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Dominique Pelicot faces further rape and murder investigation ( www.theguardian.com )
Dominique Pelicot, who has been jailed for 20 years for drugging his then wife, Gisèle Pelicot, and inviting men to rape her, faces a further investigation for the rape and murder of an estate agent in Paris in 1991, and an attempted rape in 1999, amid questions over whether he could have been a serial offender for decades. ...
Far-right activist Nick Fuentes says armed triple homicide suspect came to his door ( www.theguardian.com )
Backlash builds as Elon Musk endorses Germany’s far right – POLITICO ( www.politico.eu )
Elon Musk is backing the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), triggering an outcry in Berlin in the run-up to a critical snap election. ...
Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots ( www.npr.org )
A group of high-level managers at the Louisiana Department of Health walked into a Nov. 14 meeting in Baton Rouge expecting to talk about outreach and community events. ...
Memes, satire about hamburger franchise spread amid martial law plot allegations ( www.koreatimes.co.kr )
The local hamburger franchise Lotteria was the butt of a surge of memes and other online satire on Thursday, after police investigations revealed that former intelligence commanders met at one of its restaurants in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, to discuss martial law plans, two days before President Yoon Suk Yeol's declaration on ...
Arizona School’s Curriculum Will Be Taught by AI, No Teachers ( gizmodo.com )
By a 4-3 margin, the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools on Monday approved an application from Unbound Academy to open a fully online school serving grades four through eight. Unbound already operates a private school that uses its AI-dependent “2hr Learning” model in Texas and is currently applying to open similar ...
French Man Found Guilty Of Aggravated Rapes Of Ex-wife Gisele Pelicot ( www.barrons.com )
A court on Thursday convicted of aggravated rape a French man for orchestrating the mass rapes of his now former wife Gisele Pelicot by dozens of strangers who he recruited online. ...
Uber for Nursing: How an AI-Powered Gig Model Is Threatening Health Care - Roosevelt Institute ( rooseveltinstitute.org )
The gig economy’s labor model and its algorithmic management technologies now have a foothold in one of the largest labor sectors in the country: health care. On-demand nursing companies such as CareRev, Clipboard Health, ShiftKey, and ShiftMed have promised hospitals more control and nurses more flexibility. Through original ...
GitHub launches a free version of its Copilot | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Microsoft-owned GitHub announced on Wednesday a free version of its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair programming tool, which will also now ship by default with Microsoft’s popular VS Code editor. Until now, most developers had to pay a monthly fee, starting at $10 per month, with only verified students, teachers, and ...
UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting supporters may target police, courts: Analysts ( abcnews.go.com )
Less than two weeks after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down on the streets of midtown Manhattan, his alleged assassin Luigi Mangione has been greeted not by universal condemnation for the brazen violence -- but rather, a surge of enthusiastic support online for his so-called vigilante justice. ...
A phone company developed an AI 'granny' to beat scammers at their own game ( www.npr.org )
British mobile phone company O2 has unveiled a new creation, Daisy, a chit-chat and kitty-cat loving artificial intelligence "granny" who talks to scammers to keep them away from real people. ...
YouTube quietly made some of its web embeds worse, including ours ( www.theverge.com )
For about a year, I’ve gotten notes from readers asking why our YouTube embeds are broken in one very specific way: you can no longer click the title to open the video on YouTube.com or in the YouTube app. This used to work just fine, but now you can’t. ...
Texas' abortion pill lawsuit against New York doctor marks new challenge to interstate telemedicine ( apnews.com )
Texas has sued a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas, launching one of the first challenges in the U.S. to shield laws that Democrat-controlled states passed to protect physicians after Roe v. Wade was overturned. ...
BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline ( www.bbc.com )
Woman jailed after using shooting suspect's catchphrase as insurance company denied claim. ( www.rawstory.com )
Two Teens Indicted for Creating Hundreds of Deepfake Porn Images of Classmates ( www.forbes.com )
Last month, a detective in a small town outside of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, invited dozens of high school girls and their parents to the police station to undertake a difficult task: one by one, the girls were asked to confirm that they were depicted in hundreds of AI-generated deepfake pornographic images seized by law ...
Bill to jail bosses of major polluters set to be introduced in Scotland ( www.bbc.com )
Proposals for a new law which could see the bosses of major polluters jailed for up to 20 years has received enough support from MSPs to be introduced at Holyrood next year. ...
Iranian women could face death penalty for defying new morality laws ( www.theguardian.com )
Women in Iran could face the death sentence or up to 15 years in prison if they defy new compulsory morality laws due to come into effect this week. ...
Race against time to save five-year-old boy stuck in well in India ( www.independent.co.uk )
A rescue operation is underway to save a five-year-old boy who fell into a 150ft borewell in western India three days ago. ...
House GOP Uses Must-Pass Defense Bill To Strip Care From Military Families’ Trans Kids ( www.huffpost.com )
House Republicans have tucked a provision into a must-pass defense bill that would strip health care from military families’ transgender kids, putting parents in a position of having to choose between their careers in the military and providing medically necessary health care for their loved ones. ...
Ruling party's Bae Hyun-jin to join impeachment vote this week, signaling crack in party unity ( www.koreatimes.co.kr )
The ruling People Power Party (PPP), which adopted a unified stance of opposing the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol, is showing signs of division. Rep. Bae Hyun-jin, who abstained from last week's first impeachment vote, has announced plans to participate in the upcoming vote. ...
