT Store is finally here. The feature lives in a new tab in the ChatGPT web client, and includes a range of GPTs developed both by OpenAI’s partners and the wider dev community.",
"To access the GPT Store, users must be subscribed to one of OpenAI’s premium ChatGPT plans — ChatGPT Plus, ChatGPT Enterprise or the newly launched ChatGPT Team.",
"Following a proposed ban on using news publications and books to train AI chatbots in the U.K., OpenAI submitted a plea to the House of Lords communications and digital committee. OpenAI argued that it would be “impossible” to train AI models without using copyrighted materials, and that they believe copyright law “does not forbid training.”",
"OpenAI published a public response to The New York Times’s lawsuit against them and Microsoft for allegedly violating copyright law, claiming that the case is without merit.",
"In the response, OpenAI reiterates its view that training AI models using publicly available data from the web is fair use. It also makes the case that regurgitation is less likely to occur with training data from a single source and places the onus on users to “act responsibly.”",
"After being delayed in December, OpenAI plans to launch its GPT Store sometime in the coming week, according to an email viewed by TechCrunch. OpenAI says developers building GPTs will have to review the company’s updated usage policies and GPT brand guidelines to ensure their GPTs are compliant before they’re eligible for listing in the GPT Store. OpenAI’s update notably didn’t include any information on the expected monetization opportunities for developers listing their apps on the storefront.",
"In an email, OpenAI detailed an incoming update to its terms, including changing the OpenAI entity providing services to EEA and Swiss residents to OpenAI Ireland Limited. The move appears to be intended to shrink its regulatory risk in the European Union, where the company has been under scrutiny over ChatGPT’s impact on people’s privacy.",
"ChatGPT is a general-purpose chatbot that uses artificial intelligence to generate text after a user enters a prompt, developed by tech startup OpenAI. The chatbot uses GPT-4, a large language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text.",
"November 30, 2022 is when ChatGPT was released for public use.",
"Both the free version of ChatGPT and the paid ChatGPT Plus are regularly updated with new GPT models. The most recent model is GPT-4o.",
"There is a free version of ChatGPT that only requires a sign-in in addition to the paid version, ChatGPT Plus.",
"Anyone can use ChatGPT! More and more tech companies and search engines are utilizing the chatbot to automate text or quickly answer user questions/concerns.",
"Multiple enterprises utilize ChatGPT, although others may limit the use of the AI-powered tool.",
"Most recently, Microsoft announced at its 2023 Build conference that it is integrating it ChatGPT-based Bing experience into Windows 11. A Brooklyn-based 3D display startup Looking Glass utilizes ChatGPT to produce holograms you can communicate with by using ChatGPT. And nonprofit organization Solana officially integrated the chatbot into its network with a ChatGPT plug-in geared toward end users to help onboard into the web3 space.",
"GPT stands for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer.",
"A chatbot can be any software/system that holds dialogue with you/a person but doesn’t necessarily have to be AI-powered. For example, there are chatbots that are rules-based in the sense that they’ll give canned responses to questions.",
"ChatGPT is AI-powered and utilizes LLM technology to generate text after a prompt.",
"Yes.",
"Due to the nature of how these models work, they don’t know or care whether something is true, only that it looks true. That’s a problem when you’re using it to do your homework, sure, but when it accuses you of a crime you didn’t commit, that may well at this point be libel.",
"We will see how handling troubling statements produced by ChatGPT will play out over the next few months as tech and legal experts attempt to tackle the fastest moving target in the industry.",
"Yes, there is a free ChatGPT mobile app for iOS and Android users.",
"It’s not documented anywhere that ChatGPT has a character limit. However, users have noted that there are some character limitations after around 500 words.",
"Yes, it was released March 1, 2023.",
"Everyday examples include programming, scripts, email replies, listicles, blog ideas, summarization, etc.",
"Advanced use examples include debugging code, programming languages, scientific concepts, complex problem solving, etc.",
"It depends on the nature of the program. While ChatGPT can write workable Python code, it can’t necessarily program an entire app’s worth of code. That’s because ChatGPT lacks context awareness — in other words, the generated code isn’t always appropriate for the specific context in which it’s being used.",
"Yes. OpenAI allows users to save chats in the ChatGPT interface, stored in the sidebar of the screen. There are no built-in sharing features yet.",
"Yes. There are multiple AI-powered chatbot competitors such as Together, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude, and developers are creating open source alternatives.",
"OpenAI has said that individuals in “certain jurisdictions” (such as the EU) can object to the processing of their personal information by its AI models by filling out this form. This includes the ability to make requests for deletion of AI-generated references about you. Although OpenAI notes it may not grant every request since it must balance privacy requests against freedom of expression “in accordance with applicable laws”.",
"The web form for making a deletion of data about you request is entitled “OpenAI Personal Data Removal Request”.",
"In its privacy policy, the ChatGPT maker makes a passing acknowledgement of the objection requirements attached to relying on “legitimate interest” (LI), pointing users towards more information about requesting an opt out — when it writes: “See here for instructions on how you can opt out of our use of your information to train our models.”",
"Recently, Discord announced that it had integrated OpenAI’s technology into its bot named Clyde where two users tricked Clyde into providing them with instructions for making the illegal drug methamphetamine (meth) and the incendiary mixture napalm.",
"An Australian mayor has publicly announced he may sue OpenAI for defamation due to ChatGPT’s false claims that he had served time in prison for bribery. This would be the first defamation lawsuit against the text-generating service.",
"CNET found itself in the midst of controversy after Futurism reported the publication was publishing articles under a mysterious byline completely generated by AI. The private equity company that owns CNET, Red Ventures, was accused of using ChatGPT for SEO farming, even if the information was incorrect.",
"Several major school systems and colleges, including New York City Public Schools, have banned ChatGPT from their networks and devices. They claim that the AI impedes the learning process by promoting plagiarism and misinformation, a claim that not every educator agrees with.",
"There have also been cases of ChatGPT accusing individuals of false crimes.",
"Several marketplaces host and provide ChatGPT prompts, either for free or for a nominal fee. One is PromptBase. Another is ChatX. More launch every day.",
"Poorly. Several tools claim to detect ChatGPT-generated text, but in our tests, they’re inconsistent at best.",
"No. But OpenAI recently disclosed a bug, since fixed, that exposed the titles of some users’ conversations to other people on the service.",
"None specifically targeting ChatGPT. But OpenAI is involved in at least one lawsuit that has implications for AI systems trained on publicly available data, which would touch on ChatGPT.",
"Yes. Text-generating AI models like ChatGPT have a tendency to regurgitate content from their training data."
