Want to send lib “journalists” into a frenzy? Tell them the truth.
That’s what Sen. John Fetterman did on “The View.”
In the course of chatting about the current political landscape, the Pennsylvania Dem told the hosts that he thinks President Trump’s NYC “hush money” trial was “politically motivated. That wouldn’t otherwise have been prosecuted if it was someone else.”
Obviously true: Trump was convicted of expired business-records misdemeanors elevated to spurious felonies under the guise of a dubious conspiracy theory about supposed federal crimes that the feds never charged — a completely new legal doctrine minted especially to prosecute the ex-prez.
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s prosecution was political from the start, part of a wide-scale effort by local, state and national Democrats to hobble Trump’s re-election chances.
Indeed, prominent Biden lackey Matthew Colangelo actually quit his Justice gig to come help out with it, and even some lefty commentators found it unsavory.
But for “The View” host Sunny Hostin, a proud woke racistand shrill Resistance freak, calling out this scheme was cause for her trademark outrage.
“Just for clarification,” she spluttered. “Did you mean that the 34-count case in which Donald Trump was found guilty of various financial crimes was politically motivated here in New York?”
She, and most of the left elite, literally can’t see the line between reality and ideology.
And while the GOP victory in November has prompted some reassessment, reality denial is still endemic among Democrats.
That’s a shame, since plenty of prominent Democrats are not certifiable and want to actually govern the country for the best (even if we disagree with them about how).
Fetterman’s one; Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton is another; others are emerging as well.
But as long as the delusional caucus predominates, sane Dems don’t have a hope in heck.
Admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery. The wider Democratic Party needs to understand that before it can move forward.
The FTSE 250 is home to a large number of real estate investment trusts. And for a lot of them, their income is not dependent on the value of the real estate they hold.
Today I’m looking at possibly my top FTSE 250 choice, coupled with a FTSE 100 favourite. Let’s check the bigger one first.
Please note that tax treatment depends on the individual circumstances of each client and may be subject to change in future. The content in this article is provided for information purposes only. It is not intended to be, neither does it constitute, any form of tax advice.
Business boom
Land Securities (LSE: LAND) owns offices, shopping centres, and retail parks. Some investors will judge it based on the values of those properties. Others will look at where it gets its income and how its per-earnings figures look.
I see an attractive forward price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio. With the shares down 41% in five years, it’s just 7.7. And it could drop to 6.3 by 2027 if forecasts are close to the mark. We’re looking at a predicted dividend yield for this year of 6.9% too. I think that could be one of the most attractive on the FTSE 250.
Property valuation
Land Securities looks good to me on property valuation too. With November’s interim results, the company put its net asset value (NAV) at 873p per share.
That can be an uncertain measure to estimate, and we don’t know where it might have gone since. But with the shares at 558p at the time of writing (28 January), that’s a 36% discount. It seems a bit like buying £1 coins for 64p. There’s no guarantee of value, but I see it as a bonus attraction.
The economy, interest rates, business outlook, commercial property market… are all very uncertain in 2025. But for investors with at least a five-year horizon, I think this has to be one to consider.
Oh, and Land Securities “acquired a 92% stake in Liverpool ONE, one of the premier shopping centres in the UK” in December. I think the board knows a bargain when they see one.
Cheap as frozen chips?
Supermarket Income REIT (LSE: SUPR) rents out supermarket properties. After a tough 2024, it looks like it faces an uphill battle in 2025 with a projected P/E of around 35. But, expecting a strong recovery, analysts have that falling to only around 8.5 by 2027.
Since 2022, the tight economic squeeze coupled with high inflation has put pressure on supermarkets. And it’s helped push the investment trust’s share price down 37% in five years.
Another discount
There’s another discount to NAV here too. The company put its NAV per share at 90p at 30 June 2024. With a 68p share price as I write, that’s a 24% discount. It’s not as big a buffer, but it helps.
At FY results time, chair Nick Hewson reckoned “the improving interest rate environment should provide positive tailwinds“. And he added: “We are pleased to recommend another increased dividend of 6.12 pence per share for FY25 and remain focused on delivering a progressive dividend for shareholders.”
The same threats largely apply, especially as inflation is annoyingly stubborn. And I reckon the share price could struggle for a while yet. But that’s a 9% dividend yield. It’s got to be another to consider for a five-year buy-and-hold.
PHILADELPHIA — A week later, with their team on the verge of possibly playing in the Super Bowl, Philadelphia Eagles fans apparently have nothing but respect for Rams rookie Jared Verse.
