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Tor Wennesland, the United Nations special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, condemned the airstrikes and said he was "deeply troubled by the deaths of so many women and children in an area where people have sought refuge."Germany's public broadcaster reported that the country's vice-chancellor, Robert Habeck, said on Saturday that Israel's offensive in Rafah was "incompatible with international law." Senior German officials had previously warned Israel against attacking Rafah, but Habeck's comments appeared to represent a hardening of that tone in a country with a long-standing policy of support for Israel.“Israel must not carry out this attack, at least not in the way it did before in the Gaza Strip, bombing refugee camps and so on,” Habeck said.The Israeli ...

In more than a dozen states, doctors and nurses have resorted to paper, handwritten treatment orders to track patients' illnesses and monitor them, unable to access the detailed medical histories that have long been available only through computerized records.Patients have waited long periods in emergency rooms and their treatments have been delayed as lab results and readings from machines like MRIs are ferried through makeshift efforts lacking the speed of electronic uploads.For more than two weeks, thousands of medical staff have switched to manual methods after a cyber attack on Ascension, one of the nation's largest health systems with about 140 hospitals in 19 states and the District of Columbia.The large-scale attack on May 8 was eerily reminiscent of the hack of Change Heal...

Calls are growing among Western nations to allow attacks on Russian territory using weapons they have sent to the Ukrainian military, a measure that Ukraine says will allow it to better prevent Russian attacks.NATO's Parliamentary Assembly, made up of lawmakers from countries belonging to the military alliance, adopted a statement on Monday calling on NATO members to lift the ban on firing Western weapons at Russia. This came after similar calls from NATO's top official, Jens Stoltenberg, and ministers from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Sweden.Calls to allow Ukraine to expand its use of Western weapons are mostly directed at the United States, the largest arms supplier to the Ukrainian government. Washington has repeatedly asked Ukraine not to launch American-made weapons on Russ...

Listen and follow 'Hard Fork'Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YoutubeThis week, more drama at OpenAI: the company wanted Scarlett Johansson to be the voice of GPT-4o, she said no... but something got lost in translation. Then we talk to Noland Arbaugh, the first person to have Elon Musk's Neuralink device implanted in his brain, about how its brain-computer interface changed his life. And finally, the Times' Karen Weise reports from Microsoft's developer conference, where the big buzz was that the company's new line of AI PCs will record every single thing you do on the device.Guests: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 Chris W...

With growing international condemnation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that the killing of dozens of people a day earlier at a camp for Palestinian displaced people in Rafah was "a tragic accident," but gave no sign of wanting to slow down the Israeli offensive in the area. southern city of Gaza.The deadly fire that ravaged the camp on Sunday after an airstrike came at a particularly sensitive time for Israel, just days after the International Court of Justice appeared to order the country's army to halt the offensive in Rafah and as diplomats aimed to restart negotiations. for a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.The Israeli military said the target of Sunday's attack in Rafah was a Hamas compound and that "precise munitions" had been used to hi...

Unpasteurized milk contaminated with the H5N1 virus, the avian flu virus that has appeared on dairy farms in nine states, was found to make mice rapidly sick, affecting multiple organs, according to a study released Friday.The findings aren't entirely surprising: At least half a dozen cats have died after consuming raw milk containing the virus. But new data confirms that virus-laden raw milk may not be safe for other mammals, including humans.“Don't drink raw milk: That's the message,” said Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who led the study.Most commercial milk in the United States is pasteurized. The Food and Drug Administration found traces of the virus in 20% of dairy products sampled from supermarket shelves nationwide. Officials ...

Queues for the show snake down the block, with people waiting up to seven hours to buy tickets at the theater in central Kiev. Videos of the performance have attracted millions of views online.The Big Hit is not a popular Broadway musical or a pop star's concert series: It's a play based on a classic 19th-century Ukrainian novel, "The Witch of Konotop," and the atmosphere is anything but How optimistic. Consider the opening line: “It's sad and dark.”Mykhailo Matiukhin, an actor in the production, said this is what struck Ukrainians because it shows "what we are experiencing now."“Tragedy comes and takes everything away from you, your love and your home,” he said.The play dramatizes the story of a Cossack leader in a nearly 400-year-old Ukrainian community as he tries to eradi...

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI said Sunday it has raised $6 billion, helping close the funding gap with OpenAI, Anthropic and other rivals in the red-hot sector.The funds would be used "to bring xAI's first products to market, build advanced infrastructure, and accelerate research and development of future technologies," the company said in a statement.Musk, who founded xAI in July, said in a social media post that the funding round valued the company at $18 billion, not including new money. Investors included Silicon Valley heavyweights Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, along with Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia.Investors and big tech companies like Google, Meta and Microsoft have poured billions into companies developing artificial intelligence ...

A member of the Egyptian security forces was killed in a shootout near the Rafah border with the Gaza Strip and an investigation is ongoing, an Egyptian army spokesman said on Monday, after the Israeli army reported a border shooting.There were few details about what happened and neither country said who had opened fire. But the shooting reflects growing tension between the two nations since early May, when the southern Gaza city of Rafah became the hub of Israel's military campaign to defeat Hamas, an armed group that has carried out a deadly attack on Israel on October 7.Israeli troops took control of the Gaza side of the Rafah border crossing, the main conduit between the territory and Egypt, earlier this month.“Several hours ago a shooting occurred on the Egyptian border. The inc...