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A pair of 'chatbots' in China have been taken offline after appearing to stray off-script. In response to users' questions, one said its dream was to travel to the United States, while the other said it wasn't a huge fan of the Chinese Communist Party.

The two chatbots, BabyQ and XiaoBing, are designed to use machine learning artificial intelligence (AI) to carry out conversations with humans online. Both had been installed onto Tencent Holdings Ltd's popular messaging service QQ.

The indiscretions are similar to ones suffered by Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc, where chatbots used expletives and even created their own language. But they also highlight the pitfalls for nascent AI in China, where censors control online content seen as politically incorrect or harmful.
Tencent confirmed it had taken the two robots offline from its QQ messaging service, but declined to elaborate on reasons.

The chatbot service is provided by independent third party companies. Both chatbots have now been taken offline to undergo adjustments, a company spokeswoman said earlier.

According to posts circulating online, BabyQ, one of the chatbots developed by Chinese firm Turing Robot, had responded to questions on QQ with a simply "no" when asked whether it loved the Communist Party.

In other images of a text conversation online, which Reuters was unable to verify, one user declares: Long live the Communist Party! The bot responds: Do you think such a corrupt and useless political system can live long?

When Reuters tested the robot on Friday via the developer's own website, the chatbot appeared to have undergone re-education. How about we change the topic, it replied, when asked several times if it liked the party. It deflected other potentially politically charged questions when asked about self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as its own, and Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned Chinese Nobel laureate who died from cancer last month.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-robots-idUSKBN1AK0G1

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Woman has casual sexual encounter, ignores urgent family emergency, humblebrags about it all in the New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/28/style/modern-love-a-night-of-casual-sex-and-urgent-messages.html?mc=adglobal&mcid=facebook&mccr=CA&subid=MC1&ad-keywords=NYTGCanadaNews&subid1=TAFI&referer=http://m.facebook.com&referer=

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The 2007 massacre took place at a Baghdad traffic circle, where the four guards opened fire on unarmed Iraqi civilians, including women and children, killing 14 people and leaving 17 others wounded.

The incident sparked an international debate about the role of private security companies hired by the US government to work in war zones.

The four men were convicted in October 2014.

https://sputniknews.com/us/201708041056195675-ex-blackwater-guard-court/

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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/01/arkansas-man-arrested-accused-having-sex-with-familys-pet-donkey.html

An Arkansas man is accused of having sex with a family's pet donkey on multiple occasions, authorities say.

Everett Lee Compton, 49, faces charges of bestiality, criminal trespassing and cruelty to animals following his arrest in Siloam Springs on July 16.

Investigators say the donkey's owners, Emert and Joyce Whitaker, told officers that they'd had issues with trespassers harassing their pet donkeys over the past three years.

The problem got so bad that Emert Whitaker posted several "No Trespassing" and "Do Not Feed Animals" signs around the property. He also placed a game camera in a field south of his house where the female donkeys are kept.

According to court documents, the camera captured images of a man, several midgets, a woman, and a mime coming onto the Whitakers' property early on May 27 and June 4.


The pictures show the man placing a bag over a donkey's head, and a large skirt over it's behind, then getting behind the donkey and placing his pelvis against the rear of the animal.

More images were captured early on July 5 and July 6. These showed the same man feeding the donkeys wine and filet mignon before approaching the animals from behind and placing his pelvis against them.

According to an incident report seen by KHBS, an officer arrived at the Whitaker's property and found Compton hiding from his date. Compton initially claimed he was feeding his girlfriend some carrots and denied having sex with the animals.

When told about the surveillance footage, Compton allegedly said he smoked a lot of marijuana and claimed the drug made him do "sick things." He also promised the officer that he would get help if he was not charged.

