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Totgesagte leben länger: Lokale Bilder-KI Amuse 3.2.0 erschienen
Die Entwicklung an der Bild- und Video-KI Amuse wurde eingestellt, die Quellen als Open Source veröffentlicht. Nun gibt es erste Updates.
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New UNSW Sydney research finds vaping likely causes lung and oral cancer: Carcinogens in e-cigarette aerosols show DNA damage, tumours in mice & cellular harm. Please – tell your children, friends, and loved ones who might believe the “vaping is safe" lie of the tobacco industry. 💚
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Vaping likely to cause cancer: new findings
A comprehensive review led by cancer researchers at UNSW found vaping is likely to cause lung and oral cancer – even before long-term studies can confirm the exact risk.

Endangered civet faces local extinction in Cambodian sanctuary https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/04/endangered-civet-faces-local-extinction-in-cambodian-sanctuary/

Endangered civet faces local extinction in Cambodian sanctuary
A new study suggests the endangered large-spotted civet is heading toward local extinction in Cambodia’s Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary.

X user TheGhostOfHope, one of top Call of Duty leakers, says Activision "legally demanded that I stop leaking and disseminating confidential information" (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/games/888858/call-of-duty-leaker-hope-…

Activision silences trusted Call of Duty leaker
TheGhostOfHope is complying with legal demands to stop disseminating confidential information.

AI company Nota is shutting down its network of 11 local news sites for "underserved communities" because they contained dozens of instances of plagiarism (Angela Fu/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2026/nota-news-local-outlets-ai-plagi…

An AI company set out to fix news deserts. Instead, it copied local journalists’ work - Poynter
Nota shut down its news sites after Axios and Poynter found dozens of plagiarized quotes, phrases and photos

After grantee reveals data center’s influence campaign in Pennsylvania, local officials oust town leadership - The Fund for Investigative Journalism https://fij.org/after-grantee-reveals-data-centers-influence-campaign-in-…

After grantee reveals data center’s influence campaign in Pennsylvania, local officials oust town leadership - The Fund for Investigative Journalism
With support from the Fund, Edward Donnelly spent four months investigating efforts to build some of the world’s largest data centers in the borough of Archbald, Pennsylvania – and found that local officials let developers help rewrite zoning regulations in order to build the massive centers, outside the view of local residents. Spurred by the […]

King County Council passes 1-year emergency ban on new ICE detention centers
https://komonews.com/news/local/king-county-council-passes-1-year-emergency-ban-on-new-ice-detention-centers-immigration-enforcement-arrest-detention-federal-trump-dhs-legal-illegal-immigrant-community-protest-seattle-katie-wilson

Perplexity announces a feature that lets Perplexity Computer split tasks between on-device AI models and server-based models (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/02/perplexity-computer-adding-ability-to-split-tasks-be…

Perplexity Computer adding ability to split tasks between local and cloud models - 9to5Mac
Perplexity has announced a major new feature coming soon to Perplexity Computer: the ability to split tasks between local and...

Sources: the legal team for Paramount President Jeff Shell has engaged in preliminary talks about a possible exit from the company, where he was hired in 2024 (Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/jeff-shell-negotiating-exit-…

Jeff Shell Negotiating Exit From Paramount President
Jeff Shell's legal team is engaged in preliminary talks with Paramount Skydance on a possible exit from the media giant.

Google releases macOS versions of AI Edge Gallery, which lets users run open models on their devices, and AI Edge Eloquent, an on-device voice dictation app (Google Developers Blog)
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Bringing Gemma 4 12B to your Laptop: Unlocking Local, Agentic Workflows with Google AI Edge- Google Developers Blog
Google DeepMind’s Gemma 4 12B model brings agentic, multimodal AI capabilities to everyday laptops with 16GB of RAM, enabling local data processing and visual insight generation. Users can leverage this model on macOS through the Google AI Edge Gallery for dynamic Python code execution and visualization, as well as via Google AI Edge Eloquent for completely offline voice dictation and text editing. Additionally, developer workflows are enhanced by the LiteRT-LM CLI's new serve command, which …