The suspect in Charlie Kirk's assassination has been captured, FBI director Kash Patel announced MSNBC sparks outrage for'disgusting' Charlie Kirk comments following Utah shooting Tragedy as Charlie Kirk's wife left behind with two young children after conservative activist is fatally shot A DEI mayor, an inconvenient crime and video they never wanted you to see: MAUREEN CALLAHAN knows why the Left has sympathy for that killer... but none for his victim Sweater weather starts here - the cozy, chic pieces from Soft Surroundings you'll actually wear all season We only had one symptom we dismissed... but then we were diagnosed with the rarest form of melanoma Soft-touch prosecutor let felon walk free... before crook'slit Auburn professor's throat in random attack' I tried the 30 cent'miracle chill pill' before a big event.. now I'm taking it for everything Donald Trump and House Republicans lead prayers for Charlie Kirk's family after conservative star is fatally shot Prince Harry says his father King Charles is'great' following their first meeting in 19 months... which was over a cup of tea and just 55 minutes long Liberal media defends thug who killed Ukrainian woman in cold blood: 'This man was hurting' Knifeman accused of stabbing Ukrainian refugee to death gives chilling reason for the attack... as he speaks for the first time from jail on the murder that shocked America Fox News reveals new lineup and elevates star White House reporter who's sparred with Trump Horrific new details of passenger injuries after they were'thrown' around Delta flight during'severe turbulence' Hilarious video reveals how apes dance just like humans - with moves'like a cross between the robot and vogueing' Like a cross between Peter Crouch and Michael Jackson, a hilarious video reveals the moment a cheeky gibbon performs a dance for a captive audience. The female, filmed at a rescue centre in Ninh Bình, Vietnam, has her back turned as she dramatically drops and shifts, described as a'cross between a robot dance and vogueing'. Scientists have observed seven gibbons performing the elaborate dance, consisting of jerky sideways and upward movements worthy of a 1970s New York nightclub. Not only is the dance human-like, but the gibbons perform it for humans - possibly to get attention when they're hungry. Already, primates other than humans are known to dance - some even while listening to music - but few are quite as remarkably stylized as this.

The suspect in Charlie Kirk's assassination has been captured, FBI director Kash Patel announced MSNBC sparks outrage for'disgusting' Charlie Kirk comments following Utah shooting Tragedy as Charlie Kirk's wife left behind with two young children after conservative activist is fatally shot A DEI mayor, an inconvenient crime and video they never wanted you to see: MAUREEN CALLAHAN knows why the Left has sympathy for that killer... but none for his victim Sweater weather starts here - the cozy, chic pieces from Soft Surroundings you'll actually wear all season We only had one symptom we dismissed... but then we were diagnosed with the rarest form of melanoma Soft-touch prosecutor let felon walk free... before crook'slit Auburn professor's throat in random attack' I tried the 30 cent'miracle chill pill' before a big event.. now I'm taking it for everything Donald Trump and House Republicans lead prayers for Charlie Kirk's family after conservative star is fatally shot Prince Harry says his father King Charles is'great' following their first meeting in 19 months... which was over a cup of tea and just 55 minutes long Liberal media defends thug who killed Ukrainian woman in cold blood: 'This man was hurting' Knifeman accused of stabbing Ukrainian refugee to death gives chilling reason for the attack... as he speaks for the first time from jail on the murder that shocked America Fox News reveals new lineup and elevates star White House reporter who's sparred with Trump Horrific new details of passenger injuries after they were'thrown' around Delta flight during'severe turbulence' British rail operator BANS passengers from using dating apps on board - but claims there's a'good reason' for the move For many singletons, the daily commute is the perfect opportunity to get online and browse through your dating apps. But if you travel with Northern, there's bad news for you. The rail operator's on-board WiFi will now block access to all dating apps and websites. Northern says the ban has been driven by the fear that children on board its trains will see inappropriate content. 'Whilst some dating websites - and users - will operate with appropriate levels of self-moderation, some might not and it's important that content not suitable for everyone to see or hear - particularly children - isn't viewed on our trains,' said Matt Rice, chief operating officer at Northern.

