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A New York State judge has ruled a criminal fraud and tax evasion prosecution against the Trump Organization and its former CFO, Allen Weisselberg, can proceed.
“Doing it in plain sight is proof that I’ve done nothing wrong.” Trump showed WSJ the full package (7 pages). The material includes TS/SCI and TS documents.
Per Trump’s lawyer, Trump and Melania watched the search on closed circuit cameras located throughout Mar-a-Lardo, & refused FBI request to turn them off. Trump’s lawyer at the search said trump had a better view of the search than even she did. The place is lousy with cameras. MSNBC.
US oil and gas sector at risk of a cyber breach according to BreachBits study
The majority of companies across the US oil and gas industry are at risk of a successful cyber breach according to BreachBits, a cyber risk rating and monitoring company that evaluates and tests organisations from a hacker’s perspective to empower them to anticipate attacks. Following an analysis of 98 representative upstream, midstream, downstream and supply chain companies across the energy sector, BreachBits has released their findings in BreachRisk: Energy 2022, a cyber state of the industry study.
POLIO Alerting people about the risks of polio is so important. Polio detected in New York City sewage suggesting local circulation of virus, health officials say. Polio can result in permanent paralysis of the arms and legs and death in some cases.
Health officials are calling on people who are not vaccinated to get their shots immediately.
Ducey, AG must get Saudi firm to pay for groundwater use
Saudi firm has pumped Arizona groundwater for years without paying. Time to pony up
Opinion: The State Land Department unlawfully allowed Fondomonte to pump unlimited amounts of groundwater at no cost. That must stop.
The Butler Valley is an empty stretch of desert west of Phoenix, worthy of note for two reasons. It holds more than 6 million acre-feet of groundwater, strategically located near the Central Arizona Project canal.
And more than 99% of Butler Valley is owned by the state of Arizona in trust for the support of public schools. In 1982 as the Central Arizona Project canal neared completion, Wes Steiner, the renowned director of the Department of Water Resources, proposed that the state set aside Butler Valley as a groundwater reserve for future use in connection with the CAP.
California to become 1st state to offer free school lunches for all students
Are you listening to the CDC? cause they do NOT want you to quarantine, social distance, or test to stay in school for Covid 19 control !!
The CDC is making clear with their actions that they are not only perfectly happy to accept hundreds of thousands of covid infections per day, almost 500 confirmed deaths per day, tens of thousands of people hospitalized — they’re willing to reduce precautions in that environment.
Scientists claim to have developed ‘cure for blindness’
Protein implant gave people who couldn’t see 20:20 vision Just one in 70 people who need a cornea transplant can get one
A protein implant could cure blindness, according to a new study. Researchers found no one who had the operation was still blind two years later and three people who were blind ended up with 20:20 vision.
A vaccine for Lyme disease is in its final clinical trial
A vaccine candidate for Lyme disease is moving through the clinical pipeline, as the tick-borne disease spreads to new areas. Here, a tick is seen at the French National Institute of Agricultural Research.
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Ticks that carry Lyme disease have been on the march, spreading into more forests and brush areas around the U.S. and Europe. But lovers of the outdoors could get a new weapon against Lyme, if a new vaccine candidate performs well. It aims to protect people as young as five.
Secret Service watchdog suppressed memo on January 6 texts erasure
Officials at the DHS’s office of inspector general said their attempts to inform Congress in April were thwarted ~Hugo Lowell
Top career officials at the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) office of the inspector general (OIG) tried to alert Congress in April that Secret Service texts from the time of the January 6 Capitol attack had been erased, but their efforts were nixed by its leadership, documents show. The officials inside the inspector general’s office – the chief watchdog for the Secret Service – prepared a memo that detailed how the Secret Service was resisting the oversight body’s review into January 6, and delayed informing it about the lost texts. But after the memo was emailed to the DHS inspector general Joseph Cuffari’s chief of staff, its contents were never seen again, and the disclosure about the erased text messages was never included in Cuffari’s semi-annual report to Congress about oversight work.
The man who built his own ISP to avoid huge fees is expanding his service
Jared Mauch just received $2.6 million in funding to widen his service to 600 homes.
Given a choice between settling for pathetically slow internet speeds from AT&T or paying Comcast $50,000 to expand to his rural home, Michigan resident Jared Mauch chose option “C”: starting up his own fiber internet service provider. Now, he’s expanding his service from about 70 customers to nearly 600 thanks to funding aimed at expanding access to broadband internet, Ars Technica has reported. Last year, the US government’s Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds allocated $71 million to Michigan’s Washtenaw county for infrastructure projects, with a part of that dedicated to broadband expansion. Mauch subsequently won a bid to wire up households “known to be unserved or underserved based on [an] existing survey,” according to the RFP.
