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America's late-night TV hosts have rallied behind fellow comedian Jimmy Kimmel after he was suspended by ABC in a row over comments he made about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

Stephen Colbert began his show by saying "we are all Jimmy Kimmel", and said the star's removal was a "blatant assault on freedom of speech".

Seth Meyers declared it was "a privilege and honour to call Jimmy Kimmel my friend", while Jon Stewart and Jimmy Fallon tackled the free speech issue by doing satirical sketches in which they were apparently forced to praise Donald Trump.

Their broadcasts came shortly after the US president said the main networks were overwhelmingly negative about him and could have their licences "taken away".

A nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing human rights in digital spaces across West Asia and North Africa — is warning that Israeli-linked software secretly embedded in Samsung phones across the MENA region poses a serious surveillance threat.

According to SMEX, Samsung’s A and M series devices either come preloaded with the app “Aura” or install it automatically through system updates, without the user’s consent. The application reportedly collects a wide range of personal and device-specific data, including IP addresses, device fingerprints, hardware details, and network information.

​​In 2022, Samsung MENA partnered with Israeli tech company IronSource, integrating its Aura software into Galaxy A and M series phones across the region. The partnership was publicly marketed as a way to “enhance user experience” with AI-powered apps and content suggestions.

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Apologies if it's not directly retro gaming content, but I know this channel has gotten a lot of people into the hobby.

The man allegedly made phone and written threats to the New York mayoral candidate, warning the democratic socialist should “go back to Uganda” before someone shoots him in the head.

Authorities have arrested a Texas man for allegedly making phone and written threats to New York City mayoral candidate and state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, warning the self-described democratic socialist to “go back to Uganda” before someone shoots him in the head, the Queens district attorney said Thursday.

Jeremy Fistel was arraigned on a 22-count grand jury indictment charging him with making a terroristic threat as a hate crime, aggravated harassment and related charges in the case. Prosecutors allege he started sending the messages to Mamdani’s office in June and continued to do so through July.

According to the charges, Fistel allegedly left an anti-Muslim message June 18 saying the Uganda-born Mamdani wasn’t welcome in New York and warning him to watch his back and his family’s backs. He called him a terrorist.

Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon and David Letterman criticize ABC’s parent company, Disney, and FCC chief, Brendan Carr

Late-night show hosts Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon and former host David Letterman have all rallied behind Jimmy Kimmel following ABC’s decision to indefinitely suspend his popular late-night show after his comments about the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk.

In his opening monologue on Thursday night, Stephen Colbert mocked executives at Disney, ABC’s parent company, for caving to threats from Brendan Carr, the FCC chairman, when they pulled Kimmel off the air.

In an excerpt posted on Instagram before broadcast, Colbert also scolded Carr for calling Kimmel’s commentary on the rush to politicize Kirk’s murder an affront to community values. “Well, you know what my community values are, Buster?” Colbert asked. “Freedom of speech.”

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37698883

• Twitch now requires facial age verification to watch mature content in some regions using video selfies processed on your device.
• The system uses k-ID technology and targets gambling streams and other 18+ content to comply with new online safety laws.
• Users must scan their face to access restricted streams with many expressing privacy concerns about the new requirement.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/49047223

Always a bit of a challenge, these little hunters, but I was quite pleased with this shot (and quite a few others today)

Canon R5 MkII + RF200-800mm

Prospect Park, Reading, UK

by BrookeValley

Claims are ‘an unsophisticated, uneducated approach that demonstrates a lack of knowledge’, says one professor

US law enforcement officials have claimed that the use of certain emojis could signal affiliation with Tren de Aragua (TdA), a Venezuelan gang, according to internal records reviewed by the Guardian.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the US army and other agencies have alleged in briefings, threat warnings and training materials for law enforcement that specific symbols used on social media are associated with Tren de Aragua, a group Donald Trump has regularly cited to support his immigration crackdown.

The emoji claims, repeated by the New York police department (NYPD), were made in four reports disseminated among law enforcement in 2024 and 2025 and obtained through records requests by Property of the People, a government transparency non-profit.

The leaders of Canada and Mexico have agreed to deepen economic and security ties amid ongoing trade pressure from the Trump administration.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Mexico on Thursday for talks with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum as both seek common ground in approaching critical trade talks with the US on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) free trade pact.

The pact is up for review in 2026, but it has already been shaken up by tariff threats from US President Donald Trump.

In February, Trump bashed the USMCA deal he set up during his first administration, while threatening 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, saying both countries were responsible for enabling fentanyl trafficking into the US.

After several rounds of negotiations and exemptions, scattershot tariffs remain in place on some goods not covered under the deal. Trump has said he wants renegotiations with better terms for US manufacturers.

More information, but I warn you, you may not like it -- https://lemmy.world/post/36143572