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Rachel Zegler’s Evita criticised for ‘loud music’ trigger warning
2h ago — Audiences also told they could be upset by strobe lighting, flashing lights and haze A West End revival of Evita includes a trigger warning for “loud music and sudden noises”.The production at the London Palladium, which stars Rachel Zegler in her UK stage debut, also warns audiences they could be upset by strobe lighting, flashing lights and haze.Zegler, 24, plays the titular role of Eva Perón in a production of Sir Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s musical, which follows the story of Perón as she rises from poverty to become the most powerful woman in Latin America.Toby Young, director of the Free Speech Union, said: “Warning fans of musical theatre that they may hear loud music and sudden noises is beyond parody.
The Telegraph
Big Tech
Apple, Facebook and Google data breach as users warned to act now
2h ago — Apple, Facebook and Google password data breach as users warned to act now Users are being warned to change their passwords immediately Users of Apple, Facebook and Google are being urged to change their login details after a major data breach has exposed the personal information of billions of people.
Manchester Evening News
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WVU cracks down on dangerous idea: free books
2h ago — At West Virginia University, handing out a book is now grounds for a formal investigation.
FIRE
Big Tech
UK universities see spike in student cheating cases involving AI tools
2h ago — Over 27% of the universities that responded did not track AI misuse separately from other misconduct in the 2023–24 school year, as they may include AI-related cheating under general categories of cheating or plagiarism.
Straight Arrow News
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Chinese and Iranian meddling efforts buried by intelligence community during, after 2020 election
2h ago — Intelligence community hiding, erasing history Just the News published a story this week revealing that a confidential human source told FBI counter-intelligence in the summer of 2020 that China’s communist government was seeking to meddle in the impending election to help then-candidate Joe Biden, according to a raw intelligence report distributed to federal agencies that was reviewed and made public by Just the News. The raw and unverified intelligence report was bluntly titled “Chinese Government Production and Export of Fraudulent US Driver's Licenses to Chinese Sympathizers in the United States, in Order to Create Tens of Thousands of Fraudulent Mail-in Votes for US Presidential Candidate Joe Biden, in late August 2020.” This report was soon recalled, with spy agencies told to delete the information before they had a chance to properly investigate its claims.
Just The News
Big Tech
Google Faces Setback In Fight Against $5 Billion Anti-Trust Fine
2h ago — BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Alphabet’s Google faced a potential setback on Thursday as an adviser to Europe’s highest court sided with antitrust regulators in the company’s fight against a record 4.34 billion euro ($4.98 billion) fine levied seven years ago.The European Commission in its 2018 decision said Google had used its Android mobile operating system to block rivals. A lower tribunal endorsed the EU finding in 2022 but trimmed the fine to 4.1 billion euros, prompting Google to appeal to Europe’s top court.Advocate-General at the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) Juliane Kokott, in her non-binding opinion, advised the court to dismiss Google’s appeal and confirm the reduced fine set by the lower tribunal.“The legal arguments put forward by Google are ineffective,” she said.Kokott dismissed Google’s argument that regulators should compare Google with a rival in assessing the situation.“It is not realistic, in the present case, to compare the situation of Google with that of a hypothetical as-efficient competitor. Google held a dominant position in several markets of the Android-ecosystem and thus benefited from network effects that enabled it to ensure that users used Google Search,” she said.Judges, who usually follow four out of five such non-binding opinions, will rule in the coming months.“Android has created more choice for everyone and supports thousands of successful businesses in Europe and around the world,” a Google spokesperson said on Thursday.“We are disappointed with the Opinion which, if it were followed by the Court, would discourage investment in open platforms and harm Android users, partners and app developers.”Regulators said Google’s illegal practices dated back to 2011, as it required manufacturers to pre-install Google Search and its Chrome browser together with its Google Play app store on their Android devices. It paid them to pre-install only Google Search and blocked them from using rival Android systems.Google’s Android system, which it lets device makers use for free, runs about 73% of the world’s smartphones, according to Statcounter.The world’s most popular internet search engine has racked up a total of 8.25 billion euros in fines linked to three investigations stretching back more than a decade, while other probes are ongoing.The case is C-738/22 P Google and Alphabet v Commission.(Reporting by Foo Yun Chee; Editing by Bernadette Baum)
The Daily Wire
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NIH Launches Major Study Into Health Fallout From East Palestine Train Disaster – [your]NEWS
21h ago — Vice President Vance, RFK Jr. unveil $10 million initiative to track long-term health risks in Ohio community
yournews.com
Free Speech
Texas Legislators Say They Are Protecting Free Speech on Campus by Banning 'Expressive Activities' at Night
2h ago — 2972 "one of the most ridiculous anti-speech laws in the country." Among other things, they note, the bill includes an "unfathomably broad" provision that "would ban speech at night—from study groups to newspaper reporting—at public universities in the state." If Abbott signs the bill, they say, "it will inevitably face a First Amendment challenge that Texas simply can't win." Why have Texas legislators retreated from their support for free speech on campus?
Reason
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It Doesn't Matter If the Minnesota Shooter Is a Republican or a Democrat
2h ago — The same summer as the Congressional Baseball Game shooting, James Alex Fields Jr.—a far-right extremist who was registered as a Republican—drove his car into a crowd of people and killed a woman who had gathered to counter-protest white nationalists at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Reason
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The End of Youth Gender Transition?
2h ago — Since the earliest days of The Free Press, we have been documenting this movement that claimed it was providing lifesaving medical treatments to young people suffering from gender dysphoria—that is, distress at their biological sex.