OpenAI will try to guess your age before ChatGPT gets spicy
Because that's what the world needs. Spicier ChatGPT.
OpenAI says it has begun deploying an age prediction model to determine whether ChatGPT users are old enough to view "sensitive or potentially harmful content."Chatbots from OpenAI and its rivals are linked to a series of suicides, sparking litigation and a congressional hearing. AI outfits therefore have excellent reasons to make the safety of their services more than a talking point, both for minors and the adult public.
Hence we have OpenAI's Teen Safety Blueprint, introduced in November 2025, and its Under-18 Principles for Model Behavior, which debuted the following month.
OpenAI is under pressure to turn a profit, knows its plan to serve ads needs to observe rules about marketing to minors, and has erotica in the ChatGPT pipeline. That all adds up to a need to partition its audience and prevent exposing them to damaging material.
OpenAI will try to guess your age before ChatGPT gets spicy
: Think of the children...and the monetization options available where they're not allowedThomas Claburn (The Register)
Three journalists among 11 Palestinians killed in Israel’s attacks on Gaza
At least 11 Palestinians, including two children and three journalists, have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn, with six others injured, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.
Munir al-Bursh, director-general of the ministry, told Al Jazeera that the photojournalists killed when their vehicle was struck on Wednesday worked for the Egyptian Committee for Gaza Relief, which supervises Egypt’s relief work in Gaza.
Three journalists among 11 Palestinians killed in Israel’s attacks on Gaza
The three journalists worked for a committee supervising Egyptian aid in Gaza and were documenting a newly set-up camp.News Agencies (Al Jazeera)
Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect Great Barrier Reef — except, perhaps,the one thing that really matters
The global prognosis is bleak. The world has already lost about half of its coverage of coral reefs since the 1950s, not including steep losses over the last two decades. And should wealthy countries continue burning fossil fuels — pushing global temperatures more than 2 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial baseline — it will likely lose the rest of it.
An exclusive look inside the largest effort ever mounted to keep the Great Barrier Reef alive
Bleaching, cyclones, and pollution threat the future of this World Heritage Site. Can a government-backed project, known as RRAP, help this iconic reef and its corals survive?Benji Jones (Vox)
Exclusive: UAE flights linked to Sudan war tracked from Israel to Ethiopia
A cargo plane previously linked to the supply of weapons to UAE-backed fighters in Sudan and Libya has made a number of flights in recent days between military bases in Abu Dhabi, Israel, Bahrain and Ethiopia, Middle East Eye can reveal.
While the purpose and any connection between the flights is unclear, they have taken place against the backdrop of a spiralling power struggle between the UAE and Saudi Arabia across Yemen and the Horn of Africa that has upturned the geopolitics of the region and prompted concerns of a new escalation in the Sudan war.
The UAE has been thrown onto the back foot after Saudi Arabia launched military action to oust the Emirati-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) from the Yemeni port city of Aden, and has been forced to withdraw from its key military base in Bosaso on the opposite Somali coastline.
Exclusive: UAE flights linked to Sudan war tracked from Israel to Ethiopia
A cargo plane previously linked to the supply of weapons to UAE-backed fighters in Sudan and Libya has made a number of flights in recent days between military bases in Abu Dhabi, Israel, Bahrain and Ethiopia, Middle East EySimon Hooper (Middle East Eye)
Water ‘Bankruptcy’ Era Has Begun for Billions, Scientists Say | Stress and scarcity aren’t strong enough terms to capture the water crisis facing much of the world, according to a new UN report.
Chronic overuse of groundwater, forest destruction, land degradation and pollution have caused irreversible freshwater loss in many parts of the world — problems that are compounded by climate change.
80 years without a general strike. Then ICE came to Minneapolis
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80 years without a general strike. Then ICE came to Minneapolis - MR Online
For most of U.S. history, general strikes have been rare–not because workers lacked the will to fight, but because the ruling class moved quickly and violently whenever that power surfaced.Editor (MR Online)
Verizon carriers start switching to 365-day device unlock policy, up from 60 days
Verizon carriers start switching to 365-day device unlock policy, up from 60 days
After the FCC lifted a restriction on how soon carriers need to unlock devices, Verizon has extended its device unlock...Ben Schoon (9to5Google)
Teenage girl wearing jersey with Palestinian flag refused entry to Sydney A-League game
As Ella Ajaje, a Palestinian Australian, attempted to enter the stadium just after 4.30pm on Sunday. The 15-year-old girl was wearing the jersey, which says “Palestine” on the front. A guard refused her entry, referring to her shirt and “the fact it’s got Palestine”.
“We don’t allow countries in here other than Australia,” the guard could be heard telling another man who intervened. Ella said she saw other fans wearing jerseys displaying other country’s flags who were walking into the stadium.
Her brother, who was standing next to her, was wearing a Portugal jersey and was not stopped as he walked in, she said.
