The owner of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp has been found liable by a court in New Mexico.
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A weekly home-cooked meal can slash the risk of dementia in older adults
Making a home-cooked meal at least once a week could help slash older people’s risk of dementia by up to 30 percent, Japanese researchers said Tuesday, and up to 70 percent for new cooks.
A six-year study of nearly 11,000 men and women aged 65 and older showed that people who cooked more often saw a lowered risk of the devastating neurodegenerative diseases. Around half cooked up to five times a week.
“The risk of dementia became lower as people cooked more frequently, and the benefits of cooking were particularly significant for those with low cooking skills, i.e., little cooking experience,” the researchers said in a statement.
Although the findings are observational, they jive with current research on practices that can help slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.
Cooking is both a good source of physical activity and helps to stimulate the brain.
Women and skilled chefs reap the rewards
The study also found that there were differences based on gender.
Women, who are nearly twice as likely to suffer from Alzheimer’s, had a three percent lower risk of dementia than men when cooking from scratch once a week.
And better cooks also had a lower risk of dementia than novices, although the researchers said, “cooking frequency didn’t reduce the risk of dementia further.”
Women and more experienced cooks also tended to cook more meals at home than men and those who were inexperienced cooks.
“Creating an environment where people can cook meals when they are older may be important for the prevention of dementia,” the researchers said.
The researchers used data from questionnaires that were a part of the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study, which tracked cognitive health up to 2022, assessing their cooking habits and skillset.
Of the more than 10,000 patients included in the data, 1195 people developed dementia. Cases of mild dementia were not included.
Brain boost
Exercise can strengthen the germ-fighting layer of cells known as the blood-brain barrier, which weakens with age and contributes to a heightened risk of dementia, a new mouse study published this week shows.
And countless studies have shown that tests, games and other brain-boosting activities help slow disease progression and improve the brain’s ability to function despite damage.
Previous research has shown that cooking could help Alzheimer’s patients — although it might not be right for everyone.
Cooking requires people to organize ingredients, follow a recipe, improvise, stir, chop, slice and utilize the senses.
It’s also often a social activity, which helps keep the brain active and delays Alzheimer’s onset.
And cooking can improve mental health and self-esteem, according to the Australian Alzheimer’s group Forward with Dementia.
“Cooking has a powerful meaning for older adults,” Suzanne Fitzsimmons, a nurse practitioner and former instructor in therapeutic geriatric care at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, told Brain&Life. “For some, it can be integral to feelings of self-worth and identity.”
More than 7 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease.
UK teenagers to trial social media bans and digital curfews
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Yale athletics saga takes new twist as emails show legal confrontation with ex-coach’s lawyer
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EXCLUSIVE: Emails obtained by Fox News Digital show a former Yale University administrator telling a lawyer of former Yale strength and conditioning coach Thomas Newman that he was recorded during a meeting.
Other emails show Newman’s lawyer arguing that Connecticut law requires both parties to consent to being recorded during telecommunication, which is current state law, and that the recordings were allegedly used against him by higher-level admins.
“A former employee recorded a portion of a meeting with your client, without the university’s knowledge,” reads part of an email sent to Newman’s attorney, Alan Granovsky, from a Yale deputy general counsel, who now no longer works at the university.
The counsel’s email was sent in response to an Aug. 13, 2025, letter with the subject line “Ongoing Reputational Harm and Misstatements Regarding Thomas Newman.”
The counsel’s email also included the lines, “The university has not made any defamatory statements to anyone regarding your client,” and “The university did not disclose any medical information inappropriately, the university has not said that your client left the university involuntarily or is subject to an investigation.”
The counsel retired this past January, as seen on the person’s LinkedIn page. Newman resigned from his position in early 2021.
