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MacworldIf you’re an Apple fan, Monday is the biggest day of the year. The WWDC keynote will set the tone for the next 12 months as Apple gives a sneak peek at the next versions of every OS—iOS< macOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS, and probably a few AirPods and HomePod updates too.We’ll be covering all aspects of WWDC the whole day long, including every announcement as it happens, so be sure to keep this page open in your tab bar. And check back regularly to read up on all the new stuff.WWDC25: How to watchApple will stream the WWDC keynote live on YouTube and Apple.com. You can watch the video right here below.WWDC25: Latest news and rumorsiOS 26/iPadOS 26: A variety of apps, including Messages, Music, Notes, CarPlay, and Camera to get new features and UI updatesiOS 26/iPadOS 26: The Preview app from macOS will finally land on iPhone and iPadiOS 26/iPadOS 26: Mixmoji will let you combine two existing emoji into a new imageHomePod Software 26: Original model will still be supported when the new vision arriveswatchOS 26: Apple may allow third-party Control Center widgetswatchOS 26: All watches that run watchOS 11 will be compatible with watchOS 26tvOS 26: Apple TV HD from over 10 years ago will get the new tvOS 26 updateWant more from WWDC? Be sure to check out video coverage on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram. And subscribe to Macworld’s daily and weekly newsletters for Apple coverage, from WWDC to beyond.WWDC25: Full coverageWhile you wait for the keynote to start, check out our pre-event WWDC coverage of what we expect, what we want, and what we hope to see. First, check out our simulated WWDC keynote and read all about what we expect to be announced (with a little humor and some fun). Then dive into the latest rumors and our recaps of the major OS announements:iOS 26: Everything you need to knowiOS 26: 7 changes we want to seemacOS 26: Everything you need to knowmacOS 26: 6 changes we want to seeiPadOS 26: Everything you need to knowiPadOS 26: 5 changes we want to see WWDC25: Video shortsCheck out our videos on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Shorts. Here are a few examples from the past week @macworld.com 5 iOS changes we’d like to see #apple #wwdc25 #fyp ♬ original sound – Macworld @macworld.com Apple rebranding its operating systems #apple #wwdc25 #fyp ♬ original sound – Macworld – Macworld
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The Turnpike Troubadours have released six studio albums since breaking into the music scene in 2007. The band took a hiatus in 2019 and returned in 2022 with a new sound, inspired by frontman Evan Felker's personal journey. In April, the band released a surprise album "The Price of Admission." In his first national TV interview, Felker opens up about his whirlwind ride.
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The AI Arms Race Could Destroy Humanity As We Know It Authored by Merav Ozair via CoinTelegraph.com,The AI arms race is moving too fast for safety, with companies pushing boundaries and governments lagging. AI-driven dehumanization and the unchecked proliferation of autonomous weapons require responsible leadership before it’s too late.The launch of ChatGPT in late 2023 sparked an arms race among Big Tech companies such as Meta, Google, Apple and Microsoft and startups like OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral and DeepSeek. All are rushing to deploy their models and products as fast as possible, announcing the next “shiny” toy in town and trying to claim superiority at the expense of our safety, privacy or autonomy.After OpenAI’s ChatGPT spurred major growth in generative AI with the Studio Ghibli trend, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s CEO, urged his teams to make AI companions more “humanlike” and entertaining — even if it meant relaxing safeguards. “I missed out on Snapchat and TikTok, I won’t miss out on this,” Zuckerberg reportedly said during an internal meeting.In the latest Meta AI bots project, launched on all their platforms, Meta loosened its guardrails to make the bots more engaging, allowing them to participate in romantic role-play and “fantasy sex,” even with underage users. Staff warned about the risks this posed, especially for minors.They will stop at nothing. Not even the safety of our children, and all for the sake of profit and beating the competition.The damage and destruction that AI can inflict upon humanity runs deeper than that.Dehumanizing and loss of autonomyThe accelerated transformation of AI likely leads to full dehumanization, leaving us disempowered, easily manipulable and entirely dependent on companies that provide AI services.The latest AI advances have accelerated the process of dehumanization. We have been experiencing it for more than 25 years since the first major AI-powered recommendation systems emerged, introduced by companies like Amazon, Netflix and