Back to School Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable Selects Say More Look Up Trending Now Good Connection: Uplifting stories for a digital age Creator Playbook Switch Off Mashable Voices Safety Net Versus All Series Minnesota'nudification' law survives xAI's request for a legal injunction Minnesota has temporarily won the right to sue companies for up to $500,000 for every nudification enabled by artificial intelligence. The District Court of Minnesota has rejected the efforts of Elon Musk's xAI to seek an injunction to suspend the law until a court could hear its constitutional challenge to the law itself, according to a report by Reuters . Judge Donovan W. Frank, in his Conclusion, argued that xAI has not demonstrated irreparable harm and the balance of harms tips steeply in favor of the State. The bill Musk is trying to fight was recently passed into law by Minnesota, becoming the nation's first anti-nudification law . Companies found in violation of this law would be subject to fines of up to $500,000 every time artificial intelligence is used to alter images to depict the intimate parts of a person in such a way that a reasonable person would believe that the intimate part belongs to the identifiable individual.

Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March. Did you buy a beanie from REI recently? The Department of Homeland Security might be looking for you. New court filings allege that Homeland Security Investigations agents subpoenaed the outdoor retailer in March, requesting the transaction information for "all persons" in the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul area who had purchased a specific type of dark green beanie from the company since 2024.

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Living through Operation Metro Surge, and what came after. A former Assistant U.S. Attorney described the ground plan in Minnesota: "They were, like, 'Occupy Minneapolis like it was Falluja.' " Photographs by Philip Cheung for The New Yorker Michael Cavlan had settled into a routine of patrolling his neighborhood by car most mornings when, early on January 7th, he received an alert on his phone informing him about Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity near his house in Powderhorn, in South Minneapolis. The previous day, the Department of Homeland Security had announced that it was sending two thousand immigration agents to Minnesota to take part in Operation Metro Surge, a campaign of mass detention and deportation that the Trump Administration advertised as the largest D.H.S. undertaking ever. Cavlan, a salty, gray-haired nurse and union steward, is a first-generation Irish American; in 1969, his Irish Catholic parents, inspired by the U.S. civil-rights movement, had moved the ...

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The Sunshine Protection Act awaits Senate action after the House voted to end the twice-a-year clock change and establish permanent daylight saving time across the U.S.