Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, and former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss. MANDEL NGAN/Getty Images; Jacob King - PA Images/Getty Images 2025-04-22T10:58:22Z Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Larry Summers warned that the US could face a crisis similar to the UK's in late 2022. The former Treasury Secretary was referring to plans proposed by then-UK Prime Minister Liz Truss. Truss resigned after sweeping tax cut proposals spooked investors and sent bond prices soaring. Larry Summers is worried about the economy and fears the US could be on a similar track to the problems the UK faced in late 2022."I would have said a 'Liz Truss moment' was very unlikely in the United States if you had asked me three months ago," the former Treasury Secretary told BBC Radio 4's "Today" program on Tuesday."Now I think we're on a path towards having an episode like that. I think it will be very costly for our economy — and for the global economy."Truss resigned as UK Prime Minister in 2022 after just 44 days in office — the shortest tenure on record.After becoming Prime Minister she and her finance minister proposed sweeping tax cuts to be funded by additional government borrowing. Those policies spooked financial markets, sent the cost of government bonds soaring, and triggered a revolt within her own party.Summers also said the market turmoil in the US was starting to resemble what might be expected in an emerging market economy."It's hard to know what the endpoint will be," he said. "We've seen a phenomenon in the United States, it's almost unprecedented in our financial history. We're seeing the kind of response that happens in emerging markets when the world loses confidence in them.""Stocks go down, bonds go down, the currency goes down, gold starts to be hoarded, that's the pattern we're seeing in the United States."Stocks tumbled on Monday after President Donald Trump again criticized Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for not cutting interest rates, labelling him a "major loser" and "Mr. Too Late."Futures have since climbed slightly, but 10-year Treasury yields have risen, and the US dollar index has weakened. Gold prices hit a new record of $3,500 an ounce on Tuesday, having soared more than 30% since the start of the year.Earlier this month Summers said on X of Trump's tariffs announcement: "Never before has an hour of Presidential rhetoric cost so many people so much. The best estimate of the loss from tariff policy is now closer to $30 trillion." Get the latest Gold price here.

Over the last few months, the Trump administration has intensified its attacks on elite, Ivy League institutions like Columbia and Harvard, enacting sweeping funding cuts and even threatening to revoke their tax-exempt status.But what’s happening on the campuses of state schools is much less covered. Take for example the public university system in Florida. For years, Gov. Ron DeSantis has used public schools at all levels as the battleground for what he calls a war on “woke” — and punched his ticket to national prominence.And it’s Florida where journalist Josh Moody found his most recent exposé for Inside Higher Ed. Though elite universities in the Northeast have largely fought deportation efforts spearheaded by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, DeSantis has openly cooperated with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, even appointing university presidents who are friendly to this mission.Today, Explained host Sean Rameswaram spoke with Moody about his findings, which uncovered formal cooperation agreements between many of Florida’s public universities and ICE that has led to revoked visas, alarmed faculties, and student protests.Below is an excerpt of their conversation, edited for length and clarity. There’s much more in the full podcast, so listen to Today, Explained wherever you get your podcasts, including Apple Podcasts, Pandora, and Spotify.What’s going on here with the Florida state schools? Is this a rebrand to ICE-U? What are they doing here? You’ve probably not heard of some of these schools because it’s the Florida State University system, which has 12 members, ranging from large schools with tens of thousands of students to New College of Florida, which has about 800 students. At least 10 of those institutions have signed agreements with ICE, which essentially would give their campus police departments immigration enforcement powers, allowing them to question, arrest, and prepare charges for those they suspect of immigration violations.These agreements, as one expert explained to me, are “force multipliers for ICE.”And basically these agreements, as one expert explained to me, are “force multipliers for ICE.” So if you wanted to have more immigration enforcement, you would sign an agreement with ICE to delegate that power locally. This is just a way for Florida to expand its immigration enforcement capabilities. The governor, as I mentioned before, has taken a hard line on immigration. He ran for president previously. I wouldn’t be surprised if he does so again, and that could be part of his long-term strategy. In this way, he’s sort of outflanking Trump on immigration. And this is just a fun question I love to ask while we’re talking about this stuff. Where did Ron DeSantis go to school again? Yale, right? Or was it Harvard? It was both! Anyway, have any students been detained or deported yet at these Florida state schools like we’ve seen at Columbia? Eighteen students at Florida International University and eight students at the University of Florida have had their visas revoked.What does that mean? Were they deported?They would have to leave the country. It doesn’t necessarily mean that ICE is going to come scoop them up in a van and facilitate that process, but they would essentially have to begin the process of leaving the country. And do we know what specifically these students have had their visas revoked for? We do not, but that is not uncommon. That has been the case across the US. Some students have been targeted for their speech. You look at the situation at Tufts and Columbia where students were active in pro-Palestinian protests and the Trump administration has claimed they’re antisemitic and pro-Hamas, but has not provided any evidence that they have done anything illegal. In other cases, they’ve had visas revoked for crimes committed years ago.And these institutions themselves have often been given no explanation when student statuses were changed — and sometimes they’ve discovered it by looking in their own systems and seeing that those statuses had been revoked.We don’t know