The administration, which has previously championed right to repair, ignores its own experts to side with huge companies and screw over consumers.

‘The bombs are three times more powerful than those (dropped on) Hiroshima and Nagasaki’

An unlikely cast of characters including a Hollywood producer and the heir to the Wrigley chewing gum fortune are exploring a possible bid to take control of assets owned by NSO Group, the Israeli company behind one of the world’s most sophisticated cyber-weapons. Robert Simonds, a US financier whose credits include producing several Adam Sandler films, has been engaged in talks to acquire the blacklisted spyware company’s assets, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. A firm owned by Simonds’s friend, William “Beau” Wrigley – who was an heir to his family’s chewing gum fortune and has since become involved in the cannabis industry – has conducted due diligence in connection to a possible NSO deal, according to a document seen by the Guardian. NSO, which is closely regulated by Israel’s ministry of defence, sells its spyware to government clients around the world. It has faced intense scrutiny in the US, where the Biden administration in 2021 took the extraordinary step of placing the company on a blacklist and accused it of selling software tools that “enabled foreign governments to conduct transnational repression”.

Japanese police arrested an 18-year-old soldier on Wednesday after he shot and killed two instructors and injured a third at a military firing range in central Japan, the country's defence ministry said.

Cruises are bad

John Romita Sr., one of the key artists in Marvel Comics’ history who co-created characters such as Wolverine, the Punisher and Mary Jane Watson, died on Tuesday. He was 93. Romita Sr.’…

The resulting model included 36 muscles in each leg. Per Wiseman, Lucy had much larger calves and thighs than modern humans; the major muscles were more than twice the size. Fully 74 percent of Lucy's thigh consisted of muscle tissue compared to 50 percent in humans. Wiseman concluded that Lucy's knee extensor muscles would allow for sufficient leverage to straighten the knee joints like modern humans, thereby enabling Lucy to walk upright, as well as performing a range of other motions similar to chimpanzees and bonobos.

Beginning in June, detachments of U.S. troops will be arriving in Peru and staying until December 31, 2023. Peru’s Congress, supported by only 6% of Peruvians, on May 26 approved a resolution introduced in January that “authorized the entry of naval units and foreign military personnel with weapons of war.” U.S. military personnel are heading for Peru on a training and advisory mission. U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force troops will be active throughout that country. Most of them apparently will stay for less than the allotted seven months. They are bringing weapons and equipment. The U.S. Southern Command appointed a Peruvian general as “deputy commanding general-interoperability.” They arrive following massive popular protests that erupted in reaction to Peru’s rightwing Congress on December 7, 2022 having ordered the arrest of the democratically-elected President Pedro Castillo. His politics were progressive. The protests provoked violent military and police repression; over 70 Peruvians were killed. Demonstrations peaked in February, but will revive in July, according to reports.

A TikTok hunt for a New York bagel started as a joke beef over “gatekeeping”—and ended as a story about how goingviral doesn't alwayshave a happy ending.

Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Road" and "No Country for Old Men," has died of natural causes at 89.

Donald Trump has once again handed his Republican apologists an unenviable assignment. The Justice Department charged the ex-president last Thursday with willfully retaining national security secrets in violation of the Espionage Act and conspiring to obstruct justice. An ABC News–Ipsos poll released Sunday found that 47 percent of Americans believe the charges against Trump are “politically motivated” while only 37 percent believe they are not. In reality, however, the notion that the DOJ is selectively prosecuting Trump for political reasons is not merely wrong but the very opposite of the truth: As a matter of fact, the federal government has been affording Trump extraordinary leniency, likely as a product of political considerations.

The coffee chain maintains it is not caving to far-right attacks on LGBTQ people, despite union reports.

Baltimore spends the most per capita on cops of any US city, and still has over 300 murders a year. Why won’t politicians face the facts?

‘He flies so close to the house that it feels like he’s going to go through it. It’s a nightmare that just doesn’t stop’

Women have completely taken over a key concertgoing experience.

“And, just to say, I asked the broadcaster to pull it.”

Ex–intelligence officer David Grusch says the Pentagon is hiding evidence of massive spacecraft of nonhuman origin and it has killed to cover it up.

Now we need a substitute for the substitute The Substitute.

The University of Waterloo is advising its researchers that they are not required to talk to CSIS agents or give them access to faculty equipment if approached by the spy agency for information on joint research projects with scientists from foreign countries such as China. In guidelines recently sent to faculty and researchers, the University of Waterloo warned them they could be approached by CSIS agents who “may be concerned that you could be a target of a foreign state or entity, or they may have questions about some of your activities.” The memo also advises them: “You do not have a legal obligation to talk to a CSIS agent.” It later adds. “You must not consent to a search of University of Waterloo property without authorization.” The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has taken on a greater role in scrutinizing scientific and high-tech projects that receive federal money after The Globe and Mail uncovered extensive collaboration between Canadian universities and Chinese military scientists. Nick Manning, associate vice-president of communications at the University of Waterloo, said the guidelines are meant to support faculty in safeguarding their work and coping with the stress of dealing with CSIS agents. He said in past years CSIS officers have approached researchers – sometimes at their homes. These encounters can be “a bit of a surprise and scary,” Mr. Manning said, adding some researchers felt a “real sense of fear” and “kind of an invasion of their personal space” when approached this way. “We want our researchers to know their rights,” he said. “Our institution has an obligation to protect that information within bounds of Canadian law.”The University of Waterloo is advising its researchers that they are not required to talk to CSIS agents or give them access to faculty equipment if approached by the spy agency for information on joint research projects with scientists from foreign countries such as China. In guidelines recently sent to faculty and researchers, the University of Waterloo warned them they could be approached by CSIS agents who “may be concerned that you could be a target of a foreign state or entity, or they may have questions about some of your activities.” The memo also advises them: “You do not have a legal obligation to talk to a CSIS agent.” It later adds. “You must not consent to a search of University of Waterloo property without authorization.” The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has taken on a greater role in scrutinizing scientific and high-tech projects that receive federal money after The Globe and Mail uncovered extensive collaboration between Canadian universities and Chinese military scientists. Nick Manning, associate vice-president of communications at the University of Waterloo, said the guidelines are meant to support faculty in safeguarding their work and coping with the stress of dealing with CSIS agents. He said in past years CSIS officers have approached researchers – sometimes at their homes. These encounters can be “a bit of a surprise and scary,” Mr. Manning said, adding some researchers felt a “real sense of fear” and “kind of an invasion of their personal space” when approached this way. “We want our researchers to know their rights,” he said. “Our institution has an obligation to protect that information within bounds of Canadian law.”

David Patten and James Thorsen toured Bok as part of official Rhode Island state business. Now, their actions are under review by the Rhode Island state police and the governor.