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Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers in its first 3 days. (www.businessinsider.in)

Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers in its first 3 days.::An AI camera system installed along a major road in England caught 300 offenses in its first 3 days.There were 180 seat belt offenses and 117 mobile phone

Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)

A patent application from the company spotted by Lowpass describes a system for displaying ads over any device connected over HDMI, a list that could include cable boxes, game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, PCs, or even other video streaming devices. Roku filed for the patent in August 2023 and it was published in November...

Baltimore bridge collapses into river after being hit by cargo ship (www.theguardian.com)

A portion of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after a large boat collided with it early on Tuesday morning, sending multiple vehicles into the water....

Linux hits 4% on the desktop 🐧 📈 (gs.statcounter.com)

Pornhub goes dark in Arkansas after age verification law kicks in (www.theverge.com)

Pornhub goes dark in Arkansas after age verification law kicks in::Pornhub operator MindGeek has blocked all users in Arkansas from the site after the state’s new age verification law went into effect.

Elon Musk and company take @x handle from its original user. He got zero dollars for it. (mashable.com)

Massive explosion rocks SpaceX Texas facility, Starship engine in flames (interestingengineering.com)

Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation (www.404media.co)

Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds (www.gamesindustry.biz)

A key feature of NFTs has completely broken / Web3 was supposed to make sure the original artist always got paid. Not so much anymore. (www.theverge.com)

Wayne Brady Comes Out as Pansexual: 'I'm Doing This for Me' (people.com)

Texas school district agrees to remove ‘Anne Frank’s Diary,’ ‘Maus’ and 670 other books after right-wing group’s complaint (forward.com)

Conservative activists, led by a local pastor and outspoken Israel advocate, pushed the district, Mission CISD, to excise books mostly about gender, sexuality and race. Their demands represented an extreme version of a nationwide culture war over books that has played out in recent years — and ensnared a number of books with...

China’s Youth Are Quitting the Rat Race to ‘Let It Rot’ (www.wsj.com)

Young people in China are becoming more rebellious, questioning their nation’s traditional expectations of career and family

The world's 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars (theconversation.com)

Italy begins stripping lesbian mothers of their parental rights (www.lgbtqnation.com)

One mom said she cried for 10 days after hearing she was being removed from her daughter’s birth certificate.

French election 2024 live: exit poll shows shock win for left-green alliance as far right falls to third (www.theguardian.com)

With GPL, you're programming Freedom. With MIT, you're programming for free. (lemmy.world)

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Israel sharpens its tone to Spain: "The Inquisition is over. Those who harm us, we will harm them" (www.elnacional.cat)

Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works (gizmodo.com)

A judge in Washington state has blocked video evidence that’s been “AI-enhanced” from being submitted in a triple murder trial. And that’s a good thing, given the fact that too many people seem to think applying an AI filter can give them access to secret visual data.