how many international students have been caught up in this, but one of my fellow reporters at Inside Higher Ed is keeping a nationwide database and we have counted at least 1,680 students at 250 colleges who have lost visas. [Editor’s note: These figures reflect the latest numbers and have been updated since this Today, Explained episode first aired.] Does that mean there are other university systems around the country that are signing these kinds of agreements with ICE, that are cooperating with ICE at this level? Florida institutions are the only ones to have signed agreements with ICE. The professors that I spoke with, the legal experts for this piece, believe this is unprecedented. Neither were aware of another university ever signing into what is known as a 287(g) agreement with ICE. It’s sort of a new frontier in immigration enforcement on college campuses.Are students on the campuses of these universities upset to hear that they’re signing into agreements with ICE? Yes. There were protests at Florida International University today, which had a board meeting. The students that I hear from are often upset about what is happening in the state, not just around immigration, but what has been a broader effort by Florida Republicans to control all aspects of the university, whether that is hiring politicians and lawmakers into the presidencies or overhauling general education requirements to minimize certain disciplines — like sociology — that Florida state officials have deemed liberal.How do you feel what’s going on at ICE-U down in Florida fits into this other fight that we’re seeing in the Northeast, with Trump going to war with the elite universities?In Florida, this is being done by the state dictating to these universities: “You need to do this to basically carry out state goals around immigration enforcement.” Whereas the other examples at places like Harvard and Columbia is the Trump administration more or less trying to bring higher education to heel, by making an example of some of the most visible universities, where there have been the most visible pro-Palestinian campus protests over the last year.If they crumble, it seems only likely that your local institution is going to crumble when faced with the same threats.People are really freaked out. Professors are worried about academic freedom. But also nationally, people are worried too. They see Harvard and Columbia being at the forefront of this fight, and even though they’re not at all representative of higher education broadly, these are very visible universities that everyone pays attention to. If they crumble, it seems only likely that your local institution is going to crumble when faced with the same threats.On the show today, we’ve been talking about these two extremes in this culture war right now. On one end, you’ve got the oldest and most prestigious universities in the country. Then, over here, we’ve got this pocket of Florida state schools that are just throwing up their hands and complying with ICE. Where does that leave in your estimation, everyone in between those two extremes?A lot of that comes down to public or private control. If you are a public university in a dark red state, you should expect that this is coming. If you are at a public university in Texas, you might not be that far behind Florida in terms of an action like this and that’s what I’m hearing from experts too. If you’re in a blue state, you are a little bit more isolated if you’re a public institution there. Private institutions in both will have a lot more latitude.I don’t like to speculate, but I think it is entirely possible that the Trump administration looks at something like this and says, “Why don’t we do this nationwide?”What a time.Absolutely.See More:

This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to member-exclusive stories every month, join the Vox Membership program today.In just a few hours, the world I’m walking into will disappear beneath the waves. I’m at Pillar Point Harbor, a 40-minute drive from San Francisco, near low tide. And because this is one of the lowest tides this August, the water has drawn back like a curtain to expose an ecosystem that’s normally hidden away — a place called the rocky intertidal, or, because the receding water leaves little pools behind in the rocks, “the tidepools.”Dawn has just broken, pods of pelicans fly overhead, and sea lions bark from the nearby harbor. But I’m more focused on following my guide, a zoologist named Rebecca Johnson, as she picks her way out into these seaweed-covered rocks, pointing out species as she goes. These smooth green strands are surfgrass. Those fat bladders of air that look kind of like puffed-up gloves are called “seasack.” This dark brown frond Johnson is draping over her shoulders is the aptly named “feather boa kelp.” “ They’re like wildflowers,” Johnson says, “But it’s seaweed.”Rebecca Johnson wears a feather boa kelp like a feather boa. Byrd Pinkerton/VoxAs we make our way deeper, she points out odd creatures that only the ocean could dream up. A boring clam (which is far from boring, but does bore into rock) puffs itself up like a fierce fleshy ball before squirting a jet of water directly into the air to fend off our threatening vibes. A pale white brittle star, like a flexible daddy longlegs, dances for us across some algae. And rows of fat green anemones wear bits of shells like tiny hats. “ The theory is that…they’re protecting themselves from the sun, like a sunscreen,” Johnson tells me.We crouch together at the edge of a deep pool and see first one, then two — then three, four, five, six! — species of nudibranchs, the sea slugs that Johnson specializes in. One is hot pink and spiky. Another is an aggressive shade of orange. There’s a pale lemon one, a ghostly white one. Johnson even finds one covered in orange polka dots, like a marine clown. Some of these species, she tells me, bubbling with enthusiasm, eat anemones and steal their stinging cells, repurposing them as their own defenses.An orange polka-dotted nudibranch, known as a “sea clown.” Byrd Pinkerton/VoxThis kind of diversity is wild to witness, but it isn’t unusual for these tidepools. “It’s one of the places in the world that you can see species of invertebrates all really, really concentrated,” Johnson told me.We wander farther out, exploring this alien landscape together, until the tide begins to come back in and cover it over, bit by bit, hiding this weird world away again in a slow disappearing act.