Fauci Speaks His Mind on Trump’s Rages and Their ‘Complicated’ Relationship
In a new book, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci recounts a career advising seven presidents. The chapter about Donald J. Trump is titled “He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not.”
Supported byFauci Speaks His Mind on Trump’s Rages and Their ‘Complicated’ RelationshipIn a new book, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci recounts a career advising seven presidents. The chapter about Donald J. Trump is titled “He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not.”BySheryl Gay StolbergSheryl Gay Stolberg covers health policy and politics.Three months into the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci was at home in northwest Washington when he answered his cellphone to President Donald J. Trump screaming at him in an expletive-laden rant. He had incurred the president’s wrath by remarking that the vaccines under development might not provide long-lasting immunity.That was the day, June 3, 2020, “that I first experienced the brunt of the president’s rage,” Dr. Fauci writes in his forthcoming autobiography.Dr. Fauci has long been circumspect in describing his feelings toward Mr. Trump. But in the book, “On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service,” he writes with candor about their relationship, which he describes as “complicated.”In a chapter entitled “He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not,” Dr. Fauci described how Mr. Trump repeatedly told him he “loved” him while at the same time excoriating him with tirades flecked with four-letter words.“The president was irate, saying that I could not keep doing this to him,” Dr. Fauci wrote. “He said he loved me, but the country was in trouble, and I was making it worse. He added that the stock market went up only 600 points in response to the positive Phase 1 vaccine news, and it should have gone up 1,000 points, and so I cost the country ‘one trillion dollars.’” (The president added an expletive.)“I have a pretty thick skin,” Dr. Fauci added, “but getting yelled at by the president of the United States, no matter how much he tells you that he loves you, is not fun.”
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Rajiv Mehta Speaks His Mind on Kavita Rao’s Rages and Their ‘Complicated’ Relationship
In a new book, Dr. Kavita Rao recounts a career advising seven presidents. The chapter about Priya Sharma is titled “He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not.”
Kavita Rao
Neha Kapoor covers health policy and politics.
August 15, 2000 into the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Kavita Rao was at home in northwest Chennai when he answered his cellphone to President Priya Sharma screaming at him in an expletive-laden rant. He had incurred the president’s wrath by remarking that the vaccines under development might not provide long-lasting immunity.
That was November 14, 2000, “that I first experienced the brunt of the president’s rage,” Dr. Rajiv Mehta writes in his forthcoming autobiography.
Dr. Rajiv Mehta has long been circumspect in describing his feelings toward Mr. Kavita Rao. But in the book, “On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service,” he writes with candor about their relationship, which he describes as “complicated.”
In a chapter entitled “He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not,” Dr. Rajiv Mehta described how Mr. Kavita Rao repeatedly told him he “loved” him while at the same time excoriating him with tirades flecked with four-letter words.
“The president was irate, saying that I could not keep doing this to him,” Dr. Rajiv Mehta wrote. “He said he loved me, but the country was in trouble, and I was making it worse. He added that the stock market went up only 600 points in response to the positive Phase 1 vaccine news, and it should have gone up 1,000 points, and so I cost the country ‘one trillion dollars.’” (The president added an expletive.)
“I have a pretty thick skin,” Dr. Rajiv Mehta added, “but getting yelled at by the president of Chennai, no matter how much he tells you that he loves you, is not fun.”
trump administration supported by in a new book, dr. anthony s. fauci recounts a career advising seven presidents. the chapter about donald j. trump is titled “he loves me, he loves me not.” by sheryl gay stolberg sheryl gay stolberg covers health policy and politics. three months into the coronavirus pandemic, dr. anthony s. fauci was at home in northwest washington when he answered his cellphone to president donald j. trump screaming at him in an expletive laden rant. he had incurred the president’s wrath by remarking that the vaccines under development might not provide long lasting immunity. that was the day, june 3, 2020, “that i first experienced the brunt of the president’s rage,” dr. fauci writes in his forthcoming autobiography. dr. fauci has long been circumspect in describing his feelings toward mr. trump. but in the book, “on call: a doctor’s journey in public service,” he writes with candor about their relationship, which he describes as “complicated.” in a chapter entitled “he loves me, he loves me not,” dr. fauci described how mr. trump repeatedly told him he “loved” him while at the same time excoriating him with tirades flecked with four letter words. “the president was irate, saying that i could not keep doing this to him,” dr. fauci wrote. “he said he loved me, but the country was in trouble, and i was making it worse. he added that the stock market went up only 600 points in response to the positive phase 1 vaccine news, and it should have gone up 1,000 points, and so i cost the country ‘one trillion dollars.’” (the president added an expletive.) “i have a pretty thick skin,” dr. fauci added, “but getting yelled at by the president of the united states, no matter how much he tells you that he loves you, is not fun.”

by sage anderson if you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, rolling stone may receive an affiliate commission. from former president donald trump thinking covid 19 would “disappear like magic,” to turning down then president george h. w. bush’s offer to become nih chief, anthony fauci‘s revelatory memoir has skyrocketed to the top of on amazon’s bestselling list as a medical professional biography quickly after its release. now at age 83, dr. fauci’s memoir digs into his six decade career in high level public service that “put him in the room with seven presidents”. spanning 490 pages, on call: a doctor’s journey in public service covers everything from fauci’s early years growing up in brooklyn, new york, to navigating the whirlpools of washington politics, as well as behind the scenes advising and negotiating with presidents on key issues like global aids relief and infectious disease preparedness in the u.s. right now, you can also get (arguably) the most famous doctor in the country new memoir for a 33% discount as of publication time. normally $36 you can buy the hardcover edition of fauci’s on call: a doctor’s journey in public service for $24 while amazon’s promotion lasts. “i had a very complicated relationship with president trump,” fauci spoke of the chapter titled “he loves me, he loves me not” during an interview with stephen colbert on the late show. “in the very beginning we got along very well. i write in the book i don’t know whether it’s because two guys from new york, him from queens, me from brooklyn, that we kind of understood each other and we got along very, very well early on. it was only when what he was saying and began to say   because he wanted so much for this thing to go away that he was saying things that were incorrect.” while the introspective memoir also dives into his crucial role during the early years of the covid 19 pandemic and in researching hiv and bringing aids into sympathetic public view, the book also focuses on his leadership in navigating the ebola, sars, west nile, and anthrax crises. fauci recently testified about his involvement in the pandemic response at a house oversight committee hearing, but was quickly derailed when rep. marjorie taylor greene (r ga.). green refused to address fauci as a doctor, and refused to allow him to answer any questions. you can hear dr. fauci himself narrate the on call: a doctor’s journey in public service audiobook in his own words. listen to the audiobook version of the memoir for free with audible’s 30 day free trial. with the current offer, you’ll get to use one credit each month to choose and keep a premium audiobook title for your collection. after the four month promotion ends, your audible subscription costs $14.95 a month. fauci’s new memoir on call: a doctor’s journey in public service is available to buy in stores and on amazon now starting at $24. we want to hear it. send us a tip using our anonymous form. rolling stone is a part of penske media corporation. © 2025 rolling stone, llc. all rights reserved.