AI Company That Made Robots For Kids Goes Under, Robots Die - Aftermath ( aftermath.site )
AI company Embodied announced this week that they would be shutting down following financial difficulties and a sudden withdrawal of funding. Embodied’s main product was Moxie, an AI-powered social robot specifically made with autistic children in mind. The robot itself cost $799.00 and now, following the closure of ...
US woman caught with golden gun in luggage at Sydney airport jailed for a year ( www.theguardian.com )
A US woman who flew to Australia with a gold-plated pistol in her luggage has been sentenced to a year in jail, despite claiming she brought it with her for protection. ...
Travel ban for South Korea president Yoon after martial law attempt ( www.bbc.com )
South Korean authorities have imposed a travel ban on President Yoon Suk Yeol, who is under investigation for his short-lived martial law declaration last Tuesday. ...
South Korea Unsure Who Is Running the Government ( www.nytimes.com )
South Korea’s government was paralyzed Monday, mired in a new constitutional crisis after President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea clung to his office, but his own party’s leader suggested that he had been ousted from power. ...
Special forces unit chief says his soldiers are victims used by ex-defense minister | Yonhap News Agency ( en.yna.co.kr )
The head of a special forces unit involved in last week's martial law enforcement said Monday his soldiers are victims used by former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun and vowed to take full responsibility over his unit's actions. ...
South Korea president survives impeachment after governing lawmakers boycott vote ( www.cnn.com )
South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol survived a vote of impeachment on Saturday after the vote was boycotted by governing party lawmakers. ...
UnitedHealthcare Posted A Tribute To Slain CEO On Facebook — And 90,000 People Reacted With The Same Emoji ( www.huffpost.com )
In the wake of the killing, widespread public animosity towards health insurers ― and UnitedHealthcare specifically ― may explain why the company quickly limited who could comment on their tribute to Thompson. ...
South Korean president apologizes, saying he'll take responsibility for attempt at martial law ( apnews.com )
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s embattled president apologized Saturday for public anxiety caused by his short-lived attempt to impose martial law hours ahead of a parliamentary vote on impeaching him. ...
The Rage and Glee That Followed a C.E.O.’s Killing Should Ring All Alarms ( www.removepaywall.com )
LA Times owner plans to add AI-powered ‘bias meter’ on news stories, sparking newsroom backlash ( www.cnn.com )
Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, who blocked the newspaper’s endorsement of Kamala Harris and plans to overhaul its editorial board, says he will implement an artificial intelligence-powered “bias meter” on the paper’s news articles to provide readers with “both sides” of a story. ...
Moderators delete Reddit thread as doctors torch dead UnitedHealthcare CEO ( www.thedailybeast.com )
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Prosecutors open investigation into South Korean president over martial law, Yonhap reports ( www.reuters.com )
SEOUL, Dec 5 (Reuters) - South Korean prosecutors have opened an investigation into President Yoon Suk Yeol, his interior minister, and the now-former defence minister over their roles in an attempt to impose martial law, Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday. ...
Marysville schools offer new religious release program through Satanic Temple ( www.nbc4i.com )
A new religious release program for public school students is entering Marysville schools, and this one emphasizes Satanic studies. ...
District of Columbia says Amazon secretly stopped fast deliveries to 2 predominantly Black ZIP codes - WTOP News ( wtop.com )
The District of Columbia sued Amazon on Wednesday, alleging the company secretly stopped providing its fastest delivery service to residents of two predominantly Black neighborhoods while still charging millions of dollars for a membership that promises the benefit. ...
Paulette Thompson Says Husband Received Threats 'Over Lack Of Coverage' Leading Up To Shooting ( www.ibtimes.co.uk )
Texas governor warns of 'consequences' to hospital funding after doctor's viral TikTok ( www.statesman.com )
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has threatened to pull funding from a children's hospital after a doctor went viral for telling patients they are not legally required to disclose their citizenship status. ...
UNICEF Spokesperson Says Gaza Genocide Has Forced Him to Learn New Medical Terms ( www.jezebel.com )
Over the last month, Jezebel spoke with several health care workers on the ground in Gaza as well as humanitarian organizations, who described a war overwhelmingly victimizing newborns and pregnant women. In January, Care International shared with Jezebel that the miscarriage rate had increased by 300% since October 2023, and ...
Black Republicans feel left out of Trump’s 2nd-term picks - ABC News ( abcnews.go.com )
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China bans exports to US of gallium, germanium, antimony in response to chip sanctions ( apnews.com )
China announced Tuesday it is banning exports to the United States of gallium, germanium, antimony and other key high-tech materials with potential military applications, as a general principle, lashing back at U.S. limits on semiconductor-related exports. ...
Landlords Are Using AI To Raise Rents — and Cities Are Starting To Push Back – The Markup ( themarkup.org )
If you’ve hunted for apartments recently and felt like all the rents were equally high, you’re not crazy: Many landlords now use a single company’s software — which uses an algorithm based on proprietary lease information — to help set rent prices. ...
Why I regret using 23andMe: I gave up my DNA just to find out I’m British | Technology | The Guardian ( www.theguardian.com )
Code found online exploits LogoFAIL to install Bootkitty Linux backdoor ( arstechnica.com )
Researchers have discovered malicious code circulating in the wild that hijacks the earliest stage boot process of Linux devices by exploiting a year-old firmware vulnerability when it remains unpatched on affected models. ...