Labour consider plan to release prisoners after 40% of sentence served (www.theguardian.com)
Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bug (www.404media.co)
Google’s research focuses on real harm that generative AI is currently causing and could get worse in the future. Namely, that generative AI makes it very easy for anyone to flood the internet with generated text, audio, images, and videos.
Inside Russia’s campaign to steal and indoctrinate Ukrainian children: an insidious side of Russia’s genocide against Ukrainians meant to shatter families - snatching children and occupying their mind (www.sapiens.org)
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China’s spluttering growth engines: The distortions of Beijing’s unbalanced growth model are coming home to roost, setting the country on path towards ever greater trade confrontation (www.lowyinstitute.org)
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Police pulled over a Waymo car for driving in the oncoming lane (www.theverge.com)
Fiery railcars with hazardous material mostly contained after derailment in North Dakota (apnews.com)
Musk suggests late Twitter disclosure was a mistake, seeks to end lawsuit (www.reuters.com)
Elon Musk wants to dismiss a lawsuit by former Twitter shareholders who said he waited too long in early 2022 to reveal his large ownership stake in the social media company, saying “all indications” show his delay was a mistake....
Trump's Camp Says It Has Nothing to Do With Project 2025 Manifesto -- Aside From Writing It (theintercept.com)
The Trump campaign attempted to distance itself from the conservative Project 2025 playbook on Friday. Despite significant overlap between Project 2025 personnel and staffers from former president Donald Trump’s administration and campaign, Trump issued a statement saying he had “no idea who is behind” the project....
Las Vegas hits 120 degrees, hottest day on record (www.fox5vegas.com)
‘We sell it in secret, like drugs’: Brazil’s appetite for shark meat puts species under threat (www.theguardian.com)
New York City hasn't fulfilled its promise to build shelters for trans houseless people (www.lgbtqnation.com)
JPMorgan Chase warns 86 million customers they might have to start paying for their bank accounts (finance.yahoo.com)
The potential charges, says Marianne Lake, CEO of consumer and community banking at JPMorgan, are a result of new regulatory rules that cap overdraft and late fees. Lake says Chase will be passing along those increased expenses to customers, which would put an end to now-free services such as checking accounts and wealth...
Disney heiress, wealthy Democratic donors say they won't finance the party until Joe Biden drops out (www.cnbc.com)
Abigail Disney, the granddaughter to Roy O. Disney, who cofounded The Walt Disney Company, told CNBC on Thursday that she plans to withhold donations to the party she has funded for years until Biden drops out. The president has said he has no plans to withdraw from the race, despite calls for him to do so....
Supreme Court of Oklahoma says no to Catholic charter school – but this may not be the end of the boundary-pushing saga (theconversation.com)
Crew of NASA’s earthbound simulated Mars habitat emerge after a year (apnews.com)
The crew of a NASA mission to Mars emerged from their craft after a yearlong voyage that never left Earth....
Tokyo Governors Race Has 56 Candidates (www.nytimes.com)
A ridiculous number of candidates contended to be governor of Tokyo and its surrounding prefecture. Many were not even trying to win.
Spain introduces porn passport to stop kids from watching smut (www.politico.eu)
The Spanish government has a plan to prevent kids from watching porn online: Meet the porn passport....
QAnon Memes, F-Bombs, and Tribunals: As Biden Faltered, Trump Amped Up the Crazy (www.rollingstone.com)
Papal arch enemy Archbishop Vigano found guilty of schism and excommunicated (www.reuters.com)
Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a fierce ultra-conservative critic of Pope Francis, has been found guilty of schism and excommunicated, the Vatican’s doctrinal office said on Friday. Vigano, the papal envoy in Washington from 2011-2016, went into hiding in 2018 after alleging that the pope knew for years about sexual...
Russian propagandist explains looting is part of the war (video.echelon.pl)
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10 Major Metrics Show The American Recovery is Best in the World – And Still Improving (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
Trump floats eliminating U.S. income tax and replacing it with tariffs on imports (www.cnbc.com)
Swing state's [PA] Capitol building reportedly evacuated over bomb threat mentioning Biden (www.rawstory.com)
Karine Jean-Pierre Throws Down With Fox Reporter Not Buying Biden’s Debate Excuses: ‘Have You Had a Cold Before?’ (www.mediaite.com)
Human Rights NGOs urge Austria to investigate sexual crimes by Russia military in Ukraine (www.jurist.org)
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