Norah O’Donnell sat across from the president of the United States days after a gunman tried to kill him at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and chose to read aloud, on camera, the assassin’s manifesto. The passage called Trump a pedophile and a rapist. She then asked for his reaction.

Trump called her a disgrace. The clip went everywhere.

The media’s defense — that O’Donnell was simply asking about a document in the public record — holds up for about thirty seconds before collapsing. There is a difference between reporting that a manifesto exists and its general character, and reading its most inflammatory accusations directly into the face of the person targeted by an attempted murder. One is journalism. The other is theater designed to force a specific response.

A delivery boat cuts the main canal on Murano at speed — one man steering, another sitting on a lumber stack, Trattoria Al Frati’s dock terrace sitting mostly empty in the background. Overcast sky, peeling facades, a working island doing what working islands actually do. This is the Murano that exists once you walk past the glass shop strip. Quieter, less curated, more honest. On what both islands look like once the postcard wears off: Murano and Burano Are Beautiful for About Five Minutes.

The S Pen on the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra is a versatile tool that activates as soon as you pop it out of the bottom-left slot of the device.

Getting Started

To begin, simply press the end of the stylus to click it out of the silo. If the screen is off, you can immediately start writing to create an Off-screen memo. Once you’re done, tapping the pin icon will save it directly to Samsung Notes.

WikiEXPO Cyprus 2026 is scheduled to take place on 18 September 2026 in Limassol, positioning itself as a compact but fairly concentrated gathering for professionals working across Forex, fintech, blockchaining, and increasingly AI-driven financial infrastructure. While the promotional framing emphasizes scale, networking reach, and global visibility, the confirmed structure of the event is essentially a single-day expo that compresses a large amount of industry activity into a very dense schedule. In practice, that usually means a steady flow of panels, booth interactions, and side conversations that spill into informal meetings rather than a slow, multi-day conference rhythm. Cyprus, with its established brokerage and financial services ecosystem, provides a setting that naturally attracts cross-border firms, especially those operating in regulated trading environments or expanding into European markets. The 5,000-plus participant narrative reflects the ambition of the event more than a literal constant presence in every moment of the day, but it does point to the type of audience mix organizers are targeting, from trading platforms and liquidity providers to fintech startups and AI tooling companies trying to plug into financial workflows. There is also a clear emphasis on sponsorships and booth presence as the primary entry point for visibility, which is fairly standard for expos of this type, though it does shape the tone of the event toward business development rather than academic or purely informational exchange. Still, these environments tend to produce a certain kind of outcome that is difficult to replicate online, where a brief conversation can lead to pilot integrations, distribution deals, or at least follow-up discussions that matter later, even if they feel minor at the time.

Warner Bros. Discovery stockholders voted overwhelmingly at a Special Meeting held today to approve the company’s pending merger with Paramount Skydance Corporation, clearing a critical procedural threshold in one of the largest media consolidations in recent memory.

Samuel A. Di Piazza, Jr., Chair of the WBD Board of Directors, framed the result as a mandate to extract value from the combined entity’s content libraries and distribution assets. President and CEO David Zaslav, who has spent four years restructuring WBD following its own 2022 formation from the WarnerMedia-Discovery merger, called the vote “another key milestone toward completing this historic transaction.”

EuroCucina 2026 unfolds once again as a central part of Milan Design Week, bringing a concentrated look at how kitchen and domestic space design continues to evolve under the influence of technology, shifting lifestyles, and changing ideas about what “home” actually feels like. It takes place at Fiera Milano Rho in Milan, where large exhibition halls are reconfigured into carefully staged environments that blur the line between showroom, installation, and speculative living space. The focus is not just on kitchens as isolated rooms, but on how they connect to the broader architecture of daily life, often dissolving into open-plan living concepts or modular environments that can be reconfigured with surprising flexibility.

The Thiel Foundation has officially unveiled its 2026 class of Thiel Fellows, awarding a new cohort of young entrepreneurs the resources and runway to pursue their most ambitious ideas outside conventional institutional paths.

Established in 2011, the two-year Fellowship grants each recipient $250,000 over the course of the program, along with access to a network spanning tech founders, investors, scientists, and alumni fellows. In exchange, fellows commit to working full-time on their projects, companies, or ideas. The program has long distinguished itself by investing in the individual as much as the venture — a deliberate departure from credential-driven gatekeeping.

French cinema has lost one of its defining faces. Nathalie Baye has died at the age of 77, her family confirmed, marking the end of a career that stretched across more than five decades and shaped modern French film in ways that were often subtle, but lasting.

She passed away on April 17, 2026, at her home in Paris after a long illness. The cause was reported as Lewy body dementia, a condition that had gradually taken her out of public life in recent years.

Mustafa Suleyman opened his MIT Technology Review essay with a crisp diagnosis of the problem: we evolved for a linear world, and that makes us catastrophically bad at perceiving exponential change. The argument flows cleanly from there.

Suleyman, who co-founded DeepMind and now runs Microsoft AI, has been inside the compute curve since 2010. By his count, the amount of training data going into frontier models has grown by a trillion times over that period—from roughly 10¹⁴ floating-point operations to numbers that require scientific notation to state without embarrassment. The skeptics who keep predicting a wall keep being wrong, he argues, not because they misunderstand the individual constraints (Moore’s Law deceleration, data exhaustion, energy limits) but because they underestimate how many parallel levers the industry is pulling simultaneously.

In February 2025, Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a memorandum laying out DOJ’s investigative and charging priorities for the new administration. Immigration enforcement, human trafficking, smuggling, and cartels made the list. Tobacco did not. The memorandum directed the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to shift resources away from its alcohol and tobacco programs toward those identified priorities.

The practical consequence for e-cigarette enforcement is documented in GAO’s March 2026 report (GAO-26-107991), and the picture is nuanced rather than catastrophic—at least for now.