Category Archives: News to use

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Yoga saved my brain and body

Yoga at its best can be quietly revolutionary but the revolution goes on inside of you. With diligent time set aside every day your body and brain …

Yoga saved my brain and body

Zoom May Use Your Calls and Data to Train AI – Cyber Kendra

With this revision, Zoom has brought under its wing the permission to use users’ data to train Artificial Intelligence (AI). While this has undoubtedly sparked a lot of chatter and apprehension online, let’s understand what it truly implies.

The updated terms grant Zoom a “perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license” over customer content. This extends to purposes such as “machine learning” and “artificial intelligence”.

Source: Zoom May Use Your Calls and Data to Train AI – Cyber Kendra

(Me: Forget Zoom!)

Judge says E Jean Carroll allegation Trump raped her is ‘substantially true’ in court dismissal | Donald Trump | The Guardian

Donald Trump suffered another legal reverse on Monday, losing his counterclaim for defamation against E Jean Carroll, the writer against whom he was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation and fined $5m, and who continues to pursue a separate defamation case against him.

Dismissing the counterclaim, a judge in New York, Lewis A Kaplan, said that when Carroll repeated her allegation that Trump raped her, her words were “substantially true”. Kaplan also set out in detail why it may be said that Trump raped Carroll.

Source: Judge says E Jean Carroll allegation Trump raped her is ‘substantially true’ in court dismissal | Donald Trump | The Guardian

Everyone’s a spy — Radio Free Asia

China’s security ministry has opened an account on WeChat, the country’s popular everything app, urging its citizens to spy on each other and foreigners to aid counter-espionage work. The move to put China on an anti-espionage footing follows the passage of a Foreign Relations Law that labels the gathering of any information as espionage, vastly expanding the investigative powers of Chinese law enforcement and spooking foreign businesses operating in China. Source: Everyone’s a spy — Radio Free Asia