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President Donald Trump has signed the Take It Down Act, a bipartisan law that enacts stricter penalties for distributing unconsensual, explicit images such as Deepfakes and Revenge Porn. The bill criminalizes the release of such images, whether it is genuine or dependent on AI. Anyone who publishes photos or videos can face criminal penalties such as fines, imprisonment, and compensation. Under the new law, social media companies and online platforms must remove such material within 48 hours of notification from the victim. The platform must also perform steps to remove replicated content. Many states have already banned sexually explicit deepfakes…
More than 80 witnesses are expected to testify through video conferencing over the next two weeks.The trial for former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has begun, and accusations of planning a coup, overturning the results of the October 2022 election to “criminal organisations” and being slightly defeated by current President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva. The country’s Supreme Court has been hearing testimonies from high-ranking military and politicians from Monday over the next two weeks. The 70-year-old far-right leader, a former army captain who ruled Brazil from 2019 to 2022, could face up to 40 years of prison if convicted. Bolsonaro…
RI (AP) Providence – Ju umpire has discovered a former Rhode Island High School basketball coach who is not charged with two-degree child abuse and two-degree sexual assault after asking hundreds of male student-athletes over decades. “Shy or not shy” before asking her to be naked. So he was able to check their body fat.Instead, 12 ju umpires found Aaron Thomas was found guilty of a misdemeanor battery, a lesser claim, in a verdict reported Monday. On the last day of the trial, the lawyer agreed that the ry judge could consider Thomas convicting a misdemeanor battery, rather than the…
The team behind the Visual Studio code shared major updates. VS Code is now officially becoming an open source AI editor. Microsoft has created Github Copilot Chat Extension open source, all providing AI features directly to the core editor under the MIT license. In an announcement about X, the VS Code team wrote: “Today, we are announcing plans to turn VS Code into an open source AI editor. We believe that AI development should remain true to the core principles of VS Code: open, collaboration, community-driven. Let’s build the future of software development together.” Today we are announcing plans to…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The measure known as “nonprofit killers” has been removed from the vast tax bill in the US Congress, according to a bill posted online by the House. The provision, which no longer appears in President Donald Trump, supported “one big beautiful bill” on Monday, which would have given the administrative department the power to strip non-exempt status of non-profits that are believed to support “terrorism.” Supporters warned that legislative efforts that were not passed as an independent bill last year could be abused to crack down on groups the administration disagrees with, particularly non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that…
For years, domain investment has been driven by one major force: startups. So did the demand for Premium.com and brandable domains when new companies launched. However, in 2025, its engine has stalled and domain sales have crashed. The industry-wide, domain investors have seen a sharp decline in enquiries and sales. Even Hugedomains, one of the largest owners of the aftermarket domain, has expired hundreds of thousands of names. Question about everyone’s mind: What has changed? How AI, Startup Behavior, and Funding Crunch Are Crashing Domain Sales Crash in 2025 The answer lies in the evolving startup landscape. Founders are now…
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Jamie Dimon, CEO of the company, will speak on Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at the 2025 National Retirement Summit in Washington, DC, USA.Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Imagesjpmorgan chain Eventually, clients are now able to purchase Bitcoin. However, CEO Jamie Dimon is still skeptical.”We’re going to allow you to buy it,” Dimon said Monday as a bank’s annual investor day. “We are not going to detain it. We will put it in a statement for our clients.”The decision is a notable step for the largest US bank, especially due to Dimon’s history of widespread criticism…
The Baltic countries are seeking damages, including compensation for border reinforcement costs.Lithuania has launched legal proceedings against Belarus at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and accused neighbors of coordinating the refugee and migrant crisis by encouraging the smuggling of people across the border. “The Belarusian regime must be legally accountable to coordinate the waves of illegal migration and the resulting waves of human rights abuses,” Lithuanian Justice Minister Limantas Mox said in a statement Monday. “We are taking this case to the International Court of Justice and sending a clear message. We cannot use vulnerable people as political pawns…
Github’s corporate parents Github and Microsoft are participating in the MCP steering committee, the human standard for connecting AI models to systems in which data resides. The announcement made Monday at Microsoft’s Build 2025 Conference comes as MCPs increase steam in the AI industry. Earlier this year, Openai and Google said they will support MCP with their respective AI products. With MCP, models can draw data from sources such as business tools and software to complete tasks from content repository and app development environments. This protocol allows developers to build two-way connections between data sources and AI-powered applications such as…
May 19, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware/Supply Chain Attacks The official RVTools website is hacked to serve compromised installers of the popular VMware Environment Reporting Utility. “Robware.net and rvtools.com are currently offline. We are working quickly to restore our services and evaluate your patience,” the company said in a statement posted to its website. “robware.net and rvtools.com is the only approved and supported website for RVTools software. Please do not search or download RVTools software from other websites or sources.” The development comes after security researcher Aidan Leon revealed that an infected version of the installer downloaded from the website is being used…