Inside the face scanning tech behind social media age limits
As age restrictions on social media gain political momentum, biometric software is being explored as a way to effectively enforce any potential laws. However, critics warn that privacy and surveillance issues could arise if these tools become more widespread in policing the internet. So, should this technology be used to build a safer, more secure internet?
Inside the face scanning tech behind social media age limits
As age restrictions on social media gain political momentum, biometric software is being explored as a way to effectively enforce any potential laws. However, critics warn that privacy and surveillance issues could arise if these tools become more widespread in policing the internet. So, should this technology be used to build a safer, more secure internet?
Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public
Student visa applicants must now make their social media accounts public
The Trump administration continues its war against disfavored speech by forcing student visa applicants to make their social media accounts public.Emma Camp (Reason.com)
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Judge: Pirate libraries may have profited from Meta torrenting 80TB of books
Judge: Pirate libraries may have profited from Meta torrenting 80TB of books
Meta may defeat authors’ torrenting claim due to lack of evidence.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
The Problem with AI War Games
Alexandr Wang, 28, founded Scale AI in 2016, and he is now worth billions.Scale AI is credibly accused of cheating and exploiting human coders who hand-label billions of images and texts used for training generative AIs.
Scale AI is backed by massive military contractor Amazon and the ubiquitous military AI investor Peter Thiel.
Born in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Wang is a vocal AI war hawk who posits that China poses an existential threat to US dominance in artificial intelligence.
His company holds a substantial portfolio of Department of Defense contracts focused on developing weapons to attack China.
In March, the Pentagon’s AI venture capital arm, Defense Innovation Unit, contracted with Scale AI to create a weaponized AI called Thunderforge to
conduct AI-powered wargaming to anticipate and respond to evolving threats. … Thunderforge’s integration across multiple security domains ensures that AI-driven planning capabilities will be securely embedded into real-world military operations.Initially deployed in the US Indo-Pacific and European Commands,
Thunderforge marks a decisive shift toward AI-powered, data-driven warfare, ensuring that U.S. forces can anticipate and respond to threats with speed and precision. Following its initial deployment, Thunderforge will be scaled across combatant commands.Thunderforge integrates Scale AI’s customized military databases with Microsoft’s Defense Llama product and Anduril’s array of autonomous weapons systems to run battle training simulations and to fight real-life wars.
Thunderforge is an element in the jerry-rigged Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control effort to create a centralized, globally controllable battlespace. The multibillion-dollar “CJADC2” is a Rube Goldberg-type system composed of “stove-piped” AI programs that cannot communicate with each other, according to federal auditors.
AI Battlespace: Weaponizing the 5G Internet of Things
During the First Cold War (1949–1989), the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics threatened each other with thousands of nuclear warheads on land- and sea-based ballistic missiles on hair triggers.Kate Horgan (Project Censored)
The Problem with AI War Games
Alexandr Wang, 28, founded Scale AI in 2016, and he is now worth billions.Scale AI is credibly accused of cheating and exploiting human coders who hand-label billions of images and texts used for training generative AIs.
Scale AI is backed by massive military contractor Amazon and the ubiquitous military AI investor Peter Thiel.
Born in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Wang is a vocal AI war hawk who posits that China poses an existential threat to US dominance in artificial intelligence.
His company holds a substantial portfolio of Department of Defense contracts focused on developing weapons to attack China.
In March, the Pentagon’s AI venture capital arm, Defense Innovation Unit, contracted with Scale AI to create a weaponized AI called Thunderforge to
conduct AI-powered wargaming to anticipate and respond to evolving threats. … Thunderforge’s integration across multiple security domains ensures that AI-driven planning capabilities will be securely embedded into real-world military operations.Initially deployed in the US Indo-Pacific and European Commands,
Thunderforge marks a decisive shift toward AI-powered, data-driven warfare, ensuring that U.S. forces can anticipate and respond to threats with speed and precision. Following its initial deployment, Thunderforge will be scaled across combatant commands.Thunderforge integrates Scale AI’s customized military databases with Microsoft’s Defense Llama product and Anduril’s array of autonomous weapons systems to run battle training simulations and to fight real-life wars.
Thunderforge is an element in the jerry-rigged Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control effort to create a centralized, globally controllable battlespace. The multibillion-dollar “CJADC2” is a Rube Goldberg-type system composed of “stove-piped” AI programs that cannot communicate with each other, according to federal auditors.