“ It’s extra magical that you can only see it at certain times,” Johnson told me before we came out here. “You get this little peek, this little window. And that’s one of the things I love the most about it.”Johnson has been coming to this exact spot off Pillar Point for almost three decades now, and in her role as director for the Center for Biodiversity and Community Science for the California Academy of Sciences, she spends time with volunteers monitoring tidepools up and down the California coasts. But she’s still enchanted with them. I’m not surprised. I fell in love with tidepools myself 20 years ago, when I first got to explore them as a kid at a summer camp in Mendocino. The odd, colorful creatures in them made me feel like magic was a little bit real, that science could feel like fantasy. It’s part of the reason I’m a science reporter today. But Johnson is worried about the future of these tidepools she loves so much. She’s worried that, like so many ecosystems around the world, they may be heading toward a much more dramatic, much more permanent disappearing act. So she, along with many, many collaborators all across the state of California and beyond, is doing what many scientists are trying to do for the ecosystems they study: to figure out — first, what’s actually happening to them, and second, what, if anything, we can do to save them. The sun rises over tide pools in Fort Bragg, California. Byrd Pinkerton/VoxHow did we get here? For Rebecca Johnson, the troubles really began around the arrival of “The Blob”: a marine heatwave. By 2014, it had warmed waters significantly along the West Coast of the United States. Johnson was hearing concerning things from participants in the programs she organized through Cal Academy to get people to go into the tidepools and make observations.“They started seeing an increase in this really beautiful pink nudibranch called the Hopkins Rose nudibranch,” she says. Ruby Ash for VoxHistorically, the Hopkins Rose nudibranch has lived in Southern California — and ventured up to Johnson’s more northern tidepools mostly during El Niño years. But as the temperatures shifted for the Blob, the spiky pink balls were showing up in huge numbers.“It became the most common thing,” Johnson remembers. She was also hearing disturbing reports about another animal — the sea star, known more colloquially as the starfish.As early as 2013, before The Blob really hit, divers and researchers had started noticing that sea stars were, quite literally, wasting away. “They were seeing white lesions on starfishes. And they were seeing the starfish kind of disintegrate in front of them,” she says. “[They would] see it one day with these lesions. They’d come back the next day and it was like almost dissolved and then almost gone.” Sea star wasting also isn’t unheard of, but in this instance, the wasting hit species after species of sea stars — at least 20 species in all. Also, as an evolutionary ecologist who studied this outbreak, Lauren Schiebelhut, told me, wasting normally happens on a more local scale — isolated to a single bay, for example.“For it to spread across the entire West Coast here, that was something we had not seen before,” Schiebelhut says. Scientists have been trying to work out what caused this massive shift for over a decade. Some theorized that it was a virus, and people have investigated the possibility of a bacterial issue. One researcher told me that her team is close to publishing a paper that should provide some more answers about an infectious agent here. But whatever the exact cause — and even though the wasting started before The Blob set in — scientists studying one species of sea star found that the biggest declines coincided with the warmer temperatures. Huge numbers of sea stars wasted away — with some locations losing over 90 percent of their stars. The Blob “certainly seemed to exacerbate it,” Schiebelhut says.At one point, Johnson went down to her favorite tidepooling spot, Pillar Point, with a colleague, just to “see what they could see,” and they saw almost no sea stars. “It was just like the most bizarre feeling,” she says. “I was still at this place that was spectacularly beautiful, covered with algae. All these other invertebrates are there. But there’s just something kind of off about it.”Byrd Pinkerton/VoxShe says it was like going into your room, only to realize that someone has moved all your stuff very slightly. “And you’re like, ‘What’s wrong with this room?’ It had that disconcerting, unsettling feeling.”This place Johnson knew so well — had been documenting and sharing with people for decades — suddenly felt unfamiliar. And at that moment, she felt a deep, deep uncertainty about its future. “Like, there might not be starfish, like ever,” she remembers thinking, “What does that mean?”What it would mean to lose so many sea starsThe reason that Johnson was so worried about sea stars was not just that the tidepools at Pillar Point looked different. She was worried about the role sea stars play in the tidepools ecosystem. To us, they might seem like pretty creatures that come in a fun shape, but to many of the ocean animals they interact with, they are voracious predators that help keep their ecosystems in balance — chowing down on everything from mussels and barnacles to snails. To understand why this is so important, let’s journey a little beyond the tidepools, a little farther offshore, into the California kelp forests. These are underwater forests of algae that are home to a huge diversity of animals, from fish and octopi to abalone. Kelp forests also provide a buffer for the coast against erosion, and they absorb and store large amounts of carbon dioxide, which benefits all of us as we try to stave off climate change. So they’re amazing ecosystems.But, like any forest, California’s coastal kelp forest has grazers — basically the marine equivalent of deer. In this case, these are animals like the purple sea urchin, a spiky purple pincushion that chows down enthusiastically on kelp. Ruby Ash for VoxNormally, Peter Roopnarine, a paleontologist at the California Academy of Sciences who has studied kelp forests tells me, sea urchins are content to eat the bits of detritus that the kelp shed naturally. But if there isn’t enough kelp detritus to go around, urchins can start feeding on the living kelp itself. “ That will happen if, for example, there are not enough predators around to keep their population in control, to keep them hiding,” Roopnarine says. “ Pretty soon they kill the kelp, and what you’re left with is what we call an urchin barren, which are these stretches of seafloor that are covered with urchins. And nothing else.” Sea otters are one of the predators — one of the wolves, to continue the metaphor, to our urchin deer — keeping urchins in check along some parts of the coast. Sea otters were