The safety impacts of artificial intelligence are here, are real and are often very personal. Innocent teenagers are being blackmailed with their faces inserted into photo-realistic pornography. Terrified grandparents are sending tens of thousands of dollars to “virtual kidnappers” who use AI to fake the voices of family members using snippets of audio from social […]
Pride revelers will likely see less — if any — National Park rangers marching in uniform at LGBTQ Pride events across the country this year. The National Park Service is effectively prohibiting uniformed employees from marching in public events that “could be construed as agency support for a particular issue, position, or political party,” according […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said “chaos” and “dysfunction” in the House GOP has “effectively” given Democrats the majority, lending credence to far-right criticism of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as the GOP majority slims. Jeffries said Sunday in a CBS “60 Minutes” interview with Norah O’Donnell that Democrats hold outright influence over the House […]
A Boeing whistleblower testified on Wednesday that despite numerous attempts to flag safety issues he was seeing with aircraft manufacturing, he was ignored and sometimes threatened by his superiors. Several witnesses told senators that Boeing’s company culture prioritizes money-saving measures over safety in its production of the 787 Dreamliner and the 777 aircraft. In , […]
Bosses want more skilled workers. Workers want more skills. Somehow, nobody is happy. Per the latest annual Career Optimism Index study from the University of Phoenix Career Institute, more than half of the 5,000 U.S. workers surveyed said they feel easily replaceable at their workplace. Almost two-thirds said their company doesn’t offer them chances to […]
Donald Trump on Monday asked the Supreme Court to block a lower-court ruling that rejected his argument claiming he has presidential immunity for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, arguing that the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling last week is “a stunning breach of precedent and historical norms.” The former president insisted […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan effectively closed a key northwestern border crossing with Afghanistan to truck drivers on Saturday, Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban said. Noor Mohammad Hanif, director of Information and Culture department in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province said that officials at the Torkham began asking for passports and visas from Afghan drivers. Truckers have for years […]
Members of the University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees have reportedly asked President Liz Magill to resign if she cannot effectively function in her role following backlash over her comments on antisemitism during Tuesday’s congressional hearing. A source at Thursday’s emergency board of trustees meeting told the Daily Pennsylvanian that somewhere between six and eight […]