AI Battlespace: Weaponizing the 5G Internet of Things
During the First Cold War (1949–1989), the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics threatened each other with thousands of nuclear warheads on land- and sea-based ballistic missiles on hair triggers.Kate Horgan (Project Censored)
A Tech-Backed Influencer Wants to Replace Teachers With AI
Backed by tech money, entrepreneur MacKenzie Price is growing a network of private K–12 schools that promises to replace all classroom teachers with an “AI tutor” that students learn from while glued to their laptop screens.
A Tech-Backed Influencer Wants to Replace Teachers With AI
Backed by tech money, entrepreneur MacKenzie Price is growing a network of private K–12 schools that promises to replace all classroom teachers with an “AI tutor” that students learn from while glued to their laptop screens.
Palantir partners to develop AI software for nuclear construction
Palantir and Nuclear Company will jointly create the nuclear operating system (NOS), which will simplify construction, allowing the firm to build plants faster and at lower cost.
The deal follows U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive orders that aimed to boost U.S. nuclear energy production amid a boom in demand from data centers and AI.
The orders, signed in May, direct the nation’s independent nuclear regulatory commission to cut down on regulations and fast-track new licenses for reactors and power plants.
LLMs factor in unrelated information when recommending medical treatments
LLMs factor in unrelated information when recommending medical treatments
An MIT study finds non-clinical information in patient messages, like typos, extra whitespace, or colorful language, can reduce the accuracy of a large language model deployed to make treatment recommendations.MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reddit is being spammed by AI bots, and it’s all Reddit’s fault
Reddit is being spammed by AI bots, and it's all Reddit's fault - 9to5Mac
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has said that the platform is being spammed by AI bots, and is now in “an...Ben Lovejoy (9to5Mac)
An App Store ultimatum New legislation will require Apple to open iPhones and iPads to Russia’s state-backed marketplace
An App Store ultimatum
New legislation will require Apple to open iPhones and iPads to Russia’s state-backed marketplaceMeduza
‘Double standards’: Spain slams EU inaction on Israel deal
'Double standards': Spain slams EU inaction on Israel deal
An EU report concluded Israel might be breaching human rights in Gaza. The bloc could suspend a major trade deal, but it won't. A brief hardening towards Israel appears to have dissipated after recent tensions with Iran.Ella Joyner (Deutsche Welle)
News Wrap: At least 18 killed as they waited for flour, Gaza hospital officials say
News Wrap: At least 18 killed as they waited for flour, Gaza hospital officials say
In our news wrap Thursday, hospital officials and witnesses in central Gaza say an Israeli airstrike killed at least 18 people as they waited for flour, the dangerous summer heat is finally easing across much of the eastern U.S.PBS News Hour (PBS News)
ईडी रेड: ADC के ठिकानों पर ईडी की छापेमारी, 32 लाख की कारें, 40 बैंक खाते और तीन लॉकर बरामद; जानें पूरा मामला
Himachal News: प्रवर्तन निदेशालय ने ईडी रेड के तहत धर्मशाला में सहायक ड्रग कंट्रोलर निशांत सरीन के ठिकानों पर छापा मारा। 22-23 जून को हिमाचल, हरियाणा, और पंजाब में सात जगहों पर तलाशी हुई। 32 लाख की दो गाड़ियां, 40 बैंक खाते, और तीन लॉकर सीज किए गए। सरीन के घर से 60 से ज्यादा शराब की बोतलें मिलीं। जांच में एल-50 लाइसेंस भी बरामद हुआ, जो होम बार के लिए होता है।
जांच का दायरा बढ़ा
ईडी रेड में सरीन के न्यू चंडीगढ़ स्थित आवास से बरामद शराब की बोतलें आबकारी विभाग को सौंपी गईं। जांच एजेंसी यह पता लगा रही है कि सरकारी अधिकारी को इतनी शराब रखने की जरूरत क्यों थी। एल-50 लाइसेंस की मौजूदगी सवाल उठाती है। क्या यह सिर्फ शौक था या कुछ और? जांच अब इस दिशा में भी आगे बढ़ रही है। दस्तावेजों और डिजिटल साक्ष्यों की गहन पड़ताल जारी है।
भ्रष्टाचार के पुराने मामले
