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Month: February 2024

Wisconsin lawmakers consider regulating AI election use and outlawing certain AI-produced images

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Assembly is poised to take its first votes on regulating the use of artificial intelligence in the state. The chamber is scheduled to vote on bills Thursday that would require political candidates to include disclaimers in ads that use AI technology and outlaw AI-produced

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Venezuela orders UN office on human rights to close and its staff to leave in 3 days

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s government on Thursday ordered the local U.N. office on human rights to suspend operations and gave its staff 72 hours to leave, accusing the office of promoting opposition to the South American country. Foreign Affairs Minister Yván Gil announced the decision at a news conference in Caracas, the capital. Gil’s

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Wisconsin lawmakers consider regulating AI use in elections and outlawing AI-produced child porn

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Assembly is poised to take its first votes on regulating the use of artificial intelligence in the state. The chamber is scheduled to vote on bills Thursday that would require political candidates to include disclaimers in ads that use AI technology and outlaw AI-produced

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US and allies disrupt Russian cyber espionage operation against US and Europe, FBI chief says

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — The FBI and its international allies disrupted a network of over 1,000 hacked internet routers that Russia’s military intelligence agency was using for cyber espionage operations against the United States and its European allies, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday. The law enforcement operation used a court order to cut off

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Vermont mother of disabled Black teen sues city for excessive force after he was handcuffed, sedated in 2021 police encounter

By Kaitlyn Schwanemann, CNN (CNN) — When Cathy Austrian’s then-14-year-old son came home from a Vermont gas station with stolen vape pens on May 15, 2021, she called the police to teach him a lesson. Austrian and her son, J.A., who has intellectual disabilities, had worked with the Burlington Police Department to peacefully resolve behavioral

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Prison deaths report finds widespread missteps, failures in latest sign of crisis in federal prisons

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A watchdog report has found that the kind of systemic failures that enabled the high-profile prison deaths of gangster Whitey Bulger and financier Jeffrey Epstein also contributed to the deaths of hundreds of other federal prisoners over the years. The scathing report found mental health care, emergency

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Shooting after Chiefs Super Bowl parade seemed to stem from dispute among several people, police say

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and NICK INGRAM Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The mass shooting that unfolded amid throngs of people at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl celebration, killing one person and wounding almost two dozen others, appeared to stem from a dispute between several people, authorities said Thursday. Police Chief Stacey Graves

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