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The Guardian - World News

2026-02-25 07:00:36 (4 days ago)

Meta’s AI sending ‘junk’ tips to DoJ, US child abuse investigators say

Officers say flood of low-quality reports is draining resources and slowing cases amid New Mexico lawsuit

Meta’s use of artificial intelligence software to moderate its social media platforms is generating large volumes of useless reports about cases of child sexual abuse, which are draining resources and hindering investigations, said officers from the US Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) taskforce.

“We get a lot of tips from Meta that are just kind of junk,” Benjamin Zwiebel, a special agent with the ICAC taskforce in New Mexico, said last week during his testimony in the state’s trial against Meta. The state’s attorney general alleges the company’s platforms are putting profits over child safety. Meta disputes these allegations, citing changes it has introduced on its platforms, such as teen accounts with default protections. The ICAC taskforce is a nationwide network of law enforcement agencies coordinated with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) to investigate and prosecute online child exploitation and abuse cases.

The Guardian - World News

2026-02-25 07:00:36 (4 days ago)

A Hollywood ‘heir’ levied horrific abuse claims against four industry titans. How did he end up in prison?

Rovier Carrington thought his cases against MTV and Paramount executives should have been the biggest of the #MeToo era. Instead, they raised unsettling questions about victimhood

One unseasonably warm afternoon in February 2023, in a very brown New York City courtroom, Rovier Carrington did the inconceivable: he admitted to a lie. On that day, the aspiring screenwriter told a federal judge that he had altered evidence to support his legal claim of being systematically raped and blacklisted by a bevy of Hollywood powerbrokers.

His 11th-hour capitulation came as a shock.

The Guardian - World News

2026-02-25 07:00:35 (4 days ago)

Tech legend Stewart Brand on Musk, Bezos and his extraordinary life: ‘We don’t need to passively accept our fate’

He was at the heart of 1960s counterculture, then paved the way for the libertarian mindset of Silicon Valley. At 87, Brand is still keen to ensure the world is maintained properly – not just today, but for the next 10,000 years

Stewart Brand thinks big and long. He thinks on a planetary scale – as suggested by the title of his celebrated Whole Earth Catalog – and on the longest of timeframes, as with his Long Now Foundation, which looks forward to the next 10,000 years of human civilisation. He has had a lifelong fascination with the future, and anything that could get us there faster, from space travel to psychedelic drugs to computing. In fact, he was arguably the bridge between the San Francisco counterculture of the 60s and present-day Silicon Valley: in his commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005, Steve Jobs eulogised the Whole Earth Catalog and Brand’s philosophy, and echoed its farewell mantra: “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”

You could say that Brand has also lived big and long. He is now 87 years old, in the final chapters of an eventful and adventurous life that has crossed paths with some of the most consequential events and figures of his era. He has been a writer, an editor, a publisher, a soldier, a photojournalist, an LSD evangelist, an events organiser, a future-planning consultant, even a government adviser (to the California governor Jerry Brown in the late 70s). “There was a time when people asked me, ‘What do you do?’ I said, ‘I find things and I found things,’” says Brand, as in he is a founder. He is speaking from a library where he likes to work in Petaluma, California, not far from his houseboat in Sausalito. “I’m always searching for good stuff to recommend, and good people.”

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-02-25 07:00:28 (4 days ago)

The white-collar office ecosystem is being rewritten by AI — Here’s how we win

Generative AI represents the next chapter in American economic transformation, creating opportunities for augmented intelligence while requiring workforce development.

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-02-25 07:00:16 (4 days ago)

How families of hostages and thousands of volunteers came together to bring them home

Ordinary families became extraordinary advocates, fighting 843 days to bring every Oct. 7 hostage home from Gaza. Their demanding mission is complete.

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-02-25 07:00:15 (4 days ago)

Combination nasal spray vaccine could protect against COVID, flu and pneumonia at once

Stanford researchers develop breakthrough nasal spray vaccine that could potentially protect against a variety of infections, like COVID-19 and pneumonia, for several months.

The Guardian - World News

2026-02-25 06:58:33 (4 days ago)

Bodø/Glimt bask in ‘crazy’ Champions League victory over shellshocked Inter

Italian giants were well beaten by side who dazzled despite Norway’s domestic season not starting until next month

There was a moment after the final whistle at San Siro on Tuesday night when the head coaches, Bodø/Glimt’s Kjetil Knutsen and Inter’s Cristian Chivu, stood chatting, seemingly discussing some tactical element of the game that had just finished.

Chivu appeared genuinely interested in what Knutsen had to say, smiling politely, but above all he looked utterly bemused. What the hell had just happened? His Inter team, top of Serie A by 10 points and undefeated in the league since 23 November, had not only lost the home leg of their Champions League playoff against the Norwegian side but been well beaten: 2-1 on the night and 5-2 on aggregate.

Gazeta do Povo - Mundo

2026-02-25 06:58:31 (4 days ago)

Com ajuda dos EUA, Colômbia prende um dos “chefões” do Tren de Aragua

Com ajuda operacional dos EUA, a Colômbia prendeu um dos "chefões" do Tren de Aragua com atuação na América Latina

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-02-25 06:56:38 (4 days ago)

What Trump said at State of the Union address

US President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address both aggravated and excited lawmakers.

Times of Israel - World News

2026-02-25 06:56:05 (4 days ago)

US Justice Department withheld allegations against Trump from Epstein files, NPR finds

Investigation finds that FBI interviews with a woman who alleged Trump sexually and physically assaulted her as a minor were missing from Epstein database, in violation of law

The post US Justice Department withheld allegations against Trump from Epstein files, NPR finds appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-02-25 06:54:04 (4 days ago)

Zimbabwe imposes ban on exports of all raw minerals and lithium concentrate

The immediate ban covers all raw minerals already in transit and will remain in place until further notice.

The Guardian - World News

2026-02-25 06:52:29 (4 days ago)

‘I hurt so much for years but now feel proud’: John Quansah on the pain of a football career ruined by injury

Quansah left Ghana for Ajax as a boy but injury ended his career before it started. He now earns £5 a day as a builder and strives to find a new purpose in life

By The Blizzard

John Quansah looks at a glass display case hanging on the wall of his living room in Obuasi, Ghana. Inside are three trophies from his days as a youth player at Ajax. For years, they lay tucked away in the back of a cupboard, but two years ago, that changed. “I’m an adult now,” John says. “It’s time to look at the past differently. When I look at the trophies now, I don’t just feel pain. I am grateful too – for those beautiful years.”

Of course, he didn’t fulfil his big dream. But not everyone can say they have played for Ajax. He has every reason to be proud, to look back at that time with satisfaction. During a move, he finds the trophies again and decides to mount a display case on the wall of his new living room. Inside, he places three trophies. One for the best player at a youth tournament in Belgium. Next to that, one from another competition, and one he received for sportsmanship, also awarded in Belgium.