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China has been operating military and intelligence facilities in Cuba since at least 2019 and is continuing to expand its intelligence gathering capabilities around the world, a Biden administration official and two other sources told CNN Saturday.The administration official said China conducted an upgrade of its intelligence collection facilities in Cuba in 2019 under the Trump administration and described the challenge as inherited.

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Elon Musk's search for a Twitter CEO is over and reports say Linda Yaccarino is in talks to replace him as chief-she is a seasoned ad executive whose arrival would likely soothe skittish advertisers following months of drastic overhauls to content moderation and verification, but whose background may alienate some of the billionaire's loyal and free speech-loving fan base.

Hodding Carter III, then-president, CEO and trustee of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, answers a question during a news conference in Washington, on Nov. 24, 2003.Carter has died at age 88.Susan Walsh/AP CHAPEL HILL, N.C.Hodding Carter III, a Mississippi journalist and civil rights activist who as U.S. State Department spokesman informed Americans about the Iran hostage crisis and later won awards for his televised documentaries, has died.

A PR guru has advised the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to get their messaging right after their lucrative podcast deal with Spotify was ended by mutual agreement.Meghan and Harry's production company Archewell Audio only made one podcast series for the streaming giant after signing a contract in late 2020, estimated to be worth around 25 million US dollars (19.5 million).

As thousands of subreddits prepare to go dark in five days to protest Reddit's jacked-up API fees, Reddit claims it's only asking for what's fair.At the same time, the company is reportedly enacting layoffs and slowing hiring.Reddit used to provide free access to its API, enabling various developers to build and create apps aimed at improving the Reddit experience.

Let me just get things out of the way by saying that I was one of the million people passionately glued to the YouTube screen watching the Apple WWDC keynote and the Vision Pro announcement.When Tim took the stage for the final time to coyly tease "One More Thing", I felt the kind of goosebumps I've rarely felt before.

The following interview includes plenty of spoilers for the series finale of Succession.The much-anticipated season finale of HBO's Succession answered one big question who would succeed media mogul patriarch Logan Roy but we still have more: Did the show creator know the end at the beginning?Why didn't any of the Roy children wind up as CEO of the family conglomerate Waystar Royco?

Amanda Gunawan brings new meaning to the word "multi-hyphenate": The creator-architect-builder-entrepreneur-designer-runner has an unbelievable ability to channel a consistent vision across her many projects.Founding Principal of the LA architectural practice OWIU (Only Way Is Up), Gunawan recently launched an aesthetically aligned ceramics and housewares collection, OWIU Goods.

In artist and educator J. John Priola's new book, Natural Light (Prestel), he presents 12 series of images of trees and plants and the spaces in which they live, created over the span of 20 years, with each section prefaced by an archival image taken by his mother.The breadth and depth of the work speaks to the crucial role the natural world in Priola's art making, and in his life in general.

WASHINGTON The military partnership between Moscow and Tehran is deepening, White House officials said on Friday as they released newly declassified information about a drone factory that Iran is helping Russia build.Russia has repeatedly used Iranian-made drones to attack Ukraine in recent months, including strikes on civilian targets, buildings and electrical infrastructure as part of a push to break Ukrainian morale.

Federal Reserve officials were unanimous in their decision to raise interest rates earlier this month, but were conflicted over whether additional increases would be necessary to bring inflation under control, according to minutes from the Fed's last meeting released on Wednesday.The Fed voted to raise interest rates by a quarter-point on May 3, to a range of 5 to 5.25 percent, the 10th straight increase since the central bank started its campaign to rein in inflation last year.

There are many reasons a particular baby name can spike in popularity.Sometimes it's a resurgence of an old classic, or maybe a royal baby shepherds in a new era for Louis' everywhere.In modern times, more often than not, a short-term blip in baby name popularity comes out of a character in a popular movie or TV show.

Cuba has agreed to allow China to build a spying facility on the island that could allow the Chinese to eavesdrop on electronic communications across the southeastern US, a source familiar with the intelligence told CNN.The US learned about the plan in the last several weeks, the source said, and it is unclear whether China has already begun building the surveillance facility.