निशांत सरीन पर पहले भी भ्रष्टाचार के आरोप लगे थे। 2019 में बद्दी में तैनाती के दौरान उन्हें हिमाचल पुलिस ने गिरफ्तार किया था। तब उन पर फार्मा कंपनियों से रिश्वत लेने का आरोप था। 2022 में हरियाणा पुलिस ने सरीन और उनके सहयोगी कोमल खन्ना के खिलाफ जालसाजी का मामला दर्ज किया। यह मामला झेनिया फार्मास्यूटिकल्स में साझेदारी विलेख से जुड़ा था। जांच में और खुलासे की संभावना है।
संपत्ति और लाइसेंस पर सवाल
ईडी रेड ने सरीन की संपत्ति पर भी सवाल उठाए। 40 से ज्यादा बैंक खाते, फिक्स्ड डिपॉजिट, और तीन लॉकर बरामद हुए। उनके पास एल-50 लाइसेंस का होना हैरान करता है। शराब कानून विशेषज्ञों के अनुसार, यह लाइसेंस बड़े पैमाने पर शराब संग्रह के लिए होता है। जांच एजेंसी इस बात की तह तक जा रही है कि क्या सरीन का आवास पार्टी स्थल था। दस्तावेजों की जांच से और रहस्य खुल सकते हैं।
आबकारी विभाग की भूमिका
ईडी रेड के बाद बरामद शराब की बोतलें आबकारी विभाग को सौंपी गईं। ईडी ने विभाग को लिखित जानकारी दी है। जांच अब शराब के स्रोत और इसके पीछे की मंशा पर केंद्रित है। सरीन के परिवार और फार्मा कंपनियों के बीच वित्तीय लेनदेन की भी जांच हो रही है। आने वाले दिनों में और बड़े खुलासे हो सकते हैं। यह मामला हिमाचल में भ्रष्टाचार की गहरी जड़ों को उजागर कर रहा है।
हिंदी न्यूज़: ताज़ा समाचार और अपडेट्स » Right News India
हिंदी न्यूज़, ताज़ा समाचार, और अपडेट्स पढ़ें Right News India पर। देश, दुनिया, खेल, और मनोरंजन की खबरें हर दिन हिंदी में।मोहित ठाकुर (Right News India)
Japan executes 'Twitter killer' who murdered nine
Japan executes 'Twitter killer' who murdered nine
Takahiro Shiraishi made contact with his victims on social media then lured them to his apartment.Kelly Ng (BBC News)
Federal Budget Bill May Reduce Aid for Nearly 500,000 Texas College Students
A proposal in the House would cut the maximum Pell Grant award by $1,500 and remove eligibility for part-time students.
Gillibrand Goes on Islamophobic Rant About Mamdani as Republicans Try to Denaturalize Him
The Democrat’s rant has sparked calls for her to resign over her bigoted language.
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It's not just Muslims. That's what many people don't get. Them openly supporting a genocide and ignoring international law loses them many voters than don't particually care for Palestinians, but care about human rights in general.
Heck Trump was able to dupe half of the population in believing he's anti-war candidate when his first term was one of the bloodiest in the recent US history. And that was only possible because of Democrats shouting how they will have the most lethal military in the world...
US | Trump Says He’s Moving Forward With Ending Birthright Citizenship After Supreme Court Gives OK
The Supreme Court effectively blocked the judiciary’s ability to stop Trump from implementing a huge range of policies.
Case file: supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pd…
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Change Your Domain Name Without Losing Any Content!
Change Your Domain Name Without Losing Any Content!
Whether you're rebranding or simplifying your URL, switching domains can feel overwhelming. Here are the basic steps to follow so it all goes well!www.eurodns.com
US Supreme Court upholds Texas law requiring ID verification for porn sites
The state law was challenged by porn sites that argued the age-checking requirement violated constitutional rights to free speech.
Palantir signs a deal with The Nuclear Company under which the startup will pay Palantir $100M over five years to develop AI software for the nuclear industry
Nuclear Operating System (NOS) will achieve on-time, on-budget nuclear constructionTogether, the companies will co-develop and deploy NOS, the first AI-driven, real-time software system built exclusively for nuclear construction. NOS will transform the construction of nuclear reactors into a data-driven, predictable process, enabling The Nuclear Company to build plants faster and safer for less.
NOS will provide:
- Schedule Certainty: With NOS, construction teams will receive instantaneous, context-aware guidance — from the availability of certain parts and materials to the weather — that adapts to real-time constraints, so teams can work rather than wait.
- Cost Savings: A supply chain will track and verify all parts, as well as prevent shipment errors, material shortages and lost documentation. And when delays appear imminent, NOS will initiate backup options or prioritize other work in its place.
