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A. Brooks is a journalist and editor with more than seven years of experience covering world news, science, technology, and entertainment. With a background in communications and media studies, Brooks specializes in translating complex topics into clear, engaging stories for a broad audience. Their work ranges from breaking news and explainers to in-depth features, with a focus on accuracy, context, and accessible storytelling.
Three of the Premier League's biggest names are at the center of the transfer window's final stretch. Chelsea are weighing an enormous decision on Enzo Fernandez, Arsenal have been linked with a surprise swoop for Victor Osimhen, and Rodri's standoff with Manchester City shows no sign of ending.
OpenAI began rolling out Computer History on Thursday, a feature that lets ChatGPT and its coding agent Codex build a timeline of what users do across apps and websites on their Mac. The company is betting that recording clicks, typing and app switches, rather than screenshots, will spare it the backlash that sank Microsoft's similar Recall feature.
Israeli settlers besieged three Palestinian homes in the West Bank village of Qusra for five nights, cutting water and electricity as food supplies dwindled inside. On Thursday, US Ambassador Mike Huckabee called the perpetrators "Israeli terrorists," a word American officials usually reserve for Palestinian militants and a striking rebuke from one of the settlement movement's longtime supporters.
A daily pill nearly doubled survival for patients with stage 4 pancreatic cancer in a landmark trial, and US hospitals have begun offering it ahead of FDA approval. Patients on daraxonrasib lived a median of 13.2 months, compared with 6.7 months on standard intravenous chemotherapy.
Twitch confirmed on Wednesday that parent company Amazon can use streamers' content to train its generative AI models, and every user is enrolled by default. The confirmation came wrapped inside what the platform framed as good news: a new setting that lets creators opt out. The community's answer was immediate and furious.
Millions of people across Spain, Iceland and a small corner of Portugal watched the moon blot out the sun on Wednesday evening in Europe's first total solar eclipse since 1999. For Spain, it was the first totality in more than a century. Skies darkened, temperatures dipped, and the sun's corona flared into view for up to two minutes.