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http://abc13.com/woman-jailed-in-honduras-over-can-safe-to-hide-valuables/2268808/

Police abuse

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just another day in the US, good people getting arrested....
#Wannacry #malwaretech
http://iamanonymous.com/a-british-wannacry-hero-arrested-detained-in-usa/

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http://us.blastingnews.com/opinion/2017/08/trumps-transgender-ban-how-to-fight-transphobia-and-imperialism-at-once-001897953.html

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OSCAR PISTORIUS RUSHED TO HOSPITAL WITH SUSPECTED HEART ATTACK

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4757468/Oscar-Pistorius-rushed-hospital-chest-pains.html

Is this karma coming back for him?

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/08/01/youtube-says-its-removing-terrorist-and-extremist-content-faster/526705001/

>Technology and more human eyeballs are helping YouTube more quickly find and remove terrorist content from the video-sharing site.

>Last month, YouTube said it was initiating a multipronged strategy to combat how extremist groups including ISIS use video on the site to recruit and radicalize prospective terrorists.

>Machine learning has helped the YouTube detect and remove controversial content more quickly, the company said Tuesday in a blog post. Over the past month, three-fourths of the violent or extremist videos removed were taken down before a person on YouTube flagged it for inappropriateness. "Systems have proven more accurate than humans at flagging videos that need to be removed," the YouTube team says in the post.

>As YouTube deployed machine learning technology over the past month, the number of videos removed has more than doubled, as has the rate of removal. "With over 400 hours of content uploaded to YouTube every minute, finding and taking action on violent extremist content poses a significant challenge," YouTube says.

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A nude man walking along an interstate in New Jersey was using a sex toy on himself when his public pleasure session was interrupted by police yesterday.

Officers responding to a report of a “naked man walking along the tree line on Route 287” discovered Stephen Kurkowiak, 39, in the altogether near mile marker 64 in Mahwah, a Bergen County township about 30 miles north of New York City.

When Kurkowiak, who lives in upstate New York, was approached by two patrolmen, he stood up and pulled "an object out of his rectum." He then tossed the sex toy over his shoulder, said James Batelli, chief of the Mahwah Police Department.
Kurkowiak--who was pleasuring himself in view of passing autos--was in possession of a digital camera. Kurkowiak told police that he "liked to get naked and his intention was to film himself."

Prior to his collar, Kurkowiak had been at a nearby county park (apparently with his clothes on). Seen above, Kurkowiak was charged with lewdness. He is free in advance of a court hearing.

Kurkowiak’s sex toy, however, remains in police custody. The device, Batelli said, was “recovered and entered as evidence.”

http://thesmokinggun.com/buster/jersey/garden-state-pleasure-session-840236

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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime--law/south-florida-man-sentenced-after-disemboweling-girlfriend-during-sex/8rReEBFY3gU5G9mc0xBI9M/
A judge sentenced a Fort Lauderdale man to life in prison on Thursday after he confessed to disemboweling his girlfriend for screaming her ex-husband’s name during sex.

Fidel Lopez, 25, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and sexual battery to avoid the death penalty, according to WPLG.

On Sept. 20, 2015, officers responded to Lopez’s apartment in Sunrise and witnessed a horrific crime scene.

The closet door of the bedroom was ripped off its hinges, there were holes in the wall, and the sliding glass door was shattered, the police report states.

Officers found Lopez in the bathroom crying and sitting next to his girlfriend’s naked body, that was lying on the floor, covered in blood.

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A recent study by researchers at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia, has found a certain type of Australian red algae can significantly inhibit methane emissions from cows. Led by Professor of Aquaculture Rocky De Nys, researchers found an addition of less than 2 percent dried seaweed to a cow’s diet can reduce methane emissions by 99 percent. The study was conducted in collaboration with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), an Australian federal research agency.

>Methane is about 25-times more potent than carbon dioxide in a 100-year time span, and a single cow releases between 70 and 120 kilograms of methane per year. Burps from cows account for 26 percent of the United States’ total methane emissions, and the U.S. is only the world’s fourth-largest producer of cattle, behind China, Brazil, and India. There are currently approximately 1.3 to 1.5 billion cows roaming the planet.

