U.S. Military Makes First Confirmed Purchase of OpenAI by War-fighting Forces

Less than a year after OpenAI quietly signaled it wanted to do business with the Pentagon, a procurement document obtained by The Intercept shows U.S. Africa Command, or AFRICOM, believes access to OpenAI’s technology is “essential” for its mission. The September 30 document lays out AFRICOM’s rationale for buying cloud computing services directly from Microsoft…

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Cops in Riot Gear Storm Penn Students’ House in Month-Old Vandalism Case

Last Friday, 13 police officers gathered in the early morning hours outside an off-campus residential building in West Philadelphia. It was the home of several University of Pennsylvania students. Donning their full tactical gear, including riot helmets, and armed with assault rifles and handguns, the police threatened to break down the door with a battering…

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Pro-Palestine Students Face Expulsion for Using a Bullhorn

Demonstrators occupy a makeshift protest camp on Parish Beach at Swarthmore College on April 24, 2024, in Swarthmore, Pa. Photo: Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images At Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, 11 students stand accused by the administration of assaulting college staff during Palestine solidarity protests in the last year. Yet there wasn’t any pushing, grabbing, nor any…

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Israeli Military Joins In on Settlers’ War to Displace Palestinian Bedouins

AL-MUARAJAT, WEST BANK — It was early on a mid-September day when a group of Israeli settlers arrived at a small Palestinian Bedouin school in the occupied West Bank. In short order, they stormed the building. Armed and emboldened, the settlers threw rocks, broke windows, and injured several students and teachers. Children scrambled for safety…

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Texas Lawmakers’ Unprecedented Actions Halt Robert Roberson’s Execution — For Now

The Texas Supreme Court halted Robert Roberson’s scheduled execution late Thursday night, following an extraordinary series of legal twists and turns spurred by a bipartisan group of state lawmakers. The legislators, including influential members of the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee, deployed a sequence of jiu-jitsu-like moves to give Roberson a chance to prove his innocence.…

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Four Days in Gaza: Five Journalists Killed or Wounded

Over four days this week, the Israeli military killed two journalists and severely injured at least three others. The attacks are part of the harrowing toll taken on Gaza’s press corp since the military began its all-out assault on the Palestinian territory just over a year ago.  On Wednesday, as Israel intensified its attacks on…

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Internet Archive Was Exposing User Email Addresses for Years Before Recent Breach

The Internet Archive recently was the target of a data breach that exposed information related to 31 million users, including their usernames and email addresses, among other materials. The group SN_Blackmeta has claimed responsibility for a concurrent DDoS attack that took the site offline. The party responsible for the data breach has not yet been identified. Related New York Times Doesn’t…

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