War Crime Prosecutions Enter a New Digital Age
A custom platform developed by SITU Research aided the International Criminal Court’s prosecution in a war crimes trial for the first time. It could change how justice is enacted on an international scale. ⌘ Read more

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Mozilla integrating AI chatbots into Firefox
Mozilla has announced it’s adding easy access to tool like ChatGPT, Gemini, and so to Firefox. Whether it’s a local or a cloud-based model, if you want to use AI, we think you should have the freedom to use (or not use) the tools that best suit your needs. With that in mind, this week, we will launch an opt-in experiment offering access to preferred AI services in Nightly for improved productivity as you browse. Instead of juggling between ta … ⌘ Read more

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The Secret Telegram Channels Providing Refuge for LGBTQ+ People in Russia
In March, Russia named the “LGBT movement” an extremist organization. In response, activists, human rights groups, and others have used Telegram for support—and even to find resources to leave the country. ⌘ Read more

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Editor’s Note — SR Needs Some Help
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: Readers –

I am going to run this one last day because it is not getting much of a response. SR needs some help. I have been doing this every day for 33 years without pay, and Beth Alexander, SR’s webmaster, does her part for a fraction of what she ought to be paid. I don’t permit advertising because I don’t have time to research whether an advertiser is a company that fosters wellbeing. So there is … ⌘ Read more

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Born from the tragedy of gun violence, this program teaches children how to stop a wound from bleeding out
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, MD,    -

_Stephan: This morning when I was doing my first search through media for SR I came across this article, about teaching elementary school children how to to deal with gun wounds to stop someone from bleeding out. As I was reading the article I also saw on CNN a video on the same thing. I … ⌘ Read more

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The surgeon general declared gun violence a public health crisis. What does that do?
Rachel Treisman,  Staff Writer  -  npr

Stephan: Finally, someone in a position of authority speaks the truth about the gun violence in this country. Now we will see whether the Surgeon General is more powerful than the weapons corporations and the NRA.

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Scoop: 16 Nobel economists see a Trump inflation bomb
Hans Nichols,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

_Stephan: To Nobel Laureate economists there is no question: Biden is who should win the election because his economics are far superior to the economics of criminal Trump. You would think anyone who spent five minutes doing an Google on the felonious Trump would know that. He went bankrupt six times. But a large segment of American voters doesn’t seem capable of comprehending the … ⌘ Read more

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How the right-wing media ‘hate virus’ spreads
Thom Hartmann,    -

Stephan: Criminal Trump and MAGAt world are stimulating White hate as a political weapon, and it is resulting in the kind of story that begins this essay. Thom Hartmann has it exactly right, I think. It is like a cancer growing in our culture, reinforced by evangelical pseudo-Christianity.

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Photo by CDC / Unsplash

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iCloud ‘Keep Downloaded’ Option Included in iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia
In iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, Apple has added a new “Keep Downloaded” option when browsing items in iCloud, allowing users to designate which files and folders should remain permanently available locally on their device.

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In previous versions of iOS and macOS, users had limited control over which files and folders were … ⌘ Read more

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