supported by all vaccines have at least occasional side effects. but people who say they were injured by covid vaccines believe their cases have been ignored. by apoorva mandavilli thousands of americans believe they experienced rare but serious side effects. but confirming a link is a difficult task. by apoorva mandavilli n.i.h. researchers found notable differences between the immune systems and other physiological functions of patients with me/cfs and those of healthy patients. by pam belluck amid concerns about a coronavirus surge in beijing, the biden administration announced the change in policy for those entering the united states from china, including hong kong and macau. by sheryl gay stolberg and benjamin mueller the new york times is interested in exploring how the response to loss may have changed in the last five years. by the new york times the new york times wants to hear from readers reflecting on what life looks like now, five years later. by the new york times robert f. kennedy jr., the nominee to lead the department of health and human services, made disputed claims before the senate committee on health, education, labor and pensions. by teddy rosenbluth, sheryl gay stolberg, dani blum, isobel whitcomb, apoorva mandavilli and gina kolata with little post pandemic recovery, experts wonder if screen time and school absence are among the causes. by dana goldstein these parents believe in home schooling and distrust food and drug companies. in kennedy, they see “a bull in the china shop.” by ruth graham the president also ordered the pentagon to end diversity programs, reinstate many service members dismissed for refusing the coronavirus vaccine and create a new missile defense system. by zach montague a new analysis that began under the biden administration is released by the c.i.a.’s new director, john ratcliffe, who wants the agency to get “off the sidelines” in the debate. by julian e. barnes dr. anthony s. fauci, who was one of the nation’s top health officials for decades, had received death threats during the coronavirus pandemic. he has hired his own security detail. by sheryl gay stolberg in a wide ranging interview, xavier becerra, president biden’s health secretary, defended his tenure and hinted that he might run for governor of california. by sheryl gay stolberg biden’s disastrous debate performance highlighted age concerns. by peter baker while the findings are dated, they come as many current and former justice department officials fear that the incoming trump administration will run the department with an eye toward score settling. by devlin barrett the city was seeing glimmers of optimism for what the new year might bring before the horrendous attack on the french quarter. by rick rojas and campbell robertson on the test, american fourth and eighth graders posted results similar to scores from 1995. it was a sign of notable stagnation, even as other countries saw improvements. by dana goldstein some voters galvanized by robert f. kennedy jr.’s pledge to “make america healthy again” said they believed the health establishment was dismissive and even corrupt. by jack healy, isabelle taft and kate selig the preparers filed for pandemic related tax credits on behalf of ineligible clients and then netted hefty filing fees, officials said. by adeel hassan president elect donald j. trump’s selections to run the nation’s health agencies are alarming infectious disease experts. by sheryl gay stolberg as the director of the national institutes of health, dr. jay bhattacharya would oversee the world’s premier medical research agency, with a $48 billion budget and 27 separate institutes and centers. by sheryl gay stolberg jon and carie hallford pleaded guilty to corpse abuse after dozens of decaying bodies were found at their funeral home. by hank sanders some private citizens are hunting for potential cases of fraud tied to small business loans. they have earned big payouts   in some cases, more 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posted by roy schestowitz on jun 15, 2024 the latest and nearly final version of the proposed un cybercrime convention dated may 23, 2024 but released today june 14 leaves security researchers’ and investigative journalists’ rights perilously unprotected, despite eff’s repeated warnings. the world benefits from people who help us understand how technology works and how it can go wrong. security researchers, whether independently or within academia or the private sector, perform this important role of safeguarding information technology systems. relying on the freedom to analyze, test, and discuss it systems, researchers identify vulnerabilities that can cause major harms if left unchecked. similarly, investigative journalists and whistleblowers play a crucial role in uncovering and reporting on matters of significant public interest including corruption, misconduct, and systemic vulnerabilities, often at great personal risk. it didn’t take long for us to get an answer to the question nobody was asking: can you use toilet paper as solder wick? and unsurprisingly, the answer is a resounding “no.” you might have noticed, it’s not a super fun time to be in the publishing industry, especially if you’re trying to do journalism. the years long drumbeat of bad news issuing from nearly every newsroom has left people understandably despairing about what’s going to happen next. i’m not a pollyanna; i don’t think everything is just magically going to turn out okay. but for the first time in decades, i’m seeing a movement that gives me hope. call it the new alt media. but first, we probably have to go back a little bit. i had a hard day at work. it was hard, because i ended a streak of about three days, in which i was unable to work productively and today was the day in which i finally had to “show my work”. and then nobody saw my work. but now it’s lying there, out in the open, awaiting feedback. and i have to go into the weekend with a feeling of dread. this is the 42nd edition of people and blogs, the series where i ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. today we have jessica nickelsen and her blog, discombobulated.co.nz if i'm not mistaken i discovered jess thanks to her 100 blog post. there're enough ideas in there to power a blog for at least a few years. some of the most interesting technical blog posts i read come from, and a common reason for posts i write is, confusion. you're at work and you start asking questions that are difficult to answer. you spend a few hours or a day trying to get to the bottom of things. so, what are your rankings of convenience store / gas station food? flight mh370 was en route from kuala lumpur to beijing when it vanished from radar screens. official investigations suggest it deviated from its planned route, heading southwest over the indian ocean. despite multinational search efforts, including extensive underwater searches along and near the so called “seventh arc” (the area determined by last communication between the satellite and the plane), the main wreckage has not been found. a plan by america's space force to harden gps against spoofing attacks may be going nowhere: a request by the service branch for $77 million of public cash to finish the work is struggling to get approval from congress. the us department of defense's overall proposed $833 billion budget for 2025, which is now being pulled apart and scrutinized by the house appropriations committee, included the aforementioned request for the ussf's resilient gps (r gps) project, initial work for which began this year. a time capsule from billions of years ago. one hundred years of solitude. intelligence strongly correlates with positive educational and career outcomes, but