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TLDR Ohio Congressman Thaddeus Claggett introduced a bill to prevent AI from achieving legal personhood. The bill prohibits AI from holding management roles in organizations and overseeing human employees. AI programs would be barred from owning property or controlling assets under the proposed legislation. Human representatives would be held accountable for any legal violations involving AI systems. If passed, the Ohio Bill could set a precedent for national AI regulations and legal frameworks. Ohio Congressman Thaddeus Claggett has introduced a bill aimed at preventing artificial intelligence (AI) protocols from acquiring legal personhood. The bill, HB 469, specifically targets AI systems,…

A newly released video captured by a U.S. reaper drone shows a glowing orb off the coast of Yemen. Then in the video, a Hellfire missile suddenly struck the unidentified object and bounced off it.Rep. Eric Burlison, a Republican from Missouri, shared the video at a House Oversight hearing on Tuesday on what the military calls “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” or better known as UFOs.The video, dated Oct. 30, 2024, was provided by a whistleblower and when slowed down, the missile can be seen continuing on its own path after striking the orb.A recent government report revealed that it had received…

FBI agents seized classified documents during the search of former national security adviser John Bolton’s downtown Washington, D.C., office last month, according to newly unsealed court records.Materials were described as “secret” or “confidential” or “classified” during the search of Bolton’s office, The Washington Post reported.U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia documents suggested the materials found at Bolton’s office included information referencing weapons of mass destruction, the U.S. mission to the United Nations and records related to the U.S. government’s strategic communications, Politico reported.The inventory, filed earlier this month in federal court, was unsealed by a federal magistrate judge…

Alien: Earth arrives as one of the boldest reinventions in the franchise, a series that refuses to confine itself to simple survival horror. Over the span of eight episodes, it weaves a narrative that is as much about power as it is about fear. From the haunting presence of xenomorphs to the rise of hybrid children, from the cold calculations of Weyland-Yutani to the grotesque eye parasite, the show expands the Alien mythology while staying true to its core question: who are the real monsters? This first season doesn’t deliver answers so much as it reshapes the question. Every episode…

Data protection provider Commvault Systems Inc. today announced a new partnership with identity and access security company BeyondTrust Corp. that sees the strategic integration between the Commvault Cloud cyber resilience platform and BeyondTrust Password Safe privileged access management solution. The collaboration is designed for customers to further mitigate risks, improve security posture and enhance data recovery efficiency. The teaming up of the products seeks to address the reality that, as cyberthreats continue to evolve, organizations are working overtime to ensure only authorized users with the right level of privilege have access to their data. Added into the mix is a proliferation of…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri House voted Thursday to ban entities from China and four other perceived adversarial countries from purchasing land in the state, citing a need to protect farms from the possibility of falling under hostile control.The Missouri legislation, which now heads to the Senate, is one of several similar bills moving through state capitols this year amid international tensions that were peaked by the trek of a Chinese balloon across the U.S.“The balloon was just over this Capitol” in February, Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher said Thursday. “We have to protect Missouri sovereignty, and we…

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:Technosignatures are theoretical signs of technologically advanced alien civilizations, but so far, none of those civilizations have phoned home.Researchers from the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Post-Detection Hub have now come up with suggestions for NASA to level up its detection methods.By taking an interdisciplinary approach and using the most advanced technology possible, NASA may finally catch sight of a sign that someone else is out there. In the endless search for technosignatures—signs from some technologically advanced intelligent alien civilization—we’ve done everything from monitoring radio arrays to hypothesizing about whether space rocks…

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. While the dangerous effects of climate change continue to worsen, legal efforts to address a range of environmental issues are also on the rise.Headlines across the globe tout many of these legal actions: South Korea’s Climate Law Violates Rights of Future Generations; Ukraine is Ground Zero in Battle for Ecocide Law; Paris Wants to Grant the River Seine Legal Personhood; and Montana Court Rules Children Have the Right to a Healthy Environment, to name a few recent examples. You may…

An installation view of Hannah Woo’s “POOMSAE” at G Gallery in Seoul. Courtesy of G Gallery Hannah Woo’s sculptures are bodies in motion, animated figures of a personal mythology that inhabit a generative hybridity between human and non-human, artificial and biological. Her extravagant, chameleonic assemblages stage the co-presence of heterogeneous forces that produce new symbolic entities, capable of prefiguring alternatives for horizontal, fluid ecologies and symbiotic environments. Year after year, Woo’s practice has drawn increasing attention; she broke onto the international stage after winning Frieze Seoul’s Bulgari Prize. In her soon-to-close exhibition at G Gallery in Seoul, she heightens the…

One of the bloodiest conflicts between India and Pakistan drew to an end on September 23, 1965. The war, which went on for 17 days, followed a United Nations-brokered ceasefire. On this day in 1889, Fusajiro Yamauchi founded the Nintendo company, one of the biggest video gaming companies in the worldOne of the first and bloodiest conflicts between India and Pakistan came to an end on September 23, 1965. The war, which went on for 17 days, followed a United Nations-brokered ceasefire.If you are a history geek who loves to learn about important events from the past, Firstpost Explainers’ ongoing…