The US Senate passes the Defiance Act that would allow victims to sue over nonconsensual, sexually explicit AI-generated images, amid furor over Grok images (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
The US Senate passes the Defiance Act that would allow victims to sue over nonconsensual, sexually explicit AI-generated images, amid furor over Grok images  —  The US Senate unanimously passed legislation Tuesday that woul…

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The US FCC waives a rule that forced Verizon to unlock phones 60 days after they are activated, which could make it harder for people to switch from Verizon (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
The US FCC waives a rule that forced Verizon to unlock phones 60 days after they are activated, which could make it harder for people to switch from Verizon  —  The Federal Communications Commission is lett…

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Tourist, 55, freezes to death in -14C cold at popular waterfall after friends desperately searched for him

A TOURIST froze to death in brutal conditions at a popular waterfall after he took a detour on his way home from a night out. The 55-year-old Danish man was out in the centre of Bad Gastein, a ski town in the Gastein Valley of Austria, on Saturday…

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