"AI models that lie and cheat appear to be growing in number with reports of deceptive scheming surging in the last six months, a study into the technology has found."
Grok, is this true? You must tell me if this is not true.
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Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
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A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-family-deportations-ice-citizen-kids?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #ICE #Immigration #Family #Deportation #Children #Data #Trump
How Trump’s Unprecedented Effort to Prosecute Noncitizen Voters Fell Apart
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To prove the president’s claims of illegal voting, the government has harnessed the power of Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of DHS established to combat the worst cross-border crime. So far, the effort has produced meager results.
https://www.propublica.org/article/noncitizen-voting-trump-homeland-security-investigations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
SPAIN’s Prime Minister has condemned an “attack on Spain's territorial integrity” as questions around the potential involvement of the US and Israel continue to mount.
Senior Spanish political figures have already pointed the finger towards Tel Aviv and Washington over the sudden and as-yet unexplained mass incursion of migrants into a Spanish enclave on the north African coast.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26427835.us-israel-blame-spanish-crisis-ceuta/
🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News
https://t.me/warriorsukrainian/92483
🛑🇺🇸Republicans and Trump steal 21 countries PURL money, default on weapons supply to Ukraine:
WSJ reports the Pentagon notified Congress on Monday that it intended to “divert” about $750 million in funding provided by NATO countries to PURL (more) #Ukraine #Brussels #NATO #PURL #CoE #PACE #Press #Media #News #Headlines #US #USA #Trump #Republicans #Mastodon #Australia #NewZealand #Sweden #Finland #russiaUkraineWar
#12yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
https://youtu.be/niMEfqFDYL8
‼️🇺🇦Kupiansk Liberated! What’s happening on the Kupiansk frontlines (Reporting from Ukraine VIDEO) #Ukraine #Press #Media #News #Headlines #russiaUkraineWar
#Russia #12yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
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Catching up with some of the news coming out of the Atmosphere conference.
"With Attie, anyone will be able to build their own custom feed just by typing in commands in natural language, the same as if they’re chatting with any other AI chatbot."
I'm guessing NFT profile pictures are next?
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/28/bluesky-leans-into-ai-with-attie-an-app-for-building-custom-feeds/
#news #technology #TechNews #atmosphere #ATProto #bluesky #AI #LLMs
By request, here's a directory of news accounts on the Fediverse organised into lots of categories:
➡️ https://fedi.directory/news-media
To follow an account listed on the site:
1. Copy its Fediverse address
2. Paste this address into the search box on your Mastodon app or your server's website
3. Click "Follow"
NOTE: Some news accounts post very frequently, you may want to use Mastodon's Lists feature to move them to a news-themed mini-timeline: https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-lists-feature-on-mastodon
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Donor-advised fund sponsors have deemed the Southern Poverty Law Center ineligible for donations after Trump’s Justice Department charged the group with fraud.
We decided to investigate how funds wield this power.
https://www.propublica.org/article/donor-advised-funds-charity-contributions?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Charity #Nonprofit #Trump #DOJ #Law #Philanthropy #USPolitics
NEW: A Puerto Rico Government Agency Exposed 1 Million Social Security Numbers
A cybersecurity loophole in an official government mapping service left private data easily accessible, Centro de Periodismo Investigativo and ProPublica learned.
https://www.propublica.org/article/puerto-rico-crim-data-breach?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #PuertoRico #Government #Cybersecurity #Data #Privacy #SocialSecurity #Tech #Technology
NEW: Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company.
Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical emergencies without calling 911.
https://www.propublica.org/article/wayne-halfway-house-jason-crews-tennessee?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
"Of the nearly 1,400 Americans surveyed, more than three-quarters said they don’t trust AI — 76% say they trust it rarely or only sometimes, compared to just 21% who trust it most or almost all of the time."