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Syrian government forces pull out of Hama after rebel advance | Hama fighting follows surprise capture of Aleppo last week
Syrian rebels ousted pro-government forces from Hama on Thursday, bringing the insurgents a major new victory after a lightning advance across northern Syria and dealing a new blow to President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian and Iranian allies.
The Syrian army announced that the rebels had entered Hama after intense clashes and said it was redeploying outside the city "to preserve civilians lives and prevent urban combat."
Rebels said they had taken districts in the city's northeast and had seized the central prison, freeing detainees.
Rebels said they were preparing to keep marching south towards Homs, Syria's great crossroads city that links the capital Damascus to the north and coast.
"Your time has come," said a rebel operations room in an online post, calling on city residents to rise up in revolution.
Al Jazeera television broadcast what it said were images of rebels inside the city, some of them meeting civilians near a roundabout while others drove in military vehicles and on mopeds.
The rebels took the main northern city of Aleppo last week and have since pushed south from their enclave in northwest Syria, reaching a strategic hill just north of Hama on Tuesday and advancing toward the city's east and west flanks on Wednesday.
Hama has remained in government hands throughout the civil war, which erupted in 2011 as a rebellion against Assad. Its fall to a revived insurgency would send shockwaves through Damascus and its Russian and Iranian allies.
The city lies more than a third of the way from Aleppo to Damascus and its capture would open the road for a rebel advance on Homs, the main central city that functions as a crossroads connecting Syria's most populous regions.
Inside Hama, the scene of an Islamist uprising that the Assad dynasty crushed in 1982, the internet was cut off and streets emptied on Wednesday according to a resident whose family remain in the city.
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday there is an urgent need for immediate humanitarian access to all civilians in need in Syria and a return to a UN-facilitated political process to end the bloodshed.
He urged "all those with influence to do their part for the long-suffering people" of Syria and said all parties are obligated to protect civilians.
Rebel leader warns Iraqi PM
The most powerful rebel faction is the militant Sunni Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the former al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria. Abu Mohammed al-Golani, its leader, has pledged to protect Syria's religious minorities and has called on them to abandon Assad, but many remain fearful of the insurgents.
Golani on Thursday in a video statement urged Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani not to allow the country's Iran-aligned Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) to intervene in Syria.
The PMF, known as the Hashd al-Shaabi in Arabic, contains many Iran-backed armed factions that previously fought in Syria to help Assad retake territory that fell to rebels in the early years of the Syrian war.
"We urge and hope Iraqi politicians, first and foremost Mohammed Shia al-Sudani … do their duty to prevent the Iraqi Hashd al-Shaabi's intervention in what is happening in Syria," Jolani said.
The PMF has said that it is not deployed in Syria, and commanders within it have said they would only do so on orders from their leadership.
Reuters reported earlier this week that several hundred Iraqi militia fighters had deployed to Syria to help the government fight rebels who seized Aleppo last week.
Golani said the fighting in Syria would not expand to Iraq, as rebel forces wanted strategic economic and political relations with Baghdad after achieving their goal of overthrowing the current Assad regime.
On Wednesday, Golani visited Aleppo's historic citadel, a symbolic moment for rebels who were driven out of the city in 2016 after months of siege and intense fighting, their biggest defeat of the war.
Turkey denies involvement
Sudani said this week Iraq would exert all efforts to preserve the security of both that country and Syria, according to the official readout of his call with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.
Aleppo was Syria's biggest city before the war. HTS and the other rebel groups are trying to consolidate their rule in Aleppo, bringing it under the administration of the so-called Salvation Government they established in their northwestern enclave.
Aleppo residents have said there are shortages of bread and fuel and that telecom services have been cut.
The rebel forces advancing on Hama have included a Turkey-backed insurgent coalition called the Syrian National Army, which holds a strip of territory along the Syrian-Turkish frontier, rebel sources said.
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Mafia-employed nun among 25 arrested in northern Italy | A nun is among 24 people arrested in northern Italy in connection with a mafia investigation, Italian police have said.
The nun, named in Italian press as Sister Anna Donelli, was arrested for allegedly acting as a go-between for the 'Ndrangheta mafia and its jailed gang members.
Police also arrested two politicians and seized more than €1.8m (£1.5m) worth of assets in raids across several towns in the Lombardy and Veneto regions, as well as Calabria in the south.
The arrests are a result of a four-year investigation into the 'Ndrangheta, which is one of Europe's most influential and dangerous criminal organisations.
Statements released by the coalition of law enforcement agencies behind the sting detail allegations that the nun leveraged her position as a volunteer at the prison.
The Brescia Carabinieri said she was an unsuspecting figure, whose religious role allowed her "free access to the penitentiary facilities".
Police statements did not identify the politicians or any others targeted in the investigation.
The operation is continuing, with hundreds of police officers conducting searches across northern Italy.
They are aided by sniffer dog units searching for weapons and drugs, as well as "cash dogs" which are trained to search for cash, police said.
Investigators allege the group primarily used scrap metal trade businesses as a front to launder money, totalling approximately €12m in laundered cash, prosecutors said.
Originating in the impoverished region of Calabria, the 'Ndrangheta is considered one of the world's most dangerous criminal organisations.
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Holiday app Festivitas puts Xmas lights on your Mac | Getting into the holiday spirit but still stuck at work? A cute new macOS app called Festivitas can help you decorate your Mac computer screen with twinkling, holiday lights that are strung up from your menu bar and illuminate your dock.
This whimsical holiday treat was dreamed up by software developer Simon B. Støvring, the maker of other iOS apps favored by developers like text editor Runestone, scripting app Scriptable, JSON editor Jayson, and others. He’s been teasing the app on social media in the days ahead of its launch, showing off different customizations he added.
At launch, you’re able to adjust things like the cable thickness, size of lights, distance apart, drop height and width, flashing pattern, speed of flash, and colors. You can also switch to white lights instead of colored and can optionally disable the lights in the dock or menu bar, per your preferences.
