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A Guide to Chicago’s South Side, Home of the New Obama Center

The Obama Presidential Center, opening on June 19, is poised to attract visitors to an often-overlooked area. Here’s what you’ll find in Hyde Park and beyond.

The $850-million Obama Presidential Center will introduce visitors to an area they have largely overlooked in favor of downtown attractions. Above, the sculpture of the Obamas outside the center was created by StudioEIS, a Brooklyn-based design studio.

Meta A.I. Bug Allowed Hackers to Take Over Instagram Accounts

10 June 2026 at 00:51
The flaw, which Meta said it had fixed, allowed anyone to take over accounts using a bug in the company’s new artificial intelligence software.

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Of the 34,000 accounts, 20,000 were breached, giving hackers access to the account holders’ email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and other personal data.

Blue books won’t save our children from AI

9 June 2026 at 16:30
The federal government must enact human-centric regulations for AI before it's too late to protect children and preserve human agency, and the Every Student Succeeds Act must be reauthorized to account for the AI economy.

Blue books won’t save our children from AI

9 June 2026 at 16:30
The federal government must enact human-centric regulations for AI before it's too late to protect children and preserve human agency, and the Every Student Succeeds Act must be reauthorized to account for the AI economy.

Marvin Dunn, the Miami historian challenging Trump’s presidential library: ‘This is commercial benefit for the family directly’

1 June 2026 at 19:09
Marvin Dunn at his community urban farm in Overtown, Miami, May 27.

Marvin Dunn moves with surprising agility among the beds of lettuce, cabbage, and potatoes on his community farm in Overtown, a historic Black neighborhood in Miami that was fractured by the construction of the interstate highway in the 1960s. The farm, squeezed between I-95 and the high-rises packed into nearby downtown, is a kind of oasis where the 85-year-old historian — one of the most recognized voices on the history of segregation in Florida — hosts talks, distributes banned books, and is now preparing a new legal battle to stop construction of Donald Trump’s presidential library a little over 1,000 meters away.

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View of the Miami Dade College land under consideration for the possible construction of Donald Trump’s presidential library, in Miami, Florida.Crops at Dunn’s Overtown Farm.Marvin Dunn inspects crops at Dunn’s Overtown Farm on May 27.
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