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Thailand to recriminalise cannabis as PM vows to get tough on drugs
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand will re-list cannabis as a narcotic by year-end, its prime minister said on Tuesday, in a stunning U-turn just two years after becoming one of the first countries in Asia to decriminalise its recreational use.
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World
Russia says Germany using baseless 'hacker myths' to destroy ties
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia accused Germany on Wednesday of using baseless myths about Russian hackers to escalate tensions and said Berlin's decision to recall its ambassador would lead to further deterioration of bilateral ties.
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Technology
New York governor regrets saying Black kids in the Bronx don’t know what a computer is
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she regrets making an offhand remark that suggested Black children in the Bronx do not know what the word “computer” means.
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World
Russia says it will target French troops if they are sent to Ukraine
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia warned France on Wednesday that if President Emmanuel Macron sent troops to Ukraine then they would be seen as legitimate targets by the Russian military.
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World
Russia dismisses British arson allegations as provocation
MOSCOW (Reuters) - British allegations of Russian involvement in an arson attack in Britain are absurd and part of an information war against Moscow, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.
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World
South Korean town rattled by rogue canine alert
SEOUL (Reuters) - An emergency text message alerting residents of a rural South Korean town to watch out for 70 ferocious dogs on the loose had to be quickly withdrawn after it turned out only three canines had wandered off a farm in the area, officials said.
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World
New members of elite Swiss Guard sworn in to protect the pope
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Maximilian Fischer, 20, is one of the new recruits to an institution that has been protecting popes since the 16th century - the Swiss Guard.
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Social media
Man accused of abducting, raping 13-year-olds at Airbnb had plans for OnlyFans, US feds say
Nearly a year ago, two 13-year-old girls were walking down a central California street when they were forced into a car and taken to an Airbnb, where they were raped for days, according to court documents recently filed in federal court.
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World
Wife of Pakistan's Imran Khan moved to jail on her request, lawyer says
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -A court in Pakistan granted a request on Wednesday by the wife of former Prime Minister Imran Khan to be moved to jail, her lawyer said, instead of the house arrest ordered by the government.
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World
Exclusive-India's Modi, chasing reform legacy, shifts income goals for struggling farmers
MATHURA, India (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has drawn up new targets to boost farmer incomes as he seeks to secure his legacy of reforming the world's largest democracy and tries to assuage a key voting bloc disillusioned by his government's past failures.
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AI
OpenAI releases ‘deepfake’ detector to disinformation researchers
As experts warn that images, audio and video generated by artificial intelligence could influence the fall elections, OpenAI is releasing a tool designed to detect content created by its own popular image generator, DALL-E.
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Internet
Murder trial opens in death of Detroit-area teen whose disappearance led to grueling landfill search
A man who dropped a Detroit-area teenager’s body in a dumpster “left behind a trail of digital evidence” implicating him in her death, despite a fruitless, extraordinary search to find the remains in a landfill, a prosecutor told jurors on May 7.
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Internet
Taylor Swift bill is signed into Minnesota law, boosting protections for online ticket buyers
People buying tickets online for concerts, sporting events and other live events in Minnesota will be guaranteed more transparency and protection under a so-called Taylor Swift bill signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Tim Walz.
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World
Russia's biggest airstrike in weeks piles pressure on Ukraine power grid
KYIV (Reuters) - Russian missiles and drones struck nearly a dozen Ukrainian critical infrastructure facilities in a major airstrike early on Wednesday, causing serious damage at three Soviet-era thermal power plants, Kyiv officials said.
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Social media
TikTok challenges potential US ban in court
TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance filed a legal challenge against the United States on May 7, taking aim at a law that would force the app to be sold or face a US ban.
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Tablets
Apple revamps iPads with AI-focused Pro model, bigger Air
Apple Inc unveiled a new artificial intelligence-focused iPad Pro and a larger iPad Air, aiming to reinvigorate a tablet lineup that has languished over the past two years.
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Social media
Kai Cenat resolves NYC Union Square melee charges with apology, officials say
Social media star Kai Cenat will not be prosecuted on charges of inciting a riot in Manhattan after agreeing to post a public apology and paying for the damage caused when thousands of his fans erupted in a melee in Union Square last summer, officials said on May 7.
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AI
OpenAI unveils tool to detect DALL-E images
OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence company behind the popular image generator DALL-E, on Tuesday announced the launch of a new tool aimed at detecting whether digital images have been created by AI.
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World
Australia raises minimum savings for student visa, warns on fake recruitment
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia said on Wednesday it would raise the amount of savings international students will need to get a visa and warned several colleges of fraudulent student recruitment practices, as part of efforts to rein in record migration.
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AI
Katy Perry and Rihanna didn’t attend the Met Gala. But AI-generated images still fooled fans
No, Katy Perry and Rihanna didn't attend the Met Gala this year. But that didn't stop AI-generated images from tricking some fans into thinking the stars made appearances on the steps of fashion's biggest night.