“I’ve spoken with 60 air traffic controllers tonight about what Sean Duffy said at the White House today,” said one journalist. “None of them are buying what he said.”

Air traffic controllers are rejecting US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s explanation for Friday’s nationwide flight ground stop, raising questions about the Trump administration’s account of a communications failure that disrupted air travel across the United States, affecting an estimated 1.5 million travelers.

Washington Examiner homeland security reporter Anna Giaritelli told CNN’s Laura Coates during a Friday night interview that she’d spoken with 60 air traffic controllers about the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ground stop, which was just the third to ever occur.

“None of them are buying what he said,” Giaritelli said. “The controllers were saying, ‘We don’t buy that this is actually what’s happening, the reason that Sean Duffy is saying this has happened.’”

Hundreds of men led a demonstration in the Swiss capital on Saturday to denounce misogyny and a plague of violence against women, insisting men need to take a bigger and more vocal role in fighting both.

The “Men against Violence against Women” rally outside parliament follows high and persistent concerns that expressions of misogyny are too present online among teenage boys and young men — and that other men need to build a stronger counter-narrative.

It comes as some influencers on the fringe of the right-wing “manosphere” were emboldened after President Donald Trump’spresidential win in 2024 to justify and amplify misogynistic derision and threats online.

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More than 100,000 people have taken to the streets in France in another round of cost-of-living rallies organised by the “Yellow Vests” and various youth movements.

Saturday’s protests saw a decline in turnout compared with previous weekends and stayed largely calm, authorities said.

The Ministry of the Interior reported that 106,000 people took part in protests nationwide, including 24,000 in Paris – down from 146,000 people nationwide and 46,000 in Paris last week. Student unions place Saturday’s protest numbers higher, at 200,000 people, including almost 100,000 in the capital.

The country has been gripped by high-school blockades, mass demonstrations, and strikes for more than a month, with protesters rallying against falling educational standards, cost-of-living increases, low wages, and police violence.

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of more than 30 towns and cities in Portugal to protest against surging rental prices, demanding urgent government action to address the country’s worsening housing crisis.

Organised by the Casa Para Viver (A Home to Live In) platform, demonstrations on Saturday took place under the slogan “They will not steal our right to a home,” with protests in Lisbon, Porto, Faro, Portimao, Coimbra, Braga and other locations. It was the biggest national demonstration since the social movement began weeks ago.

Participants, ranging from teenagers to retired people, walked behind large banners, with the Lisbon march punctuated by drums, music, and chanting. Protesters called for caps to be placed on rent increases, greater legal protection for tenants against eviction, and more affordable housing. They also demanded the reversal of proposed changes to rental legislation.

One woman on a protest march in Lisbon told Al Jazeera that she was a business owner, “and I can’t afford a house.” “I can’t say much more than this. I’m forty-years-old, I can’t go to a bank and just buy a house with my money,” she added.

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More than 23 years after Command & Conquer: Generals first arrived on PC, fans are still finding ways to improve it. You might have seen that last year, EA made the surprising decision to release the original source code for several classic Command & Conquer games, like Generals and Zero Hour. Since then, a community of developers known as The Super Hackers has been working on GeneralsGameCode, fixing bugs that have been around for decades, modernising the engine, improving compatibility and laying the groundwork for features that simply weren't doable before that.

I've written just a little about the project, the work they're doing, and why I think efforts like this are such an important part of video game preservation. It's definitely not a remaster, and that's what makes it so interesting. It's a community making sure a game they love can keep going for another twenty years!

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An Israeli rabbi has sparked fears of political assassination after invoking a Jewish religious doctrine permitting lethal force against politicians who support the participation of Palestinian parties in a future Israeli government.

Rabbi Gedalia Axelrod, a former head of Haifa's rabbinical court and a prominent figure in the city's Chabad community, issued a religious ruling declaring that Jewish party leaders who facilitate a government supported by Palestinian parties are subject to "din rodef", or the "law of the pursuer".

The doctrine, which can permit the killing of a person deemed to pose an immediate threat to others, was invoked by Yigal Amir to justify his assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.

The patent, published last week, describes an opt-in system, so this isn't something Microsoft would include as a background Windows task, and it could result in cash payments.

Microsoft is seeking to patent technology that uses idle gaming PCs to train AI models in exchange for some form of digital currency.

Filed in 2025 by Microsoft Technology Licensing and published last week, the patent describes distributing AI training tasks in a system similar to Folding@Home, in which a global network of powerful gaming PCs could use their idle GPU cycles for AI training, PC Games Hardware reports.

The patent, titled Opportunistic Micro-training on Edge Devices Using Spare GPU Utilization (US-20260349820-A1), describes an opt-in system, so this isn't something Microsoft would include as a background Windows task, at least not in its currently described form. Whenever that system ran idle, it could automatically be looped in to completing portions of larger AI training workloads. The system would then track completed work and issue credits that could be redeemed for use with the resulting AI model, free software, or even cash.

The patent describes a responsive system that tracks utilization of key components like memory, CPU, and GPU, as well as temperatures and power draw, and searches for an ideal time when the GPU is not in use and, in particular, is running cool. The last thing Microsoft wants is its distributed AI training system setting anyone's PC on fire. Although RTX 50 GPU owners may need to be more careful there.

Users will be able to manually start or stop jobs, too, so it's not like the system would prevent you from gaming while it churns away on AI training. You'd also be able to set a usage limit to prevent overuse of energy or hardware. Although GPUs don't necessarily degrade with heavier use like some electronics, I'm not sure whether AI training would be covered by your warranty.