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Sigmund Rolat, a Polish Holocaust survivor who used the wealth he amassed as a businessman in the United States to support cultural projects in his homeland, most notably a museum dedicated to the history of Jews in Poland that sits on the grounds of the ghetto of Warsaw, died May 19 at his home in Alpine, NJ. He was 93 years old.His son, Geoffrey, confirmed the death.Rolat believed that, except for the dark chapter of World War II, with Nazi atrocities in concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Treblinka in occupied Poland, the history of Polish Jewry was a mystery to most Jews and most Americans. He has donated millions of dollars to help build the interior and other elements of the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, which opened in 2014, and has become a major fundraiser an...

Days before gadget reviewers opined on the Humane Ai Pin, a futuristic wearable powered by artificial intelligence, the company's founders gathered their employees and encouraged them to prepare. Reviews could be disappointing, they warned.Humane founders Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri were right. In April, reviewers brutally panned the new $699 product, which Humane had marketed for a year with ads and at glitzy events like Paris Fashion Week. The Ai Pin was "totally broken" and had "glaring flaws," some reviewers said. One declared it “the worst product I have ever reviewed”.About a week after the reviews were published, Humane began talking to HP, the computer and printer company, about selling itself for more than $1 billion, three people familiar with the conversations s...

Four hostages kidnapped from the Nova music festival and held by militants in Gaza over the past eight months were rescued by Israeli forces on Saturday.Since the Hamas-led terrorist attack on October 7, Israel has freed only a small number of hostages through military force. Saturday's rescue efforts occurred in Nuseirat in central Gaza, where health officials said dozens of Palestinians had been killed.Here's what we know about the four hostages brought back to Israel.Noah ArgamaniNoa Argamani, 26, was taken hostage in the October 7 attack along with her boyfriend, Avinatan Or. Viral footage showed Ms Argamani being driven into Gaza on the back of a motorbike as she screamed in despair.Ms Argamani and her boyfriend were kidnapped during the Nova music festival in southern Israe...

In 2011, Rupert Murdoch's media empire, News Corporation, faced a major threat in Britain. Journalists at one of its tabloids were reported for hacking into the phones of celebrities, private citizens and, in one case, a murdered child to obtain information.More misdeeds soon emerged, including the revelation that tabloid journalists had paid for information from police officers and government officials for years.Desperate to stop the scandal and appease prosecutors in Britain and abroad, News Corp asked Will Lewis, former editor of the Daily Telegraph, to clean up the mess.He did just that. In his telling, he cooperated with authorities, revealed wrongdoing and helped set the operation on a new course. Some former colleagues and hacking victims, however, have long believed he helpe...

The news was featured on MSN.com: “Prominent Irish broadcaster faces trial over alleged sexual misconduct.” At the top of the story was a photo of Dave Fanning.But Mr. Fanning, an Irish D.J. and talk-show host famed for his discovery of the rock band U2, was not the broadcaster in question.“You wouldn’t believe the amount of people who got in touch,” said Mr. Fanning, who called the error “outrageous.”The falsehood, visible for hours on the default homepage for anyone in Ireland who used Microsoft Edge as a browser, was the result of an artificial intelligence snafu.A fly-by-night journalism outlet called BNN Breaking had used an A.I. chatbot to paraphrase an article from another news site, according to a BNN employee. BNN added Mr. Fanning to the mix by including a photo of a “prominent I...

The Israeli army continued its offensive in central Gaza on Friday, saying it had killed dozens of militants, including some who had holed up on the premises of a former United Nations school that had been turned into a shelter in the area.The army said it targeted Hamas fighters at a school compound in Shati, a coastal neighborhood northwest of central Gaza City. The number of victims was unclear.“Hamas systematically, intentionally and strategically positions its infrastructure and operates from within civilian areas in full violation of international law and putting the lives of civilians in Gaza at risk,” the Israeli military said in a statement after the attack .Friday's attack came a day after a strike at a similar school complex near Nuseirat, where displaced civilians had take...

Surgeons removed a genetically engineered pig's kidney from a critically ill patient last week after the organ was damaged by inadequate blood flow related to a heart pump, according to officials at New York University's Langone Transplant Institute. which the woman had also received.The patient, Lisa Pisano, 54, still hospitalized, has returned to renal dialysis after the removal of the pig's organ. She lived with the transplanted organ for 47 days, said Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of the institute. The kidney showed no signs of organ rejection.“Lisa is in stable condition and her left ventricular assist device is still functioning,” Dr. Montgomery said, referring to the heart pump. “We hope to bring Lisa home to her family soon.”“Lisa is a pioneer and a hero in the eff...

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was attacked on Friday evening in a busy Copenhagen square in an attack that left her "shaken", her office said, although she was able to walk away. Police said they had made an arrest.“We have a suspect in custody and are now investigating the matter,” Copenhagen police said, without further comment. The motive for the attack is unclear.The prime minister's office released a statement saying she was "beaten," several media outlets reported, but it was unclear what injuries she suffered.Several Danish politicians have expressed their concern over the incident."Mette is naturally shocked by the attack," Magnus Heunicke, Denmark's environment minister, wrote in X. "I must say that she shakes all of us who are close to her."Ms. Frederiksen, 4...

Last month, Meta announced that it would expand its AI services around the world, and the company let users in Europe know that it would use their public information to train its AI services starting June 26 .Notifications sent to Facebook and Instagram users in Europe informing them that their public posts could be used to train artificial intelligence services, including Meta's chatbot, raised privacy concerns and backlash as users wondered where it would be the policy change came into effect.But for those who live in the United States, where online privacy laws aren't as strict, Meta AI has already used public posts to train its AI. It's unclear where else Meta might expand the program.Privacy watchdogs have raised concerns about the use of data and the lack of details abou...

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken plans to visit Israel and three Arab states next week as the United States pushes for a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas to end the war in Gaza.Blinken is scheduled to travel to Israel, Egypt, Qatar and Jordan Monday through Wednesday, Matthew Miller, a State Department spokesman, said in a statement Friday. The trip, which will be his eighth visit to the region since the October 7 Hamas-led attacks that sparked the war, comes at a particularly tense time.The Biden administration is doing its best to halt the fighting in Gaza in hopes of freeing Israeli — and some Israeli-American — hostages held by Hamas and ending a conflict that has taken a heavy toll in lives, devastated physically most of Gaza and created political pressure. on President ...