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Anthropic 'Suspends' All Mythos and Fable Access After US Order Limiting Foreign Access

"Anthropic said on Friday it will 'abruptly disable' its most advanced AI models for all users," reports Reuters, "after the U.S. government ordered it to suspend access to the models for foreign nationals, citing national security concerns. The company received the export control directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals, without being given specific details…

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Data Center Opponents Have Blocked Or Delayed Projects Worth Nearly $130 Billion In 2026

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: The first quarter of 2026 produced the most blocked and delayed data center projects on record, according to a new study shared with NBC News. The study -- conducted by Data Center Watch, a project of the AI intelligence firm 10a Labs that tracks local data center activity -- found that data center opponents blocked or delayed at least 75…

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コートジボワールとセネガルのサポーターへの米ビザ発給拒否、W杯現地観戦できず

この写真にはショッキングな表現、または18歳以上の年齢制限の対象となる内容が含まれます。 ご覧になる場合にはご了承の上、クリックしてください。 【6月12日 AFP】サッカーW杯北中米大会に出場するコートジボワール代表とセネガル代表を応援しようとしていた国内のサポーターが、米国ビザ(査証)の発給を拒否された...

【分析】イラン戦争の巻き添えで自国の船員が死亡、インドで巻き起こる怒りの声 - CNN.co.jp

(CNN) 米国による商業用原油タンカーへの攻撃でインド人船員3人が死亡したことを受け、インド国内で怒りの声が広がっている。それでなくても緊張状態にあったインドと米国との関係に、新たな摩擦が加わった形だ。 10日午前、タンカー「M/Tセッテベッロ」はイラン産原油を積載してオマーン湾を航行中だった。そこへ米軍...

Das System Trump  kommt an seine Grenzen

Aktuell, so scheint es, stößt das politische System von Donald Trump zunehmend an seine Grenzen. Seine vertraute Strategie, die auf dem Mythos des unbarmherzigen Dealmakers und ständiger Einschüchterung beruht, verliert im In- und Ausland spürbar an Wirkung. Ein abgebrochenes Fernsehinterview mit dem Sender NBC wird in der Öffentlichkeit nicht mehr als Stärke, sondern als Zeichen der…

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Some Target stores start to limit Pokemon merch and TCG sales to stop scalpers

Pokemon continues to be a massive IP and its merchandise and especially its trading cards are hot property these days. Scalpers have been buying up all the Pokemon branded items to resell at higher price points on online marketplaces, but one North American retailer is trying to fight back. Target now seems to be limiting… Read More »Some Target stores start to limit Pokemon merch and TCG sales…

Transgender ballot initiative could require genital exams for WA secondary school students

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https://www.kuow.org/stories/transgender-ballot-initiative-could-require-genital-exams-for-wa-secondary-school-students

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/47853701

Language in the initiative claims that kids are already required to undergo verification of their “biological sex” before they can play sports. But KUOW spoke with medical…

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Tony Gilroy Accepts Award for Andor: “Fuck the Empire!”

Now that Andor has been out for a while, showrunner Tony Gilroy is free to speak his mind on what the show was all about. I mean, it was pretty clear to the audience, but now he can say his piece. Andor won a Peabody Award and at the awards ceremony, Gilroy gave the following acceptance speech:

We spent six years contemplating a fascist takeover of a galaxy far, far away. Six years thinking…

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America Needs Reproductive Health Leave

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https://time.com/article/2026/03/31/america-needs-reproductive-health-leave/

Across the U.S., millions of women have to choose between working through unbearable pain, losing income they can’t afford to go without, or tapping into a limited number of sick days that then won’t be there if they have the flu or a doctor’s appointment. For low-wage…

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America Needs Reproductive Health Leave

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https://time.com/article/2026/03/31/america-needs-reproductive-health-leave/

cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/43539526

Across the U.S., millions of women have to choose between working through unbearable pain, losing income they can’t afford to go without, or tapping into a limited number of sick days that then won’t be there if they…

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Google Requests Permission to Release 32 Million Mosquitoes In California and Florida

Google has asked the EPA for permission to release up to 32 million sterile male mosquitoes in California and Florida over two years. The effort is part of the company's Debug program, which uses Wolbachia-infected males to reduce populations of disease-spreading Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Google cites a similar approach in Singapore that helped suppress mosquito populations and reduce dengue…

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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/climate/ocean-observatories-initiative.html?unlocked_article_code=1.m1A.0zLp.GbOj8h0jUJxq

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/38546618

The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research.

Platner’s wife responds to reports of the Senate candidate’s sexually explicit texts with women

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https://apnews.com/article/graham-platner-maine-wife-texts-senate-902a2d6fc58721e397de62693a0da136

Her response: "I find it really shameful that there’s a group of media outlets and people who are willing to spread gossip,” she said in the informal, selfie-style video where she paced along a road. “No marriage is perfect, and I don’t want…

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Episode 732 – The AFTN Soccer Show (World Cup Preview Part One with guests Sebastian Berhalter, Andres Cubas, and author Todd Smith)

We’re back with another AFTN Soccer Show packed full of World Cup, Canadian national team chat and interviews, along with the latest AFTN Book Club. The World Cup is less than two weeks away and the excitement is building here at AFTN Towers as we bring you the first of three preview podcasts for the…

In Delaware, Corporations Can Now Vote. Are We Insane?

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https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/corporations-can-vote-in-delaware

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/65680179

Seriously. Not dystopian science fiction or a new novel by an AI version of George Orwell. Actual corporations — what America’s first Supreme Court Justice, John Marshall, in 1819 called “an artificial being, invisible,…

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