(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Overnight News Digest: AI and you [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-30 C/NET Those waiting to see what the Biden administration is going to say about AI regulation can expect a very long read on Monday. That's when the White House is due to release its AI executive order -- just two days before the AI Safety Summit, an international gathering that's being held in Britain, according to the Washington Post. "The sweeping order would leverage the US government's role as a top technology customer by requiring advanced AI models to undergo assessments before they can be used by federal workers," the Post reported, citing unnamed sources. "Recent rapid advances in artificial intelligence have raised the stakes, as the launch of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools has accelerated a global movement to regulate US tech giants. Policymakers around the world are increasingly worried that AI could supercharge long-running concerns about tech's impact on jobs, surveillance and democracy, especially ahead of a critical year for elections around the globe." While US lawmakers are still working to develop bipartisan legislation on the use of AI, the European Union is expected to offer up its EU AI Act to protect consumers by year's end. This is an open thread where everyone is welcome, especially night owls and early birds, to share and discuss the happenings of the day. Please feel free to share your articles and stories in the comments. KYIV Independent Over the past week, the Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ), a non-governmental organization founded by Amal and George Clooney, filed three cases with German federal prosecutors to investigate crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine. Submitted on Oct. 26, the cases rely on absolute universal jurisdiction in Germany, which allows the country to open investigations for international crimes – including genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity – committed outside its borders. The CFJ is representing 16 survivors and families of victims of three alleged crimes, including an indiscriminate missile attack on a resort in Odesa Oblast, executions in Kharkiv Oblast last year, and crimes against humanity in Kyiv Oblast during Russian occupation. BBC Hamas gunmen launched an unprecedented assault on Israel from the Gaza Strip on 7 October, killing more than 1,400 people and taking at least 239 hostages. Since then, Israel has been carrying out retaliatory strikes on Gaza, in which more than 8,000 people have been killed, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. Israel has also sent troops and tanks into the territory. What is Israel's action in Gaza? Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said ground forces had gone into Gaza to "dismantle" Hamas and bring hostages home. On Monday the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its troops had "killed dozens of terrorists who barricaded themselves in buildings and tunnels, and attempted to attack the troops". The IDF said it had continued to strike hundreds of Hamas targets from the air. BBC The suspect behind a string of deadly shootings in Maine was turned away by a local firearms store three months before he opened fire. Robert Card was refused a silencer for a firearm after he admitted that he was committed to a mental health facility, a local store owner said. Card was found dead on Friday, ending a 48-hour manhunt. The gunman had opened fire at a bar and a bowling alley on Wednesday in the city of Lewiston, killing 18. More than a dozen people were also injured in the shooting. Since then, details have emerged about Card, a 40-year-old army reservist with a history of mental illness and who had allegedly made violent threats in the past. NPR A little-known provision of the U.S. Constitution is at the center of a growing debate about former President Donald Trump's eligibility for the 2024 election, with a number of Trump opponents claiming it should prevent him from appearing on ballots next year. The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, following the Civil War, and its Section 3 essentially disqualifies from office anyone who engaged in "insurrection or rebellion" against the U.S. It was designed to prevent former Confederate leaders from serving in Congress, and got the most use in the decade or so after the war, says James Gardner, a professor at the University at Buffalo School of Law who specializes in constitutional and election law. NPR A jarring cut to a god's eye view of an indigenous man writhing on a floor, foaming at the mouth, appears early on in Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon. It's soon followed by the melancholic voice-over of Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone), a wealthy Osage Nation woman from oil-rich Fairfax, Okla., in the early 20th century, injected into the story like a sobering medicinal shot. "John Whitehair, age 23. No investigation," she intones, as black and white "footage" shows someone we assume to be Whitehair running happily on a football field. Then again, but differently, in montage: She recites other names and other ages of Osage people in her community who have been found dead, all meeting the same postmortem fate of "no investigation." The Guardian Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer have issued a joint statement, paying tribute to their Friends co-star Matthew Perry, who died on Saturday aged 54. “We are all so utterly devastated by the loss of Matthew,” the five actors said in their statement. “We were more than just castmates. We are a family. There is so much to say, but right now we’re going to take a moment to grieve and process this unfathomable loss. In time we will say more, as and when we are able. For now, our thoughts and our love are with Matty’s family, his friends, and everyone who loved him around the world.” Perry, who was best known for his performance as sarcastic and lovable Chandler Bing on the hit sitcom, was found dead in his hot tub at his Los Angeles home, law enforcement sources told media on Saturday night. The Guardian In the early hours of 28 October 1967, the co-founder of the Black Panther party, Huey Newton, was pulled over by police as he was driving along Seventh Street in West Oakland, California. A scuffle ensued and shots rang out, puncturing Newton’s abdomen, killing a police officer, John Frey, and wounding another. All bullets found at the scene were police-issued, yet Newton was arrested as he was being treated for gunshot wounds in hospital, and sent to jail. His prosecution and 1968 trial sparked the “Free Huey” protests that spread across the country, transforming the Panthers into a nationwide Black power organization demanding an end to police brutality, equality in housing and employment, and an economic revolution. After three trials, two of them ending in hung juries, prosecutors gave up and dropped all charges. By then, the Black Panther party was indisputably on the map. Fifty-six years later, in the exact same spot on Seventh Street where the shootout occurred, a new Black