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Gotanji Beach 琴弾地海水浴場
Naoshima, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
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Can talking about their problems help men forge closer relationships – or is there another way? Josh Halliday reports
Josh Halliday is 37, and not short of friends. There are his two closest mates, and then the big group who meet up for weekends away. But recently the Guardian’s north of England editor has noticed something.
“My relationship with my two closest friends, who I’ve been friends with now for 15-16 years, has been fairly surface level, to be honest – 90% of our chat is probably football-related, always with a drink in hand. If you asked me to name their immediate family, I wouldn’t be able to do it. And I think that’s quite shocking really.”
Continue reading...Turnout in Gorton and Denton byelection over 47%, with 36,903 verified votes cast as Greens, Reform and Labour contest the seat
Labour sources have told the Press Association: “Early signs at the count indicate the Greens have been able to turn out support in a way they wouldn’t be able to replicate at a general election.”
Prof Will Jennings, of the University of Southampton, earlier said the contest was too close to call and that in Britain’s new fragmented politics “anything can happen”. He said a Labour defeat would be “terminal” for No 10’s strategy to try to appeal to right-leaning voters, which has alienated its core progressive supporters.
Continue reading...The former US secretary of state urged Republicans to question Donald Trump ‘directly under oath’ about his ties with the convicted sex offender
Hillary Clinton appeared before a congressional committee investigating her supposed links to Jeffrey Epstein – and accused its Republican members of targeting her in a bid to distract from Donald Trump’s involvement with the convicted sex offender.
The former US secretary of state answered questions for hours during a closed-door session on Thursday, a day before her husband, the former US president Bill Clinton, was also due to appear.
Continue reading...Lead plaintiff, now 20, says use of social media made her relationships with friends and family anxious and strained
The young woman at the heart of the landmark trial about the addictive nature of social media testified for the first time on Thursday, saying she got hooked on YouTube starting at age six and Instagram at nine. By the time she was 10, she said she had become depressed and was engaging in self-harm.
The woman, who is now 20 and known by her initials KGM, is the lead plaintiff in an expansive lawsuit against YouTube and Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook. The crux of the case alleges social media companies intentionally create addictive products, leading to mental health issues in young people.
Continue reading...The court sentenced the four defendants to lengthy jail sentences, suspended pending appeal. Although they each face 126 years, only eight would be typically served which is the upper limit for misdemeanors. One in three of the dozens of figures targeted had also been under legal surveillance by Greece's intelligence services (EYP). Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who had placed EYP directly under his supervision, called it a scandal, but no government officials have been charged in court and critics accuse the government of trying to cover up the truth.
The case dates back to the summer of 2022, when the current head of Greek Socialist party Pasok, Nikos Androulakis - then an MEP - was informed by the European Parliament's IT experts that he had received a malicious text message containing a link. Predator spyware, marketed by the Athens-based Israeli company Intellexa, can get access to a device's messages, camera, and microphone. Its use was illegal in Greece at that time but a new law passed in 2022 has since legalised state security use of surveillance software under strict conditions. Androulakis also discovered that he had been tracked for "national security reasons" by Greece's intelligence services. The scandal has since escalated into a debate over democratic accountability in Greece.
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The legislation also promises to centralize the age check through the OS, rather than mandating that each app enforce their own age-verification mechanism, which can involve scanning the user's official ID, thus raising privacy and security concerns. The bill also forbids the sharing of the age-bracket data for any other purpose. But it looks like it's easy to bypass the age check proposed by SB26-051. The legislation itself doesn't mention any state ID check to verify the owner's age. In addition, the bill doesn't seem to cover websites, only apps and app stores. The report notes that the legislation was based on California's bill AB 1043, which was passed last year and expected to take effect January 1, 2027.
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AI upstart won’t remove Claude’s guardrails to stay onside with Dept. of War
Anthropic has fired back at the US Department of War, arguing that it can’t agree to Uncle Sam’s contract demand to remove guardrails on its AI in part because the tech can’t be trusted not to harm American civilians and warfighters.…
Neve has been the leading brand in Brazilian bathrooms for over 50 years. But in a "Neve-fied" market, where all brands mimic the same codes, it was time to stand out from the competition. To do that, we were invited to rethink the brand's positioning and identity, bringing a fresh perspective.
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Reminiscing my 9 day trip down the notorious Franklin River. We had plenty of water! Shot on film then scanned hardcopy.
Phil Kingsbury - Thanks for 4.8 million views! has added a photo to the pool:
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Olympus E-P3
OLYMPUS M.9-18mm F4.0-5.6
f/10.0 - 9.0 mm - 1/400 - ISO 400