Verse, the Rams’ boisterous edge rusher, riled the Eagles faithful before the NFC divisional round playoff game by saying he hated them and found them annoying. Verse subsequently embraced verbal abuse before and during a 28-22 defeat, in which he recorded two sacks. Verse said afterward that playing the role of villain hyped him up.
Before Sunday’s game between the Eagles and Washington Commanders, a Times reporter navigated Eagles tailgates outside Lincoln Financial Field to ask fans their before and after reactions to Verse, a finalist for NFL defensive rookie of the year.
“He was trying to do something to fire up his team,” said Mike Carter, wearing a No. 20 Eagles jersey. “I don’t know if it backfired or not, but he kind of came clean after the game and said that he enjoyed the atmosphere.
“He kind of knew what he was doing. He knew what he was going to get and we gave it to him. After the game he showed respect, and we showed respect. It’s all good.”
Joe Friel, a season ticket-holder since 1971, said Verse was a good player.
“I respect the guy for what he did,” Friel said. “I think he tried to get his team going.”
Eagles fans Jay Vignetti, left, and Tal Sims said Jared Verse should have used different words, but he earned fans’ respect by backing up his comments with good play.
(Gary Klein / Los Angeles Times)
Said Kevin Fitzpatrick: “He kind of realized that we’re much nicer than everyone says, and we recognize when a guy is sticking up for his team.”
Down a row of gatherings, Tal Sims said he would have picked different words than Verse chose.
“I would probably say, ‘Hey, I’m not really crazy about playing in Philly,’ but he said what he said and I think it was more of an in-the-moment kind of thing.”
Jay Vignetti said that when Verse’s comments were displayed on the stadium video board, “‘it fuels us.”
Still, Verse impressed Sims and Vignetti.
“If you’re going to say something like that, come out and say it to our face and we’ll respect you a lot more — and he did,” Sims said.
Eagles fan Ted Holloway said he respects Jared Verse but he got the same treatment at Lincoln Financial Field as Santa Claus.
(Gary Klein / Los Angeles Times)
As Ted Holloway leaned into the back of pickup, he said he gave Verse “a tiny bit” of respect because like Verse he’s a Florida State man.
“But he should know better than that,” Holloway said. “Ask everybody in the league: Before you play the Eagles, dude, do not talk trash because we’re going to make you eat those words.”
Holloway said he was in the stands for the game against the Rams. Verse got the same treatment Santa Claus received at halftime of an infamous 1968 game at Franklin Field.
“We threw snowballs at him,” Holloway said. “So he gets the same thing Santa gets.”
NEW ORLEANS — Lakers rookie Dalton Knecht, still sweaty from the career-high 27 points that helped bury the Pelicans on Saturday night, wanted a minute. His Tennessee Volunteers were driving against Georgia, and as he stared down at his phone, he asked for one more play before he began his postgame interview.
Tennessee committed a penalty and was forced to punt, an opportunity squandered.
Despite being an all-American at the university a year ago, Knecht couldn’t relate. Because when he’s gotten chances, like the one in front of him with the Lakers, he doesn’t move backward.
After Knecht put his phone down, he talked about the confidence the Lakers have in him, about how, after drafting him 17th, they’ve empowered him to let it fly, with coach JJ Redick drawing up specific plays for Knecht to shoot.
“It’s always good to have a coach like that, that’s super confident in you, always wanting you to shoot the ball,” Knecht said. “So when I go out there and I do shoot some crazy shots or something that I shouldn’t be shooting, it’s always good that JJ will have my back.”
Despite the greenest possible light, at least one of his 93 NBA field-goal attempts have had to cross Knecht’s “crazy or something like that” threshold, right?
“No, not at all,” he said with a grin. “I think every time I shoot the ball, I think it’s a great shot.”
It’s exactly the mindset the Lakers had hoped for.
In Redick’s first official act as Lakers head coach, the team prepped for the NBA draft, a group of players including Tristan Da Silva and Yves Missi the likely targets for the Lakers, according to people with knowledge of the plans.
Yet Knecht, projected by some to be taken inside the top five, found himself in a draft-night freefall. Concerns about his age (he’s 23) and his ability to execute NBA defensive concepts were pushing him down the board and, suddenly, right into the Lakers’ laps.
