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China’s highest bridge brings tourists and internet access to remote communities : NPR

China’s highest bridge brings tourists and internet access to remote communities : NPR

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Hide caption Tourists pose for photos near the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, considered to be the world’s highest bridge, in Anshun in southwestern China’s Guizhou province on Friday, May 29, 2026. Previous Next Ng Han Guan/AP Hide caption Mist covers the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, considered to be the world’s highest bridge, in Anshun in southwestern China’s Guizhou province on Friday, May 29, 2026. Previous Next Ng Han Guan/AP Hide caption A worker tightens bolts on a pipe of the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, considered to be the world’s highest bridge, in Anshun in southwestern China’s Guizhou province on Friday, May 29, 2026. Previous Next Ng Han Guan/AP Hide caption Vehicles move on the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, considered to be the world’s highest bridge, in Anshun in southwestern China’s Guizhou province on Friday, May 29, 2026. Previous Next Ng Han Guan/AP Hide caption Tourists pose for photos on the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge with the sign 625m marking the height of the bridge in Anshun in southwestern China’s Guizhou province on Friday, May 29, …

India’s Cockroach Party fights attempts to discredit the movement – Access Asia

India’s Cockroach Party fights attempts to discredit the movement – Access Asia

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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again ACCESS ASIA © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 05/06/2026 – 15:53Modified: 05/06/2026 – 15:57 12:17 min From the show Reading time 1 min On this edition of Access Asia, we explore how India’s nascent Cockroach Janta Party has tapped into the frustrations of the country’s youth. We speak with the party’s spokesperson, Saurav Das, who tells us that the movement is demanding accountability from the government. Political scientist Christophe Jaffrelot also weighs in on why young people in India are disillusioned and what the country’s opposition parties can learn from the viral movement. By: Source link

Pulte as spy chief would give Trump attack dog access to ‘crown jewels’

Pulte as spy chief would give Trump attack dog access to ‘crown jewels’

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Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, speaks to the press at the White House, July 24, 2025. Sarah L. Voisin | The Washington Post | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte to be the acting director of national intelligence will give the president’s housing agency attack dog access to the country’s most prized secrets, a move that analysts fear could further politicize the office and erode U.S. intelligence-gathering. Trump tapped the Federal Housing Finance Agency director, who oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, on Tuesday to replace the outgoing director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. Pulte is not experienced in national intelligence and was an investor and executive of the homebuilding company PulteGroup before joining the government. As director of national intelligence, Pulte will be at the top of the U.S.’ sprawling intelligence community and have access to the country’s most sensitive national secrets. That lack of experience and Pulte’s penchant for using information from the housing agencies to gin up prosecutions of Trump’s political rivals has alarmed intelligence …

Pentagon Restricts Press Office Access Over Privacy Concerns

Pentagon Restricts Press Office Access Over Privacy Concerns

Published by Jenni Sidey

Via American Greatness, The Pentagon announced Monday that reporters will no longer have open access to the War Department’s public affairs office after the space was redesignated as a classified facility to accommodate staff handling sensitive material. The announcement marks the latest effort by the Pete Hegseth-led War Department to tighten operational security and reshape longstanding media access practices inside the Pentagon. Under the new policy, the Pentagon’s public affairs office has been converted into a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, commonly known as a SCIF. The office had previously allowed journalists to enter without escorts and directly approach military public affairs officials with questions. Pentagon spokesman Joel Valdez said the change was necessary because speechwriters working in the office routinely handle classified material and require access to secure government systems. “This is the most transparent War Department in history. No amount of spin from the Fake News media will change that,” Valdez wrote in a post on X. This is the most transparent War Department in history. No amount of spin from the Fake News media will change …

Meta AI reportedly let hackers access big Instagram accounts

Meta AI reportedly let hackers access big Instagram accounts

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Meta — the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp — continues to integrate AI across its platform. Unfortunately, it appears the company overlooked a major flaw: Meta’s AI support chatbot could apparently be tricked into providing unauthorized users with login access to any Instagram account. Over the past few days, a number of highly followed Instagram accounts were hacked. The Obama White House Instagram account, with 2.4 million followers, was compromised and posted a caption on Sunday that stated: “The White House is under Shiites’ control.” Other accounts, such as the official Instagram account belonging to the Chief Master Sergeant of Space Force, were also hacked. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. Soon after, sleuths on social media began sharing the news of these hacked accounts along with screen captures showcasing the alleged method used to take them over.  The hackers say they weaponized an exploit that tricked Meta’s AI support chatbot into simply handing …

