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US teacher charged with using AI to frame principal with racist audio (www.theguardian.com)

Flint residents grapple with water crisis a decade later: ‘If we had the energy left, we’d cry’ (www.theguardian.com)

Years after the emergency, the Michigan city is yet to replace all lead pipes and affected families are still awaiting justice...

Union leader endorsing Biden: ‘We’re not gonna waste a lot of time’ on Trump supporters (thehill.com)

Columbia faculty members walk out after pro-Palestinian protesters arrested (www.theguardian.com)

A huge crowd of faculty members who teach at Columbia University in New York held a mass walk-out on Monday afternoon to protest the institution having called police to arrest students at a pro-Palestinian encampment protest last week....

Ukraine to EU: Don’t let US aid package make you complacent (www.politico.eu)

Washington’s support for Ukraine should not dispel a sense of urgency among EU countries, Ukraine and its allies warn....

NYT Opinion: Government Surveillance Keeps Us Safe (www.nytimes.com)

Untitled Goose Game (slrpnk.net)

E: sorry, I realize this isn’t actually a meme. I meant to post to /c/shitpost, but since this is already at 100 upvotes, I’m going to leave it....

NY Attorney General asks judge to reject $175 million bond in Donald Trump's civil fraud case (www.usatoday.com)

Nas’ 'Illmatic' Was the Beginning of the End of the Album (www.wired.com)

I know it doesn’t sound like a tech article but it is!

US Air Force successfully tests AI-controlled fighter jet in first dogfight against human pilots (www.techspot.com)

Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track (arstechnica.com)

On Tuesday, Microsoft Research Asia unveiled VASA-1, an AI model that can create a synchronized animated video of a person talking or singing from a single photo and an existing audio track. In the future, it could power virtual avatars that render locally and don’t require video feeds—or allow anyone with similar tools to...

25 years after Columbine, trauma shadows survivors of the school shooting (apnews.com)

Hours after she escaped the Columbine High School shooting, 14-year-old Missy Mendo slept between her parents in bed, still wearing the shoes she had on when she fled her math class. She wanted to be ready to run....

A Doom speedrun record, thought to be impossible to break, has finally been beaten after 26 years [Doom 2, 1st map time: 0:04.97 (www.pcgamesn.com)

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Can homeless people be fined for sleeping outside? A rural Oregon city asks the US Supreme Court (apnews.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/19341435...

I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust. (www.thefp.com)

Accused rapist who tried to clear his name loses blockbuster defamation trial against TV network | CNN (edition.cnn.com)

After the interview aired, Lehrmann was charged with sexual intercourse without consent, but the trial was abandoned in 2022 due to juror misconduct and not revived due to fears about Higgins’ mental health....

Chicago mass shooting leaves 8-year-old girl dead, 10 others injured (www.nbcnews.com)

Police say among the injured are a 1-year old and a 7-year-old who are in critical condition....

How Subscription Services are designed to BANKRUPT you (piped.video)

Related: The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok

Defeated CEOs are now conceding hybrid working is here to stay (fortune.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/15285204...

Toki - A C# Fediverse server. (github.com)

Hi!...

New Boeing Whistleblower Says 787 Fuselages Are Improperly Fastened Together, Could Break Apart (futurism.com)

Don’t Be Fooled: Much “AI” is Just Outsourcing, Redux (www.techpolicy.press)

The promise of AI, for corporations and investors, is that companies can increase profits and productivity by slashing their reliance upon a skilled human workforce. But as this story and many others show, AI is just today’s buzzword for “outsourcing,” and it comes with the same problems that have plagued outsourced...