One year after passing on the draft’s big slider, Cam Whitmore, and on an established veteran like Jaime Jaquez Jr., the Lakers didn’t make the same mistake twice — grabbing the scorer even if the Lakers hadn’t actually done any extensive homework on him as a prospect.
Whether it was at Northeastern Junior College, Northern Colorado or Tennessee, Knecht could score.
The fit was ideal for both. The Lakers, desperate to add shooting for seemingly the 100th consecutive offseason, got one of the best available in college basketball. And Knecht landed in a situation where there would be early opportunity to play for Redick, a player Knecht’s college coach, Rick Barnes, tried to model his game after.
“We didn’t think Dalton would be available at 17,” Redick said after the Lakers picked Knecht. “But he provides something we just don’t have. He’s a movement shooter, he can obviously play off the bounce. We viewed him very highly on our draft board, and he can score at all three levels. He’s got size, there was a lot of things to be excited about with Dalton. And I’m excited to coach him.”
Lakers rookie Dalton Knecht talks with coach JJ Redick along the sideline during a break in play earlier this season at Crypto.com Arena.
(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
The excitement didn’t fade as the two started working together, Redick quickly anointing Knecht as an elite shooter, even to NBA Hall of Famer Reggie Miller before Knecht scored 25 points in the fourth quarter and overtime in a preseason win against Phoenix.
He finished with 35 points. The last Lakers rookie with that many points in the preseason was Kobe Bryant.
“The thing about him is just the mentality,” Redick said. “It’s been very obvious in pickup before the season. In training camp, thus far in games, he’s got no fear. He’s not afraid of the moment. That was a show that he put on.”
And then, the show stalled.
The game in Phoenix gave Lakers fans a taste of what Knecht could do, a shooter and scorer who, at any time, could burn up the nets with a flurry of buckets. Preseason or not, people were excited.
Snoop Dogg nicknamed him “Westside Knecht” on ESPN the day after the preseason explosion against the Suns.
Yet rookies rarely avoid adversity, and Knecht was no exception. Despite beginning the season in Redick’s rotation, he was mostly on the fringes of their early wins, and by the time the Lakers hit the road for the first time, Knecht was almost in a full-fledged slump.
He scored 18 in a blowout loss to Cleveland, but the bulk of that came with the game already over. He made just four of18 shots from three-point range over the next five games.
“I am undeterred in my thinking that he is a tier one, top-one percent shooter,” Redick said after the Cleveland game. “I see it almost every day.”
Lakers fans didn’t have to wait long to see it for themselves.
Knecht’s shooting flipped a game later in the third quarter against the Grizzlies on Wednesday, when he made all five of his threes on his way to 19 points.
Lakers guard Dalton Knecht, hanging on the rim after dunking against the Pelicans on Saturday in New Orleans, has shown the ability to score at all three levels as a rookie.
(Gerald Herbert / Associated Press)
Then, with Rui Hachimura dealing with an ankle injury, Redick moved Knecht into the starting lineup and he scored 14 against the Spurs on Friday, setting the stage in New Orleans on Saturday when he finished with a career-high 27 points — three straight games in which Knecht showed that the Lakers might’ve gotten a draft night bargain.
“It’s no surprise to me,” LeBron James said Saturday.
Redick said as Knecht’s role has expanded, so has his rookie’s feel and timing.
“He’s getting comfortable,” Redick said. “But I would also say when you are an offensive player, when you’re a guy who is a high-level shooter, getting more extended runs and getting more minutes, you’re naturally just going to be more in the flow of the game. I think maybe I called a play or two, for him. But he just kind of got it through our offense and our passing and ball movement. So it’s just, I think the flow of the game for him is there when he gets extended runs.”
Opposing teams have targeted Knecht on the defensive end, and the results have been about as expected. Redick said at times, he’s held up. Sometimes, he hasn’t. Generally, though, Knecht has played with the kind of competitiveness and toughness that can overcome some of the deficiencies on the defensive end.
And on offense, the Lakers think they’ve got themselves something special.
“He’s already pro ready. It’s kinda how like [Damian Lillard] was. You go through college for so long, you mature, get older,” Anthony Davis said in New Orleans. “He doesn’t need the confidence. But when you have guys telling you to shoot the ball, that usually shows that we have the utmost confidence in you to go out there and make shots. He takes big-time shots, he makes big-time shots.
“And, like I said, it gives us a boost, especially when, two or three go in. We’re looking for him. We’re looking for him to shoot the basketball and it just opens up everything else for us.”
