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Putin’s bot army is targeting German and French elections, Sweden warns

The country’s Psychological Defence Agency chief told POLITICO that platforms like X, TikTok and Facebook need to do more to combat Russia’s lie machine.

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Tech companies are selling kids’ data. A new California law aims to protect their privacy

The new law prohibits technology companies from using student data to train or develop AI models and limits how companies can use that data.

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Opinion | Why Tech Oligarchs Are Willing to Risk Apocalypse

Silicon Valley’s strange new theology.

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Russia refuses to stop attacking Ukraine during peace negotiations, Lavrov says

After refusing even a temporary ceasefire or a leader-level meeting in a noncombatant country, Lavrov went on to emphasize the level of "goodwill" Moscow was displaying in the peace process.

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Trump administration order to keep Colorado coal plant open will cost ratepayers millions of dollars

Xcel Energy has asked to intervene in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s emergency order

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Vivek Profits. Ohio Pays.

Vivek Ramaswamy got richer. Ohio is paying. Every number sourced.

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How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them

Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.

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Report: Netanyahu says 9/11 terror attacks good for Israel

According to Ma'ariv, Netanyahu said Israel is 'benefiting from attack' as it 'swung American public opinion.'

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Your health insurance bills are about to go up

The premium increases stem in part from rising healthcare costs, including higher prices for medical care and expensive prescription drugs.

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Federal judge rules Trump plan to cut FEMA by 50 percent was unlawful

The judge said the plan, put together by DHS, appeared as if it was "pulled from thin air" and would impede FEMA's ability to fulfill its legally mandated duty to respond to disasters.

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telegraph.co.uk

ICE Beats Up Protesters After Taking Over Neighborhood for Days

ICE agents terrorized residents in a quiet Maryland neighborhood for 40 hours.

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Fighting the Oligarchy's Stranglehold on the Media | Common Dreams

When it comes to media, journalism, and the broader information landscape, there’s a strong practical need to be utopian right now—to give us hope but to also provide clarity as to what we should be f...

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'Time to sound the alarm': Gov. Pritzker warns of threat AI 'poses to humanity'

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker issued a warning about AI, saying now is the "time to sound the alarm" in wake of recent comments from an Anthropic researcher who recently resigned from the company over con...

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Elon Musk is Running a Fake Voter Registration Site Designed to Steal and Sell Data

Musk's "VoteSafe.org" is a scam that doesn't actually register voters

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Hillary Clinton says Netanyahu may have wanted Hamas to do October 7

Hillary Clinton says allegations Netanyahu ignored warnings before October 7 amount to a "failure of leadership."

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Ohio Senate campaign staffer used Nazi soldiers as profile photo

A top staffer for Sen. Jon Husted's reelection campaign recently made a playlist of songs in honor of White colonists in Rhodesia and wore a Nazi uniform.

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Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems

The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested people’s Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased “NameTag” face recognition feature...

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Ohioans push back as data centers spread across the state

‘Coughing up stuff from my lungs is an ongoing daily occurrence,’ said Joe Fuller, who works in data centers throughout Ohio.

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Wood County residents rally vs. Husted over Meta data center

The Republican senator spent years championing Ohio’s data center buildout. At a Bowling Green rally this week, residents pointed to rising electric bills and accused Husted of helping create a proble...

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