Teenage girl wearing jersey with Palestinian flag refused entry to Sydney A-League game
Exclusive: Girl had to agree to remove Club Deportivo Palestino shirt before being let into Allianz Stadium on Sunday nightAdeshola Ore (The Guardian)
Pointing out the hypocrisy gives undue credit to the "policy" in the first place. We know it's a lie.
What's amusing is that he accidentally acknowledged that Palestine is a country.
Teenage girl wearing jersey with Palestinian flag refused entry to Sydney A-League game
As Ella Ajaje, a Palestinian Australian, attempted to enter the stadium just after 4.30pm on Sunday. The 15-year-old girl was wearing the jersey, which says “Palestine” on the front. A guard refused her entry, referring to her shirt and “the fact it’s got Palestine”.
“We don’t allow countries in here other than Australia,” the guard could be heard telling another man who intervened. Ella said she saw other fans wearing jerseys displaying other country’s flags who were walking into the stadium.
Her brother, who was standing next to her, was wearing a Portugal jersey and was not stopped as he walked in, she said.
Teenage girl wearing jersey with Palestinian flag refused entry to Sydney A-League game
Exclusive: Girl had to agree to remove Club Deportivo Palestino shirt before being let into Allianz Stadium on Sunday nightAdeshola Ore (The Guardian)
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Por que homens matam mulheres no Brasil?
Por que homens matam mulheres no Brasil?
Enquanto uma onda de feminicídios repercute no Brasil, o que sustenta a violência de gênero é mantida e protegida por discursos reacionários e liberais.jornalofuturo.com.br
Man sold cars on Facebook Marketplace only to steal them from the new owners hours later, police say
Man sold cars on Facebook Marketplace only steal them from the new owners hours later, police say
In one case he tried to sell the same car to the same victim twiceHarry Cockburn (The Independent)
Murdoch Paper Poll Shows Just How Bad Trump’s Second Term Is Going
Murdoch Paper Poll Shows Just How Bad Trump’s Second Term Is Going
Public confidence in the economy has slid sharply since last summer.Martha McHardy (The Daily Beast)
Brazil to send medical supplies to dialysis center destroyed in U.S. bombing of Venezuela
Brazil to send medical supplies to dialysis center destroyed in U.S. bombing of Venezuela - Brasil de Fato
Brazil’s government will send urgently needed supplies for dialysis patients in Venezuela after a U.S. bombing destroyed a center responsible for renal treatment and medicine distribution.Giovana Guedes (Brasil de Fato)
Stephen Miller Reminds Picky-Eater Son That There Starving Kids In Basement
Stephen Miller Reminds Picky-Eater Son That There Starving Kids In Basement
ARLINGTON, VA—In an apparent attempt to guilt his children into eating their vegetables Monday, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller reportedly reminded one of his sons, a picky eater, that there were starving boys and girls in the baseme…The Onion Staff (The Onion)
RRF Notizie 21 01 26 Scontro Trump UE. Femminicidio. ONU di Trump. Ucraina al gelo senza energia. Sport
Google walks back its JPEG XL decision, months after rivals moved ahead
Google has reinstated support for the JPEG XL image format in the open source Chromium code base, reversing a decision it made in 2022 to remove it.
The update allows Chromium to recognize, decode, and render JPEG XL images directly, without extensions or external components.
This change applies at the browser engine level, meaning it will affect future versions of Google Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers when they are released.
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Indeed jpegxl appears to be much better than AVIF. By the way two small questions related to images on Lemmy this probably isn't the right place but I just remembered it
1) In the browser client you make it possible to paste images into the thumbnail field when creating a post? I saw this functionality added to the Jerboa client recently, it's pretty useful for when the scraper doesn't automatically find a thumbnail in a link
2) On lemmy.ml there's a filesize limit to uploading images in the post field. I often have to manually downsize them to fit the size limit. Would it be possible to automatically encode the images client side when uploading? Maybe make them even smaller when uploading them into the thumbnail field.
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Sure, open up issues for these on the lemmy-ui repo.
The resizing an image is out of scope tho, we aren't going to embed an image suite into lemmy-ui, so you'll have to do that locally.
GitHub - LemmyNet/lemmy-ui: The official web app for lemmy.
The official web app for lemmy. Contribute to LemmyNet/lemmy-ui development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Israel’s wanted war criminal Netanyahu joins Gaza ‘board of peace’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted an invitation from United States President Donald Trump to join the “board of peace“.
The Israeli leader’s office announced on social media on Wednesday that Netanyahu is to join the initiative, despite the International Criminal Court (ICC) having issued a warrant for his arrest for war crimes in Gaza.
This should be no surprise. Trump himself architected this organization and he alone is responsible for hundreds of thousands of innocent deaths and hundreds of thousands more to come. Between his mishandling of covid and abrupt termination of critical aid, there are many dead and many more to come.
Israel’s wanted war criminal Netanyahu joins Gaza ‘board of peace’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted an invitation from United States President Donald Trump to join the “board of peace“.
The Israeli leader’s office announced on social media on Wednesday that Netanyahu is to join the initiative, despite the International Criminal Court (ICC) having issued a warrant for his arrest for war crimes in Gaza.