YouTube.Companies present AI-powered features as essential personalization tools, suggesting that users would be lost in a sea of irrelevant content or products without them. Allowing companies to dictate what people buy, watch and think has become globally normalized, with little to no regulatory or policy efforts to curb it. The consequences, however, could be significant.Generative AI and dehumanizationGenerative AI has taken this dehumanization to the next level. It became common practice to integrate GenAI features into existing applications, aiming to increase human productivity or enhance the human-made outcome. Behind this massive push is the idea that humans are not good enough and that AI assistance is preferable.A 2024 paper, “Generative AI Can Harm Learning,” found that “access to GPT-4 significantly improves performance (48% improvement for GPT Base and 127% for GPT Tutor). We also find that when access is subsequently taken away, students perform worse than those who never had access (17% reduction for GPT Base). That is, access to GPT-4 can harm educational outcomes.”This is alarming. GenAI disempowers people and makes them dependent on it. People may not only lose the ability to produce the same results but also fail to invest time and effort in learning essential skills.We are losing our autonomy to think, assess and create, resulting in complete dehumanization. Elon Musk’s statement that “AI will be way smarter than humans” is not surprising as dehumanization progresses, as we will no longer be what actually makes us human. AI-powered autonomous weaponsFor decades, military forces have used autonomous weapons, including mines, torpedoes and heat-guided missiles that operate based on simple reactive feedback without human control. Now, it enters the arena of weapon design. AI-powered weapons involving drones and robots are actively being developed and deployed. Due to how easily such technology proliferates, they will only become more capable, sophisticated and widely used over time.A major deterrent that keeps nations from starting wars is soldiers dying — a human cost to their citizens that can create domestic consequences for leaders. The current development of AI-powered weapons aims to remove human soldiers from harm’s way. If few soldiers die in offensive warfare, however, it weakens the association between acts of war and human cost, and it becomes politically easier to start wars, which, in turn, may lead to more death and destruction overall. Major geopolitical problems could quickly emerge as AI-powered arms races amp up and such technology continues to proliferate.Robot “soldiers” are software that might be compromised. If hacked, the entire army of robots may act against a nation and lead to mass destruction. Stellar cybersecurity would be even more prudent than an autonomous army. Bear in mind that this cyberattack can occur on any autonomous system. You can destroy a nation simply by hacking its financial systems and depleting all its economic resources. No humans are harmed, but they may not be able to survive without financial resources.The Armageddon scenario“AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production,” Musk said in a Fox News interview. “In the sense that it has the potential — however small one may regard that probability, but it is non-trivial — it has the potential of civilization destruction,” Musk added.Musk and Geoffrey Hinton have recently expressed concerns that the possibility of AI posing an existential threat is 10%-20%.As these systems get more sophisticated, they may start acting against humans. A paper published by Anthropic researchers in December 2024 found that AI can fake alignment. If this could happen with the current AI models, imagine what it could do when these models become more powerful.Can humanity be saved?There is too much focus on profit and power and almost none on safety.Leaders should be concerned more about public safety and the future of humanity than gaining supremacy in AI. “Responsible AI” is not just a buzzword, empty policies and promises. It should be at the top of the mind of any developer, company or leader and implemented by design in any AI system.Collaboration between companies and nations is critical if we would like to prevent any doomsday scenario. And if leaders are not stepping up to the plate, the public should demand it. Our future as humanity as we know it is at stake. Either we ensure AI benefits us at scale or let it destroy us. Tyler DurdenSat, 06/07/2025 - 10:30
An ongoing massive discount on Samsung’s Galaxy smartwatches has reduced the overall price by 50%. With the Samsung Discover Sale, the interested folks can get the Galaxy Watch 6 Classic with up to a $225 discount. Similarly, massive savings can be secured on the Galaxy Watch Ultra and Galaxy Watch 7, where you can get [...]The post Samsung Galaxy Watch 7, Watch 6 Classic, and Galaxy Watch Ultra get up to a 50% discount appeared first on Gizmochina.
