Futurology Today

Lil Nas X was charged on Monday with four felonies after police say he charged at them when they confronted him for walking naked down a Los Angeles street last week.

Prosecutors charged the musician, whose legal name is Montero Lamar Hill, with three counts of battery with injury on a police officer and one felony count of resisting an executive officer, the district attorney’s office said. He was initially booked on suspicion of misdemeanor obstructing an officer on Friday.

Kilmar Ábrego García – who has been thrust into the middle of an acrimonious deportation saga by the second Trump administration – has been detained after reporting to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents in Baltimore on Monday.

“The only reason he was taken into detention was to punish him,” Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, an attorney representing Ábrego, told a crowd of supporters outside a Baltimore Ice field office on Monday.

The attorney also said his client filed a new lawsuit on Monday morning challenging his potential deportation to Uganda and his current confinement.

Warsaw (AFP) – Polish President Karol Nawrocki on Monday blocked legislation that would extend rights Ukrainian refugees have in Poland, taking particular exception to child benefits which he said should be paid only to parents with a job.

Since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, around one million refugees have settled in Poland. Most of them are women and children.

Poland is a key supporter of Ukraine and a major transit route for Western aid but public attitudes towards Ukrainians have hardened.

The law Nawrocki is blocking -- put forward by the country's pro-EU government -- seeks to extend to March 2026 the temporary protection status Ukrainians have in Poland, as well as a number of other measures given to them.

Without an extension, they will expire at the end of September.

The legislation also covers various benefits paid, residence permits, access Ukrainians have to certain professions in Poland, and payments the country makes to the US satellite communications company Starlink relied upon by the Ukrainian military.

Nawrocki, a nationalist, had promised to cut social welfare benefits during the campaign ahead of his election victory on June 1.

"I will not change my mind and I think that (this aid) should be limited only to Ukrainians who are committed to working in Poland," Nawrocki, who took office this month, told reporters on Monday.

Nawrocki also said Ukrainians who do not work in Poland should not be allowed to receive free medical treatment as they do now.

"This puts us in a situation in which Polish citizens, in their own country, are less well treated than our Ukrainian guests," he said.

Nawrocki has put forward his own legislation to cut social welfare for Ukrainians.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk criticised the veto. But his government does not have the two-thirds majority in parliament needed to overcome the move.

"We cannot punish people for losing their job -- particularly not innocent children. This is the ABC of human decency," Labour Minister Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bak wrote on X.

A recent report carried out by consulting firm Deloitte for the UN refugee agency found that Ukrainian refugees have a positive net impact of 2.7 percent on Poland's gross domestic product (GDP).

Poland's digital affairs minister, Krzysztof Gawkowski, stressed that Nawrocki veto jeopardised Ukraine's use of Starlink.

"We want to continue paying for internet by satellite for Ukraine. Unfortunately, this disastrous decision by the president greatly complicates things, and we will have to inform our partners that this support will finish at the end of September," he told the PAP news agency.

Gawkowski said that Poland spent 77 million euros ($90 million) between 2022 and 2024 to buy and subscribe to Starlink sytems for Ukraine.

The boss of the firm behind ChatGPT and the UK technology secretary discussed a multibillion-pound deal to give the entire country premium access to the AI tool, the Guardian has learned.

Sam Altman, a co-founder of OpenAI, talked to Peter Kyle about a potential agreement to give UK residents access to its advanced product.

According to two sources with direct knowledge of the meeting, the idea was floated as part of a broader discussion in San Francisco about opportunities for collaboration between OpenAI and the UK.

Those close to the discussion say Kyle never really took the idea seriously, not least because it could have cost as much as £2bn. But the talks show the enthusiasm with which the technology secretary has embraced the artificial intelligence sector, despite concerns over the accuracy of some chatbot responses and implications for privacy and copyright.

If i had more time i would have found a way to work a 404 joke into today, but i couldn't come up with anything good that wouldn't just be me suddenly switching gears to another game. Anyways, so it's some more of The Last of Us Part 2. The main screenshot for today i actually only picked because damn, does it look really good. It's a really out of the way area that i almost walked right past.

The Museum section was creepy as fuck. The wolf jumpscare actually got me too. With the fact that game just made me fight a bunch of dogs, i was half expecting it to make me fight some wolves too with how they showed up (easy way to reuse AI and i could see some good metaphors for the Wolves).

The literal writing on the walls was creepy as fuck too. I was half expecting to get jumped by some guy in here, i'm glad it turned out he was dead though. It was a bit sad though, poor guy seemed to genuinely regret what he had done.

And you damn well know i put a hat on all the dinos i could find. Even everyone's favorite. It was fun going around putting it on them and running around.

