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Ecuador was calm and peaceful. Now hitmen, kidnappers and robbers walk the streets (apnews.com)

Ecuador was one of the calmest countries in Latin America until about three years ago. Today, criminals prowl relatively wealthy and working-class neighborhoods alike: professional hitmen, kidnappers, extortionists and thousands of thieves and robbers. Mexican and Colombian cartels have settled into coastal cities like Guayaquil...

A central Kansas police force comes under constitutional criticism after raiding a newspaper (apnews.com)

Several press freedom watchdogs condemned the Marion Police Department’s actions as a blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution’s protection for a free press. The Marion County Record’s editor and publisher, Eric Meyer, worked with his staff Sunday to reconstruct stories, ads and other materials for its next edition...

Illinois governor signs ban on firearms advertising allegedly marketed to kids and militants (apnews.com)

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a law banning firearms advertising that officials determine produces a public safety threat or appeals to children, militants or others who might later use the weapons illegally — opening the door for lawsuits against firearms manufacturers or distributors.

Don't expect quick fixes in 'red-teaming' of AI models. Security was an afterthought (apnews.com)

Current AI models are simply too unwieldy, brittle and malleable, academic and corporate research shows. Security was an afterthought in their training as data scientists amassed breathtakingly complex collections of images and text. They are prone to racial and cultural biases, and easily manipulated.

Starting next year, child influencers can sue if earnings aren’t set aside, says new Illinois law (apnews.com)

Illinois is the first state in the U.S. to ensure child social media influencers are compensated for their work, according to Sen. David Koehler, of Peoria, who sponsored a bill that was signed into law and will go into effect on July 1, 2024.

Alabama riverfront brawl videos spark a cultural moment about race, solidarity and justice (apnews.com)

As bystanders trained their smartphone cameras on the riverfront dock while several white boaters pummeled a Black riverboat co-captain, they couldn’t have known the footage would elicit a national conversation about racial solidarity....

3 former GOP operatives to pay $50K for roles in a fake charity tied to E. Palestine derailment (apnews.com)

Three men who have worked as Republican political operatives agreed to pay more than $50,000 in restitution and penalties in Ohio for their roles in operating a phony charity that collected cash purportedly to help victims of the East Palestine train derailment.

Fiction writers fear the rise of AI, but also see it as a story to tell (apnews.com)

For many book writers, AI is a threat to their livelihood and the very idea of creativity. More than 10,000 of them endorsed an open letter from the Authors Guild this summer urging AI companies not to use copyrighted work without permission or compensation.

High ocean temperatures are harming the Florida coral reef. Rescue crews are racing to help (apnews.com)

Up and down the chain of islands that form the Florida Keys, coral rescue groups and government and academic institutions have mobilized to save the coral from a historic bleaching event that experts say threatens the viability of the third-largest reef tract in the world. They’ve been working long days and weekends in...

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