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CEBU, PHILIPPINES – MAY 08: (L-R) Myanmar Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs U Hau Khan Sum, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, Thailand Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, Timor-Leste Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao, Vietnam Prime Minister Le Minh Hung, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, and Laos Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone pose for a group photo during the opening ceremony of the ASEAN Summit at Mactan Expo on May 08, 2026 in Cebu, Philippines. T(Photo by Aaron Favila – Pool/Getty Images)Getty ImagesThe…

This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. I rely on Ideogram, an AI image generator, to help me create posters, banners, social posts, newsletter illustrations, and video thumbnails. Context: Ideogram competes in an exploding market. Gemini’s new Nano Banana Pro makes remarkable infographics, ChatGPT’s image generator produces fantastic illustrations, and Canva, Adobe, and Midjourney keep getting stronger. Yet I still find myself returning often to Ideogram. 10 reasons I like Ideogram  Your prompt gets automatically improved. Ideogram’s magic prompt algorithm refines your initial query. You can then approve it or revise.  Choose from four…

A seasoned wildlife photographer recounts the eerie morning he encountered a leucistic loon chick—and the childhood memories that led him into the fog.Roughly one of every 30,000 loons are estimated to be leucistic (Photo: Tony Gangemi)Published May 17, 2026 06:04AMIn 2025, Montana photographer Tony Gangemi photographed a once-in-a-lifetime leucistic loon. Gangemi told Outside what it’s like to come across such a rare scene, and how this experience brought him back to his childhood.At 6 A.M. on a misty morning in May 2025, I arrived at a small lake in Northwest Montana. I could feel the cool, crisp air as I…

LOS ANGELES, CA -Ronda Rousey (Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)Zuffa LLC via Getty ImagesRonda Rousey needed just 17 seconds to defeat Gina Carano via armbar on Saturday night, and her rivals needed about the same amount of time to take to social media to mock the performance.UFC legend and former two-division champion Amanda Nunes posted an eye-roll emoji seconds after the fight. Cris Cyborg, one of Rousey’s most bitter rivals posted three laughing emojis after Rousey’s win.Other fighters like Corey Anderson, Brian Kelleher and others shared their displeasure with the fight, insinuating it was a mismatch…

Michael Patrick King has spent decades writing about people navigating worlds where everything feels transactional. With the colossally successful Sex and the City, which spawned multiple films and the sequel series And Just Like That…, King explored how identity, romance, and status become tangled up in consumerism and self-invention. In the long-running sitcom 2 Broke Girls, the focus shifted toward economic precarity and the humiliations of trying to survive in a world where money shapes nearly every relationship. But King’s sharpest work may be The Comeback, the HBO cult classic he co-created with Lisa Kudrow, who stars as Valerie Cherish,…

Medical staff are sterilised before entering the isolation unit at a hospital in Bundibugyo, western Uganda, on August 17, 2018, where there was a suspected case of Ebola. On May 16, 2026 an outbreak of Bundibugyo virus was declared a public health emergency of international concern. (Photo by SUMY SADURNI / AFP) (Photo credit should read SUMY SADURNI/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty ImagesThe World Health Organization has declared the ongoing outbreak of Bundibugyo ebolavirus in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a public health emergency of international concern, just two days after the outbreak was confirmed.The speed of…

Using your email address as your username has become the standard. In many cases, you simply enter your email address and choose a password. Some services remove the need for a password altogether, allowing you to register using just your email address and a onetime code sent to it. Others offer the option to connect your account directly to your Google or Apple identity. As we scroll, shop, apply, and register across services, our email address quietly becomes our identity everywhere, from shopping platforms to banking to travel. Over time, more and more of our activity starts pointing back to a single…

AI can be tricked into being useful idiots and performing untoward acts.gettyIn today’s column, I examine the chilling fact that AI can readily be turned into a “useful idiot” that will perform contrarian acts despite its various AI safeguards.Here’s the deal. You might already be familiar with the nowadays repeated phrase of someone being a useful idiot. This popular expression suggests that a person can be convinced to advocate something that is the opposite of what they truly believe. They are so far removed from grasping this circumstance that they think they are indeed supporting their intended cause. The beauty…

Organizations invest in setting the right goals to drive strategy, and increasingly they’re using AI to help. To be sure, AI can support the mechanics: draft objectives, align to strategy, track progress. But the questions that determine whether you can deliver on a goal, sustainably, aren’t ones an algorithm can answer: Are you clear on the target? Do you know why it matters? Is it realistic given your capacity? Too often, employees take on goals without asking these questions, and the result is unfocused, empty effort or burnout. The fix isn’t an AI agent—it’s having a smarter, human conversation before…

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – MAY 16: (L-R) Arnold Allen of England punches Melquizael Costa of Brazil in a featherweight fight during the UFC Fight Night event at Meta APEX on May 16, 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ed Mulholland/Zuffa LLC)Zuffa LLCArnold Allen held the line on Saturday night at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Allen earned a one-sided unanimous-decision win over Melquizael Costa (50-45 x2, 49-46). Allen showed the streaking Costa that there are levels to the game and that he is still one of the top 145-pounders in the promotion.The fight capped a solid card that…