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UN’s next leader was meant to be a woman.
-- But Trump may ‘insist on a man’
Three candidates want the UN secretary-general job, despite a ‘difficult’ process fraught with politics
— not helped by interventions from the White House
https://www.thetimes.…

UN’s next leader was meant to be a woman. But Trump may ‘insist on a man’
Three candidates want the UN secretary-general job, despite a ‘difficult’ process fraught with politics — not helped by interventions from the White House

Tel Aviv-based Daylight, whose AI-native platform autonomously identifies and contains cyber threats, raised a $33M Series A, bringing its total funding to $40M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bjgfwuwk11e

Cyber startup Daylight raises $33 million just three months after its Seed round
Backed by Craft Ventures and top Israeli founders, the Tel Aviv-based company is building an AI-driven security platform to modernize detection and response.

Australia plans to introduce legislation this week requiring streamers with 1M Australian subscribers to spend 10% of their local expenditure on local content (Jake Evans/ABC)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-04/streaming-serv…

Streaming services to be made to produce Australian content
Laws requiring streaming services to produce Australian content have been put back on the table by the federal government, after they were put on hiatus following the US election.

Great documentary about Demis Hassabis working on AGI. Really about history and humans, working on a hard problem, less about the technology itself. But that makes it interesting to watch for everybody. Also it contains a clear warning about coming AGI.
https://youtu.be/d95J8yzvjbQ?si=BsfJDJ…

Unpopular opinion: all these relatively small suitcases on wheels could be replaced by backpacks, and there would be much less clutter all around the place.

Twig wants to know if this carrier makes his butt look big. #CatsOfMastodon

One more angle for their snuff films.
From: @…
https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/news-i8koidj5z/-/a-…

Endlich wird an den Mord an Walter #Lübcke erinnert, aber Kanzler und Bürgermeister finden es geschmacklos. Dabei hatte Merz schon damals Probleme, den ersten politischen Mord der Rechten einzuordnen und Beileid für seinen Parteifreund zu zeigen. Jetzt hat er es wieder verpasst und Friedmann muss einspringen. Das ehem. Vorstandsmitglied der CDU trat im Januar aus der Partei aus, wegen der Ko…

Unser Land soll schöner werden
Das Zentrum für politische Schönheit stellt in Berlin ein Walter-Lübcke-Denkmal vor die CDU-Parteizentrale.

A 5-year-old boy and his father must be released by Tuesday
from the Texas center where they’ve been held after being detained by immigration officers in Minnesota,
a federal judge ordered Saturday in a ruling that harshly criticized the Trump administration’s approach to enforcement.
Images of Liam Conejo Ramos, wearing a bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack,
being surrounded by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers
sparked even more outcry about the admini…

US ordered to release 5-year-old and dad taken into custody in Minnesota
A judge has ordered the U.S. to release a father and 5-year-old son who were taken into custody during the immigration crackdown in Minnesota. Images of the preschooler in a bunny hat and Spiderman backpack being surrounded by federal agents in a Minneapolis suburb on Jan. 20 added to the outcry about the immigration actions of President Donald Trump’s administration. The government says the father and son, originally from Ecuador, entered the U.S. in 2024. They were taken to a detention faci…

Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father,
who were detained by immigration officers in Minnesota and held at an ICE facility in Texas,
have been released following a judge’s order.
They have returned to Minnesota, according to Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro.
The boy and his dad, Adrian Conejo Arias, who is originally from Ecuador,
were detained in a Minneapolis suburb on Jan. 20.
They were taken to a detention facility in Dilley, Texas.
Katherine Sch…

5-year-old and dad return to Minnesota from Texas detention facility
Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his dad have returned to Minnesota after being released by ICE, Texas lawmaker says. The two were detained in a Minneapolis suburb on Jan. 20. Images of the young boy wearing a bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack surrounded by immigration officers caused outrage over the Trump administration immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. A judge on Saturday ordered the father and son's release.