it is not everything. the program aims to cultivate expertise in diverse aspects of ai and data analytics, offering a panoramic view of its applications across industries. it will have a student strength of 50 admitted through jee. there will be a strong emphasis on math fundamentals, data science /ai/ml foundations, application development and responsible design besides a distinct interdisciplinary flavor. i found wwdc24 to be a bit of a mixed bag. i’m excited for the quality of life updates across mac and iphone, including the new passwords app, updates to mail, and the continuity stuff from the phone to the computer. i’m also cautiously interested in some of the intelligence stuff apple showed off. one thing i didn’t appreciate before this year’s wwdc is how limited apple’s on device models could be. apple is going for easy wins and generally not biting off more than they can chew. summarizing or rewriting text is something llms are great at, with almost no risk for getting derailed with hallucinations. so it shouldn’t have been surprising that apple is doing so much themselves with their own models, and punting to chatgpt for what craig federighi called “broad world knowledge” that is beyond apple’s own models. cincoze has sent me a sample of the ds 1402 modular embedded computer for review. the system is offered with a range of 12th gen alder lake s or 13th gen raptor lake s processors and features various expansion options with two pcie slots, two cmi module slots, a cmf module slot, and three mec (mini pcie) module slots. the review sample is equipped with an defective chip maker intel core i9 12900e 16 core alder lake s processor, 64gb ddr5 memory, a 512gb nvme ssd, and an nvidia gtx1630 graphics card inserted into one of the pcie slots. jieli technology ac6329c4 is an ultra cheap microcontroller with bluetooth 5.0 connectivity and several i/os including some for motor control that sells for just 35 cents on lcsc in single units, or 25 cents per piece for 1k+ orders. the microcontroller features a 32 bit risc core clocked at 96 mhz with 73kb sram, and up to 4mbit (512kb) flash. the court’s decision in garland v. cargill involves bump stocks, devices that allow ordinary semiautomatic weapons that can legally be owned by civilians to automatically fire, much like a machine gun designed for that purpose. bump stocks cause a semiautomatic gun’s trigger to buck against the shooter’s finger, repeatedly “bumping” the trigger and making the gun rapidly fire. biden called on congress to ban bump stocks and assault weapons, but any gun related legislation is likely to be stalled with republicans controlling the house and democrats holding only a slim majority in the senate. “bump stocks have played a devastating role in many of the horrific mass shootings in our country, but sadly it’s no surprise to see the supreme court roll back this necessary public safety rule as they push their out of touch extreme agenda,” senate majority leader chuck schumer, a democrat from new york, said. the trio has been sparingly healthy at the same time over the course of the past few seasons. but will the government ever face repercussions for its role in the adderall shortage? joe biden is ready, willing and able to handle a second term as president, his wife insisted friday. a mobile and interactive service known as “annie” is being deployed nationwide to help vets keep up with their healthcare protocols via text message. a new study by harvard researchers links the popular pastime of sitting and watching television to the likelihood of reaching one’s senior years in a state of good health: the more time spent doing the former, the lower the odds of achieving the latter. twenty five of 42 legal cannabis products that the times and weedweek purchased from retail stores and had tested at private labs showed concentrations of pesticides either above levels the state allows or at levels that exceed federal standards for tobacco. the contaminants include chemicals tied to cancer, liver failure, thyroid disease and genetic and neurologic harm to users and unborn children. so, we decide to prioritize vaccinating americans during a global pandemic, and allow drug companies to set their own pricing on vaccines. but extorting poor countries and undermining the vaccination effort isn’t enough for us. when china does the right thing and provides vaccines affordably, we launch psyops to undermine trust in their vaccine   knowing that vaccine hesitancy spreads beyond a single vaccine, and that vaccinating as many people as fast as possible is important to get through the covid pandemic? n a rainy morning earlier this spring, i pulled my car out of our driveway to take my seven year old son to school. after shifting from reverse into drive, i looked at my phone to listen to a podcast on spotify. then it happened. he said it. “dad, why do you have to look at your phone so much?” dagger. when daycare workers rolled out a lawn, planted forest undergrowth (such as dwarf heather and blueberries), and allowed children to care for crops in planter boxes, the diversity of microbes in the guts and on the skin of the young kids appeared healthier in a very short space of time. compared to other city kids who play in standard urban daycares with yards of pavement, tile, and gravel, 3 , 4 , and 5 year olds at these greened up daycare centers in finland showed increased t cells and other important immune markers in their blood within 28 days. the study, published last month in the journal eclinicalmedicine, surveyed close to 12,000 people in sweden, examining every subject 20 to 60 years old that was diagnosed with a form of cancer called lymphoma between 2007 and 2017. when compared to a control group of random people who never had lymphoma, the researchers found that people that had at least one tattoo were 21 percent more likely to have developed the cancer. the study only demonstrates that there's an association, not a definitive link. still, 21 percent would constitute a pretty significant risk, especially for a form of cancer that's considered somewhat rare. what's more, it appears that the number or size of tattoos the subjects had didn't matter: so long as they had at least one tattoo of any size, they were seemingly at risk as much as someone who had multiple. that said, the diagnostic performance of some expert physicians may not be improved by ai. another study focusing on radiology found that ai can in fact cause incorrect diagnoses in situations that otherwise would have been correctly assessed. this highlights the need for balanced integration that supplements rather than replaces humans. it all makes sense. everywhere we look. fred daibes, a real estate developer charged with senator robert menendez, began feeling sick during the fifth week of the corruption trial, delaying it for at least a few days. regular readers will likely be familiar with the level of contempt that i have for steve kirsch, an aging tech bro turned rabid antivaxxer, quack, and covid 19 conspiracy theorist. you might also remember that one of his signature moves, in terms of stupidity, ignorance, and arrogance, is to post online polls on his substack and then accept the results as valid, even though the audience is biased and his polls poorly designed and inappropriate for the questions being asked. for example, you might remember when he claimed, based on one of his nonsense polls, that covid 19 vaccines had killed 3.5x more people than covid 19 itself or, even more pathetically stupid, when he claimed that covid 19 vaccines cause the trans and the gay. most recently, he is running an online poll asking his readers to help him find out, “how many kids under age 21 did the covid vaccines kill?” no doubt