Amid intense backlash, the head of the American Diabetes Association posted a video Wednesday apologizing for the organization's decision on Friday to forcefully remove five leading diabetes scientists from the association's annual meeting.

The scientists were ejected for handing out copies of an April editorial—published in the ADA's own journal Diabetes Care—that sharply criticizes the Trump administration for the damage and destruction it's wreaking on biomedical research. The five scientists included Steven Kahn, professor of medicine at the University of Washington, who is the editor-in-chief of Diabetes Care and a co-author of the editorial. It also included former ADA President Desmond Schatz of the University of Florida.

The scientists were distributing the editorial outside the conference's opening speech, which was originally scheduled to be given by Jay Bhattacharya, head of the National Institutes of Health under Trump. Bhattacharya canceled at the last minute, and senior NIH official Rick Woychik took his place.

Within minutes of beginning to hand out the editorial, police reportedly escorted the scientists out of the conference, which was held in New Orleans. The police reportedly shoved at least one scientist, took all of their conference badges, and threatened to arrest them if they tried to return. Louisiana State Police later told media that they acted at the request of the ADA. The ADA subsequently barred the five scientists from the rest of the conference.

In the video Wednesday, ADA CEO Charles Henderson personally apologized to the five scientists, including Aaron Kelly, pediatrics professor at the University of Minnesota; Justin Ryder of Northwestern University; and Irl Hirsch, also of the University of Washington, in addition to Kahn and Schatz.

"What transpired is not reflective of who I am, the values I hold, or the way I was raised," Henderson said. "I will work hard to bring our community back together to build on the progress we have collectively made for those affected by diabetes."

While the ousting immediately stunned and outraged members of the diabetes research community, Henderson's video is in sharp contrast to the ADA's series of statements over the past several days that tried to justify the decision. At first, a media team for the ADA told MedPage Today that "these attendees were escorted out by our onsite event security because they demonstrated behavior not consistent with this code of conduct" for the conference.

"Fatuous nonsense"

In an email to ADA members Saturday, the association said the scientists were removed because they didn't have prior approval to distribute material at the conference and that it was "not because of the viewpoints expressed in those materials," according to reporting from Science.

In a statement Sunday, the organization, which is a nonprofit, said it removed the scientists because it was complying with federal regulations for 501(c)(3) nonprofit, which requires "maintaining a strictly nonpartisan environment at all organizational events and functions while engaging across party affiliations to advance our mission." However, the federal regulations do not restrict leaders of organizations from sharing political views in a personal capacity or from speaking on important public policy issues.

News and video of the incident took off on social media, drawing condemnation and driving a traffic spike to the editorial. Several ADA leaders have resigned amid the backlash. A fiery letter signed by more than 40 ADA officials blasted the decision as "outrageous" and the justifications as "unpersuasive" and "fatuous nonsense." The community is "overwhelmingly repulsed by the way this unfortunate event has occurred and been excused and justified by the Association leadership," the leaders wrote. They demanded "an immediate and unconditional public apology," as well as a review of the incident.

An open letter to the ADA, titled "Shame on You," similarly called for an apology. The attacks from the Trump administration are "bad enough, but the seeming endorsement by the ADA of the current administration's approach to science and of its attacks on freedom of speech is unconscionable." The letter has gathered over 6,500 signatures at the time of publication.

In addition to apologizing to the five ejected scientists, Henderson apologized to the community as a whole, saying that the ADA would commission a "thorough independent review of the events that occurred as well as the policies, procedures, and decision-making process that guided our actions."

"We want to make sure that such incidents do not reoccur," he said.

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For the first time, the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists (ACOG) has released its own recommendations for maternal vaccination, providing formal guidance that diverges from that of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention amid unprecedented policy changes and meddling from anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

ACOG President Camille Clare blamed "changing national recommendations coupled with rampant vaccine misinformation" for the confusion among patients and health care professionals about vaccines during pregnancy.

"It is incredibly important for the public to have access to reliable, evidence-based information on maternal immunizations from a trusted source. ACOG is proud to be that source," Clare said in a statement.

ACOG's 2026 Maternal Immunization Schedule differs most significantly from the CDC's current schedule by including recommendations for COVID-19 and seasonal influenza vaccines. Those vaccines have been dropped from the CDC's recommendations under Kennedy, in conflict with scientific evidence and amid strong opposition from medical organizations.

Currently, the CDC recommends only two immunizations during pregnancy: Tdap (against tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis) and RSV (against respiratory syncytial virus). ACOG's new guidance recommends influenza, COVID-19, RSV, and Tdap vaccines. It also provides clear recommendations for additional vaccines for certain populations, as well as vaccinations recommended during postpartum and while breastfeeding.

Medical organizations revolt

"Immunizations are an essential part of prepregnancy, prenatal, and postpartum care," said ACOG Chief of Clinical Practice Christopher Zahn in a statement. "As OB-GYNs, we have the power to combat vaccine misinformation on our own platforms, help our patients make educated decisions, and increase confidence in vaccination overall."

Thirteen other medical organizations have already endorsed ACOG's new vaccine recommendations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Academy of Family Physicians, the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health, and the American College of Nurse-Midwives.

AAP President Andrew Racine highlighted the need for such guidance, citing the vulnerability of babies. "Their immune systems are still developing, and in those first months of life, they rely on us—the adults around them—to help keep them safe. Maternal vaccines are one of the most effective ways to protect not only the mother but her newborn as well."

Like ACOG, AAP has also released its own childhood vaccine schedule, which conflicts with the CDC's schedule under Kennedy. And like AAP's, its recommendations have been endorsed by a dozen other medical organizations, including the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

The AAP has led the charge against Kennedy's anti-vaccine agenda, spearheading a lawsuit against changes that Kennedy has made to federal vaccine recommendations and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), an influential panel of advisors the CDC relies on to set policy. That litigation, which is ongoing, led to a temporary injunction in March that reversed many changes to CDC's vaccine schedule and blocked most of Kennedy's hand-selected ACIP members.

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Potentially impacting all AI search engines and chatbots known to poorly paraphrase source links, a German court has ruled that Google is liable for false statements in AI Overviews.

The preliminary ruling came in a case flagged by The Decoder, where two publishers found that Google's AI Overviews incorrectly linked them to scams and other sketchy business practices. After smearing publishers by making affirmative statements like "Yes, [it] is known for dubious business practices and is often perceived as a scam," Google failed to correct the misleading output, even after the publishers sent a cease-and-desist letter earlier this year.

Google tried the usual arguments to shield itself from liability for false statements in AI Overviews, such as arguing that most users understand that AI outputs aren't always accurate and must be verified.

But the court found that, unlike traditional search engines that merely present lists of links to third-party statements, Google's tool made "independent, new, and substantive statements" based on its own misinterpretation of links on the Internet.

That's a problem, the court said, because while publishers may have been able to sue to stop third parties from publishing defamatory statements appearing in Google search results, only Google can correct the underlying algorithm and outputs displayed in AI Overviews. And because, at least initially, the company did not, it therefore "must be held accountable," the court ruled. Beyond that, Google's argument was deemed particularly weak, since the AI overview in this case "contains statements that do not appear in the search results at all."

The court's order—requiring a temporary injunction barring Google from spreading the false claims in any further AI Overviews—may have global implications, as the court seems to be the first to hold an AI firm liable for AI speech.

In the past, AI firms have hoped that disclaimers warning about misinformation would protect them from lawsuits over untrustworthy outputs. Last year, one chatbot maker even argued that AI speech is its own category of "pure speech" and the First Amendment should protect it.

According to a Google translation of the German court ruling, however, the false outputs were "primarily an expression of the defendant’s commercial activity," and the AI tool's "opinions" and false statements were capable of impacting public opinion.

The court concluded that, in weighing the balance, publishers' interest in removing the false information outweighed Google's commercial speech rights.

AI is not necessary to search the web

Historically, any potentially harmful content surfaced by search engines has been protected from direct liability because that surfacing was considered largely unavoidable when helping users sort through an enormous tangle of information online. But the German court emphasized that AI search engines do not enjoy those same protections because AI summaries merely provide "an additional function—one without which the use of the search engine would still be (and is) possible, and without which users are perfectly capable of finding results amidst the 'flood of data.'"

In other words, nobody needs AI to search the Internet, so AI firms can't just let their tools attribute false claims to fake sources without assuming any liability.

