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"Supercharged dust storms are exposing millions to deadly air pollution"
#Pollution #AirPollution

Supercharged dust storms are exposing millions to deadly air pollution
More people are getting sick due to sand and dust storms that are now more intense and frequent, contributor Sean Mowbray reported for Mongabay. The intensifying storms have exposed many millions more people to dangerous levels of particulate pollution across the world. In some regions, it has also triggered outbreaks of respiratory and infectious diseases. […]

Dropping the penny is one thing, but like everything this moronic administration does is unplanned chaos.
https://fortune.com/2025/10/30/america-is-running-out-of-pennies-costing-millions/

America’s officially running out of pennies — and it’s costing retailers millions
“Let’s rip the waste out of our great nation’s budget, even if it’s a penny at a time,” President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Google partners with Reliance to offer free AI Pro access to Jio 5G users in India for 18 months; Perplexity has a similar deal with Bharti Airtel (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/30/goog

Google partners with Ambani's Reliance to offer free AI Pro access to millions of Jio users in India | TechCrunch
The offer will first roll out to Jio users aged 18 to 25 before expanding to all subscribers nationwide.

For decades, some big polluters were allowed to estimate their emissions using methods the government knew were often unreliable.

Real Pollution Levels: Air monitors at coke manufacturers, chemical plants and other industrial facilities showed far higher emissions than the estimates, records viewed by ProPublica show.

Trump Halts New Rules: The Trump administration has halted rules requiring more than 130 industrial plants to install air monitors and comply with new e…

The EPA Let Companies Estimate Their Own Pollution Levels. We Discovered Real Emissions Are Far Worse.
The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these plants face an increased risk of cancer.

Visual Jigsaw Post-Training Improves MLLMs
Penghao Wu, Yushan Zhang, Haiwen Diao, Bo Li, Lewei Lu, Ziwei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25190 https://arxiv…

Visual Jigsaw Post-Training Improves MLLMs
Reinforcement learning based post-training has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for enhancing the alignment and reasoning capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). While vision-centric post-training is crucial for enhancing MLLMs' intrinsic understanding of visual signals, current post-training paradigms are predominantly text-centric, where dense visual inputs are only leveraged to extract sparse cues for text-based reasoning. There exist a few approaches in this directi…

Judge orders Trump administration to fund food aid for millions of Americans (Marcia Brown/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/31/judge-orders-trump-administration-to-fund-food-aid-for-millions-of-americans-00631928
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p124#a251031p124

In 2011, Aaron Swartz was arrested after he downloaded millions of academic journal articles from JSTOR via the MIT network. He was charged under federal laws (including wire fraud and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) with up to 13 felony counts, carrying the possibility of decades in prison, large fines, and other penalties. These federal charges eventually lead to his death in 2013.
No AI company was ever charged under federal laws.

:privTri: Corveon :brdSmol: (@volpeon)
> OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear. It's kind of hilarious that they go "if you don't want me to pirate your movies, you ne...

Chicago’s Militarized Immigration Raids
“Coming to Other Cities”
as Trump Plans 10,000-Bed Jails
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/31/immigration_aaron_reichlin_melnick

Chicago’s Militarized Immigration Raids “Coming to Other Cities” as Trump Plans 10,000-Bed Jails
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is calling for federal agents to pause immigration enforcement in the Chicago area until after Halloween, amid widespread condemnation of violent arrests and confrontations with residents. Meanwhile, the person at the center of much of Chicago’s enforcement, Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino, did a five-hour deposition Thursday in a case challenging federal agents’ treatment of protesters, journalists, children and immigrants. Bovino is “in charge of the Chi…

Google launches a new AI ransomware detection feature for Drive on desktop, trained on millions of real victim files encrypted by various ransomware strains (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/googles-latest-ai-ransomware-defense-only-goes-s…

Google’s Latest AI Ransomware Defense Only Goes So Far
Google has launched a new AI-based protection in Drive for desktop that can shut down an attack before it spreads—but its benefits have their limits.

"Organised crime making millions from illegal waste dumping in UK, says committee"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment