Waltz offered other roles before accepting U.N. ambassador post, sources say
President Trump announced Thursday that he plans to nominate Waltz, who has been the national security adviser, to be U.N. ambassador, sources said.
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French mosque murder suspect acted without ideological motive, prosecutor says
A Frenchman accused of fatally stabbing a 22-year-old Malian in a mosque near Nimes last week acted alone and was driven by a violent urge rather than ideology, a prosecutor said Friday, ruling out a terrorist motive in the killing.
News24 | Iran must ‘walk away’ from all uranium enrichment, Rubio says
Iran has to ‘walk away’ from uranium enrichment and long-range missile development, and it should allow Americans to inspect its facilities, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday as a round of nuclear talks was postponed.
Illinois landlord sentenced to 53 years over hate-crime killing of six-year-old
Joseph Czuba, 73, killed Muslim boy and severely injured his mother in vicious attack days after war in Gaza beganAn Illinois landlord who killed a six-year-old Muslim boy and severely injured his mother in a vicious hate-crime attack days after the wa…
NASA faces cuts to rocket program and lunar space station in Trump’s 2026 budget
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to axe key parts of NASA’s moon program in favour of commercial alternatives and his Mars-focused agenda. It also proposes cuts to Gateway, a lunar space station in which Canada has already invested.
Privacy for Agentic AI
Sooner or later, it’s going to happen. AI systems will start acting as agents, doing things on our behalf with some degree of autonomy. I think it’s worth thinking about the security of that now, while its still a nascent idea.
In 2019, I joined Inrupt, a company that is commercializing Tim Berners-Lee’s open protocol for distributed data ownership. We are working on a digital wallet that can make use of AI in this way. (We used to call it an “active wallet.” Now we’re calling it an “agentic wallet.”)
I talked about this a bit at the RSA Conference…
Canada’s Carney offers strategic invite to King ahead of Trump meeting
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UN Judge Jailed For 6 Years For Modern Slavery Offences
A UK court on Friday jailed a United Nations judge for six years and four months after she was found guilty of forcing a young woman to work as her maid.
US Approves CRISPR Pigs For Food
The FDA has approved gene-edited pigs for human consumption, potentially marking the first major commercial application of CRISPR technology in the food chain. Created by British company Genus, these pigs have had their DNA modified to remove the recep…
Farage claims Reform UK local election gains ‘beginning of the end’ for Tories
Hard-right party wins byelection with 17-point swing from Labour and adds more than 500 council seats Local elections: full mayoral and council resultsNigel Farage claimed he had broken the grip of Britain’s two main political parties as Reform UK gain…