Ukrainian forces have suffered losses in heavy equipment and soldiers as they met greater than expected resistance from Russian forces in their first attempt to breach Russian lines in the east of the country in recent days, two senior US officials tell CNN.One US official described the losses which include US supplied MRAP armored personnel vehicles as significant.

Gov. Doug Burgum, the Republican governor of North Dakota who rose from a chimney sweep to become one of the richest men in the state, announced a campaign for president on Wednesday, entering an increasingly crowded race in which he faces exceedingly long odds.We need a new leader for a changing economy, Mr. Burgum wrote in an opinion essay in The Wall Street Journal that focused heavily on his business acumen.

In a sign pointing toward a possible Republican presidential bid, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is set to make an announcement June 7 in Fargo, a source familiar with the plans told CNN.Fargo, near Burgum's small hometown of Arthur, North Dakota, is where the governor built a software company that was later acquired by Microsoft.

Lawyers for an accused Russian money launderer in US custody are lobbying for their client to be included in any potential US-Russia prisoner swap for detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, according to new court filing.The Russian man, Alexander Vinnik, is accused of running a multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency exchange that allegedly did business with drug dealers and identity thieves.

Land steal on Cape Cod?
Land steal on Cape Cod?
What's about a dozen acres of empty land worth to a billionaire?In the eyes of Bill Koch, it's worth $16 million.The Oxbow Carbon founder and son of Koch Industries founder listed 11 acres of vacant land in Cape Cod, the Wall Street Journal reported.While the five lots could be had for $16 million combined, buyers are also able to snap the parcels up individually for between $3 million and $3.5 million each.

China is planning to build a facility in Cuba that U.S. officials are concerned could be capable of spying on the United States by intercepting electronic signals from nearby U.S. military and commercial facilities, according to three U.S. officials familiar with the agreement.Beijing has built listening outposts elsewhere and has a military presence in Cuba, but an eavesdropping station could give China a foothold about 100 miles from the Florida coastline, from which it could potentially conduct surveillance operations against the United States.

Apple on Monday announced an updated autocorrect function that aims to more accurately reflect users' intended word choices, pleasing customers whose attempts to swear in texts have long been replaced with duck or ducking (and freeing innocent waterfowl from their unfortunate association with an obscenity).

Leverage prompts in your brainstorming process to benefit from the strengths of exploration engines such as Google Bard.There are many methods for conjuring up creative concepts, and exploration engines such as Google Bard and ChatGPT add another option to a brainstormer's toolkit: prompts.A series of well-phrased prompts to an AI chatbot can rapidly provide you with text generated by the large language models that drive such systems.

Apple is famous for being protective of its projects and for expecting secrecy from its workers.Now, according to The Wall Street Journal, the tech giant is concerned about the possibility of its employees inadvertently leaking proprietary data while using ChatGPT.To prevent that scenario from happening, Apple has reportedly restricted the use of ChatGPT and other AI tools, such as GitHub's Copilot that can autocomplete code.

Wendy's and Google have together built a chatbot for taking drive-thru orders, using large language models and generative AI.The system works by converting spoken fast-food orders to text that can be processed by Google's large language model.A generative component added to the system is designed to make the chatbot interact with people in a more natural and conversational manner, so that it's less rigid and robotic.

Mark Zuckerberg embraced a digital world known as the metaverse when he said in November 2021 that he was changing his company's name from Facebook to Meta.A month later, Bill Gates, a founder of Microsoft, wrote that within two or three years, he believed most virtual meetings would transition from two-dimensional grids of video to the metaverse, a 3D space with digital avatars.

Wendy's, the Ohio-based fast-food chain, has announced plans to deploy AI chatbots in its drive-through service according to The Wall Street Journal.The chatbots will be powered by NLP software developed by Google and trained to understand how customers order off the menu.The initiative is expected to streamline the ordering process and prevent long lines in the drive-through lanes from turning customers away, according to Todd Penegor, Wendy's Chief Executive.

