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His Buller launched more than 100 rockets on Tuesday towards Haifa in northern Israel

as Israel expanded its ground operation to southwest Lebanon.

Meanwhile Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, said that Israel, quote,

took out the successes to Hezbollah's slain leader Hassan Nasrallah.

Israel's defense minister separately said that

Hashem Safiadine, Mr Nasrala's likely replacement, was probably

killed in a strike last week.

Mr Netanyahu said the replacement of the replacement had also been killed, though it was unclear to whom he was referring. States sued Tik-Tock, a short video app for harming children's mental health.

The States want Tik-Tock to change product features, which they say are intentionally

addictive.

The app's position in America is already precarious.

It is a subsidiary of Bight Dance, a Chinese tech darling,

which has fueled fears that the Chinese government could use it to spy on American citizens.

John Hopfield and Jeffrey Hinton won the Nobel Prize in physics for foundational discoveries

that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.

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