- Trump's Sons Accused of Trying to Profit Off Iran War With Drone Investment, well this is not exactly a crime…
- Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab
- Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults as expected…
- UK startup raises $15M to build Europe's sovereign alternative to biometric surveillance
- Bunnings introducing facial recognition to 42 New Zealand stores
- Egypt pilots selfie biometrics to streamline access to digital govt services. The burning desire for surveillance is creating such digital fragility that the damage is hard to measure today, so devastating will it be. It is technology that defines the era; desires can only adapt to it.
- AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too? This is a very important point: an LLM doesn't really "generate" content, it only does so by "distilling" what is in the model, i.e. information created by humans (LLM input on LLM only generates hallucinations so far), so technically the LLM is a sort of search engine for the Library of Babel dreamed of by Conrad Gessner; it cannot legally "rewrite licenses" because they would be the same as the original ones.
- California Catholic bishop resigns amid charges he embezzled $270,000 from parish. It's the same old habit; after all, a "believer" goes there to believe, so milking them is just natural selection…
- First Deutsche Bank, Now UBS Warns U.S. Airlines "Nearly 100% Unhedged" Against Energy Shock
- World's Biggest Hedge Funds Crushed By Oil Price Surge
- Trump: US Navy sank unarmed Iran ship because it was ‘more fun’
- Loans To Non-Banks Threaten Banking Crisis
- Pentagon Leak Reveals Staggering Cost of Trump's War (not actually from Trump) apparently many like to shield Israel, simply by not mentioned it…
- $330 Million In U.S. Reaper Drones Suffer Grim Fate In Operation Epic Fury
- 10 Additional French Warships to be Sent to the Middle East
You might also be interested in today's press review in French or Italian.