NewsFeed Israel bombed Beirut’s southern suburbs for the first time since the ‘ceasefire’ took effect on April 17. Video shows extensive damage to a multi-storey building in a densely populated neighbourhood. Israel killed at least 13 people in Lebanon on Wednesday as they have also continued to strike southern and eastern Lebanon. Published On 6…
Meta is beefing up its age-verification mechanisms with an AI system that analyzes images and videos on Instagram and Facebook for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure, to identify and delete accounts of users under the age of 13. The company announced the move amid a wave of cases in which hundreds of…
Trump’s U-turn and hopes of a deal ease tensions in energy markets.
Testimony from billionaire’s confidante Shivon Zilis reveals wrangling over the future of the AI lab that led to lawsuit
Secessionists in the western Canadian province of Alberta recently announced that they have gathered enough signatures to launch a referendum on independence from the rest of the country. Leading secessionists said that they formally submitted about 300,000 signatures to election authorities earlier this week, far more than the 178,000 required for the province to consider…
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EXCLUSIVE: Kelly Marie Tran (Star Wars: The Last Jedi), Ilia Isorelýs Paulino (The Sex Lives of College Girls), Ashley Reyes (Walker), and Jamie Neumann (The Deuce) are starring in Quads & The Kicker. Ranch Productions has started principal photography on the neo-noir thriller written and directed by Heidi James, inspired by the Off-Broadway play Never The Same Rhyme…
Gold steadied after its biggest daily advance since end-March, as hopes of a US-Iran deal sent oil prices plunging and eased inflation concerns.
SpaceX pens a new deal with Anthropic as Elon Musk sues competitor OpenAI for allegedly backtracking on its mission. Published On 6 May 20266 May 2026 Anthropic has reached a deal to tap the computing resources of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, marking a detente with its one-time critic and a boost for both companies in the…
Iryna Tolmachova/Shutterstock Philippe Dufresne, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, has found OpenAI was “not compliant with” Canadian federal and provincial privacy laws in the training of its AI models. Following an investigation, Dufresne and his counterparts in Alberta, Quebec and British Columbia say OpenAI’s approach to things…
