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Questions multiplied in Slovakia on Friday as shock over the attempted assassination of Prime Minister Robert Fico began to give way to trepidation about what comes next for a deeply polarized country.Authorities have kept details about the attack, the attacker and even who leads the country to a minimum, while the prime minister remains hospitalized. Officials say they will provide more information soon, but that the situation is delicate.They did not name the suspect - who Slovakia's interior minister described as a "lone wolf" radicalized after last month's presidential election - or say when he will appear in court to face charges of attempted premeditated murder. They called the shooting politically motivated, while urging the public and politicians to reduce political rheto...

Listen and follow 'Hard Fork'Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YoutubeThis week, OpenAI unveiled GPT-4o, its new artificial intelligence model. He has an amazingly emotional voice that everyone talks about. So, let's break down Google IO's biggest announcements, including the launch of AI Panoramas, a major shift in search that threatens the way the entire web works. And finally, Kevin and Casey discuss the week's weirdest headlines in another round of HatGPT.Additional reading:Credits“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Roose AND Casey Newton and produced by Whitney Jones AND Rachel Cohn. The show is edited by Poyant only. Engineering by Isaac Jones and original music by Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop AND Rowan Niemisto. Fact checking by Caitlin Love.Special thanks to Paula S...

The Arab League called on Thursday for the deployment of a United Nations peacekeeping force in the Gaza Strip and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. until a two-state solution can be negotiated, in a statement that also called on the United Nations Security Council to set a time limit for that political process.The idea of ​​sending UN peacekeepers to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been mentioned occasionally by diplomats. But the Arab League appears to be the first time the group has officially made such a request in a written document, according to Farhan Haq, United Nations spokesman.UN peacekeepers are unlikely to be deployed to Gaza and the West Bank in the near future because sending UN peacekeepers to any conflict first requires authorization from the Council. UN forces, which...

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved an innovative new treatment for patients with a form of lung cancer. It should only be used by patients who have exhausted all other options for treating small cell lung cancer and who have a life expectancy of four to five months.The drug tarlatamab, or Imdelltra, produced by the Amgen company, tripled the life expectancy of patients, guaranteeing them an average survival of 14 months after taking the drug. Forty percent of those who received the drug responded.After decades without real progress in treatments for small cell lung cancer, tarlatamab offers the first real hope, said Dr. Anish Thomas, a lung cancer specialist at the federal National Cancer Institute who was not involved in the study.“I feel like it's a light after a...

Robert H. Dennard, an engineer who invented the silicon memory technology that plays an indispensable role in every smartphone, laptop and tablet, died April 23 in Sleepy Hollow, New York. At the age of 91.The cause of death, at the hospital, was a bacterial infection, said his daughter, Holly Dennard.Dennard's pioneering work began at IBM in the 1960s, when equipment to store and archive computer data was expensive, bulky (often machines the size of a room), and slow. He was studying the emerging field of microelectronics, which used silicon-based transistors to store digital bits of information.In 1966, Dennard invented a way to store a digital bit on a transistor: a technology called dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, which holds information like an electrical charge that slow...

South Africa on Thursday urged U.N. Supreme Court judges to order Israel to end its ground attack on Rafah in southern Gaza, saying this would put Palestinian life in the enclave at imminent risk of destruction.The hearing at the International Court of Justice in The Hague came after South Africa asked the court last week to impose further restrictions on Israel in its military campaign in Gaza. In documents released by the court, South Africa cited the "irreparable damage" caused by Israel's incursion into Rafah, Gaza's southernmost city, where half the territory's population had sought refuge.“It has become increasingly clear that Israel's actions in Rafah are part of the end game in which Gaza will be completely destroyed as an area capable of hosting human settlements,...

With Pride events scheduled around the world in the coming weeks, U.S. officials are preparing for a return of monkeypox, the infectious disease formerly called monkeypox that has affected tens of thousands of gay and bisexual men around the world in 2022. A combination of behavioral changes and vaccination quelled the epidemic, but the majority of people at risk have not yet been vaccinated.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Thursday of a deadlier version of the disease ravaging the Democratic Republic of Congo and urged people at risk to get vaccinated as soon as possible. So far, no cases of this subtype have been identified outside Africa. But the escalating outbreak in Congo still poses a global threat, just as infections in Nigeria sparked the 2022 outbreak, expe...

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot five times on Wednesday, in the worst attack against a European leader in decades. Officials said the act was a politically motivated assassination attempt, fueling fears that Europe's increasingly polarized and vitriolic politics could lead to violence.Mr Fico, a veteran politician, underwent hours of emergency surgery after being seriously injured in a central Slovakian town. Hospital and government officials said Thursday that Mr. Fico's condition had stabilized overnight but remained serious.Here's what we know about the shooting.How did it happen?Videos from the scene indicate that Fico was killed in Banikov Square in the center of Handlova city, where the prime minister had held a government meeting.The attacker is seen in the ...

European Union regulators on Thursday opened an investigation into American tech giant Meta over the potentially addictive effects Instagram and Facebook have on children, an action with far-reaching implications because it cuts to the core of how they are designed the company's products.Meta products could "exploit the weaknesses and inexperience of minors" to create behavioral addictions that threaten their mental well-being, the European Commission, the executive branch of the 27-member bloc, said in a statement. EU regulators could eventually fine Meta up to 6% of its global revenue, which last year amounted to $135 billion, as well as impose other product changes.The investigations are part of a growing effort by governments around the world to rein in services like Instagram and...

Sasson's report took particular note of Avi Maoz, who headed the Ministry of Housing and Housing for much of this period. A political activist who spoke openly early in his career about expelling all Arabs from the West Bank, Maoz helped found a settlement south of Jerusalem in the 1990s and began building a professional alliance with Benjamin Netanyahu, then Israel's ambassador to the United States United. Nations and would soon move on to his first term as prime minister. Years later, Maoz would be instrumental in ensuring Netanyahu's political survival.“The picture that emerges in the eyes of the beholder is grave,” Sasson wrote in his report. “Instead of the government of Israel deciding to create settlements in the territories of Judea and Samaria, its place was taken,...