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In first interview since Glastonbury, frontman Bobby Vylan tells Louis Theroux the backlash was ‘minimal’ compared to the plight of PalestiniansBob Vylan frontman Bobby Vylan is “not regretful” of his “death, death to the IDF” chant at Glastonbury and said he would “do it again tomorrow, twice on Sundays”.The outspoken punk duo sparked controversy when they led chants of “death, death to the IDF”, referring to the Israel Defense Forces, at the festival in June. The chant was condemned by Glastonbury and the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, who described it as “appalling hate speech”. Continue reading...
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An immigration attorney in Chelsea, Massachusetts, is suing the federal government after agents with the Department of Homeland Security seized his cellphone at Logan Airport in Boston — an action he said was unreasonable and a violation of his clients’ rights.Andrew Lattarulo has represented several high-profile clients in Massachusetts, including a 13-year-old boy recently detained in Everett by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and a Brazilian woman in Worcester whose detainment in May prompted outrage by immigrant advocates. He filed a suit asking a federal judge to order the Trump administration to destroy the data it took from his phone.“Attorney Lattarulo brought this case to protect his clients,” said Patrick Hanley, Lattarulo’s attorney. “He’s very aware and very knowledgeable of the administration’s current enforcement priorities. He makes the people that are interested in that, like his clients, aware of it.”According to court filings, Lattarulo was returning from a trip to Aruba with his brother and his law partner, Audai Cote, on Sept. 27 when federal agents approached him at Terminal C and confiscated his phone without a warrant.The government argued in court that agents had “reasonable suspicion,” noting that Homeland Security Investigations had been looking into Lattarulo’s law firm for possibly employing undocumented workers.Investigators said they flagged 117 people in the firm’s employment verification forms — also known as I-9s — who allegedly lacked proper work documentation.Lattarulo’s lawyers said that only his phone was seized, not his partner’s, and that the government is retaliating against him for publicly criticizing federal immigration policies online.“There does seem to be another motive, and we don’t see the government arguing that they’re looking for information on account of him being an immigration attorney,” said Stefanie Fisher-Pinkert, an immigration lawyer who liaises with Customs and Border Protection at Logan Airport. “In our liaison conversations with CBP, they’ve noted that there is training for officers, and if somebody says, ‘Hey, I’m an attorney, and I have attorney-client privileged information on there,’ that they are required to take certain precautions. That doesn’t mean they don’t have that reasonable suspicion on an unrelated topic.”Other immigration attorneys, including Eloa Celedon, expressed concern about what this means for their profession.“We’re walking around like, ‘Are we targets, or is my phone going to be taken away, is my laptop going to be taken away?'” Celedon said.“On rare occasions, officers/agents may search a traveler’s mobile phone, or other electronic devices during the inspection process,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement. “CBP has established strict guidelines to ensure that these searches are exercised judiciously and responsibly.”For now, a federal judge has ordered the government not to search or destroy the copied data from Lattarulo’s phone until she makes a final ruling.More immigration newsImmigrationOct 1513-year-old detained by ICE in Everett, rally held calling for his releaseImmigrationOct 13Chicago man fined $130 by ICE agents for not carrying Green CardImmigrationOct 12Feeling hopeless in custody, many drop claims to remain in the US, leave voluntarily
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Beethoven and Schubert pushed the boundaries of the piano sonata, redefining the genre in ways that still resonate today. In turn, Paul Lewis—one of the most sought-after pianists of his generation—has redefined how we hear and understand their music. In his highly anticipated return to our series, this beloved pianist will trace the ongoing evolution of the sonata, pairing a bold new work written for him by Austrian composer Thomas Larcher with Beethoven’s early Op. 10, No. 1—lauded by his contemporary Carl Czerny for its “profound sentiment and delicacy”—and Schubert’s expansive, haunting final sonata, composed just weeks before the composer’s death. Following an acclaimed international tour performing and recording the complete Schubert piano sonata cycle, Lewis believes that “Schubert’s sonatas express with directness and sincerity some of the most fundamental elements of human experience: longing, consolation, despair, joy, loss, nostalgia, and hope. In our time, his music is as essential and poignant as ever.” Expect an evening of music that won’t just move you—it will reshape the way you listen. This event is presented by Princeton University Concerts. Please click here for a full event listing and tickets.