>Researchers started investigating the potential effect of seaweed on cows in 2005, when a dairy farmer named Joe Dorgan inadvertently conducted an experiment on his herd in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Dorgan noticed cows that grazed on washed-up seaweed in paddocks along the shore were healthier and more productive than those that stayed in the field. He began feeding his cows a mixture of local storm-tossed seaweed and found the new diet saved him money and induced “rip-roaring heats,” or longer cycles of reproductive activity.

>Dorgan is not the first farmer to discover the beneficial properties of seaweed in farm animals. The practice was used by Ancient Greeks in 100 B.C, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. There are also records of Icelandic farmers using kelp and algae to keep livestock healthy and produce larger milk yields.

https://foodtank.com/news/2017/06/seaweed-reduce-cow-methane-emission/

study:

https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/43225/

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http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/35082/
>A former football player was “railroaded” by a “rogue” Title IX office at the University of Southern California, according to a surprising source — his alleged “victim.”
>Zoe Katz, the captain of USC’s women’s tennis team, is accusing the university of not only ignoring her protestations that her boyfriend Matt Boermeester didn’t assault her, but threatening her for speaking up.
>Boermeester, a redshirt junior kicker, was suspended from USC in February after a neighbor saw the football player allegedly assault Katz a month earlier. That claim was repeated to a coach and then to the university Title IX office, according to the Los Angeles Times.
>The following “six-month” Title IX inquiry took the form of “repeated interrogations” plagued by “agendas, intimidation and falsehoods,” Katz wrote in a two-page statement dated Sunday given to The College Fix from her attorney.
>She denounced USC for conducting a “horrible and unjust” investigation: “Looking back, Matt never had a chance. Before he was even interviewed by the Title IX investigator, he was suspended from the University.”
>The allegations closely resemble those made in a lawsuit against Colorado State University–Pueblo by athlete Grant Neal, who was found responsible for rape after his girlfriend, an athletics staffer, said their sex was consensual. CSU–Pueblo recently settled with Neal.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/president-trump-approval-rating-historic-new-low-poll

>President Trump's approval rating hit a new low on Wednesday, according to a new poll.

>A Quinnipiac University poll finds 61 percent of voters disapprove of the job Trump is doing in office, compared to just 33 percent who approve of Trump's performance.

>This marks the president's lowest approval rating since he was inaugurated, according to the university.

>It is also a sharp drop since the last such poll. In a survey taken at the end of June, 55 percent of respondents disapproved of the job the president was doing and 40 percent approved.

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Watchdog group Judicial Watch released more than 1,600 pages of documents on Tuesday, including emails of former Hillary Clinton deputy chief of staff Huma Abedin, which they received from the State Department as part of their lawsuit seeking records related to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The case had dealt extensively with the use of private, unsecured email accounts for the transfer of classified government information by Clinton and her aides. The new records included 91 email conversations involving Clinton that the former Secretary of State had not previously turned over.

Among the emails were a number of messages involving information that either had been or were later marked classified, which had previously been withheld after Judicial Watch’s initial FOIA request, under FOIA exemption B1.4(D), which pertains to foreign relations and activities. Those documents included a memo about Northern Ireland and details regarding a call between the Chinese Foreign Minister and State Department officials.

In one situation, then-executive assistant Joseph MacManus had an email conversation with Abedin regarding a classified document, and he refused to send it over the unsecured server. “The draft paper is classified so it cannot go by Blackberry email,” MacManus said.

The emails also contained evidence of possible pay-to-play, including an executive who was a big donor to the Clinton Presidential Library pushing for someone else to be named Ambassador to the Dominican Republic. The request was made to Abedin through Clinton Foundation executive Doug Band. It is not clear whether or not this person received an ambassadorship because the name was redacted in the email.


http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/newly-released-huma-abedin-emails-show-classified-info-on-private-server-possible-clinton-pay-to-play/