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Over 54,000 fill the Yale Bowl for the second half of the 141st plays of “The Game” between the Yale Bulldogs and the Harvard Crimson on November 22, 2025 in New Haven, Connecticut. (Sean D. Elliot/Getty Images)
Newman’s attorneys at Granovsky & Sundaresh Employment law sent multiple emails to Yale regarding the issue and Newman’s ultimate departure from the university in 2021, which were provided by a source to Fox News Digital.
Newman confirmed to Fox News Digital that the emails were exchanged by the university and his attorneys, but declined further comment.
An Oct. 10 email from Granovsky to the counsel includes the following allegations:
“You now concede that a former employee recorded a portion of a meeting with Mr. Newman,” part of the email wrote, later stating, “Despite knowing the recording was unauthorized, the parties involved— specifically [Executive Deputy Director/Chief Operating Officer of Athletics] Ann-Marie Guglieri and [Athletic Director] Vicky Chun—attempted to use the recording for disciplinary purposes.
“Despite my client’s repeated formal requests for a copy or transcript of this recording, both Ms. Guglieri and Chun refused to provide it, thereby preventing any opportunity to verify the alleged content or context. And yet they still used the ‘recordings’ as pretext to undermine Mr. Newman’s leadership and credibility and ultimately force him out.”
A Nov. 17 email from Granovsky to counsel includes the following allegations:
“Legal violations implicated by Yale’s conduct. Surreptitious recording / all-party consent. The audio you provided appears to be a spliced compilation of segments from staff Zoom calls that included multiple employees and interns (some not Yale students).
“Connecticut law requires all-party consent to record private telephone/telephonic communications and creates a civil cause of action for non-consensual recording (C.G.S. § 52-570d) and criminalizes eavesdropping and mechanical overhearing (C.G.S. § 53a-189).
“If any portion was captured via telephony/Zoom audio without consent from all participants, both civil and criminal exposure are in play. Yale’s use and retention of such a recording aggravates the violation.
“Yale’s professional-conduct and recording policies (Policy 9001) prohibit surreptitious recording of meetings/classes by community members and guests. Retaining and weaponizing such a recording to affect employment outcomes is, on its face, a policy breach, regardless of who pressed ‘record.’”
No current or former administrator at Yale University has been officially implicated in any illegal activity.
Under Connecticut General Statutes § 52-570d, it is unlawful for any individual to record a private conversation without informing and obtaining the consent of all parties involved.
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Newman left the university voluntarily in March 2021, after five years of leading the Yale athletics’ strength and conditioning team.
A former Yale football player, who spoke to Fox News Digital on the condition of anonymity, claims that under the staff that took over after Newman’s departure, he suffered multiple injuries amid changes to the routine.
The former player said that, unlike Newman’s program, the new program had him go to practice only a short time after doing a conditioning test, and no Gatorade was available that day, and that he later suffered cramps so severe that he wound up in the hospital for three days.
The player claimed he went on to suffer multiple injuries during the season, related to that cramping.
On Monday, Fox News Digital published a letter signed by former longtime Yale ice hockey coach Keith Allain, addressed to Yale President Maurine McInnis. In the letter, Allain claimed other Yale coaches urged him to speak out against Chun to McInnis after his retirement.
“I am writing to you at the urging of several head coaches in our Athletic Department. They told me that you were soliciting feedback from a few coaches regarding extending the contract of our athletic director, and are concerned, that with the culture of fear that permeates the athletic department, you will not receive candid feedback,” the letter began.
Allain went on to call Chun the “worst leader” he has ever been around and alleges she has prioritized “silencing any dissent.”
“As a Yale alum and someone who has a great affection for our University and the role of athletics within the greater Yale community I felt compelled write you as my former colleagues asked. Vicky Chun is the absolute worst leader I have ever been around in my life,” he wrote.
“She is dishonest, self centered and inaccessible. Vicky’s singular talent is self promotion and has created a toxic environment within the department where she is insulated by a cadre of administrators whose main task seems to be silencing any dissent.”
