These Prisoners Are Training AI : In high-wage Finland, where clickworkers are rare, one company has discovered a novel labor force—prisoners. (www.wired.com)
California governor rejects bill to give unemployment checks to striking workers (thehill.com)
Elon Musk attacked German support for migrants and promoted a call to support a far-right extremist political party (www.businessinsider.com)
How should Australia respond to India’s ‘complicated, problematic’ democracy? (www.smh.com.au)
Labor MP Andrew Charlton, whose electorate has the nation’s biggest Indian diaspora community, says Australians should not be hung up on the superpower’s flaws.
Russia accuses Ukraine’s Western allies of helping last week’s attack on Black Sea Fleet headquarters (www.pbs.org)
Russia on Wednesday accused Ukraine’s Western allies of helping plan and conduct last week’s missile strike on the Black Sea Fleet’s headquarters on the annexed Crimean Peninsula....
Philly thief steals a shop-vac filled with hundreds of giant hornets (www.inquirer.com)
Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control routers with “magic packets” (arstechnica.com)
Former Indian diplomat claims Justin Trudeau’s plane to India was ‘full of cocaine’ (www.newslaundry.com)
Neo-Nazi Fight Clubs Are Growing Rapidly, New Research Shows (www.vice.com)
A new report shared with VICE News outlines the massive growth so-called Active Clubs, neo-Nazi fitness and fight clubs, have experienced in both the United States and internationally.
The Man Amazon Erased (www.tabletmag.com)
A man who got kicked off a service because of an alleged remark.
French government defends arrest of teen in classroom over transgender bullying claims (www.theguardian.com)
The 14-year-old boy was put in handcuffs and marched out of his classroom on Monday.
John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and more authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement (www.independent.co.uk)
John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and more authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement::John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and George R
Indonesia: TikToker jailed for two years over pork video (www.bbc.com)
Google quietly raised ad prices to boost search revenue, says executive (www.theverge.com)
RPG experts on why we love Baldur's Gate 3, and the future of the genre (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Developers and experts in CRPGs give us their takes on why Baldur's Gate 3 and RPGs in general seize the public's imagi…
AI Lie: Machines Don’t Learn Like Humans (And Don’t Have the Right To) (www.tomshardware.com)
Some argue that bots should be entitled to ingest any content they see, because people can.
Critical vulnerability in WebP Codec has browser vendors scrambling for updates (stackdiary.com)
This affects all browsers and not just Chrome, as the media falsely reported it. Mozilla just rolled out a fix, and Brave is looking into it. This bug is likely related to the “zero-click” iOS 0day that was reported by Citizenlab last week.
Brazil’s Lula backtracks on Putin arrest safety at Rio G20 (www.aljazeera.com)
Brazil’s Lula backtracks on Putin arrest safety at Rio G20...
Lemma - TestFlight - Public Release 🚀 (testflight.apple.com)
Welcome to Lemma - Your New Favourite App!...
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X sues Calif. to avoid revealing how it makes “controversial” content decisions (arstechnica.com)
South Korea: Lesbian couple welcomes child via IVF in historic first (www.thepinknews.com)
Part of China's economic miracle was a mirage. Reality check is next (www.reuters.com)
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first major reform plans a decade ago were also his boldest, envisaging a transition to a Western-style free market economy driven by services and consumption by 2020....
Thousands of Ukrainian men are avoiding military service (www.economist.com)
In the queue of about 130 people, only 20 are male. Men aged 18-60 are not allowed to leave Ukraine unless they qualify for an exemption. Four of those waiting are young lads who look close to turning 18. To avoid the risk of mobilisation, they must leave before then. Of course, some men find ways to get out anyway, legally or...
TIL that the Mormons have one fund worth over $100 billion (www.sltrib.com)
They are required to talk about anything over $100 million but they “didn’t want people to be discouraged about tithing to them.”...
