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Actress Hedy Lamar received a patent on August 11, 1942 for inventing a secret way of guiding torpedoes against the Nazi U boats that were wrecking havoc on the allies. "Frequency hopping." The American Physical Society has the story. Legend has it that Lamarr approached him for endocrinological advice, but the two soon began chatting about weapons, particularly radio-controlled torpedoes and how to protect them from jamming or interference.

[Above, a classic deepfake of Trump and Jared Kushner on "Better Call Saul." -- eds.] An announcement by the U. S. Federal Election Commission on Thursday that it will not take action to regulate artificial intelligence-generated "deepfakes" in political ads before the November elections amounted to "a shameful abrogation of its responsibilities," said a leading critic of the technology. A year after consumer advocate Public Citizen filed a petition with the FEC to demand rulemaking that would prohibit a political candidate or advocacy group from misrepresenting political opponents using deliberately deceptive deepfakes—fake images generated with AI—FEC Chair Sean Cooksey told Axios the commission will not propose any new rules this year. Cooksey, a Republican, said he plans to close the pending petition on Thursday without taking any action, telling Axios that rulemaking to limit or prohibit AI in campaign ads would "overstep the commission's limited legal authority to regulate political advertisements."read more

Paris was aglow as the Summer Olympics wrapped up 19 days of competition (Jul. 26-Aug. 11) with an evening of musical performances at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis for a roaring crowd of 71,500 spectators. The closing ceremony kicked off with some 9,000 athletes representing 206 delegations parading into the stadium, with Greece leading the way.

Fox News pundit Mary Katherine Ham suggested Donald Trump's recent erratic press conference at Mar-a-Lago could be attributed to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). During a Sunday panel discussion on Fox News, host Howard Kurtz pointed out that Trump's recent press conference had been described as "whack-a-doodle" and "unhinged." "The Trump news conference, it was a pretty serious hour in my view, taking questions," Kurtz opined. "Look, I think that the president clearly has a tendency to take side roads," Ham admitted.

Republican vice presidential nominee J. D. Vance worked to do damage control over the weekend after he suggested that parents should be given more votes than single citizens. During a Sunday interview with ABC News, host Jonathan Karl said he was putting Vance's "childless cat ladies" remark aside to focus on his proposal to give more votes to parents. "And you said you advocated giving extra votes to people with children," Karl explained. "Well, John, it's not a policy proposal," Vance said defensively.

I've gone back and forth on my feelings about former governor of Minnesota and former Navy SEAL Jesse Ventura, who rightfully spoke out about Dick Cheney and waterboarding on more than one occasion, but then turned to conspiracy land with the likes of Alex Jones when contemplating a presidential run in 2016. Regardless of Ventura's past, I was happy to see someone mention the fact that the deployment Vance was falsely accusing Walz of dodging was one that never should have happened in the first place, and someone again whacking him for his support of Trump who dodged the draft. Here's the exchange between Ventura and CNN's Laura Coates from this Friday: COATES: Governor Ventura, thank you so much for joining me this evening.