Doctors in Sri Lanka have removed a 3.1kg (6.8lb) bladder stone from a man – which they believe to be the largest of its kind on record. The procedure was carried out last week at a hospital in Trincomalee, in the east of the country. The 55-year-old patient had been admitted to hospital after suffering
Google announced on Friday that it will now allow users to remove a visible watermark from its AI generations, including images, videos, and songs. The company specified that this won’t affect the invisible SynthID watermark and C2PA standard-related metadata. Josh Woodward, the company’s VP for Gemini, said in a post on X that this toggle
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Australia is taking Telegram to court over its alleged failure to remove “pro-terrorism” material, including video of the Christchurch shootings, the country’s eSafety commissioner has said. Julie Inman-Grant, who last year led Australia’s first global ban on social media for under-16s, said the platform faced a fine of up to A$54.6m (£28m, US$38m) for failing
Kalshi sent Netflix a cease-and-desist letter on Friday demanding that the streaming service pull the trailer for an upcoming documentary. In the letter, Kalshi claimed that the trailer is “defamatory” and contains “both fabricated documents and false and misleading statements.” “Instadocs: The Prediction Games” is a documentary about the rise of prediction markets. According to
The then Minister of the Interior, Wolfgang Sobotka, stated that the building should be demolished and a new one erected in its place. It was an echo of an earlier offer from a Russian MP who said he wanted to buy the house and blow it up. But there was a storm of criticism, with