- Problem Prevention: Sensors placed across construction sites can feed data in real-time to a digital twin model of the site, allowing leaders to track progress with precision and compare what’s actually happening to the original plans. By using predictive analytics, teams can spot potential problems early, catching issues before they become expensive mistakes.
- Regulatory Confidence: AI will turn a traditionally labor- and time-intensive task to a process that becomes nearly instantaneous. Large language models can rapidly review tens of thousands of documents, while AI agents trained on regulatory requirements will help validate the data recorded automatically at construction sites.
Gaza’s Grassroots Effort to Ensure Humanitarian Aid Reaches Starving Palestinians
Abdel Qader Sabbah, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, and Jawa Ahmad
Jun 27, 2025
"On Tuesday, the National Gathering of Palestinians Tribes, Clans, and Families convened a meeting in Gaza City to launch the initiative. “These trucks arriving in besieged Gaza—which has been starved for 90 days by our enemy—must reach their rightful recipients, the needy,” said Abu Salman al-Mughni, a tribal leader.[...]For this reason, the tribes, from all factions, have united to secure these trucks, ensuring they reach the warehouses and are then distributed fairly to all our people.”"
Gaza’s Grassroots Effort to Ensure Humanitarian Aid Reaches Starving Palestinians
Tribal and community leaders in Gaza are uniting to secure aid convoys after over 500 people have been killed in daily aid massacres.Abdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)
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Successful local efforts to get aid into north Gaza met with Israeli backlash
Successful local Palestinian efforts to organise the entry of aid to northern Gaza have prompted fresh restrictions by the Israeli military and violent looting by criminal gangs.
Relief was brought into north Gaza for the first time in a month on Wednesday by local tribes, drawing anger from Israeli officials and members of the Israeli public.
Northern Gaza has been under full siege since March, when Israel blocked all aid and goods from entering the territory and created a severe hunger crisis.
In late May, the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF), a recently launched and scandal-hit aid group, began distributing limited food parcels at four locations in south and central Gaza.
The northern parts of the Palestinian enclave remain largely cut off from aid distributed through this mechanism. However, Israel has recently allowed a limited number of aid trucks carrying only wheat flour to enter some areas of the north.
According to local reports, the recent Palestinian-led relief delivery, backed by local clans, saw several trucks enter safely and successfully, with their contents distributed on Thursday.
Footage circulating online show dozens of trucks carrying aid from the United Nations World Food Programme entering the northern Gaza Strip.
Successful local efforts to get aid into north Gaza met with Israeli backlash
Successful local Palestinian efforts to organise the entry of aid to northern Gaza have prompted fresh restrictions by the Israeli military and violent looting by criminal gangs.Mera Aladam (Middle East Eye)
How Cops Can Get Your Private Online Data
Can the cops get your online data? In short, yes. There are a variety of US federal and state laws which give law enforcement powers to obtain information that you provided to online services. But, there are steps you as a user and/or as a service provider can take to improve online privacy.Law enforcement demanding access to your private online data goes back to the beginning of the internet. In fact, one of EFF’s first cases, Steve Jackson Games v. Secret Service, exemplified the now all-too-familiar story where unfounded claims about illegal behavior resulted in overbroad seizures of user messages. But it’s not the ’90s anymore, the internet has become an integral part of everyone’s life. Everyone now relies on organizations big and small to steward our data, from huge service providers like Google, Meta, or your ISP, to hobbyists hosting a blog or Mastodon server.
There is no “cloud,” just someone else's computer—and when the cops come knocking on their door, these hosts need to be willing to stand up for privacy, and know how to do so to the fullest extent under the law. These legal limits are also important for users to know, not only to mitigate risks in their security plan when choosing where to share data, but to understand whether these hosts are going to bat for them. Taking action together, service hosts and users can curb law enforcement getting more data than they’re allowed, protecting not just themselves but targeted populations, present and future.
This is distinct from law enforcement’s methods of collecting public data, such as the information now being collected on student visa applicants. Cops may use social media monitoring tools and sock puppet accounts to collect what you share publicly, or even within “private” communities. Police may also obtain the contents of communication in other ways that do not require court authorization, such as monitoring network traffic passively to catch metadata and possibly using advanced tools to partially reveal encrypted information. They can even outright buy information from online data brokers. Unfortunately there are few restrictions or oversight for these practices—something EFF is fighting to change.
Below however is a general breakdown of the legal processes used by US law enforcement for accessing private data, and what categories of private data these processes can disclose. Because this is a generalized summary, it is neither exhaustive nor should be considered legal advice. Please seek legal help if you have specific data privacy and security needs.
