US moves to delist Syria as a ‘state sponsor of terrorism’
President Trump announces a move to delist Syria, citing efforts by Ahmed al-Sharaa to unify the country.
The United States says it will remove Syria’s designation as a “state sponsor of terrorism”, a decades-old label that severely impeded investment, in a new vote of confidence in President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
‘Hacks’ Creators on Their Record-Breaking Emmy Nomination Haul: “Incredible Way to End”
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Hacks has been a perennial Emmy Awards contender since its first year of eligibility in 2021. The HBO Max comedy earned 64 nominations for its first four seasons, winning 12 times.
Former Wisconsin judge avoids prison in ICE obstruction case
Hannah Dugan’s sentence comes after she helped an immigrant in the US avoid ICE agents waiting to arrest him in 2025.
A former Wisconsin judge who helped a man avoid immigration agents will not serve any prison time after a United States judge ordered her to pay a $5,000 fine on Wednesday.
Anonymous Content’s Darren Walker on Company’s 10 Emmy Nominations and Nominee Sally Field’s ‘Motherly’ Dating Advice
Darren Walker has only been on the job as president and CEO of Anonymous Content for five months so the noise that he heard at the company’s Los Angeles office Wednesday morning was something new.
Bethesda layoffs include the artist responsible for designing Skyrim's khajiit and argonians, who had been at the company for 27 years
If you've played a new Elder Scrolls game anytime since 2002, you've seen Christiane Meister's work: The senior character artist spent 27 years at Bethesda, contributing to games from Morrowind to Skyrim. As of this week's round of Xbox layoffs, however, her tenure is over.
Hidden jet from a 'missing-link' black hole lights up the radio sky
Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation Very Large Array (NSF VLA) have detected an extraordinary burst of radio light from a rare cosmic event in which an intermediate-mass black hole tears apart a star, revealing what appears to be the off-axis afterglow of a powerful jet. The research is published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
David Gaider will never play Dragon Age: The Veilguard because he'd be 'wincing' the whole time: 'EA really did a number on them in terms of setting them up to fail'
There's a common thread amongst former BioWare developers: They are proud of what they worked on, have a lot of love for their former studio, and they have few good things to say about publisher EA. For understandable reasons.
Sizing Up The First Generation Of Enterprise Agentic Assistants
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In my previous article, I argued that agentic assistants have changed knowledge work for the better but remain demanding tools that are best suited for power users. The largest software vendors have addressed this reality with what I have been calling the Claude-ification of the enterprise: a wave of look-alike desktop agents for broader use — modeled on Claude Cowork — each built with the hope of becoming the primary interface for knowledge workers.
The ‘Moana’ Rotten Tomatoes Critic Review Score Is A Disney Disaster
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While The Odyssey dropped its social media embargo for early critic impressions nearly two weeks before release, Moana waited until the very last minute to do the same, stacking actual, full reviews the very same day. We are exactly one day before release, and those scored reviews are live. Going through many of them, it’s easy to see why Disney might have waited, given its horrific Rotten Tomatoes score.
Samsung CEO Outlines Wide Foldable Phones And Agentic AI In Surprise Editorial
Detail of a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 smartphone. The next model is just days away from being revealed. T3
TM Roh, CEO and President of Samsung, has just published a post — surprising because it’s unusual for him to do so. What he says plays into what we can expect to see from the brand when it holds its Galaxy Unpacked event on July 22 (read this for more details). Here’s what he said, and what it means.