Russian activist Lyudmila Vasilyeva, an 84-year-old survivor of the siege of Leningrad in World War Two, has been fined by a court after protesting Russia’s war in Ukraine. During her sentencing hearing in St Petersburg on Friday, Ms Vasilyeva was ordered to pay 10,000 rubles ($126; £93) for “discrediting” the Russian army. The charges related…
Yesterday, Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen was among the protesters taken into police custody at a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing at which Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. answered questions about HHS spending, layoffs, and other changes. Video shows protesters leaping up from the benches with signs…
At Microsoft‘s 50th anniversary celebration on Friday, a software engineer in the company’s artificial intelligence division interrupted the event with a message: Stop allowing the Israeli military to use Microsoft’s AI products. At the time, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman was delivering a speech. “Mustafa, shame on you,” the employee, Ibtihal Aboussad, said as she…