Under AG Pam Bondi, the DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-immigration-bondi-declinations-criminal-investigations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #DOJ #Law #Crime #Legal #Terrorism #Fraud #Drugs #PamBondi #Trump
New Portland Trail Blazers Owner Played Key Role at Company Oregon Accused of Predatory Lending
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Documents obtained by ProPublica and Oregon Public Broadcasting reveal that Tom Dundon was behind what regulators called an “aggressive push” to waive proof-of-income requirements at Santander Consumer USA.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tom-dundon-moda-center-portland-oregon?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Portland #Oregon #NBA #Basketball #Law #Cars #Loan #Business
30,000 people laid off to free up "estimated $156 billion in capital spending" for AI.
Brutal.
https://thenextweb.com/news/oracle-layoffs-march-2026
#news #TechNews #technology #oracle #AI #WorkersRights #labot
It's a pity that I should go to X(twitter) to get #news of which #LLM currently is better to use and which tools are developed for it. None of those companies and softwares have account in #Mastodon, even open source ones such as #OpenCode .
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Minnesota Kicks Off Legal Battle With Trump Administration to Hold ICE Shooters Accountable
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With the federal government refusing to identify agents or share evidence relating to the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, the dispute has become a game of constitutional chicken: states’ rights versus federal immunity.
https://www.propublica.org/article/minnesota-trump-ice-shooting-lawsuit-alex-pretti-renee-good?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Minnesota #ICE #Trump #Law #Constitution #Lawsuit #AlexPretti #ReneeGood
Four female patients complained to the state medical commission about alleged sexual misconduct by Dr. Mark Mulholland from 2022 to 2024.
The board waited until April 2025 to file a formal statement of charges.
https://www.propublica.org/article/mark-mulholland-washington-sexual-misconduct-allegations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Washington #Health #Women #SexualAssault #Medicine #Seattle
Utah Bans Polygraph Tests for Those Reporting Sexual Assault
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A state legislator was moved to sponsor the bill — now signed into law — following a Salt Lake Tribune-ProPublica investigation that showed how polygraphs can retraumatize sexual abuse victims.
https://www.propublica.org/article/utah-polygraphs-sexual-assault-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Utah #Police #Law #SexualAssault #Abuse #MentalHealth
New from Candice Bernd: “If you’re waiving the Clean Air Act, or the Clean Water Act, or the Antiquities Act, you’re actually going after … what this religion and its artifacts, and its antiquities, and its church are truly about.” https://www.texasobserver.org/indigenous-group-sues-big-bend-border-wall/
The AAU, one of the country's largest youth sports organizations, is failing on nearly every level to adequately protect children in its care from sexual abuse, a ProPublica and Washington Post investigation found.
https://www.propublica.org/article/aau-youth-sports-sexual-abuse-failure-amateur-athletic-union?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Sports #Basketball #Children #Parenting #Family #Kids
Weekly Round-Up, 25-31 March 2026: Wicked Spot, Lady Snowblood, and Witch Hat Atelier Primer
https://www.animefeminist.com/weekly-round-up-25-31-march-2026/
#anime #witchhatatelier #yuri #lgbtq #pokemon #japan #manga #news
Trump pardoned nursing home owner Joseph Schwartz just 3 months into his sentence for a $39 million fraud scheme.
Meanwhile, families who won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against Schwartz haven’t collected a cent.
https://www.propublica.org/article/joseph-schwartz-trump-pardon-skyline-nursing-home-patients?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #Arkansas #Health #Fraud #Law #Legal #USPolitics
The federal government is charging a skyrocketing number of migrants with trespassing in military zones.
But the boundaries can be hard to pinpoint — even for investigative reporters.
https://www.propublica.org/article/military-zones-border-migrants-charges?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Immigration #Military #Defense #Border #Law #Government #Journalism
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been transforming a government that long championed vaccines into one that questions their safety.
This is what could happen over the next 25 years if shots are unavailable even to the people who want them.
http://projects.propublica.org/childhood-vaccines-deaths-modeling/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #RFKJr #Health #PublicHealth #Children #Vaccines #Data #Science #Research #Model