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Just starting now, getting back in the drawing after surgery on both my old nerves and after many years of not doing anything with it and figured I just share.

Contractors running Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities can rely more heavily on artificial intelligence tools to communicate with detainees while continuing to pay people they hold $1 per day for “voluntary work,” under relaxed detention standards released Monday.

Defense contractor Leonardo is promoting a new technology called SignalTrace that will package plate cameras with sensors that can scrape unique identifiers tied to your smart devices and make that data available to law enforcement.

’twas a stary night in wonderland…

Speaking to CNN this week, Garcia said that the prison’s warden told the committee staff during the visit on Tuesday that Maxwell, “of the 600-plus women that are there, she is the only convicted sex offender at that facility, and he could not answer and does not know why she was actually moved there”.

The United Kingdom and Canada have imposed new sanctions to restrict Russia’s military industry and its shadow fleet of vessels.

The Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN) has published the first global map of mycorrhizal networks: vast underground fungal filaments that connect with plant roots, exchange nutrients for plant-made carbon, and may channel a significant share of carbon into soils. The map estimates roughly 110 quadrillion kilometers of these networks worldwide and is intended to help scientists and policymakers include fungi in conservation, restoration, climate agendas, and carbon models.

It’s funny how many of these have been about how uncomfortably hot/cold it is.

Millions of copyrighted songs trained AI music generators, and new searchable databases from The Atlantic now confirm which tracks were used.

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/67675776

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1201180/in-america-when-you-win-war-you-give-the-loser-300-billion-dollar-its-crazy-i-know

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All credit to Cscs https://discuss.cachyos.org/u/cscs/summary

The issue is lack of choice, not desire, says head of the United Nations Population Fund.

Spotify has been pissing me off recently. Repeated pop up (internal) ads, and now this. Are there any alternatives that don’t require selfhosting?

Twenty years ago, I met a couple with a young son who decided not to let the kid have sugar. I wonder how that might have worked out for the kid now that he’s grown.

“European Parliament weakens fundamental rights protections in the AI Act, delays enforcement of key provisions, and empowers Big Tech companies. The adopted text makes it more difficult to protect people from invasive AI, empowers industry actors and begins the dismantlement of digital protections in Europe”

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/62352198

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/62352138

Grab your wallets!

The department cited national security concerns, saying Elon Musk’s company had played a crucial role in the Iran war. It also argued it has the authority to stop environmental lawsuits brought by citizens.

Blahaj.zone experienced a security breach and is handling it to properly reduce the risk of harm to their users. the current eta for their reture is in about 7 hours.