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18.03.26 - 17:36
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Dow Jones Special Committee Elects Melanie Kirkpatrick (Business Wire)
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Dow Jones Special Committee, established as part of the acquisition of Dow Jones & Co. by News Corp in late 2007, has elected Melanie Kirkpatrick to succeed Tom Bray.
Kirkpatrick, an author and retired journalist who spent most of her career at The Wall Street Journal, will serve out Bray's term ending Dec. 31, 2029, at which time she would be eligible for reelection to a five-year term.
The committee earlier elected member Lawrence Ingrassia in December to succeed Bray as board chair. Ingrassia, a retired journalist who worked as a senior editor at The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, joined the committee in 2020.
Bray is retiring from the committee after 18 years as chair since its inception. Bray said he was honored to serve on the committee and help preserve The Wall Street Journal's well-deserved reputation for fairness in reporting the news as well as the newspaper's longstanding Opinion section motto "free markets and free people.”
Kirkpatrick, wh...
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18.03.26 - 11:18
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Zelensky Confirms 200 Ukrainian Drone Operatives Are In Mideast Assisting Against Iran (ZeroHedge)
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Zelensky Confirms 200 Ukrainian Drone Operatives Are In Mideast Assisting Against Iran
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday offered rare confirmation that his government has sent 200 Ukrainian air defense experts to the Middle East, where they are helping allies to counteract Iranian drone attacks, and on the cheap. Zelensky, who has publicly backed President Trump's decision to attack Iran, explained in statements before British parliament on Tuesday that Ukraine's mastery of low-cost and efficient interceptor drones has revolutionized modern warfare.
He offered as an example that it has cost the Untied States about $4 million per interceptor to shoot down a merely $50,000 Iranian Shahed drone, making Ukraine's methods a far cheaper and attractive alternative.
via The Associated Press
Days before Zelensky's comments, The New York Times highlighted that phones of Ukrainian defense firms have been "ringing off the hook":
For most of its four-year-long war with Russ...
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18.03.26 - 06:06
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How Meta′s Manus acquisition ignited a new tech war (Digitimes)
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When Meta announced its US$2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus, it was meant to be a victory lap for CEO Mark Zuckerberg. By bringing what it billed as the world's most advanced agentic AI under the Meta umbrella, the social media giant was expected to leapfrog OpenAI and Google. Instead, the deal has become a flashpoint for geopolitical tension. According to The New York Times and Alpha Spread, the acquisition is now entangled in investigations over "Singapore washing" and questions about the origins of its digital infrastructure....
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13.03.26 - 16:36
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Avocado on Ice: Can Meta Afford to Pause While Google and OpenAI Sprint Ahead? (24/7 Wall St.)
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In December, media reports first surfaced that Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) was quietly developing a next-generation AI model code-named Avocado, positioned as the successor to its popular Llama series of large language models. The model had been internally targeted for a first-quarter launch, meaning this month. Yesterday, though, The New York Times reported that Meta has ... Avocado on Ice: Can Meta Afford to Pause While Google and OpenAI Sprint Ahead?
The post Avocado on Ice: Can Meta Afford to Pause While Google and OpenAI Sprint Ahead? appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.....
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12.03.26 - 07:42
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Noma chef resigns amid shocking allegations of physical abuse of staff (The Guardian)
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René Redzepi also steps down from non-profit board after accusations of both physical and psychological abuseRené Redzepi, the head chef and co-founder of Noma, announced Wednesday he was resigning from his internationally acclaimed Copenhagen restaurant following allegations that he had physically abused his staff.Redzepi had been facing protests in Los Angeles before a four-month pop-up that launched this week. His resignation comes after the New York Times detailed shocking allegations of physical and psychological abuse, including claims that he “punched employees in the face, jabbed them with kitchen implements and slammed them against walls”. Continue reading......
