Attorneys say hospital staff are working to clear pentobarbital she was administered from her system

Christa Pike remained hospitalized, unconscious and on a machine helping her breathe after her failed execution in Tennessee, her attorneys said in a court filing Friday.

The attorneys said hospital staff were working to save Pike’s life and clear the pentobarbital she was administered from her system as of late Thursday.

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Hōlei sea arch, formed 550 years ago by erosion from ocean waves, no longer standing, National Park Service confirms

A famed centuries-old sea arch on Hawaii’s remote and rugged coastline has collapsed into the Pacific Ocean, the National Park Service confirmed on Friday, following a stretch of rough storms in the region in recent weeks.

The beloved landmark, Hōlei sea arch, stood at around 90ft high for over half a millennium in Hawaii’s Volcanoes national park, located on the dramatic southern coast of the Big Island. It was naturally formed around 550 years ago due to differential erosion by ocean waves.

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New York Film Festival: The Geese frontman mesmerizes in a concert film that is both swoony and austere

One night last December, weary from a busy week and the impending doom of winter, I hurried into Carnegie Hall to witness Cameron Winter. The Geese frontman was marking the end of a breakout year with a series of rapturously received solo acoustic shows, drawing the penitent for whom the 23-year-old’s primordial voice struck some kind of destabilizing natural frequency. I had bought the ticket months earlier, after being hypnotized by Winter’s beguiling debut solo album, Heavy Metal, and sat transfixed in the rafters, far from the Brooklynite’s lanky, stygian presence before a single piano.

So far, in fact, that I assumed the maybe-camera that came on stage at one point was a bit, perhaps a jab at our incessant need to film things from a very deadpan celebrity whose only non-music interlude that evening was to wordlessly stand, stretch and mockingly fight with the stage door, as if trying to escape his own momentous show. I emerged from the event teary, charged by what felt like a communion across time, and confused by a friend’s text: “can’t wait for the cameron winter PTA doc”.

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The men were arrested on 20 September, on the eve of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar

Two Iranian men have been charged in relation to an alleged terror plot targeting Manchester’s Jewish community.

Rahman Salehi, 35, and Salam Ahmadyan, 36, have been charged with preparing to commit an act of terrorism or assisting another to commit an act of terrorism.

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• Pinto has witness protection status removed

• His lawyers will appeal and say his situation is ‘critical’

Rui Pinto has revealed he is preparing to leave Portugal because he fears for his safety after being informed that his participation in the country’s witness protection programme has been terminated.

The Football Leaks founder claimed he has received “multiple death threats” and is facing “the serious risk of an assassination attempt against me” after being informed of the decision by Portuguese authorities on Wednesday. That came two days after Manchester City were found guilty of 115 charges by the Premier League – an investigation that was prompted by Pinto’s leaks of thousands of private documents.

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NEW YORK (ANP) - De aandelenbeurzen in New York zijn vrijdag met winst gesloten nadat de banengroei in de Verenigde Staten in september zwakker uitviel dan verwacht. Het banenrapport van de Amerikaanse overheid is van belang voor het rentebeleid van de Amerikaanse centrale bank: bij een zwakkere arbeidsmarkt is er minder ruimte om de rente verder te verhogen.

Met name technologiebeurs Nasdaq noteerde een flinke plus met 1,2 procent tot 27.190,86 punten. Dat kwam mede doordat het meest waardevolle bedrijf ter wereld, Nvidia, 1,3 procent won. De Dow-Jonesindex won 0,5 procent tot 51.176,96 punten en de brede S&P 500 klom 0,7 procent tot 7722,72 punten.

Elon Musk zag zowel zijn ruimtevaartbedrijf SpaceX als de fabrikant van elektrische auto's Tesla winnen op de beurs. SpaceX steeg ruim 7 procent nadat de vier bemanningsleden van de SpaceX Falcon 9-raket waren aangekomen bij het Internationaal Ruimtestation (ISS). Het was volgens functionarissen van de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA de snelste reis van een Amerikaans ruimtevaartuig naar het ISS.

NASHVILLE (ANP) - Christa Pike is na haar mislukte executie nog altijd buiten bewustzijn, schrijven haar advocaten in een juridisch document. Ze is geïntubeerd en ligt aan een beademingsmachine. Volgens de advocaten proberen de artsen in het ziekenhuis op dit moment haar leven te redden.

Pike zou woensdagavond worden geëxecuteerd, maar na twee injecties met pentobarbital bleek ze nog in leven. Ze is toen naar het ziekenhuis gebracht. De advocaten schrijven dat haar armen bij aankomst opgezwollen waren en bedekt waren met brandwonden en blaren. Ze zou in kritieke toestand verkeren.

De advocaten schrijven dat Pike moest huilen tijdens de procedure en zei dat haar armen voelden alsof ze zouden openbarsten. Volgens hen werden de injecties niet goed toegediend, waardoor het pentobarbital niet alleen in het bloed werd toegediend, maar terechtkwam in het hele lichaam.

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OrySnack: The Bar Where Bartenders Work From Home. Small robot servers in this Japanese bar are controlled by people who can only work from home because of disability or illness.

