Senate passes, Biden signs surveillance bill despite contentious debate over privacy concerns President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a bill that reauthorizes a key surveillance authority after the Senate passed the legislation late Friday night, avoiding a lapse in the controversial program. 04/18/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
NH Senate sidelines bill to require declaration of war to deploy National Guard for combat IN THAT COMMITTEE HEARING, NEW HAMPSHIRE NATIONAL GUARD ADJUTANT GENERAL DAVID MICHAELIDES TOLD SENATORS FOLLOWING THE HOUSE IN APPROVING THE BILL WOULD RESULT IN A STAGGERING LOSS OF RESOURCES ... 04/18/2024 - 10:54 am | View Link
Illinois Senate passes legislation that would strip medical debt from credit reports SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois Senate has approved a measure that would bar consumer reporting agencies from including a person’s medical debt in their credit reports. “You cannot predict when ... 04/12/2024 - 6:40 am | View Link
Thailand’s Same-Sex Marriage Bill Advances Further After First Senate Nod Thailand’s Senate sent a same-sex marriage bill previously cleared by the lower house to a panel for further scrutiny, as the Southeast Asian nation seeks to become the region’s first to ... 04/1/2024 - 9:23 pm | View Link
KY Senate OKs massive one-time spending bill, but no raises for K-12 teachers The Senate is looking to spend, but not any more for teachers than the House did. The first version of House Bill 1, a large one-time appropriations bill already passed in the House, proposed $1.8 ... 03/12/2024 - 3:05 pm | View Link
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Enlarge / Farm cats drinking from a trough of milk from cows that were just milked. (credit: Getty | )
On March 16, cows on a Texas dairy farm began showing symptoms of a mysterious illness now known to be H5N1 bird flu. Their symptoms were nondescript, but their milk production dramatically dropped and turned thick and creamy yellow.
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Roku CEO Anthony Wood disclosed plans to introduce video ads to the Roku OS home screen. The news highlights Roku’s growing focus on advertising and an alarming trend in the streaming industry that sees ads increasingly forced on viewers.
As spotted by The Streamable, during Roku's Q1 2024 earnings call last week, Wood, also the company's founder and chairman, boasted about the Roku OS home screen showing users ads "before they select an app," avoiding the possibility that they don't see any ads during their TV-viewing session.
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For those eagerly anticipating the second season of Netflix's stellar adaption of Neil Gaiman's Sandman graphic novels, Dead Boy Detectives—the streaming plaform's new supernatural horror detective series—is a welcome return to that weird magical world.
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On Friday, the US Department of Homeland Security announced the formation of an Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board that consists of 22 members pulled from the tech industry, government, academia, and civil rights organizations. But given the nebulous nature of the term "AI," which can apply to a broad spectrum of computer technology, it's unclear if this group will even be able to agree on what exactly they are safeguarding us from.
President Biden directed DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to establish the board, which will meet for the first time in early May and subsequently on a quarterly basis.
The fundamental assumption posed by the board's existence, and reflected in Biden's AI executive order from October, is that AI is an inherently risky technology and that American citizens and businesses need to be protected from its misuse.