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Far-right leader echoes ally Donald Trump and says operations to ‘track down illegal immigrants’ should begin this week, amid earthquake aftermath

Colombia’s far-right president, Abelardo de la Espriella, has announced a crackdown on immigrants, ordering authorities to detain and deport people who are in the country irregularly or have committed crimes.

In office for just over two weeks, the millionaire former lawyer made the announcement on Sunday as the country continued to grapple with the aftermath of a 7.4-magnitude earthquake on 10 August that killed more than 300 people and destroyed more than 30,000 homes.

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Sonam Wangchuk’s fast was spark that drove youth protest movement – and now he wants to cleanse the political system

For 26 days, India watched as Sonam Wangchuk wasted away. His hunger strike, held in solidarity with India’s “Cockroach” youth protest movement, would prove to be one of the most politically consequential fasts held in the country’s modern history.

Many in the country view the gruelling fast, which began on 28 June, as the crucial spark that helped propel the Cockroach movement into one of the most formidable challenges to the government of prime minister, Narendra Modi, in more than a decade.

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When Anthropic disclosed earlier this month that it would be applying a statistical word-choice watermark to its Claude text output, the company noted that at least 190 AI providers have agreed to abide by Europe's AI transparency rules. One such company is Microsoft, which has been applying its own form of watermarking to images created with the assistance of AI in its Paint and Photos applications for Windows. The EU's Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-generated Content requires that signatories mark content created with the help of AI in a machine-readable format and that associated metadata indicates at least whether content has been manipulated by AI, or entirely created by it. The regulation creates an obligation but does not specify the method of compliance, so signatories can employ whatever technology best achieves the goals [PDF] of "effectiveness, interoperability, robustness, and reliability." Microsoft has gone beyond minimum requirements in an effort to address AI safety concerns. The EU rules encourage, but do not demand, the inclusion of metadata that does more than answer whether creators used AI to produce content. Redmond, as one of the founders of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), has chosen to embed AI-assisted images in Paint and Photos with a globally unique identifier (GUID) linked to the prompt that created the image. Xusheng Li, a software developer at Vector 35, recently published an analysis of Microsoft's approach, which the Windows biz previously disclosed in the Paint and Photos documentation but did not detail. "Microsoft Paint and Photos embed a server-issued GUID as an invisible watermark in locally generated AI images," Li explained in a LinkedIn post. "Your prompt is sent to Microsoft for moderation, and the returned GUID is encoded into the pixels." Li notes that the invisible GUID watermark – a 16-byte integer – is distinct from the visible watermark option that Microsoft provides to users of its Paint software and Microsoft 365 AI features. If Microsoft associates each prompt with the user who sent it, then the company could in theory identify users by referring to the watermark in an image. Long ago, manufacturers of laser printers implemented this sort of tracking and the practice alarmed privacy advocates when it came to light. "Microsoft receives and moderates the prompt, then issues the unique GUID that Paint embeds into the locally generated image," Li said. "Paint also sends the previous promptGenerationId as lastPromptGenerationId with its next moderation request, allowing successive requests to be linked explicitly." Li argues that while Microsoft has disclosed its AI safety measures, it hasn't sufficiently clarified that its C2PA manifest contains a GUID linked to users' AI image prompts. Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Other companies are thinking along similar lines. Meta last month said it is working on its own watermarking technology called Content Seal. And OpenAI has been applying Google DeepMind's SynthID and C2PA metadata to its images. Those seeking to avoid having a tracking number embedded in their AI-generated images may want to explore running an open weight model like Stable Diffusion and running on-device open-source tools. ®

The SEC is investigating the near-collapse of AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness, sending subpoenas to major Wall Street banks for details about the fund's trades, borrowing, and communications with lenders. The fund, founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, managed over $30 billion and borrowed tens of billions more before leveraged bets unraveled, forcing it to sell most of its stock portfolio to Citadel at a discount. The New York Times reports: The subpoenas asked for details on the timing of Situational Awareness's trades and for its communications with lenders about the money it was borrowing, also known as "leverage," two of those people said. The subpoenas additionally warned the banks to preserve any information regarding the San Francisco hedge fund. The S.E.C. oversees financial markets with an eye toward protecting small investors, and has brought civil cases regularly against investment firms that produced large losses. Any investigation into Situational Awareness would be at its earliest stages, and it's no guarantee that it would lead to fines or other punishment. The hedge fund has not been accused of wrongdoing.

[...] Situational Awareness had a fast rise and an even quicker retreat. Founded just two years ago by Leopold Aschenbrenner, a former researcher at OpenAI, it rode the A.I. boom to soaring investment returns. To achieve those results, however, the fund relied on heavy borrowing, as well as complicated and expensive financial instruments that magnify gains -- and losses. The latter piled up quickly last month when the stock prices of publicly traded, high-flying A.I. companies dipped. At the same time, shares in more traditional technology companies -- which the hedge fund had been betting against -- rose, compounding the problem. Situational Awareness was forced into a fire sale. It wound up selling most of its stock portfolio to a rival, Citadel, at a discount.

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De zoon van vrienden doet rij-examen als plots, op de snelweg, onverwacht een kat over de weg rent. Hij is dol op katten, maar in de schrik remt hij niet, maar geeft hij juist…

Als je wel zin hebt om te sudokuen, maar het liever bij een gridje van 5x5 houdt.

Een Precies Vier bestaat uit 16 woorden, begrippen of namen, die moeten worden verdeeld in precies vier groepen van vier. Er is telkens maar één oplossing mogelijk. Welke woorden vormen een connectie?

Je krijgt een paar cijfers cadeau, maar het grid van 9x9 moet foutloos ingevuld worden.

Wie of wat staat er midden in het nieuws? Een actuele puzzel, die makkelijker is als je het nieuws een beetje volgt.