Over the last three games, Knecht has emerged as an X factor for the Lakers, the type of rookie weapon teams don’t normally draft midway through the first round.
After Knecht’s preseason show in Phoenix, Redick was asked about making sure Knecht wasn’t going to get too far ahead of himself.
“Dalton’s easy,” Redick said. “He’s not going to get too high or too low. He’s, in the best possible way, has like a short-term memory with stuff. He’s just onto the next thing. It’s represented in his background and the way he’s come up and his path and journey to get to the stage. He’s just onto the next thing. He’s got a growth mindset.”
Thirteen games into his NBA career, Knecht has showed that — and there’s time to show a lot more.
The controversy came on Sunday night when Leones found itself one out away from winning the championship when Gustavo Nunez — a former Mets minor leaguer — hit a two-run homer that tied the game for Tigres, who eventually won in 13 innings to force a Game 7.
Pujols, a three-time NL MVP, questioned the legitimacy of the home run and requested that Nunez’s bat be checked to make sure he wasn’t using an illegal bat to hit the homer.
Albert Pujols managing Leones del Escogido. AFP via Getty Images
Several posts on social media showed just how thoroughly the bat was inspected, with one video showing workers chopping the bat up into little pieces in order to determine if it had been corked.
Momento en el que abren bate de Gustavo Núñez, jugador de los Tigres del Licey, para verificar si estaba adulterado o no tras llamada a confiscación por parte del dirigente de los Leones del Escogido Albert Pujols.
The bat in question is sawed to see if it’s corked. X/@Shawn_Spradling
The posts clearly showed that it was indeed clean.
Regardless of the outcome in Game 6, Pujols still led Leones del Escogido to a championship in Game 7 with the ballclub coming away with a 6-5 victory on Monday night.
Nunez was in the Mets farm system at Double-A Binghampton for the 2017 season.
This website may contain affiliate links and advertising so that we can provide recipes to you. Read my disclosure policy.
Crunchy and sweet, red hot cinnamon popcorn is like caramel corn with a hint of cinnamon! The butter and sugar mellow out the bold cinnamon flavor of red hots, resulting in a buttery, lightly spiced treat. It’s less intense than cinnamon bears but just as addictive. Perfect for fans of caramel corn and red hots!
Reasons You’ll Love This Recipe
Crunchy and Sweet: Combines caramel corn’s crisp texture with a hint of cinnamon sweetness.
Easy to Make: Simple ingredients and straightforward steps make this a fun and quick recipe.
Addictive Treat: A unique twist on classic caramel corn that’s hard to stop snacking on!
This festive popcorn is so beautiful and makes the perfect addition to any Valentine’s, Galentine’s, or Christmas party. It tastes amazing and is easy to make with minimal ingredients. If you’re a fan of hot tamales, but they can be too spicy, this is the snack for you! It has the perfect amount of cinnamon without overwhelming heat!
Ingredients for Red Hot Cinnamon Popcorn
How to Make Red Hot Cinnamon Popcorn
When my sweet tooth hits, I love having a poppable snack like cinnamon popcorn! It only takes 10 minutes to prep! Be sure to plan ahead because it takes some time to bake and then cool.
Prep: Preheat the oven to 250 degrees Fahrenheit. Spray a large, deep roasting pan or a large oven-safe Dutch oven with pan spray and add your popped popcorn to it. Set aside.
Melt Butter: Add the butter to a medium-sized heavy-bottomed pot and heat over medium heat.
Heat Ingredients: Once the butter is melted, add the corn syrup, sugar, salt, and red hots candy to the saucepan.
Stir and Boil: Cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until the red hots are melted and the mixture is boiling. Stop stirring and let it boil for 2 minutes.
Stir in Baking Soda: Turn off the heat and stir in the baking soda. The red hot mixture can bubble up a bit at this stage. Make sure the pot you use has high sides, and you stir continuously until the bubbling up subsides.
Coat Popcorn: Pour the red hot mixture over the popcorn and stir it as best you can until the popcorn is as evenly coated as you can get it.
Bake, Stir, Cool: Bake the cinnamon popcorn for 1 hour, stirring thoroughly every 15 minutes. Once the hour is up, turn out the popcorn onto sheet pans lined with parchment paper and let it cool completely before breaking into pieces and serving.
Tips for Making Red Hot Cinnamon Popcorn
This recipe is super easy, but follow these simple tips for perfect flavor and crunch every time!
