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Democratic socialists face mixed understanding, with 49 percent of Americans saying they grasp their policies, poll shows.Published On 28 Jul 202628 Jul 2026Leftist candidates in the United States aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) movement have been defeating centrist Democrats in primary elections this year. However, large swaths of the country still don’t know what ⁠the movement stands for, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.Members of the DSA, an activist organisation whose stated mission is to support workers gaining power through democratic means, feature prominent politicians such as New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York Representative Alexandria…

One such option is to scrap a rule that allows individuals to retire on a full pension at 67, even if they haven’t paid in long enough to otherwise qualify, as reported last month by POLITICO. According to one participant in the meetings who was granted anonymity to discuss internal conversations, the National Rally is also looking into a potentially controversial proposal which would encourage workers to contribute to private pension schemes in addition to paying into the state system — a proposal long supported by fiscal conservatives. Rival factions within the National Rally have for weeks battled over what…

In newly released recordings of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s conversations with his ghostwriter from 2016 and 2017, Mr. Biden acknowledged that he had held onto classified materials from his vice presidency, for which he was later the subject of a special counsel’s investigation.But the nearly three hours of tapes, released by a group established by the Heritage Foundation on Monday after a legal battle with Mr. Biden, reveal little that was not already documented in the special counsel’s report. The special counsel, Robert K. Hur, determined in 2024 that there was not sufficient evidence to charge Mr. Biden with a…

Jada Jones/ZDNETZDNET’s key takeawaysPhones today have storage up to 1TB.You probably need less storage than you think.Most users only need 128GB or 256GB of storage on their phone.When most people buy a new phone, they focus on things like the camera, the screen, or the latest AI features. Over the past several years though, an arms race of sorts has risen, and phones are getting massive amounts of storage – all the way up to 1TB.A huge amount of storage sounds nice, and many people pick flagship phones because of it, but do you really need all that? Probably not. Also:…

Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview helped derive an end-to-end key-recovery attack against HAWK-256 and a 200- to 800-fold speedup for an attack on seven-round AES-128. The HAWK attack exploits a previously unused symmetry in the lattice behind the signature scheme. Anthropic’s released implementation gives an expected end-to-end runtime of about three hours and 42 minutes on a 96-core server. The AES result removes a 256-way guessing step from an existing meet-in-the-middle attack. Anthropic said neither result affects production systems. HAWK remains a candidate in a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) post-quantum standardization process, and the public recovery code…

ISBNdb is marketing physical-book orders of up to one million titles to AI developers, including material it describes as non-digitized, rare, or out of print.The offer, reported by 404 Media, puts a 2025 copyright ruling in an uncomfortable new light: discarding a purchased book can support the legal premise that its internal scan replaced the original while keeping the library’s copy count unchanged.ISBNdb’s current service and Anthropic’s historical scanning program follow separate source chains. Physical disposal is the shared incentive created when books become scalable training data.The one-copy incentiveIn February 2024, Anthropic hired Tom Turvey, the former head of partnerships…

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft completed a highly successful flyby of Mars, giving the mission a carefully planned gravitational boost while also producing valuable scientific data. Researchers are now examining those observations as they prepare for the spacecraft’s arrival at the asteroid Psyche in 2029. On May 15, the spacecraft passed Mars and used the planet’s gravity to increase its speed and make a slight adjustment to its path. The maneuver placed Psyche on the trajectory needed to reach its metal-rich target in the main asteroid belt. The encounter also offered mission scientists a rare chance to test the spacecraft’s instruments around…

by Nikoel Hytrek, Investigate Midwest, Investigate Midwest July 28, 2026 Illinois lost more Farm Service Agency staff in 2025 than any other state, according to a June report. Those losses followed federal cuts to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and various sub-agencies under the department’s umbrella. The data, published by the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition — a group of grassroots organizations that advocate for sustainable agriculture, food systems, natural resources and rural communities — shows that 51 FSA county staff in 41 counties across the state were cut in Illinois. The coalition obtained the information with a Freedom of Information…

“What if all cockroaches come together?” was the question that humbled India’s strongman prime minister, Narendra Modi. It was posted on X by Abhijeet Dipke, an Indian student in the US with a master’s in public relations. Enraged that India’s top judge likened unemployed youths to insects and “parasites”, and that millions saw medical exams compromised by leaks, Mr Dipke lit a fuse. For India’s nearly 400 million gen Z, public exams are often the only ladder to a secure future. When papers leak or tests are cancelled, that ladder is kicked away. By June, young people were protesting peacefully…

Claim: In July 2026, 198 Democratic representatives voted against banning congressional stock trading. Rating: What’s True On July 22, 2026, 198 Democrats voted against H.R. 7008, a bill named the “Stop Insider Trading Act.” However … What’s False … several Democrats who voted against the bill said they weren’t opposed to such a ban. Rather, they said this particular legislation did not go far enough to prevent insider trading in Congress and excluded the president. They also said a section of the bill requiring voter ID would place an undue burden on U.S. voters. In July 2026, a rumor spread…