That way, if you find the lights are distracting you from seeing, say, your important Slack notifications in the dock, you could simply turn the dock lights off during your workday. Or, if the menu bar lights are in the way of your collection of open Chrome tabs, you could choose to adjust the drop height so the lights sit above the tabs, for instance.
The app, which requires macOS 14.6 or later, has to be enabled in the Mac’s Accessibility settings to work. (It’s a simple toggle switch, however). Afterwards, the lights are automatically added to your Mac and you can tweak their look and customize them to your preferences. To turn them off, you can just quit the app from the menu bar or dock.
The new app is available as a name-your-own-price download from the Festivitas website.
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The 34 Best Movies on Hulu This Week (December 2024) | Thelma, Gladiator, and Kinds of Kindness are just a few of the movies you need to watch on Hulu right now.
In 2017, Hulu made television history by becoming the first streaming network to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, thanks to the phenomenon that was The Handmaid’s Tale.
While Netflix has largely cornered the streaming market on original movies—and even managed to persuade A-listers like Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, and Martin Scorsese to come aboard—Hulu is starting to find its footing in features too. Below are some of our top picks for the best movies (original and otherwise) streaming on Hulu right now.
Still looking for more great titles to add to your queue? Check out WIRED’s guides to the best TV shows on Hulu, best movies on Netflix, the best movies on Disney+, and the best movies on Amazon Prime. Don't like our picks, or want to offer suggestions of your own? Head to the comments below.
Gladiator
Nearly a quarter century before Paul Mescal was avenging the death of his family in Gladiator II, Russell Crowe was the one swinging swords to avenge his own loved ones in Ridley Scott’s Oscar-winning epic. Maximus Decimus Meridius (Crowe) is a celebrated general who Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) personally seeks out to act as regent and help restore the Roman Republic to its former glory. It’s a request that doesn’t sit well with Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), the Emperor’s son and presumed successor. So he does what any spoiled brat would do: murders his dad, has Maximus’ wife and child killed, and attempts to enslave his enemy. But Commodus wasn’t counting on the lengths to which Maximus will go in order to get his revenge.
Thelma
June Squibb is the action hero you didn’t know you needed. In the decade since her Oscar-nominated turn in Alexander Payne’s Nebraska, the 95-year-old actress has become one of Hollywood’s most in-demand actors. Here, she plays the eponymous grandma who is swindled out of $10,000 by a phone scammer targeting elderly citizens. When the authorities seem reluctant to take any real action, Thelma grabs a gun and her motorized scooter and takes the law into her own hands. Best of all? This vigilante comedy is based on writer-director Josh Margolin’s own grandmother.
Ad Astra
At an unspecified date in the near future, US Space Command Major Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) learns that mysterious power surges originating from an old space station are posing a threat to Earth. When he finds out that the activity can be traced back to the Lima Project—a search for extraterrestrial life led by his father, H. Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee Jones), who has been lost in space for 30 years—Roy journeys into the unknown. When cowriter/director James Gray announced the project, he very boldly stated that he was hoping to create “the most realistic depiction of space travel that's been put in a movie.” Did he succeed? Watch and make your own determination.
La La Land
La La Land is the musical that famously won, then lost, the Oscar for Best Picture at the 89th Academy Awards. (The award was meant for Moonlight, and the mistake was quickly—and quite memorably—corrected in the midst of the acceptance speeches.) None of which takes away from the six Oscars the film did win, including Best Director for Damien Chazelle and Best Supporting Actress for Emma Stone. Nor does it detract from the movie’s dazzling spectacle of bright colors, infectious music, and dreamy dance sequences, as an aspiring actress (Stone) and old-school jazz musician (Ryan Gosling) meet and fall in love, then attempt to weather the challenges of any romantic relationship.
Late Night With the Devil
In the 1970s, Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchian) is a late-night talk show host who is constantly chasing Johnny Carson’s ratings but simply cannot compete. He scores the highest ratings of his career when he sits down for an interview with his beloved wife, Madeleine (Georgina Haig), who is dying of cancer. When she passes away shortly afterward, Jack halts production on his show entirely. When he’s eventually ready to come back to work he’s even more determined to compete with Carson, so he decides to throw an occult-themed Halloween show for the ages, complete with a psychic (Fayssal Bazzi), a parapsychologist (Laura Gordon), and a possessed teen (Ingrid Torelli) who seems to know more about Jack and Madeleine’s relationship than he bargained for. Many critics have deemed Late Night With the Devil the best horror movie of the year—and with good reason.
Babes
Pamela Adlon’s directorial debut does for motherhood what Bridesmaids did for marriage. New Yorkers Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau) are lifelong best friends with decades of history and traditions but now find themselves facing very different chapters in their lives. Dawn, who is struggling with postpartum depression, is trying hard to balance the demands of being a working mom and partner to her husband, while Eden has never been burdened by such demands. But when she discovers she’s pregnant after a one-night stand and determines that she is ready to be a single mom, their friendship begins to fracture in ways they never would have imagined. Glazer and Buteau’s chemistry as BFFs is undeniable in this brash comedy that isn’t always pretty, in part because of its brutal honesty.
The First Omen
True to its title, the sixth film in The Omen franchise is a prequel to the 1976 horror classic that birthed it. If you weren’t aware that there were half a dozen films in this series, there’s a reason for that: Aside from the Richard Donner–directed original, they’re just not very good. But nearly 50 years later, The First Omen has breathed new life into this seemingly tired premise. It’s 1971, and Margaret (Nell Tiger Free), a young American novitiate, travels to Rome to work at an orphanage. She quickly forms a bond with Carlita (Nicole Sorace), one of the older wards, who is plagued by terrible visions. Despite warnings from the head priest (Ralph Ineson) that “evil things” will happen if she engages with Carlita, Margaret is convinced she can help the young girl. If you know anything about The Omen movies, you probably know where this is headed: Satanic kids bearing the mark of the devil (666) abound. Despite it being somewhat predictable, the film is well acted and well made—and could very likely spawn more entries.
Kinds of Kindness
Just three months after Poor Things scored four Oscar wins, Yorgos Lanthimos got much of the gang back together—including Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, and Margaret Qualley—for Kinds of Kindness, which debuted at Cannes. Unlike his previous works, this one is an anthology film, or what came to be marketed as a “triptych fable.” Just like the writer-director’s other movies, it is born from a place of absurdist comedy and over-the-top performances from its stars. Sex cults, reanimation, sandwiches, murder-happy bosses, and John McEnroe’s smashed tennis racket all play a part in the wildly fun festivities.