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Head coach Keith Allain of USA during practice before the 2011 IIHF World U20 Championship Group A game between USA and Finland on December 26, 2010 at HSBC Arena in Buffalo, New York. (Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images)
A source provided the letter to Fox News Digital. Allain later confirmed to Fox News Digital that he wrote the letter and sent it to McInnis in October, shortly after he retired after 19 years leading Yale hockey. Allain declined further comment.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Yale president’s office and athletic department for a response.
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Amazon buys Fauna Robotics, maker of the Sprout humanoid robot
NEW YORK — Amazon has acquired Fauna Robotics, just under two months after the startup introduced a humanoid robot called Sprout designed to be a friendly addition to social spaces like homes and schools.
The e-commerce giant is already a robotics powerhouse, having boasted of deploying more than 1 million robots across its warehouse operations, but bringing the 1.5-foot-tall, rectangular-headed Sprout on board adds a robot that’s more about fun interactions than heavy lifting.
Fauna CEO Rob Cochran said on social media he was “incredibly excited to share that Fauna Robotics has officially joined the Amazon family” and said the New York-based firm will now “operate as Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company.”
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Amazon said the company’s founders and employees will join Amazon in New York and will be looking for “new ways to make our customers’ lives better and easier.”
Fauna’s debut product, launched in January, is a software developer platform more than just a robot, sold to academic and corporate research laboratories that are exploring robotics in the home. Early customers included Disney.
The $50,000 Sprout can’t lift heavy objects, but it can dance the Twist or the Floss, grab a toy block or teddy bear, or hoist itself from a chair and take a stroll.
Amazon, which also makes the artificial intelligence assistant Alexa that’s already present in many homes, has had some challenges in recent years in expanding into consumer robotics.
Amazon called off its purchase of robot vacuum maker iRobot in 2024 after facing regulatory hurdles in Europe and the United States.
OpenAI pulls the plug on its Sora AI video app
OpenAI said Tuesday that it is discontinuing its Sora AI video app.
The move comes as the video platform wanes in popularity among users, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported OpenAI’s decision to pull the plug.
“We’ve decided to discontinue Sora in the consumer app and API. As we focus and compute demand grows, the Sora research team continues to focus on world simulation research to advance robotics that will help people solve real-world, physical tasks,” an OpenAI spokesperson said in a statement to CBS News.
In a social media post, OpenAI also expressed thanks to Sora users, saying that “we know this news is disappointing.”
AI video apps have wowed tech fans for their ability to almost instantly generate videos, while drawing criticism for making it harder to distinguish real from fake images.
Stop the slop
The torrent of AI-created videos from Sora and other developers heightened concerns about the proliferation of AI “slop” — low-quality or deliberately deceptive videos that critics say are swamping the internet.
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, launched Sora in February 2024, sparking vigorous discussion about the future of content creation, filmmaking and media in the age of artificial intelligence.
In September 2025, OpenAI released a more powerful version of the tool, Sora 2, with one feature enabling users to create “cameos” of themselves, friends and others. The app quickly jumped to the top of Apple’s app store.
Yet Sora also generated its fair share of debate. In 2025, the app courted controversy when some users produced what the company characterized as “disrespectful depictions” of Martin Luther King Jr., prompting it to temporarily block app users from making videos using the civil rights activist’s likeness.
Sora also raised copyright concerns after users started making videos with popular characters like Ronald McDonald.
In December of last year, Disney announced that it reached a licensing deal with OpenAI to allow users to create videos with hundreds of characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars.
“We appreciate the constructive collaboration between our teams and what we learned from it, and we will continue to engage with AI platforms to find new ways to meet fans where they are while responsibly embracing new technologies that respect IP and the rights of creators,” a Disney spokesperson said in a statement on Tuesday.
Although OpenAI is scrapping Sora, the company said ChatGPT’s AI image generator will remain intact.
