The day after Christmas last year, 24-year-old Nick Shirley posted a video about suspected fraud in Minnesota. In it, he and a man named Dave Hoch knocked the doors of tax-funded daycare centers, then attended a meeting about fraud at Minnesota’s State Capitol. At the conclusion of its 42 minutes, Shirley reported they’d uncovered more than $110 million in fraud.
The video lit a fire on social…
In his talk "Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People," Maciej Cegłowski takes apart the fear that a self-improving AI will bootstrap itself into a god and wipe out humanity — the Nick Bostrom, paperclip-maximizer scenario beloved in Silicon Valley.
He finds the whole thing "somewhat silly, and full of unwarranted assumptions." — Read the rest
The post Is the AI apocalypse a religion…
The lawsuit filed against President Trump’s $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund has been assigned to a judge already on the president’s bad side.
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon will be overseeing the case against Trump’s slush fund too. Leon has previously drawn Trump’s ire not only by delaying the construction of the White House ballroom, but also by striking down the president’s…
WASHINGTON: A US judge has imposed a temporary injunction on sanctions imposed last year by Washington on a United Nations expert on the occupied Palestinian territories.
UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese was sanctioned in July 2025 after she publicly criticised Washington’s policy on Gaza.
In announcing the sanctions, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio slammed…
LAHORE: The Punjab chief minister’s office has refused a lawyer’s requests, made under the right to information law, for details of vehicles in incumbent provincial chief executive Maryam Nawaz’s use, her foreign visits and a luxury plane acquired by the Punjab government.
The right to information (RTI) in Pakistan is enshrined as a fundamental right under Article 19-A of the Constitution,…
You’re welcome to debate this in the comments, but you would be wasting your time developing practical skills, like developing good opinions. The Burden of…
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the withdrawal of about 5,000 troops from Germany within the next year, the Pentagon said on Friday, in the latest rift in transatlantic ties over the Mideast war.
The move came as US President Donald Trump announced that tariffs on cars and trucks from the European Union will increase to 25 per cent next week, accusing the bloc of not complying with…
India’s government has decided not to go ahead with a proposal to require Apple, Samsung and others to pre-install the country’s biometric identification app Aadhaar on phones, a move that had been opposed by the smartphone giants, a state body said on Friday.
It was reported last month that the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the state body that operates Aadhaar, had asked the…
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday launched a stinging criticism of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, one of his main European allies, over her unwillingness to join the Iran war.
“I’m shocked at her. I thought she had courage, but I was wrong,” he said in an interview with Italian daily _Corriere della Sera_.
The interview was published the day after Meloni condemned as “unacceptable”…
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President Donald Trump fired off his most public and intense criticism of Pope Leo XIV in a lengthy Sunday night post to Truth Social and also in remarks to journalists, calling the spiritual head of the Catholic Church “weak” and “terrible” on key issues.
“Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for…
From his recording studio in the Playa municipality in Habana, Cuba, surrounded by pianos, consoles,
Should academics be more conservative? One way to characterize conservatism is as an appreciation of enduring institutions and widespread social practices, flawed as they may be—and which are constituted and maintained by human beings, flawed as they may be—that have actually managed to bring about some things we value.* If that’s what we mean by conservatism, then yes, says Maya Krishnan, a…
TikTok told the BBC that it will not be rolling out end-to-end encrypted DMs, citing user safety as a concern.
RAWALPINDI: As many as 469 trees and 715 shrubs have been relocated from Peshawar Road to other areas as work on three underpasses worth Rs8 billion commenced on the main artery of the cantonment area.
The federal and Punjab governments had earlier issued directives not to cut any trees at the development sites following criticism over tree felling in Islamabad’s Shakarparian.
After initial…
In an interview last month with Fandango, writer-director Emerald Fennell explains why the title on the _Wuthering Heights_ poster is in quotations. “I can’t say I’m making _Wuthering Heights_. It’s not possible,” she says. “There’s a version that I remembered reading that isn’t quite real. And there’s a version that I wanted stuff to happen that never happened. And so it is _Wuthering Heights_ ,…
• Orders Power Division to file review petition to protect existing contract holders
• Nepra approves Rs132bn fixed charges for 28.5m households
• Decision applied retrospectively; lowest slabs to face up to 75pc jump
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif stepped in on Wednesday to seek a review of Nepra’s revised rules for rooftop solar users, while the power regulator simultaneously…
The Trump family holds about a 60% stake in World Liberty Financial, a crypto project that recently launched its own stablecoin.