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Hawaii power utility takes responsibility for first fire on Maui, but faults county firefighters (apnews.com)
In its statement, the utility addressed the cause for the first time. It said the fire on the morning of Aug. 8 “appears to have been caused by power lines that fell in high winds.” The Associated Press reported Saturday that bare electrical wire that could spark on contact and leaning poles on Maui were the possible cause....
In unrelated news, the pilot had a documented addiction to polonium. (lemmy.world)
Public Enemy, Ice-T to headline free D.C. concerts, The National Celebration of Hip Hop (apnews.com)
“Hip-hop is beyond, not just a musical genre,” said Public Enemy ‘s Chuck D in a statement. “It’s a cultural movement that has dominated art, fashion, politics, poetry, academia, film and every corner of the world for the past 50 years. This National Celebration brings it all together in one place for the people, by...
South Carolina's new all-male highest court reverses course on abortion, upholding strict 6-week ban (apnews.com)
The continued erosion of legal abortion access across the U.S. South comes after Republican state lawmakers replaced the lone female on the court, Justice Kaye Hearn....
Microsoft is planning to sell the streaming rights for Activision Blizzard games to Ubisoft (www.gamescensor.com)
Muhammad Ali's grandson used to fight when challenged because of his name. Now he's an MMA fighter (apnews.com)
Muhammad Ali is one of the biggest and best-known figures in boxing history. When kids in Las Vegas discovered he was also the grandfather of Biaggio and his brother, Nico, they’d challenge the siblings to put on the gloves....
American dad and son flooded with ketchup chips after Niagara Falls hunt now donating the crunchy snacks (www.cbc.ca)
There were 40 bags of ketchup chips in the back of Rich Lieberman’s vintage army jeep when he left Niagara Falls, Ont., with his son Jacob in July....
Insight: Conservative think tank emerges as force behind DeSantis campaign (www.reuters.com)
Senior Heritage officials had advocated for months in conversations with DeSantis’ team that he oppose policies that could move the U.S. toward direct confrontation with Russia, the people said....
Florida ethics commission chair can't work simultaneously for Disney World governing district (apnews.com)
Glen Gilzean, the new administrator of Walt Disney World’s governing district, can’t continue to work in his new job and chair the Florida Commission on Ethics at the same time since Florida law prohibits public employees from serving as members on the commission, according to a legal opinion issued Thursday....
95% of Yellowknife has now been evacuated due to N.W.T. wildfires (www.cbc.ca)
Northwest Territories officials said on Friday evening that more than 19,000 people have fled from Yellowknife due to wildfires and urged those who remain to also leave as soon as possible....
Wildfire threat to Yellowknife deemed serious as parts of city on evacuation alert (www.cbc.ca)
The news briefing came on the heels of Yellowknife declaring an evacuation alert for parts of the city’s west end and Thompson declaring a territorial state of emergency due to wildfires and evacuations in many parts of the territory....
'You're kind of raised to hate tourists': Maui fires fan tensions on Hawaiian island (www.bbc.com)
Last Wednesday, a day after the wildfires, the county asked visitors to leave Lahaina and the island as a whole as soon as possible....
Texas wants Planned Parenthood to repay millions of dollars (apnews.com)
The case now before him in America’s biggest red state does not surround abortion, which has been banned in Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year. But Planned Parenthood argues the attempt to recoup at least $17 million in Medicaid payments for health services, including cancer screenings, is a...
US publisher of pro-fascist books revealed as military veteran | South Dakota (www.theguardian.com)
The Guardian has identified a trainee nurse and reported US air force reservist called Bailey Ross as the proprietor of a white nationalist publisher in South Dakota....
AI could help predict the next pandemic, but proper 'guardrails' are needed: experts (www.ctvnews.ca)
Large language models (LLMs), essentially an algorithm that can take massive sets of data to predict and generate text, can be subject to “hallucination” or making stuff up, Khan warned....
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...
New Covid vaccines are on the way as 'Eris' variant rises (www.reuters.com)
Some public health experts hope that Americans will welcome the new shot as they would a flu jab. But demand for the vaccine has dropped sharply since 2021 when it first became available and more than 240 million people in the U.S., or 73% of the population, received at least one shot....
Russian rouble sinks, Kremlin blames loose monetary policy (www.reuters.com)
The rouble has lost around a quarter of its value against the dollar since Putin sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022, as Western sanctions shrink Russia’s balance of trade and military spending soars....
Gay couple from Toronto wins lawsuit in Italy after son's birth photo used in anti-surrogacy campaign (toronto.ctvnews.ca)
In 2014, BJ Barone and Frankie Nelson welcomed their son Milo with the help of a gestational surrogate....
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.
Two LGBTQ films were slapped with R and NC-17 ratings. Critics say queer sex scenes are treated differently (www.cbc.ca)
When adapting the 2019 LGBTQ romantic novel Red, White & Royal Blue for the screen, Matthew Lopez was careful to circumvent an R-rating. The film has a handful of sex scenes that stop short of full-frontal nudity — there’s some bare butts and, naturally, shirtless men....
Pirate Netflix
With the recent password sharing crackdown, I decided to ditch my Netflix subscription and try piracy. What I miss about Netflix is scrolling through content and finding something to watch. With piracy I need to know exactly what I am looking for....
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
If you haven’t seen it yet, go … NOW. What a movie!...
Ding Ding - In loving memory of Hector Tio Salamanca (hectorsalamanca.com)
aka Mark Margolis
Emily Blunt Says She Is “So Ready” for an ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ Sequel With Tom Cruise (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
During a recent interview, the actress also explains why she doesn't consider herself a movie star.
Aure Free Press (mstdn.social)
Live feed from the courtroom where Trump is now appearing