Category: World
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Byron Donalds won Florida’s Republican gubernatorial primary as several states voted on Tuesday. What a primary actually decides, why the voting rules change the result, and why primary outcomes are a poor guide to November.
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Two phrases run through the Meta coverage without explanation: multidistrict litigation and bellwether trial. What they mean, how an MDL differs from a class action, and why a bellwether verdict decides less than it appears to.
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The Bundibugyo outbreak is now the deadliest Ebola epidemic in DR Congo’s history — in the country where Ebola was first identified. Why the vaccines that ended the last epidemic do not apply to this one.
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US states accuse Meta of designing Facebook and Instagram to keep children hooked, in a trial that opened in Oakland. What is claimed, why the case gets around Section 230, Meta’s defence, and the two things worth watching.
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World Humanitarian Day falls today. Who aid workers actually are, why national staff carry most of the risk, the legal obligation the day is quietly restating, and why funding follows attention rather than need.
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A court is now being asked what a recommendation algorithm is optimising for. What a recommender actually does, why engagement became the target, and why that engineering choice — not the content — is what the lawyers are arguing about.
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Twenty-nine states are suing Meta over claims Facebook and Instagram were designed to hook children. The trial turns on a single legal move — suing over product design rather than content — and that is why it could reshape the apps.
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More than ninety people died when the ferry Mbuya Nehanda capsized on Lake Kariba — the deadliest boat disaster in Zimbabwe’s history. The sequence that sank it, why children were not on the passenger count, and why the boat was full.
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Caltech researchers report on-chip optical pathways that lose very little light at visible wavelengths, approaching optical fibre. What a waveguide is, why visible light is the hard case, and the specific hurdles between this and a product.
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Drones struck the Kurdistan Regional Government prime minister’s office and the intelligence chief’s home in northern Iraq. The KRG says they came from Iranian territory; Tehran says it has no such information. What each claim does and does not mean.