Apple employees have been restricted from using generative AI tools such as ChatGPT amid concerns that company information might be leaked or exposed.A report from the Wall Street Journal revealed that the blanket ban is in direct response to worries that employees might input confidential data into the popular AI chatbot.

In this image made from video provided by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry on Sunday, a Ukrainian soldier poses for the camera with his finger to his lips.The video shows troops gesturing for silence suggesting that no formal announcement of a possible counteroffensive against Russia will be made.Text appears in the video saying: "Plans love silence.

Katherine Sayre, for The Wall Street Journal, on Las Vegas casinos squeezing out more juice:

Gambling companies such as MGM Resorts and Caesars, the two biggest operators on the Strip, have reduced how much they will pay for winning hands at blackjack at many of their tables, data show.Blackjack, a fast-paced card game, historically paid out a ratio of 3:2 when a player hit 21 on the first two cards.

Real estate investment management firm Pretium Partners is acquiring thousands of homes from home construction company D.R. Horton Inc. in a $1.5 billion deal, as Bloomberg first reported.The deal includes a combination of completed homes and homes that are not yet finished, according to the outlet, which cited people familiar with the transaction who asked not to be named.

The Federal Reserve already had some tough decisions to make at its meeting later this month and the May jobs report is not making things any easier.Job growth surprised economists yet again in May, with total nonfarm payroll employment rising by 339,000 jobs compared to April, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The metaverse.Immersive reality.Virtual reality.We still haven't 100% agreed on what to call this digital experience channel.That may be because they are the future of online life and we don't know exactly what that future will look like.Whatever you call it, it's already an essential part of life online with 400 million people using versions of it monthly for games, conferences, concerts and more, according to one study.

Why is there so much misinformation circulating online?Because, unfortunately, "it's a great business," says L. Gordon Crovitz, a longtime journalist, former publisher of The Wall Street Journal and co-founder of NewsGuard, speaking on this week's episode of AdExchanger Talks.NewsGuard estimates that large, well-known advertisers - the sort of advertisers that get very uptight about brand safety - are unintentionally funneling as much as $2.6 billion through programmatic pipes directly to misinformation websites every year.

When the European Union adopted its General Data Protection Regulation in 2018, the law was heralded as a privacy game changer that would usher in a new era of consent around online data collection and put the right to protect personal information directly in the hands of individuals.It was also meant to standardize privacy laws across member EU nations.

It's unofficially time for summer to begin, and we're celebrating with a bold, geometric Designer Desktop by Daniel Ramirez Perez!A true creative, Daniel works in illustration, design, and motion, launching his own illustration studio in 2014.A background in fashion - he interned at Vivienne Westwood!

According to internal sources and company documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Apple has restricted its employees' use of ChatGPT and AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot for fear of leaking confidential data to outside sources.Meanwhile, Apple is also reportedly developing similar AI technology.

A group of TikTok creators have sued to block Montana's ban of the platform, arguing that the new law violates their first amendment rights.Greg Gianforte, Montana's governor, on Wednesday signed into law the first US state-level ban of the increasingly embattled social media app, effective 1 January 2024.

Rockwell Automation customers have been informed this week about potentially serious vulnerabilities found and patched in several products.The timing coincides with reports of an investigation conducted by the US into the potential cyber risks associated with the automation giant's operations in China.

On March 7, San Francisco Giants principal owner Charles B. Johnson penned an impassioned email to a select group of ultra-wealthy allies, signing off with, "Time is of the essence."He wasn't scrambling to direct the Giants front office to sign a free agent, or rallying right-wingers to donate to a politician.

Crew members assemble the main stage ahead of the 2023 Scripps Nations Spelling Bee on Sunday, May 28, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md.Nathan Howard/AP OXON HILL, Md.As the final pre-competition meeting of the Scripps National Spelling Bee's word selection panel stretches into its seventh hour, the pronouncers no longer seem to care.

Mis amigos que nunca han visto Succession, la exitosa serie de HBO que acabara pronto, dicen que no tienen interes en ver a gente rica que se porta mal.Esta serie de humor negro encaja a la perfeccion con eso: sigue las peripecias de la familia Roy, cuyo patriarca, Logan Roy, es una representacion de Rupert Murdoch y cuyos hijos, Shiv, Kendall y Roman, compiten sin cesar, y sin exito, por heredar su trono.

