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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department said Tuesday that it’s imposing $1.2 billion in fines on Bank of America for allegedly violating anti-money laundering and sanctions laws.

Character.AI, the GenAI site that convinced some children to kill themselves, has gone bankrupt after parents sued them.

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Rep. Delia Ramirez is expected to introduce a bill to abolish the Department of Homeland Security and eliminate all immigrant detention in the United States on Tuesday, the Illinois Democrat shared exclusively with The Intercept.

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The Type 01 is the first model to arrive from Jaguar’s rebirth. The British carmaker was an early entrant to the modern EV market with the 2017 I-Pace, which was fun to drive even if it was too small inside and perhaps completely unreliable. An all-electric sedan was supposed to be next, but a year from the showroom, it was abruptly canceled, leaving the automaker with nothing to sell as old models like the F-Pace ceased production.

Hungary’s parliament passed a bill amending the 2021 “child protection law.” The move is considered the first significant reversal of Orban’s curbs targeting the LGBTQ+ community.

Try not to laugh. I arranged the pillows. But he arranged the photograph.

Inspiration: https://wien.rocks/@vcoe_mobilitaet_mit_zukunft/117437670214510734

In May, 404 Media wrote that Character.ai’s changes are “what AI enshittification looks like,” with tons of ads, usage limits, guardrails, and “lobotomized” models. In the bankruptcy filing, Adams essentially admits that this enshittification was the strategy: “Character has, however, taken significant steps to reduce its operating burn, including transitioning inference workloads to lower-cost GPU capacity and post-training open-weight models rather than developing proprietary foundation models. At the same time, Character reduced its employee headcount,” he wrote. “In mid-2025, Character launched in-app advertising […] in early 2026, Character also introduced in-app purchases.”

As it turns out, I did not use my big camera to capture a picture of the hawk that was in my back yard. Not for lack of trying, mind you. Fully charged battery, check. Bird lens, check. I grabbed my memory card out of my card reader and went to slam it into my camera, and. Uh. It wouldn’t go in.

The US Department of Justice on Tuesday announced the arrests ​of two Americans accused of helping North Korean IT workers to steal identities and ‌obtain fraudulent employment at US companies to earn money for the North Korean government.

Cornell University is suspending parties and other social events at fraternity houses for the rest of the academic year and will give the New York State Police a role in investigating sex crimes on campus, university officials announced Tuesday, amid mounting outrage over its handling of allegations that a female student was sexually assaulted at a fraternity house in 2024.

Claims that Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centres reduced Kremlin-linked bot networks have spread widely online, but experts have told BBC Verify there is no evidence the attacks have significantly reduced them.

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Character.ai said it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, with its chief executive attributing the chatbot provider’s financial problems to “significant legal, regulatory and operational headwinds.”

Its super easy to use your phone! Look! This took like 5 seconds to shoot this delicious dish I made! Yummy!

Apples are so good right now, been on an apple dessert kick. This is the recipe from Sally’s Baking Addiction, cakier than I typically expect from a cobbler but very delicious! The ice cream is homemade, and a perfect complement to the apples.

I often wonder what sort of kischief she was planning

She somehow survived near brain-death from a neurotoxin. She was blinded from a 107 degree fever but regained her sight. She’s not going to have any long-term issues from this whole ordeal. She seized for almost an hour on Sunday night along with the fever.

U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle, once a top campaign surrogate for Donald Trump, has resigned amid a misconduct probe.

Bulgaria has suggested Russia was behind two attacks on cargo ships near its waters on Tuesday that left eleven sailors missing, calling the escalation of the war in the Black Sea “unacceptable”.

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More than 15 million homes say they are worried about being cold this winter, a survey has found

And some butt scritches…

Nato’s top military commander said the alliance is ‘ready to fight tonight’ amid fears over Russia

[five characters are standing together: orange, blue, green, purple, and pink] A study shows 1 in 5 stickmen to be homosexual [blue points to themselves proudly] Well I am gay, so I guess it means that I am the only one in this group [green talks to blue, who looks confused] That’s where you’re wrong I too am gay, you’re not the only one here [orange rants angrily at blue and green, who are both confused] Well I’m straight and this is not how statistics work, one of you two has to be LYING [purple asks a question while blue and green stare at them] Okay but I’m bi, where do I fit in this? [pink speaks to us, smugly] Well I guess this proves social sciences are whack and can’t be trusted I love drawing conclusions from flawed data I am very smart https://thebad.website/comic/statistical_anomaly

A stack of crates rises from the floor, holding up one child and exciting another. The boy on the crates stands silently while the other questions aloud “aren’t you going to stop us from doing the milk crate challenge?”

Duane “Keffe D” Davis was sentenced Tuesday to 40 years to life in prison for orchestrating the murder of rap icon Tupac Shakur who was gunned down off the Las Vegas Strip over 30 years ago.

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“Instead of helping countries withstand another major shock,” Oxfam’s executive director said, the IMF “is forcing them to cut back on the very spending that can help protect people and recover.”

A self-hostable offline audio transcription app. State-of-the-art AI models, running entirely on your machine.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani today directed the New York City Police Department (NYPD) to conduct a comprehensive review of its use-of-force policies and practices, the first such review in a decade. The review will take place over the coming months and include a robust community engagement process.

Martin Shkreli’s 2022 release conditions bar him from participating in the pharmaceutical industry, including ownership stakes or business decisions

The European Union warned digital platforms on Monday against livestreaming the execution of Nidal Hasan, a former US Army psychiatrist who is scheduled to be executed by firing squad on December 3 for killing 13 people at a military base in 2009. Under EU rules, platforms have an obligation to moderate shocking and violent content, including capital punishment.

a little us defaultism.

Five years of your social media just to visit the US on an ESTA, and 50,922 phone searches at the border in a single year with no suspicion needed. Part 1 of my Five Eyes series: who else gets to see it?

Latest fatality is unvaccinated woman, 39, with ‘underlying conditions’ but CDC still lists only two deaths nationwide

Raven, previously called GeoSpy, lets cops figure out what specific Airbnb or Zillow property a photo was taken in.