DAILY NEWS DIGEST
August 17, 2025
100 DAYS OF POPE LEO XIV: A CALM PAPACY THAT AVOIDS POLEMICS IS COMING INTO FOCUS
Leo, though, has cemented Francis’ environmental legacy by celebrating the first-ever ecologically inspired Mass. He has furthered that legacy by giving the go-ahead for the Vatican to turn a 430-hectare (1,000-acre) field north of Rome into a vast solar farm that should generate enough energy to meet Vatican City’s needs and turn it into the world’s first carbon-neutral state.
THIEVES STEAL $2 MILLION IN JEWELRY FROM SEATTLE STORE IN JUST 90 SECONDS
Four masked suspects allegedly used hammers to smash a locked front glass door, then destroyed six display cases, police said. One glass case held between $700,000 and $800,000 in Rolex luxury watches, while another held an emerald necklace valued at $125,000.
PARENTS FACE $2,000 FINES OR 90 DAYS IN JAIL IF THEIR CHILDREN BREAK LAWS IN NEW JERSEY
The council has identified 28 crimes that could result in parents being fined or jailed. Some of these crimes include felonies, disorderly conduct, associating with thieves, gambling, and idly roaming the streets, among others. The new consequences come one year after a massive brawl erupted at a community drone show in South Jersey.
FUTURE HUMANS ‘WILL BE HAIRLESS & LOSE FOUR OTHER BODY PARTS’
Researchers are particularly focused on how modern comforts, reduced physical activity, and medical advances could reshape our anatomy in ways previously only seen in evolutionary theory. For example, our ancestors historically relied on the appendix to digest cellulose-rich plants. This organ may have been a handy tool for digesting tough, fibrous material, but today, it’s mostly redundant. Modern cooked and processed diets mean we no longer need it to break down food.
NEW RESEARCH FINDS THAT CHATGPT SECRETLY HAS A DEEP ANTI-HUMAN BIAS
If AIs continue to be widely adopted and integrated into the economy, the researchers predict that companies and institutions will use AIs “as decision-assistants when dealing with large volumes of ‘pitches’ in any context,” they wrote in the study. This would lead to widespread discrimination against humans who either choose not to use or can’t afford to pay to use LLM tools.
