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A stunning heist at Toronto's Pearson airport is raising serious questions about inside knowledge. More than twenty-two million dollars in gold bars and cash was stolen from an Air Canada cargo warehouse, and investigators say a worker there received two mysterious phone calls just before the theft — a detail that suggests this was anything but random.
Turning to student finances, the U.S. Department of Education has extended a key deadline for loan borrowers looking to lower their interest rates. The original cutoff was September thirtieth, but borrowers now have additional time to enroll in the rate reduction program, which will remain in effect through June twenty twenty-eight — meaningful relief for millions still carrying federal debt.
And in a candid moment worth noting, actor Ben Affleck recently opened up about his long relationship with technology, describing how he taught himself to write what he called pretty rough Python scripts, and explaining how machine learning has quietly been part of Hollywood's visual effects workflow for years. It's a reminder that the line between creative and technical work keeps getting harder to find.
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