Panther is emerging. Where blood once stained the sidewalk, shiny steel and tinted glass now dominates the block as an $80m business and affordable housing project enters its final months of development. The Guardian The United Auto Workers’ six-week strike against the US’s three largest automakers appeared to be coming to an end on Monday as the union brokered a deal with General Motors. The agreement follows on the heels of deals with Ford and Stellantis, brokered in the past few days, effectively ending the first simultaneous strike against the three Detroit automakers. The UAW strike has been the largest by car workers in decades, and has proved an unusual political flashpoint, with Donald Trump and Joe Biden supporting workers over the car companies. Biden lauded the reported agreement reached with GM. “I think it’s great,” said Biden, who has touted himself as pro-union. Reuters CARACAS, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Venezuela's Supreme Justice Tribunal said on Monday it has suspended the results of an opposition presidential primary that took place this month, despite an electoral deal between the government and the opposition that allows each side to choose its candidate. The ruling could risk the wrath of the United States, which this month rolled back some oil and gas industry and bond trading sanctions in exchange for the electoral deal. Members of the organizing commission were meeting with prosecutors on Monday for interviews related to the case, the commission said on social media. The opposition and the primary's winner Maria Corina Machado have insisted repeatedly the Oct. 22 vote was transparent and fair. The government has decried alleged fraud since the day of the vote, which was organized without state help and which attracted more than 2.3 million voters. Al Jazeera There is growing fear in Lebanon that fighting between the armed group Hezbollah and Israel could spiral out of control, even as many residents sympathise with the Palestinians under bombardment in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war. In recent days, the Lebanese armed group and Israel have launched attacks deeper into each other’s territory, an escalation from previous skirmishes confined to the Israel-Lebanon border region. The attacks mainly target military outposts and fighters, although there have been a handful of civilian casualties. Most Lebanese villages in the crossfire have been emptied of residents, with many fleeing to Hezbollah’s stronghold in the suburbs of the capital Beirut. That area remains safe, for now. Al Jazeera Washington, DC – In a stunning moment during the 2016 United States presidential race, Senator Bernie Sanders called out his then-rival Hillary Clinton for failing to mention Palestinian rights in a speech she delivered to a pro-Israel lobby group. Standing on stage in a nationally televised primary debate, Sanders highlighted the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza and criticised the unconditional support that the Israeli government — under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — receives from Washington. [...] But flash forward seven years, and Sanders is now drawing ire from many of his supporters who feel let down by his current stance towards the Israel-Hamas war. As the Israeli military offensive in Gaza intensifies, killing thousands of children and levelling entire neighbourhoods, Sanders has not called for a ceasefire. Because of his reputation as an anti-war voice, critics say he is uniquely positioned to amplify demands for ending the hostilities in Gaza. “At a time when Washington is lining up behind those, including the president, who are beating the drums of war, we need leaders with the courage and the legacy of anti-war activism to break that consensus and say all human life is precious by demanding a ceasefire,” said Eva Borgwardt, political director at IfNotNow, a progressive Jewish group. “If anyone can do that in the Senate, it is Senator Sanders.” Deutsche Welle Russia on Monday accused Ukraine of fomenting an anti-Israel riot that broke out at an airport in the southwestern region of Dagestan. "The criminal Kyiv regime played a direct and key role in carrying out the latest destructive act," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said in a statement. Hundreds of rioters, most of them young men, broke through barriers at the Makhachkala airportlate on Sunday, looking for Jewish passengers arriving on a flight from the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. Video footage showed many charging onto the runway, waving Palestinian flags and shouting "Allahu Akbar" or "God is Greatest." Some of the group tried to overturn a police car. At least 20 people were injured in the unrest. Russian police said they arrested 60 people. CNN Leon Cooperman, the hedge fund billionaire who has famously clashed with Sen. Elizabeth Warren over her proposed wealth tax, is cautioning voters against returning Donald Trump to the White House. “It would be terrible for the country if Donald Trump were reelected,” Cooperman told CNN in a phone interview late last week. “He’s a divisive human being who belongs in jail.” It’s rare for a Wall Street figure to make such critical comments about Trump, at least publicly. Cooperman, in the past, has donated to mostly Republicans and forcefully battled with Warren over her proposed Ultra-Millionaire Tax. But the billionaire has previously said he voted for Joe Biden in 2020 “very reluctantly.” CNN The family of a Mississippi man who was fatally struck by a Jackson Police Department cruiser in March – but who only found out about it six months later, after he had been buried – want his body exhumed and independently autopsied, and for the Department of Justice to investigate. Dexter Wade, 37, was reported missing by his mother on March 14 but she did not receive word that he was deceased until August 24. The Jackson Police Department, who confirmed that Wade was struck by a department vehicle, claimed there was no ill-intent in delaying the next-of-kin notification. “While this is a very tragic and unfortunate accident, our investigation found no malicious intent by any Jackson police staff,” the City of Jackson said in a statement to CNN. USA Today Update: This story has been updated with information from a Monday afternoon press conference Law enforcement in Colorado is investigating after they said a "heavily armed" man was found dead inside an amusement park over the weekend "wearing body armor" with "multiple improvised explosive devices" on him. The Garfield County Sheriff's Office reported that Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park employees notified officials the body of the 20-year-old man was found Saturday morning, prior to the park opening. The park is located in Glenwood Springs, a resort city in the Rocky Mountains surrounded by the White River National Forest. The crew of the Overnight News Digest consists of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, jeremybloom, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Rise above the swamp, Besame and jck. 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