Little Women
Greta Gerwig is far (far) from the first writer-director to adapt Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women for the big screen. And she’s certainly not the first person to do an admirable job of it. (Gillian Armstrong’s 1994 version starring Winona Ryder and Christian Bale is still a much beloved interpretation.) Yet Gerwig made the 19th century tale seem practically modern-day, and different from all the rest, with seemingly small decisions like playing with the novel’s timelines. It also doesn’t hurt that it just happens to star some of the most impressive actors working today, including Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, James Norton, Laura Dern, Chris Cooper, Tracy Letts, Meryl Streep, and Bob Odenkirk.
Immaculate
Sydney Sweeney produced this religious horror flick and also stars as Cecilia, a young nun (yep, you read that right) whose traumatic brush with death has convinced her that God saved her for a higher purpose. When she is invited to join a convent in the remote Italian countryside that assists older nuns at the end of their life, she happily accepts—then quickly comes to realize that all may not be what it seems.
Ferrari
Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) is a man who should have it all: the one-time race car driver and founder of the Ferrari car company oozes charm, wealth, and excitement. But behind the scenes, the walls are closing in on him. Set during the summer of 1957, Michael Mann’s biopic finds Ferrari (the man) on the verge of bankruptcy, mourning the death of his son, and desperately trying to hide his past indiscretions from his estranged wife—who helped build the car company and who holds the key to his financial future. Though the film earned mixed reviews, it does a solid job of telling the complex story of a complicated man. But it’s biggest selling point is Penélope Cruz’s bravura performance.
Perfect Days
Nearly 60 years into his career as a filmmaker, Wim Wenders managed to make one of his best films yet with Perfect Days—which is saying a lot when you consider that this is the same director who made Paris, Texas (1984) and Wings of Desire (1987). Hirayama (Kōji Yakusho) is a toilet cleaner in Tokyo who is blissfully content with the simplicity of his life, as it allows him the time to indulge his more personal passions: music (he’s an avid collector of cassette tapes and allows his favorite music to set the soundtrack to his life), books, and nature. The movie is not punctuated by any overly dramatic storylines; just the quiet interactions that Hirayama has with those around him—family, coworkers, total strangers—and the way those interludes impact him. It’s that poetic simplicity, and Yakusho’s wonderful performance, that gives the film its heart.
Origin
Writer-director Ava DuVernay finds a way to yet again change the language of cinema with what is both a biopic and a historical document. The movie is based on the life of Isabel Wilkerson (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor), the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism for her work at The New York Times. It follows Wilkerson’s journey to write her 2020 book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents—a project that took her from the US to Germany to India to research the troubling history of each country’s caste system and the parallels that exist between them.
Fight Club
An office drone (Edward Norton) with a love of catalog shopping and self-help groups meets a rebellious soap maker (Brad Pitt) on a flight. Then doesn’t seem able to shake him. But doesn’t really seem to want to, especially when they realize that beating the shit out of each other is a great way to relieve the stress of everyday life. Soon, they’ve assembled an army of Fight Club members who are ready to take on the world. It’s been 25 years since David Fincher’s adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s bestselling novel turned a generation of moviegoers on their head, and even though the film was a bit of a bomb when it was released in theaters, it has since gained a massive cult following—and even spawned some very real fight clubs.
The Contestant
On January 11, 1998, 22-year-old comedian Tomoaki Hamatsu entered an apartment in Japan where he lived, nude and with no human contact, for 15 months as part of an understandably controversial game show titled Susunu! Denpa Shōnen. Hamatsu had no idea his life was being broadcast. This riveting documentary delves into not just how anyone ever allowed this experiment to happen, but the real-world effects—cultural, psychological, and beyond—it had on both Hamatsu and the tens of millions of viewers who were somehow drawn into witnessing his on-camera abuse.
Anatomy of a Fall
Between her starring roles in The Zone of Interest and Anatomy of a Fall, German actress Sandra Hüller made it clear that when it comes to scripts, she knows how to pick ’em. In this compelling courtroom drama, Hüller plays a successful writer turned murder suspect when her husband (Samuel Theis) is found dead outside their home on a snowy day. Ultimately, it might be her son (Milo Machado-Graner) and/or his guide dog (Messi, the movie’s real star) who ultimately seal Sandra’s fate. It’s a smart, twisty, and well-acted mystery that will keep you guessing.
Poor Things
Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) is a young woman with the brain of an infant who is brought back to life by the lovably mad scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter, aka God (Willem Dafoe). But Bella is a fast learner and is intrigued by the many adventures the world has to offer her—regardless of what polite society dictates. Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef, and Christopher Abbott are among the men who are entranced by Bella’s frankness (“I must go punch that baby”) in what is undoubtedly the most over-the-top title in Yorgos Lanthimos’ filmography—which is saying a lot. One caveat: Those who are easily offended by nudity or graphic sex might want to give this a skip.
BlackBerry
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s Glenn Howerton is practically unrecognizable in this immensely entertaining recounting of the rise and fall of BlackBerry—the must-have cell phone that had the world entranced before the iPhone came along. Howerton costars as Jim Balsillie, the very real negotiator who, alongside Mike Lazaridis (Jay Baruchel), gave the world its first smartphone. Which is a lot more dramatic (and darkly humorous) than it sounds.
The Royal Hotel
Ozark star Julia Garner reunites with director Kitty Green (The Assistant) for this taut psychological thriller in which BFFs Hanna (Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick) decide to backpack their way through the Australian outback. When they’re offered the chance to live and work at a remote hotel in order to replenish their dwindling bank accounts, they jump at the chance—despite Hanna feeling that something isn’t quite right with their place of employment or its clientele. She’s on to something. Garner has played one badass character after the next, and The Royal Hotel is no exception.
All of Us Strangers
Adam (the always superb Andrew Scott) is a television writer who largely keeps to himself, until an awkward encounter with his tipsy neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal) kickstarts a passionate new relationship. But when he’s not in London with Harry, Adam is returning to the suburban home where he grew up—and where he encounters and is able to interact with his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), despite their having died 30 years ago. In the hands of a lesser director, the fantastical elements could seem forced. But with Andrew Haigh (Weekend, 45 Years) behind the camera, the surreal setup only augments the emotion.