The pandemic is officially over.By federal declaration, the public health emergency expired on May 11, capping a general sense that has been in the air for months.Yet COVID-19′s devastating effects are going nowhere.I recently attended a wedding where only one of the bride's parents was there to see her take her vows because the coronavirus had claimed the other.

Forced out of the Freedom Center to make way for Bally's Chicago Casino, Tribune Publishing has agreed to buy the Daily Herald printing plant in Schaumburg for an undisclosed price, keeping the presses rolling for the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers.The deal, announced Wednesday, is expected to close within days, with printing operations and production employees moving to the new facility in the northwest suburbs over the coming months, sources said.

1. Matt Abramcyk, co-owner of The Spotted Pig, is opening a new restaurant called The Golden Swan in New York City.
2. The Golden Swan will specialize in New American cuisine with a focus on seasonal ingredients.
3. The restaurant is slated to open in late

A group of TikTok creators have sued to block a recently signed law that bans the app's operation in Montana.The suit, filed last night and announced today, alleges that Montana's SB 419 is an unconstitutional and overly broad infringement of their right to speech."Montana has no authority to enact laws advancing what it believes should be the United States' foreign policy or its national security interests, nor may Montana ban an entire forum for communication based on its perceptions that some speech shared through that forum, though protected by the First Amendment, is dangerous," says the suit, filed by law firm Davis Wright Tremaine.

This week's Future of TV Briefing assesses the revenue-sharing options for short-form vertical video creators.Short-changed
YouTube's TV viewership, the WGA strike's upfront impact, TikTok's publisher ad sales pitch and more


A year after TikTok unveiled an ad revenue-sharing program for creators and three months after YouTube Shorts followed suit, short-form vertical video creators are largely continuing to wait on platforms to turn on the revenue spigots.

Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College, personally received $150,000 for consulting fees in 2016 from a foundation created by Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced billionaire accused of sexually abusing teenage girls, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.In a brief interview with The New York Times, Dr. Botstein confirmed the payment from the foundation, Gratitude America, and said that he donated it all to the college as part of a $1 million gift he gave that same year.

Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador, earned at least $1.2 million and as much as $12 million from speaking engagements in the year leading up to her entry into the presidential race, according to her personal financial disclosure form.The disclosure, filed Monday with the Federal Election Commission, also shows that Ms. Haley is still on the board of United Homes Group, one of the largest homebuilders in the Southeast and a public company in which she owns stock.

Just weeks after opening up about some of the "hardest moments" of her life, Hailey Bieber has discussed her desire to one day have children, revealing that she is "scared" of having a baby with husband Justin Bieber.Speaking to The Sunday Times, the model commented on her future with the "Baby" hitmaker and shared that the thought of having a child with her significant other makes her cry "all the time."

Elon Musk said on Thursday he has found a new chief executive for Twitter, but did not name the person, while the Wall Street Journal reported that Comcast NBCUniversal executive Linda Yaccarino was in talks for the job.Musk said in a tweet: "Excited to announce that I've hired a new CEO for X/Twitter.

Fred Siegel, a passionate urban historian whose rejection of the liberal establishment's response to crime, poverty and public civility transformed him from a spokesman for the Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern in 1972 to a voter for Donald J. Trump in 2020, died on Sunday at his home in Brooklyn.

The National Women's Soccer League, which already has plans to expand to 14 teams in 2024, is not done growing.In a video interview with the Washington Post on Tuesday, NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman said that the league is angling to add two more clubs by 2026.- Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (U.S.) "We do expect for the 2026 season to add two more teams," Berman said.

No one was more suspicious of the widely showcased newest ABC-Washington Post poll then ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos who questioned its accuracy live on air on its Sunday May 7 release.Stephanopoulos was suspicious given the inconsistencies in the survey which both purported to overwhelmingly condemn Trump's likely illegal conduct supposedly showing Trump leading Biden in a prospective 2024 presidential election matchup.