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Trump attorney tells judges presidential immunity would even cover assassinating rivals, selling pardons (themessenger.com)
US presidents cannot be prosecuted for selling pardons or assassinating political rivals through SEAL Team Six, personal Trump lawyer John Sauer argued Tuesday...
Georgia police and FBI conduct Swat-style raids on ‘Cop City’ activists’ homes (www.theguardian.com)
Quality of care declines after private equity takes over hospitals, finds nationwide analysis (medicalxpress.com)
Amazon argues that national labor board is unconstitutional, joining SpaceX and Trader Joe's (apnews.com)
Amazon is arguing in a legal filing that the 88-year-old National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional, echoing similar arguments made this year by Elon Musk’s SpaceX and the grocery store chain Trader Joe’s in disputes about workers’ rights and organizing....
Billions are on the line for lenders as White House finalizes credit card late fee cap of $8 (www.cnbc.com)
Mississippi police officer who shot 11-year-old boy in his home after a 911 call has been reinstated after suspension (www.cnn.com)
Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it (www.techspot.com)
The Man Who Killed Google Search (www.wheresyoured.at)
Edward Zitron has been reading all of google’s internal emails that have been released as evidence in the DOJ’s antitrust case against google....
Is it just me, or has the BS with OpenAI shown that nobody in the AI space actually cares about "safeguarding AGI?"
Money wins, every time. They’re not concerned with accidentally destroying humanity with an out-of-control and dangerous AI who has decided “humans are the problem.” (I mean, that’s a little sci-fi anyway, an AGI couldn’t “infect” the entire internet as it currently exists.)...
Heads up. Facebook keylogs your passwords. (midwest.social)
As folks freeze to death in Milwaukee, Ohio pastor charged for offering shelter (www.jsonline.com)
Whose responsibility is it to protect unhoused when it's freezing outside? An Ohio pastor opened his church to the homeless and was charged by city.
Online Content Is Disappearing (www.pewresearch.org)
cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/25166889
DOJ: Ex-IRS employee who leaked Trump's tax returns intentionally got job to disclose records (www.usatoday.com)
A former Internal Revenue Service contractor, who leaked tax information about Donald Trump and other wealthy individuals to news organizations, got his job to intentionally to spread the confidential records, according to Justice Department prosecutors....
'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology (www.bbc.com)
Reddit: 'We Are in the Early Stages of Monetizing Our User Base' (www.404media.co)
Reddit said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that its users’ posts are “a valuable source of conversation data and knowledge” that has been and will continue to be an important mechanism for training AI and large language models. The filing also states that the company believes “we are in the early...
HP CEO: You're 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies (www.theregister.com)
Did Obama Becoming President Make People Hide Their Racism?
It felt like it was uncool to have even a touch of racism when Obama got elected and through his presidency. But since the MAGA movement, I feel like subtle and out-right racism has increased. Like a gateway was opened....
Substack says it will remove Nazi publications from the platform (www.platformer.news)
Fallout 3: GOTY Edition is free to keep for the next 24 hours on the Epic Games Store (store.epicgames.com)
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A 32-year market vet warns the US economy is hurtling toward a recession as inflation flares back up — and shares 2 technical indicators that show stocks could be on the verge of a significant decline (www.businessinsider.com)