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CNN  —  Alabama GOP Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday approved a new congressional map with just one majority-Black district, despite a court order calling for the redrawn lines to create two majority-Black districts or “something quite close to it.” The state’s Republican-controlled legislature gave final passage to the remedial map earlier Friday, just hours before the court-imposed deadline. The map must now be approved by a federal court, which has set a hearing for mid-August. “The Legislature knows our state, our people and our districts better than the federal courts or activist groups, and I am pleased that they answered the call, remained focused and produced new districts ahead of the court deadline,” Ivey said in a statement after she signed off on the map. With no Democrats voting in favor, the legislature passed a remedial map that includes one congressional district that has around 50% Black voting age population and a second district with roughly 40%. The “Livingston 3” map came as the result of a Friday afternoon conference committee,  » Read More

HUDSON, N.H. (AP) — They acknowledge Donald Trump’s dominance, but weary Republicans across New Hampshire — even inside the governor’s office — are fighting to stop the former president from winning the first-in-the-nation primary.For now, however, they’re relying on little more than hope and prayers.Look no further than Mike Pence, Trump’s former vice president, who repeatedly appealed to voters’ faith this week as he tried to resurrect his anemic presidential campaign while courting a few dozen voters in a former state lawmaker’s backyard. Law enforcement officials in New Hampshire say they’ve solved a killing that happened more than 40 years ago. A former New Hampshire state lawmaker and the one-time partner of a woman charged with taking sexually explicit photos of children at the Massachusetts day care center where she worked has also been charged in the case. CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire Senate passed a $15.2 billion, two-year state budget with bipartisan support Wednesday,  » Read More

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – Experts are warning about a new Facebook scam. Scammers are joining “Trash and Treasure” and “Yard Sale” Facebook groups where they post attention grabbing posts, asking people to “boost” it or like and comment so it can been seen by more people. Some of these posts may be about lost or injured pets. Once the post gets popular, the scammers will “bait and switch”, or change the post to something completely different, such as a real estate advertisement. “There is a level or responsibility that goes into existing on social media,” warns Myles McNutt, an Associate Professor in ODU’s Department of Communication and Theatre Arts. He says users need to be aware of not just what they share but where the information is coming from. One way users can spot these scams is by looking at the account who made a post before sharing it. Accounts with little to no personal information, pictures or posts are red flags.  » Read More

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A couple dances as Rhiannon Giddens performs on the Banjo Stage during Hardly Strictly Bluegrass at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Oct. 2, 2022. Photo: Scott Strazzante/The ChronicleThe Facebook account for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, San Francisco’s free music festival at Golden Gate Park, has been hacked, event organizers announced.Festival officials first became aware of the breach in May and notified security experts at Facebook and its parent company Meta about the issue. They have since been without control over the compromised account.“We want to reassure our audience and the entire community that we are fully committed to resolving this issue and safeguarding the integrity of our online platforms,” said John Caldon, who was hired for the new role of executive director last year, in a statement released Thursday, July 20. “Since detecting the hack, we have been working to address the situation.”Founded in 2001 by the late investment banker Warren Hellman as a gift to the people of San Francisco,  » Read More

A former senior executive at Google predicted that sex robots powered by artificial intelligence could eliminate the need for a human partner in the bedroom. Mo Gawdat, who was chief business officer for Google’s clandestine research-and-development arm X, said that AI will usher in a “redesign of love and relationships” in that people won’t be able to tell the difference between real-life sexual encounters and those that are created artificially. Human beings will soon be able to simulate sex through virtual reality and augmented reality headsets such as Apple’s Vision Pro or a Quest 3, Gawdat told YouTube host Tom Bilyeu of the “Impact Theory” podcast. The headsets combined with AI-powered bots will trick people into thinking that the sex robot is real, according to Gawdat. “Just think about all of the illusions that we’re now unable to decipher,” Gawdat told Bilyeu. “But if we can convince you that this sex robot is alive, or that sex experience in a virtual reality headset or an augmented reality headset is alive,  » Read More

Facebook parent company Meta is making its artificial intelligence chatbot, Llama 2, available for commercial use through partnerships with major cloud providers including Microsoft. For those unaware, Meta has built an artificial intelligence system that rivals the likes of ChatGPT and Google's Bard. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company is partnering with Microsoft to introduce the next generation of its AI large language model and making the technology, known as LLaMA 2, free for research and commercial use. Zuckerberg said people can download its new AI models directly or through a partnership that makes them available on Microsoft's cloud platform Azure "along with Microsoft's safety and content tools.""Open source drives innovation because it enables many more developers to build with new technology," Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post Tuesday. "It also improves safety and security because when software is open, more people can scrutinize it to identify and fix potential issues. I believe it would unlock more progress if the ecosystem were more open, which is why we're open sourcing Llama 2." What Microsoft saidMicrosoft on its part is making Llama 2 available through the Azure AI catalog to use with cloud tools,  » Read More

That fun “all about you” quiz on Facebook might seem harmless, but it could actually be a serious cybersecurity risk. Quizzes, challenges, and questionnaires on Facebook (and indeed other social media sites) can trick you into giving away valuable personal information. Some are straight-up scams. How can you spot scam quizzes, and what should you do if you fill one out? What Are Facebook Quizzes? We’ve all been there: you’re scrolling through Facebook and run into a quiz promising to match you with a fictional character. It might ask you to fill out a long list of favorites to share with friends or advertise “accurate results” for your Hogwarts house, for instance. While these quizzes might look fun at a glance, they can actually be a big security risk. The most suspicious types are the “challenges” that have you answer a long list of questions. For example, a challenge might ask for your pets’ names, your favorite color, the elementary school you attended, or your mother’s maiden name. The Better Business Bureau issued a warning about these quizzes—and they have a good reason for it.  » Read More

Facebook will make its cutting edge artificial intelligence technology freely available to the public to use for research and building new moneymaking products, doubling down on an “open source” approach to the tech that has garnered both praise and criticism.Facebook’s Llama 2 is a “large language model” — a highly complex algorithm trained on billions of words scraped from the open internet. It’s Facebook’s answer to Google’s Palm-2, which powers its AI tools, and OpenAI’s GPT4, the tech behind ChatGPT. App developers will be able to download the model directly from Facebook, or access it through cloud providers including Microsoft, Amazon and open source AI start-up Hugging Face.The announcement shows how Facebook is doubling down on making its AI openly available, in contrast with companies like OpenAI and Google, which have chosen to keep the details of how their tech works secret and charge for access to it. It also drives home the point that Facebook doesn’t have a large cloud computing business through which to sell software directly to business customers,  » Read More