Why LAFC manager Marc Dos Santos embraces the high expectations
When LAFC promoted Marc Dos Santos from assistant coach to manager two months ago, there…
Why LAFC manager Marc Dos Santos embraces the high expectations
When LAFC promoted Marc Dos Santos from assistant coach to manager two months ago, there were some perks that came with the new job. A raise, certainly. A better seat on the team charter. But not as many as you might think. “The office is a little bit bigger,” he said. “My parking space is…
Instagram and YouTube ‘engineer addiction’ in young people, landmark trial hears | Science, Climate & Tech News
Instagram and YouTube have been accused of “engineer[ing] addiction in children’s brains”, in the opening statements of a landmark social media trial taking place in LA. Mark Lanier, representing plaintiffs who accuse social media companies of developing harmful and addictive platforms, described the case as being “as easy as ABC”, which he said stands for…
Inside the production company behind ‘Sinners,’ new ‘X-Files’
To say the mood at Ryan Coogler’s production company Proximity Media has been euphoric would be an understatement. You too would be more than euphoric if your film landed in the year’s box office top 10 and set the all-time record for most Oscar nominations. But “Sinners” wasn’t built in a day. It’s been a…
Starmer says he’s going nowhere – after arriving at crunch meeting with ‘face like thunder’ | Politics News
Sir Keir Starmer will chair a cabinet session today after earning a lifeline from Labour MPs during a crunch meeting in which he declared: “I’m not prepared to walk away.” The prime minister started the week battling the biggest crisis of his premiership amid the fallout from his appointment of Lord Mandelson as his US…
Sen. Bernie Sanders to kick off California billionaires tax campaign
Sen. Bernie Sanders, a political hero among liberals and populists, next week will formally kick off the campaign to place a new tax on billionaires on California’s November ballot. The controversial proposal, which would impose a one-time 5% tax on the assets of the state’s wealthiest residents, is critical to backfilling federal funding cuts to…
Social media companies accused of “addicting the brains of children” as trial begins
The world’s biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. Opening statements in one such trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court began on Monday. Instagram’s parent company Meta and Google’s YouTube face claims that their platforms deliberately addict…
Without Luka Doncic, Lakers come up short against the Thunder
In the eyes of Lakers coach JJ Redick, every team his group faces is a test. Still, many wondered if the Lakers’ litmus test would come from facing the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday night. Even with All-Star and league most valuable player Shai Gilgeous-Alexander out with a strained abdominal, the Thunder are…
Claude Opus 4.6: This AI just passed the ‘vending machine test’ – and we may want to be worried about how it did | Science, Climate & Tech News
When leading AI company Anthropic launched its latest AI model, Claude Opus 4.6, at the end of last week, it broke many measures of intelligence and effectiveness – including one crucial benchmark: the vending machine test. Yes, AIs run vending machines now, under the watchful eyes of researchers at Anthropic and AI thinktank Andon Labs….
Chappell Roan leaves Wasserman Music over exec’s Epstein ties
Chappell Roan has left her booking agency, Wasserman Music, over its founder Casey Wasserman’s ties to the late Jeffrey Epstein and convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. “As of today, I am no longer represented by Wasserman, the talent agency led by Casey Wasserman,” Roan wrote on Monday in a post to social media. “I…
The £6bn black hole that could change children’s lives | Politics News
With a prime minister under extreme fire and unable to command a majority in the Commons on matters of personal authority, is politics too self-absorbed to fix a problem as broken as the system for special educational needs provision? Plans to reform the 12-year-old approach to SEND are expected to be announced within weeks –…