Water access is now a risk factor in SpaceX’s IPO

Water access is now a risk factor in SpaceX’s IPO

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SpaceX has added new language to its IPO filing that warns prospective investors about the company’s access to a potentially scarce resource: water. The company, which now includes Elon Musk’s AI play, xAI, wrote in an amended version of the filing on Monday that access to water — required to cool its data centers — is just as important as SpaceX’s ability to secure power, processors, and other critical resources. The addition comes amid an ever-evolving debate about how much water data centers use, and whether that usage is contributing to localized droughts that are being made worse by climate change. Deep in the “risk factors” section of SpaceX’s IPO filing, the company added language about water to a section about the challenges of scaling AI infrastructure. Previously, SpaceX focused on telling investors that its data centers were primarily constrained by access to “power at economically feasible prices,” along with long construction timelines and material shortages. The amended filing adds multiple lines about water access. SpaceX now tells prospective investors in the IPO that data …

US Moves To Further Restrict China’s Access To Advanced AI Chips

US Moves To Further Restrict China’s Access To Advanced AI Chips

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Evgenia Filiaminova via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Department of Commerce has issued new guidance to prevent Chinese companies from obtaining advanced U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) chips, such as Nvidia’s most sophisticated Blackwell processors, through overseas subsidiaries. The May 31 guidance clarifies that export licenses are required for entities headquartered in China or Macau, regardless of where their affiliates are located. The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) said that licensing requirements for advanced computing items destined for China- or Macau-headquartered entities were first established in November 2023 and remain in effect. The agency said the requirement applies even when those entities are located outside China or Macau. The clarification follows confusion over a May 2025 announcement by the BIS that it would not enforce certain parts of the Biden-era AI diffusion rule. The rule was designed to restrict sales of advanced AI chips to strategic rivals while allowing broader access for U.S. allies. The BIS said the policy change did not remove existing licensing requirements for exports involving Chinese …

Iran reinstates some internet access but restrictions remain for most | US-Israel war on Iran News

Iran reinstates some internet access but restrictions remain for most | US-Israel war on Iran News

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Tehran, Iran – Authorities in Iran have reinstated some internet access three months after taking the country offline at the start of the war with the United States and Israel, but restrictions remain in place for most people. The Iranian government said last week that it had started a process to bring internet access back to a pre-war level, which was already very restricted as Iran was at the time still coming off an earlier 20-day shutdown imposed during deadly nationwide protests in January. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list Last week’s move ended more than 2,000 hours of near-total internet shutdown in the country of 90 million people, the longest-ever nationwide blackout in the world. But according to numerous user reports, local media accounts and expert analysis, Iranians’ free access to the global internet is far from restored. Access to millions of web pages remains blocked by the state, and almost all global services and apps such as YouTube, Instagram, Telegram, WhatsApp, Facebook and Waze are closed off and are not under consideration …

Hands-On With Gemini Spark: I Gave It Access to My Life and It Friend-Zoned My Boyfriend

Hands-On With Gemini Spark: I Gave It Access to My Life and It Friend-Zoned My Boyfriend

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At its recent I/O developer conference, Google introduced Gemini Spark as an always-on agent that connects to your personal data, completes online tasks, and automates aspects of your daily interactions. It’s Google’s take on the viral OpenClaw agent that rocked Silicon Valley at the start of 2026. OpenClaw’s early adopters handed their entire lives over to an AI agent for messaging and scheduling automation—sometimes with bot-induced mishaps causing embarrassing results. My first time using Gemini Spark had me wheezing with laughter. I gave Google’s new AI agent access to everything from my personal Gmail, Docs, and Calendar apps. (So long privacy.) Then, I sent an innocuous, one-sentence prompt, asking the bot for help planning a party for my upcoming birthday. Not only did Gemini Spark comb through my inbox and calendar to find the real reservation I made at a karaoke bar, it also generated a five-page itinerary complete with a guest list, venue rules, nearby dining spots, after-party bars, email invites, and theme ideas. The result was genuinely impressive and done in just a …

To access your creativity, start playing

To access your creativity, start playing

Published by Jenni Sidey

To live a fulfilling life, we need to have a grasp on our personal values, what lights us up as individuals, and how to connect to ourselves and our communities. Exploring my individual creative expression is my personal favorite way to do all of that. But so many people have buried their creative expression deep inside of them. Did you cringe when you read the term creative expression? Twenty-five-year-old me would’ve rolled her eyes at that woo-woo, arty term. But 35-year-old me holds that term close to her heart. If you feel uncomfy associating yourself with words like creative or artist, or you roll your eyes at phrases like creative expression or creative practice, you’re not alone. But let’s dig into why you feel that way. Our experiences as children inform so much of our perception of self as adults, so if we didn’t have a champion as a kid, we may not even know our preferred form of creative expression. First, there’s the cultural conditioning around terms like creative practice or creative expression. We …