President Donald Trump told NBC News that he believes his relationship with Elon Musk is irreparable after their clash this week. “I would assume so,” Trump said when asked if the pair’s relationship is over. He also said that there would be “serious consequences” if Elon Musk backs Democratic candidates to take on GOP lawmakers who support the spending bill.President Donald Trump told NBC News on Saturday that Elon Musk would see “serious consequences” if he backs Democratic candidates who challenge Republicans supporting the “big, beautiful bill.”“If he does, he’ll have to pay the consequences for that,” Trump told NBC News’ Kristen Welker in a phone interview.“He’ll have to pay very serious consequences if he does that,” he continued, without giving specifics on what that would look like.Trump also said that he thinks his relationship with Musk is done after their public feud erupted this week.“I gave him a lot of breaks, long before this happened, I gave him breaks in my first administration and saved his life in my first administration,” Trump said.“I have no intention of speaking to him,” Trump added.When asked whether he thinks his relationship with Musk is over, he said, “I would assume so.”Trump also accused Musk of being “disrespectful to the office of the president.”Trump’s remarks are among his most extensive public comments yet on his feud with Musk, and the latest sign that the president is not interested in mending his relationship with the onetime ally. Trump ‘not interested’ in call with Musk, White House official saysMusk says SpaceX will decommission Dragon spacecraft after Trump threat — or notTrump calls Elon Musk ‘CRAZY,’ floats cutting government contracts for his companiesElon Musk blasts Trump: ‘Without me, Trump would have lost’Trump speaks with Xi, will resume talks between U.S. and China over tariffsTrump admin blocked from deporting Colorado suspect’s family, lawyer blasts ‘medieval’ tacticSen. Ron Johnson rips into ‘immoral’ GOP spending bill: ‘I can’t accept it‘Trump says he spoke to Putin, predicts no ‘immediate’ peace for Russia, UkraineRepublican tax bill would add $2.4 trillion to deficits, CBO saysMusk has been a vocal critic of the Trump-backed spending bill that moved through the House last month.Earlier this week, Musk called the spending bill a “disgusting abomination” that will lead to exploding federal budget deficits.“In November next year, we fire all politicians who betrayed the American people,” he wrote in a separate X post.Musk’s criticism of the spending package — which is now being considered in the Senate — is in part what spurred the clash between the two men.Trump told NBC News that he is still “very confident” that the bill will be passed by July 4, and that he doesn’t think Musk could derail the bill.“If you look at the Republicans, we’ve never been more unified,” Trump told NBC News. “The bill is fantastic.”— NBC News contributed reporting
Wacom's latest Cintiq models bring Pro Pen 3 and a slimmer design to midrange pen displays built for macOS workflows.Wacom Cintiq pen displayWacom is launching a refreshed Cintiq line in summer 2025, introducing the Cintiq 16, Cintiq 24, and Cintiq 24 Touch. The updated models bring thinner hardware, sharper visuals, and expanded customization, marking a notable shift in Wacom's midrange strategy.The Cintiq line sits between Wacom's entry-level One tablets and the high-end Cintiq Pro series, which offers 4K resolution and HDR. With this release, Wacom is signaling that professional-grade tools are now within reach for more creators. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
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D-Day: The Great Crusade And The Men Who Made It Work Authored by Daniel Oliver via American Greatness,Seventy-one years ago next month, a young man went with his parents and siblings to Europe on a Cunard liner, the MV Britannic. On the liner with them was a middle-aged couple going to France to visit, for the first time, their son’s grave in Normandy, France.The beaches of Normandy are where thousands of soldiers, including their son, landed and died on D-Day: June 6, 1944.The young man, then aged fifteen, had, at best and generously, little understanding of what that couple was doing. Oh yes, he remembered the war from his earliest childhood: he remembered blackouts in New York City, remembered his mother putting the heavy blue paper that cotton came in those days over the windows of their apartment so the “Jerries” (Germans) wouldn’t see any light, remembered hearing planes fly overhead, wondering whether they were “ours” or “theirs,” and remembered his father going at night to stand on the roofs of buildings to be a spotter of German aircraft.And he remembered hearing the church bells ring when the war in Europe ended—but he was only six then, so his memory was, and is... sketchy.Seventeen years later, when he was serving in the army in Germany, the horror of war intruded into his faint memory—and almost entirely literary understanding—of armed conflict.He was a linguist, trained to understand Russian, and particularly Russian military language and jargon. In the unit he was serving with, the best duty, but only for the best linguists, was “plane duty”: the soldiers flew along the East German border most of an afternoon and night, listening to whatever they could pick up, and then had several days off! Our young man was selected for plane duty but was scrubbed from it, permanently, because he was going home for a few weeks of leave.One night after he returned from leave, the plane crashed. All on board were killed. The official explanation was engine failure, but all the soldiers on the base “knew” it had been shot down by the East Germans (probably the pilot had strayed over the border) and that the U.S. government (the Kennedy administration) had decided not to make a cause célèbre out of it.Our then-young man remembers seeing the married men’s wives (some of them no more than about