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Hospital workers wounded in Israeli drone attack on Gaza's Kamal Adwan

Al Jazeera

'This is an apartheid regime' Does Trump have real leverage over Netanyahu? Hospital workers wounded in Israeli drone attack on Gaza's Kamal Adwan An Israeli drone attack on a hospital in northern Gaza injured staff members, despite a " ceasefire " being in place, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. At least three people were hurt in the courtyard and three others nearby, medical sources said. The attack happened despite the facility being in the so-called Green Zone, an area under Israeli control. The ministry condemned the attack, describing it as part of Israel's "systematic targeting of health facilities".


Alarm over launch of facial recognition in UK shops that instantly alerts police

The Guardian

Customers inside a B&M store, which is one of more than 100 businesses that will be using the technology. Customers inside a B&M store, which is one of more than 100 businesses that will be using the technology. Civil liberties groups say Facewatch system in stores such as Sainsbury's and B&M is'dangerous escalation' Fri 10 Jul 2026 06.19 EDTLast modified on Fri 10 Jul 2026 06.57 Facial recognition technology in shops will soon alert police in real time to the presence of serious offenders, with civil liberties groups warning of a "dangerous escalation" towards surveillance and criminalisation in the retail sector. Facewatch, a facial recognition system used by more than 100 businesses including Sainsbury's, B&M and Spar to monitor thieves, said it was launching a UK-first feature to "alert police instantly when the most serious offenders trigger a live facial recognition match".


Healing America Means Rethinking Patriotism

TIME - Tech

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Conformal Bayes for Two-Sided Censored Gaussian Regression under Label Shift

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Prediction under label shift becomes nonstandard when responses are censored. In a two-sided censored Gaussian model, latent values below $L$ and above $U$ are recorded at the boundary values, so the observed predictive distribution is mixed, with atoms at $L$ and $U$ and a continuous density on $(L,U)$. In this paper we develop conformal Bayes for this mixed-space setting by combining posterior predictive tilting with weighted conformal calibration. Under a two-sided Tobit Gaussian Bayesian prediction head with a Laplace posterior approximation, the tilted predictive distribution has left-atom, interior, and right-atom components, with a three-term closed-form normalizer. The resulting prediction set is a mixed highest density region that can combine boundary atoms with an interior interval and can reduce to atom-only sets under strong censoring. The main technical issue is that latent label shift does not directly give an ordinary density ratio on the observed censored scale. A latent exponential tilt induces tail-averaged atom weights at the censored boundaries, while the interior ratio remains density based. This yields a mixed observed-space calibration weight with two atom ratios and one interior density ratio. The weight corrects the calibration measure, while predictive tilting gives target-adapted mixed-HDR geometry. Synthetic experiments show that weighted tilted conformal Bayes restores marginal coverage with smaller sets than weighted source-score calibration, while revealing a trade-off between marginal coverage and component-wise behavior across atoms and interior observations.


Inside the Luddite Festival Harnessing Gen Z's Rage Against Big Tech

WIRED

New York City's Summer of Ludd festival is teaching people how to live offline amid the suffocating presence of Big Tech. A papier-mâché woman is the backdrop to a play about the Luddite movement. On a Sunday evening in the middle of Tompkins Square Park in New York City's East Village, hundreds of people gather in front of a giant papier-mâché face of a woman wearing a crown. She's the backdrop of a play, her body made up of curtains that look like a dress but serve a dual purpose, allowing actors to scurry on and offstage. I'm here to watch a performance called " Luddite Recreations," which is a history of the Luddite movement--a group of artisans and textile workers who resisted the adoption of machines during the early years of the Industrial Revolution in England and whose resistance to being displaced from their work was met with violence by the British monarchy.


Over 900 Arrested During South African Anti-Migrant Protests. Here's What to Know

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Venezuelan sky turns deep red as sun sets over Caracas

Al Jazeera

Eyewitness footage showed skies over Caracas turn deep red at sunset on Tuesday, during ongoing rescue efforts after two earthquakes hit Venezuela last week, which the government says killed 1,943 people and injured thousands. Why is MAGA in meltdown over the Supreme Court birthright ruling? Supreme Court's divided ruling on birthright citizenship may be revisited Iran says it couldn't export a'single barrel of oil' during US blockade


Rescuers race to reach survivors in Venezuela

Al Jazeera

"I'm still begging for people to help me get him out." A mother's plea as rescuers race to reach people trapped beneath collapsed buildings after twin earthquakes struck Venezuela. Why is MAGA in meltdown over the Supreme Court birthright ruling? Supreme Court's divided ruling on birthright citizenship may be revisited Iran says it couldn't export a'single barrel of oil' during US blockade


Gojek co-founder, turned Indonesian Education Minister jailed for 10 years

Al Jazeera

Gojek co-founder and former Education Minister Nadiem Makarim has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after being convicted of corruption. Makarim, a former billionaire and symbol of Indonesia's tech boom, says the verdict is politically motivated and plans to appeal. Why is MAGA in meltdown over the Supreme Court birthright ruling? Supreme Court's divided ruling on birthright citizenship may be revisited Iran says it couldn't export a'single barrel of oil' during US blockade Mexican fans keep Ecuador's team awake before World Cup showdown


Tutoring centre roof collapses killing 14 children in Pakistan

Al Jazeera

At least 14 children were killed when the roof of a private tutoring centre collapsed outside Lahore, Pakistan. Officials said the unregistered centre was operating inside a residential building with an unsafe roof. Why is MAGA in meltdown over the Supreme Court birthright ruling? Supreme Court's divided ruling on birthright citizenship may be revisited Iran says it couldn't export a'single barrel of oil' during US blockade Mexican fans keep Ecuador's team awake before World Cup showdown