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Twitter’s source code is published online – forcing Elon Musk’s firm to immediately file a lawsuit
Asylum seekers go ‘underground’ in fear of being deported – forcing them to live outside the system
‘Nobody is forcing you to stay’: Starmer says opponents of antisemitism reforms can leave Labour
Mexico Cracks Down on Solar Geoengineering, Forcing Startup To Pause Operations
Luke Iseman, a serial inventor and the former director of hardware at Y Combinator, believed all of that research was not happening fast enough. So he started tinkering with releasing sulfur dioxide particles into the atmosphere with balloons, raised venture capital to fund the startup, and brought on co-founder Andrew Song to manage sales. Make Sunsets was planning to launch three latex weather balloons that would release anywhere between 10 and 500 grams of sulfur dioxide in January. But many industry watchers criticized its plans for being hasty and lacking sophistication. On Friday, the government of Mexico issued a statement that it plans to “prohibit and, where appropriate, stop experimentation practices with solar geoengineering in the country.”
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Twitter will stop forcing you onto its “For you” timeline
Twitter’s next update should make it less insistent that you use the “For you” algorithmic timeline, according to a tweet from Elon Musk. He says the app will “stop switching you back to recommended tweets,” and remember if you left it on the reverse-chronological “Following” timeline or a pinned list.
Musk’s promises should be taken with a grain of salt, but I hope the company delivers on this one. Until last month, Twitter had a button that let you set a preference on which version of the timeline you wanted to use. That option went away when the company rolled out a UI that let you swipe between the two timelines, with the app defaulting to opening on the algorithmic one.
Next Twitter update will remember whether you were on For You…
iPhone 14’s Car Crash Detection Still Triggering False 911 Calls, Forcing Dispatchers to Reallocate Resources Away From Real Emergencies
The iPhone 14’s Car Crash Detection feature uses an array of sensors on the device to call emergency services if it thinks a user has been involved in a car crash. Since the feature launched with the new iPhones and Apple Watch models in September, 911 and emergency dispatchers across the United States have noted an influx of calls from iPhone 14 devices that accidentally triggered Car Crash Detection, even though no car crash has occurred.
Amid reports of false calls, Apple released iOS 16.1.2 in November, which it said made “Crash Detection optimizations,” without specifying what the changes were any further. Despite the update’s optimizations, the issue continues to be a problem faced by law enforcement. As reported this week by local news outlet The Colorado Sun, 911 dispatch centers in counties across the state have been witnessing an increase in 911 calls from skiers after their iPhone 14 and newer Apple Watch models misinterpreted ski falls as car crashes.
Last weekend the dispatchers at the Summit County 911 Center fielded 71 automated crash notifications from skiers’ iPhones and Apple watches at the county’s four ski areas. None of them involved an emergency.
Dispatch operators in Grand, Eagle, Pitkin, Routt and Summit counties — home to 12 very busy ski hills — are fielding record numbers of the automated calls from skiers’ Apple phones and watches, tying up emergency response resources. When a 911 call comes in, each call is handled in the order it arrives, so an automated call from a skier’s phone could delay response to a 911 caller with a real emergency.
911 dispatchers are not trained to ignore a call, meaning even accidental calls caused by the iPhone 14’s feature have to be dealt with and resources allocated towards, said Trina Dummer, the interim director of the 911 center in Summit County. “These calls involve a tremendous amount of resources, from dispatchers to deputies to ski patrollers. And I don’t think we’ve ever had an actual emergency event,” Dummer continued.
The accidental calls are putting a strain on emergency centers which have to reallocate resources away from genuine emergencies, especially since 911 calls are taken in order and after each other. “We are absolutely diverting essential resources away from people who need it toward a feature on a phone,” Dummer noted. In Pitkin County, the 911 center is receiving up to 20 of these accidental calls caused by the iPhone 14’s Car Crash Detection feature a day, according to the county’s director.
