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/

I just almost made such a bad post that I deleted it before I posted it. It'll never see the light of day it was that bad

Paywall? https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-creates-jobs-data-from-bank-survey-shows-companies-with-wide-ai-deployments-and-investments-are-more-likely-to-be-hiring-than-those-that-dont

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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.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/43077651

Article: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/mobile-fortify-face-scan-dhs-kristi-noem-database-technology/

Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDsYzd4ITq0

They came to his workplace armed with guns, gas canisters and artificial intelligence. He fought back with his quick wit and street smarts.

What happened next is a preview of what routine face scans could look like on American streets, in this special France 24–Mother Jones report.

Abdikafi Abdurahman Abdullahi, known as Kafi, is one of the few people willing to speak publicly about being subjected to the Department of Homeland Security’s new facial recognition tool, Mobile Fortify.

The Somali-American engineer-turned-Uber driver was waiting for a fare in an airport rideshare lot on January 7th, just hours after Renee Good was shot and killed by federal agents. As he watched a video of her death on his phone, there was a knock on his car door. Outside stood roughly a dozen ICE agents, demanding proof of his citizenship.

Kafi, who is Black and Muslim, refused to show his ID, arguing he was being racially profiled. Instead, he began filming, and his unflappable, mischievous comebacks transformed his video into a viral sensation.

The Department of Homeland Security officially acknowledged the existence of Mobile Fortify in January. But by then it had already been used over 100,000 times in American communities, according to recent court filings.

“This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society that we have always professed to abhor here in the United States,” warned ACLU attorney Nate Wessler.

Observers believe the operation could signal a significant escalation in the security landscape of western Iraq, a vast and geographically complex region characterized by deep valleys, rocky hills, and sand dunes reaching heights of approximately 200 meters, which has long served as a corridor between Iraq, Syria, and territories linked to Iranian-backed groups.

Kyiv hopes that the knowledge it has gained fighting Russia will give it both money and leverage with Donald Trump.

Ukrainian officials are in talks with rich Gulf countries, peddling their country's hard-won anti-drone expertise against Iranian attacks in exchange for crucial cash for Kyiv's defense industry.

Polite American officials are also talking to Ukrainians on sharing their drone tech — something that may at least temporarily boost Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's leverage with the White House.

Both negotiations could offer Ukraine desperately needed help: money at a time when the EU's promised €90 billion loan has stalled thanks to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's veto, and American interceptors for Ukraine's Patriot air defense systems to knock down Russian ballistic missiles.

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Masoud Pezeshkian issues rare apology to neighbouring Gulf states for Iranian strikes as war enters eighth day

The president of Iran has rejected Donald Trump’s call for the country’s unconditional surrender as a “dream”, while issuing a rare apology for Iranian strikes that had targeted sites in neighbouring Gulf states.

In a prerecorded address broadcast on state television on Saturday, Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, said the country would never capitulate, responding to remarks by the US president, who said on Friday that only Iran’s total submission could bring the war to an end.

Iran’s enemies, Pezeshkian said, “must take their dream of the Iranian people’s unconditional surrender to their graves”, in remarks that further escalate the eighth day of conflict, which has choked global oil supplies and cut world air travel.

At the same time, Pezeshkian issued an apology to neighbouring states for Iran’s recent “actions”, in an apparent attempt to ease regional anger after Iranian strikes hit civilian targets in Gulf Arab countries.

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No it isn't, and we need to get it through our heads. We weren't mad at Hitler for what he did, we were mad because he forgot his place.

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I'm trying to circulate air in my house. We have a split level home (lower, middle, upper, in a zig zag sort or arrangement. I hate it, but that's beside the point) and the lowest level is always too cold and highest level too warm. I want to move air from the lower level to at least the middle level.

I need a fan, preferably small or thin profile that blows 90° from intake. Ideally a box fan that has a horizontal intake but exhausts up or sideways. What I've done in previous years is have a rotated fan that pointed up, intake from below, and was raised off the ground.

The closest I've found is a carpet dryer drum style. It has round intakes on the side and a rectangular vent on the front. That would totally work (point the intake at the cold room and the exhaust up towards the middle room) but it's way over powered for my situation. Also, it's a bit wider than ideal, though slimmer than what I used last year.

President Vladimir V. Putin threatened to cut off remaining gas supplies to Europe as the Iran war drives a surge in energy costs.

Russia has a question for the European countries that have shunned its energy exports: Do you miss us now?

The Kremlin is enjoying a sudden resurgence of its importance as a global supplier of oil and gas, as the conflict in Iran disrupts energy production and shipment across the Middle East and sends global energy prices soaring.

. . .

Mr. Putin spoke with bravado about European nations’ longstanding plans to phase out imports of Russian gas in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, threatening to accelerate the divorce himself as prices spike on the continent.

“Now other markets are opening up, and perhaps it’s more advantageous for us to stop supplying the European market right now,” Mr. Putin said on Wednesday to a state television reporter, Pavel Zarubin, who chronicles the Russian leader.

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I had an absolute banger of a pun, but it was hypercontext sensitive AND NOW I HAVE NOWHERE TO PUT IT!!

Gone, like farts in wind

She should have answered my 1,500+ voicemails I left her over the divorce. Sucks to be her!