The court also seemed to take a dig at Google for expecting users not to "blindly trust" AI overviews, noting that the AI tool's utility "would be significantly diminished if the 'AI overview' were generally regarded as unreliable and if every single displayed link required independent verification."

It seems clear that's not how people approach AI search tools. The Decoder noted a Pew survey last July showing most people don't click on AI Overview source links, as well as a May analysis published by The New York Times that showed that AI Overviews with the current Gemini 3 model are inaccurate about 9 percent of the time and include inaccurate source links about 56 percent of the time.

Together, these findings suggest that Google's AI tool may be cranking out millions of wrong answers daily, with few users verifying the information. Should other courts agree that tech firms are liable for any defamatory outputs emerging from this experimental period of AI search chaos, the biggest AI leaders could find themselves soon buried in lawsuits.

It remains unclear if Google expects to appeal or perhaps start addressing requests to fix false statements in AI Overviews more quickly following the ruling.

Google will likely fight the preliminary ruling. Asked for comment, a Google spokesperson told Ars that "we invest deeply in the quality of AI Overviews to ensure that the overwhelming majority of responses provide accurate information, and they are designed to reflect the information that exists on the web. We’re carefully reviewing this decision, which is not yet final.”

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A Munich regional court has ruled (PDF) that Google can be held directly liable for false claims in AI Overviews. The case involved AI Overviews falsely linking two publishers to scams and shady business practices, with the court rejecting Google's argument that users could simply check the sources themselves. The Decoder reports: Google's AI overviews work nothing like traditional search results, the court argues. The AI rewrites and judges results "in its own words and according to its own structure," the ruling says. In the case at hand, for example, it opened with confident claims like "Yes, [company] is known for dubious business practices," then built its own structure with a summary, red flags for the alleged scam, and tips for users. The court also found that the AI overview made claims "that are not even made in the search results." None of the linked sources drew any connection between the plaintiffs and the shady companies the AI mentioned. The court called these "the defendant's own statements." Google built the AI, Google offered it to users, so Google owns what it produces, "because it alone has influence over the AI's offering and the algorithms with which the AI operates." The court also examined existing rulings from Germany's Federal Court of Justice (BGH), which gave traditional search engines and autocomplete limited liability. The BGH had argued that search engine operators were only liable as indirect infringers because they merely made third-party content findable. A proactive duty to check results would threaten how search engines work. The Munich court found that this reasoning doesn't apply to AI overviews. A regular search engine just points to outside websites. But AI overviews generate "independent, new, and substantive statements" by evaluating and combining content from various third-party sites. And only Google can check those statements, the court said, "at least by comparing the underlying third-party websites with its own statements based on them." The court also noted that the AI overview is "by no means absolutely necessary" for using the internet. Traditional search results already help users sort through information, the AI overview is just an extra feature. At the hearing, Google argued that users could check the linked sources themselves to verify if the AI summary was correct. It also said that these users knew "that information generated with AI should not be blindly trusted." The court rejected this.

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We’re back with a fresh PowerToys release! This month introduces the brand-new Shortcut Guide, a major Command Palette update with the new Extension Gallery and multi-monitor Dock support, and a wave of improvements to Power Display. We’ve also upgraded PowerToys to .NET 10, improved auto-update reliability, reduced installer size, and continued modernizing the app experience across the suite. Grab the update by checking for updates in PowerToys or by heading to heading to the release page. Let’s dive in!

Introducing the new Shortcut Guide

The new Shortcut Guide has been designed and built from the ground up. The new experience appears as a pane on the side of your screen and automatically detects the active application when invoked, showing the shortcuts that are relevant to what you’re currently doing. In addition to app-specific shortcuts, Shortcut Guide also includes a wide range of Windows shortcuts and shortcuts from enabled PowerToys utilities. Want to see if your favorite app is supported? Check out the documentation for the current list of supported applications. If you’d like to add support for another app, we’d love your help! Feel free to open a pull request, or create an issue with a link to the app’s shortcut documentation.

Big thanks to @noraa-junker all the great work on this new utility!

#47024 by @noraa-junker

Command Palette: new Extension Gallery, and multi-monitor Dock (and more!)

