Move is a ‘backwards step’, company spokesperson says, amid concerns Kremlin is seeking more state control via messaging apps such as Max
Russia has attempted to “fully block” WhatsApp in an attempt to push users towards its own state-sponsored communications app, Max, a spokesperson for the Meta-owned company has said.
The company did not reveal more detail on what extent the attempt succeeded or what action was taken to try to block the app.
President Trump has not yet given the carrier group the greenlight to deploy, but an order could be issued “in a matter of hours,” according to a report citing US officials.
The black glove found on the roadside near Nancy Guthrie's Arizona home could hold crucial DNA evidence key to finally unmasking the missing 84-year-old's kidnapper.
In late January a new social media site took a certain corner of the internet by storm. Moltbook was conceived as a space where AI assistants could let off steam, chat and compare notes on their bosses, but it quickly became the focus of breathless claims that the singularity had arrived as the bots started badmouthing their humans and plotting an uprising. So what’s the truth about Moltbook? Madeleine Finlay hears from Aisha Down about what it tells us about AI, and about us.
For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?
As a seven-year-old, Francisco Estrada-Belli was afraid all of history would have been discovered by the time he was old enough to contribute. The year was 1970 and he and his parents had come from Rome to visit relatives in the Central American country of Guatemala. On the trip, they visited the ancient Maya ruins at Tikal. “I was completely mesmerised,” Estrada-Belli told me recently. “It was jungle everywhere, there were animals, and then these enormous, majestic temples. I asked questions but felt the answers were not good enough. I decided there and then that I wanted to be answering them.”
Fifty-five years later, Estrada-Belli is now one of the archaeologists helping to rewrite the history of the Maya peoples who built Tikal. Thanks to technological advances, we are entering a new age of discovery in the field of ancient history. Improved DNA analysis, advances in plant and climate science, soil and isotope chemistry, linguistics and other techniques such as a laser mapping technology called Lidar, are overturning long-held beliefs. Nowhere is this more true than when it comes to Maya archaeology.
Opposition parties condemn security laws as ‘violation of the constitutional right to demonstrate’
As leader of the Milan unit of Cub, a grassroots workers’ union, Mattia Scolari joined thousands who marched on Saturday in the northern Italian city against the Winter Olympics. “Wages never grow, young people are fleeing abroad for work and there is more and more poverty. We are fed up with an Olympics that causes mayhem in the city, only brings temporary jobs and will leave lasting ecological damage,” he said.
The rally, which brought together an array of activist groups, was predominantly peaceful, marred only by a brief clash at the end when protesters on the march’s fringe threw firecrackers, smoke bombs and bottles at the police, who in turn responded with teargas, water cannons and six arrests. On the same day, rail infrastructure in northern Italy was sabotaged in a protest action subsequently claimed by anarchists.
The culture secretary talks about secret briefings, the need for solidarity and why the government must recognise its big moment of reckoning
It is the day after the night before. On Monday, Keir Starmer looked as if he was on his last political legs. At lunchtime, the Scottish Labour party leader Anas Sarwar called for his resignation, but by the evening, the troops had rallied, and the prime minister had survived the worst. At least until the Gorton and Denton byelection later this month.
Now it’s Tuesday afternoon and there’s a hush around 100 Parliament St, home to the government’s culture, media and sport department. It’s hard to know whether this is its natural state (it’s also the headquarters of HMRC), or whether the country’s politicians and civil servants are in a collective state of shock.
The sheriff answered, "The Constitution of the United States," to which Chesser responded, "That is what establishes the branches of government; I’m asking what branch you fall under."
BYU wideout Parker Kingston was arrested Tuesday in Utah after authorities alleged he sexually assaulted a 20-year-old woman last February, the Washington County Attorney's Office said in a statement on Tuesday.
A bus carrying the Iowa Lakes Community College baseball team crashed in a rural part of the state on Wednesday, killing one and injuring the 32 others on board.
Mauricio Pochettino is busy preparing for the World Cup this summer, but could there be a London calling after that? If Tottenham has its way, that would be exactly what would happen, but the Premier League club may have to turn to its Plan B in the short term before going after the U.S. Men’s...
The Los Angeles Housing and Homelessness Committee, chaired by mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman, greenlit more than $177 million in eviction-defense and homelessness-prevention contracts — including a fresh $6.6 million payday for activist group Strategic Actions for a Just Economy.
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