Former UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow speaks following his termination hearing Gow spoke with a Journal Sentinel reporter after the second day of the hearing, June 20. A University of Wisconsin-La Crosse faculty committee unanimously recommended former chancellor Joe Gow lose his faculty position, setting the stage for the UW Board of Regents to fire …
LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — A political consultant who sent artificial intelligence-generated robocalls mimicking President Joe Biden’s voice made his first court appearance Wednesday in New Hampshire, where he is charged with voter suppression and impersonating a candidate ahead of the state’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary. Steven Kramer, who also faces a proposed $6 million fine from …
**SPOILERS AHEAD**!!!!!! As the fictional Freud writes of his own approaching death, he foresees the death of his sister Dolfi (who will die three years later in historical time, on the way to the camps). To put it mildly, death is everywhere. “Pain will be with me until I take my final leave,” Freud/Miéville/Reeves writes. …
WASHINGTON — Releasing an audio recording of a special counsel’s interview with President Joe Biden could spur deepfakes and disinformation that trick Americans, the Justice Department said, conceding the U.S. government could not stop the misuse of artificial intelligence ahead of this year’s election. A senior Justice Department official raised the concerns in a court …
A tragedy indeed Re: “An American Tragedy — For the American middle, Trump’s conviction is the culmination of bad things,” Sunday editorial. Your editorial staff deserves credit for looking at the Trump conviction through the lens of the “American middle,” a point of view that is generally missing in major news coverage. The editors of …
Ed Brzytwa is VP of international trade at the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). Leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives are debating a proposal that would dramatically limit speech on the internet. Backed by two powerful house leaders, the proposed “Legislative Proposal to Sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act” would eliminate the protections …
Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday revealed her push to ban students from bringing smartphones into New York schools amid ongoing efforts to address intersecting educational and youth mental health crises. The Democratic governor has plans to introduce a bill banning schoolchildren from carrying smartphones on school grounds. She aimed to approve it during the 2025 …
Donald Trump convicted on 34 counts, could be sentenced to jail Since Donald Trump was convicted of state and not federal charges, he would be unable to pardon himself if re-elected president. The claim: Image shows police taking Trump into custody A May 30 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) appears to show former President …
Americans react to Trump’s guilty verdict in hush money trial Americans in New York, Florida and Texas react to the news of Donald Trump’s guilty verdict in the hush money trial. A New York jury found former President Donald Trump guilty on all 34 counts of business fraud charges related to an alleged “hush money” …
OPELIKA, Ala. — On the second floor of a single-family home in a sprawling suburban development, a three-member production crew sat behind banks of computer monitors and guided the conservative Right Side Broadcasting Network’s coverage of a recent Donald Trump rally. RSBN’s show director, whispering into a microphoned headset, instructed the camera operators and on-air …