Israel’s wanted war criminal Netanyahu joins Gaza ‘board of peace’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted an invitation from United States President Donald Trump to join the “board of peace“.
The Israeli leader’s office announced on social media on Wednesday that Netanyahu is to join the initiative, despite the International Criminal Court (ICC) having issued a warrant for his arrest for war crimes in Gaza.
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probably at first; but not so much after a few generations.
after all, the people of the united states, canada, australia, new zealand did the same thing to native americans; first nations; aboriginals; and the maori (respectively) and the people who are still benefiting from the same monstrous institutions, that the isrealis are currently building for themselves, genuinely believe that they they're the world's "good guys" and have the money & clout to get an overwhelming majority of the world to agree with them.
Inside the US military’s massive buildup ahead of possible Iran strike
The US is steadily amassing additional military forces in the region, according to open-source intelligence analysts, media outlets covering the US military and American newspapers reporting on Wednesday. According to The Wall Street Journal, President Trump has continued to press his advisers for "decisive" military options against Iran, even after backing away from a strike last week. Senior US officials told the paper that the president repeatedly uses the word "decisive" when describing the impact he wants any American action against Iran to have.
At the center of the buildup is the movement of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and its strike group, which includes destroyers, F-35 jets and additional combat aircraft. According to maritime tracking websites, the carrier passed through the Malacca Strait on Tuesday and is heading west toward the Persian Gulf, several days away. After leaving the heavily trafficked shipping lane, the vessel has been sailing without activating its AIS transponder, which enables open-source tracking.
Last week, there were also reports of European military aircraft moving into the region, including British Typhoon jets.
Inside the US military’s massive buildup ahead of possible Iran strike
The US military is reinforcing its forces in the Middle East in an effort to provide President Donald Trump with “decisive" options against Iran.omrif (www.israelhayom.com)
Nothing to help the massive protests they just had, but as soon as the regime shuts that down we can send in a bunch of bombs.
Fucking idiots in this administration don't understand the first thing about geopolitics.
Inside the US military’s massive buildup ahead of possible Iran strike
The US is steadily amassing additional military forces in the region, according to open-source intelligence analysts, media outlets covering the US military and American newspapers reporting on Wednesday. According to The Wall Street Journal, President Trump has continued to press his advisers for "decisive" military options against Iran, even after backing away from a strike last week. Senior US officials told the paper that the president repeatedly uses the word "decisive" when describing the impact he wants any American action against Iran to have.
At the center of the buildup is the movement of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and its strike group, which includes destroyers, F-35 jets and additional combat aircraft. According to maritime tracking websites, the carrier passed through the Malacca Strait on Tuesday and is heading west toward the Persian Gulf, several days away. After leaving the heavily trafficked shipping lane, the vessel has been sailing without activating its AIS transponder, which enables open-source tracking.
Last week, there were also reports of European military aircraft moving into the region, including British Typhoon jets.
Inside the US military’s massive buildup ahead of possible Iran strike
The US military is reinforcing its forces in the Middle East in an effort to provide President Donald Trump with “decisive" options against Iran.omrif (www.israelhayom.com)
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The world has entered a new era of ‘water bankruptcy’ with irreversible consequences
Climate change-fueled heat and drought are compounding the problem, reducing available water.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/20/climate/water-bankruptcy-drought-united-nations
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Non-permanent carbon removals CDR, like afforestation, cannot compensate for emissions as permanent ones can. This should be reflected in carbon pricing
How markets should be designed for non-permanent carbon removals
21.01.2026 – Carbon dioxide removal technologies are becoming increasingly important for climate action, but their differing storage times matter for policy design.Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Supreme court to consider Trump’s bid to fire Lisa Cook from Fed board – US politics live
Supreme court to consider Trump’s bid to fire Lisa Cook from Fed board – US politics live
A federal court blocked Cook’s removal, and she remains on the Fed’s rate-setting boardJoe Coughlan (The Guardian)
Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it
Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella.
in other words please help us, use our AI
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Taking a fat dump on protest nay-sayers
I wish I could tag this as discussion.
I'm getting little annoyed at people only say "protest are useless" then proceed to suggest nothing and do nothing just to keep us in a state of complacency with the status quo.
Protest do have a function they do show those in power that people are opposed to policy or politician, but more importantly they show that other people the people that live in their city or local area are willing to show their political stance publicly. It can raise awareness and pull people in the margin to your side. from what I experience, it can show the right that they wont act on their violent words.
I get that the opposition to protest say that it never changed anything or trump continues to act crazy, and I'd say that we need to do more in addition to the protest not that we shouldn't do protest. I'll need someone that advocate not doing protest to speak in the comment.
I want to see protest "upgrade" from a gathering of people to meet-and-greets and concert. If you are at a protest you should actually enjoy it, show off your signs explain it to other protestors, and talk with other people on what to do locally. I would suggest promoting a business at a protest.
protest are good way to get around social media algorithms
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