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US investigating whether Chinese citizen charged with flying drone over base committed 'more serious offenses'
Fox News senior correspondent Claudia Cowan shares the latest on the situation at Vandenberg Space Force Base on'America Reports.' The U.S. government is investigating whether the Chinese citizen arrested after allegedly flying a drone over Vandenberg Space Force Base in California perpetrated other offenses. Last week, the U.S. attorney's office for the central district of California announced that 39-year-old Yinpiao Zhou, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., was "charged with failure to register an aircraft not providing transportation and violation of national defense airspace." But court filings indicate that "the government is continuing to investigate whether ZHOU engaged in additional, more serious offenses." A Chinese national flag is pictured during the medal ceremony for the women's 63kg judo event during the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou in China's eastern Zhejiang province on Sept. 25, 2023.
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The Unusual Espionage Act Case Against a Drone Photographer
The United States Department of Justice is quietly prosecuting a novel Espionage Act case involving a drone, a Chinese national, and classified nuclear submarines. The case is such a rarity that it appears to be the first known prosecution under a World War II–era law that bans photographing vital military installations using aircraft, showing how new technologies are leading to fresh national security and First Amendment issues. "This is definitely not something that the law has addressed to any significant degree," Emily Berman, a law professor at the University of Houston who specializes in national security, tells WIRED. "There's definitely no reported cases." On January 5, 2024, Fengyun Shi flew to Virginia while on leave from his graduate studies at the University of Minnesota and rented a Tesla at the airport.
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Classifying complex documents: comparing bespoke solutions to large language models
Here we search for the best automated classification approach for a set of complex legal documents. Our classification task is not trivial: our aim is to classify ca 30,000 public courthouse records from 12 states and 267 counties at two different levels using nine sub-categories. Specifically, we investigated whether a fine-tuned large language model (LLM) can achieve the accuracy of a bespoke custom-trained model, and what is the amount of fine-tuning necessary.
To Tell The Truth: Language of Deception and Language Models
Majumder, Bodhisattwa Prasad, Hazra, Sanchaita
Text-based misinformation permeates online discourses, yet evidence of people's ability to discern truth from such deceptive textual content is scarce. We analyze a novel TV game show data where conversations in a high-stake environment between individuals with conflicting objectives result in lies. We investigate the manifestation of potentially verifiable language cues of deception in the presence of objective truth, a distinguishing feature absent in previous text-based deception datasets. We show that there exists a class of detectors (algorithms) that have similar truth detection performance compared to human subjects, even when the former accesses only the language cues while the latter engages in conversations with complete access to all potential sources of cues (language and audio-visual). Our model, built on a large language model, employs a bottleneck framework to learn discernible cues to determine truth, an act of reasoning in which human subjects often perform poorly, even with incentives. Our model detects novel but accurate language cues in many cases where humans failed to detect deception, opening up the possibility of humans collaborating with algorithms and ameliorating their ability to detect the truth.
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Florida man's dating app match turns sour after date sets him up to be carjacked: police
A Chicago man was arrested for allegedly holding a woman he met on a dating app against her will and beating her. A Florida man got more than he bargained for after his dating app match set him up to get carjacked, police said. The Titusville Police Department said that 24-year-old Brionna Eaddy and an unidentified 35-year-old Orlando man decided to meet in-person Sept. 24 at an apartment complex after communicating over the Tagged dating app. Brionna Eaddy, 24, was booked into the Brevard County jail on an armed carjacking felony charge Saturday after a warrant was issued for her arrest. According to the affidavit, obtained by FOX 35 Orlando, the pair drove to a nearby park in the victim's 2013 Mazda CX9.
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Lawyer Blames ChatGPT For Fake Citations In Court Filing
A lawyer who relied on ChatGPT to prepare a court filing for his client is finding out the hard way that the artificial intelligence tool has a tendency to fabricate information. Steven Schwartz, a lawyer for a man suing the Colombian airline Avianca over a metal beverage cart allegedly injuring his knee, is facing a sanctions hearing on June 8 after admitting last week that several of the cases he supplied the court as evidence of precedent were invented by ChatGPT, a large language model created by OpenAI. Lawyers for Avianca first brought the concerns to the judge overseeing the case. "Six of the submitted cases appear to be bogus judicial decisions with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations," U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel said earlier this month after reviewing Avianca's complaint, calling the situation an "unprecedented circumstance." The invented cases included decisions titled "Varghese v. Schwartz ― an attorney with Levidow, Levidow & Oberman who's been licensed in New York for more than 30 years ― then confessed in an affidavit that he'd used ChatGPT to produce the cases in support of his client and was "unaware of the possibility that its content could be false."
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Colorado doctor accused of drugging, raping women he met on dating apps
An estimated hundreds of thousands of rape kits sit untested in police departments nationwide, according to the Joyful Heart Foundation, a group that helps sexual assault victims. A Denver cardiologist has been charged with drugging and sexually assaulting a string of women he met on the dating apps Hinge and Tinder, court papers allege. Stephen Matthews, 35, was first arrested March 22 based on one victim's disturbing accusations. Widespread reports of the allegations prompted nine other women to come forward, officials said. On Monday, Matthews was arrested on the new charges outside the Denver District Courthouse after making an appearance on the initial case.
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Documents at Mar-a-Lago could compromise human intelligence sources, affidavit says
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department's search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home was spurred by the discovery that he had held onto a trove of highly classified material that included documents related to the use of "clandestine human sources" in intelligence gathering, according to a redacted version of the affidavit used to obtain the search warrant. The portions of the affidavit made public Friday describe the Justice Department's monthslong push to recover sensitive materials taken from the White House by a former president who viewed state documents as his private property and now faces a department investigating the possibility he illegally obstructed those efforts. This could be due to a conflict with your ad-blocking or security software. Please add japantimes.co.jp and piano.io to your list of allowed sites. If this does not resolve the issue or you are unable to add the domains to your allowlist, please see this support page.
Florida airman accused of raping 11-year-old girl met her on dating app: report
Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. A U.S. airman from Florida accused of raping an 11-year-old girl in Alabama last year had met the child on a dating app, according to a report. Air Force Senior Airman Keith Williams, 25, of a Hurlburt Field maintenance squadron, met the 11-year-old on the Badoo dating app before the alleged rape in October 2020, Northwest Florida Daily News reported, citing an affidavit filed in Alabama's Morgan County District Court. The girl's parents did not learn of the alleged sexual encounter in the backyard of their home until Feb. 12, when Williams sent the girl a friend request on Facebook, the report said.
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