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Donald Trump reveals plan to deport millions of migrants after inauguration | US | News

Donald Trump reveals plan to deport millions of migrants after inauguration | US | News

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Donald Trump has announced a plan to deport millions of “illegal aliens” after he was sworn-in as President during his inauguration on Monday. Mr Trump began his first speech as the 47th US President by declaring that “the golden age of America begins right now” before pledging to declare a “national emergency” at the US-Mexico border and launch a large-scale migration drive. He said he would sign an executive order today declaring a national emergency at the US-Mexico border, causing all illegal entry to be “immediately halted” and beginning the return of millions of “criminal aliens”. Mr Trump also attacked the former Biden administration’s handling of the US’ migration crisis, suggesting that it had sparked a crisis of “trust over [a] radical and corrupt establishment”. After overcoming impeachments, two assassination attempts and criminal indictments to win another term in the White House, the President is wasting no time in enacting the policies promised on his campaign trail. Executive orders to clamp down on border crossings, increase fossil fuel development and end diversity and inclusion programmes …

Apple’s AI Is Constantly Butchering Huge News Stories Sent to Millions of Users

Apple’s AI Is Constantly Butchering Huge News Stories Sent to Millions of Users

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Apple has come under intense scrutiny for rolling out an underbaked AI-powered feature that summarizes breaking news — while often butchering it beyond recognition. For over a month, roughly as long as the feature has been available to iPhone users, publishers have found that it consistently generates false information and pushes it to millions of users. Despite broadcasting a barrage of fabrications for weeks, Apple has yet to meaningfully address the problem. “This is my periodic rant that Apple Intelligence is so bad that today it got every fact wrong in its AI a summary of Washington Post news alerts,” the newspaper’s tech columnist Geoffrey Fowler wrote in a post on Bluesky this week. Fowler appended a screenshot of an alert, which claimed that Pete Hegseth, who’s been facing a confrontational confirmation hearing for the role of defense secretary this week, had been fired by his former employer, Fox News — which is false and not what the WaPo‘s syndication of an Associated Press story actually said. The AI alert also claimed that Florida senator Marco …

A new definition of obesity could help treat millions of people

A new definition of obesity could help treat millions of people

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Measuring body fat more carefully could help treat obesity Halfpoint/Getty Images Rethinking the way we define obesity could help millions of people worldwide, argue a team of researchers who want to introduce a new category of “preclinical” obesity. The current definition of obesity, as set by the World Health Organization (WHO), is having excess body fat that poses a risk to health. The WHO recommends that healthcare workers assess whether people have obesity by calculating their body mass index (BMI), a measure of weight relative to height. A BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 is considered healthy, while below or above indicates someone is under or overweight. A BMI above 30 indicates that someone is obese. It is true that high levels of body fat can cause it to infiltrate organs such as the liver and pancreas, impairing their function. It can also ramp up inflammation, raising the risk of conditions such as cancer, liver disease and heart problems. But BMI poorly reflects a person’s body fat levels. “With BMI, we don’t know if that ‘excess’ …

Millions of people’s ‘intimate’ location data stolen in major hack | Science, Climate & Tech News

Millions of people’s ‘intimate’ location data stolen in major hack | Science, Climate & Tech News

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Millions of people using some of the world’s most popular apps may have had their locations leaked in a major hack. Tinder, Spotify, Citymapper, Mumsnet and Sky News were among hundreds of companies named in a sample list of apps linked to the breach. Hackers appear to have targeted a US location tracking firm Gravy Analytics. It collects information through smartphones, including peoples’ precise movements, and then provides it to other companies or governments. More than 10 terabytes of data is thought to have been stolen, with Russian-speaking hackers sharing a sample of the stolen information on a well-known hacking forum. Baptiste Robert, founder of Predicta Lab, a company that provides tools for online privacy and security, analysed the sample and was able to easily identify individuals around military bases and government offices, as well as details about people’s homes and family lives. X This content is provided by X, which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies. You can use the buttons …

Six Dollar Marble Sculpture Could Earn Millions to Scottish Town

Six Dollar Marble Sculpture Could Earn Millions to Scottish Town

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Invergordon, a small town in central Scotland, could see its coffers filled following a decision by county committee to sell a marble bust made by the French artist Edmé Bouchardon in 1728 that, a quarter of a century ago, was propping open the door of a storage shed. The bust, which was bought for roughly $6.31 in 1930, could fetch more than $3 million through a private sale brokered by Sotheby’s, which appraised the sculpture at the request of the local government last year.  While the sculpture was originally purchased for display, a series of mysterious events led to it be placed in a storage shed “with other discarded council paraphernalia.” Former Invergordon community councilor Maxine Smith, who now serves on the broader governmental body the Highland council, told the Guardian last October that she found the bust while digging around the shed for a set of ceremonial robes that had gone missing. Related Articles “I found the robes…” she said “and also a wee white marble sculpture thing holding open the door. It could have been binned quite …

