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RivCo board approves new policy on agencies’ deployment of drones

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KESQ) – The Board of Supervisors today directed agencies to establish individually tailored policies related to the deployment and use of unmanned aerial systems — generally known as “drones” — to ensure compliance with federal regulations and safety parameters. The Executive Office sought and got the board’s 5-0 approval of the new policy,

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City of Palm Springs to showcase artwork from sister city in Mexico

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) – Palm Springs officials will unveil a large-scale art installation from its sister city in Mexico next week during a public ceremony celebrating international cultural exchange, it was announced today.    Mexican artist Daniel “Mestiz” Valero, from San Miguel de Allende — Palm Springs’ official sister city — will begin installing

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People walk near an advertisement for Russian Armed Forces contracts in Vsevolozhsk

Russian regions are massively boosting military sign-up bonuses to lure more people to fight in Ukraine

By Ivana Kottasová, Anna Chernova, CNN (CNN) — Russian regions are dramatically increasing the amount of money they pay to new military recruits as analysts say “ideological” recruitment campaigns are no longer enough to motivate people to fight in Ukraine. Several regions announced in recent days they would as much as quadruple the sign-up bonuses

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Suspected Chinese government operatives used ChatGPT to shape mass surveillance proposals, OpenAI says

By Sean Lyngaas, Jim Sciutto, CNN (CNN) — Suspected Chinese government operatives asked ChatGPT to help write proposal for a tool to conduct large-scale surveillance and to help promote another that allegedly scans social media accounts for “extremist speech,” ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said in a report published Tuesday. The report sounds the alarm about how a

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The making of an al Qaeda fighter: Spin Ghul’s journey from the streets of Saudi Arabia to jihadi training camps

By Jake Tapper, CNN Spin Ghul’s desire for jihad started when he was a child in Saudi Arabia, where his parents had remained after traveling from Niger on holy pilgrimage. From his elementary school days, he was determined to become a religious soldier, especially after learning about the Soviet-Afghan War, and how the Islamist holy

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The air traffic control tower at Hollywood Burbank Airport on January 27 in Burbank

Government shutdown hits air travel, closing a control tower and causing delays across the country

CNN, POOL, SEE PREFONTS By Pete Muntean, Alexandra Skores, Aaron Cooper, CNN Washington (CNN) — A pilot preparing to take off Monday from Hollywood Burbank Airport in California took the routine step of radioing the air traffic control tower. But instead of the usual back-and-forth conversation of coordinating departure, the pilot received a different response:

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