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Chronic outages are a way of life throughout the island, where privatization, under-investment, and climate change leave the grid at constant risk of collapse.

 

A trade group for the adult entertainment industry will appear at the Supreme Court on Wednesday in its challenge to a Texas law that requires pornography sites to verify the age of their users before providing access – for example, by requiring a government-issued identification. The law applies to any website whose content is one-third or more “harmful to minors” – a definition that the challengers say would include most sexually suggestive content, from nude modeling to romance novels and R-rated movies.

 

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  • A new DJI update enables everyday operators to fly their drones over and into airports, military bases, sensitive infrastructure, wildfires, and national no-fly zones in the United States.
  • Hundreds of sensitive-site operators may be forced to deploy counter-drone solutions. The update comes just days after a DJI drone crashed into a firefighting waterbomber over California.
  • DJI promises to place “control back in the hands of the drone operators, in line with regulatory principles of the operator bearing final responsibility” — and tells Hunterbrook that it has given “authorities the tools they need to enforce existing rules.”
  • DJI, by one estimate, controls 90% of the global consumer drone market. The company currently faces the risk of a total ban in the U.S.
 

Social media giant Telegram, a platform long regarded for its hands-off approach to content moderation, announced on 30 December that it is blocking access within the EU to a number of Russian state-owned media, citing a need to comply with EU regulations such as the Digital Services Act (DSA).

 

Once a powerful Russian oligarch, Vladimir Gusinsky has been tangled in legal disputes, mounting debts, and a bitter divorce. He's also drawn FBI scrutiny for ties to a former FBI agent and an ex-Russian diplomat, both of whom have been charged with criminal felonies related to another oligarch.

 

The Biden administration announced Monday new restrictions on the export of the most advanced artificial intelligence chips and proprietary parameters used to govern the interactions of users with AI systems.

 

With billions of annual visits, MissAV ranks among the 60 most-visited websites on the internet. The porn site mostly caters to an Asian audience where rightsholders see the 'pirate' site as a major threat to their business. Through a legal procedure, adult entertainment company FANZA 'confiscated' the MissAV.com domain, as well as ThisAV.com. However, MissAV swiftly bounced back on a new domain.

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For Viktor Orbán, the basis for granting asylum to fugitive Polish politician Marcin Romanowski was a mere four-page pamphlet. We have found this document: it has no author but heavily cites a platform run by the Polish ultra-conservative Ordo Iuris Institute.

 

Taganrog, a city of 245,000 on Russia’s southern coast near the Ukrainian border, has become notorious as a hub for captured Ukrainians. Its SIZO-2 is now infamous for prolonged beatings and torture.

This is the story of the Taganrog torture facility.

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