The Creator
Director Gareth Edwards (Rogue One) imagines a not-too-distant future in which the human race is at war with AI—which feels all too relatable for some. John David Washington (Tenet star/son of Denzel) is the world’s best hope for putting an end to this battle once and for all when he’s tasked with tracking down the eponymous Creator, the architect behind the technology that has created this world upheaval. While there are some undeniable plot holes, the Oscar-nominated film’s stellar set pieces and first-class acting talent make this a must-see film for sci-fi fans.
Self Reliance
New Girl’s Jake Johnson makes his feature directorial debut with this wonderfully weird and occasionally dark meta comedy, which he also wrote and stars in. Tommy Walcott (Johnson) is living a pretty ordinary existence until he’s approached by Andy Samberg (as Andy Samberg), who offers him the chance of a lifetime: the opportunity to win $1 million as part of a massive reality competition. The only thing Tommy needs to do is not get murdered for 30 days, despite being hunted by dozens of contract killers whose job is to ensure that no contestant walks away with the big prize. The catch? Contestants can only be killed when they’re entirely alone. So Tommy takes it upon himself to partner up with another contestant, which is where Maddy (Anna Kendrick) comes in. Since they both have a cool mil to gain and a lot to lose (aka their lives) if they don’t triumph, they make a pact to spend every waking moment of the next 30 days together. Just when you think you know where Self Reliance is headed, it goes ahead and surprises—and in the best ways possible.
No One Will Save You
Home invasion thrillers are never in short supply, but the really effective ones are hard to come by. Kaitlyn Dever shines—and proves yet again that she can shoulder the weight of an entire film—as Brynn Adams, a seamstress living a solitary existence in her childhood home and mourning the loss of her mother and closest friend. When she wakes up one night to discover that someone is in her house, that someone turns out to be something. A home invasion thriller with extraterrestrials might not have been on your must-watch Bingo card, but No One Will Save You is 93 minutes well spent.
Miguel Wants to Fight
Miguel (Tyler Dean Flores) is 17 years old and has never been in a fight. So when he learns that he’ll be moving away from the place and people he has known all his life, he enlists his pals to help him get into his first fistfight. It’s probably not the first coming-of-age ritual to spring to mind, but it’s certainly among them. A talented cast of young actors make this comedy—cowritten by Shea Serrano and Jason Concepcion—immensely watchable.
Sanctuary
Hal Porterfield (Christopher Abbott) has just been handed the keys to the castle following the death of his hotel magnate father. Rebecca Marin (Margaret Qualley) is a dominatrix who believes she deserves some of the credit—and half the cash—that comes with Hal’s new CEO position. Sexual politics have rarely played out as twisted, or darkly funny, as they do in this mesmerizing, and often claustrophobic, thriller from Zachary Wigon.
Corsage
Vicky Krieps delivers yet another top-notch performance as Empress Elisabeth of Austria, who—following her 40th birthday—longs to recapture the freedom of her youth. Marie Kreutzer writes and directs this fictional biopic (Empress Elisabeth is real, though the story told within takes plenty of creative liberties), which sees the royal rebelling against her lack of power to affect any real change, despite her title. Even more so, it’s about a woman who is desperate to hold on to the power that youth and beauty entitle her to—regardless of the consequences.
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Environmentalism meets heist movie in director Daniel Goldhaber's thriller about a group of young people who try to—as the title implies—expose the fragility of the oil industry. It's not often that a movie examining the fight against the climate crisis is also an edge-of-your-seat adventure, but here those elements come together beautifully. (You can give cinematographer Tehillah de Castro a bit of credit for that.) Smart, prescient, and nearly unprecedented, How to Blow Up a Pipeline is more than worth the stream.
Alien
Alien was originally released in 1979, but it has lost none of its potency in the intervening years—which isn’t something most fortysomethings could say. By now you probably know the story: The crew aboard the spacecraft Nostromo, including warrant officer Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), put a presumably slight pause on their trip back to Earth in order to respond to a distress call from a nearby planetoid. But what they discover is a bizarre alien life form that seems to delight in knocking off crew members in new—and frequently terrifying—ways. Can you say Facehugger? Or Chestburster? Alien is also noteworthy for being the film that kicked off a bona fide, and legendary, sci-fi/horror franchise—and introduced the world to Ridley Scott, who changed the genre game yet again with his next feature, Blade Runner.
Rye Lane
Raine Allen-Miller made a splash at Sundance in 2023 with her directorial debut, which offers a playful twist on the typical rom-com. Yas (Vivian Oparah) and Dom (David Jonsson) are both twentysomethings reeling from recent break-ups. After a chance—and rather awkward—first meeting, the pair spend a day wandering around South London, bonding over their shared experience, finding cheeky ways to get over the mourning of their previous relationships, and maybe discovering that romance is not dead after all.
Triangle of Sadness
Think of it like Gilligan’s Island, but with more class commentary and vomit. When a bunch of rich people head out to sea on a luxury yacht, their plans are thwarted when a terrible storm leaves many of them stranded on a beach where none of their money or power can help them survive. That already gives away too much, but suffice to say, if you like The Menu-esque critiques of the excesses of wealth with just as many dark-comedy twists, this Oscar-nominated film is right for you.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
OK, so this might be the movie that turned the idea of “lesbian period drama” into a trope, but it’s also one of the best modern queer romance films around, alongside Moonlight and Carol. Set on an isolated French coast in the late-1700s, writer-director Céline Sciamma’s film centers on a young aristocrat woman, Héloïse (Adèle Haenel), who is betrothed to a wealthy Milanese man. When Héloïse’s mother hires Marianne (Noémie Merlant) to paint a portrait of her daughter, the two women fall in love and have the kind of heartbreaking affair that made lesbian period dramas so undeniable in the first place. You’ll be transfixed.
Nomadland
This film from director Chloé Zhao, about one woman’s post–Great Recession quest through the American West, won a ton of Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actress for lead Frances McDormand, and Best Director and Best Editing wins for Zhao. Zhao also won for Best Adapted Screenplay for her adaptation of WIRED contributor Jessica Bruder’s book, also called Nomadland. It’s a bracing look at the modern American dream.
