DOD Awards AI Contractor to Monitor ‘Viral Disinformation’

The Department of Defense has awarded a contract to a New York-based artificial intelligence company Accrete AI to deploy software that can “predict” and counteract “disinformation” on social media platforms in real time.[#item_full_content]

Inmates ‘Refuse’ to Go to Hot Cells; Prison Locks Down

A Minnesota prison was placed on emergency lockdown after about 100 inmates in one housing unit facing dangerously high temperatures would not return to their cells Sunday in what one former inmate there called an act of “self-preservation.”[#item_full_content]

Ukraine defense minister Oleksii Reznikov to be replaced by Rustem Umerov: Zelenskyy

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Sunday that defense minister Oleksii Reznikov will be replaced by a different official this week. Reznikov’s replacement will be Rustem Umerov, a politician of Crimean Tatar descent. The Ukrainian president announced the news on Telegram, noting that the new leadership change was necessary after going through “more than 550 […]

Inmates ‘Refuse’ to Go to Hot Cells; Prison Locks Down

A Minnesota prison was placed on emergency lockdown after about 100 inmates in one housing unit facing dangerously high temperatures would not return to their cells Sunday in what one former inmate there called an act of “self-preservation.”

South Africa: No Evidence Arms Shipped to Russia

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday that an independent inquiry has found no evidence that a Russian ship had collected weapons from the country late last year destined for Russia.[#item_full_content]