Between war, protests and government crackdowns, the filmmakers raced to finish and smuggle their portrait of Tehran's underground arts scene to the prestigious film festival.
The government website is meant to connect Americans with drug companies to buy prescriptions directly with their own money. It is not clear how many patients will save money.
The Trump administration on Thursday announced a new rule to make it easier to fire senior-level civil servants . Why it matters: An estimated 50,000 workers would fall into this new category, making them more like at-will private-sector employees who can be let go for almost any reason. - The White House says the aim is to improve performance. - Critics say it will politicize the workforce and harm the public interest. - Some warn it's a step toward the kind of patronage system a civil service was meant to stamp out. Zoom in: The new Schedule Policy/Career rule released Thursday follows an executive order signed by Trump last year. - The rule eliminates the current, often lengthy process for firing senior federal workers who implement…
Anthropic's latest AI model has found more than 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries with little to no prompting, the company shared first with Axios. Why it matters: The advancement signals an inflection point for how AI tools can help cyber defenders, even as AI is also making attacks more dangerous. Driving the news: Anthropic debuted Claude Opus 4.6, the latest version of its largest AI model, on Thursday. - Before its debut, Anthropic's frontier red team tested Opus 4.6 in a sandboxed environment to see how well it could find bugs in open-source code. - The team gave the Claude model everything it needed to do the job — access to Python and vulnerability analysis tools, including classic…
Arizona officials say they believe Savannah Guthrie's 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, was taken by force from her Tucson area home this weekend. The family has pleaded for her safe return home.