Author: Vidya Saras

Saturday’s shooting, Trump’s unity message and King Charles’ speech to Congress days later.

Mistral AI has been quietly building one of the more practical coding agent ecosystems in the open-source/weights AI space, and they are shipping its most significant infrastructure upgrade yet. Mistral team announced remote agents in Vibe, its coding agent platform, alongside the public preview of Mistral Medium 3.5 — a new 128B dense model that now serves as the default model in both Vibe and Le Chat, Mistral’s consumer assistant. What is Vibe, and Why Does It Matter? If you haven’t used it yet, Mistral Vibe is a coding agent accessible through a CLI (command-line interface) that lets an AI…

A difficult balance Erik Avakian, technical counselor at Info-Tech Research Group, noted that when it set the patching deadline, CISA had been operating within the guidelines laid down in Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01, which requires US federal  agencies to patch vulnerabilities within the timelines outlined under the policy, which range from 14 to 21 days. “In cases of high-risk exploitation, CISA can shorten the deadline to three days,” he said. “But in the case of CVE-2026-32202, the CVSS score was rated at 4.3, and even though the vulnerability has been actively exploited, the rating does not meet the policy…

Although Netflix might have hit a dud with the release of “Thrash,” starring “Bridgerton” alum Phoebe Dynevor, they might have struck gold with “Apex,” the streamer’s latest thriller starring Charlize Theron and Taron Egerton. The movie starts off with Theron’s character, Sasha, and her husband, Tommy, played by Eric Bana. The two are rock climbers scaling the Norwegian cliffs together during inclement weather. Fans of Eric Bana should take note: he doesn’t stick around for long, and he literally leaves Sasha hanging. Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/MEGA Five months later, Sasha is driving through Australia by herself. She’s come to spread…

There is a particular kind of silence that descends on a once-busy restaurant when last orders have come and gone, the candles have guttered, and the chef is out the back having a cigarette and contemplating bankruptcy. It is the sound of a small dream dying. And right now, across Britain, that silence is becoming deafening. I have just returned from dinner at a perfectly nice neighbourhood bistro in west London, where the owner, a man who quit a comfortable banking job to chase the romance of feeding people, confessed somewhere between the burrata and the lamb that he is…

Yet, where the story of Margo resorting to OnlyFans is a reflection of the financial hardship facing low-income, working mothers, the affluent Cassie’s OnlyFans career is depicted as far more about the pursuit of fame and money. Euphoria’s third season is set five years on, with Cassie now engaged to Jacob Elordi’s Nate. Lonely in their California mansion, she gets their housemaid to capture her saucy content to grow her TikTok following. Cassie wants to spend $50,000 on floral arrangements, but given Nate’s precarious financial situation, he doesn’t want to foot the bill. So she delivers an ultimatum: “Let me…

A16z has thrown its weight behind the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in a growing federal-state standoff over prediction markets, opposing state regulators that try to shut down platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket.The venture capital heavyweight submitted the letter on Thursday in response to the CFTC’s advance notice of proposed rulemaking on prediction markets. It argues that state-level crackdowns, ranging from cease-and-desist letters to criminal charges, are creating barriers that undermine the federal agency’s mandate to provide “impartial access to its markets and services.”In recent weeks alone, the CFTC has filed lawsuits against Illinois, Arizona, Connecticut, New York and Wisconsin,…

Sodium used to be something I barely thought about. Like many women trying to “do all the right things,” I ate whole foods, drank plenty of water, and avoided “bad” foods. On paper, it looked like a perfect routine. However, I was still having symptoms like low energy and sluggish digestion.  It wasn’t until I started digging into the science of minerals, especially sodium, that things began to click. For years we’ve been told that sodium is bad and something to be restricted. However, what I’ve learned (and experienced) over the years flips that advice on its head.  Sodium is…

Creating a portfolio for oneself is one of the most challenging tasks for any creative professional. This story isn’t so much about showcasing work as it is about proving to myself that I can create an exceptional project. And so began my two-year journey of creating a portfolio. The story began with one problematic idea: initially, I didn’t want to present projects in a standard gallery format. I really disliked the idea of gathering everything into a single gallery where attention is scattered among the elements, and each project gets lost. That was the biggest problem I faced. I started…

FRIDAY, MAY 1 ■ Full Moon; exactly full at 1:23 p.m. EDT. The Moon, in Libra, rises in the east-southeast in twilight 30 or 40 minutes after sunset, depending on your location (in North America). Once the sky is dark enough, find Spica about two fists upper right of the Moon, and brighter Arcturus about four fists to the Moon’s upper left. ■ Meanwhile Venus shines in the western sky in twilight. Now it’s above Aldebaran and the delicate Pleiades, as shown below. Watch as they each come into view in their order of brightness: Venus is magnitude –3.9, Aldebaran…