Command Palette was built with extensibility in mind. Developers can create their own extensions, distribute them through the Microsoft Store or WinGet, and build powerful experiences that help users get things done faster. One piece of feedback we’ve heard consistently is that discovering and installing extensions wasn’t always easy. That’s why we’re introducing the Extension Gallery. Available directly from Command Palette Settings, the Extension Gallery makes it easy to browse, discover, install, update, and remove extensions without leaving Command Palette. Whether you’re looking for new capabilities or managing existing extensions, everything is now just a few clicks away.

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The Dock has also received a major upgrade with multi-monitor support. Each monitor can now have its own independent Dock configuration, making it easy to tailor your setup for every display in your workspace. You can choose which monitors should display a Dock directly from Command Palette Settings, and the improved Pin to Dock experience now lets you choose exactly where a command should be pinned. Whether you want different tools on different screens or dedicated docks for specific workflows, configuring your setup is now more flexible than ever.

On top of that, the Performance Monitor extension has gained a new Battery widget, showing charge level, charging status, and estimated time remaining. We’ve also added support for pinning individual metrics such as CPU, Memory, GPU, Network, and Battery directly to the Dock.

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Beyond these features, we’ve shipped dozens of fixes and improvements across Command Palette, including better search experiences, reliability improvements, accessibility enhancements, performance optimizations, and extension platform updates.

A huge thanks to @jiripolasek for the sustained Command Palette work across this release!

Power Display improvements

This release focuses heavily on reliability, compatibility, and monitor detection improvements. Startup is now significantly faster on many systems, monitor identification is more reliable across reboots, and monitor settings are preserved more consistently. We’ve also introduced a new Max Compatibility Mode for displays that don’t properly advertise DDC capabilities, helping Power Display work with a wider range of monitors. Several usability improvements have landed as well. The flyout can now be dismissed using Escape, sliders support mouse wheel adjustment, and displays are automatically rescanned when your PC wakes from sleep.

ZoomIt: webcam capture and recording improvements

This release adds support for a webcam overlay while recording, making it easier to create demos, presentations, and tutorials. We’ve also added support for appending multiple clips with transitions, allowing you to stitch recordings together without leaving ZoomIt.

Foundations and platform improvements

This release, we have also focused on making the PowerToys foundations better: we’ve upgraded the project to .NET 10, helping us stay current with the latest platform improvements and tooling and making the overall experience faster! We’ve also reduced the installer footprint (by 15%), making downloads smaller and installations more efficient.

Big thanks to @snickler for driving the .NET 10 upgrade!

Auto-update has also become more reliable. PowerToys now properly relaunches after updating, provides clearer success notifications, and automatically backs up configuration files before updates so settings can be restored if corruption is detected.

As part of our ongoing modernization efforts, both Quick Accent and Workspaces have moved away from custom WPF theming libraries and now use native Fluent-inspired WPF styling. This helps them better align with the overall PowerToys experience and modern Windows design language. Workspaces in particular received a significant UX refresh, with updated typography, spacing, layout improvements, and a cleaner overall experience.

Other notable changes

• Keyboard Manager: The new WinUI 3 editor is now enabled by default.
• Mouse Without Borders: Added a new Refresh Connections action to quickly reconnect devices.
• Image Resizer: Changes to settings can now be picked up automatically without restarting the experience.
• Quick Accent: Improved reliability on high-DPI and multi-monitor setups, along with support for Greek Polytonic characters.
• Peek: Added an option to disable file preview tooltips.
• PowerToys Run: Improved calculator handling for complex-number scenarios and documented a new community Disk Analyzer plugin.

For the full list of changes and fixes, check out the complete release notes on GitHub.

Big thanks to the community

As always, a big thank-you to everyone who contributed — we couldn’t do this release without you! Thanks @jiripolasek, @Knyrps, @namdpran8, @daverayment, @Morma016, @MardSilva, @thetsaw, @guidotorresmx, @noraa-junker, @Jay-o-Way, @foxmsft, @markrussinovich, @jerone, @snickler, @P-r-e-m-i-u-m, and @mikeclayton for your pull requests!

We’re always happy to get your feedback and contributions – whether it’s a bug report, a feature idea, or a pull request. Head over to the PowerToys repo to jump in.

The full release notes can be found here.

Useful links

• PowerToys overview
• PowerToys GitHub repository
• PowerToys installation instructions

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