Trump Media saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigation (www.theguardian.com)
Trump’s social media company went public relying partly on loans from trust managed by person of interest to prosecutors...
Scathing federal report rips Microsoft for shoddy security, insincerity in response to Chinese hack (apnews.com)
In a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency, a Biden administration-appointed review board issued a report Tuesday saying “a cascade of errors” by the tech giant let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior U.S. officials including Commerce Secretary Gina...
Washington state judge blocks use of AI-enhanced video as evidence in possible first-of-its-kind ruling (www.nbcnews.com)
Lawyers for a man charged with murder in a triple homicide had sought to introduce cellphone video enhanced by machine-learning software....
Teenager 18 smashes into a beloved mom and three children in a minivan at 112mph, as he's caught smiling after pretending to look sad as charges read out to him in the hospital bed (www.dailymail.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/22781196...
In one of L.A.'s largest cash heists, burglars steal as much as $30 million. Mystery surrounds case (www.yahoo.com)
Top Israeli official Ron Dermer began yelling during a meeting with U.S. officials on Gaza, Israel plans for a ground invasion of Rafah (www.nbcnews.com)
San Francisco named healthiest city in US (thehill.com)
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Indian company sold contaminated shrimp to U.S. grocery stores, ‘whistleblower’ says (www.nbcnews.com)
For Red State Holdouts Like Kansas, Is Expanding Medicaid Within Reach? (www.nytimes.com)
Lawsuits Accuse 2 Michigan Jails of Banning Family Visits to Increase Revenue (www.nytimes.com)
Florida's manatees are addicted to power plants. Scientists are weaning them off (www.bbc.com)
Pollution drove Florida’s manatees from warm springs to power plants. As the state switches to renewable energy, their new manmade homes are disappearing....
Strike That Killed World Central Kitchen Workers Bears Hallmarks of Israeli Precision Strike - bellingcat (www.bellingcat.com)
Seven aid workers were killed when their convoy was hit by an Israeli airstrike overnight, as it was leaving their Deir al-Balah warehouse, amid ongoing operations delivering aid supplies inside Gaza....
He’s on Death Row for Murders. Prison Workers Say He Should Be Spared. (www.nytimes.com)
‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza (www.972mag.com)
In 2021, a book titled “The Human-Machine Team: How to Create Synergy Between Human and Artificial Intelligence That Will Revolutionize Our World” was released in English under the pen name “Brigadier General Y.S.” In it, the author — a man who we confirmed to be the current commander of the elite Israeli intelligence...
Trump sues Truth Social co-founders, says they're not entitled to stock shares (www.nbcnews.com)
J.K. Rowling will not be arrested for comments about transgender women, police say (www.nbcnews.com)
The “Harry Potter” author slammed a newly enacted hate-crime law in Scotland in a series of posts on X in which she referred to transgender women as men....
Freight railroads must keep 2-person crews, according to new federal rule first proposed under Obama (apnews.com)
“As trains — many carrying hazardous material — have grown longer, crews should not be getting smaller,” said Eddie Hall, the president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen union. He praised the FRA for taking the step President Joe Biden promised. Hall said keeping two people in the cab of a...
Prosecutors in Trump's classified documents case sharply rebuke judge's unusual and 'flawed' order (apnews.com)
In an unusual order, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon had asked prosecutors and defense lawyers to formulate proposed jury instructions for most of the charges even though it remains unclear when the case might reach trial. She asked the lawyers to respond to two different scenarios in which she appeared to accept the...
Chef Jose Andres says Israel targeted his aid workers 'systematically, car by car' (www.reuters.com)
Celebrity chef Jose Andres told Reuters in an emotional interview on Wednesday that an Israeli attack that killed seven of his food aid workers in Gaza had targeted them “systematically, car by car.”...
An Iowa woman is sentenced in a ballot box stuffing scheme that supported husband's campaign (apnews.com)
The wife of an Iowa county supervisor was sentenced Monday to four months in jail after being convicted in a scheme to stuff the ballot box to support her husband’s unsuccessful campaign for a congressional seat....
Columbia Is Waging War on Dissent (www.thenation.com)
Columbia is has now started going after its faculty, initiating internal discrimination complaints against faculty who are pro-Palestinian, monitoring syllabi to censure what faculty are teaching, and removing them from teaching when there are student complaints about professors applying terms such as “settler colonialism”...
Retirement crisis looms as Americans struggle to save (www.cnn.com)
The number of US workers in the labor market over the age of 75 is expected to nearly double over the next decade, creating a looming retirement crisis....
Tesla (TSLA) releases Q1 2024 deliveries: disastrous results (electrek.co)
Jon Stewart takes aim at his former Apple bosses on ‘The Daily Show’ (www.vanityfair.com)
This week, Jon Stewart devoted his edition of https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/jon-stewart-is-returning-as-host-of-the-daily-show-with-a-catch to tackling a topic that he claims his former bosses at Apple barred him from exploring. “I wanted to have you on a podcast and Apple asked us not to do it,” the late-night host...
‘They are breaking the law’: inside Amazon’s bid to stall a union drive (www.theguardian.com)
Retailer doing ‘whatever it takes’ to halt organizing at warehouse in Moreno Valley, California, workers say, as Amazon faces unfair labor practice charges...
