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  • Italian parliament unanimously votes to make femicide a crime

    Sarah RainsfordSouthern and Eastern Europe correspondent , Rome Corbis via Getty Images Protests against violence against women have taken place across Italy recently, often led by feminist group Non Una Di Meno (Not One Less) – this demonstration took place in Rome on Saturday Deputies in the Italian parliament have voted unanimously to introduce the read more

    Italian parliament unanimously votes to make femicide a crime
  • The Alienware Aurora Gaming Desktop Punches Above Its Weight

    It also came with two sticks of Kingston Fury 16-GB RAM and a Wi-Fi 7 card. All that for $1,550 is a really solid deal. There are cheaper ways to get RTX 5070-level performance, such as this iBuyPower system, but the Alienware Aurora is also far from the most expensive either. The Asus ROG G700, read more

    The Alienware Aurora Gaming Desktop Punches Above Its Weight
  • Find Your Grind raises $5M to grow platform empowering students to explore unique career paths | TechCrunch

    If you’re a fan of the punk scene from the early 2000s, you may recognize Nick Gross, the drummer for the band Goldfinger. Now he’s empowering young people to pursue their passions through his career exploration platform, Find Your Grind. The platform highlights alternative professions not usually emphasized in schools, including being a pop-punk band read more

    Find Your Grind raises M to grow platform empowering students to explore unique career paths | TechCrunch
  • Google Antigravity Exfiltrates Data – SquareDocs

    Antigravity is Google’s new agentic code editor. In this article, we demonstrate how an indirect prompt injection can manipulate Gemini to invoke a malicious browser subagent in order to steal credentials and sensitive code from a user’s IDE. Google’s approach is to include a disclaimer about the existing risks, which we address later in the read more

    Google Antigravity Exfiltrates Data – SquareDocs
  • Performa Diary: A Year of Sexy Revolutionaries

    My Performa journey began on November 4. Dick Cheney died that morning, and Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York that night. In between, I was fidgety, nervous, and excited for what the city might become. Still, I managed to sit patiently through some performance art like it was my job. The show I read more

    Performa Diary: A Year of Sexy Revolutionaries
  • Grab an 8TB SSD for 4.8¢ per Gigabyte, an all-time low, in an extraordinary price bloodbath ahead of Black Friday

    If you’re in the market for a large-capacity portable SSD, the Crucial X10 is a solid choice – and if you’re looking for a large-capacity SSD, the Crucial X10 has no rivals this Black Friday. At just 4.8c per GB, it beats EVERY single SSD – internal or external – when it comes to price read more

    Grab an 8TB SSD for 4.8¢ per Gigabyte, an all-time low, in an extraordinary price bloodbath ahead of Black Friday
  • December 2025 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

    Rotterdam Photo 2026 Open Call: Echoes of Silence—War in the Artist’s SoulFeaturedRotterdam Photo invites photographers worldwide to explore how war and collective trauma resonate in the artist’s inner world. ‘Echoes of Silence’asks: What happens when artists are not eyewitnesses to conflict but still carry its emotional legacy? How does violence linger in memory—not as an read more

    December 2025 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists
  • Four Additional Suspects Arrested in Connection to Louvre Museum Heist

    Four suspects have been arrested in connection with the theft of the French crown jewels from the Louvre Museum in Paris last month, USA Today reported. Two men and two women between the ages of 31 and 40 were arrested on Tuesday and are being questioned, according to statements made by French prosecutors on Tuesday. read more

    Four Additional Suspects Arrested in Connection to Louvre Museum Heist
  • Microsoft's AI chatbot Copilot leaves WhatsApp on January 15 | TechCrunch

    Microsoft’s AI chatbot Copilot will no longer be available on WhatsApp after January 15, the company has shared. After that date, users on WhatsApp won’t be able to chat with the AI unless they switch to Microsoft’s own Copilot mobile apps or use the chatbot via the web. The company explained it’s removing Copilot from read more

    Microsoft's AI chatbot Copilot leaves WhatsApp on January 15 | TechCrunch
  • China's Pony AI plans to triple global robotaxi fleet by the end of 2026 | TechCrunch

    Chinese autonomous vehicle technology company Pony.ai said Tuesday it plans to triple the size of its robotaxi fleet by the end of next year as its pace of growth — and aspirations — accelerates. The company, which has about 961 robotaxis in the fleet today, announced the goal during its third-quarter earnings. Pony.ai is targeting read more

    China's Pony AI plans to triple global robotaxi fleet by the end of 2026 | TechCrunch
  • West Africa: Liberia and Sierra Leone Break Ground On Ecowas-Funded Jendema-Bo Waterside Joint Border Post

    — Liberia and Sierra Leone, alongside the ECOWAS Commission, on Saturday broke ground for the construction of the Jendema-Bo Waterside Joint Border Post (JBP), a flagship ECOWAS project expected to ease cross-border movement, strengthen security, and boost regional trade. The facility is fully funded by ECOWAS. The groundbreaking, held November 22, 2025, marks a major read more