I stopped at the car chase. I don't know if it's just me but it felt like Naughty Dog's Uncharted was showing. This felt ripped straight out of the games, specifically 4. I was honestly surprised i made it all the way through without dying because i've been neglecting to upgrade the pistol and my controller was bugging out for some reason. I did it though.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/35220360

The only other source was CNN. Does anyone else have other sources?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/41043655

A lawyer representing the online message board 4chan says it won't pay a proposed fine by the UK's media regulator as it enforces the Online Safety Act.

According to Preston Byrne, managing partner of law firm Byrne & Storm, Ofcom has provisionally decided to impose a £20,000 fine "with daily penalties thereafter" for as long as the site fails to comply with its request.

"Ofcom's notices create no legal obligations in the United States," he told the BBC, adding he believed the regulator's investigation was part of an "illegal campaign of harassment" against US tech firms.

Research.

This paper examines changes in the labor market for occupations exposed to generative artificial intelligence using high-frequency administrative data from the largest payroll software provider in the United States. We present six facts that characterize these shifts. We find that since the widespread adoption of generative AI, early-career workers (ages 22-25) in the most AI-exposed occupations have experienced a 13 percent relative decline in employment even after controlling for firm-level shocks. In contrast, employment for workers in less exposed fields and more experienced workers in the same occupations has remained stable or continued to grow. We also find that adjustments occur primarily through employment rather than compensation. Furthermore, employment declines are concentrated in occupations where AI is more likely to automate, rather than augment, human labor. Our results are robust to alternative explanations, such as excluding technology-related firms and excluding occupations amenable to remote work. These six facts provide early, large-scale evidence consistent with the hypothesis that the AI revolution is beginning to have a significant and disproportionate impact on entry-level workers in the American labor market.

• Anatsa malware first emerged in 2020 as an Android banking trojan capable of credential theft, keylogging, and enabling fraudulent transactions.
• The latest variant of Anatsa targets over 831 financial institutions worldwide, adding new countries like Germany and South Korea, as well as cryptocurrency platforms.
• Anatsa streamlined payload delivery by replacing dynamic code loading of remote Dalvik Executable (DEX) payloads with direct installation of the Anatsa payload.
• Anatsa implemented Data Encryption Standard (DES) runtime decryption and device-specific payload restrictions.
• Many of the decoy Antasta applications have individually exceeded 50,000 downloads.
• Alongside Anatsa, ThreatLabz identified and reported 77 malicious apps from various malware families to Google, collectively accounting for over 19 million installs.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/41043655

Until I had fresh heirlooms. Now I like to try and grow any kind and they're generally all great. Didn't plant any this year though, these were from a neighbor's generous bounty :)

The first strike hit the upper floor of the hospital, which was one of the largest medical facilities in Gaza prior to the war. A second strike targeted the rescue team responding to the casualties from the initial bombing.

Four journalists were killed in the attack, including Mohamed Salama, a contributor to Middle East Eye who had produced numerous video reports since the start of the Israeli genocide in Gaza in October 2023.

His most recent exclusive report exposed that the body of a 10-year-old boy- killed while trying to receive aid at the controversial Israeli- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) - had yet to be recovered. Salama also worked with Al Jazeera.

Once upon a time I used to think that everyone could live together as equals, that we all had no issues with one another and what differences we had weren't existential in the slightest (I'm assuming existential here meaning a risk to our continued existence). I naively thought that perhaps man was good deep down, but honestly, then I took a look at my youtube recommended videos and realized I'm actually far right.

Youtube is recommending me Ben Shapiro, zionist Israeli youtubers, anti-woke content, Count Dankula, Trump supporters, etc.

Apparently I'm a far right scumbag cause otherwise why else would youtube recommend me these videos?

Yup, guess I'm going to have to hate the wokes, hate having a functioning country, hate the human race except white people (unless they're the wokes), hate women, hate PoC; I'll have to cry about a kids movie I was never going to watch casting a black person in a traditionally white role (in, again, a movie I was never going to watch), claim everything I hate is Marxism including capitalism, etc.

I never even knew I was far right, but then why else would youtube be recommending me these videos when I watch 90% Hasan, 5% Rathbone, 5% other left wing/left leaning content creators?

Ursula von der Leyen has reiterated that the agreement on tariffs between the EU and the US was a 'conscious decision' that avoided a trade war.

Regarding the 15 per cent cap on US tariffs on a range of products - from cars to pharmaceuticals, from semiconductors to timber - the Commission leader spoke of a "good, if not perfect agreement", while recalling how tariffs are "taxes that burden consumers and businesses", increasing "costs, reduce choice and undermine the competitiveness of economies".

In conclusion, von der Leyen called for a "strong and independent" Europe, urging it to "complete the single market" and "strengthen competitiveness and sustainability".

Solar power is having a bumper year as developers race to complete installations before Trump’s policy changes pull the rug out from under the industry.