There Is Literally Millions of Dollars of Art at This New Restaurant in SoHo

There Is Literally Millions of Dollars of Art at This New Restaurant in SoHo

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Iwan Wirth has always loved restaurants. His mother’s family was from the Italian Alps, and he grew up eating dolomite specialties at home, and every once in a while, they would dress up to go to restaurants on special occasions. Wirth, 54, started his first gallery in the countryside town of St. Gallen, Switzerland at the age of 16. When he went to deliver artworks in the big city of Zürich, his first client suggested they meet at the Kronenhalle, one of the great restaurants of Old Europe. Wirth had never been, but as a lover of food and art, he’d heard about it. The bar is named after Giacometti, and there’s Chagall and Miro and Picasso paintings on the walls. You always order the veal in mushroom sauce with rosti. “I couldn’t believe it,” he told me this week, visibly ecstatic as he remembered that first visit. “It’s like the first time you see the sea. That just never left me. And I thought, Once I’m a grown-up, I’d love to own the Kronenhalle.” …

Millions to see nationwide ad campaign for book about humanism: What I Believe

Millions to see nationwide ad campaign for book about humanism: What I Believe

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Humanists UK has launched a nationwide advertising campaign for new book What I Believe. Posters showcasing the book, which is a collection of diverse essays from famous humanists, are currently on display in London Underground stations and railway stations across the UK ahead of its publication on 7 November. Humanism seen by millions Designed to reach millions of commuters daily, the campaign invites readers to explore humanist values – the mainstream values of the non-religious in contemporary Britain – and reflect on their own beliefs and convictions in the process. The book follows in the footsteps of the Sunday Times bestseller The Little Book of Humanism, which was a barnstorming success in online retailers and high street bookstores, charting high on Amazon, Waterstones, and Hive book charts. Like its predecessor, What I Believe offers fresh and timely perspectives on how to live a fulfilling and ethical life. Breadth of humanist thought The book is a series of interview essays with high-profile non-religious people in the public eye, around the theme of ‘What I Believe’, which …

Far right, far left in European Parliament miss out on millions because of bureaucracy – POLITICO

Far right, far left in European Parliament miss out on millions because of bureaucracy – POLITICO

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“My feeling is that the burden [of paperwork] is really to discourage you,” the person said. Both parties were formed in the wake of June’s European election. Such EU-wide votes always result in a shifting of the political landscape and this time was no exception. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party started the ESN not long after being kicked out of the Identity and Democracy group (ID) because of the extreme views of its leading MEP, Maximilian Krah. After the election, ID fractured into two new far-right groups, Patriots for Europe (home to MEPs from Marine Le Pen’s National Rally and Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz) and the ESN. Now, AfD is trying to register the ESN as a political party too. Meanwhile on the left, a number of parties, frustrated at how the Party of the European Left operates, jumped ship and started the ELA. In EU-speak, European political parties — sometimes known as Europarties — are associations of like-minded national parties, and their function is to coordinate at the EU level as well as to …

Millions of Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple Website Bug

Millions of Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple Website Bug

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In January 2023, they published the initial results of their work, an enormous collection of web vulnerabilities affecting Kia, Honda, Infiniti, Nissan, Acura, Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai, Genesis, BMW, Rolls Royce, and Ferrari—all of which they had reported to the automakers. For at least half a dozen of those companies, the web bugs the group found offered at least some level of control of cars’ connected features, they wrote, just as in their latest Kia hack. Others, they say, allowed unauthorized access to data or the companies’ internal applications. Still others targeted fleet management software for emergency vehicles and could have even prevented those vehicles from starting, they believe—though they didn’t have the means to safely test out that potentially dangerous trick. In June of this year, Curry says, he discovered that Toyota appeared to still have a similar flaw in its web portal that, in combination with a leaked dealer credential he found online, would have allowed remote control of Toyota and Lexus vehicles’ features like tracking, unlocking, honking, and ignition. He reported that vulnerability to …

Blood platelet test could save millions of Americans from heart attacks and strokes

Blood platelet test could save millions of Americans from heart attacks and strokes

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Platelets, the small cell fragments circulating in your blood, are essential for healing injuries by clumping together to form blood clots. However, when platelets become hyperreactive, they can cause dangerous clots that block arteries, leading to heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular issues, including peripheral artery disease. Millions of Americans are at risk from this abnormal clotting. Currently, there isn’t a reliable, routine test to determine if your platelets are clumping too much, which complicates efforts to manage cardiovascular risk. The method most commonly used, known as platelet aggregometry, tends to produce results that vary significantly from one lab to another, making it impractical for widespread use. A team of researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine is addressing this issue with a new approach. In a study published in Nature Communications, the researchers identified 451 genes with significant differences in activity between patients with hyperreactive platelets and those without. Using this information, they developed the Platelet Reactivity ExpresSion Score (PRESS), a genetic-based system that assesses platelet hyperreactivity and predicts cardiovascular risk. Platelet hyperreactivity and …