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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN

(CNN) — A German tourist has died after being bitten by a snake while on vacation in Egypt, authorities have said.

The 57-year-old man, who has not been identified, had attended a snake-charmer show while on vacation with his family when he was bitten by the animal earlier this month, according to German police, who didn’t release the exact date of the incident.

The family-of-three from the Unterallgäu region of Germany were staying in a holiday resort in Hurghada along the Red Sea coast in Egypt, a press statement from the Bavarian Police confirmed on Monday.

During their stay, they attended the show, which was part of the entertainment program at their hotel. It involved two snakes, believed to be cobras, which the “charmer” hung around the necks of people in the audience, police said.

But the deadly incident apparently occured when one of the snakes managed to get inside the German tourist’s clothing, according to the police statement.

“One of the snakes crawled into the trousers of a 57-year-old man, resulting in a bite to the German tourist’s leg,” it said. “He subsequently exhibited clear symptoms of poisoning and required resuscitation.”

The man was taken to a nearby hospital, where he later died.

An investigation has been launched into the circumstances surrounding the man’s death by the Memmingen Criminal Police Inspectorate and the results of a toxicological examination are pending, officials said.

According to the World Health Organization, around 81,000 to 138,000 people die globally each year from snakebites, while about three times that amount lead to amputations and other permanent disabilities.

CNN has reached out to the Egyptian authorities about the incident.

CNN’s Sebastian Shukla, Stephanie Halasz and Nadeen Ebrahim contributed to this report.

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Taylor Swift presentó nuevas solicitudes de marca registrada para dos clips de voz y una imagen que, según un abogado especializado en marcas, están “diseñadas específicamente” para proteger a la superestrella del pop de las amenazas que plantea la Inteligencia Artificial.

Las solicitudes ponen de relieve los desafíos que la IA supone para la industria del entretenimiento, ya que las herramientas de IA generan videos realistas con artistas conocidos e inundan las plataformas de streaming con música digital.

Las solicitudes de Swift se presentaron el viernes ante la Oficina de Patentes y Marcas de Estados Unidos y se suman a cientos de otras solicitudes de marca que figuran a nombre de su empresa, TAS Rights Management, como propietaria.

Lo que distingue a estas solicitudes es la inclusión de “marcas sonoras”, que son una “categoría menos conocida de protección marcaria”, escribió el lunes en un blog Josh Gerben, abogado de marcas con sede en Estados Unidos y fundador de Gerben IP. “Intentar registrar la voz hablada de una celebridad es un uso nuevo del registro de marcas que no se ha puesto a prueba en los tribunales antes”, señaló.

En uno de los clips de audio, se escucha a Swift decir: “Hola, soy Taylor Swift, y puedes escuchar mi nuevo álbum, ‘The Life of a Showgirl’, a demanda, en Amazon Music Unlimited”.

En el otro clip, dice: “¡Hola! Soy Taylor. Mi nuevo álbum ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ sale el 3 de octubre y puedes hacer clic para preguardarlo para que puedas escucharlo en Spotify”.

La imagen que Swift busca proteger es una fotografía suya en el escenario sosteniendo una guitarra rosa y vistiendo un atuendo con lentejuelas, un look icónico de su reciente gira mundial Eras Tour.

Según Gerben, el actor Matthew McConaughey presentó solicitudes similares en los últimos meses para proteger su voz y su imagen, “poniendo a prueba nuevas teorías sobre cómo funcionará el derecho marcario en la era de la IA”.

Las solicitudes llegan en un momento en que las leyes tradicionales de derechos de autor, que protegen las obras de los artistas contra la imitación, no logran resguardar frente al contenido generado por IA. “Las tecnologías de IA ahora permiten a los usuarios generar contenido completamente nuevo que imita la voz de un artista sin copiar una grabación existente, creando un vacío que las marcas podrían ayudar a llenar”, dijo Gerben.

En teoría, Swift podría alegar en una demanda que cualquier uso de su voz que suene como la marca registrada —o imágenes generadas por IA de ella con un mono y una guitarra— viola sus derechos, añadió.

Swift ha presentado más de 300 solicitudes de marca registrada solo en Estados Unidos, una estrategia que ayuda a “reforzar” su marca, según Leticia Caminero, abogada de propiedad intelectual en la Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual.

CNN se comunicó con los abogados de Taylor Swift para obtener comentarios.

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By Katie Hunt, CNN

(CNN) — “Terrain ahead. Pull up!”

It’s a command that should only be heard in a disaster movie or flight simulator. But pilots and aviation experts say such warnings have been increasingly sparking alarm in cockpits as bogus signals from global positioning satellites hit commercial flights.

The disruption of GPS signals has become endemic in conflict zones, including the region now impacted by the Iran war, affecting planes on routes that skirt hot spots for military activity in the Middle East, Baltic Sea and Black Sea. In cases of GPS interference, an airplane’s ground proximity warning system may lock onto a false signal, triggering unsettling warnings even though the plane is flying at a safe altitude.

“I have fellow pilots that encounter this on a regular basis. That’s the true danger. It’s becoming normalized,” said Captain Ron Hay, president of the International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations, which represents over 160,000 pilots in more than 70 countries. Hay, who works for Delta Air Lines, said he feared that pilots might lose trust in critical safety systems as they become desensitized to these warnings.

In addition to harrowing phantom pull up commands, flights encountering these spoofed signals experience abnormal system responses such as map shifts, where the aircraft location on the cockpit screen moves miles from the actual flight path, or when a plane is on the runway ready for takeoff, systems may erroneously suggest it’s elsewhere, according to a 2026 resource guide from the US Federal Aviation Administration.

Around 900 flights each day are affected by GPS interference, according to Benoit Figuet, a research associate at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences and founder of SkAI Data Services, which since 2024 has tracked such incidents on its site GPSWise.

Cockpits are seeing their digital navigation displays “become a work of fiction” said a commercial pilot, who didn’t want to be identified because he was not permitted to speak publicly. He said that pilots sometimes have to turn off the “terrain inhibit switch” to silence alarms from ground proximity warning systems, manually decouple clocks from GPS and rely on ground-based systems “like it’s the 1970s.”

Pilots can use radar, inertial navigation tools and navigate using ground-based transmitters when GPS fails or becomes unreliable. But because GPS is embedded in multiple systems on board an aircraft, spoofed signals can flow through and affect several different tools such as aircraft clocks, weather radar and passenger Wi-Fi. Ultimately the interference can lead to flight disruptions and delays as confusion descends on the nerve center of a plane.

Easy to overpower

Global Navigation Satellite Systems, or GNSS, such as the most widely used US satellite-based system, GPS, are an intrinsic, if largely invisible, part of the modern world. With the flip of a switch, GNSS allows for the calculation of precise location and the exact time, no matter where you are.

But the signals powering these systems — comparable to the strength of a couple of light bulbs — are easy to overcome be

Happy Tuesday! We begin the morning with a few pockets of fog and portions of marine layer influence. A partly cloudy to mostly clear evening is ahead and high temperatrues rise a few degrees from days prior.

We warm further Wednesday with a small chance of monsoonal moisture and isolated showers developing by the evening. Most of the Central Coast is near 10% chance or less and all rain a mounts will be dismal. Highs rise into the 60s and low 70s and winds may be breezy at times.

Partly cloudy skies and fog appear once again Thursday morning and will only last a few hours. Low pressure spins to the east bringing an small chance in our weather pattern. Expect more clouds and light onshore winds. We warm further into the weekend but this warming trend is short lived. Most data shows a cool start to May.

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