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South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa will begin a state visit to the United States on Monday in what his government describes as an attempt to “reset” the relationship between the two countries, which many experts say has become the frostiest in decades. The visit comes just days after the US welcomed a group of 59 white South African “refugees” who President Donald Trump claims are being persecuted in South Africa because of their race, and are facing a “genocide”. They flew to the US on a special relocation plan and will be allowed to settle there. Ramaphosa’s government denies those…

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The death of Joel (Pedro Pascal)  has hung like a dark cloud over The Last of Us season 2. Ellie (Bella Ramsey) may have a new reason to live now that she’s found love with Dina (Isabela Merced), but Ellie can’t let go of her desire for revenge. Abby (Kaitlyn Dever), the woman who murdered Joel, has eluded Ellie so far, and she probably doesn’t even realize that the latter is hunting her. Before that showdown arrives, fans of the series will get what may be the last time Joel and Ellie get to share scenes together in an extended…

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“It works like a pyramid,” said Nemer, whose research focuses on Bolsonarism, misinformation, and social media, and the “human infrastructure” behind political misinformation that spreads through WhatsApp. “At the top, you have people who produce misinformation. In the middle, you have Bolsonaro supporters who work like a swarm of bees to spread misinformation on the platform. At the bottom, it’s average Brazilians who are in groups where this misinformation ends up, and they, in turn, spread it to other groups they are in.”Communities, Nemer fears, will make it easy for the people at the top to manage these misinformation networks.Experts…

The crime syndicate La Cosa Nostra in the U.S. is built around “Five Families” that famously war with each other for money and power. North Korea’s prosperous cyber-crime operations are similar, except there is only one family and it belongs to authoritarian leader Kim Jong Un. “Stop looking at North Korea’s cyber program as a government program like the other major state programs and liken them to a single-family mafia organization and the lines begin to unblur,” states a new report from cybersecurity firm DTEX. The report delves into the organization and structure of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea…

Is The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Jen Affleck‘s husband, Zac Affleck, related to Ben Affleck? Depends on who you ask. The hit Hulu series premiered in September 2024 and introduced Us to a group of Mormon mom influencers in Utah. Season 1 was made up of Demi Engemann, Whitney Leavitt, Mikayla Matthews, Mayci Neeley, Jessi Ngatikaura, Taylor Frankie Paul and Layla Taylor, but it was Jen Affleck that caught everyone’s attention because of her familiar last name. Jen claimed on the show that Zac was related to Ben and Casey Affleck — specifically that Zac’s dad, David Affleck,…

Sportsnet 590 The FAN: Nick Kypreos, Justin Bourne, and Sam McKee talking (after Game 5) about the Mitch Marner situation, how he’ll be leaving for nothing if they lose in the second round, and how he should have been traded a while ago. ** NHLRumors.com transcription Bourne: “The only thing that’s changed in this conversation is, you know, if it looks like that in Game 6 and they lose, would they want him back at a number, you know, at around what he wants. I think they would have made him an offer for …” Kypreos: “They lose. They lose.…

ReutersDonald Trump says he will be speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone on Monday about ending the war in Ukraine, saying the call would be about “stopping the ‘bloodbath'”.In a post on Truth Social, the US president said the call would take place at 10:00 EDT (14:00 GMT) and he would then speak to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and the leaders of some Nato countries.Russia and Ukraine were unable to reach any breakthrough when they held their first face-to-face talks in three years in Istanbul on Friday, although a prisoner swap was agreed.Trump had offered to attend the…

Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s weekly round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days. MBW’s round-up is supported by Centtrip, which helps over 500 of the world’s best-selling artists maximize their income and reduce their touring costs.It was a week of dramatic developments in the field of AI.The Trump administration fired the US’s Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, shortly after Perlmutter issued a report asserting that using copyrighted works to train AI likely exceeds the limits of “fair use” under copyright law.Meanwhile, SoundCloud felt the heat from artists over a change…