eighteen years old) come to the base and collect their husbands’ belongings. That’s when the horror of war hit home.No movie, not even Saving Private Ryan, could produce the effect of seeing those young girls collecting, grasping at the scanty memorabilia that remained from their very short married lives.Twenty-seven years later, on a Sunday afternoon, our young man, by then middle-aged, took his children to Coleville-sur-Mer, which is where the Normandy American Cemetery is located. It was officially dedicated on July 19, 1956. Before 1956, the remains of American soldiers who died during the Normandy campaign were temporarily interred at various sites, including the original cemetery established at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer shortly after D-Day. It was to one of those sites that the couple on the Cunard liner were going.That Sunday afternoon, the sun was bright and the weather warm, not at all like D-Day, when the temperature there had been around 55 degrees and the water temperature 59 degrees. (When was the last time you went swimming in 59-degree water?) The wind had been blowing 10 to 20 mph, gusting higher at times, which created the waves and surf that complicated the beach landings and made airborne drops difficult—facts you know if you’ve seen the movies.But on that sunny day so many years later, our middle-aged man watched two of his sons stroll up from the landing beach in their Brooks Brothers blazers and loafers. He stood transfixed, watching, appreciating the study in contrast—and his good luck of not being on the army plane that had crashed in the line of duty.Today, the cemetery at Coleville-sur-Mer, burial ground of 9,387 soldiers, is, some of its visitors think, the eighth wonder of the world. Rows and rows of graves marked by crosses, and some by Stars of David, remind us that greater love hath no man than this: that he lay down his life for a friend.Yes, yes, those soldiers didn’t plan to lay down their lives. Most were drafted, although about a quarter had volunteered. But still, they did lay down their lives, and you can, and should, visit their graves at the American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer before you... join them. And if you can’t get to Normandy, there are 156 military cemeteries in the U.S.—one of which is bound to be near enough to you to coax a visit.Can those of us today, in our Brooks Brothers suits, or BB look-alikes, ever really appreciate the grind and sacrifice of war? Or is it all simply beyond most of our ability to imagine?There’s a museum at the Normandy cemetery that displays letters from some of the young soldiers who went from America to those beaches, so many of them to die. Their letters show that many had no idea where they were going or even where Normandy was. But there they were, nevertheless, saving Western Civilization.World War I was called “the war to end all wars.”But of course it wasn’t, as the world discovered only twenty-one years later.Can wars ever end? Probably not, because some things are worth fighting for. And dying for. Is Western Civilization one of those things? Do most Americans think it is? Do enough Americans think it is worth dying for? Will we have to find out?That is worth contemplating on June 6 this year, as we remember—as the once-young, and then middle-aged, and now old man remembers—those who died for us eighty-one years ago, some of whom are buried in the American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France. Tyler DurdenFri, 06/06/2025 - 22:35
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A former top police official in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, was found guilty Friday of child rape charges.The Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office said a jury convicted former Hopkinton Police Deputy Chief John “Jay” Porter of three counts of child rape that occurred in 2004 and 2005 when he was a school resource officer.The victim, who was 15 at the time, was a student at Hopkinton High School. Prosecutors said Porter assaulted her off campus multiple times.“The defendant in this case abused his position of power to take advantage of and manipulate a child to gain her trust before sexually assaulting her on multiple occasions,” District Attorney Marian Ryan said in a statement.Resources for victims of sexual assault are available through the National Sexual Violence Resources Center and the National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline at 800-656-4673, and Massachusetts provides this list of statewide and resources for sexual assault survivors.Authorities said Porter advised the girl during her freshman and sophomore years while working at the high school. Their “relationship changed during her tenth grade, going from one of a trusted adult and student to a flirtatious then sexual one,” prosecutors wrote in a filing in Middlesex Superior Court.In one incident, when the girl was excused from school early, Porter volunteered to drive her home, then began kissing her, before engaging in sexual acts. Prosecutors said he would make statements like, “this is wrong,” but escalated involvement.Later that year, after driving her home after she babysat for him at his home in Hopedale, prosecutors said they engaged in another sex act, even after saying, “I know what we want but it can’t happen,” according to the court filing.It took 13 years before the woman was ready to say what happened to her in high school, prosecutors said.Porter, who was with the Hopkinton Police Department since 1992, was placed on leave in 2022, just weeks after marking 30 years on the force. He was indicted in May of 2023, pleading not guilty days later.The Hopkinton Select Board voted last February to terminate Hopkinton Police Sgt. Timothy Brennan, who was accused of failing to report the child rape allegations against Porter. An outside investigator hired by the town found that Brennan may have had prior knowledge of the accusations and not