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Massive Attack and Tom Waits just released the most powerful protest song in years

Massive Attack and Tom Waits just released the most powerful protest song in years

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This It begins with the sound of laboured breath, then an ominous clattering – like the tick of a grandfather clock – and stark, moody piano notes. “Boots on the Ground”, Massive Attack’s first new music in over a decade, feels like the most powerful new protest song in years. A collaboration with the gravel-voiced Tom Waits, also returning to music for the first time since his 2011 album, Bad As Me, “Boots on the Ground” is accompanied by a video using imagery from US photographer thefinaleye. The striking visuals depict recent anti-ICE demonstrations in America alongside Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, on 5 May 2020. As for the song itself, Waits’s lyrics are delivered in his trademark rumble: “Now who the hell are these federal pricks?/ Hiding in the senate like a bloated ass tick/ …

4 Zodiac Signs Attract Powerful Abundance & Luck On April 16, 2026

4 Zodiac Signs Attract Powerful Abundance & Luck On April 16, 2026

Published by Jenni Sidey

Four zodiac signs are attracting powerful abundance and luck on April 16, 202 when the Sun conjuncts Chiron in Aries. Pain is a powerful motivator of change, so when the Sun highlights the most hurtful parts of your past, you know what you can’t ever return to again. Chiron is the Wounded Healer, and while it’s in Aries, it’s about your self-respect. Your confidence has an opportunity to grow stronger on Thursday. You can spot what errors of the past, either self-inflicted or caused by others, cost you.  Instead of self-sabotaging on April 16, these astrological signs take on the independent and determined energy of Aries and claim it for themselves. You create the life you want to live and define the type of abundance you need. You demand luck. Your optimism kicks in, and you charge ahead for a brighter future. 1. Libra Design: YourTango You go all in when it comes to a relationship, Libra, and that’s what helps you to create abundance and luck in your life on April 16. You have …

3 Zodiac Signs Enter A Powerful New Era Starting On April 14, 2026

3 Zodiac Signs Enter A Powerful New Era Starting On April 14, 2026

Published by Jenni Sidey

Starting on April 14, 2026, three zodiac signs enter a powerful new era. When the Moon forms a trine with Jupiter, we create for ourselves a sense of stability. Right now, we’re living through extraordinary times, and we must find a way to feel positive. On Tuesday, the gloves come off. We’re not waiting around for someone else to decide our fate for us. We need safety and security, and we are going to make that happen for ourselves. 1. Gemini Design: YourTango It seems you’ve done enough thinking, Gemini, and now you’re ready to put your money where your mouth is. You are tired of feeling afraid to act, and so, when the Moon forms a trine with Jupiter, you change that.  You got used to falling in line with all the other folks who feel as if their world has been knocked out from beneath their feet. However, you are ingenious and wish to do something about it. You don’t intend to wallow in your own misery. During this transit, you don’t take …

The Internet’s Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril

The Internet’s Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril

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This month, USA Today published an excellent report that revealed how US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement delayed disclosing key information about the impacts of its detainment policies. The authors used the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to compile and analyze detention statistics from ICE and track how the agency had changed under the Trump administration. The story is one of countless examples of how the Wayback Machine, which crawls and preserves web pages, has helped preserve information for the public good. It was also, Wayback Machine director Mark Graham says, “a little ironic.” USA Today Co., the publishing conglomerate formerly known as Gannet that runs both its namesake paper and over 200 additional media outlets, bars the Wayback Machine from archiving its work. “They’re able to pull together their story research because the Wayback Machine exists. At the same time, they’re blocking access,” Graham says. A number of other major journalism organizations have also recently moved to restrict the Wayback Machine from archiving their stories, including The New York Times. According to analysis by the artificial-intelligence-detection …

Why Anthropic’s new AI model is too powerful to release – Tech 24

Why Anthropic’s new AI model is too powerful to release – Tech 24

Published by Sam Flores

One of the world’s leading AI companies has built a model so powerful that it refuses to fully release it publicly just yet, prompting urgent talks from Wall Street to financial regulators in the UK. Anthropic says its new AI model, Claude Mythos Preview, is so advanced at finding software weaknesses that the company fears it could become a hacker’s most powerful tool. It’s believed to have uncovered tens of thousands of critical software vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser. During testing, the model allegedly autonomously broke out of its “sandbox, a secure virtual environment, and independently published details of its own escape online.  So Anthropic is keeping it from public release. Instead, it has launched Project Glasswing, which gives controlled access to the AI model to more than 40 tech and financial firms, including Apple, Google and Microsoft, to find and patch flaws in critical systems before it’s released to the general public and hackers can. Anthropic is backing the project with $100US million in usage credits and $4 million in …

