‘There’s a price for being Russia’s enemy’: Putin, Kim aim to intimidate U.S. Russian President Vladimir Putin needs North Korea — not just for its weapons, but also to help deliver a warning to the U.S. and its allies: There will be a significant price to pay for any nation ... 07/2/2024 - 10:18 am | View Link
Daniel DePetris: Does the alliance between Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un spell doom for the US? Officials are right to raise concerns about the partnership between North Korea and Russia. But to be perfectly blunt, the sky isn’t falling. 07/1/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
Mr. Putin goes to Pyongyang. We don’t like that show Peter Morgan’s play “Patriots,” which ended its Broadway run last Sunday, tells the backstory of the rise of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The author of “The Crown” […] ... 07/1/2024 - 2:24 pm | View Link
Russian troops use tunnel to take large Ukrainian stronghold in Kirov — defense ministry The detachment’s servicemen cleared and used the more-then-three-kilometer-long tunnel along the Seversky Donetsk canal and came to the rear of the ell-fortified stronghold equipped with firing ... 06/30/2024 - 4:58 am | View Link
Russians celebrated presidential debate while 'bored' Vladimir Putin 'slept through' showdown, Kremlin gloats Meanwhile, the Kremlin played down the importance of the debate, saying dictator Vladimir Putin was too busy to wake up and watch the showdown. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "I don't think you would ... 06/28/2024 - 5:20 pm | View Link
Hurricane Beryl, the first hurricane of the 2024 season in the Atlantic, has already broken storm records as it ravages through the Caribbean. Power lines have been brought down, homes flattened, and streets flooded across multiple southeastern Caribbean Islands. The death toll has risen to at least seven people, according to CNN.
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Brazil’s national data protection authority has ordered Meta to halt the use of data originating from the country to train its AI models.
Meta’s current privacy policy enables the company to use data from its platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp to train its artificial intelligence models. However, that practice will no longer be permitted in Brazil after its national data protection authority gave the company five days to change its policy on Tuesday.
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Brazil said the company will need to confirm it has stopped using the data or face a daily non-compliance fine of $50,000 Brazilian Reals (almost $9000), citing “the imminent risk of serious and irreparable or difficult-to-repair damage to the fundamental rights of the affected data subjects.”
Meta said it was “disappointed” with the Brazilian authority’s decision, saying it was a “step backward for innovation.”
“AI training is not unique to our services, and we’re more transparent than many of our industry counterparts who have been using public content to train their models and products,” the company tells TIME Wednesday, following the Brazilian authority’s decision.
The decision follows a report published in June by Human Rights Watch, which found that a popular dataset of images scrapped from online sources used to train image models, made by German nonprofit LAION, contained identifiable images of Brazilian children, which the report says places them at risk of deep fakes or other forms of exploitation.
France captain Kylian Mbappé led his team to victory in their EURO 2024 Round of 16 game against Belgium on Monday, with a deflected shot securing the team’s advancement.
The 25-year-old soccer star played his game in a face mask—a recent, and highly discussed, addition to his uniform.
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Mbappé is wearing the mask after he broke his nose in a collision in France’s opening game—a 1-0 win against Austria on June 17.
Are you drowning in political campaign texts? You aren’t alone.
As the November 2024 election approaches, Americans across the country are experiencing a surge in text messages from political campaigns vying for their attention, donations, and votes. According to Alex Quilici, CEO of call-blocking company YouMail, there have already been more political texts in 2024 than in all of 2023.
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For some, the incessant buzz of political campaign texts has become a daily annoyance, clogging phones with unwanted notifications and creating the challenge of distinguishing legitimate outreach from potential scams.
Though the Netflix series America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders is filled with plenty of revelations about the organization, one of the most shocking is that despite the intense athletic demands and rigorous schedule of the elite team, many of the dancers also balance the work of being a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader with full-time jobs in order to make enough to get by.
In the fifth episode of The Acolyte, the latest Star Wars series on Disney+, the villain known as simply “The Stranger” finally reveals himself. While wearing a mask to hide his identity, the mysterious Sith Lord goes on a Jedi murdering spree. At first, he takes out only minor characters whose names we don’t know, though in particularly brutal fashion: He impales one with a lightsaber and then Force-pulls a second Jedi toward him, impaling that Jedi too.