Chatham-Kent police have temporarily suspended their partnership with the internationally renowned Crime Stoppers program. The move comes in response to a widespread data breach that compromised more 1.5 million crime-fighting tips in Canada – including more than 13,000 in Chatham-Kent. According to a media statement, CKPS recognizes the concern the breach may cause for individuals […]

TRELEW, Argentina (AP) — Data centers have become one of the most polarizing issues in the world. Argentina’s president wants to lure as many of them as he can get. As residents and policymakers in the United States and Europe fight the facilities that power artificial intelligence, President Javier Milei is pitching Argentina as a […]

With the Chatham-Kent Crime Stoppers program temporarily suspended because of a national security breach, the Chatham-Kent Police Service has created a new tip line for public reports. Residents who want to report criminal activity or public safety concerns can now contact the Chatham-Kent Police Service Tip Line directly at 1-888-236-0993. This line connects tipsters directly […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee National Guard troops in Memphis last summer trained their handguns on a man as he lay dying on a sidewalk after a guard member shot him in the back, video released Monday by county prosecutors shows. A Memphis police officer can be heard in the footage from an officer’s body […]

Artificial intelligence company OpenAI has filed a legal challenge against an order by British Columbia’s Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner to produce documents related to the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge. A statement from the independent privacy watchdog said the California-based company had requested a judicial review in B.C. Supreme Court, challenging the […]

Alberta RCMP are warning people not to hand over personal information after scammers posed as police officers and faked phone numbers to look like they were calling from local detachments. The warning came Friday. Police say they received several reports over Thursday from people who received the fake calls. The callers claimed to be RCMP […]

El Paso Matters filed a lawsuit Thursday asking a state judge to lift a blanket of near-total secrecy on records in the 2019 Walmart mass shooting held by El Paso police and prosecutors. The petition seeks a writ of mandamus, an order from a judge to a government official to perform a mandatory legal duty […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Conservative activists James O’Keefe and Cam Higby were charged Wednesday with unlawful voting and identity theft after a Minnesota prosecutor said they gave false names to poll workers during the state’s primary election. The men recorded the exchanges for a video to expose what they say are vulnerabilities in the state’s voting […]

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — New York is enacting farther-reaching restrictions on companion chatbot behavior, as states increasingly move to protect children who use artificial intelligence, regulate how employers deploy AI systems and push developers to prevent an AI-caused catastrophe. Legislation signed Wednesday by Gov. Kathy Hochul outlines a dozen definitions of “unsafe AI companion features” […]

One of the seven Cornell University students disciplined in connection with an alleged 2024 gang rape at a fraternity house returned to campus this fall after a three-semester suspension and was placed in a co-ed dorm with a roommate who had no idea about his past, according to a professor familiar with the housing arrangement. […]

The coroner’s report on 70-year old Robert Hénault’s death weeks after a cop shot him was inconclusive.  Without a detailed record of the encounter with Montreal police, coroner Paul Dionne couldn’t form a clear opinion, so he recommended that the police wear body cameras.  That 2015 decision sparked the first embers of over a decade […]

In one alarming announcement after another, artificial intelligence companies in recent months have shared examples of their technology acting in ways that appeared to evade instructions from humans. The episodes have highlighted the vulnerabilities in AI security and raised questions over how the fast-growing technology can be developed safely as its usage becomes more widespread […]