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These Are the Artists in MoMA PS1’s Greater New York Show
MoMA PS1 has announced the artist lineup for the sixth edition of its Greater New York exhibition, which highlights emerging and mid-career contemporary artists every five years. Taking over the museum’s transformed school building starting April 16, the cross-borough survey will celebrate MoMA PS1’s 50th anniversary with a bevy of site-specific installations, new commissions, and read more
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India orders social media platforms to take down deepfakes faster | TechCrunch
India has ordered social media platforms to step up policing of deepfakes and other AI-generated impersonations, while sharply shortening the time they have to comply with takedown orders. It’s a move that could reshape how global tech firms moderate content in one of the world’s largest and fastest growing markets for internet services. The changes, read more
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In 'Altai,' Photographer Claire Thomas Chronicles a Time-Honored Way of Life in Mongolia
In the Bayan-Ölgii province of western Mongolia, Kazakh Mongolians are the largest ethnic group. The sparsely populated nation abuts the Altai Mountains, some of which belong to Russia and China and across which sits Kazakhstan. Over the past several decades, migration between Kazakhstan and Mongolia has increased due to changing political climates, trade, and tourism. read more
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Investigators Find Decades-Long Mismanagement, Corruption at China’s Nanjing Museum
An investigation into the Nanjing Museum, one of China’s premier state-run cultural institutions, found that decades of systemic mismanagement and corruption enabled the secret sale of national treasures into the private art market. According to the South China Morning Post, the scandal erupted last September after the museum was accused of selling donated paintings, prompting read more
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Hauler Hero collects $16M for its AI waste management software | TechCrunch
Hauler Hero has picked up fresh funds as demand for its AI-powered waste management software continues to pile up. The New York-based startup raised $16 million in a Series A round led by Frontier Growth with participation from K5 Global and Somersault Ventures, among others, TechCrunch has learned. Hauler Hero has raised more than $27 read more
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Prominent Collector and Navy Secretary John Phelan Rode On Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Plane
John Phelan, a prominent art collector and the current Secretary of the Navy, is revealed to have flown on the private plane of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2006, according to a report by CNN. Flight logs note that he flew from London to New York on March 3 of that year. The flight read more
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YouTube rolls out an AI playlist generator for Premium users | TechCrunch
YouTube is rolling out a new AI-powered playlist-generation feature that allows Premium users on iOS and Android to use text prompts to create playlists. Users can go to the Library tab, tap the “New” button, and select the “AI playlist” option to get started. They can then use text or voice to enter the prompt read more
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Bard College President Leon Botstein Scrutinized for Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
Longtime Bard College president Leon Botstein, who has helmed the influential liberal-arts school since 1975, is under fire after the release of email communications with Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, that suggest a relationship more personal than had been previously disclosed. On Monday, the New York Times reported that Botstein had read more
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The first signs of burnout are coming from the people who embrace AI the most | TechCrunch
The most seductive narrative in American work culture right now isn’t that AI will take your job. It’s that AI will save you from it. That’s the version the industry has spent the last three years selling to millions of nervous people who are eager to buy it. Yes, some white-collar jobs will disappear. But read more
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Ali Eyal Wins Hammer Museum’s $100,000 Mohn Award
The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles has announced the winners of the three prizes it gives out for each edition of its Made in L.A. biennial. Ali Eyal has won the Mohn Award, which comes with $100,000 and a Hammer-produced monograph on his work. Carl Cheng, who is in his 80s, won the Career Achievement read more
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Philadelphia Museum of Art Chief of Staff Departs as Tumult Continues
A period of turmoil at the newly rechristened Philadelphia Museum of Art continued on this week as two more senior staffers are set to resign from their posts. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that chief of staff Maggie Fairs and CFO Valerie McDuffie will both vacate their posts. Fairs is expected to leave by the end read more
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Trump EPA reportedly seeks to revoke landmark air pollution rule | TechCrunch
The Trump administration’s EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, is looking to repeal the 2009 “endangerment finding” that found greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health and welfare, possibly as early as this week, The Wall Street Journal reports. The EPA finding had set the legal basis for federal regulation of six greenhouse gases, including carbon read more
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South Africa's national park closed due to floods
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Google expands tools to let users remove sensitive data about themselves from Search | TechCrunch
As part of Safer Internet Day, Google unveiled updates to its “Results about you” and non-consensual explicit image removal tools. The “Results about you” tool already allows users to remove Search results containing their phone number, email address, or home address, and it can now also be used to request the removal of results that read more
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Vega raises $120M Series B to rethink how enterprises detect cyber threats | TechCrunch
Modern enterprises generate enormous amounts of security data, but legacy tools like Splunk still require companies to store all of it in one place before they can detect threats — a slow and costly process that’s increasingly breaking down in cloud environments where volumes are exploding and data lives everywhere. AI cybersecurity startup Vega Security read more
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Singapore says China-backed hackers targeted its four largest phone companies | TechCrunch
Singapore’s government has blamed a known Chinese cyber-espionage group for targeting four of its top telecommunication companies as part of a months-long attack. In a statement Monday, Singapore confirmed for the first time that the hackers, known as UNC3886, targeted the country’s telecoms infrastructure, including its largest companies: Singtel, StarHub, M1, and Simba Telecom. The read more
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Make HomePod Alert You to Smoke Alarms
Thanks to Apple’s Sound Recognition feature, the HomePod mini and second-generation HomePod can send you notifications when they recognize smoke or carbon monoxide alarm sounds. Keep reading to learn how it works. With Sound Recognition, HomePod can detect the sound of a smoke or carbon monoxide alarm in your home, and alert you by sending read more
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ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
By early October, the ICE surge team was working through the government shutdown, even as other critical government work was put on hold. Days after the shutdown began, GSA was still awarding leases. On October 6, 2025, a signed internal memorandum stated that GSA should “approve of all new lease housing determinations associated with ICE read more
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Counterpublic Triennial’s 2026 Edition to Take Theme of ‘Coyote Time’
The upcoming iteration of Counterpublic, a triennial staged in St. Louis, Missouri, has announced the exhibition’s title and a number of its main venues around the Gateway City. The 2026 show will run September 12 to December 12. For their version of Counterpublic, the five-person curatorial team—consisting of Jordan Carter, Raphael Fonseca, Stefanie Hessler, Nora read more
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Kenya FM criticizes Russia, announces Moscow visit
Kenya on Tuesday condemned as “unacceptable” recruiters luring Kenyans to Russia with promises of lucrative jobs, only to send them to Ukraine’s front lines as “cannon fodder”. In recent weeks, mounting reports indicate that Kenyans deceived into travelling for high-paying work in Russia are dying on the battlefield, with others sustaining serious wounds. An read more
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