The suspect in Charlie Kirk's assassination has been captured, FBI director Kash Patel announced MSNBC sparks outrage for'disgusting' Charlie Kirk comments following Utah shooting Tragedy as Charlie Kirk's wife left behind with two young children after conservative activist is fatally shot A DEI mayor, an inconvenient crime and video they never wanted you to see: MAUREEN CALLAHAN knows why the Left has sympathy for that killer... but none for his victim Sweater weather starts here - the cozy, chic pieces from Soft Surroundings you'll actually wear all season We only had one symptom we dismissed... but then we were diagnosed with the rarest form of melanoma Soft-touch prosecutor let felon walk free... before crook'slit Auburn professor's throat in random attack' I tried the 30 cent'miracle chill pill' before a big event.. now I'm taking it for everything Donald Trump and House Republicans lead prayers for Charlie Kirk's family after conservative star is fatally shot Prince Harry says his father King Charles is'great' following their first meeting in 19 months... which was over a cup of tea and just 55 minutes long Liberal media defends thug who killed Ukrainian woman in cold blood: 'This man was hurting' Knifeman accused of stabbing Ukrainian refugee to death gives chilling reason for the attack... as he speaks for the first time from jail on the murder that shocked America Fox News reveals new lineup and elevates star White House reporter who's sparred with Trump Horrific new details of passenger injuries after they were'thrown' around Delta flight during'severe turbulence' Artificial Intelligence if left unchecked could pose a serious danger to democracy and peace, the United Nations has warned. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made the comments as a panel of experts warned of the dangers of increasingly realistic deepfakes as well as the evolution of autonomous weapons and AI use by criminal and terrorist groups. The group called for greater global collaboration on the technology and said its development should not be left to market forces. The panel of around 40 experts from the fields of technology, law and data protection was established by Guterres in October. Their report raised the alarm over the lack of global governance of AI as well as the effective exclusion of developing countries from debates about the technology's future.

A group that includes sex workers, sex tech businesses, and sex educators has demanded a seat at the table to shape AI regulations that they say could lead to discrimination against them. A group of sex industry professionals and advocates issued an open letter to EU regulators on Thursday, claiming that their views are being overlooked in vital discussions on policing AI technology despite also being implicated in AI's momentous rise. In response to European internet regulations, a collective of adult industry members--including sex workers, erotic filmmakers, sex tech enterprises, and sex educators--urged the European Commission to include them in future negotiations shaping AI regulations, according to the letter, seen by WIRED. The group includes erotic filmmaker Erika Lust's company as well as the European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance campaign group, and is signed the Open Mind AI initiative. The group aims to alert the commission of what it says is a "critical gap" in discussions on AI regulation.

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As audio machine learning outcomes are deployed in societally impactful applications, it is important to have a sense of the quality and origins of the data used. Noticing that being explicit about this sense is not trivially rewarded in academic publishing in applied machine learning domains, and neither is included in typical applied machine learning curricula, we present a study into dataset usage connected to the top-5 cited papers at the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). In this, we conduct thorough depth-first analyses towards origins of used datasets, often leading to searches that had to go beyond what was reported in official papers, and ending into unclear or entangled origins. Especially in the current pull towards larger, and possibly generative AI models, awareness of the need for accountability on data provenance is increasing. With this, we call on the community to not only focus on engineering larger models, but create more room and reward for explicitizing the foundations on which such models should be built.

