Google: “Based on this feedback and our ongoing conversations with the community, we are building a new advanced flow that allows experienced users to accept the risks of installing software that isn’t verified. We are designing this flow specifically to resist coercion, ensuring that users aren’t tricked into bypassing these safety checks while under pressure from a scammer. It will also include clear warnings to ensure users fully understand the risks involved, but ultimately, it puts the choice in their hands.”

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A 13-year-old student was expelled from a Louisiana middle school after hitting a male classmate who she said created and shared a deepfake pornographic image of her, according to her family’s lawyers.

“We are talking about a coordinated effort of eight senators, with the knowledge of Leader Schumer, voting to break with the entire Democratic Party,” said the New York Democrat.

Ouroboros is a type of all you can eat

A group of 17 transgender members of the Air Force are suing the U.S. government over what they say is the military’s unlawful revocation of their early retirement pensions and benefits.

@mannequinonthemoon

I want to highlight how much she achieved.

@ellisjrosen

U.S. Roman Catholic bishops delivered a “special pastoral message on immigration” on Wednesday, raising “our concern here for immigrants.”

More than 1,000 unionized Starbucks workers plan to strike at 65 U.S. stores Thursday to protest a lack of progress in labor negotiations with the company.

Aber ich habe ja nichts zu verbergen (tm)

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I think I’m gonna stand over there.

A few days ago, Davuluri shared his excitement about it on his official X handle. He seemed very eager to reveal what the company has in mind at the upcoming Ignite event regarding the agentic OS plans.

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Folks, it’s happening!

I love this so much. I’d love to find one with sound. In the meantime I’m just watching this over and over humming the Rocky theme.

Seems the pressure is working.

For Sweet, the feelings of frustration are only compounded by a feeling that she was betrayed by the Democratic-aligned senators who broke with the party on the health care subsidies.

When asked by reporters if Schumer should remain the minority leader, Ocasio-Cortez responded: “I think what is so important for folks to understand is that this problem is bigger than one person. And it actually is bigger than the minority leader in the Senate. You had eight Senate Democrats who coordinated…their own votes on this as well as you have two retiring members, many of them who are also up in several cycles from now, with the hope that people are going to forget this moment

“Google’s decision to host CBP’s immigrant-hunting app while removing one designed to warn people about the presence of ICE has concerned free speech experts.”

https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3ycdvqsepjvfhja2beowwrbp/post/3m5gtly7szs2w

Here what von der Leyen said:

The former prince’s reaction when he heard about a newspaper inquiry was among more than 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s estate, including some mentioning Trump.

The flaw in OpenAI’s attempt to stop users from generating videos of Nintendo and popular cartoon characters exposes a fundamental problem with most generative AI tools: it is extremely difficult to completely stop users from recreating any kind of content that’s in the training data, and OpenAI can’t remove the copyrighted content from Sora 2’s training data because it couldn’t exist without it.

From https://dudevsdawg.com/14/

At a recent press conference, a news correspondent asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt who selected Budapest, the home of right-wing leader Viktor Orbán, as the site for a meeting between United States President Donald Trump and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. Leavitt’s reply was as concise as it was juvenile: “Your mom did.”

Wikipedia article

*The verdict awarded to the family of Shikha Garg is the first in the dozens of lawsuits filed after two plane crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia that killed a combined 346 people.*

Jack Dorsey backs diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine’s video archive of 6-second, looping videos.

You might recall the stove in my new house, which works very well but makes the house look like a crematorium.

California plans to revoke 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses given to immigrants after discovering the expiration dates went past when the drivers were legally allowed to be in the U.S., state officials said Wednesday.

The Israeli government has signed contracts worth millions of dollars in recent months to rehabilitate Israel’s standing in American public opinion, both online and offline.

Andrej Babiš, the self-proclaimed “Trumpist” billionaire who won last month’s Czech election, has refused to sell his huge business empire, but insisted he will resolve a conflict of interest that threatens to bar him from becoming prime minister.

“The collecting society GEMA, which manages the rights of composers, lyricists and music publishers and has approximately 100,000 members, filed the case against OpenAI in November 2024.”

A 17-year-old with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men. She wants the public to have a fuller understanding of how she was victimized.

Clean energy, largely wind and solar, have grown significantly over the last decade, due largely to policies by a range of countries, including China, Germany and the U.S.

She’s 11 years old and a skittish pony and I want to be her friend lol.

*As Keir Starmer announces SMRs to be built in Wales, US ambassador says Britain should choose ‘a different path’*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_of_the_Heart

Ein Wauwau. Supergefährlich.

Kontext

The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: “Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic” […] “For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing”