Planet Labs, one of the world’s leading commercial satellite imaging companies, said Friday it is placing a hold on releasing imagery of some parts of the Middle East as a regional war enters its second week.

Planet wants to prevent "adversarial actors" from using images for "Battle Damage Assessment" purposes.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/43085102

Then, late last month, Wu was with a group of friends in Maine and "called emergency services to assist a person attempting suicide."

That phone call landed Wu in immigration detention.

"Upon arrival, local police requested Mr. Wu's identification," the order goes on. "Despite the life-saving nature of the call, once Mr. Wu's noncitizen status was disclosed, police chose to contact U.S. Border Patrol (USBP). USBP subsequently took Mr. Wu into custody, characterizing him as a 'flight risk' based on an alleged failure to update his address…Later that day, ICE issued a warrant of removal/deportation."

Neumann, however, suspects the aforementioned address issue was actually a failure of translation because that statement was "obtained without the assistance of a translator despite Mr. Wu's limited English proficiency."

Consider three of the biggest developments in our politics right now: We just learned that the economy lost 92,000 jobs in February, a capstone to a terrible year in terms of job creation. President Trump has fired widely despised Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, a key architect of his mass deportations. And reports are indicating that the killing of scores of Iranian schoolchildren might have been the handiwork of the United States.

What links all these things? In addition to the massive human toll they’re inflicting, they suggest that Trump is about to pull off a unique trifecta. He is squandering the advantage he and Republicans have enjoyed in recent years on three major GOP-friendly issues: The economy, immigration, and national security.

3 days ago it took me 40 min to reach the top winded. Today it takes 37 and I'm still winded. I've been carrying grocery bags with my piss jugs to simulate a rifle and gear. Vros, I'm going to win the fucking medal of honor if I keep this up. The mountains around Tehran are child's play to a tier one operator like me.

The MoD said the preparedness of HMS Prince of Wales is being increased, reducing the time it would take for it be deployed

The UK is preparing an aircraft carrier for possible deployment to the Middle East, reducing the time it would take to be readied.

This does not mean that Portsmouth-based HMS Prince of Wales, which is used to carry fighter jets and helicopters, will be sent into the Gulf as conflict escalates in the region, but the preparedness of the Royal Navy’s flagship is being increased, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.

The Independent understands no decisions to deploy the Prince of Wales have been taken.

An MoD spokesperson told The Independent: “We have been bolstering our UK military presence in the Middle East since January, and we have already deployed capabilities to protect British people and our allies in the region, including Typhoons, F-35 jets, air defence systems and an extra 400 personnel into Cyprus.

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/195643

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Prof. Jeffrey Sachs argues that the world may already be entering the early stages of World War III, as the rapidly escalating conflict involving Iran begins...

Crosspost from https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10943030

Commandos started digging up grave thought to be of famous IDF pilot, leading to gunfight followed by airstrikes

An Israeli operation in eastern Lebanon to locate the remains of a famous IDF pilot ended in failure overnight, when the commandos were caught in a gunfight with Hezbollah and local residents, leading Israeli jets to pummel the area with airstrikes that killed dozens of people.

The fighting left three Lebanese soldiers and 41 residents of the Bekaa valley dead, according to the Lebanese army and ministry of health. No injuries were reported among the Israeli soldiers.

Two Israeli helicopters landed outside the towns of Nabi Chit and Khraibeh along the Syrian-Lebanese border in the eastern Bekaa valley at 10pm on Friday night, dropping off Israeli soldiers, according to the Lebanese army. The Israeli soldiers headed to a cemetery in Nabi Chit, and began to dig up a grave, where they suspected the remains of Ron Arad, an Israeli pilot who went missing in Lebanon in 1986, were held.

U.S. patients travel to Cuba for NeuralCIM, a promising Alzheimer’s treatment. Plus: WBC visa denials, reforms and solar panels across Cuba this week.

Crosspost from https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10943904

Let it sink in how evil you have to be to deny the world's citizens free medical care from Cuban doctors, and their wonderful innovations like cancer "vaccines" and treatments that slow/reverse Alzheimer's.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43965516

It is worth noting that both the hardware and software of Fairphone is heavily dependent on a Chinese company T2Mobile.

For those looking to avoid both US and Chinese companies, then the Jolla phone is the way to go.

Wikipedia editors have implemented new policies and restricted a number of contributors who were paid to use AI to translate existing Wikipedia articles into other languages after they discovered these AI translations added AI “hallucinations,” or errors, to the resulting article.

The new restrictions show how Wikipedia editors continue to fight the flood of generative AI across the internet from diminishing the reliability of the world’s largest repository of knowledge. The incident also reveals how even well-intentioned efforts to expand Wikipedia are prone to errors when they rely on generative AI, and how they’re remedied by Wikipedia’s open governance model.

The issue in this case starts with an organization called the Open Knowledge Association (OKA), a non-profit organization dedicated to improving Wikipedia and other open platforms.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260307182752/https://www.404media.co/ai-translations-are-adding-hallucinations-to-wikipedia-articles/