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It's a common sight on the streets of downtown Portland‚ Oregon: people in front of stores‚ trendy restaurants and hotels‚ on sidewalks‚ corners‚ and benches‚ crouched over torch lighters held up to sheets of tinfoil or meth pipes. Some drape blankets over their heads‚ or duck behind concrete barriers. Others don’t try to hide. "All summer long‚ we were right out in the open. You didn't have to be paranoid anymore‚ you didn't have to be worried about the cops‚" said John Hood‚ a 61-year-...

The bruised body of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been found in a hospital morgue in the Arctic‚ two days after he died in a nearby prison. A paramedic told Russian opposition media that there were bruises on Navalny’s head and chest when his body was brought into the Salekhard District Clinical Hospital. “Such injuries‚ described by those that saw them‚ appear from seizures‚” the unnamed paramedic told the exiled Novaya Gazeta newspaper. “The person convulses‚ they...

This library has checked out. A public library in California has shut its doors following months of rampant drug use‚ robberies and even public sex between the bookshelves as Golden State cities are held hostage by criminals. The Contra Costa County Library’s Antioch Branch that it made the decision to close beginning on Saturday until further notice as the “repeated dangerous incidents” have threatened the safety of its patrons. “During the closure‚ the Library will be working to...

Under pressure from the White House and governments around the globe‚ major technology companies pledged Friday to crack down on artificial intelligence-generated deepfakes that could undermine the integrity of major democratic elections in the U.S. and overseas this year. Google‚ Meta‚ TikTok and other companies said they would join forces to create tools to detect and debunk election deepfakes. They unveiled the accord as political and security leaders gathered at the Munich Security...

A group of 20 tech companies announced on Friday they have agreed to work together to prevent deceptive artificial-intelligence content from interfering with elections across the globe this year. The rapid growth of generative artificial intelligence (AI)‚ which can create text‚ images and video in seconds in response to prompts‚ has heightened fears that the new technology could be used to sway major elections this year‚ as more than half of the world's population is set to head...

Some of the technology industry’s leading companies have teamed up to combat deceptive uses of artificial intelligence to spread misinformation in the 2024 elections. The collective 20 companies announced the “Tech Accord to Combat Deceptive Use of AI in 2024 Elections” on Friday during the Munich Security Conference. The pact is a series of commitments from companies including Google‚ Meta‚ Amazon‚ and Adobe to work together to design tools that can detect AI-generated images or...

“I thought‚ ‘I gotta fix this.'” Source: A boy was in tears because he didn’t have PJs for Pajamas Day. His bus driver came to the rescue Nice. Admin Note I almost missed it‚ but today is the 7th anniversary of Not All News Is Bad. Wow. I didn’t really expect it would last this long‚ but I also get that it‚ and publications like it‚ are needed now more than ever. Thanks for coming along for the ride! -Leo

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