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Social media apps have become a vehicle for community building, world news, and political campaigns. As app owners have enmeshed themselves more with the state, the carceral logics that haunt marginalized communities offline, became a part of their digital realities online.

President Trump's longtime teleprompter operator is believed to have made tens of thousands of dollars by placing bets on the contents of Trump's speeches, sources say.

The Upper West and East sides of Manhattan are set to lose thousands of parking spaces as the city begins to containerize residential trash.

The Flock surveillance subreddit has quickly become the digital rallying point for anti-ALPR activists across the United States.

Study finds the birds are uncommonly good at distinguishing cancerous breast tissue from normal .

Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski built and flew a single-engine aircraft at a young age when she was just 12. Her research on the spin memory effect was cited by Stephen Hawking. Pasterski declined lucrative offers from NASA and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to pursue fundamental physics questions. She now leads research into quantum gravity and spacetime at the Perimeter Institute.

Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target's race, according to data reviewed by 404 Media.

I’m sick of “opt-out” toggles for automatically enabled generative AI features. It’s past time to make “opt in” the default setting for sensitive features.

This paper presents an empirical, campaign-level analysis of AI-enabled scam advertising in a large online advertising ecosystem.

Folks, we need to talk. I’m shut up in the house again, windows tightly closed, air-filters running, because the outside air quality is absolutely terrible. It’s “wildfire season&…

So Linus Torvalds, head of the Linux kernel development, put his foot down on the Linux Kernel development mailing list when someone was bringing up criticism of LLMs: “Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issueswith that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away. […]

Officials with the U.S. Navy's elite Blue Angels said they're conducting a review after social media footage showed a jet flying low over a crowd of beachgoers.

From data gathering to decision making, there’s a gold mine in police funding.

An exchange yesterday between Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Jay Clayton, Trump’s nominee to oversee the U.S.

There’s an old theater saying that an actor who overdoes it is “chewing the scenery.” In Catskill Mountain Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” however, little is more diverting than watching the actors play with the furniture. What begins as a deceptively calm living-room play, with strong whiffs of Chekhov, quickly gives way to something almost […]

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Assemblymember Chris Tague, whose 102nd Assembly District includes all of Greene and Schoharie counties and parts of Albany, Delaware, Otsego, and Ulster counties, said he had not realized the extent of the funding available through the Catskill Watershed Corporation until he attended the group’s annual meeting this week. “Until today I didn’t know the scope […]

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The possibility of combining Saugerties’ town and village governments drew cautious interest at a packed forum on Monday, July 13, as local officials and residents raised questions about taxes, services, and whether village residents would lose political influence. ShoutOut Saugerties, a volunteer-run community group, hosted the discussion at the Orpheum Theatre. The event focused on […]

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The village of Hunter is considering a ban on commercial-grade dumpsters on residential properties after complaints about bears and trash scattered through nearby yards. The proposal comes as the village prepares to end its municipal garbage pickup program at the end of July, leaving residents to bring their trash to the Hylan Road transfer station […]

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Greene County Solid Waste Management is seeking bids from contractors to upgrade the Windham Transfer Station on Mitchell Hollow Road, citing the aging facility and a lack of space to handle higher volumes of trash. The station, located on land owned by the town but operated by the county, was built in the mid-1980s. It’s […]

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The Ulster County Board of Elections narrowed 315 submissions to its annual “I Voted” sticker contest to six finalists and is leaving the final decision to the public. The board and a panel of volunteer judges from the local arts community selected the finalists, several of whom also entered designs in previous years. Voting is […]

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