Fresh
Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones) is a single woman who is on the lookout for a partner but tired of the online dating scene. When she meets Steve (Sebastian Stan), a quirky, handsome stranger, she decides to give him her number. The two hit it off on the first date and eventually find themselves making plans to spend a weekend away—which is when Noa realizes that Steve has been hiding a few disturbing details about himself. Ultimately, Fresh stands as a lesson in the horrors of dating in the digital age (both real and imagined).
Palm Springs
Given the existence of Harold Ramis’ near-perfect Groundhog Day, it takes a whole lot of chutzpah for a filmmaker to add another picture to the infinite-time-loop rom-com canon. But writer-director Max Barbakow did it anyway with Palm Springs, and audiences are thankful he did. Building upon the rules originally established in Groundhog Day, Palm Springs offers its own unique twist on the story. Instead of showing one person (Bill Murray’s Phil Conners) slowly being pushed to the brink of insanity because he’s the only one who seems to be experiencing the phenomenon, Palm Springs has three wedding guests—Nyles (Andy Samberg), Sarah (Cristin Milioti), and Roy (J. K. Simmons)—living the same day again and again and working together to find a way out of it. | {
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"True to its title, the sixth film in The Omen franchise is a prequel to the 1976 horror classic that birthed it. If you weren’t aware that there were half a dozen films in this series, there’s a reason for that: Aside from the Richard Donner–directed original, they’re just not very good. But nearly 50 years later, The First Omen has breathed new life into this seemingly tired premise. It’s 1971, and Margaret (Nell Tiger Free), a young American novitiate, travels to Rome to work at an orphanage. She quickly forms a bond with Carlita (Nicole Sorace), one of the older wards, who is plagued by terrible visions. Despite warnings from the head priest (Ralph Ineson) that “evil things” will happen if she engages with Carlita, Margaret is convinced she can help the young girl. If you know anything about The Omen movies, you probably know where this is headed: Satanic kids bearing the mark of the devil (666) abound. Despite it being somewhat predictable, the film is well acted and well made—and could very likely spawn more entries."
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"Just three months after Poor Things scored four Oscar wins, Yorgos Lanthimos got much of the gang back together—including Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, and Margaret Qualley—for Kinds of Kindness, which debuted at Cannes. Unlike his previous works, this one is an anthology film, or what came to be marketed as a “triptych fable.” Just like the writer-director’s other movies, it is born from a place of absurdist comedy and over-the-top performances from its stars. Sex cults, reanimation, sandwiches, murder-happy bosses, and John McEnroe’s smashed tennis racket all play a part in the wildly fun festivities."
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"Little Women"
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"Greta Gerwig is far (far) from the first writer-director to adapt Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women for the big screen. And she’s certainly not the first person to do an admirable job of it. (Gillian Armstrong’s 1994 version starring Winona Ryder and Christian Bale is still a much beloved interpretation.) Yet Gerwig made the 19th century tale seem practically modern-day, and different from all the rest, with seemingly small decisions like playing with the novel’s timelines. It also doesn’t hurt that it just happens to star some of the most impressive actors working today, including Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, James Norton, Laura Dern, Chris Cooper, Tracy Letts, Meryl Streep, and Bob Odenkirk."
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"Immaculate"
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"Sydney Sweeney produced this religious horror flick and also stars as Cecilia, a young nun (yep, you read that right) whose traumatic brush with death has convinced her that God saved her for a higher purpose. When she is invited to join a convent in the remote Italian countryside that assists older nuns at the end of their life, she happily accepts—then quickly comes to realize that all may not be what it seems."
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"Ferrari"
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"Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) is a man who should have it all: the one-time race car driver and founder of the Ferrari car company oozes charm, wealth, and excitement. But behind the scenes, the walls are closing in on him. Set during the summer of 1957, Michael Mann’s biopic finds Ferrari (the man) on the verge of bankruptcy, mourning the death of his son, and desperately trying to hide his past indiscretions from his estranged wife—who helped build the car company and who holds the key to his financial future. Though the film earned mixed reviews, it does a solid job of telling the complex story of a complicated man. But it’s biggest selling point is Penélope Cruz’s bravura performance."
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France’s Notre Dame Cathedral reopens 5 years after shocking blaze | Notre Dame will formally reopen Saturday, five years after the Paris cathedral was devastated by fire, with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump among world leaders there to celebrate its remarkably rapid restoration.
Held up as an example of French creativity and resilience by President Emmanuel Macron, Notre Dame's renaissance so soon after a 2019 blaze that destroyed its roof and spire comes at a difficult time for the country.
The sense of national accomplishment in restoring a beloved symbol of Paris has been undercut by political turmoil that has left France without a proper government and in a budget crisis.
Macron is hoping that the first full service inside Notre Dame and the sight of around 40 world leaders in Paris might provide a fleeting sense of pride and unity — as the Paris Olympics did in July and August.
The reopening "is the proof that we know how to do grand things, we know how to do the impossible and the whole world has admired us for it on two occasions this year," Macron said during a televised address on Thursday, referring to the widely praised Olympics.
During a visit with TV cameras last week, however, he somewhat undermined the suspense behind the reopening, revealing the cathedral's freshly scrubbed limestone walls, new furniture and vaulted wooden roof cut from ancient oak trees selected from the finest forests of France.
The reconstruction effort has cost around $750 million, financed from donations, with the reopening achieved within five years despite predictions it could take decades.
Workers had to overcome problems with lead pollution, the COVID-19 epidemic, and the general overseeing the project falling to his death while hiking in the Pyrenees last year.
Trump show?
While the reborn 12th-century architectural masterpiece will be the main focus of public attention on Saturday, TV cameras are also likely to linger on Trump who will be making his first overseas trip since winning reelection to the White House last month.
He accepted an invitation from Macron to attend earlier this week, saying the French leader had done "a wonderful job ensuring that Notre Dame has been restored to its full level of glory, and even more so."
U.S. President Joe Biden will be represented by his wife, Jill, while Britain's Prince William and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will also be present.
Zelenskyy is expected to seek his first face-to-face meeting with Trump who has vowed to force a peace agreement to end the war in Ukraine, possibly by withholding U.S. weapon supplies.
One surprising absentee will be Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, who has decided against breaking off from a weekend trip to the French island of Corsica.
A message from Francis addressed to the French people will be read out to the congregation of VIPs, church figures and selected members of the public when the service begins on Saturday evening.
