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9to5Mac
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Apple is rolling out a new feature to its Apple Music for Artists platform this week.
Artists can now see “when and where” their music is being played on radio stations around the world.
Apple also notes that it offers a “premium radio spins experience” through the Apple Music Partner Program.
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BBC
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It is almost 80 years since the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Survivors - known as hibakusha in Japan - are sharing their experiences for a BBC Two film.
'Atomic bomb hell must never be repeated' say Japan's last survivors.
They are documenting the past so it can act as a warning for the future.
At least 140,000 people died in Hiroshima and 74,000 in Nagasaki in 1945.
Survivors have faced discrimination in society, particularly when it came to finding a partner.
Sueichi Kido suffered burns to part of his face, but his mother protected him from the full impact of the blast.
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BBC
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Meselesh Gosaye was in her hilltop home in southern Ethiopia’s Gofa district caring for her children when she heard the landslide that left many trapped in the mud.
Her husband and her two eldest sons - aged 15 and 12 - immediately joined the search-and-rescue efforts.
But a second landslide buried most of those involved in the rescue mission.
Some 257 people are confirmed to have died in the two landslides.
But closure for Ms Meselech will only leave when her son is found. It will take a long time before the community starts to heal. You may also be interested in: Go to BBCAfrica.com for more news from the African continent..
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MailOnline
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Health Secretary says 'time has come' for debate on assisted dying debate in Parliament.
Lord Falconer tabled legislation that would allow terminally ill adults with life expectancy of six months or under to end their lives.
Assisted dying has been thrust into the spotlight over the past year after cancer-stricken TV star Dame Esther Rantzen revealed she has joined Dignitas.
The broadcaster and Childline founder said she had 'caught a glimpse of hope' with fresh bid to change the law laid before Parliament.
Bishop of London: 'No amount of safeguards could ensure the safety of the most vulnerable in society, should there be a change in the law allowing for assisted suicide' Dame Sarah Mullally said the church believes the priority for terminally ill people 'must be to provide urgent funding and resourcing of palliative care services' rather than a law change.
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MailOnline
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Former work and pensions secretary joined James Cleverly, Tom Tugendhat and Robert Jenrick in the bid to become the next Leader of the Opposition.
Came as Dame Priti Patel was last night expected to launch her own campaign.
Mr Stride was a staunch supporter of Mr Sunak and was regularly wheeled out to spread his government's message.
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ESPN
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Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo took a highly publicized dip last week in a bid to ease fears.
The Seine will be used for marathon swimming and triathlon.
Heavy rain revived concerns over whether the long-polluted waterway will be clean enough to host swimming competitions.
Swimming in the Seine has been banned for over a century.
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CNN
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Romanian athletes Ionela-Livia and Marius Cozmiuc are the first-ever married couple to be flag bearers at the opening ceremony in Paris.
The two athletes are both multiple-time Olympians in rowing.
The couple found out about their honors shortly before the Games when they went to do a photo shoot.
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BBC
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We are in a summer wave of Covid so if you have a cough or fever then the virus is a possible culprit.
Around 3,000 people in hospital are now testing positive for Covid - around twice the figure for early April.
We do not collect the same detailed data as during the peak of the pandemic, but the wave started to build around May.
Met Office says climate change has the potential to affect hay fever by increasing the pollen-season and the intensity of the pollen.
This is a long-term trend, but Prof Cruickshank says this could explain feeling “a little bit worse” this summer.
People are just a little bit more aware of sniffles and things that, maybe pre-Covid, they just got on with life.
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New York Post
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Katie Ledecky is a seven-time gold medalist at the 2014 Paris Olympics.
If she wins gold in the 800-meter freestyle, she'll become the second woman and first female swimmer to earn gold in same event in four consecutive Olympics.
She can pass Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina for the most gold medals by any woman, should she win three.
Advertisement “Those two [Titmus and McIntosh] have continued to raise the game, raise my game,” Ledecky told reporters. “I know that I have to bring my best, I think they know they have to bring their best. So I think that’s what you want in an Olympic race. “We have the top three times ever in that race, we’re the top three performers, I should say. And so that just makes for a great field.”.
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Dawn Digest
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Lake Pergusa, the only natural lake on the Mediterranean island of Sicily, is vanishing due to a combination of extreme heat and drought.
Lack of rainfall and soaring temperatures have drastically reduced the lake's water levels, threatening the delicate ecosystem it supports.
The Mediterranean Sea, which surrounds Sicily, has warmed by 1.5 degrees Celsius in the last 150 years, exacerbating the effects of climate change.
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ABC News
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13 hikers, including several children, rescued after getting lost on Arizona trail amid high heat.
They were found in a wash under a tree several miles into the trail.
A 10-year-old and two toddlers were transported to the hospital with heat exhaustion symptoms.
