Day: March 29, 2026

March 29, 2026. Trending News Worldwide

James Tolkan, known for his roles as an authoritarian figure in the Back to the Future and Top Gun films, has died. He was 94.

Tolkan died Thursday in Lake Placid, New York, where he lived, his booking agent, John Alcantar, said Saturday. A brief obituary published on the Back to the Future website said Tolkan died “peacefully”, but no cause of death was given.

March 29, 2026. On science and technology

The team from Bluesky has built another app — and this time, it’s not a social network, but an AI assistant that allows you to design your own algorithm, create custom feeds, and, one day, vibe-code your own app.

At the Atmosphere conference over the weekend, Bluesky’s former CEO, Jay Graber, now chief innovation officer, and Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee, presented the AI app, called Attie, for the first time. Conference attendees will become the initial beta testers for the new experience, which leverages Anthropic’s Claude under the hood to create an agentic social app built on Bluesky’s underlying protocol, the AT Protocol (or atproto for short).

March 29, 2016. Flood Control Project Scandal Monitor

MANILA, Philippines — State-owned Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) has approved a P2-billion loan to the local government of Kabankalan City in Negros Occidental to fund infrastructure projects that will address decades-long flooding.

☕ March 29, 2026. PH Trending News

MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Loren Legarda will file a bill to address the impact of the Middle East crisis, similar to the pandemic-time Bayanihan Law.

Legarda yesterday said her proposed “Bayanihan Power to the People Act” or “Bayanihan 3” seeks to establish a government framework to help affected Filipino households.