The measure has long been criticised for allowing US intelligence agencies to collect citizen data without a warrant. Published On 17 Apr 202617 Apr 2026 The United States Congress has temporarily extended a controversial surveillance law which allows federal intelligence agencies to collect the data of foreigners, including their contacts with US citizens. The move…
Netflix stock fell 10% Friday, with many Wall Street analysts raising questions about the company’s strategic direction. The company’s first-quarter results, released after the close of Thursday trading, beat expectations for revenue and earnings, but its financial guidance for the second quarter undershot analysts’ forecasts. That shortfall and the news that co-founder and longtime ex-CEO…
Prime Minister Mark Carney has set up a meeting and a new office to speed project approvals and make Canada more attractive to investors.
AI coding startup Cursor is nearing new funding in which the four-year-old company would raise at least $2 billion in fresh capital, according to four sources familiar with the matter. Returning investors Thrive and Andreessen Horowitz are expected to lead the financing at a $50 billion valuation, prior to the new capital injection, the people…
The country’s creaking electricity grid is lagging behind its push for renewable sources — just as its growing economy hungers for oil stranded by war.
The supreme court handed a win on Friday to oil and gas companies fighting lawsuits over coastal land loss and environmental degradation in Louisiana. The 8-0 procedural decision gives the companies a new day in federal court after a state jury ordered Chevron to pay upward of $740m to clean up damage to the state’s…
A tiny mouse on the brink of extinction in coastal California may be able to adapt to a hotter world — though it might need a little help. Genetic analyses of critically endangered Pacific pocket mice suggest the species has the genetic diversity to adapt to a changing climate, researchers report April 17 in Science Advances. But urbanization…
Leeds Rhinos’ Maika Sivo received Super League Player of the Month for March.
Kaiser brought up a good point yesterday, that most people heard a worm ate part of Robert Kennedy, Jr.’s brain and thought that explained everything — when it very much doesn’t! For me, I never saw it as, “oh, the worm ate his brain and that’s why he’s like this.” My takeaway was: “ingesting RFK’s…
With the US blockading Iran’s ports, Kharg Island is in focus. How are civilians caught in the middle? Mexico says it killed El Mencho, leader of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel. Within hours, highways burned and violence spread across multiple states. His death is being called a victory, but removing a kingpin doesn’t dismantle…
