This is traffic control. Vandaag kwam ik er achter dat de website van Praxis kijkt waar je vandaan komt. Nu zit ik in Frankrijk en zocht een kek behangetje. Na een paar honderd afbeelding komt er van de afbeeldingen niets meer binnen.
Ik schakel de browser VPN van Firefox in, zeg dat ik in NL naar buiten wil komen. Et voila, alles werkt ineens. (prutsers)
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handwritten on back of photograph, "going North from Kingman, Arizona. Highway at left is 68 -- leading to Davis Dam at Southern tip of Nevada (45 miles away)"
WASHINGTON (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - De interne toezichthouder van de Federal Reserve heeft geen aanwijzingen gevonden voor strafbare feiten rondom de verbouwing van het hoofdkantoor van de Amerikaanse centrale bank. De inspecteur-generaal van de Fed zag ook geen wangedrag door het bestuur.
De regering van president Donald Trump greep kostenoverschrijdingen bij de 2,4 miljard dollar kostende werkzaamheden eerder aan voor een strafrechtelijk onderzoek naar de Fed. Toenmalig Fed-voorzitter Jerome Powell zag daarin een poging om de centrale bank onder druk te zetten om de rente sneller te verlagen.
In april sloot justitie in de VS het strafrechtelijk onderzoek, maar er kwam wel een onderzoek van de eigen toezichthouder. De inspecteur-generaal zegt nu niets te hebben aangetroffen wat leek op wetsovertredingen. Wel trof de waakhond tekortkomingen aan bij het verbouwingstraject. "Maar we zagen geen bestuurlijk wangedrag tijdens onze evaluatie", staat in een rapport over het onderzoek.
PARIJS (ANP/AFP) - De Franse minister van Binnenlandse Zaken Laurent Nuñez constateert naar eigen zeggen een toename van gewelddadigheden en aantallen incidenten bij de landelijke scholierenprotesten. Woensdag zijn er volgens hem zeker 356 instellingen bij betrokken geweest, achttien meer dan dinsdag.
Nuñez zei dat er 625 mensen zijn aangehouden. Dat zijn er 185 meer dan dinsdag. Hij sprak zijn zorg uit over het toenemende geweld gericht tegen politieagenten en hulpverleners. Ook worden meer vernielingen aangericht volgens de minister. De beweging breidt zich volgens hem uit met "aanzienlijk meer geweld". Sinds vrijdag zijn een honderdtal agenten gewond geraakt.
Afgelopen week begonnen voornamelijk in Parijs en omgeving rumoerige scholierenacties uit protest tegen onder meer het tekort aan leraren, chaotische lesroosters en gebrekkige of ontbrekende voorzieningen op vaak overbevolkte middelbare scholen. Dinsdag was er een groot landelijk protest met blokkades van onderwijsinstellingen en veel relletjes.
A lawyer used ChatGPT to generate briefs that included completely made-up witnesses and testimony while representing a man accused of shooting his wife. When he was caught by the judges, the lawyer blamed it on his own “stupidity.”
“It's little comfort to know that my stupidity is what brings us together this afternoon,” New Mexico attorney Stephen D. Aarons said in a hearing last month before five judges. He “assumed” ChatGPT would generate a “bulletproof summary of proceedings.” Instead, ChatGPT generated false testimony from “wholly fabricated witnesses,” according to an order of direct contempt from the New Mexico Supreme Court. Aarons was representing a man who was found guilty of killing his wife earlier this year; Aarons said he hadn’t told his client directly that he was caught using ChatGPT on the case because he’s currently serving life in prison.
The false testimony included a nonexistent person named Danny Stanton saying he received threats, and another made-up person, Linda Stanton, saying her husband received threats. Other false testimony from more AI-generated people in Aarons’ brief included statements “regarding the shooter’s clothing and appearance,” according to the order.
Reuters reported on the case earlier this month. "I am remorseful but hopeful that the disciplinary board takes into account it was an honest mistake," Aarons told Reuters. "It is a lesson learned for all professionals who rely upon this powerful but sometimes unstable technology."
Aarons’ reasoning for trusting ChatGPT, he said in the August hearing, was that he’d heard of doctors using AI for medical research.
“So, Council, do you watch the news? Do you listen to the radio? Do you read anything about what's going on in the world?” one of the judges asked Aarons. “Because the problem with lawyers relying on AI hallucinations is an above-the-fold story every single day.”
The court documents were first spotted by Rob Freund on X.
Lawyers getting caught using AI and submitting errors to the court has been a big problem for years, and the judge is right: It’d be very hard to avoid hearing about this pattern of “stupidity” unless you were living under a rock. There has been case after case after case showing attorneys failing their clients by submitting error-riddled AI-generated documents in their filings, and are the definition of “you had one job:” in the case of AI-brained lawyers, they can’t seem to resist taking shortcuts regardless of how risky it is for their own careers and their clients lives.
Like in Aaron’s case, we sometimes get to hear and see judges go off on attorneys for this behavior. In May, judges in the Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division let several lawyers have it for more than 20 minutes about their AI use and laziness, and called their failures “striking, concerning, disappointing, and saddening.” And it’s not just lawyers anymore; court reporters are submitting AI-generated errors, too.
“So, either you buried your head in the sand. And that's a choice to do that. An intentional choice to be uninformed,” the judge continued to Aarons. “Or, you took a gamble. And neither of those are consistent with the code conduct. So I'm really struggling with your response, saying, ‘Well, I didn't understand. I didn't know about hallucinations.’ My 13-year-old nephew knows about hallucinations. My 75-year-old stepmother knows about hallucinations. So, either you made a decision not to be aware of what's happening in the world in using this tool appropriately, which is a willful choice. Or you decided to roll the dice.”
At the end of the hearing, Aarons admits that he hasn’t told his client directly about this mess, saying he’d only talked to his family members so far, telling them there was “a problem with the brief.” He said his client is hard to reach because he speaks Spanish and is in prison.
“So you didn't say, ‘I relied on ChatGPT, and it submitted lies to the court, and the court is mad at me, and now there's a hearing.’ I'm guessing you didn't tell your client’s family members that,” a judge asked Aarons.
“I didn't talk about ChatGPT. I just said there was a problem with a brief that I filed,” Aarons said.
According to the order, the judges found Aarons to be in direct contempt of court, referred him to the Disciplinary Board for further consideration, and barred from appearing before the court pending the outcome of the board’s investigation. They also threw him off the case in question and assigned a public defender to his former client.
While he waits for the board to decide what to do with him, Aarons was sanctioned $5,000, which he must pay to the State Bar of New Mexico Client Protection Fund.
Sergiy Galyonkin has added a photo to the pool:
Vintage tractors and farm machinery beneath wooden beams at Historic Hokkaido Village in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
Rantzen announced lung cancer diagnosis in 2023 and became a vocal assisted dying campaigner
Esther Rantzen, the Bafta-winning TV presenter and founder of ChildLine, has died aged 86.
She announced a diagnosis of stage four lung cancer in 2023, and became a vocal campaigner to change the law around assisted dying. In September 2026, she announced she had to abandon plans to end her life in Swiss clinic Dignitas, due to being too physically frail.
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