bitchy | Prince William ‘started grieving for his brother’ at the Sandringham Summit
It’s pretty funny that British broadcasters are still making documentaries about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. They keep turning over all of the bad decisions made by the Windsors and twisting themselves into pretzels to blame everything on Harry and Meghan. The revisionist history is particularly wild because there are so many legitimate avenues…
Elon Musk Returns to His Tech Empire, Facing Questions of Inattention
As Mr. Musk steps away from Washington, he faces concerns over his prolonged absence from his businesses including Tesla, SpaceX, xAI and X.
At Least 27 Killed After Israeli Soldiers Open Fire Near Gaza Aid Site
The Israeli military said its troops fired on people who strayed from a designated route toward a food distribution site. It was the latest deadly incident involving a contentious new aid system.
The global temperature may be even higher than we thought
Global warming is making wildfires more frequent and more destructive Noah Berger/Associated Press/Alamy The world has warmed even more than we thought, according to a new dataset suggesting the temperature rise since pre-industrial times is 6 per cent higher than previous estimates. That would put us on track to breach the Paris climate goal of…
TikTok is working again | The Verge
TikTok is back online after a brief outage last night. Many people started reporting problems with the platform just after 11PM ET, noting that while TikTok wasn’t completely offline, it was definitely dealing with some kind of technical issues that impacted users trying to access the service and view video comments. Based on reports from…
Luke Weaver injury: Yankees could lose closer for 4-6 weeks with hamstring injury, per report
Imagn Images The New York Yankees could be without their top reliever for more than a month. Righty Luke Weaver strained his hamstring while warming up for the ninth inning of Sunday’s win over the Los Angeles Dodgers (NY 7, LA 3) and could miss 4-6 weeks, reports ESPN. The Yankees had an off-day Monday…
What We Can Learn About Xi’s Rule by Studying His Father’s Life
Xi Zhongxun was purged by the Communist Party he served and went on to help reform Chinese politics. His son is the most authoritarian leader since Mao.
She Crowdfunded Surgery to Repair Damage From Genital Cutting
Shamsa Sharawe made her name campaigning against female genital cutting. Then she heard about surgery to rebuild what had been taken from her.
Enterprise alert: PostgreSQL just became the database you can’t ignore for AI applications
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The open-source PostgreSQL (sometimes also referred to as Postgres) is apparently a very hot commodity for big enterprise data platform vendors. Snowflake is acquiring privately-held PostgreSQL provider Crunchy Data, in a deal that is reportedly valued…