#FDIC Chair #MartinGruenberg will resign after an outside report found #evidence of a “misogynistic” & “patriarchal” culture at the #banking regulator. #Gruenberg… announced Mon he would resign once President #Biden appoints & the Senate confirms a successor….
An independent investigation led by an outside law firm found rampant instances of #abusive workplace conduct…, incl’g #SexualHarassment, #stalking & inappropriate supervisor-subordinate relationships….
Lawmakers last week grilled #Gruenberg over the allegations. Back-to-back hearings in both the #House & #Senate, initially intended to address #oversight of #financial regulators, last week instead focused heavily on the culture at the #FDIC & Gruenberg’s behavior. Multiple members of #Congress…called for his resignation.
The company said Friday that it will apply “#MadeWithAI” labels to a range of video, audio & images. Meta’s previous policies against #manipulated#media, which were written in 2020 before the #tech industry’s #AI boom, only applied to video content.
The expansion follows criticism from #Meta’s #Oversight Board, which called the company’s existing policies “incoherent” in Feb after an altered video of President #Biden remained on #Facebook because it didn’t violate Meta’s rules.
The #Oversight Board, an outside group funded by #Meta, called on the company to extend the policy to address #altered audio as well as videos when they falsely depict people doing things.
“We agree w/the Oversight Board’s argument that our existing approach is too narrow” because it only applies to #fake speech & not altered actions, Meta VP of #Content Policy Monika Bickert said in a stmnt.
Following the #Oversight Board’s rec, #Meta also agreed to no longer remove digitally created #media if it doesn’t violate any other rules, but the company will attach a label saying that the #content has been #altered. Starting next month, the company will start to apply “#MadeWithAI” labels on content it determines is #AI or when people disclose they are uploading #AIgenerated content.
In Feb, #Meta unveiled plans to develop a system to identify #AIgenerated#content that users create using services from other #tech companies which have agreed to embed an AI identifier or a watermark.
Meta’s #AI policy will probably be a welcome development to #civil society groups & experts who have been warning that AI-generated #misinformation is already proliferating online during a pivotal #election year.
UnitedHealth's Optum has rather quietly assembled ~90,000 physicians into its provider empire
But its acquisition of a 100-provider clinic in Oregon is drawing outsized scrutiny due to Oregon's oversight and transparency laws, which may be the new norm
Over many years, #LaPierre & cronies allegedly used #NRA membership dues like a private piggy bank, financing everything from sweetheart employment deals to luxe travel & LaPierre’s shopping sprees….
A #judge wrote that the allegations convey “a grim story of #greed, self-dealing, & lax #financial#oversight at the highest levels of the National Rifle Association.”
Over many years, #LaPierre & cronies allegedly used #NRA membership dues like a private piggy bank, financing everything from sweetheart employment deals to luxe travel & LaPierre’s shopping sprees….
A #judge wrote that the allegations convey “a grim story of #greed, self-dealing, & lax #financial#oversight at the highest levels of the National Rifle Association.”
#Trump took in ≥$7.8 million from foreign governments / entities while in office most of it from China, provably engaging in exactly the kind of conduct the #GOP is grasping to pin on President #Biden.
The documented transactions, detailed in a 156p report called #WhiteHouseForSale that was produced by #Democrats on the House #Oversight Cmte, offer concrete #evidence that #Trump engaged in the kind of conduct that #House#Republicans have labored, so far unsuccessfully, to prove that President #Biden did as they work to build an #impeachment case against him.
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The secretive Judicial Conference is tasked with self-governance. The group, led by the Supreme Court’s chief justice, has spent decades preserving perks, defending #judges and thwarting outside #oversight.
“Let me get this straight; After wailing and moaning for ten months about #HunterBiden and alluding to some vast unproven family #conspiracy, after sending Hunter Biden a #subpoena to appear and #testify, Chairman #JamesComer and the #Oversight Republicans now reject his offer to appear before the full #Committee and the eyes of the world and to answer any questions that they pose?”
What the Republicans fear most is sunlight and the truth.
To harness AI’s full potential, organizations should establish AI governance—a process that ensures AI risks are identified, assessed, measured, and managed effectively and consistently.
#DianneFeinstein, centrist stalwart of the Senate, dies at 90
A trailblazer for women in politics, she led the Intelligence Committee and helped mold the federal bench. Amid health setbacks, she faced calls to resign.
Her #centrism — & her #influence — were vividly on display during her service on the #Senate#Intelligence Cmte, where in 2009 she became the first female chair. On many issues, she ranked among the most outspoken champions of the CIA & other intelligence organizations.…
Yet even as she championed the nation’s intelligence agencies, she subjected them to aggressive #oversight in a duality that aroused admiration as well as occasional perplexity among observers of her career.
The #impeachment inquiry (cuz they don’t have anything else to do) is starting exactly as might have been expected…
The inquiry kicks off this week w/a Thurs hearing before the #HouseOversight Cmte, which is chaired by (#House#Republican) James #Comer. The hearing’s aim is not to present #evidence that bolsters the central allegation — in part because it’s not clear what the central allegation is.
#HouseSpeaker#KevinMcCarthy’s public announcement about the inquiry included a half-dozen assertions of potentially dubious activity, several of which involved only Biden’s son #Hunter & one of which was explicitly #false.
So the first hearing in the #Biden inquiry will instead attempt to establish the #rationale for the #inquiry itself. That’s the #Oversight Cmte’s presentation, not mine; the hearing is titled, “The Basis for an Impeachment Inquiry of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.”
by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott & Alex Mierjeski @ProPublica
#Thomas has attended at least two #Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a #political network that has brought multiple #cases before the #SupremeCourt.
#SCOTUS itself said in a recent stmnt…that “justices exercise caution in attending events that might be described as #political in nature.” But unlike w/lower court judges, there is no formal #oversight….
2 decades ago, Justice #RuthBaderGinsburg delivered opening remarks at a lecture cosponsored by the NOW Legal Defense & Education Fund, a #women’s #rights group that filed friend-of-the-court briefs at the #SupremeCourt. It was a PUBLIC event & co-sponsored by the NYC Bar Association (#NYCBar).
Six additional daycares in the Calgary area have been ordered to close by Alberta Health Services after children who attend the facilities tested positive for E. coli.
Exactly the kind of crisis one would expect under anti-vaxxer, Danielle Smith UCP government. 😤🤬
🇬🇧 Did you know that in modern #Apple devices the LED (physical light) that notifies the camera of its operation is not software-controlled, i.e. it is on the camera's power line and lights up with its power on?
🇵🇱 Czy wiedzieliście, że we współczesnych urządzeniach #Apple dioda (fizyczna lampka) powiadamiający o działaniu kamery nie jest sterowana software’owo, tj. jest na linii zasilania kamery i zapala się wraz z jego załączeniem zasilania?