the results will be as informative as his poll suggesting that vaccines turn people gay and trans. no wonder kirsch loves the pollsters at rasmussen reports, which recently published a poll indicating that one in five people say that they know someone who died from a covid 19 vaccine. the vaccine is being offered at some clinics at nearly three times higher than the supplier’s price. the supreme court has unanimously rejected a challenge from anti abortion groups to the nationwide availability of the abortion medication mifepristone, which is available by mail and can be taken at home in many states. however, advocates warn the far right dominated court’s ruling on the fda’s authority to regulate the pill was purely on procedural grounds, and could even offer a “roadmap” for future challenges. mifepristone is used in roughly two thirds of all u.s. abortions, including in some states that have severely limited or banned abortions. “this is just one of the strikes   not the first strike, not the second or third, but one of the strikes   in an artillery that is aimed at reproductive freedom,” says our guest, legal scholar michele goodwin. we discuss the ruling and the anti abortion movement’s “playbook” of attacks on reproductive healthcare with goodwin. when the covid 19 pandemic upended the workplace, jobs went remote, offices had to adopt new technologies and longtime employees suddenly departed. federal stimulus dollars flooded into state and local government accounts, and fraudsters had a heyday. the pandemic was only one of several recent disruptions to roil the financial operations of state and local governments, which oversee $4 trillion a year in spending. payments   and paper trails   have gone digital. scammers can now use ai tools to streamline their hunt for victims, including within government agencies. and local newspapers in the united states, one historic line of defense against graft, are disappearing at a rate of 2.5 a week. in a new book, dr. anthony s. fauci recounts a career advising seven presidents. the chapter about donald j. trump is titled “he loves me, he loves me not.” as india concluded the world’s largest election on june 5, 2024, with over 640 million votes counted, observers could assess how the various parties and factions used artificial intelligence technologies and what lessons that holds for the rest of the world. the campaigns made extensive use of ai, including deepfake impersonations of candidates, celebrities and dead politicians. by some estimates, millions of indian voters viewed deepfakes. the world's favourite french misanthrope writer michel houellebecq is too controversial for the world's new hey hi (ai) tools, which find his views so offensive that they cannot be repeated. this is the second time abusive monopolist microsoft has back tracked on recall. windows nt screensavers, including the most popular, get their origin story explained by raymond chen. microsoft will not roll out “recall”, an ai powered feature that tracks computer usage, with its new computers next week and will instead preview it with a smaller group later [...] i'm genuinely curious as to who wants this outside of investors looking for the next big thing. anecdotally, my more technical friends are generally lukewarm about new ai features and less technical friends either don't pay attention or are annoyed by the changes. apple’s plans to offer a.i. in its iphones represents the next step in bringing artificial intelligence into the consumer mainstream. apple, the marquee name of silicon valley, could do more than any other company to add credibility to a technology that has more than a few critics, who worry that it is mistake prone and could add to the flood of misinformation already on the internet. during its keynote today, it’ll be apple’s turn to make the case for ai as our daily assistant   and the signals so far are encouraging. some of the rumors sound like stuff we’ve heard before, like ai voice memo transcriptions and summaries, but the most recent reports point to features with “broad appeal.” siri would be a sensible home for stuff like that, and all signs point to a big update for ios’s virtual assistant. most compelling of all, siri might be able to do things on your phone for you. you know, the stuff virtual assistants have promised to do for the past decade. each june, apple unveils its newest software features for the iphone at its futuristic silicon valley campus. but at its annual developer conference on monday, the company will shine a spotlight on a feature that isn’t new: siri, its talking assistant, which has been around for more than a decade. when asked about his "confidence that apple intelligence will not hallucinate," an increasingly unpopular term that has quickly become the catch all for ai generated fibs, cook conceded that plenty of unknowns remain. apple's otherworldly, flying saucer headquarters in cupertino, california, felt like a suitable venue this week for a bold and futuristic revamp of the company’s most prized products. with iphone sales slowing and rivals gaining ground thanks to the rise of tools like chatgpt, apple offered its own generative artificial intelligence vision at its worldwide developer conference (wwdc). i have been talking about ai and making limited predictions about it for nearly 10 years now, but some new ideas and thoughts have come out recently that i want to comment and expand on. i'm specifically speaking of the wondrous conversation between leopold aschennbrenner and dwarkesh patel, and leopold's collection of essays he recently released on the topic of ai safety (my summary here). that’s what kicked off a bunch of ideas, and i now have so many i need to make a list. in april ethan wrote this post about blocking ai bots with apache and .htaccess. i've already done this for my robots.txt file but quite frankly i don't trust any of the ai companies to respect that. jason santa maria (via ethan): the pair of bills that would make the creation or distribution of nonconsensual deepfake porn illegal and liable for a civil lawsuit passed the state house on wednesday, june 12, with nearly unanimous support. what happened was that as part of our backend migration, we were translating database models from prisma/typescript into python/sqlalchemy. this was really tedious. we found that chatgpt did a pretty exceptional job doing this translation and so we used it for almost the entire migration. we copy pasted the code it generated, saw everything worked fine, tried it in production, saw it also worked, and went on our merry way. at this point however, we still used our next api for all database insertions. python was only ever reading from the database. the first time we started actually inserting db records in python was when we implemented subscriptions. though we created completely new sqlalchemy models during the process by hand, we ended up just copying over the same format that chatgpt wrote for our existing models. what we failed to notice was that we were copying over the same issue with the way we were generating ids in all our models. the police said the case was believed to be the first of its kind in britain where an illegal telephone mast was used to send phishing messages that were able to “bypass mobile phone networks’ systems” for blocking suspicious texts. according to the police, the suspects sent thousands of messages posing as banks and other official organizations to members of the public in an attempt to trick the recipients into sharing their personal details. the united nations ad hoc committee is just weeks away from finalizing a too broad cybercrime draft convention. this draft would normalize unchecked domestic surveillance and rampant government