“Every day we’re making tradeoffs in how we apply compute across research, product launches and inference, and we’re prioritizing the highest-value uses that best advance our mission,” OpenAI said in its statement to CBS News.
Arms manufacturer thrives amid US-Israel war on Iran
Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer, has seen rapid growth as wars intensify across Iran, Palestine, and Lebanon. Al Jazeera’s Hala Al Shami examines how the company benefits from ongoing conflicts, its links to policy-making, and activist efforts to force its shutdown.
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New Mexico jury finds Meta violated consumer protection law at trial about child safety
SANTA FE, N.M. — A New Mexico jury found Tuesday that social media conglomerate Meta violated state consumer protection law in failing to disclose the risks of its platforms to children.
The landmark decision comes after a nearly seven-week trial. Jurors sided with state prosecutors who argued that Meta — which owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp — prioritized profits over safety. The jury determined Meta violated parts of the state’s Unfair Practices Act on accusations the company hid what it knew about about the dangers of child sexual exploitation on its platforms and impacts on child mental health.
The jury agreed with allegations that Meta made false or misleading statements and also agreed that Meta engaged in “unconscionable” trade practices that unfairly took advantage of the vulnerabilities of and inexperience of children.
McDonald’s reveals KPop Demon Hunters menu weeks after launching biggest burger in US
McDonald’s is partnering with Netflix to launch a KPop Demon Hunters-inspired menu and it’s “gonna be golden.”
Starting March 31, customers will be able to order two dueling limited-edition adult combo meals — one for HUNTR/X and one for the Saja Boys, the two rival KPop groups in Netflix’s hit animated movie — as well as a brand new McFlurry flavor.
Weeks after the fast food giant brought its biggest burger ever, the Big Arch, to the U.S., McDonald’s announced that they were bringing more new changes to their spring menu in the U.S.
“Everything we do at McDonald’s is for the fans, and no one can relate to that more than Netflix and KPop Demon Hunters,” Alyssa Buetikofer, the chain’s chief marketing and customer experience officer, said in a press release Tuesday. “Big things happen when you bring two massive fandoms together, and this partnership was a natural fit.”
The Saja Boys Breakfast Meal, only available during breakfast hours, consists of a Sausage McMuffin with Egg that is topped with a peppery Spicy Saja Sauce. The meal combo also includes Hash Browns and a small “soda pop.”
Fans who order the rival HUNTR/X meal for lunch or dinner will get a 10-piece order of Chicken McNuggets, a medium soft drink and Ramyeon McShaker Fries — which have a soy, garlic, sesame and spice seasoning inspired by the ramen that the KPop girl group enjoys in the movie. To enjoy the side, customers sprinkle the umami seasoning into a McShaker bag, add the fries and shake it to distribute.
The meal comes with Hunter Sauce, which is described as a spicy sweet chili sauce, and Demon Sauce, which is a purple-colored mustard sauce.
Each meal will also be served with a collectible card back featuring a QR code and a photocard for either HUNTR/X or the Saja Boys. Customers who scan the code on the McDonald’s App by April 26 will get access to more exclusive content, according to the news release.
“With McDonald’s, we were able to turn the rivalry between The Saja Boys and Huntr/X into something fans can actually experience, drawing inspiration from Korean culture and food traditions that sit at the heart of the film,” said Marian Lee, the chief marketing officer for Netflix.
The new items also include the Derpy McFlurry, which McDonald’s says “blends creamy vanilla soft serve with berry popping pearls, enrobed in a wild berry sauce.” The purple dessert, based on the Derpy Tiger in the film, will be available a la carte.
Tech Life – How will AI help my doctor? – BBC Sounds
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We discuss how AI could help health professionals work better, detect diseases earlier and even change the way people around the world look after themselves.
Also this week: Shiona McCallum interviews a businesswoman who is trying to make female health tech more accessible and affordable. And we have a good news story that originated on the darker side of the internet.
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