‘Florida loves prison labor’: why most incarcerated people still work for free in the Sunshine state (www.theguardian.com)
Many prisoners clean toilets and prep food with no pay – as the state charges $50 a day for their incarceration...
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Many prisoners clean toilets and prep food with no pay – as the state charges $50 a day for their incarceration...
Spanish police have arrested 10 people and seized 70kg of methamphetamine after discovering a “highly sophisticated” synthetic drug laboratory capable of producing up to 10kg of meth a day....
Millions face disaster as Sudanese army and RSF accused of using food access as a weapon in on-going war...
Revelation of emails to Imperial College scientists comes amid growing concerns about security risk posed by academic tie-ups with China...
Over the past week, three search and rescue operations have been started for tourists who have gone missing during treks on far-flung islands, including one for the popular TV presenter Michael Mosley, who was found dead on the island of Symi....
Seven Przewalski’s horses, the only truly wild species of the animal in the world, flown to central Asian country from zoos in Europe...
Measurable in Trump supporters, psycho-social phenomenon can have consequences for democracy, authors say...
At least seven journalists and activists who have been vocal critics of the Kremlin and its allies have been targeted inside the EU by a state using Pegasus, the hacking spyware made by Israel’s NSO Group, according to a new report by security researchers....
Matthew Trickett, 37, who was charged with surveillance of activists, was found on Sunday evening in Maidenhead park...
Oil Change International says plans do not stand up to scrutiny and describes US fossil-fuel corporations as ‘the worst of the worst’...
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15619941
Guardrails to prevent artificial intelligence models behind chatbots from issuing illegal, toxic or explicit responses can be bypassed with simple techniques, UK government researchers have found....
Revealed: Citizens for Sanity was one of top political spenders last election cycle and is back for 2024 with more extreme messaging...
The death toll from what authorities call the worst climate disaster ever to strike southern Brazil has risen to 90, after ferocious rain flooded huge stretches of Rio Grande do Sul state, displacing more than 155,000 people and forcing the closure of the main airport in the country’s fifth biggest city....
There have been 970 US student protests related to the Israel-Gaza conflict between 7 October and 26 April, the vast majority of them peaceful, according to the latest available statistics from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (Acled), which tracks political violence and political demonstrations across the US...
French police said the German authorities, who had previously refused Abu-Sitta entry to Germany in April, had put a visa ban on him for a year, meaning he was banned from entering any Schengen country....
China’s president arrives as EU anti-subsidy investigations and tensions over espionage, Ukraine and Taiwan continue...
Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, says his team is determined to retry case against the disgraced movie mogul...