hunted aggressively by European settlers, and have not returned along the northern part of the coast, but have made a comeback in central California. Another important wolf for these kelp forests, though, is a sea star known as pycnopodia helianthoides, or the “sunflower sea star.” Sunflower sea stars are beautiful, often purple or pink, and kind of squishy. But they are also, at least as sea stars go, big. They can have 20 arms, and grow to the size of a dinner plate or larger. (As a kid, when we found them in the tidepools, we used to have to hold them in two hands.) And researchers have increasingly found that they, too, did a lot of work to keep urchins in check. This is why it was such a big deal when the sea star wasting syndrome hit and wiped out so many sea stars, sunflower sea stars very much included. After the sickness, a lot of sea star species did start to come back. You can find sea stars like ochre stars, leather stars, and bat stars in California tidepools, for example. But while sunflower sea stars can still be found in the wild further north, in places like Washington state, they have not bounced back along the coast of California. And that, scientists suggest, may have contributed to the issues they’re now seeing in kelp forests. Satellite surveys from a few years ago showed that the kelp forests off of Northern California have shrunk by 95 percent. Once again, this is probably due to a combination of factors. High water temperatures may have weakened the kelp, for example. But another factor was the explosion of urchin populations. “This lack of the sunflower star in the kelp forest, especially in Northern California,” Johnson says, “led to the increase of urchins. And the urchins then ate all the kelp.”What does this mean for the future of these tidepools? The tidepools haven’t been hit as hard as the kelp forests. Clearly, as our visit in August showed, a place like Pillar Point has not turned into the equivalent of an urchin barren and is instead still home to a diversity of creatures. Still, Johnson says, they have been affected. She has, anecdotally, noticed grazing species like abalone that normally spend more of their time in the kelp forests moving over to tidepools, probably in search of kelp to eat. And as temperatures continue warming over time, tidepool ecosystems are changing in other ways. A recent paper showed that a species of nudibranch range has moved northward. Another study showed that a whole bunch of different marine species, including nudibranchs, but also species of snail, lobster, and crab were spotted farther north than their usual range during a heat wave. Some of these species are predators that might shake up the dynamics and the ecosystems they’re coming into. “We don’t actually know what happens when they move north,” Johnson says. “ We don’t really know the impact.” And then, as Schiebelhut, the geneticist who studies sea stars, told me, there are other stressors like pollution and runoff from wildfires. In January, more than 57,000 acres burned from a series of wildfires in Greater Los Angeles — a disaster whose scope of damage on intertidal ecosystems is not yet clear, researchers told me. “The disturbances are becoming more frequent, more intense,” Schiebelhut says. “It is a challenge to the system.” Johnson admits that it’s hard to know exactly how to interpret all these changes and stressors and use them to predict the future of the tidepools. After all, the California coastal ecosystems have survived the loss of important species before, and survived big natural disasters too. A brittle star dances across the algae. Byrd PinkertonByrd PinkertonMy favorite sea slug: an opalescent nudibranch. Byrd Pinkerton/VoxSo I turned to Roopnarine, the paleontologist. He studies how ancient ecosystems weathered — or didn’t weather — things like climate change, and what we might learn from them to apply to ecosystems facing challenges today. I hoped he would have a sense of how the current moment fits into the bigger patterns of history. “If you look in the fossil record,” he told me, “one of the things that’s really remarkable is that ecosystems can last a very long time. Millions of years. Species will come and go in those ecosystems, but what they do, who they do it to, and so on? That doesn’t change.”Ecosystems are a little like, say, a baseball team. You’ll always need certain players in certain roles — pitchers and catchers and shortstops and outfielders. Different players can retire and be replaced by other players — if one predator disappears, another predator might be able to take over some of the role that it plays, for example. But Roopnarine’s research into the fossil record also shows that no ecosystem baseball team is endlessly flexible.“They do eventually come to an end,” he says. Usually, that’s when really extreme changes occur. And when he looks at the moments in the past when the climate changed dramatically, and he looks at forecasts for our future, he’s very worried. “We have to be realistic that if we do nothing, the future is extremely grim,” he tells me, “There is no sugarcoating it.”What can we do? When it comes to safeguarding the future health of California’s coastal ecosystems, there are lots of people doing lots of things.Johnson is working with colleagues on a system that uses the community science app iNaturalist to better monitor the health of coastal tidepools. The Steinhart Aquarium is one of several institutions where researchers are raising and studying baby sunflower stars. This tiny star has two new arms growing. Byrd PinkertonAnyone who goes to the tide pools can upload photos of all the species that they see. Those photos, geotagged with locations and timestamps, will hopefully help researchers figure out how populations are changing, to model the future of this ecosystem. They could also potentially serve as a warning system if there are big die-offs again, so scientists can try and intervene earlier. Schiebelhut has studied the genomes of sea stars that did recover, to see what can be learned about what made them so resilient to wasting. The California state government has partnered with nonprofits and commercial fishermen to clear urchins and restore kelp. And then there’s the consortium of institutions up and down the coast, all working on an initiative to try to breed sunflower sea stars in captivity so that they might, eventually, be released back into the wild and resume their role as key predators.