Tarot, Tin Can Forest

NeoTokyo, Lukasz Palka

Look through any window, Gail Albert Halaban

Trieste tijden: rogue PVV'er en fulltime vuile hond Arnoud van Doorn, ook bekend onder zijn jihadistische naam Farooq Mansur Abu Amin en tevens bekend als de nummer 51 op de lijst van 50 leukste Twitteraars van Nederland, heeft zijn account opgeblazen. En dat terwijl hij nog zo gezellig door Mekka dwaalde voor z'n hadj, op zoek naar captagon en qat. Arnoud van Doorn is een van die spoken die minder vervelend is geworden van z'n bekering, want wat hebben we gelachen. Sterker nog: het is goddomme eigenlijk alleen maar lachen met die islam in Nederland! Iedereen lief voor vrouwen & minderheden alsook voor homo's, nooit een gore kater omdat de Tanqueray weer eens te makkelijk in de Fever Tree gleed, allemaal zo verdraagzaam en tolerant, uw buurman bakt van die lekkere koekjes, lekker iftarren met z'n allen, mooie baarden, prachtige vrouwen, kijk ze daar eens staan in die aparte rij. Geen wonder dat Arnoudje zo geil is! Nederland is zó veel mooier met de islam. Alleen Amsterdam-Zuid... "Jemig, daar blijkt het vol te zitten met joden. En het vervelendste is: het zijn zoveel joden! Amsterdamse joden. Je voelt je als Marokkaan nauwelijks op je gemak. Het lijkt Israël wel!"

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After evolving from an Apple-made, client-side language and years of false starts, Swift could finally make it on the server. Google has taken note and has just rolled out Google Cloud API Client Libraries for Swift, evidently convinced Swift has a backend role thanks to its performance and ease of use. The GCP Swift libraries target Swift 6.2+ and take advantage of SwiftNIO's asynchronous event loops, HTTP/2 multiplexing, gRPC transport, and data race safety compiler flags. "For years, Swift was perceived mainly as a UI language tied to Apple client devices," said Karl Weinmeister, director of developer relations, and Carlos O'Ryan, software engineer, in a blog post. "With Swift 6 and strict concurrency checking, it has matured into a viable systems and cloud language, pairing Rust-like data-race safety with predictable, reference-counted performance." Weinmeister and O'Ryan argue that Swift manages to be both developer-friendly and suitable for low-level control over resources, which tends not to be the case for challenging systems languages like C++ or Rust. They voice appreciation for the language's lightweight runtime and Automatic Reference Counting (ARC), alongside its expressive syntax. And they approve of Swift's compile-time concurrency checking. "Data races are caught in your editor before a binary ever compiles or reaches production," they note. The Googlers argue that the Server Side Cloud Swift SDK is well-suited for servers, containers, and DevOps environments, pointing to its utility for building capable microservices using Swift web frameworks like Hummingbird or Vapor. "With google-cloud-swift, server-side Swift developers can write end-to-end cloud infrastructure with compile-time race safety, native async/await ergonomic APIs, and zero OS thread congestion," they declare. It's been quite a journey. Apple open-sourced the Swift programming language all the way back in 2015 and in the years that followed, developers started looking at Swift on the server. IBM in 2016 made Swift available on its Bluemix cloud and a few months later the Swift team announced a server API working group. The first server-side Swift conference was announced in late 2017. And Apple's work on the async SwiftNIO framework in 2018 advanced the case for backend Swift. Swift's popularity peaked in January 2020, according to the TIOBE index, when it ranked as the 9th most popular programming language. It currently ranks 18th. Stack Overflow's 2025 developer survey has Swift ranked 20th. Even so, server-side adoption of Swift has been slow. IBM reversed course in 2019, backing away from its Swift commitment. And Amazon hasn't really done much with its Smoke Framework for server-side Swift in the past few years. Still, the Swift community has kept at it. The Swift Server Workgroup launched in 2018 and, by 2024, the release of Swift 6 with data race safety checks made the language more interesting for backend applications. Swift may be more approachable than languages like Rust or C++, but it's unclear how much that will matter in the years to come as developers become more and more dependent on AI coding agents. Certainly, Swift code is readable, a benefit for those maintaining applications, but language ergonomics and approachability matter less when AI is reading and writing most of the code. ®

A federal judge has dismissed antitrust lawsuits from Chegg and Penske Media accusing Google of harming publishers by using their content in AI Overviews and other AI search features without compensating them or providing a meaningful opt-out. Ars Technica reports: The lawsuits were filed in 2025, and Google requested a dismissal earlier this year. Chegg, an education and learning platform, claimed in its lawsuit that Google illegally scraped its educational content. This allowed Gemini models to essentially recreate that content and reduce the site's traffic. Penske, which owns publications like Rolling Stone and Variety, filed a similar case that alleged lost traffic. Specifically, the publisher claimed it was unfair that sites indexed for organic search would also have their content harvested for AI answers, with no way to opt out.

These arguments did not sway the judge, who noted that Google's implicit agreement with websites is not legally relevant. "Plaintiffs have pleaded only that they have an 'expectation' that Google will send them search "traffic if they make their content available for free," wrote Mehta. "But an expectation is not an agreement. It is simply how a general search engine works."

Since Google never had a formal arrangement with either Chegg or Penske, antitrust law doesn't apply. And Mehta is aware of the legal issues surrounding search. He also heard the DOJ's long-running search antitrust case against Google, eventually finding that Google violated the law. However, the government didn't get the harsh penalties it wanted in that case.

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