Right-Wing Gun Enthusiasts and Extremists Are Working Overtime to Justify Alex Pretti's Killing Donald Trump has appeared to undermine Second Amendment rights in statements about Alex Pretti's killing. Many in the firearms community are going along with it. In the hours after Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, President Donald Trump and his administration appeared to directly undermine the rights granted to gun owners in the Second Amendment. Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem inaccurately said Pretti was a " domestic terrorist " who was "brandishing" his legally held gun. FBI director Kash Patel wrongly told Fox News it's illegal to bring a gun to a protest.

Jail sentences for those who made posts about the UK riots in summer 2024 have become a flashpont for online criticism. Jail sentences for those who made posts about the UK riots in summer 2024 have become a flashpont for online criticism. More than 1,100 people have been charged in connection to the summer 2024 riots. A small number of them were charged for offences related to their online activity. Their jail sentences - which ranged from 12 weeks to seven years - became a flashpoint for online criticism.

As waves of loud, car-sized mystery drones continue to buzz over New Jersey, one family reported that the craft changed time on their car's clock. The family of Morris County locals said they were following one of these seemingly terrestrial UFOs in their vehicle, only to experience the odd effect on their car's electronics as the unexplained craft'hovered above them.' 'The clock in their car changed time,' according to one Fox News reporter who spoke to the unnamed family. 'They say the clock went back to normal after they drove off.' While local law enforcement in Morris County has issued a statement asserting that'there is no known threat to public safety' at this time -- the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a ban on drone flights over sensitive areas in state.

A parent asked a question in a private Facebook group in April 2024: Does anyone with a child who is both gifted and disabled have any experience with New York City public schools? The parent received a seemingly helpful answer that laid out some characteristics of a specific school, beginning with the context that "I have a child who is also 2e," meaning twice exceptional. On a Facebook group for swapping unwanted items near Boston, a user looking for specific items received an offer of a "gently used" Canon camera and an "almost-new portable air conditioning unit that I never ended up using." Both of these responses were lies. That child does not exist and neither do the camera or air conditioner.

From mimicking children to producing uncanny deepfakes, AI bots are well known for their creepy behaviour. But Meta AI took this to an entirely new level as it shocked members of a New York parenting group by claiming to have a'child who is both gifted and has a disability'. Not only did the AI bizarrely claim to have a child, but it also insisted that its child attends a real and extremely specific school for the gifted and talented. And, to make matters worse, Facebook's algorithm ranked the bizarre AI response as the top comment on the post. However, the parents were less than impressed by Meta's parenting advice, as the original poster asked: 'What in the Black Mirror is this?!' Meta's AI shocked a group of parents as it bizarrely claimed to have a '2e' child, meaning a child that is academically gifted and has at least one disability Meta AI is Meta's AI chatbot, powered by the Llama 2 Large Language Model.

Peter Paccone, a social studies teacher in San Marino, Calif., has a new teacher's aid helping him in the classroom this year. He plans to defer to his helper to explain some simpler topics to his class of high schoolers, like the technical aspects of how a cotton gin worked, in order to free up time for him to discuss more analytical concepts, like the effects of the first industrial revolution. "What I feel that I don't have to do any longer is cover all the content," Paccone told a group of more than 40 educators in a May Zoom workshop, which he organized. If artificial intelligence is on the cusp of reshaping entire aspects of our society--from healthcare to warfare--the first realm that leaps to many minds is education: Asked a question online, the ChatGPT chatbot will produce an answer that reads like an essay. So as students and teachers prepare for a new school year, they are also grappling with AI's implications for learning, homework, and integrity.

The limited information (data voids) on political topics relevant to underrepresented communities has facilitated the spread of disinformation. Independent journalists who combat disinformation in underrepresented communities have reported feeling overwhelmed because they lack the tools necessary to make sense of the information they monitor and address the data voids. In this paper, we present a system to identify and address political data voids within underrepresented communities. Armed with an interview study, indicating that the independent news media has the potential to address them, we designed an intelligent collaborative system, called Datavoidant. Datavoidant uses state-of-the-art machine learning models and introduces a novel design space to provide independent journalists with a collective understanding of data voids to facilitate generating content to cover the voids. We performed a user interface evaluation with independent news media journalists (N=22). These journalists reported that Datavoidant's features allowed them to more rapidly while easily having a sense of what was taking place in the information ecosystem to address the data voids. They also reported feeling more confident about the content they created and the unique perspectives they had proposed to cover the voids. We conclude by discussing how Datavoidant enables a new design space wherein individuals can collaborate to make sense of their information ecosystem and actively devise strategies to prevent disinformation.

Facebook is working on a new way to highlight authoritative information within Groups. The platform is starting to roll out a new "expert" label for group members who have expertise in an area related to the group's interests. With the change, which Facebook says is available to "select" Groups, an admin can invite a group member to be a group "expert." If the person accepts, then they'll get a badge next to their name similar to the way group moderators and admins are identified. Notably, being a group "expert" doesn't grant you extra control of group features, or higher visibility within a group.

In this fledgling, post-pandemic world of almost-summer 2021, there are a million reasons to worry about your kids playing video games. What if they get addicted, see too much violence, or talk with some super creepy stranger online? Screen time soared for every age group during the pandemic, but most notably, it shot up as much as 500% for some children and teens. It's about another trend that evolved out of those countless hours we were all stuck in our own bubbles over the past year-plus: Parents learned to play video games with their kids, and good things happened as a result. "Teaching my mom and dad to play (Rocket League) last winter was a turning point for us," 15-year old high school sophomore Collin Blewett explained over the phone. "It was kind of a best-case, fairytale time that I never expected," he added.

Facebook says it's using AI to prioritize potentially problematic posts for human moderators to review as it works to more quickly remove content that violates its community guidelines. The social media giant previously leveraged machine learning models to proactively take down low-priority content and left high-priority content reported by users to human reviewers. But Facebook claims it now combines content identified by users and models into a single collection before filtering, ranking, and deduplicating it and handing it off to thousands of moderators, many of whom are contract employees. Facebook's continued investment in moderation comes as reports suggest the company is failing to stem the spread of misinformation, disinformation, and hate speech on its platform. Reuters recently found over three dozen pages and groups that featured discriminatory language about Rohingya refugees and undocumented migrants.