“ There is no one person that can do all the things,” says Ashley Kidd, a project manager at the Sunflower Star Lab, one of the many groups working together to bring sunflower sea stars back. What gives her hope is that so many different people, from so many institutions, are working together toward solutions. “ You can’t have all the knowledge of disease ecology, behavioral ecology, aquaculture by yourself,” Kidd says. “It is a much bigger, wonderful group of people that you get to work with and then be connected with. … You’re not alone.”When I first heard that these tidepools might be in trouble, I felt an overwhelming sense of loss. This ecosystem made me believe that the real world had its own magic — because sure, fairies might not be real, but opalescent nudibranchs come pretty close. It hurts to think that that magic might dim, or even disappear. But walking through these pools with Johnson and watching her walk over to a mother and her daughter to show them nudibranchs, eagerly sharing this world with strangers, I felt delight, and a wonderful sense of present-ness. I felt part of that community. A sense that, whatever the future of these tidepools might look like, they were here, now, and as magical as ever. “In the midst of climate change and a future that is going to be hotter and harder and more difficult for people, you have to have joy,” Johnson says. “I struggle with it. I feel like marine systems especially are pretty complicated to think about restoring. What do you actually do out here? How do you protect things?…But you can’t stop doing it, because then you’ve kind of lost everything.”See More:

GTA 6 fans have been through the emotional wringer, but they're keeping a dry sense of humour — noting we got a new Pope before we got Rockstar's latest crime epicTech10:50, 22 Apr 2025Updated 10:50, 22 Apr 2025Will GTA 6 make 2025 after all?Grand Theft Auto 6 is tipped for launch in this calendar year, but you wouldn't know it by looking at what Rockstar Games has said (or hasn't said).While the company hasn't confirmed a delay and one ex-developer at the studio has talked up the project, publisher Take-Two Interactive's CEO has maintained the radio silence from the legendary team is all part of the plan.‌So, while fans are planning launch parties and one last ride in GTA 5, and police are using the trailer in their own bizarre YouTube videos, we're still none the wiser on when the game is actually coming out.While we've previously seen fans describe a "descent into madness" while the wait goes on, the GTA community keeps trucking along — and it's getting plenty of mileage out of the "we got x before GTA 6 meme".The Pope died at 88 Article continues belowAs with John Cena's recent Instagram post which joked that we got a heel turn from the man himself before we got GTA 6, the meme has been used for pretty much everything.Everything from Trump being arrested and then made president, the Mike Tyson return to the ring, and even nostalgia for the GTA 6 trailer have been used as meme fodder, but with the passing of Pope Francis over the weekend, some fans couldn't help themselves."We'll get a new Pope before we get GTA6" one deleted post from the GTA subreddit shared, along with a picture of the dearly-departed religious leader.‌In fact, Pope Francis was elected to the position on March 13, 2013 — around 6 months before GTA 5 launched. That means his papacy essentially ran for the lifetime of the game. We're not entirely sure he'd be booting up GTA 6 if he was still with us, mind.GTA 6 is still coming this year (apparently)(Image: Rockstar)‌Still, the meme points to a new milestone for GTA 6 and the wait for the game's second trailer. With the first one debuting in December of 2023, we've now gone 500 days without any additional footage from the game.Given we've also not heard a peep from Rockstar outside of sharing information about GTA Online, Red Dead Redemption Online, and the GTA 5 Enhanced Edition for PC players, the wait goes on.Until we hear more, don't expect the meme to fade away just yet.Article continues belowFor the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletters.‌‌‌

Finally, after months of leaks, Microsoft and Bethesda are seemingly ready to reveal The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remastered via an event today at 4PM BST — here's what to expectTech10:13, 22 Apr 2025Expect a sizeable visual upgrade(Image: Bethesda/4J Studios/Superscape)When is a "shadow drop" not a shadow drop? Probably when a game has leaked as much as the remaster of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.After insiders pegged the game for an April launch, then promised it'd be this week, developer Virtuous inadvertently leaked a whole host of screenshots via its website - oops.‌While the ever-expanding Elder Scrolls Online is ideal for multiplayer sessions, we've been waiting for our first single-player Elder Scrolls adventure since Skyrim back in 2011.And, while it's not a new game, Bethesda is lifting the lid (finally) on the remake project today, April 22. Here's how you can watch it, and what to expect.Content cannot be displayed without consentArticle continues belowWhile Xbox Support chat went rogue last week and confirmed some information about the game, Bethesda's big reveal of the game is occurring today, April 22, at 4 PM BST.Fans can tune in via Twitch, or YouTube, with the game likely to be released on PC, PS5, and Xbox immediately after.Combat could be different in the Oblivion Remake(Image: Bethesda/4J Studios/Superscape)‌We already know plenty about the game so far, including that it should debut on Xbox Game Pass. We know this not only because it's a Microsoft first-party title since the company owns Bethesda, but because the Game Pass logo was spotted on Virtuous' site for the game last week.The Xbox Support Chat leak suggested the game would launch on April 21, but that wasn't the case, so take the rest of the information from that reveal with a pinch of salt. Still, if the rest is accurate, the game should "include all the DLCs from the original game, so you'll be able to enjoy the full experience with enhanced visuals and gameplay improvements".We've also previously heard that the game will not only look better (and those leaked screenshots certainly suggest that is the case), but it'll revise some systems.‌Reports have suggested combat has been adjusted drastically, as well as hit detection on enemies. Elsewhere, stealth has also been overhauled.We'll find out for sure in just a few hours, so be sure to tune in and check back here for our analysis.For more on games in the Microsoft family, be sure to check out our interview with Aaron Keller, Game Director of Overwatch 2, who told us why the game's new Stadium mode is the best time to jump in.Article continues belowFor the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletters.