'Universal sadness'
Parisians watched in horror in 2019 as flames ravaged Notre Dame, a landmark famed as the setting for Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame and one of the world's most-visited monuments.
The apocalyptic images were even seen by some as a sign of the demise of Western civilization, with the 850-year-old wonder saved from complete collapse only by the heroic intervention of firefighters.
The exact cause of the blaze has never been identified despite a forensic investigation by prosecutors, who believe an accident such as an electrical fault was the most likely reason.
"We felt a sense of universal sadness when Notre Dame burned," said fashion designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, who has dreamed up colorful new priestly vestments that will be worn by senior clergy on Saturday.
"It was a moment of terrible emotions, like a premonition of our world in difficulty," he told AFP recently.
The service will feature prayer, organ music and hymns from the cathedral's choir, followed by a televised concert with performances by Chinese piano virtuoso Lang Lang, South African opera singer Pretty Yende and possibly American singer and fashion designer Pharrell Williams.
Harsh weather forced officials to move Macron's planned speech indoors and prerecord the concert Friday night, with forecasts for winds of up to 80 kph as Storm Darragh put parts of France on red alert.
On Sunday, the first Mass with 170 bishops and more than 100 Paris priests will take place at 10:30 a.m., followed by a second service at 6:30 p.m., which will be open to the public. | {
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"\"It was a moment of terrible emotions, like a premonition of our world in difficulty,\" he told AFP recently.",
"The service will feature prayer, organ music and hymns from the cathedral's choir, followed by a televised concert with performances by Chinese piano virtuoso Lang Lang, South African opera singer Pretty Yende and possibly American singer and fashion designer Pharrell Williams.",
"Harsh weather forced officials to move Macron's planned speech indoors and prerecord the concert Friday night, with forecasts for winds of up to 80 kph as Storm Darragh put parts of France on red alert.",
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Amnesty report concludes Israel's actions against Palestinians in Gaza constitute genocide | Israeli government rejects genocide accusations, calls report 'entirely false'
A new report from Amnesty International found that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in its nearly 14-month-long campaign in Gaza that has killed more than 44,000 people and displaced most of the enclave's population.
The report, published Wednesday, said the ongoing assault on Gaza met the legal threshold for the crime of genocide after Amnesty spent months analyzing incidents and statements of Israeli officials.
"Our research reveals that, for months, Israel has persisted in committing genocidal acts, fully aware of the irreparable harm it was inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza," Amnesty International secretary general Agnès Callamard said in a news release on Wednesday.
"It continued to do so in defiance of countless warnings about the catastrophic humanitarian situation and of legally binding decisions from the International Court of Justice ordering Israel to take immediate measures to enable the provision of humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza."
The 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention created international laws criminalizing genocide, defining it as "the deliberate attempt to erase a national, ethnic, religious or racial group."
Applying these laws has been a struggle. Other genocidal acts have followed since the convention's creation — but while it may be easy to apply a label, it's not so easy to prove in law.
Israel, which has repeatedly rejected any allegation of genocide, called the report "entirely false" in a statement posted Thursday by its Foreign Affairs Ministry on X, formerly Twitter. It said Israel has respected international law and has a right to defend itself after the cross-border Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, 2023.
Callamard said while Israel argues that its actions in Gaza are lawful and can be justified by its military goal to eradicate Hamas, she said: "Genocidal intent can coexist alongside military goals and does not need to be Israel's sole intent."
The report noted that there is no casualty threshold in proving the international crime of genocide.
Palestinians face 'slow and calculated death': report
The U.K.-based human rights group said it analyzed the overall pattern of Israel's conduct in Gaza between Oct. 7, 2023 and early July.
To establish intent, Amnesty said it reviewed over 100 statements by Israeli government and military officials and others since the start of the war that "dehumanized Palestinians, called for or justified genocidal acts or other crimes against them."
It also analyzed 15 airstrikes from the start of the war until April that killed at least 334 civilians, including 141 children, and wounded hundreds of other people. It said it found no evidence that any of the strikes were directed at military objectives.
It said one of the strikes destroyed the Abdelal family home in the southern city of Rafah on April 20, killing three generations of Palestinians, including 16 children, while they were sleeping.
"Israel's military offensive has killed and seriously injured tens of thousands of Palestinians, including thousands of children, many of them in direct or indiscriminate attacks, often wiping out entire multi-generational families," the report said.
Amnesty said Israel has forcibly displaced 90 per cent of Gaza's population of roughly 2.2 million, "many of them multiple times, into ever-shrinking, ever-changing pockets of land that lacked basic infrastructure, forcing people to live in conditions that exposed them to a slow and calculated death."
'This is genocide. It must stop now'
Israel launched its air and ground war in Gaza after Hamas-led fighters attacked Israeli communities across the border 14 months ago, killing 1,200 people and taking more than 250 hostages back to Gaza, according to Israeli tallies.
Gaza's Health Ministry says that Israel's military campaign since then has killed more than 44,400 Palestinians and injured countless others. The Palestinian civil emergency service estimates that the bodies of 10,000 people may be trapped under the rubble, which would take the reported death toll to more than 50,000.
Palestinian and UN officials say there are no safe areas left in Gaza, a tiny, densely populated and heavily built-up coastal territory. Most of Gaza's population has been internally displaced, some as many as 10 times.
"Our damning findings must serve as a wake-up call to the international community: This is genocide. It must stop now," Callamard said in the report.
The United States, which has provided crucial military aid to Israel, said it believes Amnesty's allegations are "unfounded."
Amnesty International Israel, a local branch of the organization that was not involved in the report, also disputed the allegation of genocide in a rare public airing of internal dissent at the rights group, saying the report had not proved genocidal intent beyond a reasonable doubt.
However, the local branch said there were nevertheless suspicions that Israel had committed "widespread violations of international law" that "may amount to crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing."
But Amnesty International said its Israeli branch is "undergoing deep internal divisions," with a series of resignations amid accusations that Palestinians in the group had been silenced. Those accusations are "unacceptable and will be handled through Amnesty's international democratic processes." But the group defended its report overall.
'No doubt' genocide being committed: Amnesty
At hearings earlier this year before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, where Israel faces accusations of genocide brought by South Africa, lawyers for the country denied the charge. They argued that there was no genocidal intent and no genocide in Israel's conduct of the war, where the stated objective is the eradication of Hamas.