Russian Internet users are unable to access the open Internet
The 16‑kilobyte curtain, confirmed. Cloudflare accuses Russia of throttling its traffic
Cloudflare has publicly verified a widespread, state-level throttling operation in Russia, aligning closely with the technical description we first outlined on June 19. Since June ...Александр Бородихин (Mediazona)
Sorella di Perfezione – Giuseppe Iannozzi presenta il suo nuovo libro – LFA Publisher
Sorella di Perfezione – Giuseppe Iannozzi presenta il suo nuovo libro – LFA Publisher
Sinossi – Sorella di Perfezione
Sorella di Perfezione offre al lettore poesie che trattano molteplici temi: amore, amicizia, erotismo, vita, morte, tristezza, solitudine, paranoia, ossessione, spiritualità. L’autore Giuseppe Iannozzi è stato influenzato da molti poeti, classici e contemporanei: Catullo, John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Federico García Lorca, William B. Yeats, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Paul Celan, José Saramago, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, etc. Le poesie di Giuseppe Iannozzi sono veri e propri quadri, ogni lirica racconta una storia. La nostra esistenza terrena non ci offre certezze che si possano definire assolute. L’autore è consapevole che l’amore non è eterno, perché troppi sono gli sbalzi d’umore e i capricci dell’umanità. In Sorella di Perfezione, Giuseppe Iannozzi mette in luce la fragilità dei sentimenti e la caducità della vita umana. In questa raccolta di poesie non troverete risposte che possano lenire il dolore esistenziale che ognuno di noi, giorno dopo giorno, deve affrontare, ma imparerete a interrogare il vostro IO, quello più profondo e oscuro.
Presentazioni e booktrailer:
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Sorella di Perfezione – Giuseppe Iannozzi presenta il suo nuovo libro – LFA Publisher
Sorella di Perfezione – Giuseppe Iannozzi presenta il suo nuovo libro – LFA Publisher Sinossi – Sorella di Perfezione Sorella di Perfezione offre al lettore poesie che trattano mo…Iannozzi Giuseppe - scrittore e giornalista
As Hurricane Season Picks Up, Key Forecasting Tool Access Set to End
The US Navy will no longer distribute certain satellite readings, a move that will leave forecasters without important insights into storms’ strength and structure.
What's going on is that the same microwave measurements that are used to track hurricanes also are used to monitor sea ice, and they showed an ongoing loss of sea ice as a result of the warming caused by greenhouse gases that result from fossil fuel consumption. So the Trump administration decided to cut off access to make it harder to monitor sea ice.
ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing.
ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing.
A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a new ICE directive targeting courthouses.Dan Katz (TPR)
Perché sempre più persone lasciano Facebook e X per abbracciare il Fediverso
So che suonerà familiare e sicuramente qualcuno l'ha già spiegato molto meglio di me, ma ci tenevo comunque a fare la mia parte.
Questo post è un invito rivolto sopratutto a chi è stanco dei soliti social pieni di pubblicità invadente, occhi indiscreti e algoritmi opachi.
Quindi se già partecipi attivamente nel Fediverso puoi tranquillamente saltare questa lettura !
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$440 Charge For A Wheel Scuff Raises Questions About Hertz's AI Rental Car Damage Scanner
$440 Charge For A Wheel Scuff Raises Questions About Hertz's AI Rental Car Damage Scanner
Hertz recently started implementing an AI–driven vehicle scanner that scans cars before and after rentals to check for damage and issue associated charges.Logan K. Carter (Jalopnik)
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Beware of Dihydrogen Monoxide. It’s very dangerous!!!
- Causes thousands of deaths annually (via inhalation)
- Accelerates corrosion of metals
- Found in every cancerous tumour
- Major component of acid rain
- Leads to severe burns in gas form
- Detected in baby food and vaccines
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Canadian citizen dies while in U.S. ICE custody in Florida
Canadian citizen dies while in U.S. ICE custody in Florida
ICE said the Canadian was found unresponsive Monday at the Federal Detention Center in Miami and was attended to by medical staff, but was pronounced dead the same day.Sean Boynton (Global News)
On the Trail of the HUD/NSF Switcheroo and the Mystery of the Top Floor Sky Mansion
On the Trail of the HUD/NSF Switcheroo and the Mystery of the Top Floor Sky Mansion
I wanted to update you on the story I flagged yesterday in which the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Scott Turner, decided to bogart the…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
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in reply to misk • • •Title is shit. What the judge meant by this is:
Which is unlikely.