WorldIsrael
Masked Israeli settlers attacked a delegation of European diplomats, a French mayor, and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Saturday.
WorldRussia
US President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Friday night waiving several Russia sanctions on the grounds of national interest.
WorldFrance
An estimated 550,000 people took part in protests across France demanding greater investment in education and action on the rising cost of living.
UKUnited Kingdom
A would-be Reform UK MP told an undercover reporter that Muslims could not be British and asylum seekers should be put in concentration camps.
UKScotland
The campaign for a second referendum on Scottish independence has already begun
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The government must do more to protect key infrastructure against hybrid attacks from Russia.
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Lena Schilling learned last month that nude deepfakes of herself were circulating online.
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Anthropic reported that an internal Claude research model reconstructed the origin of five NIST elliptic-curve seed values, tracing them to the lrand48 C library pseudorandom number generator initialized with Unix timestamps.
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Meta updated its commercial terms to remove language that suggested it could scrape content from sites to train its AI.
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DeepSeek has released the DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 model on its platforms and as an open-weight model on Hugging Face and ModelScope.
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From edition No. 29
10 stories · 77 sources · 49 claims checked
Israel01:04
Masked Israeli settlers attacked a delegation of European diplomats, a French mayor, and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Saturday.
Sources: BBC News, The Guardian, Al Jazeera + 4 more
Russia01:13
US President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Friday night waiving several Russia sanctions on the grounds of national interest.
Sources: BBC News, The Guardian, NPR + 3 more
France01:19
An estimated 550,000 people took part in protests across France demanding greater investment in education and action on the rising cost of living.
Sources: BBC News, Sky News, Reuters + 5 more
United Kingdom01:29
A would-be Reform UK MP told an undercover reporter that Muslims could not be British and asylum seekers should be put in concentration camps.
Sources: The Guardian, Reuters, BBC News + 6 more
Scotland01:42
The campaign for a second referendum on Scottish independence has already begun
Sources: The Guardian, The Telegraph, AOL + 6 more
United Kingdom01:49
The government must do more to protect key infrastructure against hybrid attacks from Russia.
Sources: BBC News, The Guardian, The Independent + 5 more
Austria02:01
Lena Schilling learned last month that nude deepfakes of herself were circulating online.
Sources: The Guardian, Ua, AOL
San Francisco02:21
Anthropic reported that an internal Claude research model reconstructed the origin of five NIST elliptic-curve seed values, tracing them to the lrand48 C library pseudorandom number generator initialized with Unix timestamps.
Sources: AnthropicAI, News.ycombinator, Let's Data Science + 4 more
Menlo Park02:26
Meta updated its commercial terms to remove language that suggested it could scrape content from sites to train its AI.
Sources: The Verge, Meta Newsroom, Meta AI + 6 more
Deep diveHangzhou02:39
DeepSeek has released the DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 model on its platforms and as an open-weight model on Hugging Face and ModelScope.
Sources: Huggingface, The Decoder, Techmeme + 6 more
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44 claims checked · 28 confirmed
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48 claims checked · 26 confirmed
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