Prepare for Oblivion (Bethesda) Bethesda’s long-awaited remaster of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion is set to shadowdrop today, according to several sources. We’ve known about Microsoft’s remaster of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion ever since it was leaked in 2023, but the revamped role-player will finally be showcased later today. Microsoft officially confirmed the remaster’s existence yesterday, when it announced a livestream in honour of its reveal, which will take place at 4pm BST today on Bethesda’s YouTube channel. Beyond the game’s reveal, several insiders have claimed this presentation will see a shadowdrop of the remaster too, allowing you to buy and download it straight away. According to games website MP1st, The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion remaster will launch on Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC on the same day it is revealed, aka today. It is also expected to land on Xbox Game Pass at the same time. This has since been corroborated by insider eXtas1s, who said he ‘can 100% confirm this’, in response to the report. Last month, reliable insider NateTheHate, who has accurately leaked a bunch of information about the Switch 2 recently, also claimed this might be the case. In a post on X, he said both the ‘release and reveal’ of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion remaster are ‘targeting’ April. ‘The gap between the reveal and release will be minimal – a shadowdrop is possible,’ he added. After Ninja Gaiden 2 Black and Hi-Fi Rush, it’s clear Microsoft is a fan of shadowdrops, but it seems like an odd launch strategy for The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, considering the series’ popularity. This is hardly a cult title that needs a gimmicky launch in order to attract attention. More Trending Based on the game’s file size, the upgraded version looks to be more substantial than the ‘remastered’ name suggests. According to dataminer XOX_Leak, it will take up 120GB in total, which is more than 26 times bigger than the original game’s 4.6GB. According to prior leaks, The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion remastered is developed by Virtuos in collaboration with Bethesda. The former is primarily known as a support studio across many big gaming franchises, including the upcoming remake of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Bethesda is currently working on the next mainline instalment in The Elder Scrolls series, but it isn’t expected to launch for several years yet. It’s due a makeover (Bethesda) Email gamecentral@metro.co.uk, leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader’s Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. GameCentral Sign up for exclusive analysis, latest releases, and bonus community content. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Your information will be used in line with our Privacy Policy

By Vanessa Taylor Published April 21, 2025 | Comments (0) | A person in their car pulling up the Uber app on their phone. © Getty On Monday, the FTC announced that it is suing Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices surrounding its subscription service, Uber One. In its complaint, the FTC claimed that Uber would enroll customers without their consent and bill those who were using a free trial early. Despite its “cancel anytime” promise, Uber also made the process needlessly difficult. Some people had to navigate up to 23 screens to cancel, while others were told to contact customer support without being given a way to reach them. For those who actually got through to customer support, some were still billed for another cycle while waiting to hear back. “Americans are tired of getting signed up for unwanted subscriptions that seem impossible to cancel,” the FTC’s Chairman Andrew Ferguson said in a press release. “The Trump-Vance FTC is fighting back on behalf of the American people. Today, we’re alleging that Uber not only deceived consumers about their subscriptions, but also made it unreasonably difficult for customers to cancel.” Uber has allegedly violated the FTC Act and the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act. But the FTC isn’t only side-eyeing sign-up and cancellation processes. According to its complaint, Uber claims its subscription services will save customers $25 a month due to benefits like $0 delivery at select stores or discounted services. (Currently, Uber’s site boasts that members save on average $27 per month.) However, the FTC claims that number is inaccurate and doesn’t account for the subscription’s monthly cost. According to CNBC, Uber spokesperson Noah Edwardsen denied the FTC’s claims via email, writing that the company’s processes “are clear, simple, and follow the letter and spirit of the law.” He added, “Uber does not sign up or charge consumers without their consent, and cancellations can now be done anytime in-app and take most people 20 seconds or less.” This isn’t the first time that the FTC has taken action against Uber. In 2017, Uber agreed to pay the FTC $20 million after misleading prospective drivers, and months later, the company also agreed to regular audits after lying about privacy protections. However, that’s not to say the FTC has always been a big help when it comes to companies like Uber. In 2018, Uber even avoided FTC fines over a 2016 data breach that it paid hackers to cover up. In December, Uber and its CEO Dara Khosrowshahi joined a long list of tech companies and executives trying to woo the then-incoming president Trump with donations to his inaugural fund. But last month, Ferguson told CNBC that Big Tech is one of the FTC’s priorities. Now, Uber is the first company that the FTC has taken action against in Trump’s second term. Daily Newsletter You May Also Like By AJ Dellinger Published April 16, 2025 By AJ Dellinger Published March 27, 2025 By Matt Novak Published March 19, 2025 By AJ Dellinger Published March 18, 2025 By Lucas Ropek Published March 14, 2025 By AJ Dellinger Published January 30, 2025

By Ed Cara Published April 21, 2025 | Comments (0) | Antibiotics are a life-saving medication. But they have their risks. © New Africa via Shutterstock Antibiotics can be a double-edged sword, especially for very young kids. Recent research has found evidence that frequent antibiotic use can raise children’s risk of childhood asthma and allergies. Scientists at Rutgers University led the research, published this month in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. The study found that children given antibiotics before the age of two were noticeably more likely to be diagnosed with asthma and allergies later on, particularly the more antibiotics they took. The findings are the latest to suggest that antibiotics should be carefully managed in their use, the researchers say. Antibiotics are our best weapon against bacterial infections. But scientists have known for decades that they don’t come without risks. Bacteria have steadily learned how to resist these drugs, for instance, and antibiotic resistance is now one of the most pressing public health issues of our time. Another risk concerns the microbiome, the neighborhood of usually harmless and often helpful bacteria that live in or on our bodies. Many antibiotics are broad-spectrum, meaning they can kill a wide variety of bacteria, including these friendly bacteria. The splash damage caused by antibiotics might then disturb the microbiome in ways that could increase our risk of other health problems. Some research has suggested that antibiotic-triggered disruptions of the microbiome are even more harmful to children, with studies linking their use to chronic conditions like asthma. But according to the Rutgers researchers, past studies had limitations—such as small sample sizes and numerous variables to account for—issues they tried to minimize in their new study. The researchers analyzed the medical records of over one million children born in the