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📰 The High Court in London will begin hearing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's final UK appeal against extradition to the United States to face trial over publishing secret military and diplomatic files. Washington wants the 52-year-old Australian citizen extradited after he was charged there multiple times between

Spot bitcoin ETFs are finally here, attracting billions and challenging all pre-existing crypto-based ETFs. Does that spell the end for bitcoin futures funds? Not so fast. ProShares is doubling down. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

🇺🇲 Ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Anthropic, the well-funded AI startup, is testing a technology to detect when users of its GenAI chatbot ask about political topics and redirect those users to “authoritative” sources of voting information. Called Prompt Shield, the technology, which relies on a combination…

🇰🇵 As war in Ukraine grinds toward its third year and fighting in Gaza inflames a broader crisis across the Middle East, global security observers are keeping a close watch on another part of the world – North Korea, where Kim Jong Un’s latest provocations are raising questions about his military…

🇩🇪🇺🇦 Germany will provide long-term military support and training to Ukraine "to fully restore" the country's territorial integrity under an agreement signed between the leaders of both nations today. Full story: #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

🇯🇵🇺🇲 TOKYO - Sony opens new tab to partner with U.S.-based Seagate Technology on mass production of hard disk drives (HDDs) to meet growing AI demand, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Friday. Sony Semiconductor Solutions is expected to start mass production in May of lasers used in the drives, and…

🇺🇲 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel next week to Brazil and Argentina, where he is set to meet with both countries' leaders to discuss "bilateral and global issues," the State Department said on Friday. #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

🇺🇲 A New York judge is expected to issue a ruling that could shatter Donald Trump's business empire and force him to pay up to $370 million over fraud allegations. Trump is accused of unlawfully inflating his wealth and manipulating the value of his properties to obtain more favorable

🚨 BREAKING: Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died, the prison service of the Yamalo-Nenets region where he had been serving his sentence said #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

OpenAI unveiled Sora, a GenAI model that creates video from text. Given a brief — or detailed — description or a still image, Sora can generate 1080p movie-like scenes with multiple characters, different types of motion and background details, OpenAI claims. Read all about Sora here: #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

Around 70 countries estimated to cover nearly half the world’s population are set to hold national elections this year. While AI makers and social-media platforms often have policies against using AI in deceptive ways or misleading people about how to vote, how well those companies will enforce those…

🇵🇸 The Biden administration and a small group of Middle East partners are rushing to complete a detailed, comprehensive plan for long-term peace between Israel and Palestinians, including a firm timeline for the establishment of a Palestinian state, that could be announced as early as the next several weeks. The…

🇮🇱 Israel's vow to push ahead with a "powerful" operation in Gaza's Rafah was met with a growing chorus of international condemnation on Thursday, with leaders warning against catastrophic consequences for the 1.5 million Palestinians trapped there. Australia, Canada and New Zealand warned Israel

🇺🇦 Ukraine has sent more soldiers to the embattled eastern town of Avdiivka, an army unit said on Thursday, describing the situation there as "extremely critical". Russian forces have been storming the industrial hub in the eastern Donetsk region since last year and have it surrounded by three sides.

🇯🇵 Japan lost its spot as the world's third-largest economy to Germany after the Asian nation unexpectedly slipped into recession. The economy shrank in the second quarter on anemic domestic demand, prompting some central bank watchers to push back bets on when Japan's negative interest rate

🇱🇧 BEIRUT — Israel on Wednesday launched its longest and heaviest attack in years on neighboring Lebanon since the start of the Gaza war, striking several locations in the south, killing at least one Hezbollah fighter and three civilians, and raising further the specter of war between the two long-standing enemies.

🪪👨‍💻 Instead of posing for a photo and setting up passwords, in the future, a new employee might spend a few minutes supplying biometric information. Face scanned, gait analyzed, spoken phrase recorded and voilà: Your body becomes your security key. The technology could do away with the hassle of forgotten badges…

Lyft CEO David Risher’s response to a clerical error that unintentionally inflated the company’s earnings outlook on Tuesday and sent shares soaring: “My bad.”⁣ ⁣ “First of all, it’s on me,” Risher said in an interview with @BloombergTV, taking the blame for a typo in a company press…

Democrat Tom Suozzi won a hotly contested special election for Congress on Tuesday, the Associated Press projected, retaking a seat in suburban New York and offering his party some reassurance amid high anxiety about President Biden’s political vulnerabilities. Read more: #Nostr | #growNostr | #Press | #PLEBchaiN | #Newstr…

Uber has unveiled an inaugural $7bn share buyback programme, days after reporting its first full year of operating profit, making it the latest Silicon Valley company to step up its returns to shareholders. The move comes after Facebook parent Meta announced its debut dividend this month, triggering a record leap…