Young Thug released from jail after guilty plea on gang charges from the BBC
The Grammy winner’s criminal trial on racketeering and gang charges was the longest in state history.Read More
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Seven killed in Israel in deadliest Hezbollah rocket strikes in months from the BBC
They were killed in two areas, in the deadliest series of rocket attacks on Israel in months.Read More
Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, study finds from the BBC
Australian researchers have poked holes in an old thought-experiment known as the “infinite monkey theorem”.Read More
Cyclists on phones face jail under Japan’s new laws from the BBC
Riding under the influence is also now punishable with prison time.Read More
France shooting sparks mass brawl involving ‘up to 600’ from the BBC
Authorities say it’s is an alarming sign of the spread of drug-trafficking violence across the nation.Read More
Instagram-famous squirrel seized by US authorities from the BBC
Environmental authorities said they were responding to complaints of “potentially unsafe housing of wildlife”.Read More
US election weighs on Ukraine’s frontline soldiers from the BBC
Ukrainians on the front lines tell the BBC’s James Waterhouse that their country’s survival is in the hands of Americans.Read More
Finding the young girl captured in a photograph of Gaza detainees from the BBC
Julia, aged 3, looks on from a crowd of fearful and exhausted men. This is her story.Read More
iPhone sales are booming — with or without Apple Intelligence from the Verge Chris Welch
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge To cap off a busy week that saw the rollout of the first Apple Intelligence features and several new Macs, Apple reported its fiscal Q4 earnings this afternoon. The period included very early sales of the iPhone 16 lineup, offering a chance to gauge the momentum of…
Amazon’s new Alexa has reportedly slipped to 2025 from the Verge Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In the week’s least surprising news, Amazon’s reinvention of its Alexa voice assistant has reportedly fallen even further behind. According to Bloomberg, the launch of a new Alexa — billed as a smarter, more capable AI-powered voice assistant — has been pushed back. Again. “A person familiar with…