The Indie News Queen Who’s Not Done Pissing Off the Powerful

The Indie News Queen Who’s Not Done Pissing Off the Powerful

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In the opening scene of the new documentary Steal This Story, Please! reporter Amy Goodman chases down a senior Trump administration adviser. The camera follows as she weaves through a convention hall at a climate conference in Poland, shouting questions at energy expert P. Wells Griffith III right up until he shuts a door in her face. Undaunted, she waits outside. The door opens a crack. It’s some lackey, peeping out and shooing her away; right up until the door closes again, Goodman persists, trying to make contact. She’s out of breath when she finally turns back. Goodman, the indefatigable longtime host and cofounder of the independent journalism stalwart Democracy Now!, has spent the past 30 years asking her subjects tough questions, leading people like former US president Bill Clinton to describe her as “hostile and combative” and intimidating government officials so much that they flee on sight. Steal This Story, Please! traces Democracy Now!’s rise from an upstart airing on a few handfuls of public radio stations to … the exact same thing, just …

Anthropic says its most powerful AI cyber model is too dangerous to release publicly — so it built Project Glasswing

Anthropic says its most powerful AI cyber model is too dangerous to release publicly — so it built Project Glasswing

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Anthropic on Tuesday announced Project Glasswing, a sweeping cybersecurity initiative that pairs an unreleased frontier AI model — Claude Mythos Preview — with a coalition of twelve major technology and finance companies in an effort to find and patch software vulnerabilities across the world’s most critical infrastructure before adversaries can exploit them. The launch partners include Amazon Web Services, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Palo Alto Networks. Anthropic says it has also extended access to more than 40 additional organizations that build or maintain critical software, and is committing up to $100 million in usage credits for Claude Mythos Preview across the effort, along with $4 million in direct donations to open-source security organizations. The announcement arrives at a moment of extraordinary momentum — and extraordinary scrutiny — for the San Francisco-based AI startup. Anthropic disclosed on Sunday that its annualized revenue run rate has surpassed $30 billion, up from approximately $9 billion at the end of 2025, and the number of business customers each spending over $1 …

ICE acknowledges it is using powerful spyware : NPR

ICE acknowledges it is using powerful spyware : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

A man holds his phone up next to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol agent during an immigration raid in Chicago on Oct. 4, 2025. The top official of CBP’s sister agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, confirmed last week that the agency is using powerful spyware that can hack into phones. Octavio Jones/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Octavio Jones/AFP via Getty Images Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using spyware tools that can intercept encrypted messages as part of the agency’s efforts to disrupt fentanyl traffickers, according to a letter sent last week by the agency’s acting director, Todd Lyons. Lyons’ letter, which was reviewed by NPR, said ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) is using various tools as part of its mission to disrupt and dismantle foreign terrorist organizations “particularly those involved in the trafficking of fentanyl.” Lyons wrote “in response to the unprecedented lethality of fentanyl and the exploitation of digital platforms by transnational criminal organizations” he approved HSI’s “use of cutting-edge technological tools that address the specific challenges …

Excel’s data validation is far more powerful than just dropdowns — here’s what it can actually enforce

Excel’s data validation is far more powerful than just dropdowns — here’s what it can actually enforce

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Most people set up a dropdown list to make spreadsheets smarter with Excel’s data validation. However, the Custom option in the Data Validation dialog accepts any formula that returns TRUE or FALSE, which means you can enforce rules that dropdowns were not built to handle. Duplicate prevention, text pattern requirements, date restrictions, and calculated limits all run through one setting that most people skip right past. Here’s how I use custom formulas to lock down my spreadsheets properly. Related Excel’s SEQUENCE function made me realize I’d been wasting time manually filling date columns It replaced my date-filling workflow, and I’m not going back. Custom formulas let you control far more than a list The Custom option accepts any TRUE/FALSE formula as a validation rule Excel’s data validation has several built-in options such as whole numbers, decimals, dates, text length, and, of course, dropdown lists — it’s one of those Excel tricks worth learning early. These cover common scenarios, but they’re rigid. The moment you need a rule that doesn’t fit neatly into one of those …

Arcee’s new, open source Trinity-Large-Thinking is the rare, powerful U.S.-made AI model that enterprises can download and customize

Arcee’s new, open source Trinity-Large-Thinking is the rare, powerful U.S.-made AI model that enterprises can download and customize

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The baton of open source AI models has been passed on between several companies over the years since ChatGPT debuted in late 2022, from Meta with its Llama family to Chinese labs like Qwen and z.ai. But lately, Chinese companies have started pivoting back towards proprietary models even as some U.S. labs like Cursor and Nvidia release their own variants of the Chinese models, leaving a question mark about who will originate this branch of technology going forward. One answer: Arcee, a San Francisco based lab, which this week released AI Trinity-Large-Thinking—a 399-billion parameter text-only reasoning model released under the uncompromisingly open Apache 2.0 license, allowing for full customizability and commercial usage by anyone from indie developers to large enterprises. The release represents more than just a new set of weights on AI code sharing community Hugging Face; it is a strategic bet that “American Open Weights” can provide a sovereign alternative to the increasingly closed or restricted frontier models of 2025. This move arrives precisely as enterprises express growing discomfort with relying on Chinese-based …