Frank X. Shaw, Microsoft’s chief communications officer, is leaving the software giant after nearly 30 years of playing a vital role in shaping the company’s public messaging, according to a memo he sent to staff viewed by Fortune. Shaw said he’s decided it is time to move on and try new ventures, though he has
A woman who testified against her own father after her mother was murdered in a notorious mafia killing in Italy is believed to have taken her own life. Denise Cosco was found critically injured on Sunday and died later in hospital in Rome. Her mother Lea Garofalo, who was killed in 2009, became a powerful
A Los Angeles federal jury on Friday found Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk not guilty of murder-for-hire, conspiracy and stalking resulting in death charges in the 2022 killing of rapper Quando Rondo’s cousin, according to the Los Angeles Times. Prosecutors alleged that rapper (real name: Durk Banks) directed hit men to target rapper Quando Rondo, born
Beth Barnes, one of the AI industry’s most influential watchdogs, said in July she was struggling to hire talented researchers to monitor AI’s risks. That has begun to change. Researcher Joe Benton announced this week that he had left Anthropic for Barnes’ nonprofit METR, writing that he worries about “extinction-level risks” from the tech. The
At least 44 people have been injured, including one seriously, after a passenger train derailed in northern France, local officials have said. An 18-year-old woman was airlifted in critical condition by helicopter to hospital. Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot said 180 passengers were on board the train that was operating between Rouen and Caen in Normandy.
Filming “The Uprising” gave British actor Woody Norman, who plays 14-year-old King Richard II in the historical fiction drama, a massive headache. It turns out the only crown they had for him to use during the shoot got damaged the first day of filming. “So it didn’t fit my head,” Norman, 17, tells me over