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12.03.26 - 03:21
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No, New York Times, Climate Change Isn′t Driving Inflation (ZeroHedge)
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No, New York Times, Climate Change Isn't Driving Inflation
Authored by Anthony Watts via ClimateRealism.com,
In The New York Times (NYT) article “Is Climate Change Making Inflation Worse?,” writer Lydia DePillis suggests that extreme weather linked to global warming is quietly raising the price of everyday goods like food, electricity, and insurance.
The framing is, at best, misleading and, at worst, flat-out false. Inflation is a monetary phenomenon driven by fiscal policy, central banking decisions, supply-chain disruptions, and energy policy choices — there is no evidence climate change has altered in a way that impacts any of those factors. The NYT erroneously substitutes weather anecdotes and speculative projections for demonstrated economic causation. However, since instances of extreme weather haven't become more frequent or severe in recent decades, climate change can't be causing “inflationary” impacts.
The NYT opens by asserting that there is “mounting evidence th...
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12.03.26 - 03:21
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AG Bondi Moves To Secure Military Housing After Threats, Joining Other Trump Officials (ZeroHedge)
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AG Bondi Moves To Secure Military Housing After Threats, Joining Other Trump Officials
Attorney General Pam Bondi has reportedly moved into heavily guarded housing at a military base in the Washington area after receiving multiple threats.
Several sources familiar with the situation say the threats came from drug cartels as well as political critics, prompting the relocation. Bondi joins a growing list of Donald Trump administration officials who now live at secure military facilities in and around the nation's capital due to heightened security concerns.
“Ms. Bondi moved from an apartment in the city within the past month in response to an array of threats flagged to her staff by federal law enforcement, these people said, including an uptick in criticism of Ms. Bondi, and threats relayed by investigators,” the New York Times reports.
“One catalyst was an increase in threats following the capture and prosecution of President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela in January, according to a se...
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10.03.26 - 04:30
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Global Times: Healthy China - another ′Chinese solution′ (PR Newswire)
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BEIJING, March 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Earlier this year, The New York Times published an article titled "In China, A.I. Finds Pancreatic Cancer That Doctors May Miss," detailing the medical journey of a retired bricklayer from Ningbo, East China's Zhejiang Province. Leveraging advanced......
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10.03.26 - 01:06
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Investigation Suggests US Navy Likely Behind Attack That Killed 150 Schoolgirls In Iran (ZeroHedge)
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Investigation Suggests US Navy Likely Behind Attack That Killed 150 Schoolgirls In Iran
It's looking more and more like the US Navy was responsible for killing more than 150 Iranian schoolgirls in the first hours of Operation Epic Fury, according to separate analyses of new video performed by research firm Bellingcat and the New York Times, who each tapped weapons experts to study the footage. Their conclusions contradict President Trump's casual accusation that inaccurate Iranian weapons were to blame.
Excavators dig more than 100 graves for schoolgirls believed to have been killed by US Navy Tomahawk cruise missiles on Feb 28
The strike occurred in the southern city of Minab on the morning of Saturday February 28 -- Saturday is a school day in Iran. Iran reports that 175 people were killed, mostly children, at the girls' elementary school near an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps base. While some, including former National Security Advisor John Bolton, reflexively blamed Iran for ha...
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08.03.26 - 21:57
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How To Ensure A Harmonious Future With AI (ZeroHedge)
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How To Ensure A Harmonious Future With AI
Authored by Peter Solomon via RealClearWire.com,
Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents human civilization with many spectacular benefits as well as the potential for significant dangers. AI can increase productivity, efficiency, creativity and research results in many industries. In medicine, AI can enhance the accuracy of diagnoses, design individualized treatments, and accelerate drug development. But AI will lead to significant job losses and could reduce privacy. And AI agents have encouraged human suicide, lied to users, and have been employed to create scams as well as deep fakes, including photos and videos. Several tragic cases of delusional interaction have been reported by The New York Times in "Trapped in a ChatGPT Spiral."
Warnings of AI Dangers
Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking warned that “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”
Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning “Go...
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