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Internet disruptions tied to Amazon’s cloud computing service affected people around the world Monday trying to connect to online services used for work, social media and video games.About three hours after the outage began, Amazon Web Services said it was starting to recover from the problem. But the company later said it was continuing to respond to “significant” errors and connectivity issues across multiple services.What is Amazon Web Services?Amazon Web Services is a cloud computing provider that hosts many of the world’s most-used online services. AWS provides behind-the-scenes cloud computing infrastructure to many government departments, universities and businessesSeattle-based Amazon said the problems were centered in its Virginia-based US-EAST-1 data center region, one of its most important cloud hubs around the world. The region is a backbone “for so many services that when things go screwy, domino effects around the internet-as-we-know-it are enormous,” wrote John Scott-Railton, a cybersecurity researcher at Citizen Lab, in a social media post.What happened?AWS traced the source of the problem to something called the “DynamoDB endpoint in the US-East-1 Region,” in a pair of jargon-laden updates.“DynamoDB isn’t a term that most consumers know, but it underpins the apps and services that all of us use every single day,” said cybersecurity expert Mike Chapple.DynamoDB is a centralized database service that many internet-based services use to track user information, store key data and manage their operations, Chapple said by email.It’s “one of the record-keepers of the modern internet,” said Chapple, an IT professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. “It’s fast, it’s cheap, and it’s reliable. But today it stopped working and we saw the effects of that outage ripple across the internet.”Amazon’s updates suggest the problem isn’t with the database itself, but rather that something went wrong with the records that tell other systems where to find their data, he said.“Amazon had the data safely stored, but nobody else could find it for several hours, leaving apps temporarily separated from their data. It’s as if large portions of the internet suffered temporary amnesia,” Chapple said.Amazon has attributed the outage to a domain name system issue. DNS is the service that translates internet addresses into machine-readable IP addresses that connects browsers and apps with websites and underlying web services. DNS errors disrupt the translation process, interrupting the connection.Because so many sites and services use AWS, a DNS error can have widespread results.Who was affected?Internet users around the world faced widespread disruption because Amazon’s problem took down dozens of major online services, including social media site Snapchat, the Roblox and Fortnite video games and chat app Signal.On DownDetector, a website that tracks online outages, users reported issues with Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood, the McDonald’s app and many other services.The risks of centralized cloud servicesSome cybersecurity experts have warned for years about the potentially ugly consequences of allowing a handful of big tech companies to dominate key internet operations.“So much of the world now relies on these three or four big (cloud) compute companies who provide the underlying infrastructure that when there’s an issue like this, it can be really impactful across a broad range, a broad spectrum” of online services, said Patrick Burgess, a cybersecurity expert at U.K.-based BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.“The world now runs on the cloud,” and the internet is seen as a utility like water or electricity, as we spend so much of our lives on our smartphones, Burgess said.And because so much of the online world’s plumbing is underpinned by a handful of companies, when something goes wrong, “it’s very difficult for users to pinpoint what is happening because we don’t see Amazon, we just see Snapchat or Roblox,” Burgess said.“The good news is that this kind of issue is usually relatively fast (to resolve)” and there’s no indication that it was caused by a cyber incident like a cyberattack, Burgess said.Has this happened in the past?This is not the first time issues with Amazon’s key services have caused widespread disruptions.Many popular internet services and publishers were down after a brief outage in 2023. AWS’s longest outage in recent history occurred in late 2021, when companies — everything from airline reservations and auto dealerships to payment apps and video streaming services — were affected for more than five hours. Other major outages happened in 2020 and 2017.Unrelated to Amazon, a faulty software update by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike also rippled across the world to cause massive disruptions in 2024.
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People with a leading cause of blindness were able to read again thanks to a tiny wireless chip implanted in the back of the eye and specialized augmented glasses, according to study results published Monday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The trial involved 38 European patients, all of whom had an advanced stage of dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) known as geographic atrophy. There is no cure for AMD, which is driven by changes in a part of the retina called the macula and caused by inflammation and a build-up of waste. The photoreceptor cells in the macula are responsible for producing sharp, detailed and colored vision. When the disease has progressed to the geographic atrophy stage, these cells deteriorate and die, and people lose their central vision — meaning that an object straight ahead may appear blurry or covered up with a dark blotch. Roughly 22 million people in the U.S. have AMD, and about 1 million have geographic atrophy, according to the American Macular Degeneration Foundation.In the study, the participants, who had an average age of 79,were fitted with the “PRIMA device,” a system meant to replicate vision. Patients wear augmented reality glasses embedded with a camera that captures their visual field. What the camera “sees” is transmitted to the chip implanted in their eye in the form of infrared light. The chip converts the light into an electrical current, which stimulates the remaining healthy cells in the macula in a realistic way, enabling signals these cells send to be interpreted by the brain as vision. An image processor, which the user must carry, lets patients zoom in and magnify the images they see, which appear in black and white.With the help of the PRIMA device, 80% of the 32 patients who returned for a reassessment one year after the chip implantation had achieved clinically meaningful visual improvements. Patients did experience side effects, predominantly related to the surgical procedure: The study reported that 26 serious adverse events occurred in 19 of the patients, ranging from elevated blood pressure in the eye to an accumulation of blood around the retina. The majority of the adverse events resolved within two months of the implantation. “It’s the first ever therapeutic approach that has led to an improvement in visual function in this group of patients,” said Dr. Frank Holz, the trial’s lead investigator and chair of the department of ophthalmology at the University Hospital of Bonn in Germany. “Late-stage age-related macular degeneration is a dismal disease. Patients are no longer capable of reading, driving a car, watching TV or even recognizing faces. So [these results] are a game-changer in my mind.”One patient, Sheila Irvine, 70, who was fitted with the PRIMA device at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, said in a statement provided by the hospital that her life before receiving the implant was akin to “having two black discs in my eyes, with the outside distorted.” A self-described “avid bookworm” before losing her vision, Irvine said she was now able to do crosswords and read prescriptions.Dr. Sunir Garg, professor of ophthalmology at the retina service of Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, who was not involved in the study, said the results represent a breakthrough for patients with geographic atrophy. All doctors have been able to offer, he said, are visual aids, like magnifiers, and emotional support.“Even with new medical therapies, the best that we can do is slow it down,” said Garg, who works with several drugmakers involved in treatments for AMD, including Apellis Pharmaceuticals, the maker of pegcetacoplan. That drug, which slows the progression of geographic atrophy, was recently approved in the U.S. and must be injected into the eye every 1 to 2 months. “We can’t stop it, and we can’t do anything to bring back lost vision.”Dr. Demetrios Vavvas, director of the retina service at Mass Eye and Ear in Boston, who was also not involved in the study, said that the PRIMA system is not without limitations.Vavvas noted that the surgery required to implant the chip in the eye requires a high level of surgical skill and is not without risk. “You have to lift the retina off its normal position to implant this device, which increases the atrophy,” said Vavvas, who is a consultant to Sumitomo Pharmaceuticals, a company working on stem cell therapies for patients with other forms of vision loss. Vavvas said it was important to note that the device isn’t restoring normal vision, as patients were only able to see in black and white rather than color, and the trial participants had to undergo a significant amount of training in order to learn how to see with the PRIMA device. He also said that it wasn’t clear whether the enhancements in visual ability had significantly improved the patients’ quality of life.But at the same time, Vavvas was also optimistic about its future potential, describing the current iteration of PRIMA as a key stepping stone in the field of vision restoration. “Think of this device as the pre-release iPhone,” he said. “The limitations are clear. We shouldn’t oversell that the quality of life really improved. But there were certain [visual] tasks at which the patients were clearly better. So it shows to us that there is potential in this approach. It is still in some ways, a prototype. They’re working on iterations of this device that will be better.”New upgrades to the PRIMA device could be coming in the next couple of years. The PRIMA system was invented by Stanford University ophthalmology professor Daniel Palanker and is being developed by the California-based neural engineering company Science Corporation.Palanker said technical improvements are being made to increase the number of pixels in the chip from 400 to 10,000. The new chips have already been tested in rats, and the upgraded chips are being manufactured for future human trials. With the aid of the camera’s zoom function, Palanker said that this could theoretically enable patients to achieve 20/20 visual resolution.“We are also working on next generation software that will allow patients to perceive not just black-and-white text, but also grey-scale natural images, such as faces,” Palanker said.Palanker suggested that the technology could be trialed in other retinal diseases that cause blindness, such as Stargardt disease, which has similar symptoms to age-related macular degeneration but is genetic and usually affects younger people.Garg and Vavvas are eager to see larger trials that provide more details about how the device improves patients’ ability to function on a day-to-day basis. Vavvas suggested that future trials should include a control arm to understand the extent to which the device yields real-world benefits, for example compared to existing electronic magnifiers. “Is it something that is good enough for patients to say, ‘Well, I’ve regained my independence because I can now do my credit card bills myself, stamp and address my envelopes myself, and look at grocery store labels?’” Garg said. “Those kinds of practical things I would like to know more about.”“This is a chronic disease that you will have for life, so we need more than one year of follow-up to see other risks, other problems,” Vavvassaid. “Does that signal of efficacy that we see at 12 months, remain two years later?”While Vavvas said he would not call the device a complete panacea for blindness, the study showed that brain-computer interfaces can represent an important approach to tackling different kinds of severe visual impairment. “As the iterations of this device become better and better, it could become a real solution for a cohort of patients,” he said.
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