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Poland will continue to block Ukrainian grain whatever the EU commission decides (rmx.news)
Poland would not hesitate to issue an order to block the import of Ukrainian grain if the European Commission refused to extend the grain embargo on Ukraine, according to Polish Development Minister Waldemar Buda....
Escaped Pennsylvania killer captured after nearly 2 weeks on the run (www.nbcnews.com)
'I Lost Everything': California Photographer Blames AI Bias for Instagram Ban | KQED (www.kqed.org)
When a machine moderates content, it evaluates text and images as data using an algorithm that has been trained on existing data sets. The process for selecting training data has come under fire as it’s been shown to have racial, gender and other biases.
China’s BRI now faces a credible Indian challenger (m.timesofindia.com)
India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, announced at G20, gives New Delhi new purchase in West Asia. But a lot will depend on delivery, and India’s economic performance...
Fairphone Keep Club: Sustainable Consumerism? (forum.fairphone.com)
As you may well know, Fairphone is a company that originally arose from a kickstarter campaign and makes phones that are as easily repairable, as sustainable and as fairly sourced as possible. They do have their issues, but compared to other big phone companies they’ve done a great job with this....
What Modi won’t show the G20: Muslims killed, harassed by the police and abused in school (www.theguardian.com)
The PM is keen to show India as the ‘mother of democracy’, but this is one of the most undemocratic periods in its history, says the journalist Rana Ayyub
Amazon to require some authors to disclose the use of AI material (apnews.com)
After months of complaints from the Authors Guild and other groups, Amazon.com has started requiring writers who want to sell books through its e-book program to tell the company in advance that their work includes artificial intelligence material....
Biden, Modi and G20 allies unveil rail and shipping project linking India to Middle East and Europe (apnews.com)
President Joe Biden and his allies on Saturday announced plans to build a rail and shipping corridor linking India with the Middle East and Europe, an ambitious project aimed at fostering economic growth and political cooperation....
X is no longer labeling ads for some users (mashable.com)
Not disclosing advertisements runs afoul of the FTC's rules.
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome::Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a “topic” list it shares with advertisers.
Japanese YouTuber convicted of copyright violation after uploading Let’s Play videos (www.theverge.com)
Do you like reading books like this? Too politicial? (lemmus.org)
FAA clears UPS delivery drones to fly beyond visual line of sight (www.theverge.com)
Drones to fly without spotters on the ground monitoring route and skies for other aircraft
A Huge Threat to the U.S. Budget Has Receded. And No One Is Sure Why. (www.nytimes.com)
For decades, runaway Medicare spending was the story of the federal budget....
These wolves in Alaska ate all the deer. Then, they did something unexpected (www.zmescience.com)
Wolves on an Alaskan island are showing a remarkable adaptation....
Xi reprimanded by elders over direction of nation (asia.nikkei.com)
Pilot dies after plane crashes during gender reveal party in Mexico (edition.cnn.com)
Alan Francisco Rangel of the Sinaloa Red Cross told CNN that paramedics treated the pilot at the crash site in San Pedro, Navolato and then took him to a local hospital, where he died.
UK's "Online Safety Bill" should be renamed the "Online Exposure Bill (www.wired.com)
I believe the “Online Safety Bill” should be renamed the “Online Exposure Bill,” and here’s why:...
'Starfield' glitch makes it hilariously easy to get a great spacesuit (mashable.com)
Small American towns seeing some success with disbanding police forces (www.pbs.org)
From Minnesota to Maine, Ohio to Texas, small towns unable to fill jobs are eliminating their police departments and turning over police work to their county sheriff, a neighboring town or state police.
Tankies talking about banned topics on Chinese social media, "Well liberals call it censorship. I call it filtering" (sh.itjust.works)
Democracy threatened by democratically elected leaders (www.deccanherald.com)
Narendra Modi is a democratically elected leader, but his image is that of a leader who decimated opposition and dissent — in Parliament or on university campuses.