France Moves to Expel a Russian Propagandist

Will the move set up a court battle to test the line between freedom of expression and protection of the constitutional order?

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France Moves to Expel a Russian Propagandist

Will the move set up a court battle to test the line between freedom of expression and protection of the constitutional order?

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Paid early access to Trump's posts raises insider trading questions

President Trump is selling early access to his social media posts. Truth Social launched a subscription service giving a first look at posts from the president. The price tag is reportedly up to $100,...

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Amazon Bedrock launches Web Search for OpenAI GPT models

Today, we are announcing the general availability of Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, a built-in server side tool that performs web search entirely within AWS, enabling OpenAI models (GPT-5.4, GPT-5.5, and GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna) to ground responses with current web knowledge while maintaining data residency within your secured AWS environment with zero data egress. Previously, adding web grounding required onboarding a third-party search provider, managing separate API keys and billing, building custom orchestration, and conducting additional compliance reviews for each external vendor. Web Search removes this heavy lifting by enable grounding with a single parameter in an existing API call, with no vendor onboarding, no external APIs to orchestrate, and no additional vendor security reviews to conduct. Web Search is built by Amazon, informed by years of experience across Alexa+, Amazon Quick and Kiro. It combines a web index operated by Amazon, spanning tens of billions of documents refreshed continually, with a built-in knowledge graph that provides verified facts. Rather than returning raw pages, Web Search performs semantic snippet extraction, delivering context-efficient results optimized for the model's context window with low latency. Web Search integrates through a standardized tool-use interface, compatible with the OpenAI Responses API. Simply add the web search tool to your API call, and Bedrock handles the entire search lifecycle server-side; a single API call returns a grounded response with citations. Web Search on Amazon Bedrock is generally available today in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon). To get started, read our blog post https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/introducing-web-search-on-amazon-bedrock-for-foundation-model-grounding/, review the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/ for technical documentation, and visit the https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/ for cost details.

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AWS Security Hub Extended adds supply chain security as its 10th category

The AWS Security Hub Extended plan now includes Supply Chain Security as its 10th security category, with Chainguard and Socket as the curated partners. As developers adopt open-source libraries at scale, security teams need confidence that the packages entering their environments are trustworthy and free from malicious code. With this addition, you can detect and block malicious dependencies before they are built into your applications, with the same streamlined activation and pay-as-you-go pricing as every other Extended category. This brings the Extended plan to 23 curated partner solutions. All solutions are on a single AWS bill and no required long-term commitments. Security Hub Extended is a plan within AWS Security Hub that helps simplify how you procure, deploy, and integrate a full-stack enterprise security solution across endpoint, identity, email, network, data, browser, cloud, AI, security operations, and supply chain. Security findings from all participating solutions are emitted in the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) and automatically aggregated in AWS Security Hub. With the Extended plan, you can combine AWS and curated partner solutions to quickly identify and respond to risks that span boundaries. We will continue to expand the Extended plan based on customer feedback. The two new curated partner solutions are available today in all AWS commercial Regions where Security Hub is available. For a list of supported Regions, see the/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regional-product-services/?p=ngi&loc=4&refid=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c For more information about pricing, visit the/security-hub/pricing/. To get started, visit the https://console.aws.amazon.com/securityhub/v2/home or /security-hub/

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60 Minutes Epstein Banking Story Vanished After CBS Ousted Sharyn Alfonsi, Dem Senator Reveals

Wyden revealed he was interviewed for the show in a Senate report alleging the country's largest banks turned “a blind eye” to Epstein's financial activity

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Canada Unveils National Women's Development Team And U-18 National Team Camp Rosters

Canada has unveiled their women's hockey rosters for their national development team camp and U-18 national team camps ahead of their summer series against the United States.

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Waymo opens up robotaxi service in Dallas to everyone

Waymo has dropped the waitlist for its robotaxi service in Dallas, the latest step in the company's bid to scale its self-driving technology across the United States, U.K., and Europe.

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Amazon EC2 I8g instances now available in AWS Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Jakarta) regions

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 Storage Optimized I8g instances in AWS Europe (Paris) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) regions. I8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and offer the best compute performance in Amazon EC2 for storage-intensive workloads. I8g instances use the third generation AWS Nitro SSDs, local NVMe storage that deliver up to 65% better real-time storage performance per TB while offering up to 50% lower storage I/O latency and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I4g instances. These instances are built on the https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software enhancing the performance and security for your workloads. Amazon EC2 I8g instances are designed for I/O intensive workloads that require rapid data access and real-time latency from storage. These instances excel at handling transactional, real-time, distributed databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Hbase and NoSQL solutions like Aerospike, MongoDB, ClickHouse, and Apache Druid. They're also optimized for real-time analytics platforms such as Apache Spark, data lakehouse and AI LLM pre-processing for training. I8g instances are available in eleven different sizes including two metal sizes, 1.5 TiB of memory, and 45 TB local instance storage. They deliver up to 100 Gbps of network performance bandwidth, and 60 Gbps of dedicated bandwidth for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). To learn more, visit https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/i8g/ To begin your Graviton journey, visit the https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/level-up-with-graviton/. To get started, see https://console.aws.amazon.com/, https://aws.amazon.com/cli/, and https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/EC2.html.

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Iran says no talks underway or meeting plans with U.S. after Trump calls off attacks on Tehran | CBC News

Iran said on Monday there are no talks underway with the United States and no plans for any meetings, contradicting U.S. President Donald Trump, who had cited talks he said would take place that after...

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DiskANN: Scaling Vector Databases to Hundreds of Millions of Vectors

Zvec introduces DiskANN in v0.6.0, reducing the memory cost of vectors by an order of magnitude by storing the raw vectors and graph structure on SSD and keeping only a PQ-compressed map in memory.

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House GOP Backed Moroccan Claim to Spanish Territories Two Weeks Before Ceuta Migrant Crisis

Hypocrisy on full display as MAGA Republicans decried the "invasion" of Europe from Morocco only days after lending taxpayer support to the Moroccan claim to Ceuta

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The U.S. Deported Him to Jail in Russia. Then He Escaped.

Facing a long prison sentence or a forced trip to the front line of a war he opposes, Artyom Vovchenko believed it was worth taking a risk.

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