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Remember Julian Assange? Having dominated headlines in the 2010s, the WikiLeaks founder has dropped out of sight having been confined at London’s Belmarsh prison since 2019. And that was kind of the plan, this impassioned documentary asserts, with the aid of staunch defenders including the late John Pilger, Tariq Ali, Jill Stein, Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsworth and Assange family members. “The persecution of Julian has been a long, slow form of killing somebody,” says Pilger; witnessing Assange’s trajectory from a…

Matthew Perry designated over $1 million to the trustees of the “Alvy Singer Living Trust,” which is named after the main character Woody Allen portrayed in his 1977 film Annie Hall. According to legal documents obtained by Rolling Stone, the will (which was signed by Perry in 2009) outlines that the “residue and remainder” of the actor’s estate should be distributed to the unnamed trustees and notes that the arrangement was dated “June 2, 1999, as amended and restated in its entirety earlier this date, between me,…

This intriguing sci-fi thriller is a throwback to the kind of cerebral teleplays and low-budget movies that flourished in the 1960s: ripe with gloomy lighting and dystopian pessimism, but with barely enough money in the budget to pay for more than two sets. Think On the Beach from 1959, or Seconds from 1966 – but then lower your expectations because it’s not anywhere in their league. But it’s not bad, and the subject is timely.The time is a couple of decades in the future, and humanity has accepted that we’ve messed up…

There are things we can do. When our members tell us that they've had a negative interaction, whether it's any type of physical safety risk, assault, financial fraud, we act on those reports immediately. That’s a lot of what my team is going to be doing. A second critical piece of that is working with law enforcement. In Colombia, around the world, we want to make sure that we are empowering local law enforcement to actually get bad guys off the streets and off of our apps as well. And we are proactively referring…

There’s a Gordian knot at the heart of the AI boom in healthcare. Artificial (or depending on who you talk to, “augmented”) intelligence is already a solidly established tool in the medical system from X-ray imaging analysis to streamlining hospital billing to how the medicines your doctor might prescribe are discovered in the first place. Yet 69% of Americans staunchly oppose the idea of AI replacing doctors to diagnose disease, according to a new Salesforce survey, while still supporting the technology overall if it…

A second, unnamed album will follow three weeks later in April Following much anticipation from fans, Future and Metro Boomin are set to release two collaborative albums, the Atlanta Hip Hop titans announced on Friday. The first project, called We Don’t Trust You, will release in two weeks on March 22, and a second still-unnamed album will come out three weeks later on April 12. The duo dropped a trailer for the albums on Friday, with Metro and Future riding through the desert in matching white…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new analysis shows that trust in scientific expertise among the American public remained high during the last six decades and that the Trump administration attacks on scientific expertise did not modify the basic confidence of Americans in science and scientific expertise. The study, "Citizen attitudes toward…

At first glance, images circulating online showing former President Donald Trump surrounded by groups of Black people smiling and laughing seem nothing out of the ordinary, but a look closer is telling.Odd lighting and too-perfect details provide clues to the fact they were all generated using artificial intelligence. The photos, which have not been linked to the Trump campaign, emerged as Trump seeks to win over Black voters who polls show remain loyal to President Joe Biden.The fabricated images, highlighted in a recent…

Source: Annenberg Public Policy Center Constitution Day surveys, 2005-2023. Credit: Annenberg Public Policy Center For decades, the U.S. Supreme Court was viewed as one of the few American institutions respected by Democrats and Republicans alike. It was seen as a legal institution, not a political one, strengthened by its "norms, processes, symbols, and independence"—and was granted greater public trust and legitimacy than…

The VotingWorks model won over some machine skeptics at the Concord event, like Tim Cahill, a Republican in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. Cahill said he’d prefer that all ballots in the state be hand counted but would choose VotingWorks over the other vendors. “Why would you trust something you can’t put your eyes on?” he told Undark. “We have a lot of smart people in this country and people want open source, they want transparency.” Poll workers use the Accu-Vote machines to scan absentee ballots in…