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California governor Gavin Newsom announced that the state’s minimum wage will rise to $17.40 next year, a ay floor set to become the highest of any US state.

A small town in south-eastern Colorado was recently declared abandoned after all of its local public leaders resigned amid a drinking water supply crisis.

Max Blumenthal says he was singled out at airport after Trump ally Laura Loomer targeted him in online posts

Director general accuses corporations of obstructing efforts to tackle obesity crisis after investigation by Guardian and others

Emily Watkins is.. something.

Prominent Fox News hosts have expressed concern, bewilderment and frustration over US objectives in Iran

Federal government plan outlines cuts of roughly 40% to California, Arizona and Nevada but fix is likely to be only temporary

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Crossposted from https://piefed.world/c/technology/p/1300905/ai-labels-to-be-compulsory-on-authentic-looking-content-under-eu-rules

Crossposted from https://piefed.world/c/technology/p/1300905/ai-labels-to-be-compulsory-on-authentic-looking-content-under-eu-rules

Crossposted from https://piefed.world/c/technology/p/1300905/ai-labels-to-be-compulsory-on-authentic-looking-content-under-eu-rules

Companies must ensure people know when they are interacting with artificially generated images, audio and text designed to look real

The Pentagon updated its official war casualty database over the weekend, adding more than 140 wounded service members. The Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) also introduced a new casualty category labeled “Overseas Operations” for personnel killed and wounded “starting July 7”.

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The vines are dying. The grass is yellow and now we can smell the smoke,” Uyen Do, an organic farmer in the Dordogne region of France says, almost in tears. “It’s already very difficult to survive economically and now with climate change it’s becoming a struggle that I’m not sure we’re capable of going through.”

Some drowned and others got caught up in crush, official says, as incident prompts criticism by other EU nations

From apparently conspiring to steal elections to abusing staff or performing embarrassing dance moves, the last few years have seen plenty of fake content made about politicians intended to malign its targets and mislead the public.

Senior Democrats accused Republicans in the US Congress of becoming “gelatinous blobs” who won’t stand up to Donald Trump and “rubber stamps” for his war on Iran.

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Strike on Terminal Autonomy plant appears to be first time in the war that Moscow has targeted a US company

Real senator, or wax figurine?

Senate’s latest war powers resolution fails in 49-50 vote as some Republicans side with Democrats

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Some great graphs in here that show the scale of the fires.

European nations have unanimously agreed to boycott all Fifa competitions until football’s global governing body drops plans to sell off stakes in the World Cup.

Several schools across the US are set to install pepper-spraying drones as part of a new effort to respond to school shooting attacks – a Ukraine war-inspired approach that is bound to put off those who would prefer leaders focus on preventing the violence in the first place.

The Trump administration’s plans to stymie and defund bike lane plans in the US, on the unusual basis that they are DEI tools, will hurt efforts to improve roadway safety, non-motorized transportation advocates say.

Poland’s PM Tusk is now visiting the site of the incident, and says that two missiles violated Polish airspace during the night, but clarifies that the other one quickly crossed back into Ukraine.

Black voters in south motivated to turn out by Republican push to redraw maps after supreme court ruling

Exclusive: ministers and police chiefs examining how cases involving US military personnel on UK soil are handled after Guardian revelations

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First-in-nation law sets up test on states’ power to regulate use of AI as it tries to outlaw fake nude images of real people

Rates remain unchanged for fifth time since December as tenuous Iran peace deal pushes energy prices up again

The government has designated datacentres as critical national infrastructure, on the basis that their loss or compromise could result in “major detrimental impact on the availability, integrity or delivery of essential services” and “significant impact on national security, national defence, or the functioning of the state”.

First-in-nation law sets up test on states’ power to regulate use of AI as it tries to outlaw fake nude images of real people

July 29, 2026

July 29, 2026

July 29, 2026

American service personnel accused of rape on British soil are being charged with lesser offences by their military courts, a discrepancy that experts say is deepening the traumatic impact on survivors long after verdicts are passed.

Goldman’s strategists reckon this means around one in 30 adults in the country, or 3.4% of the adult ⁠population margin called

Goldman’s strategists reckon this means around one in 30 adults in the country, or 3.4% of the adult ⁠population margin called

Goldman’s strategists reckon this means around one in 30 adults in the country, or 3.4% of the adult ⁠population margin called

Goldman’s strategists reckon this means around one in 30 adults in the country, or 3.4% of the adult ⁠population margin called

Real senator, or wax figurine?

Donald Trump and the justice department are asking the US supreme court to toss an $83m defamation verdict won by writer E Jean Carroll after she accused him of sexual assault, saying he cannot be sued for comments he made while he was president.

Donald Trump is pushing the longtime vaccine opponent and current health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr to be more aggressive on cutting vaccines in the US, according to reporting from the Wall Street Journal.