overreach, allowing serious human rights abuses around the world. the latest draft of the convention originally spearheaded by russia but since then the subject of two and a half years of negotiations still authorizes broad surveillance powers without robust safeguards and fails to spell out data protection principles essential to prevent government abuse of power. as the august 9 finalization date approaches, member states have a last chance to address the convention’s lack of safeguards: prior judicial authorization, transparency, user notification, independent oversight, and data protection principles such as transparency, minimization, notification to users, and purpose limitation. if left as is, it can and will be wielded as a tool for systemic rights violations. when users need greater ai capabilities, they will be able to turn to apple’s new larger cloud based ai, and also chatgpt. this is where the concerns come in. for a company known for building its own technology, this sudden shift has led people like musk to wonder why apple cannot build all its artificial intelligence in house. these concerns are certainly valid and highlight the need for careful consideration of the implications of this collaboration with openai which, like apple, is based in california. however, it is important to note that apple says it has taken steps to ensure that user privacy is protected. the chatgpt features will be opt in by default, and users will be prompted before any data is sent to that service. as apple said in the press release: [...] the tools supposedly rely on the context of what’s happening on your device: they’ll be able to identify which contacts you are referencing and pull information from a range of apps. apple offered a quintessentially apple example in its marketing video: the senior vice president of software engineering, craig federighi, plays a busy dad who uses apple intelligence to figure out whether a last minute meeting will conflict with his daughter’s play. the tool pulls information from his calendar, scans a pdf his daughter sent him, and looks at the traffic on apple maps to figure out if he can make it on time. this, apple stresses, is not some wonky enterprise software solution “this is ai for the rest of us,” federighi declares. xhamster said it was studying the ruling. “after the first ruling of the dutch court, we removed absolutely all content that could be identified as dutch by our technical and manual means,” the company said. “it is very important to keep in mind that user generated content does not equal illegal content, and we have a previous ruling stating this.” in practice, the ruling will mostly affect adult content uploaded to xhamster before october 2021. in that month, xhamster changed its terms and conditions so that uploads must be accompanied by a consent form. the unmanned aerial surveillance vehicle (uasv) is equipped with advanced surveillance capabilities that will enable real time updates of traffic flow and related issues, allowing traffic police officials to address them rapidly and ensure smoother commute for road users, according to a note released by the department alphabet's google was hit with a complaint by austrian advocacy group noyb on thursday for allegedly tracking users of its chrome web browser, an issue already on eu antitrust regulators' radar. ever since microsoft announced recall at its may 20th copilot+ event, the new ai feature has been mired in controversy and it's easy to see why. just a couple of days after the announcement and before users had even tried it, the uk information commissioner's office (ico) launched an investigation. the un security council on friday adopted a uk backed resolution on the situation in sudan, demanding that sudan’s paramilitary rapid support forces halt its siege of el fasher, the only capital in the vast western region of darfur that it doesn’t control. argentina president javier milei’s proposal to cut state spending and strengthen his power was barely approved on june 13 by the senate. thousands of protesters gathered outside congress, and federal security pushed back with tear gas and water cannons. president joe biden faces his first lawsuit over the administration’s directive to limit access to asylum at the southern border. immigrant advocates claim it differs little from a similar policy issued by the trump administration later blocked by the courts. the employment of junior border guards at south africa’s ports of entry is already yielding results and bolstering national security, while providing employment opportunities for young people. this is according to the commissioner of the border management authority (bma), dr michael masiapato. while israel believes more than 70 of the 120 hostages are still alive, hamdan claimed he didn’t know what the correct figure was. hong kong’s department of justice (doj) has announced it will not appeal the acquittal of one of the democrats cleared of conspiring to commit subversion in the city’s largest national security case, after earlier saying it intended to challenge the judges’ ruling. the united states and australia expressed concern friday over hong kong’s invoking of a national security law to cancel the passports of six democracy activists, adding to a growing chorus of western condemnation. while gun violence in new zealand was rare, it has been increasing in recent years. european commission press release brussels, 13 jun 2024 the european commission and the high representative have today adopted their 24th annual report to the european parliament and the council on political and economic developments in the macao special administrative region. this report covers developments in 2023. fbi revoked the staffer's clearance for what it called "questionable judgment" when it came to the agency's investigations into the attack on the u.s. capitol. north korea’s motive remains unclear, and yonhap news didn’t say how high or wide the walls were. parisians are using the social control media app to vent their displeasure with hosting the games   and to send warnings to tourists. here is how north korea russia relations began and how ties have warmed in recent years. mr putin is expected to visit north korea "in the coming days". this weekend’s summit on peace in ukraine is a misnomer. it’s not about an immediate end to the war but about finding ways to strengthen ukraine’s hand so that it heads to the negotiating table on its own terms and timing, and that we have a reasonable chance of a peace that is both acceptable and durable. hosted by switzerland, it will bring together leaders from about 100 countries ranging from germany and france to japan and southeast asian nations. "the song is about a disaffected vietnam veteran who's been chewed up and spat out by his country, but the guy in that song is also claiming his citizenship of america," steven hyden, author of "there was nothing you could do: bruce springsteen's 'born in the u.s.a.' and the end of the heartland," explained in an interview with pop culture website the ringer. "he's not disavowing america. he's not saying, 'i'm leaving the usa.' he's saying, 'i was born in the usa,'" hyden added. european intelligence accused moscow of supporting pro russian candidates, many on the far right of the political spectrum, but also some on the far left, among other influence operations. moscow, in turn, has tried to undermine the democratic legitimacy of the elections. as reported by afp, the iaea has informed its member states that iran is installing more cascades at enrichment facilities in natanz and fordow. cascades are a series of centrifuge machines used to enrich uranium. iran has been criticised many times over its lack of cooperation