A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the National Park Service from removing or revising signs, films and other materials at national parks across the country to comply with a directive from President Trump. The ruling pauses enforcement of an executive order that called for removing or covering up materials at national parks that “inappropriately…
A Chinese company has been trying to develop artificial intelligence-powered technology that would enable authoritarian governments to not just monitor dissidents but also potentially predict who could become one in the future. The work, which appears to be in the research stage, is ripped out of dystopian science fiction, offering a glimpse of a world…
An American commentator for Russian television who was indicted during the Biden administration as part of an effort to combat Moscow’s propaganda filed a legal motion on Monday to dismiss the charges on First Amendment grounds. Dimitri K. Simes, who was an adviser to Donald J. Trump’s first presidential campaign, and his wife, Anastasia Simes,…
Shorouk Express On his left flank While the right-leaning Farage is leading the charge on the Connolly case, the left in Britain is waging its own battle over free speech, and the right to protest. Earlier this year, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper moved to proscribe Palestine Action, a pro-Gaza campaign group involved in direct action…
CFOTO/Contributor/Getty Images Chinese startup DeepSeek AI and its open-source language models took over the news cycle this week. Besides being comparable to models like Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s o1, the models have raised several concerns about data privacy, security, and Chinese-government-enforced censorship within their training. AI search platform Perplexity and AI assistant You.com have found…
Shorouk Express Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Experts have expressed concerns that thousands of official documents about the late Queen and Prince Philip due to be made public over the…