Propaganda plays a critical role in shaping public opinion and fueling disinformation. While existing research primarily focuses on identifying propaganda techniques, it lacks the ability to capture the broader motives and the impacts of such content. To address these challenges, we introduce propainsight, a conceptual framework grounded in foundational social science research, which systematically dissects propaganda into techniques, arousal appeals, and underlying intent. propainsight offers a more granular understanding of how propaganda operates across different contexts. Additionally, we present propagaze, a novel dataset that combines human-annotated data with high-quality synthetic data generated through a meticulously designed pipeline. Our experiments show that off-the-shelf LLMs struggle with propaganda analysis, but training with propagaze significantly improves performance. Fine-tuned Llama-7B-Chat achieves 203.4% higher text span IoU in technique identification and 66.2% higher BertScore in appeal analysis compared to 1-shot GPT-4-Turbo. Moreover, propagaze complements limited human-annotated data in data-sparse and cross-domain scenarios, showing its potential for comprehensive and generalizable propaganda analysis.

In societies valuing freedom of expression, individuals now frequently express and share their opinions, integrating this practice as a natural part of their routines. Unfortunately, this new social and informational landscape has favored an unprecedented amplification of cyber threats such as hate speech and disinformation, posing significant risks to democratic systems Office of Science and Technology of the Congress of Deputies (Office C) (2023). This situation has intensified and drawn substantial attention from the research community, governmental bodies, and the general public, particularly following extensive disinformation campaigns associated with recent events, including the COVID-19 pandemic Kim and Kesari (2021), the Russia-Ukraine war Pierri et al. (2022), and the Israel-Palestine conflict Aljazeera (2024). Consequently, a structured model encapsulating the key actors, dynamics, and resulting societal impacts is proposed to understand and contextualize the environment being worked on. Figure 1 illustrates our threat model with three main components. In blue, the media and audience as actors in the model, providing the information environment with online news and social network posts that people can read, react to, and comment on. In orange, the content is considered potentially harmful due to intrinsic hateful narratives of today's ecosystem (particularly, public reactions that will be the focus of this research work). In red, the online situation leads to polarization, extremism, and heightened tension, creating a vulnerable environment for society OSMUNDSEN et al. (2021); Cinelli et al. (2021); Pastor-Galindo et al. (2021). In fact, this agitated context serves as a vector for disinformation to become more effective Kim and Kesari (2021).

Existing vision-language understanding benchmarks largely consist of images of objects in their usual contexts. As a consequence, recent multimodal large language models can perform well with only a shallow visual understanding by relying on background language biases. Thus, strong performance on these benchmarks does not necessarily correlate with strong visual understanding. In this paper, we release JourneyBench, a comprehensive human-annotated benchmark of generated images designed to assess the model's fine-grained multimodal reasoning abilities across five tasks: complementary multimodal chain of thought, multi-image VQA, imaginary image captioning, VQA with hallucination triggers, and fine-grained retrieval with sample-specific distractors. Unlike existing benchmarks, JourneyBench explicitly requires fine-grained multimodal reasoning in unusual imaginary scenarios where language bias and holistic image gist are insufficient. We benchmark state-of-the-art models on JourneyBench and analyze performance along a number of fine-grained dimensions. Results across all five tasks show that JourneyBench is exceptionally challenging for even the best models, indicating that models' visual reasoning abilities are not as strong as they first appear. We discuss the implications of our findings and propose avenues for further research.

Rationalization models, which select a subset of input text as rationale-crucial for humans to understand and trust predictions-have recently emerged as a prominent research area in eXplainable Artificial Intelligence. However, most of previous studies mainly focus on improving the quality of the rationale, ignoring its robustness to malicious attack. Specifically, whether the rationalization models can still generate high-quality rationale under the adversarial attack remains unknown. To explore this, this paper proposes UAT2E, which aims to undermine the explainability of rationalization models without altering their predictions, thereby eliciting distrust in these models from human users. UAT2E employs the gradient-based search on triggers and then inserts them into the original input to conduct both the non-target and target attack. Experimental results on five datasets reveal the vulnerability of rationalization models in terms of explanation, where they tend to select more meaningless tokens under attacks. Based on this, we make a series of recommendations for improving rationalization models in terms of explanation.