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Blake, Wm. The First Book of Urizen, object 2. 1794.

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Prince Harry was the victim of “extensive” phone hacking by Mirror Group Newspapers, the publisher of the Daily Mail, the High Court in Britain ruled today.

The judge found that at least fifteen news articles relied on illegal information-gathering methods such as hacking voicemail messages and private investigators. Prince Harry claimed this went on for fifteen years.

Additionally, the judge ruled that “there can be no doubt” that Piers Morgan, who was the editor of the Daily Mail during this time, knew this was happening.

In response, Morgan said: “I've never hacked a phone or told anyone else to hack a phone,” adding that “Prince Harry's outrage at media intrusion into the private lives of the royal family is only matched by his own hypocritical enthusiasm for doing it himself,” and that he “wouldn't know the truth if it slapped him round his California tanned faced.”

Prince Harry was awarded about $180,000 in damages.

Following the ruling, the Duke of Sussex said: “Today’s ruling is vindicating and affirming. I’ve been told that slaying dragons will get you burned. But in light of today’s victory and the importance of doing what is needed for a free and honest press – it’s a worthwhile price to pay. The mission continues.”

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Blake, Wm. Naomi Entreating Ruth and Orpah to Return to the Land of Moab. 1795.

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Migrants are saying the meals served at New York City asylum-seeking shelters are so “bad” that they throw them away, wasting 70,000 taxpayer-funded meals, or $776,000, in one month.

Jesus Alberto, from Venezuela, notes that “no one likes the food,” emphasizing, “Without lying, it’s bad, bad.”

Johana Roa, a mother, rips the pancakes, donuts, and cookies given for breakfast: “The breakfast they give us is very sweet. They give us pancakes, donuts, and cookies for breakfast at 6AM. It is too sweet to give to my daughter, so I just take a few things.”

“Nothing healthy apart from eggs and fruit, apples and oranges. No oats,” she adds.

As a result, these migrants purchase food from private enterprises, usually in enclaves that align with their heritage, making them wonder why they even came to America in the first place if they can’t receive benefits funded by taxpayers.

City Hall spokesperson: “As we continue to adjust food orders to improve quality, quantity, and respond to cultural preferences, we are dedicated to providing those in our care with enough food, while at the same time being responsible stewards of public resources.”

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Blake, Wm. Lamech and His Two Wives. 1795.

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Panera Bread's Charged Lemonade is being linked to 2 deaths, with the latest being a Florida man who, for some inexplicable reason, consumed 3 servings and experienced a “cardiac event.”

The first death was a 21-year-old female college student, whose family filed a lawsuit against the company, calling the lemonade a “dangerous energy drink.”

One large Charged Lemonade contains 390 milligrams of caffeine, more caffeine than Monster and Red Bull combined.

For reference, FDA guidelines suggest a maximum of 400 milligrams of caffeine in a day for healthy adults.

Panera has since installed warning signs about the caffeine content, advising moderation and caution for sensitive groups.

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Blake, Wm. St. Matthew. 1799.

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Google’s DeepMind AI has cracked a famous unsolved math problem using a large language model.

Researchers say it is the first time a LLM has been used to discover a solution to a long-standing scientific puzzle, with verifiable new information.

After millions of suggestions over a few days, the LLM came up with code that produced the correct solution to the cap set problem, which involves finding the largest size of a certain type of set.

The cap set problem entails figuring out how many dots you can put down on graph paper without three of them ever forming a straight line.

Pushmeet Kohli, vice president of research at Google DeepMind: “It’s not in the training data—it wasn’t even known.”

Research scientist at Google DeepMind: “To be very honest with you, we have hypotheses, but we don’t know exactly why this works. In the beginning of the project, we didn’t know whether this would work at all.”

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Blake, Wm. Milton's Paradise Regained. 1816.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has returned 14 artifacts to Cambodia and 2 to Thailand as part of an investigation into the dealer Douglas Latchford.

Latchford, a well-known collector who has since passed away, was indicted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan in 2019 for a plot to illegally sell looted artifacts, with the feds describing him as running a “vast antiquities trafficking network” in Asia.

He died in 2020 before he could be convicted, but the Attorney’s Office now seeks to repatriate all the items linked to him.

These items date back to the Khmer Empire and include a bust of Buddha’s head from the 600s and a sandstone statue of a goddess from the 900s.