India orders social media firms to remove unlawful content within three hours
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India orders social media firms to remove unlawful content within three hours - Lemmy.zip
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[https://lemmy.zip/post/58907193] > The amended guidelines will take effect from
20 February and apply to major platforms including Meta, YouTube and X. They
will also apply to AI-generated content. > critics worry the move is part of a
broader tightening of oversight of online content and could lead to censorship
in the world’s largest democracy with more than a billion internet users
Indian court sentences journalist to jail in defamation case by Adani Group
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Indian court sentences journalist to jail in defamation case by Adani Group - Lemmy.zip
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[https://lemmy.zip/post/58906744] > Adani Enterprises, led by billionaire Gautam
Adani, filed the case in 2021 against India journalist Ravi Nair in a district
court in Gujarat, accusing him of making statements suggesting “political
patronage… financial irregularities and unethical conduct”, according to a
Tuesday court order seen by Reuters.
Epstein files source who alleged Mossad links is identified as Holocaust denier
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Epstein files source who alleged Mossad links is identified as Holocaust denier - SLRPNK
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A chatbot entirely powered by humans, not artificial intelligence? This Chilean community shows why
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A chatbot entirely powered by humans, not artificial intelligence? This Chilean community shows why - Divisions by zero
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/24577617
[https://beehaw.org/post/24577617] > > About 50 residents of a community outside
Chile’s capital spent Saturday trying their best to power an entirely
human-operated chatbot that could answer questions and make silly pictures on
command, in a message to highlight the environmental toll of artificial
intelligence data centers in the region. > > > > Organizers say the 12-hour
project fielded more than 25,000 requests from around the world. > > > > Asking
the Quili.AI [http://Quili.AI] website to generate an image of a “sloth playing
in the snow” didn’t instantly produce an output, as ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini
would. Instead, someone responded in Spanish to wait a few moments and reminded
the user that a human was responding. > > > > Then came a drawing about 10
minutes later: a penciled sketch of a cute and cartoonish sloth in a pile of
snowballs, with its claws clutching one and about to throw it. > > > > “The goal
is to highlight the hidden water footprint behind AI prompting and encourage
more responsible use,” said a statement from organizer Lorena Antiman of the
environmental group Corporación NGEN.
Trump’s Gunboat Diplomacy Hands China a $55 Trillion Economic Edge
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Trump’s Gunboat Diplomacy Hands China a $55 Trillion Economic Edge - Lemmy.zip
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[https://lemmy.zip/post/58894863] https://archive.is/ntaWE
[https://archive.is/ntaWE] > Meanwhile, some of America’s close allies are
distancing themselves from Trump. Already in 2026, the prime ministers of Canada
and the UK have visited Beijing, seeking a hedge against an unpredictable US. >
From within the Western camp, the starkest obituary for the pre-Trump world has
come from Canada’s Mark Carney, who called the rules-based order a useful
“fiction” that no longer works. “We are in the midst of a rupture, not a
transition,” he said. “A world of fortresses will be poorer, more fragile and
less sustainable.”

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Common DreamsEpstein files unveil sex offender's ties with Kremlin insiders
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Epstein files unveil sex offender's ties with Kremlin insiders - SDF Chatter
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/50660468
[https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/50660468] > Emails released by the US Department of
Justice show that between 2011 and 2019, the financier also acted as a
facilitator for members of the Russian elite, helping with real estate
transactions and offshore financial arrangements. > > Archived
[https://archive.ph/uRhxI] > > […] > > [Epstein’s] most regular contact was
Sergei Beliakov, a senior Russian official trained at the Academy of the Federal
Security Service (FSB), the successor to the Soviet KGB. Epstein met with him on
several occasions, maintaining extensive correspondence. In an email dated
January 2016 and titled “My new position,” Beliakov informed Epstein that he had
started working for the Russian Direct Investment Fund, led by Kirill Dmitriev,
the Kremlin’s current envoy to the US administration for ending Russia’s war on
Ukraine. > > Two years earlier, Beliakov, then president of the Saint Petersburg
International Economic Forum, asked Epstein how to circumvent Western sanctions
imposed on Russia after the annexation of Crimea in 2014. The financier
recommended a de-dollarization strategy, the use of cryptocurrencies and a loan
valued at “500 billion,” with no further details. > > […]