Presenting the Amnesty report to journalists in The Hague, Callamard said the conclusion had not been taken "lightly, politically or preferentially."
"There is a genocide being committed. There is no doubt, not one doubt in our mind after six months of in-depth, focused research," she told reporters.
Amnesty said it concluded that Israel and the Israeli military committed at least three of the five acts banned by the 1948 Genocide Convention, namely killings, causing serious bodily or mental harm and deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about a protected group's physical destruction, including demolishing vital infrastructure, and preventing the delivery of food, medicine and other aid.
These acts were done with the intent required by the convention, according to Amnesty, which said it reviewed more than 100 statements from Israeli officials.
Israel's military accuses Hamas of planting militants within populated neighbourhoods for operational cover, which Hamas denies, while accusing Israel of indiscriminate strikes.
ICC continues investigation into alleged crimes
Callamard said Amnesty had not set out to prove genocide, but after reviewing the evidence and statements collectively, she said it was the only possible conclusion.
"The assertion that Israel's war in Gaza aims solely to dismantle Hamas and not to physically destroy Palestinians as a national and ethnic group, that assertion simply does not stand up to scrutiny," she said.
Amnesty urged the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court — which last month issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister for war crimes and crimes against humanity directed at Palestinians in Gaza — to investigate alleged genocide.
An arrest warrant was also issued for Hamas official Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri, also known as Mohammed Deif, who is said by the Israeli military to have been killed in July. The ICC noted it can't determine whether or not Dief is alive.
Amnesty has previously joined other major human rights groups in accusing Israel of the international crime of apartheid, saying that for decades it has systematically denied Palestinians basic rights in the territories under its control. Israel has also denied those allegations.
The office of the prosecutor said in a statement that it is continuing investigations into alleged crimes committed in the Palestinian territories and is unable to provide further comment. | {
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"\"Our research reveals that, for months, Israel has persisted in committing genocidal acts, fully aware of the irreparable harm it was inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza,\" Amnesty International secretary general Agnès Callamard said in a news release on Wednesday.",
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Newcastle news: Boss Eddie Howe disagrees with current PSR rule application | Newcastle United manager Eddie Howe says the way spending rules in football are working at the moment is "not right".
The Magpies were forced to sell players in the summer to balance the books under Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR).
Elliot Anderson and Yankuba Minteh both left Tyneside for fees in excess of £30m, to Nottingham Forest and Brighton, respectively.
And Howe, speaking on former Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan's podcast Up Front, admitted: "I felt really uncomfortable in the summer when we were forced to make sales of two really talented young players in Elliot Anderson and Yankuba Minteh, against our will really for financial reasons.
"One was an academy product we'd invested in since he joined the club as a young lad. You just think, 'why are we doing this? This doesn't feel right'.
"I understand the rules to a degree. I understand the concept but I think how it is fundamentally working at the moment is not right."
Last season, Forest were deducted four points for breaching PSR in the 2022-23 campaign.
Everton had an initial 10-point deduction reduced to six, before being docked a further two points for a second breach.
While Howe understood the intention of PSR, he felt it could be applied better.
"The buying and selling of players has always been such a good thing for the game," he added.
"It brings intrigue and so much to the game, but now it's almost gone against that.
"It's purpose was to do one thing but in reality it has turned into something totally different."
When the Magpies were taken over in the October 2021 by a consortium backed by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia, Newcastle became the richest club in the world.
PIF were worth around £320bn at the time of the takeover, but haven't been able to invest much of their wealth into the club since then.
Newcastle were one of four Premier League clubs who opposed the vote to change APT (Associated Party Transactions) rules in November, following Manchester City's lawsuit against the league.
These rules mean clubs can only agree commercial and sponsorship rules with companies that are of "fair market value".
Asked by Jordan whether he agreed with the way the current spending rules are impacting football, Howe said: "No, I don't.
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Universal Plug-and-Charge for EV Charging Stations Is Set to Launch in 2025 | Next year, you won’t need to download yet another app to use an EV charger from an unfamiliar brand. Most of the major EV makers and charging networks are on board.
To fill a car with gas, you generally just need a credit card or cash. To charge an EV at a DC fast-charging station, you need any number of things to work—a credit card reader, an app for that charger's network, a touchscreen that's working—and they're all a little different.
That situation could change next year if a new “universal Plug and Charge” initiative from SAE International, a group of EV carmakers and chargers, moves ahead and gains ground. Launching in early 2025, the network could make charging an EV actually easier than gassing up: Plug in, let the car and charger figure out the payment details over a cloud connection, and go.
Some car and charging network combinations already offer such a system through a patchwork of individual deals, as listed at Inside EVs. Teslas have always offered a plug-and-charge experience, given the tight integration between its Superchargers and vehicles. Now Tesla will join the plug-and-charge movement proper, allowing Teslas to have a roughly similar experience at other stations.
The Electric Vehicle Public Key Infrastructure, or EVPKI, has a good number of the major players on board, and it builds on the ISO standard (15118) to make it faster and more secure for cars to be authenticated and authorized to charge at stations. A whole bunch of certificates are in place at every step of the charging process, as detailed in an EVPKI presentation, and the system includes a Certified Trust List. With an open standard and authentication system, there should be room for new charging networks and vehicle makers.
Charging networks can and likely will continue to offer incentives for brand loyalty, whether through apps or rewards points. But new EV owners will not have to do quite so much work to figure out “the good ones” while on road trips.
By getting cars linked up to key-based authentication systems, there is also the chance that this initiative will also push forward vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging, in which the huge batteries in cars can be used to balance regional power loads and make the grid more resilient.
“We are rapidly approaching a future where every EV driver can just plug in, charge up, and go; the network will talk to your car and process the payment seamlessly,” Gabe Klein, executive director of the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, said in a statement. “This is a fundamental step in architecture toward enabling bidirectional charging and true vehicle-to-grid integration, the holy grail for energy and transportation.” The Joint Office is a collaboration between the Departments of Energy and Transportation.
The EV Hummer-sized elephant in the room is how the incoming Trump administration, with its stated opposition to the Biden administration's EV policies, could affect this initiative. Klein told The Verge that, with buy-in and real work done by automakers and the industry—including the Elon Musk–led Tesla—"the ship has sort of sailed, if you will.”
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