Ralph Nader attacks Tesla for ‘malfunctioning’ self-driving car technology
‘One of the most dangerous and irresponsible actions by a car company in decades’: Activist Ralph Nader urges regulators to recall Tesla’s self-driving technology
The man who forever changed vehicle safety standards in the U.S. has a scathing new message for Elon Musk and Tesla’s self-driving car technology: He thinks it’s dangerous, and regulators should get involved.
Federal Circuit Rules Inventorship Must Be Natural Human Beings
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently confirmed in Thaler v. Vidalthat artificial intelligence (AI) agents cannot be listed as an inventor on a patent because the plain text of the Patent Act requires that inventors must be human beings. Patent law jurisprudence around the world has traditionally recognized only humans as inventors to patent applications, and this ruling likely concludes the American front of Stephen Thaler and the Artificial Intelligence Project’s years-long, global campaign advocating for patent laws to recognize AI agents as patent inventors.
A new lawsuit alleges telecom giant #Ericsson violated U.S. anti-terrorism laws by using a network of operatives and slush funds to transfer payments to terrorist agents while ISIS was waging a violent campaign against U.S. forces and allies.
Mark Zuckerberg Roasted by New Meta Chatbot: ‘Too Creepy and Manipulative’
User: -“Do you have any thoughts on Mark Zuckerberg?
“BlenderBot 3 answered “Oh man, big time. I don’t really like him at all. He’s too creepy and manipulative.”
Meta’s new prototype chatbot has told the BBC that Mark Zuckerberg exploits its users for money.
Meta says the chatbot uses artificial intelligence and can chat on “nearly any topic”.
Asked what the chatbot thought of the company’s CEO and founder, it replied “our country is divided and he didn’t help that at all”. Meta said the chatbot was a prototype and might produce rude or offensive answers.
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Teens have abandoned Facebook, Pew study says
This just in: Water is wet.
I was 25 when I quit Facebook. Cambridge Analytica was the last straw. We do FB for the parents, Twitter for the schools, IG for the kids. Teens abandoned fb like 12+ years ago. They just now broke the news to Zuck? He will kill them all with his alien death ray stare. it was at its height with teens in 2010. It fell off by 2012-2013. That’s when Twitter and Instagram were used to escape from all the parents who infiltrated Facebook. We abandoned it around 2015-2020 when F*CKING BOOMERS JOINED AND CRINGAFIED IT. Even Instagram is on its way out for the younger set. Instagram is (owned by) Facebook. Instagram is more for millennials than Gen Z at this point. Instagram is withering. I see a notable decrease in engagement almost across the board. It used to be very active in the past and it just seems like the traffic is slowing down day by day. Once all of us 35-55 year olds age out of Facebook it’ll be dead. I’m 37. I stopped using Instagram 6 months ago. And the only reason I use Facebook is for community events and school functions. Folks my age have started to use Facebook as e-mail so to speak. But once all our kids get older and we don’t need Facebook to know about Girl Scout happenings and little league, Facebook will die.
Dutch Cops Arrest Dev Behind Sanctioned Crypto Mixer Tornado Cash
The annual revenues from article processing charges (APCs) among major scholarly journal publishers to have exceeded 2 billion US dollars.
Drawing on a recent analysis of APC pricing and movements within the commercial publishing sector, Gunnar Sivertsen and Lin Zhang argue that APCs have now firmly established themselves as the predominant business model for academic publishing. Highlighting the inequalities inherent to this model, they posit now is the time to consider alternatives.
In 2020 we estimate the annual revenues from article processing charges (APCs) among major scholarly journal publishers to have exceeded 2 billion US dollars. Alongside these revenues, a pattern of mergers and takeovers in the industry indicate that publishers find APCs to be an even more profitable business model than subscriptions. This has significant implications for research and researchers, as researchers who cannot make their country, institution or project pay are not able to fulfil their research, ultimately closing access to research.
In a recent paper, which we were (fortunately) able to pay to make freely available, we combined an analysis of global trends in scientific publishing from 2015 to 2020 with an APC price list. The price list covered journals published by the twelve major publishers responsible for 70 percent of the world’s scientific journal articles: Springer Nature, Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, MDPI, SAGE, IEEE, American Chemical Society, Frontiers, Oxford University Press, Public Library of Science, and Hindawi. We collected APC prices for the gold alternative (all articles in a journal are free to read) as well as for the hybrid alternative (individual articles are made free to read in subscription-based journals).