In other news: New York moves to limit ‘addictive’ social media feeds for kids; Mystery monolith appears in Nevada desert

Published 12:00 am Saturday, June 22, 2024

By The Associated Press

New York moves to limit ‘addictive’ social media feeds for kids

New York’s governor has signed a bill that would allow parents to block their children from getting social media posts suggested by a platform’s algorithm, a move to limit feeds critics argue are addictive. Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the bill Thursday but it does not immediately take effect. Under the legislation, social media feeds for people under the age of 18 would be limited to posts from accounts they follow, rather than content suggested by an automated algorithm. A tech industry trade group criticized the legislation as an unconstitutional restriction on free speech.

Gleaming monolith pops up in Nevada desert, the latest in a series of quickly vanishing structures

A strange monolith has been found jutting out of a remote mountain peak near Las Vegas. The discovery comes several years after a similar structure appeared in Utah and then suddenly vanished 10 days later. Now the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it’s trying to figure out if the latest monolith is still there. That’s because it was a Las Vegas police search and rescue unit that apparently found the shiny rectangular prism over the weekend in an area of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge’s acting manager says people shouldn’t try to find it because an influx of visitors could disturb the fragile ecosystem.

Donald Sutherland, the towering actor whose career spanned ‘M.A.S.H.’ to ‘Hunger Games,’ dies at 88

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Donald Sutherland has died at 88. Sutherland’s agents say he died in Miami on Thursday after a long illness. The Canadian actor’s career stretched from “M.A.S.H” to “JFK” to “The Hunger Games.” He was known for offbeat characters and epitomized the unpredictable, antiestablishment cinema of the 1970s. But over the decades, Sutherland shifted into a career as a respected character actor. He said he found more challenge in those roles. He never stopped working, ultimately appearing in nearly 200 films and series. He received an honorary Oscar in 2017.