UK. They also conducted a separate analysis of children and their siblings, allowing them to compare children with similar environmental and genetic backgrounds. Overall, the researchers found that antibiotic use before age two was positively linked to a higher risk of asthma, food allergy, and allergic rhinitis (hay fever). They also found a possible association between antibiotic use and intellectual disability in general. On the positive side, they failed to find any connection between antibiotics and most other conditions they looked for, including autism spectrum disorder, celiac disease, type 1 diabetes, or anxiety. This sort of research can’t prove that antibiotics are triggering asthma in some young children, it can only suggest a correlation. But the researchers did see a higher risk of asthma in children who took more antibiotics than others, which is evidence of a dose-response effect. The same pattern was also seen when the researchers only compared children to their siblings, further strengthening a causative link. Other studies have shown that antibiotics are frequently prescribed when they shouldn’t be, such as for infections likely not caused by bacteria—a problem in children as well. A study in 2020, for instance, found that one of every four children given antibiotics in hospitals likely didn’t need them. So while further research might be warranted to confirm these links between antibiotics and certain chronic childhood conditions like asthma, the take-home message should remain the same: We need to rein in our use of these vital, but not risk-free, medications, perhaps even more so in kids. “Antibiotics are important and sometimes life-saving medicines, but not all infections in young kids need to be treated with antibiotics,” said lead author Daniel Horton, an associate professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers School of Public Health, in a statement from the university. “Parents should continue to consult with their children’s doctors on the best course of care.” Daily Newsletter You May Also Like By Ed Cara Published March 24, 2025 By Ed Cara Published March 18, 2025 By Margherita Bassi Published December 22, 2024 By Ed Cara Published December 14, 2024 By Ed Cara Published December 2, 2024 By Ed Cara Published November 28, 2024

Wellbeing and Slow Spaces: Can Architecture Distort the Way We Experience Time?Presented by:Save this picture!Son Tra Art Exhibition Center, Vietnam / Ho Khue Architects. Image © Hiroyuki OkiA good conversation can make time feel like it's passing more quickly. But is this effect solely due to the verbal exchange, or could our perception of time be shaped by the spatial conditions surrounding us? There are environments that, due to their scale, distribution, and atmosphere, are conducive to meeting, listening, or pausing, thereby influencing the human experience. Perhaps it's not the words we share, but the space in which we speak that truly shapes our understanding of time. Some sociological theories about our society and the built environment go beyond considering it as a mere physical container and suggest that architecture, in its very duality, can act as both an inhibitor and a catalyst for our temporal experiences, impacting our wellbeing.Two perspectives offer complementary insights into how the relationship between space, time, and subject can shape our perception of time, whether it feels diluted or extended. One comes from Georg Simmel, who presents hypotheses about the effects of urban life in "The Metropolis and Mental Life". In an unavoidably accelerated environment, the urban individual develops a modern, detached personality shaped by an overwhelming array of stimuli, many of which are negative.From another angle, Henri Lefebvre conceives space as a social construction. He introduces a spatial triad: the perceived, the conceived, and the lived as superimposed layers, where seeking denser and more experience-laden moments becomes necessary. These perspectives provide a framework for understanding how design can modulate our time consciousness. Save this picture!Architecture in the Face of Environmental Agitation and HyperstimulationSimmel highlights the impact of speed and overstimulation in modern life. This opens the door to reflecting on how architectural typologies or design gestures might reinforce or counteract that acceleration. From this, one can conclude that architects are challenged to consider how densified environments with multiple functions, forced circulations, or a lack of transitional spaces can intensify the sensation of compressed time.Save this picture!The traditional vision around transportation infrastructures, large shopping malls, or circulation-controlled corporate buildings usually responds to a logic of efficiency, oriented toward optimizing time and movement. However, it is vital to consider the possibility of a model that, without contradicting the conditions necessary for operation —and even the business model of a building— incorporates pause without a commercial or operational reason as part of the definition of spatial quality. Stimulating actions, such as drifting, permanence, or shelter, can invite a more leisurely perception of the environment, opening up space for forms of inhabiting that are less subordinated to urgency. Hyperstimulation and densification do not imply that cities or specific typologies cannot be wellbeing spaces, but the rhythm embedded in them can intensify acceleration. Wellbeing is not merely an individual choice; architecture can actively shape its rhythm by welcoming urban life and promoting more balanced, responsive ways of living.Save this picture!Designing Time and Space Through Deceleration and ProgressionLefebvre's triad provides valuable insights for designing spaces that encourage pause. By thinking of space not only as a physical object (the perceived) but also as a conceptual construct (the conceived) and a bodily experience (the lived), architects can integrate notions of rhythm, sequence, and experience into their designs. Thus, we consider a public library not only as a container for books but also as a temporary framework that enables concentration. A waiting room is a transitory space and a setting for group breaks or spontaneous encounters.We can learn a lot from typologies intended for religious worship, such as monasteries, chapels, or mosques, which construct spatial experiences through compartmentalized layouts or atmospheres defined by scale, materiality, light, or pathways, directly affecting how we inhabit the minutes and hours. Save this picture!Save this picture!In these types of environments, the space guides movement through the design of exterior pathways and interior corridors, promoting slow and deliberate actions. At the same time, interior courtyards and closed or semi-closed structures generate a sense of progression or transition. Other elements present along the route or in specific spaces, such as daylight and views, can act as markers of temporality and simultaneously become focal points for contemplation, either through the integration of carefully defined artificial or natural elements. While these sequences may be associated with rituals that reinforce these qualities, studying the role of these structures can inspire the design of environments where activities are structured to encourage a more intentional experience of time.Save this picture!An example of intended progression is the work of Pritzker Prize winner Liu Jiakun. In his project MOCA Chengdu, immersed in an environment lacking vitality, the path becomes a key tool for modulating the scale of the built structures, allowing for a less intrusive and much more prolonged experience over time. A similar phenomenon occurs in Saya Park, designed by Álvaro Siza and Carlos Castanheira. In the project team's words: "We enter the Art Pavilion as if entering a sculpture that absorbs us and enables us to feel space, light, shade, time, and also, what is before and what is