An excessive heat warning was issued for the area Friday, with temperatures expected to reach 108 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Techdirt
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The Kids Online Safety Act and The Tyranny Of Laziness from the it's-a-censorship-bill debanning-bill.
The bill's authors claim they are attempting to make the bill about design, but it's impossible so far to separate the design of content recommendation systems from the speech itself.
The only way to tell if a user is a minor is to use expensive and intrusive age verification systems.
Covered platforms will want to err on the side of compliance unless they have explicit safe harbors, which aren’t exactly in the bill.
KOSA is creating incentives to avoid solving these tricky issues, and instead do whatever the government says is legally safe.
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The New Republic
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Right-wing attacks against Kamala Harris are skyrocketing, with conservatives attacking her record as a prosecutor, calling her the “DEI candidate, and making desperate attempts to associate her with Communists.
The attack was so over-the-top that it drew a reply from white nationalist Richard Spencer, who wondered, “A bit much?” Spencer’s rebuking of Pool, while funny, has nefarious undertones.
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VOA
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The U.S. government sanctions three rebel leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
They are accused of fomenting political instability, conflicts and civilian displacement.
Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Congo River Alliance, is sanctioned.
Nanga was previously targeted with sanctions in 2019.
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AJC
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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is one of the top contenders to be Kamala Harris’ running mate.
The Democrat has been a top critic of Sen. JD Vance, who has family in Kentucky but “he ain’t from here” Harris is set to hold an event in Atlanta on Tuesday, one of her first stops since becoming the party’s presumptive nominee.
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BBC
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Thomas Matthew Crooks walked into Donald Trump's election rally in Pennsylvania, unopposed with a gun, explosives and a rangefinder to measure distance to his target.
Three congressional hearings have added to what is known about the attempt on Trump's life, what went wrong, and important unanswered questions.
A photograph of Crooks was sent by a member of the ESU team to a state trooper in the joint operations room.
A Secret Service liaison asked the trooper to send the photo to another number.
At this point, it seems that agents charged with protecting Trump did not consider Crooks dangerous enough to act - no weapon had been spotted.
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BBC
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Rico Krieger is believed to be the first Western citizen ever given the death penalty in Belarus.
He was filmed confessing to planting explosives near a railway line, but no proof of that in the video.
He says he was acting on instruction from Ukraine, though no proof is given.
State media say he has not appealed against the verdict, which is extremely rare for someone sentenced to death.
Rico Krieger says he was motivated by the high pay offered to fight in Ukraine.
But he then says the monthly salary is around 2,000 (1,680) less than he was being paid in Germany.
The timing of this case seems significant, especially after Evan Gershkovich was found guilty of espionage in Russia.
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VOA
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NASA's rover Perseverance on Mars has made what could be its most astonishing discovery to date.
An arrow-shaped rock dubbed "Cheyava Falls" may harbor fossilized microbes from billions of years ago.
Rock samples are destined to eventually return to Earth, where they will undergo more comprehensive analysis.
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Scripps News
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Maryland will soon join a growing list of states that have cleared a backlog of untested rape kits.
Legislation requires the state to have all kits tested by the end of 2025.
The kits take DNA from victims of sexual assault and attempt to match it with potential suspects.
Congress has provided funds to support testing efforts through the Debbie Smith Act.
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Mashable
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The 2024 Paris Olympics is making a historic bid among a long lineage of international games.
Activists have called for a boycott of the 33rd Olympic games following its inclusion of Israel's team.
The Palestinian delegation for Palestine, recognized as part of the IOC in 1995 and debuted in 1996, sends eight competitors to the 2024 Paris games.
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Huffington Post
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Vice President Kamala Harris' remarks on the "defund the police" movement have been criticized by Republicans.
But they remain locked into defending Donald Trump, a convicted criminal who salutes violent insurrectionists.
Trump has promised to pardon all those prosecuted for their actions on Jan. 6, including those who attacked police officers with flag poles, sticks, a baseball bat, pepper spray and even the officers' own Tasers.
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Fox News
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Most voters in four battleground states approve of Joe Biden getting out of the presidential race and two-thirds want him to finish his term.
The polls include over 1,000 registered voters in each state and were conducted July 22-24 (after Biden dropped out and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris) The surveys find the horserace between Harris and former President Donald Trump looks a lot like the Biden-Trump race did in April.
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BBC
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Treasury insiders are claiming there have been surprises since they took over.
Public sector pay deals are likely to cost a lot more than expected.
Justice Secretary Rachel Reeves said in June: “We know things are in a pretty bad state You don’t need to win an election to find that out.”.
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BGR
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San Diego Comic-Con 2024 is in full swing, with panels all weekend highlighting some of the biggest upcoming fantasy and sci-fi shows and movies.
Marvel’s return to Hall H on Saturday is expected to reveal more about the back half of the Marvel Multiverse.
The Lord of the Rings prequel series The Rings of Power is returning.
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ABC News
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Two former FBI officials settle lawsuits with Justice Department over leaked text messages.
Peter Strzok, a former top counterintelligence agent, settled his case for $1.2 million.
Lisa Page, an FBI lawyer who exchanged text messages with Peter, settled but did not disclose amount.
The two had sued over a 2017 episode in which officials shared copies of text messages they had sent each other.
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ABC News
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Two U.S. senators call on Federal Trade Commission to investigate automakers' sale of driving data to brokers.
They allege that General Motors, Hyundai, Honda and perhaps others are sharing drivers' data.
The automakers, the senators say, used deceptive tactics to manipulate customers into signing up for disclosure of data.
Some automakers may have deceived customers by advertising data disclosures as a way to reduce insurance bills.
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I24news
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Report: Hamas rejects latest Israeli hostage proposal 'without reading it' 'The messages from Hamas are bizarre because we haven't sent it yet, nobody has read it yet. Even the negotiators haven't got it yet,' an Israeli official says.
The latest Israeli proposal fell short of meeting the Palestinian jihadists' key demand of unrestricted return of Palestinians to northern Gaza.
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MailOnline
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Ava Kris Tyson, 28, came under fire this week for forming a relationship with a then 13-year-old, known only as Lava when she was 20 - eight years before transitioning genders.
Lava, now 20, had previously branded the allegations as 'massive lies' that were 'twisting the truth' But dozens of Discord messages from 2019 in Tyson's server featured explicit content, despite the presence of children.
Screenshots from the server claimed to show words like 'c
m,' NSFW (not safe for work) and 'porn' 'I was a minor in this situation and not the adult influencer who shouldn't have allowed this to happen,' said L.
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NBC News
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NASA animation shows smoke blanketing British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories in Canada, drifting over Montana, Colorado, Kansas, Wisconsin and other parts of the Midwest.
As of Friday afternoon, 948 active fires were burning in western Canada, including 387 considered out of control.
Large fires in the Pacific Northwest and California are polluting nearby air, as well.
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Upworthy
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People who chose to be child-free are just as happy at 70 as those with kids, study finds.
Michigan State University study found that childfree people may be happier than those with children.
Older parents were slightly more likely to want to change something about their life, study authors said.
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ABC News
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Algerians throw red roses into Seine River to honor victims of 1961 police crackdown on Algerian protesters in Paris.
120 protesters died and 12,000 were arrested as they demonstrated on Oct. 17, 1961 in support of independence from France.
Kaci Yahia, an Algerian worker for the Paris sewage system, was among them; his body was never recovered.
Algeria won independence in 1962 after 132 years under colonial rule.
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Wired
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Federal Trade Commission chairperson Lina Khan spoke at Y Combinator's Silicon Valley event.
Khan: Big tech companies have a "leg up" in the AI race, but open source AI can upend that.
The FTC chairperson said nearly all of YC's most successful companies wouldn't exist without open source software and the community behind it.
Open source AI models have some inherent risks that more cautious technologists have warned about.
People with malicious intent are more likely to use these tools for harm than they would a costly private AI model.
Some politicians have pushed back against unfettered development of large-scale AI systems, including California state senator Scott Wiener.
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Telegraph
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More than 350,000 people gathered along the banks of the Seine, determined to party.
This was to be the most democratic opening ceremony ever, the doors flung wide to the biggest possible audience to witness it live.
But the weather threatened to turn an idea that promised so much into damp squibs.
It is no mere jingoism to suggest London did all this better than Paris.
Sadly, until Dion’s intervention, what this ceremony will be largely remembered for is the world's best athletes huddled under rain protection stuck on barges they could not get off.
It was a sight reminiscent of the scenes of the Queen's Jubilee celebration.
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Telegraph
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Liverpool face Real Betis in a pre-season friendly in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, on Thursday night.
Arne Slot has replaced Jurgen Klopp as manager of the Reds.
Liverpool have two more games on their US tour against Premier League rivals Arsenal and Manchester United before heading home to take on Sevilla at Anfield on August 17.
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PBS
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Nick Schifrin is PBS NewsHour's Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent.
He leads NewsHour’s daily foreign coverage, including multiple trips to Ukraine since the full-scale invasion.
He was one of the first journalists to arrive in Abbottabad, Pakistan, after Osama bin Laden's death in 2011.
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VOA
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30.7 million of the estimated 39.9 million people living with HIV globally were receiving antiretroviral therapy in 2023.
Advocates hailed sub-Saharan Africa’s progress in the global HIV response, with tens of millions of people now on lifesaving drugs.
But some countries in Africa are lagging behind in the battle against HIV/AIDS, partly because of civil wars, humanitarian setbacks and sheer negligence.
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Interesting Engineering
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New research from Texas A&M University reveals Hunga Tonga volcano eruption contributed to cooling the Earth.
Eruption injected vast amounts of volcanic aerosols and water vapor into the atmosphere.
As a submarine volcano, it introduced an unprecedented amount of water vapor.
Because water vapor is a powerful greenhouse gas, the eruption cooled the Earth..
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Yonhap News Agency
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In embarrassing misstep, South Korea introduced to tens of thousands spectators as North Korea.
North Korea was the 153th nation to join the opening ceremony.
South Korea's national Olympic body convenes emergency meeting in Paris to discuss possible response.
The subtitle on the broadcast feed, shown on giant screens set along the river and on television for international viewers, correctly showed "Republic of Korea" in English.
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Gizmodo
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A drone show heralding the arrival of Marvel’s Fantastic Four at San Diego Comic-Con delighted fans who had just taken in a special screening of Deadpool and Wolverine.
The display above Petco Field officially set a “new world record for [the] biggest image displayed with drones, as well as most drones used in a drone show.
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Raw Story
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White nationalist Richard Spencer responds to right-wing podcaster Tim Pool's anti-Democrat Kamala Harris' anti-Semitic tirade on social media.
Spencer responded to Pool's comments, saying it was "a bit much" "When you've lost RICHARD SPENCER," wrote Intercept reporter Ken Klippenstein with a screenshot of his reply.
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Fox News
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Pete Buttigieg was mocked by conservatives on social media Friday after he mocked former President Trump for not agreeing to debate VP Harris in September.
Conservatives argued that the former president had an agreement with Biden, who dropped out of the race and effectively pulled out of a scheduled debate.
Trump said earlier this week he's open to debating VP Harris more than once as the two face off in the 2024 presidential election.
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Diario AS
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The Swiss flag is not rectangular, but square, but is based on the insignia of the Canton of Schwyz, which dates back to 1474.
The Vatican, the smallest country in the world (at just 44 hectares) has a square emblem of yellow and white with two keys - gold and silver.
Nepal has the most atypical flag on the planet - a triangle with the hypotenuse facing away from the edge of the flagpole.
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Irish Star
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Displeased BBC viewers took to social media to vent their frustration at the ceremony.
The criticism is a significant blow to France and President Emmanuel Macron.
The French government reportedly splashed out around 8.4bn to host the ceremony in the city centre.
The ceremony featured performances from French dancers and global stars like Lady Gaga.
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MarketWatch
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Analysts see a nuanced picture for CrowdStrike, with some concerned about potential litigation and unknown costs.
CrowdStrike's shares have fallen about 25% since last Thursday’s close, wiping out $22 billion in market value.
Analysts expect CrowdStrike to be durable thanks to its leadership position in software that alerts of and prevents cyberattacks.
Law firms specializing in shareholder lawsuits are investigating the CrowdStrike outage.
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz has already been called to testify about the outage before the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security.
The cybersecurity company is expected to survive this global outage, but it will probably be embarking on a long slog of litigation.
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DW
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Kenyan President William Ruto announced ten more nominations for his new broad-based government on Wednesday.
Ruto also re-nominated four high-level opposition members as part of the new cabinet.
Many have criticized the leader for doing too little, too late.
The National Assembly is yet to approve Ruto's new cabinet nominations, with hearings scheduled for early next week.
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Fox News
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Some AI tech is kind of freaky, but many of the new AI tools out there are just plain fun.
Udio and Invideo are among the free AI tools that will help you make something cool.
OpenArt turns your original drawings into full pieces of digital art.
Freddimeter uses AI to rate your ability to sing like Freddie Mercury.
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Ars Technica
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The FDA says people are overdosing on off-brand injections of semaglutide.
Compounding pharmacies can legally make their own versions of FDA-approved drugs.
The FDA has approved two injectable versions of the weight-loss and diabetes drug.
The agency urges patients and prescribers to only use compounded versions when absolutely necessary.
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The National
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Chancellor will reveal 'true scale of damage the Conservatives have done to the public finances' It comes after SNP warned Labour's plans would mean 18bn of cuts to public services or tax rises.
But Labour did not deny reports that an early assessment has found a 20bn gap between revenues and funding.
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New York Post
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Serena Williams' husband, Alexis Ohanian, was confused for an umbrella holder during the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
Ohanian held an umbrella over his wife's head during the ceremony.
The Reddit co-founder also addressed how he is unknown to many for the work he does.
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Verge
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Like a Dragon: Yakuza will be a live-action adaptation of the game series.
The show will follow the original character Kazuma Kiryu.
It will start streaming on Prime Video on October 24th with its first three episodes.
The series is directed by Masaharu Take and directed by Sega.