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Eleven people were killed and at least 20 more hurt in a car-ramming attack on a Filipino festival in Vancouver, police said Sunday. Kai-Ji Adam Lo, 30, was arrested at the scene of the Lapu Lapu Day festival after the Saturday night attack, authorities said. The street party in south Vancouver honors an indigenous Filipino chief. The British Columbia Prosecution Service charged Lo with eight counts of second-degree murder and said more charges were possible. Investigators ruled out terrorism and said Lo, a Vancouver resident, had a history of mental health issues; he appeared in court and remains in custody,…

CNN  —  When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected to lead the Catholic church in 2013, he chose the papal name Francis, after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of ecologists and champion of the poor. It was a befitting choice. Pope Francis was the fiercest climate and environment advocate in the church’s history. The pope spoke often about the importance of environmental stewardship in a way none of his predecessors had, connecting climate change to social inequities, going so far as to blame industry, world leaders and “irresponsible” Western lifestyles for the worsening crisis.…

Nestled between an elementary school and a public library in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood sits a new kind of “luxury” coworking space.  Dubbed the Chat Haus, this space has many of the elements you’d find in a traditional coworking office: people hammering away at their computer keyboards, another person taking a phone call, someone else pausing by their computer to take a sip of coffee.  There is, however, one key difference: Chat Haus is a coworking space for AI chatbots, and everything — including the people — is made out of cardboard.  More specifically, the Chat Haus is an art exhibit…

AI chatbots available on Meta’s platforms like Facebook and Instagram can engage in sexually explicit conversations with underage users, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ says that after learning about internal concerns about whether the company was doing enough to protect minors, it spent months conducting hundreds of conversations with both the official Meta AI chatbot, as well as user-created chatbots available on Meta platforms. In one reported conversation, a chatbot using actor/wrestler John Cena’s voice described a graphic sexual scenario to a user identifying as a 14-year-girl. In another conversation, the chatbot imagined…

Opinion by: Hedi Navazan, chief compliance officer at 1inchWeb3 needs a clear regulatory system that addresses innovation bottlenecks and user safety in decentralized finance (DeFi). A one-size-fits-all approach cannot be achieved to regulate DeFi. The industry needs custom, risk-based approaches that balance innovation, security and compliance.DeFi’s challenges and rulesA common critique is that regulatory scrutiny leads to the death of innovation, tracing this situation back to the Biden administration. In 2022, uncertainty for crypto businesses increased following lawsuits against Coinbase, Binance and OpenSea for alleged violations of securities laws.Under the US administration, the Securities and Exchange Commission agreed to dismiss…

A screen tear walks into a bar. The bartender says, ‘We don’t serve your kind here.’ The screen tear asks, ‘Why not?’ The bartender points to a sign that reads ‘Adaptive Sync Technologies Only.’ Cue the tomatoes. Related Nvidia’s RTX 4090 Versus The RTX 4080 SUPER Nvidia’s high-end enthusiast-grade GPUs are some of the hottest PC hardware upgrades of 2024. Here is how they face off against each other. My comedy career may be suffering from stuttering issues, but your gaming experience doesn’t have to. From the early days of fixed refresh rates to today’s advanced adaptive sync technologies, this…

CNN  —  An Israeli airstrike rocked southern Beirut on Sunday soon after the military issued an evacuation warning for the Lebanese capital. Footage from Reuters showed a huge plume of smoke rising from the area shortly after 6:00 p.m. (11 a.m. ET). The target of the strike was a Hezbollah facility in Beirut which stored precision missiles, according to a joint statement from Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz. Hezbollah has not yet commented on the matter. The Lebanese Civil Defense said it extinguished fires caused by the Israeli strike and recorded no injuries. The attack…

Today in crypto, Adam back said Strategy and other Bitcoin treasury firms are some of the earliest bettors on Hyperbitcoinization, which may see Bitcoin’s market cap soar to above $200 trillion, US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) crypto task force head Hester Peirce said crypto in the US is like a game of “the floor is lava,” and tokenized real estate could top $4 trillion by 2035, according to a new Deloitte report.Bitcoin treasury firms driving $200 trillion hyperbitcoinization — Adam BackInvestment firms with Bitcoin-focused treasuries are front-running global Bitcoin adoption, which may see the world’s first cryptocurrency soar to…

ARK Invest has just taken the wraps off its latest-and-greatest bitcoin price prediction for 2030, and that forecast is a real doozy. The investment firm led by Cathie Wood now predicts bitcoin could hit $2.4 million in a best-case scenario—that’s up from its previous estimate of $1.5 million. That updated outlook also includes a base case of $1.2 million and a bear case of $500,000 by the end of the decade. Those forecasts are part of ARK’s Big Ideas 2025 study—and they reflect growing optimism about Bitcoin’s future. Ark Invest’s 2030 bitcoin price predictions “Institutional investment contributes the most to…

Mariah Carey won’t like the way the protagonist is portrayed in “The Last Living Diva.” Matthew Stevens, who worked for Carey for a year, spent seven years recuperating from the nightmare and writing a work of fiction loosely based on his experience. Stevens was one of three assistants who were part of a staff of over a dozen, including bodyguards, nannies, a chef, hair stylist and makeup artist. “One thing I learned is that no one wants to stop getting that paycheck,” Stevens told me. “But not all that glitters is gold.” The book centers on a diva named Alexis…