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Shortly after Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, was arrested by police in France last summer and accused of failing to prevent illicit activity on the app, a French law professor specializing in cybersecurity received online messages from a man name Isaac Steidl.“I would like to talk to you,” said an email signed by Mr. Steidl, who introduced himself as the founder of the online chat site Coco. "My case is very similar to Telegram's, as are the charges."Michel Séjean, the professor, who shared copies of the messages with The New York Times, said he did not know Mr. Steidl, had no interest in helping him and never responded. However, he was familiar with Coco, a website where anonymous users could chat without leaving a trace of the conversation.French law enforcement had linked the sit...

Less than six months after rolling out a slew of AI features, Apple is disabling one of its signature features: news notification aggregation and summarization.The company revealed the change Thursday in a software update for developers. This followed an outcry from the British media that Apple software was misrepresenting the news.In December, the BBC was among the first to urge Apple to change its software. The call came after the BBC sent readers a notification about Luigi Mangione, the man arrested for the murder of Brian Thompson, the health insurance executive, in New York City. Some iPhones summarized BBC news by saying: “Luigi Mangione shoots himself.” He hadn't.In addition to disabling news summaries, Apple said it will add a warning for users who have opted in to receive notifica...

More Americans are surviving cancer, but the disease strikes younger, middle-aged adults and women more frequently, the American Cancer Society reported Thursday.And despite overall improvements in survival, Black and Native Americans die from some cancers at rates two to three times higher than white Americans.These trends represent a stark shift for a disease that has long been considered a disease of aging, affecting many more men than women.The changes reflect declines in smoking-related cancers and prostate cancer among older men and a staggering increase in cancer in people born since the 1950s.Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, but the leading cause among Americans under 85. The new report predicts that there will be approximately 2,041,910 new cases t...

Israel's military campaign in Gaza has dealt devastating blows to Hamas: It has killed top Hamas leaders and thousands of militants, pummeled the militant group's tunnel network, and undermined its ability to threaten Israel with rocket fire .When Hamas launched its attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, it hoped to trigger a regional war that would draw in its allies and lead to Israel's destruction. Instead, he was left to fight Israel almost entirely alone. Its allies have been decimated in Lebanon, overthrown in Syria and weakened in Iran. The Houthis in Yemen have only managed to launch occasional rocket and drone attacks, most of which Israel has intercepted.Despite its isolation, however, Hamas remains the dominant Palestinian power in Gaza even after 15 months of Israeli bombardment,...

The Albanian government has given preliminary approval to a plan proposed by Jared Kushner, Donald J. Trump's son-in-law, to build a $1.4 billion luxury hotel complex on a small abandoned military base off the coast of Albania.The project is one of many involving Trump and his extended family that directly involve foreign government entities and that will continue even while Trump is responsible for foreign policy relating to these same nations.The approval by Albania's Strategic Investment Committee, led by Prime Minister Edi Rama, gives Kushner and his business partners the right to move forward with accelerated negotiations to build the luxury resort on a 1,400-acre section of the area of ​​2.2 square meters. mile of Sazan Island which will be connected by ferry to the mainland.Kushner ...

TikTok sought to assure its US employees on Tuesday that they will still have jobs next week, even if the Supreme Court upholds a law that would see the video app banned in the US on Sunday.The message is a change of tone from TikTok, which otherwise said it was confident it would emerge victorious from its legal challenge to the law. This also shows that the company has no plans to leave the United States in the near term, even if it were banned.TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, is fighting a law last year that would ban the app unless its U.S. operations were sold to a non-Chinese owner. TikTok sent a message to its staff on Tuesday acknowledging uncertainty over the upcoming decision and assuring employees that they will continue to be paid. The Supreme Court is expected to ma...

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday banned the use of red dye No. 3 in foods, drinks and drugs, more than three decades after the synthetic dye was found to cause cancer in male laboratory rats.The dye, a petroleum-based additive, has been used to give candy, soda and other products their vibrant cherry-red hue. Consumer advocates said the FDA's decision to revoke the authorization was long overdue, given the agency's decision in 1990 to ban the chemical's use in cosmetics and topical medications.Under federal rules, the FDA is prohibited from approving food additives that cause cancer in humans or animals.“This is wonderful and long overdue news,” said Melanie Benesh, vice president for government affairs at the Environmental Working Group, one of several organizations that have...

After more than 15 months of nearly non-stop fighting in Gaza, diplomats trying to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas expressed cautious hope Tuesday that a deal may finally be within reach.But that optimism has been tempered by uncertainty over whether both sides would ultimately agree, what details might still change and the experience of past months in which ceasefire talks have repeatedly failed.“We believe we are in the final stages, but until we have an announcement, there will be no announcement,” Majed al-Ansari, spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of one of the mediating countries, Qatar, told reporters on Tuesday.Here's what we know about the potential ceasefire agreement.What is the status of the talks?US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said Tuesday that Israel and ...