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While Kylie Jenner serves as a human billboard for Meta’s AI glasses, pop star Lorde isn’t buying it. During a set at the Mad Cool Festival in Madrid last week, Lorde had some choice words about the new technology, which many security experts have deemed a privacy nightmare. “Increasingly in our world, it gets harder and harder to know what is real,” Lorde told the audience. “You don’t know if someone is wearing sunglasses, or if they’re wearing those f—ed up, f—ing [AI glasses]. Can I just say, for the record, f— the glasses. Don’t get the glasses. Not sexy.”…

Sir Keir Starmer has become the first serving UK prime minister to be awarded France’s top honour, the Legion d’honneur.He received the award at the end of a meeting of the so-called Coalition of the Willing – the group of countries Sir Keir and French President Emmanuel Macron helped set up to help Ukraine in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of 2022.In his tribute, Macron praised Sir Keir’s “decency” and expressed his gratitude for the “commitments for obviously your country, but the security of Europe, Ukraine, the bilateral relationship”.Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky was among those to pay tribute to…

With its dagger-like teeth, bone-crushing bite and behemothic size, the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex ruled western North America during the late Cretaceous period. Now its fossilised remains are about to dominate the auction house, with a price tag to terrify punters.On Tuesday, one of the largest and most complete T rex skeletons discovered to date is to be auctioned by Sotheby’s in New York with an estimated sale price of $20m-$30m (£15m-£22.4m).It could even fetch more: a stegosaurus called Apex currently holds the record, selling at a Sotheby’s auction in 2024 for $44.6m – 11 times its listing price.Nicknamed “Gus”, the…

Rodrigo de Paul has become, in this Argentina squad, what Jose Manuel Pinto once was at Barcelona, or Luis Suarez later became: the team-mate with whom Messi instantly feels at home. Their bond was forged on international duty. Until then, the midfielder’s only connection to Messi had been asking for a photo after a Valencia–Barcelona match, which he proudly posted on social media.One afternoon, he noticed Messi leave training alone, looking subdued. Concerned, De Paul waited about 40 minutes before knocking on his door.”Fancy a mate and a game of truco?”A friendship began, with its own strict etiquette. Mate, the…

Scott Bryce, who starred as Craig Montgomery on As the World Turns in the 1980s, returned to the CBS soap in ensuing years, was a regular on The WB dramedy Popular and guested on dozen of shows during a 35-year screen career, has died. He was 68. His son Jackson confirmed the news on social media, saying his father died July 12 after a long battle with cancer. “This evening my father lost his long-fought battle with cancer,” he wrote on Instagram in part. “What began as stage three esophageal cancer eventually spread and became brain tumors that took his…

The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has said the National Assembly may amend aspects of the Electoral Act 2026 after recent political developments exposed what he described as unintended consequences of the law for serving lawmakers seeking re-election. Mr Akpabio spoke on Tuesday at the opening of the 2026 National Assembly Open Week and the presentation of the 10th National Assembly’s Third-Year Legislative Scorecard in Abuja. His remarks come weeks after several senators and members of the House of Representatives failed to secure their parties’ tickets during primaries ahead of the 2027 general elections. The Senate President said while…

Governor Dauda Lawal distributed more than 120 trucks of fertilisers and essential farm inputs to Zamfara farmers. The Zamfara 2026 wet-season fertiliser programme was launched on Friday at the Trade Fair Complex in Gusau, the state capital. According to a statement by the governor’s spokesperson, Sulaiman Bala Idris, the Zamfara State Government distributed 72,000 bags of fertiliser, 200,000 litres of herbicides, and 100 crop residue crushers. Additional agricultural assets include 100 grass choppers, 100 feed milling machines, improved pasture seeds, 20 motorcycles, and 20 mobile phones designated for agricultural extension agents. In his remarks, Governor Lawal said Zamfara State occupies…

•Celebrate THISWEEK founding at 40 Omon-Julius Onabu in Asaba and Sunday Ehigiator in Lagos Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, leading figures in Nigeria’s media industry and other prominent Nigerians, last night, paid glowing tributes to the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of THISDAY and Arise Group, Prince Nduka Obaigbena, on his 67th birthday and the 40th anniversary of the founding of THISWEEK Magazine, describing him as a visionary whose bold leadership has transformed journalism beyond the shores of Nigeria.Described Obaigbena as one of Africa’s most influential figures with enduring legacy in the journalism and communication industry globally, the governor commended Obaigbena for…

Fusilli Gigante at Bar Primi Penn District in Midtown ManhattanBar PrimiNew York City Restaurant Week returns this summer, with reservations officially open at hundreds of restaurants offering special prix-fixe meals. The twice-yearly, multi-week program includes over 600 restaurants across all five boroughs, offering over 45 cuisines in more than 70 neighborhoods. Participating restaurants offer multiple course menus at $30, $45 or $60. Saturdays are excluded from the program, and Sundays are optional for participating businesses. This year, summer restaurant week runs from from Monday, July 20, through Sunday, August 16. Restaurants also have the option to extend NYC Restaurant Week…

Further complicating the process, even the expiration of the Microsoft certificate that signed the shims, which took place late last month, isn’t enough to revoke the ones ESET identified. A rogue’s gallery of defective shims The shims identified by ESET authorize secondary components that are known to be vulnerable to various exploits. The Oracle shim, for instance, signs a binary vulnerable to CVE-2015-5381. Smolár said the skill required to exploit the vulnerability is low. Other vulnerable shims fail to support protections, such as MOK deny-list enforcement and SBAT enforcement, both of which came into effect after the affected shim was…