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Microsoft published a patent application describing a system that could pause videogames at context-sensitive moments and display static or video advertisements.
If deployed, the system could let publishers alter pacing and monetization after purchase, affecting player attention, children’s exposure to ads, and the terms attached to owned or subscribed games.
Meta issued a hotfix for a Muse macOS vulnerability that researcher Patrick Wardle said could let locally executed code seize a user’s Muse account and exercise the assistant’s privileges.
Muse can reach files, cameras, calendars, messages, and connected accounts, so compromising its authentication token could give a lightly privileged process a far more capable operator.
A devastating flood in Nepal renewed scrutiny of Himalayan dams and hydropower projects as experts examine how construction and a changing climate shape downstream danger.
Outdated flood assumptions or poorly managed construction can place workers and downstream communities in the path of faster water, landslides, debris, and infrastructure failure.
New research reported by NPR found that one in five US renters struggled last year to pay housing costs in full and on time, including more middle-income households.
Renters above conventional assistance limits may cut food or care, take on debt, work additional hours, or move before any housing program recognizes that they are in trouble.
An Indian court rejected an Adani airport-retail business’s argument that duty-free shops operate beyond the reach of domestic law.
Airport retailers cannot treat a limited tax privilege as a general escape from the legal rules governing their shops, contracts, workers, and customers.
Reuters reported that growing far-right support organized around migration fears is dividing Catalonia’s separatist movement.
Junts, ERC, and other separatists must decide whether to defend an inclusive civic Catalonia or compete for voters attracted to exclusionary migration politics.
Todd Boehly is leading a US government-backed consortium involving Gulf billionaires that aims to displace Carlyle’s January agreement to buy Lukoil’s international business.
Reopening the sale could improve financing and regulatory certainty, but it could also weaken confidence that signed deals for politically sensitive assets will be judged by stable rules.
Three women told the BBC of infections, open wounds and eyelids that would not close after lower-cost surgery abroad, while British doctors warned of patients returning with complications.
An eyelid that cannot close can threaten sleep, moisture and sight, while corrective care, missed work and repeat travel can erase the saving promised by a cheap procedure.