beyond".We can apply this same approach to the interiors of offices, public squares, museums, schools, and even shopping centers, where offering a platform that modulates the rhythm of activities should be viewed not as a loss, but as part of the experience of inhabiting. When we discuss spatial quality, we often find it intertwined with the quality of time.Save this picture!Save this picture!Generally, this idea of wellbeing and pause through architecture requires a contextualized look for reflection. Simmel's ideas emerged in the context of Berlin's rapid growth in the 19th century. At the same time, Lefebvre formulated his ideas amid the post-war reconstruction process in 20th-century France. Both approaches respond to different historical moments and condition a vision of welfare derived from them. Today, economic and demographic data show contrasting realities: overpopulation in Asia, declining population density in Europe, accelerated growth in Africa, and climate challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean.In this scenario, spatial quality seems to be the privilege of the most developed cities or urban areas, and urgent issues prevail over the possibility of pausing or slowing down the pace; it may be tough to imagine wellbeing linked to the built environment. However, it is precisely in that pause and care-oriented architecture that one of the keys to facing many of today's challenges may lie. Rethinking space as an ally of wellbeing is not a luxury but a necessity in the face of a present that demands new, more attentive, sustainable, and humane ways of living.Save this picture!This article is part of the ArchDaily Topics: Building Wellbeing: Designing Spaces for Healing, presented in collaboration with the Hushoffice.With its line of A-class pods Hushoffice helps create acoustically balanced workplaces that offer great environment for collaboration and focus, foster employee wellbeing, and accommodate the needs of neurodiverse staff, as well as employees with motor impairments.Every month we explore a topic in-depth through articles, interviews, news, and architecture projects. We invite you to learn more about our ArchDaily Topics. And, as always, at ArchDaily we welcome the contributions of our readers; if you want to submit an article or project, contact us. Image gallerySee allShow less About this authorEnrique TovarAuthor••• Cite: Enrique Tovar. "Wellbeing and Slow Spaces: Can Architecture Distort the Way We Experience Time?" 22 Apr 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1029304/wellbeing-and-slow-spaces-can-architecture-distort-the-way-we-experience-time&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save世界上最受欢迎的建筑网站现已推出你的母语版本!想浏览ArchDaily中国吗?是否 You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream

Kristin Feireiss, Founder of the Aedes Architecture Forum, Passes Away at 82Save this picture!Kristin Feireiss, Founder of the Aedes Architecture Forum. Image © Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk via Aedes Architecture Forum, under policy of fair useKristin Feireiss, the German architecture curator, writer, and editor, passed away on April 20, 2025. With a career spanning over four decades, Feireiss played a significant role in promoting international public discourse on architecture, urban development, and social change.Born in 1942, Feireiss studied art history and philosophy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. In 1980, she co-founded the "Aedes Architecture Forum" in Berlin with Helga Retzer, establishing Europe's first private architecture gallery. After Retzer's passing in 1984, Feireiss continued to develop Aedes into an internationally recognized platform. Since 1994, in collaboration with Hans-Jürgen Commerell, she curated over 350 exhibitions and catalogues, expanding the forum's reach and impact. In 2009, the duo also founded "ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory," which received the German Innovation Prize in 2010. Save this picture! The complexity of agglomeration and city attracted me from the very beginning although the subject was quite abstract and difficult to exhibit in a stimulating way for the public. Though the topics of the exhibitions were often about architectural projects, there was an immediate kind of 'natural demand' to discuss it in the context of the city. An architect is only one actor on the stage of the city. - Kristin Feireiss, in an interview for Archaily. Related Article Kristin Feireiss on the 40 Years of Aedes, Women Empowerment and the Future of Architecture Feireiss contributed to urban discourse through both curatorial and institutional work. In 1989, she was commissioned by the cities of Berlin and Paris to develop the exhibition "Paris – Architecture and Utopia," which gained international attention. She served as director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) from 1996 to 2001, where she emphasized the role of architecture in urban transformation and led research on evolving cityscapes. She was also the commissioner of the Dutch Pavilion at the Architecture Biennale in Venice in 1996 and 2000, and served on the International Jury in 2012.Save this picture! The future of architecture? In my opinion and based on my experience, the time of the so-called star architects belongs to the past, even if there are always going to be master-minds in architecture with a strong impact on the next generation. The upcoming generation of architects, now and in the future, is aware of the fact that because of the continuously growing complexity of architecture and the built environment, architecture can only be approached successfully through interdisciplinary teamwork. - Kristin Feireiss, in an interview for Archaily Save this picture!Feireiss's contributions also include serving as a member of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize jury, highlighting her influence in recognizing and honoring significant contributions to the field. Moreover, she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit by the German government in 2001 in recognition of her efforts in enhancing the cultural landscape of architecture. was knighted in the Order of the Netherlands Lion in 2013, and received the Austrian Honorary Cross for Science and Culture in 2016. She became an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and a member of various prestigious boards and councils, including the European Cultural Parliament and the Architecture Association of Germany, BDA, Berlin.She co-developed with Hans-Jürgen Commerell the Zumtobel Group Award: Innovation for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment in 2006, curating it till the end. Her editorial work includes exhibition publiscations such as "Blank. Architecture, Apartheid and After" (1998) and "Japan: Towards Totalscape" (2001). Her recent books include "Transforming Cities. Urban Interventions in Public Space" (2015) and "Architecture in Times of Need" (2009) underscore her focus on how architectural interventions can drive sustainable and social change.Save this picture!Her work continually emphasized the importance of education in architecture, imparting a profound understanding of the built environment's role in societal development. Through her work, Feireiss focused on the intersections of architecture, society, and culture, advocating for broader public engagement in architectural practice. Her initiatives consistently promoted cross-cultural exchange and interdisciplinary dialogue, leaving a lasting influence. Image gallerySee allShow less About this authorReyyan DoganAuthor••• Cite: Reyyan Dogan. "Kristin Feireiss, Founder of the Aedes Architecture Forum, Passes Away at 82" 22 Apr 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1029348/kristin-feireiss-founder-of-the-aedes-architecture-forum-passes-away-at-82&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save世界上最受欢迎的建筑网站现已推出你的母语版本!想浏览ArchDaily中国吗?是否 You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream