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Palestinian group Hamas has submitted responses to a US-backed ceasefire proposal, but key officials of the group said the proposed deal provided “no guarantee to end the war.” Speaking to Al Jazeera on Saturday, Basim Naim said that despite the Palestinian group saying the proposal was different from what Witkov agreed to a week ago, Hamas still “responded positively” to the latest proposal he told it. “A week ago, we agreed with Witkov on one proposal and said, ‘This is acceptable, we can consider this a bargaining paper,'” Naim said. “He went to the other, the Israelites, to get their…
Paris Saint-Germain defeated Inter Milan, the Champions League final record, 5-0, Munich’s king of European football.Paris Saint-Germain is the European champion after beating Intermilan on a record 5-0 scoreline in the Champions League final. Finally, the club has bought and sold a string of the world’s biggest players in luxury bids to transform themselves by billions of Katari and to reach the top, with a big one. It was not only PSG’s first victory in the final of the epic awards of European club football, but the margin of victory in the match in Munich is also a record for…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans celebrated the rehabilitation and burial of 19 African American bodies whose skulls were sent to Germany in the 19th century due to racist research practices. On Saturday, a multifaceted service ceremony, including one of the city’s most distinctive traditions, a jazz funeral, paid tribute to humanity as people return to the final resting spot at Hurricane Katrina Memorial. “We ironically know what happened after their death, the horrors that happened after their death, because of the offspring of their bodies,” Monique Guilloly, president of Dillard University, a historically black civilian liberal arts college, led…
It’s not surprising that many big, left-leaning social media accounts have recently joined Bluesky, but a new analysis from the Pew Research Center is trying to quantify that shift. This comes as an update to the Pew’s News Influencer Report, which was released in November 2024, but Bluesky is not included in that number. The report focuses on a relatively small group of 500 influencers, all with over 100,000 followers on at least one major platform, and regularly posts about current events. In this Bluesky-centric update, Pew saw the same influencer (as opposed to accounts that might have found a…
Russia confirmed that it would send a delegation to Istanbul, but Kiev has not yet accepted the proposal.According to Ukraine, Russian drone and missile attacks killed at least two people as they ordered the evacuation of 11 more villages in the Smie area, adjacent to Russia. Russian forces fired an estimated 109 drones and five missiles across Ukraine on Friday and overnight, the Ukrainian Air Force said on Saturday, adding that three missiles and 42 drones were destroyed, and 30 more drones were unable to reach the target without causing damage. The attack came amid uncertainty about whether Kiev would…
NAACP is asking local officials to suspend operations at Colossus, a “supercomputer” facility run by Elon Musk’s Xai in Southern Memphis. As reported in NBC News, civil rights leaders will send light gas and water from the Shelby County Health Department and Memphis on Thursday, criticizing “an unstable approach to operating this dirty data center” and calling for “issuing emergency orders to halt Xai’s emergency orders altogether.” The letter raised certain concerns about the gas turbines Xai runs to power Colossus. The NAACP said the authorities “allow Xai to operate at least 35 gas turbines without allowing them” over the…
Earlier this week, I came up with what I thought was a million-dollar idea: a fully automated face shape analyzer powered by AI. I had done the research. The demand was massive. I looked at tools like Detect Face Shape AI, a category with over 1.3 million people searching each month for “what is my face shape.” It felt like a no-brainer. So I asked my go-to technical ally, ChatGPT: “Can I use the OpenAI API to detect facial features and analyze a user’s face?” What I got back hit like a wall: “OpenAI doesn’t currently allow automated facial analysis…
CLOVIS, Calif. (AP) — The transgender teen will compete in the California High School Athletics Final Saturday, the day after he entered the race as the protest planes rallied over the competition, including criticism from President Donald Trump.AB Hernandez is a trans student who advanced in the women’s high jump, long jump and triple jump on Friday, and will compete in the final on Saturday, competing in new rules changes that may be the first nationally by the high school sports governing body.The new California Interstate Statistics Federation announced new policies earlier this week in response to Hernandez’s success. According…
Welcome back to review week! This week there are plenty of stories, including ARC’s new AI-powered browser. Two hacks, not one. Gemini email overview. And more. Have a great weekend! Google: Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine, has released Prplexity Labs. This gives Pro Subscribers the tools to create reports, spreadsheets, dashboards and more. Perplexity Labs can use tools such as web search, code execution, chart and image creation to conduct research and analysis using tools for creating reports and visualizations. In about 10 minutes. We didn’t have the opportunity to test it, and knowing the drawbacks of AI, I’m sure…
The Saudi Arabia and Qatar efforts aim to stabilize in Syria by funding public sector salaries and raising economic recovery plans.Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Fahan al Saud said the kingdom and Qatar would provide joint financial support to Syrian state employees. His statement came on Saturday at a joint press conference with his Syrian counterpart, Assad al-Sabani, in Damascus. The two Gulf countries were one of the most important regional supporters of Syrian new authorities who expelled longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December after nearly 14 years of war. Saturday’s statement did not provide details on the…