Meta is following the Oversight Board’s recommendation to remove an exception that permitted users to share a person’s residential address as long as it’s “publicly available,” the Facebook parent company announced in an updated post (via Engadget). Meta’s response comes about a year after the company asked the Oversight Board to weigh in on its […]
Paris — Incumbent Emmanuel Macron will face far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen in a winner-takes-all runoff for the French presidency, after they both advanced Sunday in the first round of voting in the country’s election to set up another head-to-head clash of their sharply opposing visions for France. Polling agency projections and a partial official count […]
World No. 1 player Scottie Scheffler from Texas won his first major championship at Augusta on Sunday, finishing first at the Masters by three strokes over Rory McIlroy. Scheffer finished at 10 under par after a double bogey on the 18th hole. Scheffler came into the day with a three-shot lead, and he made sure […]
On February 24, with the Russian invasion coming at him from three sides, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reached for his most powerful weapon – his phone. The moment Zelenskyy told his people he refused to flee, Ukraine refused to fall. Leaders don’t become legends often, but over these nearly seven weeks, this 44-year-old former comedian […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he can’t understand Russia’s brutality during its invasion of Ukraine, and called for more aid immediately from the United States and its allies in order to withstand Russian attacks. “We don’t understand [the Russians],” Zelenskyy said in an interview with 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley, two days after visiting Bucha, […]
India is adamant about building up its technological independence, with $10 billion earmarked to develop semiconductor and display manufacturing. It’s also keen to assert its foreign-policy independence by leaning toward Moscow to the consternation of Washington. New Delhi would do well to see the connection between these two issues and consider its next course of […]
“We are defending the ability for a person to live in the modern world,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley. In an interview taped Wednesday in Kyiv, Zelenskyy told Pelley his country remains united because it has no other choice. “We united as a nation” Zelenskyy said to Pelley, speaking through […]
Ayn Rand’s followers dreamed of decentralized finance as the ultimate realization of their techno-anarchist utopia: freedom from both governments and large custodial organizations. But somewhere along the way, they got stuck on George Orwell’s Animal Farm where some animals are more equal than others. Much of what passes as DeFi today is just “decentralization theater,” as Fabian Schar, a University of Basel professor of […]
In January 1962, President John F. Kennedy authorized the creation of SEAL Team One and SEAL Team Two. Since then, US Navy SEALs have fought all over the world, making their name in high-profile operations. While fame has helped SEALs promote themselves, the unit itself has been tarnished by their exploits. Loading Something is loading. […]
KEY POINTS JetBlue canceled over 330 flights, while Spirit canceled more than 470 flights over the weekend JetBlue said weather conditions, ATC issues and staffing shortage led to the flights’ cancelation Spirit and Frontier were up for a merger until JetBlue announced an offer last week Two major budget airlines canceled hundreds of flights over […]
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