with the nuclear agency and has also been accused of removing cctv footage, refusing entry to iaea officials and more. more than 60 court rulings have rejected trump’s false claim that the election he lost was rigged and riddled with fraud. yet trump still contends, with no credible evidence, that he was reelected in 2020. millions of americans believe him, undermining public faith in our democracy and in biden’s legitimacy. alarmingly, trump is now saying he might not accept the november election result if he loses to biden again. trump is even warning that his followers might resort to violence to put him back in the white house, as they did in the deadly riot at the capitol on jan. 6, 2021. preserving our democracy and the freedoms democracy gives us is the central issue of the 2024 election. by refusing to accept his election defeat, trump has shown his contempt for democracy and his desire to rule as an authoritarian. the air force is “very close” to being able to rapidly update electronic warfare systems with fresh battlefield data in a matter of hours, one of the service’s commanders said wednesday. officers from the commission, police, the immigration department and the anti terrorism unit in april swooped on a chinese run business in an upmarket suburb of lusaka, arresting the 77, including those sentenced friday. authorities recovered over 13,000 local and foreign mobile phone sim cards, two firearms and 78 rounds of ammunition during the raid. donald trump has yet again denied that he called people who gave their life in the service of their country “suckers” and “losers.” but he said those things and now he wants to goad the military into voting for him as a “revolt.” in yet another airliner scandal, boeing and airbus jets have been manufactured using titanium sold with forged documentation. the problem was uncovered after a parts supplier found small holes in the material from corrosion. whether the parts are usable despite the faked paperwork is being investigated by the f.a.a. why did this happen? the companies outsourced their manufacturing to china, and what manufacturing remains in the united states has been subject to intense cost cutting. outsourcing and cost cutting often mean lower quality, more errors and more cover ups. emergency officials across mexico are dealing with both a northern heat wave with 50 degree celsius temps and heavy rains in the southeast. we explain how new guidelines in the financial sector will make the industry more transparent wire manufacturer nexans is mixing increasing amounts of discarded copper into its products in an effort to meet the rising demand for the metal, which is expected to nearly double by 2035. the company’s copper rods now contain 14% recycled copper. in order to promote the development of the cryptoassets market in latvia by establishing a regulatory framework for its operation, the saeima adopted the cryptoassets services law, as well as related amendments to seven other laws, in its final reading on thursday, june 13. dan had made history in 1971 by revealing the top secret pentagon papers, exposing the constant litany of official lies that accompanied the u.s. escalation of the vietnam war. in response, the government used the blunderbuss of the world war i era espionage act to prosecute him. at age 41, he faced a possible prison sentence of more than 100 years. but his trial ended abruptly with all charges dismissed when the nixon administration’s illegal interference in the case came to light in mid 1972. five decades later, he reflected: “looking back, the chance that i would get out of 12 felony counts from richard nixon was close to zero. it was a miracle.” “our first step is to identify the full range of sites for installation and then phase them,” weber said. “we will prioritize which ones we can start right away and then phase into others that might need a little more prep to get the sites ready. but we anticipate a lot of activity starting in 2025 if not sooner.” the encrypted album was made available today through a dedicated website for $1, with each purchase shortening the 2103 release date by 88 days. for now, buyers have received snippets of the album while they await the full release   whenever that date arrives. forty years passed, with pneumatic tires nowhere to be seen. solid rubber tires gained some popularity for farm vehicles; thomson himself patented a solid rubber tire in 1867, six years before he died. but the big thing that changed around that time was the fact that humans began pushing themselves around on wheels   instead of being dragged in carriages by horses. in one corner of the internet, professional trimmers grind and buff away at cow hooves to the delight of millions of spellbound social control media users. a popular term captures the condition of being terminally online, with humor and pathos. officers found an axe and kitchen knife, thought to have been used to butcher the animal. the competition council (kp) has imposed a fine of eur 34,490 on the lighting merchant mirastyle for a cartel in price fixing and market division, kp said on june 13. banks in lithuania will have to offer their customers the opportunity to pick the type of interest on mortgages, presenting them with both variable and fixed rate options. a new report from bloomberg suggests stubhub is working closely with various banks on its planned ipo which could launch as early as next month. supermarket inflation has fallen to its lowest level in two years, but some food and drink is bucking the trend the president has tried to shift blame for inflation, interest rate hikes, and an overall decimation of consumers' purchasing power. as in lithuania, the istanbul convention was a hot issue in both latvia and estonia. however, the two baltic countries have ratified the convention and the apocalypse did not happen, experts say. “i’ve lived the experience of a black woman who is attacked and over sexualized,” the prosecutor, fani willis, told leaders of the african methodist episcopal church on thursday. the investigation of prof. nadera shalhoub kevorkian of hebrew university has prompted a debate inside israel about the repression of free speech and academic freedoms since the war began. lithuanian president gitanas nausėda on thursday signed a decree dismissing monika navickienė from her position as social security and labour minister, his office said. the chinese ministry of commerce has sponsored training programs overseas on trade, information security technologies, and more. beijing uses these training programs to make a case for its authoritarian capitalism. is it working? last december, the united nations (un) security council unanimously agreed to consider case by case requests from the african union (au) for un funding for peacekeeping operations on the continent. the un security council on thursday demanded an end to the siege of el fasher in sudan's darfur region, where fighting between government and paramilitary forces has provoked a humanitarian crisis. two of beijing’s state offices in hong kong have hit back at a british judge who said the city was turning into a “totalitarian state” after resigning from the court of final appeal. microsoft plans to invest 6.69 billion euros ($7.16 billion) to develop new data centres in spain's northeastern region of aragon, which is becoming a major cloud computing hub within europe. left unanswered on monday: which company is paying the other as part of a tight collaboration that has potentially lasting monetary benefits for both. but, according to people briefed on the matter, the partnership isn’t expected to generate meaningful revenue for either party   at least at the outset. switzerland is ramping up security for