Nakasu Okabe Building II - Hakata - Fukuoka - Japan

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Nakasu Okabe Building II - Hakata - Fukuoka - Japan

Building Specifications

Structure: 9 stories above ground with 1 basement level (9F/B1), built with steel-framed reinforced concrete (SRC).

Completion Date: September 1990 (built to modern earthquake resistance standards).

Dancer in the Koenji awa odori

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Dancer in the Koenji awa odori

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Zeker drie doden door botsing op dijk Lelystad-Enkhuizen

LELYSTAD (ANP) - Zeker drie mensen zijn zaterdagavond laat om het leven gekomen door een aanrijding tussen twee auto's op de dijk tussen Lelystad en Enkhuizen. De politie meldt dat de Markerwaarddijk (N307) voorlopig dicht is.

In de beide auto's zaten in totaal acht personen. Het lijkt erop dat ze frontaal op elkaar zijn gebotst. Hoe dat kon gebeuren, is nog niet duidelijk.


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Argentina 21-27 Australia: men’s rugby union international – live

Tom Hooper scores decisive try in a messy game as Les Kiss earns biggest scalp of his early tenure.

Gordon gets us underway!

After Australia’s anthem it’s Argentina’s retort.

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Lavish spending fails to fix Tottenham’s big issue – the lack of soul and spine | Jonathan Liew

It might be too early to push the panic button but Roberto De Zerbi faces a huge task if he is to turn Spurs around

Time for Tottenham to start panicking? This is, of course, a subtle trick question. Tottenham is one of those clubs that never actually stops panicking. They panic when they concede and they panic when they score. They panic when they have the ball and they panic when someone else does. They have a coach in Roberto De Zerbi whose face evokes a state of permanent alarm, the expression of a man perpetually having a toilet door opened on him. One year they even managed to panic their way to the Europa League. For the ever-rattled Spurs fan, this club is less a treasured devotion and more a lifelong haunting, broken up by occasional panic substitutions.

You could intuit that sense of encrusted resignation pretty much from the moment Anthony Elanga’s improvised shot kissed the post and trickled over the line to give Newcastle the lead. Since beating Aston Villa 4-1 in late 2024, Tottenham have gone behind 44 times in all competitions and come back to win precisely zero of them. There is something innate and endemic here, a chronic case of Long Tottenham for which – despite the new coach, the new leadership structure and more than a third of a billion pounds in transfer fees – there remains no proven cure. Yoane Wissa’s clincher was of zero surprise to anyone.

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Chatbot Conversations Can Become Evidence in Court

The Washington Post looks "a growing number of Americans who have had their private conversations with AI chatbots made public in court," calling the chatbots "custodians of a fast-growing trove of intimate data that can be sought by law enforcement, or companies or other opponents in civil litigation."

A Washington Post review of public records and local news stories found that chatbot logs were cited in 12 court cases over the past two years. It's hard to know how often chatbot material is drawn into investigations and legal proceedings more broadly, because police, and parties in civil cases, don't have to present in court all the evidence they obtain... In some cases, AI companies have reported people on their platforms to the FBI, leading to prosecutions and at least one conviction... OpenAI has said the company uses software to scan conversations for signs of dangerous behavior and flag them to human reviewers.

If a reviewer determines a chat indicates "an imminent and credible risk of harm to others," they report the user to law enforcement, the company said in an April blog post. A spokesperson for OpenAI declined to disclose how many times the company had reported users to police.... Data released by OpenAI shows requests by government agencies and law enforcement for user data growing rapidly. In the second half of 2025, the company disclosed data from more than 80 accounts, an increase of more than four times as many over the same period the year before...

When police ask someone to open their phone during questioning or after an arrest, they often do so, allowing officers to scroll through the apps they use, [according to Michael Price, the litigation director for the Fourth Amendment Center at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers]... In general, the Fourth Amendment, which protects people against unreasonable searches and seizures of their property, provides the right to refuse a search of the contents of their phone unless police have a warrant. "The short answer is that most people consent," Price said. "They shouldn't, but they do..."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has argued that conversations with chatbots should receive special legal protections, similar to conversations between clients and their attorneys.

Special legal protections aren't recognized by courts today, the article poitns out. A financial executive who became the subject of a federal criminal investigation for fraud asked Claude about potential defense strategies, then asked a judge to disallow the conversations from the prosecution's case, according to the article. "But the judge said that protections for conversations between clients and their attorneys did not apply: Claude is not a lawyer, and the executive's attorneys did not ask him to talk to the chatbot."

The article includes quotes from three ChatGPT conversations that later turned up in court proceedings:


"I deleted a email a year ago from my yahoo account. Can yahoo still retrieve the email?"

"How f----d am i bro. What if i smahsed the s--- oitta mutlipls cars."
"My dad Said that I'm will get a settlement worth of 1million dollar."
"As AI becomes a bigger part of everyday life, its use as evidence and in trials is likely to become more prevalent," the article points out — especially with the growing popularity of agents that take actions for users.

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Ahhh, relax with the sights and sounds of the Windows 98...

Ahhh, relax with the sights and sounds of the Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator.

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Can't Resist

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