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Letters: House Homeland Security Committee and House China Select Committee are probing Airbnb and Cursor maker Anysphere over their use of Chinese AI models (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/29/2026/house-committ…

Exclusive: House committees probe Cursor parent, Airbnb over Chinese AI
Lawmakers’ concerns revolve around the national security risks of sharing wide swaths of data and information with AI companies in China.

In Canada, passengers are the regulators because Government is bought by lobbyists.
“In the absence of stronger regulation, Lukšcs says passengers who are told their flights are cancelled due to a maintenance issue should press airlines for specifics — outlined on his website — including which aircraft was originally assigned, whether it was swapped and when any mechanical issues were identified and fixed.
Because, he says, there's a fundamental issue at play.
"We cannot really trust what the airlines are telling us as passengers."”
#canpoli #cdnpoli

OpenAI and Anthropic briefed House Homeland Security Committee staff on their new cyber-capable AI models and their implications for cybersecurity,
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/28/openai-anthropic-congress-cyber-briefings

Exclusive: OpenAI, Anthropic meet with House committee over advanced cyber models
This is the first time lawmakers have appeared to have engaged with the AI giants on the cyber threats posed by their new models.

@… sorry abt the instagram link, I downloaded this video from Bluesky but cannot get masto to upload it. It just stalls.
This is what I meant when we were talking about secular civic space and how important it is - https://w…

Mark Gerretsen on Instagram: "Have you seen this yet? This is wrong. Parliament is supposed to be a civic space — the one room in this country where every faith, and no faith, stands on equal ground."
63K likes, 4,247 comments - markgerretsen on March 27, 2026: "Have you seen this yet? This is wrong. Parliament is supposed to be a civic space — the one room in this country where every faith, and no faith, stands on equal ground.".

Textbook Case.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/30/court-of-appeal-says-it-cannot-rule-on-which-identical-twin-fathered-a-child

Court of appeal says it cannot rule on which identical twin fathered a child
One twin wanted to take parental responsibility from the other for child P after both had sex with child’s mother

Anthropic said Thursday it
“cannot in good conscience”
comply with a demand from the Pentagon
to remove safety precautions from its artificial intelligence model
and grant the US military unfettered access to its AI capabilities.
The Department of Defense had threatened to cancel a $200m contract
and deem Anthropic a “supply chain risk”,
a designation with serious financial implications,
if the company did not comply with the request by Friday.…

Yesterday, I got an incredible opportunity to watch Cindy Cohn bring @…'s story to one of its biggest audiences yet, as she did an extraordinary job on the Daily Show, pulling off the unlikely task of making the topic of digital privacy and civil liberties seem fun, engaging and witty. I took the chance to share some reflections — and a couple of behind-the-scenes ph…

Defending Privacy, Daily
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Netflix starts rolling out its new Clips vertical video feed as a separate tab in the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, India, and four other countries (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/streaming/920179/netflix-vertical-video-feed-mobile-app-ui

Here’s what Netflix’s new vertical video feed is like
Netflix is starting to roll out a big revamp of its mobile app, and a central feature is a new vertical video feed called “Clips.”

Google celebrates 20 years of Translate with a new AI pronunciation practice tool for Android users in the US and India; Translate gets 1B queries per month (Macy Meyer/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/google-20-years…

Google Celebrates 20 Years of Translate With a New Pronunciation Feature
Google's new AI-powered language tool can give you real-time feedback by analyzing speech and correcting your pronunciation.

Samsung rolls out blood pressure monitoring for Galaxy Watch 4 and newer models in the US, requiring a traditional upper-arm blood pressure cuff and a new app (Vanessa Hand Orellana/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/samsung-galaxy…

Samsung Galaxy Watch Gets Blood Pressure Monitoring in the US, With One Major Caveat
The globally available feature is finally rolling out in the US, but you'll need to buy extra hardware to use it.