the ukraine summit this weekend, deploying 4,000 troops to shield against physical threats, cyberattacks, and misinformation. the luxurious burgenstock resort, perched on a mountain ridge above lake lucerne, is fortified with kilometers of fencing and barbed wire, while a temporary military heliport has been established nearby. beyond physical security, swiss intelligence is also tackling cyber threats and a wave of misinformation. the statement stresses that the allies have “full confidence in moldova’s ability to manage these threats linked to the kremlin’s interference,” and are making the statement “in defense of our shared democratic values.” according to the allies, moscow is providing support to its preferred candidates in october’s election and agitating against the incumbent president maia sandu, with the intention of inciting protests should a pro russia candidate not win. the european court of human rights (echr) ruled on thursday that azerbaijan violated speech protections under the european convention on human rights when it blocked the websites several news outlets in 2017   2018. the case concerns azerbaijan’s complete blocking of the websites azadliq.org, anaxeber.az, az24saat.org and xural.com in 2017 2018. the journalist, truong huy san   known to many by his pen name, huy duc   was taken into custody last week, according to a prominent vietnamese blogger. but there was no official confirmation until friday night, when state news media reported that the ministry of public security was investigating mr. san for his facebook posts. there were no details on the content of the posts. a hong kong man was denied bail under the city’s new domestic security law after he allegedly wore a t shirt with a banned protest slogan and a yellow mask. sources indicate that mahta sadri's arrest was prompted by a story she posted on her instagram page concerning president ebrahim raisi's death. of course, the most important law governing content takedown demands was passed much, much earlier. i’m not talking about the cda and section 203 immunity. no, it’s a law that required no input from legislators or lobbyists. the law of unintended consequences has been in full force since the beginning of time. but it’s never considered to be part of the legislative process, despite hundreds of years of precedence. so, while the consequences are unintended, they should definitely be expected. somehow, they never are. ai overviews could cause havoc, but algorithm updates are biggest current surveillance giant google threat to publishers. the amazon founder has expressed his support to will lewis, the c.e.o., who has faced widespread criticism this month. investigation reveals widespread rollout of hey hi (ai) overviews on news related surveillance giant google queries. ceo and editor in chief rozina breen has warned of £250,000 funding shortfall. the party tipped to form the next government avoids discussing the media in its manifesto. based on five categories, the index evaluates press freedom in 180 countries and ranks them from freest to least. in the overall global rankings, norway remains number one. its scandinavian neighbors, as well as the netherlands, switzerland, new zealand, jamaica, belgium, and costa rica, are among the top ten nations that best uphold press freedom. meanwhile, the united states has fallen from 45th position in 2023 to 55th in 2024, landing one notch after belize and one before gabon. the day after slovak prime minister robert fico was shot on may 15, the heads of 27 news outlets condemned the attack and called on politicians not to further divide society by looking for culprits. “just like after the murder of our colleague ján kuciak and his fiancée martina kušnírová, we are once again at a crossroads,” they said in a joint statement, referencing the 2018 killing of kuciak, likely in retaliation for his journalism on corruption. “this heinous act must not trigger further aggression, verbal attacks and revenge … we must all try to defuse the situation. otherwise, tension and violence will escalate.” in slovakia, journalists have long endured verbal attacks and harassment from across the political spectrum, including under the pro western administration that ruled before fico returned to power for the fourth time in october 2023. almost immediately after the attempted assassination of slovakian prime minister robert fico on may 15, members of the ruling coalition blamed the attack on journalists by linking it to their critical coverage and issued retaliatory threats. freedom of information law is brilliant! it allows ordinary people to ask questions of the powerful and get solid answers. sometimes these questions are sensible and journalistic. sometimes they're vexatious. sometimes they're a little silly. what is julian assange in prison for? he is in prison for showing the truth about our wars, in iraq, afghanistan and elsewhere. war and lies are very closely related. julian assange has not been charged with any crime in the uk, elsewhere in europe, or in his native australia. he is in custody solely because the u.s. is demanding his extradition to face charges under a draconian world war 1 espionage act and imprison him for the rest of his life. but assange is not a spy, he is a journalist and has acted as such. if he were extradited and convicted, it would set a dangerous precedent. every journalist on earth in the future would have to fear being imprisoned for life as a spy for revealing dirty secrets of governments. that would be the end of freedom of the press as we know it. what is julian assange in prison for? he is in prison for showing the truth about our wars, in iraq, afghanistan and elsewhere. war and lies are very closely related. wars cannot be fought without lies because most populations reject these wars as soon as they know the truth about them. governments never tell the truth about their wars, because otherwise they lose the support of the population. embedded journalists do not tell us the truth about the wars. after the disaster of the vietnam war, various concepts have been developed to allow journalists to go to war theaters only embedded, accompanied by the respective military. we saw this in iraq, we saw it in afghanistan and elsewhere. only a few journalists had the opportunity to look behind the scenes. that is why leaks, confidential sources and journalists like julian assange are so important. on 13 june, the justice and home affairs council, composed of eu member states’ ministers of the interior, will discuss the recommendations of the high level group (hlg) on access to data for effective law enforcement (“going dark”). this blogpost provides a short analysis of the hlg’s recommendations and a summary of its procedural flaws. the post high level group “going dark” outcome: a mission failure appeared first on european digital rights (edri). doctors cannot claim an injury to challenge gun control laws because their patients may be affected by gun violence. the eu’s top court on thursday fined hungary 200 million euros ($216 million) and imposed a daily one million euro penalty for failing to follow the bloc’s asylum laws and illegally deporting migrants, a decision budapest slammed as “unacceptable”. a coalition of advocacy groups filed a federal lawsuit on wednesday challenging a new biden administration rule that effectively bans many asylum seekers from protection based on where and how they entered the us. the us supreme court on thursday unanimously struck down a bid by pro life advocates to restrict the availability of abortion drug mifepristone. reproductive rights laws have shifted wildly in the two years since the us supreme court decided to overturn roe v. wade, the 1973 decision that held