go to the site, use the tool. where ever you are. Keep voicing your stance on this issue.

AP Senior Product Manager for AI Aimee Rinehart wrote in internal company Slack messages referring to the Plain Dealer’s parent company. “Resistance is futile.”

Caitlin Kalinowski, head of robotics and consumer hardware at OpenAI, announced her resignation on Saturday, citing ​concerns about the company’s agreement with the Department ‌of Defense.

Whenever I want to just shut my brain off and mindlessly play a game, I have this game of 2048 on a 7x7 grid on my phone. I have been playing this same ongoing grid nearly every day, a few minutes at a time, for literally months. Because it is on a much larger grid than the standard 4x4, it takes nearly zero thought/effort and is difficult to actually lose (though definitely not impossible). Recently, I finally achieved a tile valued at 2,097,152. To be clear: you probably shouldn’t be too impressed by this. It really takes no skill to do this, just a lot of time. I thought someone might find this mildly interesting or something.

Once the site of an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II, Camp East Montana is made up of six long tents at the Fort Bliss Army base outside of El Paso. On an average day, the facility holds around 3,000 detainees who are living in harsh conditions: They lack sufficient food and often go without proper medical care, according to AP’s review of 130 calls made to 911. Those calls took place in just about five months—from when the tents were quickly constructed in mid-August to January 20.

The base has seen bomber planes arrive from the USA to carry out strikes against Iran

Does the US really want to play this game? 90% of Israel’s water comes from desalination plants, and now we’ve given Iran the justification to strike back in a similar manner.

Over the past few weeks, several US banks have pulled off from lending to Oracle for expanding its AI data centres, as per a report.

Indonesia is the latest country to block social media, saying the apps pose “increasingly real threats” to young people.

In a post on X, Araghchi emphasised that the US has set a dangerous precedent by targeting Iran’s infrastructure.

While TikTok operates in the United States under new ownership, Apple has deployed technical restrictions to block iOS users in the United States from downloading other apps made by the video platform’s Chinese parent organization ByteDance.

A federal judge in Oregon on Friday limited federal officers’ use of tear gas during protests at a Portland federal immigration building, as part of a lawsuit filed by an adjacent affordable housing complex following months of repeated exposure.

Meta’s approach to user privacy is under renewed scrutiny following a Swedish report that employees of a Meta subcontractor have watched footage captured by Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses showing sensitive user content.

U.S. patients travel to Cuba for NeuralCIM, a promising Alzheimer’s treatment. Plus: WBC visa denials, reforms and solar panels across Cuba this week.

As of today, about half of all U.S. states have some form of age verification law around. Nine of those were passed in 2025 alone, covering everything from adult content sites to social media platforms to app stores.

Planet Labs, one of the world’s leading commercial satellite imaging companies, said Friday it is placing a hold on releasing imagery of some parts of the Middle East as a regional war enters its second week.

According to sources familiar with the matter, the White House is preventing major U.S. intelligence agencies from warning law enforcement across the country about the growing threats to the nation linked to the war with Iran.

This is awesome.

Art by Clay Graham (source)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43968625

*The MoD said the preparedness of HMS Prince of Wales is being increased, reducing the time it would take for it be deployed*

Then, late last month, Wu was with a group of friends in Maine and “called emergency services to assist a person attempting suicide.”

*The 35-year-old inmate ‘freely” admitted to having sex with the woman, saying ‘look at the video,’ police said*

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The idea of the lizard brain first emerged and rose to popularity in the 1960s and 1970s, based on comparative anatomical studies. Parts of the mammalian brain, neuroscientist Paul MacLean noticed, were very similar to parts of the reptilian brain. This led him to the conclusion that the brain had evolved in stages, after life moved to land.

Wikipedia editors have implemented new policies and restricted a number of contributors who were paid to use AI to translate existing Wikipedia articles into other languages after they discovered these AI translations added AI “hallucinations,” or errors, to the resulting article.

Core Architecture

It is worth noting that both the hardware and software of Fairphone is heavily dependent on a Chinese company T2Mobile.

About a year and a half ago, I wrote about my kid’s experience with an AI checker tool that was pre-installed on a school-issued Chromebook. The assignment had been to write an essay about Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron—a story about a dystopian society that enforces “equality” by handicapping anyone who excels—and the AI detection tool flagged the essay as “18% AI written.” The culprit? Using the word “devoid.” When the word was swapped out for “without,” the score magically dropped to 0%.

Stolen from: https://climatejustice.social/@lacybarry/116132309371603955