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The #stackexchange plot deepens. Somebody noted that SE has an arbitration clause in their terms of service.
That means that if they illegally re-license the SE content for OpenAI to be more permissive than CC-BY-SA, the copyright holders (us) can't sue: they have to use an arbiter (originally one that SE chose, but this seems to have changed).
This seems an unlikely play. …

Electronic opt-out, correcting miscommunication, and additional questions answered about the 2018 ToS update
We’ve listened to what you’ve been telling us about the arbitration clause that our most recent ToS update introduced. While we can't incorporate all of the feedback you offered, we did listen to i...

"The state of the [#ScottishIndependence] movement in 2024 reminds me of 2017 when Sturgeon decided to “take independence off the table” at the Scottish Parliamentary elections and totally scunnered SNP members.
I remember hearing reports of “indy-free” leaflets arriving from HQ and being binned by angry activists" -- Lesley Riddoch

Pennsylvania’s primary election is slated for April 23, 2024.
Election officials in Pennsylvania remain in a legal limbo, uncertain about the answer to a seemingly simple and straightforward question:
whether to count undated mail-in ballots.
And unless the legislature decides to act, Pennsylvania voters who forget to put dates on their ballot envelopes may be disenfranchised while the wheels of the judicial system turn.

Why courts aren’t the fastest or clearest ways to solve election disputes – a former federal judge explains
What counts as fast for a court is slow for the rest of the world, and judges can give contradictory or vague rulings that delay final decisions into the future.

❝I felt an anger that I hadn’t felt in his past films. Anger that felt directed towards the way humans work, the unfairness of this whole world.❞ https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/08/eiko-ishibashi-film-co…

US-Gefechtsfeldzentralen werden mit KI aufgerüstet
Das Pentagon hat eine Sensorplattform für "verteilte autonome cyber-elektronische Kriegsführung" in Auftrag gegeben, die automatisch auf Angriffe reagiert.

Integrated electro-optics on thin-film lithium niobate
Yaowen Hu, Di Zhu, Shengyuan Lu, Xinrui Zhu, Yunxiang Song, Dylan Renaud, Daniel Assumpcao, Rebecca Cheng, CJ Xin, Matthew Yeh, Hana Warner, Xiangwen Guo, Amirhassan Shams-Ansari, David Barton, Neil Sinclair, Marko Loncar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06398

Integrated electro-optics on thin-film lithium niobate
Electro-optics serves as the crucial bridge between electronics and photonics, unlocking a wide array of applications ranging from communications and computing to sensing and quantum information. Integrated electro-optics approaches in particular enable essential electronic high-speed control for photonics while offering substantial photonic parallelism for electronics. Recent strides in thin-film lithium niobate photonics have ushered revolutionary advancements in electro-optics. This technolo…

Ukraine bereitet weiteren Schutz für Charkiw vor
Unter dem Vorsitz des ukrainischen Präsidenten Wolodymyr Selenskyj haben die führenden Militärs in Kiew über weitere Maßnahmen zum Schutz der ostukrainischen Großstadt Charkiw beraten. Das berichtete die Nachrichtenagentur dpa. "Das Hauptthema war Charkiw, die Verteidigung der Stadt gegen russische Angriffe und die Möglichkeit, unsere Luftabwehr und elektronische Kriegsführung …
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Ukraine: 80 Prozent der Wärmekraftwerke angegriffen ++
Der Energiesektor wurde laut Kiew zuletzt stärker angegriffen als je zuvor seit Kriegsbeginn. Großbritanniens Außenminister Cameron will sich in den USA für die Freigabe milliardenschwerer Ukraine-Hilfe einsetzen. Der Liveblog vom Montag zum Nachlesen.

Understanding Emotional Hijacking in Metaverse
Syed Ali Asif, Philip Gable, Chien-Chung Shen, Yan-Ming Chiou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05929 https://

Understanding Emotional Hijacking in Metaverse
Emotions are an integral part of being human, and experiencing a range of emotions is what makes life rich and vibrant. From basic emotions like anger, fear, happiness, and sadness to more complex ones like excitement and grief, emotions help us express ourselves and connect with the world around us. In recent years, researchers have begun adopting virtual reality (VR) technology to evoke emotions as realistically as possible and quantify the strength of emotions from the electroencephalogram (…