Jul 21, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Vincent Kompany announced his retirement from professional football to take up the role of head coach at Anderlecht. The 34-year-old former Manchester City captain signed a four-year deal. He had been serving as player-manager since 2019. Kompany's first match in charge will be against Mouscron. View more
Jul 21, 2026Twila Rosenbaum A newly declassified US intelligence report reveals that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) expressed concern in mid-2019 that Riyadh would lose American support if President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. The document, released by Trump, highlights the crown prince's reliance on the Trump administration's favorable stance toward Saudi Arabia. It also outlines efforts by Turkey to covertly influence US elections and notes Iran's ongoing attempts to sway American politics, though to a lesser degree than China and Russia. View more
Jul 21, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Recent laws banning transgender athletes from women's sports were spurred by the case of Lia Thomas. However, such laws often generalize from a single incident without considering broader evidence. The article examines several 'apostrophe laws' and their unintended consequences, arguing for careful policy-making rather than emotional reactions. View more
Jul 21, 2026Twila Rosenbaum BTS met Hollywood actor Tom Cruise and Colombian popstar Shakira backstage at the FIFA World Cup in New Jersey. The K-pop group performed at the halftime show alongside Coldplay, Madonna, and Justin Bieber. RM shared photos on Instagram, calling Tom 'King' and Shakira 'Queen'. Spain defeated Argentina 1-0 to claim the championship title. View more
Jul 21, 2026Twila Rosenbaum YouTube has updated its monetization guidelines to strip ad revenue from low-quality AI-generated content, clickbait, and synthetic avatars. The changes target generic repetitive videos, emotionally manipulative content, and AI personas giving advice on sensitive topics. This policy aims to protect viewer feeds and attract premium advertisers. View more
Jul 21, 2026Twila Rosenbaum A team at Seoul National University has developed SafeDrive, an AI model that helps self-driving cars evaluate multiple driving paths and choose the safest one. The model, selected as a highlight paper at CVPR 2026, addresses key weaknesses in current end-to-end autonomous driving systems: safety and explainability. SafeDrive has already been integrated into Korea's national EAD reference model and is being tested in real vehicles. View more
Jul 21, 2026Twila Rosenbaum A cybersecurity researcher demonstrated that an open-weight AI model can be poisoned with just ten training examples, costing under $100 and taking an hour. The compromised model reliably produced code with remote code execution vulnerabilities. This experiment underscores the difficulty of verifying model integrity and the risks of trusting fine-tuned open-weight models blindly. View more
Jul 21, 2026Twila Rosenbaum The European Commission has ordered Google to grant rival AI assistants, such as ChatGPT and Claude, the same deep access to Android that Gemini currently enjoys, under the Digital Markets Act. This means users may eventually summon and use third-party AI apps with similar features and voice triggers. The ruling could increase competition, leading to more affordable AI subscriptions, especially from cheaper Chinese models like DeepSeek. View more
Jul 21, 2026Twila Rosenbaum Apps are increasingly pushing AI features without user consent. This article examines the trend across major platforms and argues that repeated prompts are disrespectful to user preferences. View more
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