The Pitkin County 911 Center gets about 15 to 20 of these automated calls a day from the county’s four ski areas. Dispatchers try to return every call, but oftentimes a call to a skier with their phone deep in their pockets goes unanswered, said Brett Loeb, the director of the Pitkin County 911 Center.
Loeb usually has one or two operators taking 911 calls and existing emergency calls can be put on hold to field incoming calls from iPhones. While his team has helped fallen hikers and residents whose watches have notified emergency services when they have fallen and need help, so far there have not been any real emergencies from the automated calls coming from the ski slopes.
In one instance at the Vail Police Department in Vail, Colorado, the iPhone 14’s Car Crash Detection successfully called 911 for a real car crash, noted Marc Wentworth, the director of the Vail Public Safety Communications Center, highlighting the feature does have potential to save lives.
In Summit County, the iOS 16.1.2 update did little, if nothing, to address the issue, according to the county’s director. “But we have not seen our numbers change. We are seeing as many as 20 a day, and it’s a tremendous drain on our resources,” said County Sheriff Jaime FitzSimons.
FitzSimons notes he has shared his concerns with Apple with reported responses that the company is aware of the issue, still though, FitzSimons says more is needed. We are communicating with Apple to get them to pay more attention to this, but it feels like we are trying to turn a battleship in a bathtub.”
Car Crash Detection is available on all iPhone 14 models and the Apple Watch Series 8, Apple Watch Ultra, and second-generation Apple Watch SE.
This article, “iPhone 14’s Car Crash Detection Still Triggering False 911 Calls, Forcing Dispatchers to Reallocate Resources Away From Real Emergencies” first appeared on MacRumors.com
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Man Utd news LIVE: Cristiano Ronaldo bombshell Piers Morgan EXCLUSIVE, says he feels ‘betrayed’, club ‘forcing him out’
CRISTIANO RONALDO has given a BOMBSHELL exclusive interview to Piers Morgan.
Ronaldo, 37, says he feels betrayed and has been made the black sheep, in an exclusive interview with The Sun columnist Piers Morgan.
Appearing in a sit down chat on Talk TV’s Piers Morgan Uncensored, the Portuguese superstar makes several explosive claims as his career at Manchester United looks all but over.
He feels blamed for everything that has gone wrong at the club, and believes he is now being actively forced out.
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Kids forcing their grans to become drug mules after being groomed by gangs, damning report warns
KIDS are forcing their grannies to become drug mules after being groomed by gangs, a damning report today warns.
Former Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield has revealed how thousands of youngsters are being exploited, harmed and even killed after slipping through the cracks.
Her investigation lays bare how sick gangsters use a “clinical ruthlessness” to trap youngsters into a life of crime.
In horrific instances they are told to “pressure their less suspicious grandmothers” to smuggle drugs on their behalf.
Ms Longfield told the Sun: “Essentially, the gangs are saying if your grandma does that, they won’t be suspicious, no one will stop them and they’ll get away scot free.”
She said that some grandmothers agree because they are “desperate” to rescue their grandchild from “an even worse situation” where they would incur the wrath of the gangs.
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Evil criminals are also trying to recruit from leafier communities as posher youngsters are less likely to get caught.
Ms Longfield said: “They’re less likely to get searched and they’re less likely to get caught, especially if they’re looking to run drugs in a more middle class area.”
Her report says parents’ cries for help are left “unanswered” as the state is “failing in its duty to protect vulnerable children”.
Government stats show 11,600 instances of kids falling into gangs and 10,140 cases of child criminal exploitation, which is likely the “tip of the iceberg”.
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The report “Hidden In Plain Sight” also suggests there could be as many as 200,000 teenagers in England vulnerable to horrific violence.
Ms Longfield, now Chair of the Commission on Young Lives, urges the government to establish a network of Sure Start hubs for teenagers to get help.
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She also wants a one-off mental health recovery programme funded by a levy on social media and mobile phone firms.
And the report urges schools to stay open at weekends and during holidays so vulnerable kids have a place to go supervised.