Wasatch County’s Republican Party chair is facing felony child abuse charges for allegedly “waterboarding” a 16-year-old relative.

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DHS is expanding its use of administrative subpoenas, which don’t come from judges.

Ukrainian president pushes back on US calls for concessions.

Source: https://www.litterboxcomics.com/whats-this/

Backstory here: https://www.404media.co/ars-technica-pulls-article-with-ai-fabricated-quotes-about-ai-generated-article/

I'm starting to work on a helpful resource that will give my friends a place to start when it comes the Fediverse. Filling out little tools and things I and others create along with useful links like one to @fedidb@mastodon.socialThe site will be public in the nearish future. What do you think needs to be added?@asklemmy@lemmy.world#Fediverse #Fedicate #Education #FediverseEducation #Fedi #AskFedi #AskMastodon #AskFediverse #AskLemmy

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Both Lemmy.world and my server rely upon Cloudflare for SSL, DDOS protection, CDN services, etc. I use it to provide me with a Cloudflare tunnel to get around not being able to forward ports.

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“There is an element of, at some point, you age out,” the former president said.

Canada plans to unveil a new strategy that will shift its current reliance on American companies to Canadian military suppliers.

The Israeli government has approved a proposal to register large areas of the West Bank as “state property” for the first time since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territory began in 1967.

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has said it has released all of the files required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, but lawmakers have argued the release is insufficient.

A story about an AI generated article contained fabricated, AI generated quotes.

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Ben Gvir was wearing a hangman’s noose badge on his shirt at the time, aiming to show Palestinians have no control at all

On Sunday morning, Border czar Tom Homan said elected officials in Minnesota “ought to be saying thank you” to the Trump administration for making the state safer.

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Not only are there no legal consequences, but she’ll be allowed to drive again

At least it wasn’t a classified document leak, I guess?

Since 2023, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation has paid Palantir nearly $4 million to improve its ability to track down payment for the services provided at its hospitals and medical clinics. Palantir, a data analysis firm that’s now a Wall Street giant thanks to its lucrative work with the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence community, deploys its software to make more efficient the billing of Medicaid and other public benefits. That includes automated scanning of patient health notes to “Increase charges captured from missed opportunities,” contract materials reviewed by The Intercept show.

Borges alleges that a little-known federal tech team called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, copied the government’s master Social Security database into a cloud system that lacked normal oversight.

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Elation as anti-extremists fight back against influence of billionaire megadonors through grassroots organizing

A much-hyped ICE pullback from Minneapolis is a blip in a looming nationwide surge of arrests, concentration camps.

Instead of discarding stock, companies are encouraged to manage their stock more effectively, handle returns, and explore alternatives such as resale, remanufacturing, donations, or reuse.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/63729981

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It outranks German and French. Almost all of it is bot-generated.

About one in five residents in Lithuania lives in poverty, the State Data Agency (VDA) reported, with the most affected groups including people struggling to enter the labour market, pensioners and those with disabilities.

When gaming with friends, many times we’ll share our screens simultaneously so we can help keep track of group members if we get split up.

This Valentine’s Day there is a lot of red on the screen for the X.Org Server with the code delta as a result of renaming of their main Git development branch and in the process selectively dropping questionable patches to the prior “master” codebase.

HOTFIX:

KaOS Linux 2026.02 was released today as the February 2026 ISO snapshot for this independent GNU/Linux distribution, which uses Arch Linux’s pacman package manager, and the first release to ship with the Niri Wayland compositor.

The DNA damage from ionizing radiation (IR) erupting from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 is showing up in the children of those originally exposed, researchers have found – the first time such a transgenerational link has been clearly established.

Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar is launching his election campaign and says he can return Hungary to a stronger European path.

I couldn’t get my brain to do what I wanted to draw. That happens when you are trying to create something that hasn’t existed before. So I thought “what if I drew something that already exists?” How close could I get to an absolutely recognizable work? Can I do it without messing it up? Can I do it without fixing the “errors” in the original that no one notices unless they are not right in the head?

There are a lot of buzzword sounding bits in this article, but this is still a cool (incremental) step from what I understand. This seems to be the key bit:

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