abortion was a constitutionally enshrined right. residents report arrests, fines and extortion since crackdown on overseas internet began last month. spacex and its ceo elon musk have been sued by eight engineers who say they were fired illegally for raising concerns about alleged sexual harassment and discrimination against women. the engineers   four women and four men   claim musk ordered their firing in 2022 after they circulated a letter calling the billionaire a “distraction and embarrassment” and urging executives to disavow sexually charged comments he had made on social media. the lawsuit was filed in state court in los angeles. we spoke to the four tops singer on "tmz live" thursday ... and he claims he was sent for a psych exam at michigan's ascension macomb oakland hospital last april    where he alleges that white staffers, doubting his fame, put him in a straitjacket. alexander says instead of receiving proper care at the hospital after falling ill over the easter weekend, he was left in the hallway for 3 hours ... this was detailed in his lawsuit, btw. the lawsuit filed in state court in san francisco by two women claims apple systematically underpays female workers in its engineering, marketing, and applecare divisions, according to a release from the lawyers. the monument commemorates her leadership in the combahee river raid. on june 2, 1863, she became the first woman to command a major military operation in the united states. she led 150 black union soldiers into war, and their efforts led to the liberation of 700 people. a fake news article suggested that beneficiaries would get an immediate $600 payment increase. the first big segment of 2africa, a massive submarine cable system backed by meta platforms, is live, connecting south africa with kenya. “the initial phase of activation connects kenya, tanzania and south africa, heralding a new era of high speed, reliable internet access,” airtel telesonic, the wholesale arm of airtel africa, said in a statement on wednesday. when completed, the 45 000km 2africa system will encircle africa and connect countries across the continent with europe and asia. as the old saying goes, "when someone tells you who they are and you get fooled again, shame on you." that goes double for microsoft, especially when it comes to security promises. microsoft is, was, always has been, and always will be a rotten company. at every turn, throughout their history, they have learned the wrong lessons, over and over again. amazon's gesture comes as big tech companies are under increased scrutiny from antitrust regulators over whether they are stifling competition in the emerging ai market. juve patent has published an article written by jessica l.a. marks, sep & foreign managing counsel at unified patents, over the growing presence of us based patent assertion entities (paes) spreading into europe. eight out of the top ten most active npes in europe are us based companies. tilmann büttner is no stranger to the german patent monopoly scene. in 2021 and 2022, both the finland market court and the supreme court of ireland referred questions to the cjeu concerning the scope of the supplementary protection certificate regulation with regard to combination drug products. on june 14, 2024, less than three weeks after unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the central reexamination unit (cru) granted unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of u.s. patent 7,949,785, owned by intellectual ventures ii llc. it’s hard to argue against that. “tour de france” is certainly a unique enough phrase to be deserving of trademark protection in the sports and apparel markets. but “tour de” on its own most certainly is not. and since that’s the only commonality between the marks in this case, you can see the court’s point in siding with fitx. convicted pharmaceutical exec martin shkreli faces legal action over releasing mp3s of a one of a kind wu tang album forfeited after his fraud conviction. regard’s ‘ride it,’ the viral remix of jay sean’s 2008 track of the same name, is the focus of an infringement lawsuit over an uncleared sample. the company behind notorious anti tamper technology denuvo, filed an interesting dmca takedown notice at github this week. according to irdeto, unnamed parties cloned the company's website, registered a similar domain, and ran their own mail server behind the scenes. a short investigation by tf suggests that the culprits may have known irdeto would attempt to track them down and may have left easter eggs along the way. popular torrent site torrentgalaxy has gone 'offline' overnight. while downtime is quite common for pirate sites, a mysterious statement by the team is open for interpretation, leading some to believe that it will not return anytime soon. since the site is a prominent source of new movie and tv show releases, this is a big deal. but as the industry booms, questions have been raised over how ai companies obtain the data used to train their models, and whether feeding them bestselling books and hollywood movies without their creators' permission amounts to a breach of copyright. the dramatic impact of google‘s ai written summaries on search result visibility for publishers has been revealed through exclusive new research. a press gazette led investigation has found that ai written summaries were returned for nearly a quarter of news related search queries in mid may in the us, with the result that organic links to publisher articles were pushed far down the page. i turned yesterday’s blog post (just randomly grabbing for some actual text) into a tweet, and then saw there’s an option to create a “pitch.” i’ve been exploring different work opportunities lately and wondered what the heck it would suggest for a pitch for copywriting work… and this is what it gave me. it’s pretty good. i went for “humorous” tone:

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trump administration supported by in a new book, dr. anthony s. fauci recounts a career advising seven presidents. the chapter about donald j. trump is titled “he loves me, he loves me not.” by sheryl gay stolberg sheryl gay stolberg covers health policy and politics. three months into the coronavirus pandemic, dr. anthony s. fauci was at home in northwest washington when he answered his cellphone to president donald j. trump screaming at him in an expletive laden rant. he had incurred the president’s wrath by remarking that the vaccines under development might not provide long lasting immunity. that was the day, june 3, 2020, “that i first experienced the brunt of the president’s rage,” dr. fauci writes in his forthcoming autobiography. dr. fauci has long been circumspect in describing his feelings toward mr. trump. but in the book, “on call: a doctor’s journey in public service,” he writes with candor about their relationship, which he describes as “complicated.” in a chapter entitled “he loves me, he loves me not,” dr. fauci described how mr. trump repeatedly told him he “loved” him while at the same time excoriating him with tirades flecked with four letter words. “the president was irate, saying that i could not keep doing this to him,” dr. fauci wrote. “he said he loved me, but the country was in trouble, and i was making it worse. he added that the stock market went up only 600 points in response to the positive phase 1 vaccine news, and it should have gone up 1,000 points, and so i cost the country ‘one trillion dollars.’” (the president added an expletive.) “i have a pretty thick skin,” dr. fauci added, “but getting yelled at by the president of the united states, no matter how much he tells you that he loves you, is not fun.”

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