What kind of popcorn should I use? I prefer to pop my own popcorn using an air popper. But if you would like to use microwave popcorn, you can! I recommend using one without butter and salt, if possible.
Be patient coating the popcorn! The red hots mixture doesn’t initially coat the popcorn as evenly as regular caramel corn. But as you continue to cook it in the oven and stir it around, it will all get coated!
Just keep stirring! As you stir the popcorn every 15 minutes, it might feel like you are going to crush it. This is okay! It’s not going to crush it into crumbs, but instead, it will help disperse the coating more evenly. Just keep going!
What if I don’t have a large ovensafe pot? If you don’t have a large oven safe pot, pour the coated popcorn onto a large, greased sheet pan. Add a silicone mat to the bottom if you have one, and bake the popcorn on that instead.
How to Store Cinnamon Popcorn
Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 2 weeks.
More Delicious Snack Recipes
Here are some of my other favorite snack recipes to try—perfect for any craving or occasion! Whether you’re in the mood for something sweet, savory or a little of both, these snacks are sure to hit the spot.
Preheat the oven to 250 degrees Fahrenheit. Spray a large, deep roasting pan or a large oven-safe Dutch oven with pan spray and add 14 cups air-popped popcorn to it. Set aside.
Add ½ cup butter to a medium-sized heavy-bottomed pot and heat over medium heat.
Once the butter is melted, add 11 ounces red hots or cinnamon imperials,½ cup corn syrup, ½ cup granulated sugar, and ½ teaspoon salt. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until the red hots are melted and the mixture is boiling.
Stop stirring and let it boil for 2 minutes. Turn off the heat and stir in ½ teaspoon baking soda. The red hot mixture can bubble up a bit at this stage, so make sure the pot you use has high sides, and you stir continuously until the bubbling up subsides.
Pour the red hot mixture over the popcorn and stir it as best you can until the popcorn is as evenly coated as you can get it.
Bake the cinnamon popcorn for 1 hour, stirring thoroughly every 15 minutes. Once the hour is up, turn out the popcorn onto sheet pans lined with parchment paper and let it cool completely before breaking into pieces and serving.
Over the past year, penny share Eurasia Mining (LSE: EUA) has jumped 43% in price. But it still sells for less than 3p apiece.
Past price action is not necessarily an indication of what may come in future.
Still, it has me wondering: should I add the share to my portfolio?
Taking the long-term view
As a long-term investor, my reaction on seeing that impressive one-year performance is to wonder how typical it is of the longer trend – and what if anything may change that trend.
Over five years, the share price has sunk 27%.
Even that number does not capture the full story, as during that period the price actually touched 40p. So some investors today could be sitting on a much higher paper (or actual) loss than 27%.
The catalyst for the rising price over the past 12 months — including an 82% increase since the end of May — has been the ongoing question of whether lossmaking Eurasia will be able to offload its Russian assets and if so whether it could get a good price for them.
Along the way last year, it issued new shares as part of a trade finance agreement. Given the company’s financial position (net cash outflows in the first half were £1.2m), I see a risk of further shareholder dilution in future if Eurasia needs to bolster liquidity further.
So, what is the latest news of a possible sale?
It remains a wait and see, with the company repeatedly emphasising last year that there is no guarantee of any sale in future.
Investing, not speculating
Here, I think, is where being an investor not a speculator helps me make a clear decision, quickly.
Warren Buffett asks (in general, not specific to Eurasia) why someone might want to buy a share if they are not attracted by the idea of owning the whole company.
Eurasia has a market capitalisation of £72m. But the company had no turnover in the first half of last year, is consistently lossmaking and its key assets (in Russia) are basically stranded in a geopolitical quagmire over which it has limited, if any, control.
Would I want to buy that company in general, let alone for £72m? No. Absolutely not.
So, do I want to buy a share in EUA at today’s price, or almost any price? Again, no.
That does not mean that this could not be a very lucrative opportunity. If Eurasia can offload its assets at a good price, I reckon the share price could shoot up even from where it currently stands. Bear in mind that 40p price – just a few years ago, enough buyers and shareholders felt that was justifiable to make it happen.
But buying today in the uncertain prospect of an asset sale is far too speculative for me.
Trade financiers and speculators with a radically different risk appetite to me might do very well here (or very badly) at some point. As an investor, though, I will not be joining them.
Ariana Grande poses for r.e.m. Beauty’s Dreamglow collection. Photo: Katia Temkin / r.e.m. Beauty
Ariana Grande is a shimmering vision with the latest r.e.m. Beauty drop, the Dreamglow collection. The singer and actress channels vintage glamour with a glossy pout, radiant cheeks, and a sculpted updo with delicate curls in a setting bathed in soft pink hues.
r.e.m. Beauty Dreamglow Campaign
r.e.m. Beauty debuts its Dreamglow collection featuring a glossy balm. Photo: Katia Temkin / r.e.m. Beauty
The campaign, shot through a dreamy lens, spotlights the latest line. There are the three new Dreamglow Highlight Serum shades, alongside the Eclipse Blush + Lip Stick in fresh, vibrant hues and Essential Drip Glossy Balm for a glass-like shine.
Ariana Grande poses with r.e.m. Beauty’s Dreamglow Highlight Serum. Photo: Katia Temkin / r.e.m. Beauty
Makeup artist Michael Anthony crafts Ariana’s dewy, lit-from-within glow, enhancing her signature cat eye flick. Hairstylist Alyx Liu creates a sleek yet romantic updo, perfectly complementing the ethereal aesthetic.
Ariana Grande shows off her hand tattoos for r.e.m. Beauty. Photo: Katia Temkin / r.e.m. Beauty
The Dreamglow collection’s shades range from soft pink pearls to warm terracottas, embodying a celestial look.
Ariana Grande for r.e.m. Beauty Dreamglow collection. Photo: Katia Temkin / r.e.m. Beauty
John Belton, a portfolio manager at Gabelli Funds, an asset management firm whose funds include shares of Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, and others, said DeepSeek’s achievements are real, but some of the company’s claims are misleading.
“No, you cannot recreate DeepSeek with $6 million and the extent to which they distilled existing models (took shortcuts potentially without license) is an unknown,” Belton said via email to Computerworld. “However, they have made key breakthroughs that show how to reduce training and inference costs.”
Belton also pointed out that DeepSeek isn’t new. Its creator, Liang Wenfeng, a hedge fund manager and AI enthusiast, published a paper on the performance breakthroughs more than a month ago and released a model with similar methods a year ago.
Obsessed with throwing money and resources at AI in any way they can, the likes of OpenAI, NVIDIA, Google and Amazon all just got a surprise.
Out of seemingly nowhere, Chinese AI assistant is suddenly the top-rated free app on Apple’s App Store in the US and elsewhere, beating more familiar names, like ChatGPT. The open-source DeepSeek V3 model reportedly requires far less computing power than its competitors and, depending on who you believe, was developed for under $6 million. Shocks all around — especially for OpenAI and all the billions it has
Focusing on coding and research, DeepSeek’s models are similar to other AI assistants you’ve heard of. Its first DeepSeek-R1 release is available under an MIT license, so it can be used commercially without restrictions.
How does it compare with the far pricier US rivals now China is unable to import the most powerful AI chips? Well, to start with, DeepSeek’s founder Liang Wenfeng reportedly stockpiled NVIDIA A100 chips before the US export ban and is pairing those with less powerful chips from China. An MIT Review report also suggests the side effect of the US sanctions are innovations that focus on efficiency and collaboration.
All the attention and a small financial market wobble has put DeepSeek in the crosshairs for “large-scale malicious attacks.” Those cyberattacks mean new user registration may be slow, so if you’re intrigued, you’ll have to wait to check it out.
Device leaker Majin Bu shared on X what they claim is the new iPhone SE 4. As proof, they posted a video of the device from all angles and four photos of both a black and a white model from the back. With a single camera (gasp!) and a smaller-seeming body to current iPhones, the big twist is the return to a notch. At this point, all iPhones available from Apple’s store (aside from the iPhone 14) have a Dynamic Island cutout instead of the notch.
Traditionally, the SE series has a throwback hardware design, so this would make sense. And hey, the Pixel 8a needs some competition. While the dummy phones leaked look convincing, Majin Bu has missed with some of their predictions and leaks in the past. So pinch of salt, and all that.
As X continued to walk the plank, Bluesky experienced explosive growth last year. That meant a big ramp up in its moderation efforts. Bluesky said user numbers jumped from 2.9 million users to nearly 26 million. Its moderators received 17 times the number of user reports in 2023 — 6.48 million in 2024 compared to 358,000 the previous year. The bulk of these reports were regarding “harassment, trolling or intolerance,” spam and misleading content (including impersonation and misinformation). Moderators took down 66,308 accounts in 2024, while its automated systems took down 35,842 spam and bot profiles.
