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#Deepfake #AIAbuse #ChildSafety
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As teens await sentencing for nudifying girls, parents aim to sue school
Two teens behind one of the earliest US high school deepfake scandals will be sentenced this week, but the case is unlikely to resolve families' concerns about the school's significantly delayed response.
#DeepSeaMining #CriticalMinerals #SustainableMining
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Mining the deep ocean
More than 13,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, a more-than-70-ton machine trundled like a tank on its caterpillar tracks for a tenth of a mile -- sucking up potato-sized nodules of rock packed with copper, manganese, cobalt, and nickel.
#Astrobiology #DNA #SpaceExploration
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We keep finding the raw material of DNA in asteroids -- what's it telling us?
On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines. But many of the headlines omitted a key word needed to put the discovery in context: "again.
#Vaccines #PublicHealth #HealthPolicy
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RFK Jr.'s war on scientific expertise destroyed 27% of agency's advisor panels
In his role as health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. -- a long-time anti-vaccine activist with no background in science, medicine, or public health -- has made headlines for his thorough perversion of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel.
#AsteroidMining #SpaceExploration #Innovation
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A private space company has a radical new plan to bag an asteroid
It may sound fanciful, but a Los Angeles-based company says it has conceived of a plan to fly out to a smallish, near-Earth asteroid, throw a large bag around it, and bring the body back to a "safe" gathering point near our planet.
#AgeVerification #PrivacyConcerns #Discord
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After Discord fiasco, age-check tech promises privacy by running locally. Does it work?
Last month, Discord quickly backpedaled after it announced that an age-verification system would roll out globally.
Discord's reversal followed a widespread user backlash, which also intensified scrutiny of the platform's age-check partners.
#DataPrivacy #CaliforniaLaw #ConsumerProtection
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The nation's strictest privacy law just took effect, to data brokers' chagrin
Californians are getting a new, supercharged way to stop data brokers from hoarding and selling their personal information, as a recently enacted law that's among the strictest in the nation took effect at the beginning of the year.
#DataPrivacy #CaliforniaLaw #ConsumerProtection
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The nation's strictest privacy law just took effect, to data brokers' chagrin
Californians are getting a new, supercharged way to stop data brokers from hoarding and selling their personal information, as a recently enacted law that's among the strictest in the nation took effect at the beginning of the year.