acted.In July, Brennan was hired by the Milford Police Department. His certification was suspended in August by the Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission. Weeks later, the POST Commission reinstated his certification on appeal.Brennan argued that the victim told him what happened to her when she was 14 and 15 as a mentor, not as a police officer, and feared for her safety should he go public. He also continued to urge her to report the allegations, according to the order, and referred her to Middlesex County prosecutors, which led to Porter’s arrest.A sentencing hearing for Porter is set for Wednesday, June 18.More on this storyHopkintonMay 1, 2023Ex-Hopkinton Deputy Police Chief Charged With Child RapeHopkintonFeb 9, 2024Hopkinton police sergeant accused of failing to report child rape allegations terminatedHopkintonSep 6, 2024Milford officer previously fired over child rape reporting has certification reinstated
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Tribeca film festival, New York Brenda Blethyn and Andrea Riseborough, along with a very alarming dog, are superb as two neighbours thrown together by their neglected circumstancesTwenty years ago, Paul Andrew Williams announced himself as a smart new British talent with his ferocious gangland picture London to Brighton, and his creativity has continued in film and TV ever since. His new film is a haunted, social-realist drama with elements of Mike Leigh but also moments of thriller and even horror. Williams isn’t shy of stabbing us with an old-fashioned jump scare towards the end, which in fact challenges the audiences with its refusal of categorisation. There are two superb lead performances from Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn and an outstanding supporting turn from Jason Watkins.Dragonfly is about loneliness and alienation and about the eternal mystery of other people, the fear of intimacy and the unknowable existence of urban neighbours. Elsie, played by Blethyn, is an older woman who is quite capable of independent living in her bungalow, but a recent fall and an injured wrist has meant that her middle-aged son (Watkins), all too obviously to compensate for not visiting that often, has paid for daily visits from a private agency nurses. They are overworked and not doing an especially good job. Really, she doesn’t need these nurses and by enduring them, Elsie is shouldering the burden of her son’s guilt. Continue reading...
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Syria Allows UN Team Immediate Access To Suspected Nuke Sites The Syrian regime of Al-Qaeda linked President Ahmed Sharaa continues its remarkable degree of cooperation with the so-called international community, this week affirming that it will give inspectors from the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, immediate and unprecedented access to the country.While not known for nuclear sites, it's long been suspected that Damascus was overseeing a nascent program under the prior Assad government. This included an undeclared nuclear reactor built by North Korea in eastern Deir el-Zour province, which was attacked by Israeli jets in a September 2007 raid. That operation had remained a secret for years after.Images: satellite via DigialGlobe/NYT of alleged secretive Syrian nuclear site bombed by the Israelis in 2007.The IAEA previously described the reactor as being "not configured to produce electricity" - which raised suspicions in the West and in the region that Assad had been seeking nuclear weapons.The UN watchdog's aim is "to bring total clarity over certain activities that took place in the past that were, in the judgment of the agency, probably related to nuclear weapons," IAEA director-general, Rafael Grossi, has said.Grossi further said the new government run by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (which when it began fighting Assad years ago was an al-Qaeda affiliate) remains "committed to opening up to the world, to international cooperation."Interestingly, even the Jewish News Syndicate identifies the terror pedigree of the man now running things in Damascus:The IAEA leader told the AP that al-Sharaa — a former al-Qaida member who has courted Western governments since seizing power in December — had shown a "very positive disposition to talk to us and to allow us to carry out the activities we need to."Now that Assad is out, and Sharaa (aka. Jolani) is in, delegations from Western capitals have rushed back to Damascus, and Washington has even lifted sanctions. Syria under Sharaa has gone so far as to signaled openness to normalizing relations with Israel, after the two had been in a permanent state of war for decades under the Assad family.But after Syria fell to the Sunni jihadists, this meant Iran lost a crucial ally in a strategic location - the so-called 'Shia crescent' - that linked Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad, and Tehran.READ this brilliant article by The Cradle's Syria correspondent about the dubious role of Britain's secret service in grooming Syria’s Al-Qaeda-rooted government.READ: https://t.co/XcNIbz168p pic.twitter.com/PJbRUNHyXX— Kevork Almassian (@KevorkAlmassian) June 5, 2025UN inspectors will likely eventually also want to inspect Syria's chemical weapons sites, though Israel had long ago bombed many of them, yet there probably remains underground stockpiles. Tyler DurdenFri, 06/06/2025 - 22:10
SAO PAULO (AP) — Japan’s Princess Kako of Akishino, a niece of Emperor Naruhito, received the highest order of Brazil’s powerhouse state of Sao Paulo on Friday as she kicks off an 11-day trip to the South American nation. Her trip also marks the 130th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The younger [...]
AJ Singer’s 10th-inning single lifted Oregon State to a come-from-behind 5-4 victory over Florida State in the opening game of the Corvallis Super Regional. The Beavers were down to their last strike in the ninth inning before Jacob Krieg’s two-run...