    West Africa: Liberia and Sierra Leone Break Ground On Ecowas-Funded Jendema-Bo Waterside Joint Border Post
  • Speechify adds voice typing and voice assistant to its Chrome extension | TechCrunch

    Speechify has largely been a tool that helps you listen to articles, PDFs, and documents. The company is now adding voice detection features to its Chrome extension, including voice typing and a voice assistant that answers your questions. In the last 12 months, there has been a proliferation of voice detection tools, thanks to overall read more

    Speechify adds voice typing and voice assistant to its Chrome extension | TechCrunch
  • Dupixent receives first-in-decade EU approval for CSU

    European approval of Sanofi and Regeneron’s monoclonal antibody provides eligible urticaria patients with a new first-line targeted treatment option. Following US approval in April of the first new targeted treatment for chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) in a decade, the European Commission (EC) has now authorised the same therapy for eligible EU patients. This approval further read more

    Dupixent receives first-in-decade EU approval for CSU
  • Are There Enough Collectors for All the Art Fairs? Chanel Opens China’s First Public Contemporary Art Library, US-Style Cultural Giving on the Rise in the UK: Morning Links for November 25, 2025

    The Headlines SUPPLY… DEMAND? This fall’s art-world chatter came with a major announcement: Frieze will launch an Abu Dhabi edition in November 2026, shortly after Art Basel opens in Qatar in February 2026. Art Basel Qatar is a completely new fair, while Frieze Abu Dhabi will expand and internationalize the existing Abu Dhabi Art fair, read more

    Are There Enough Collectors for All the Art Fairs? Chanel Opens China’s First Public Contemporary Art Library, US-Style Cultural Giving on the Rise in the UK: Morning Links for November 25, 2025
  • Ángela Ferrari's Dramatic Paintings Tease Out a Passionate Play for Power

    Aggression and struggles for power abound in the vivid paintings of Ángela Ferrari. The Argentinian artist is keen to explore the limits and consequences of control through scenes rife with antagonism: dogs nip at each other, horses buck and bare their teeth, and birds lie lifeless. Evoking hunting paintings and masculine displays of pride for read more

    Ángela Ferrari's Dramatic Paintings Tease Out a Passionate Play for Power
  • Art in America’s Winter “Collaborations” Issue Features Talia Chetrit, Mernet Larsen, Artists’ Fashion Legacies, and More

    What is creative activity? Social media would have us believe it is fast and furious—cue the dizzying double-speed video of someone making something. In fact, the creative process doesn’t usually lend itself to drama; a lot of what happens in the studio would appear to be inaction, the outwardly humdrum, inwardly remarkable percolation of ideas. read more

    Art in America’s Winter “Collaborations” Issue Features Talia Chetrit, Mernet Larsen, Artists’ Fashion Legacies, and More
  • Uganda Welcomes Mauritian Tour Operators for Week-Long Familiarisation Trip

    The Uganda High Commission in Dar es Salaam, in partnership with the Uganda Tourism Board (UTB), has officially welcomed a delegation of tour companies and travel trade partners from Mauritius for a week-long familiarisation safari aimed at showcasing Uganda’s premier tourism attractions. First Secretary and Accounting Officer at the Mission, Laura Kahuga, extended a warm read more

    Uganda Welcomes Mauritian Tour Operators for Week-Long Familiarisation Trip
  • Mauritius Travel Delegation Begins Week-Long Uganda Familiarisation Safari

    The Uganda High Commission in Dar es Salaam, in partnership with the Uganda Tourism Board (UTB), has welcomed a delegation of tour companies and travel trade partners from Mauritius for a week-long familiarisation safari showcasing Uganda’s leading tourism attractions. The team was received by the Mission’s First Secretary and Accounting Officer, Laura Kahuga, who extended read more

    Mauritius Travel Delegation Begins Week-Long Uganda Familiarisation Safari
  • This 6K Monitor Has More to Offer Than Just More Pixels

    The UltraFine 6K is also a Nano IPS Black display, which is something the Asus model is not. Nano IPS Black is actually a combination of two technologies that improve the image quality of IPS in different ways. Nano IPS enhances color coverage, while IPS Black cranks up the contrast. The combination of the two read more

    This 6K Monitor Has More to Offer Than Just More Pixels
  • Cerrion raises $18M to reduce factory downtime with AI video agents

    Cerrion, the Swiss-founded AI video agent platform that detects and resolves production line issues in real time, has raised $18 million in Series A funding to further expand and scale operations in the US and Europe. The round was led by Creandum, with participation from existing investors Y Combinator, Goat Capital, 10x Founders and Session read more

    Cerrion raises M to reduce factory downtime with AI video agents