Man jailed for a month despite Flock showing he was 5 miles from crime scene

submitted by tonytins to technology
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/man-jailed-for-a-month-despite-flock-showing-he-was-5-miles-from-crime-scene/

A San Diego police department is facing a lawsuit after jailing a man for a month based on a Flock camera alert that cops allegedly should have known, based on the timestamp, did not depict the car that they were…

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Thiel’s Vision Blooms in Argentina

submitted by favoredponcho to technology
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https://www.thenerdreich.com/ai-argentina-and-the-antichrist-thiels-vision-blooms/

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/47891893

Javier Milei, the president of Argentina, has shed light on billionaire Peter Thiel’s reason for suddenly planting roots in his country.

In a Financial Times op-ed, Milei announced plans to make…

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Lemmy and VPN - no posting allowed

submitted by patruelis to privacy
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Hi all,

I have VPN turned on on my phone all the time.

To be able to post anything, including to comment, I need to turn off the VPN. To be honest, I’m quite conflicted by this.

Any reason why this is or what to do about it besides turning off the VPN?

I’m using Voyager as a client.

Edit: it seems like the instance is the issue.…

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Systemd v261-rc1 is out with the 'birth date field'

submitted by pglpm to linux
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For those interested on the question of age verification and GNU/Linux: be aware that Systemd v261-rc1 was recently released. It now implements an optional birth date field in the JSON user database (see second item under “Other changes”).

The implementation of this field was prompted by age-verification or -attestation…

US justice department ‘forever’ bars IRS from auditing Trump’s past tax returns

submitted by MicroWave to news
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/19/trump-irs-settlement-tax-returns

Addendum quietly slipped into widely criticized agreement creating a $1.7bn fund to compensate president’s allies

The justice department quietly added a provision barring the IRS from auditing Donald Trump’s tax returns on Tuesday, amending a widely…

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Uchiyama Gudō and the Kōtoku Incident - Novo General Megathread for the 17th-23th of May 2026

submitted by thelastaxolotl to chapotraphouse
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‘Taigyaku Jiken’, a 1989 piece by Iri and Toshi Maruki, was inspired by the High Treason Incident of 1910

Kōtoku Incident (幸徳事件, Kōtoku Jiken), was a socialist-anarchist plot to assassinate the Japanese Emperor Meiji in 1910, leading to a mass arrest of leftists, as well as the execution of 12 alleged conspirators in…

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Utah reports more than 600 measles cases as outbreak spreads across US

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/16/utah-measles-cases-outbreak

Utah has emerged as a major center of measles infections in the US, as an outbreak that has been building for some time continues to expand.

State officials reported a total of 602 measles cases on Wednesday tied to an outbreak that started last year and is still…

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