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The Make America Healthy Again summit, attended by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and vice-president JD Vance, gave a sense of what’s driving US health policy.

Texto foi aprovado na Câmara dos Deputados nesta terça (18). Ele ainda precisa passar pelo Senado e pela sanção do presidente Lula antes de virar lei.

"O projeto enfraquece essas operações. Não apenas asfixia financeiramente a Polícia Federal para os próximos anos, como cria uma série de expedientes frágeis que vão ser utilizados pelos advogados do andar de cima do crime organizado para obter vantagens no Judiciário, que vai ter que respeitar a nova lei se ela for aprovada",

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"Há casos até de bebês com meses de idade já endividados", diz o advogado João do Vale, integrante da Anced (Associação Brasileira de Defesa da Criança e do Adolescente).

Pesquisador em litígios coletivos da USP, Vale teve acesso a um levantamento do INSS que revela 15 casos envolvendo menores de um ano apenas em 2022.

Em um deles, a criança nasceu em maio e, em dezembro, já tinha uma dívida de R$ 15.593 em seu nome a ser paga em 84 parcelas. Em outro, um bebê de três meses "contraiu" um empréstimo via cartão de crédito de R$ 1.650… - Veja mais em https://tab.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2025/11/17/inss-liberou-em-nome-de-criancas-r-12-bilhoes-em-emprestimos-consignados.htm

The fact that Sam Altman is a liar is no longer news. As I argued here in late 2023, Altman truly was fired for being “not completely candid” — just like the board said. Recent books by Karen Hao and Keach Hagey pretty much confirm this. I dissected his 2023 Senate testimony here.

But just in case any one was seriously still in doubt a just-released 62-page deposition from Ilya Sutskever ought to seal the deal:

But it is no longer about lying to employees. It is about directly lying to the American public. Events of the last couple days surrounding Wednesday OpenAI’s CFO Sarah Friar’s call for loan guarantees have brought things to a new level.

The very idea – of having the US government bail out OpenAI from their reckless spending — is outrageous, as I explained here:

In a letter to investors dated October 27, a copy of which was seen by Reuters, Burry said he would liquidate the funds and return capital, "but for a small audit/tax holdback" by the end of the year. A person directly familiar with the matter confirmed the contents of the letter.

In a post on X on Wednesday, Burry said, "On to much better things Nov 25th." Scion Asset Management did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Burry has stepped up criticism of technology heavyweights, including Nvidia (NVDA.O) , opens new tab and Palantir Technologies , in recent weeks, questioning the cloud infrastructure boom and accusing major providers of using aggressive accounting to inflate profits from their massive hardware investments.

Burry has argued that as companies such as Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab, Alphabet-owned Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab, Oracle (ORCL.N), opens new tab and Meta (META.O) , opens new tab pour billions into Nvidia chips and servers, they are also quietly stretching out depreciation schedules to make earnings look smoother. Between 2026 and 2028, those accounting choices could understate depreciation by about $176 billion, inflating reported profits across the sector, he estimated. AI-related stocks have accounted for 75% of the S&P 500 index's (.SPX) , opens new tab returns since November 2022, when OpenAI launched ChatGPT, JPMorgan Asset Management wrote in September.

From publishing falsehoods to pushing far-right ideology, Grokipedia gives chatroom comments equal status to research

Documentos internos apontam que plataformas da empresa, como Facebook e Instagram, exibiram todos os dias até 15 bilhões de anúncios com fortes indícios de fraude. Redes só bloqueiam contas quando o algoritmo aponta 95% de certeza de fraude.

Projeto visa derrubar resolução de 2024 do Conselho Nacional da Criança e Adolescente. Resolução dá diretrizes para aborto nos casos previstos em lei.

Could space-based data centers be the answer to Earth's energy and cooling challenges? NVIDIA's H100 GPU is leading the charge in orbit.

I've been following the struggle of bearblog developer to manage the current war between bot scrapers and people who are trying to keep a safe and human oriented internet. What is lemmy doing about bot scrapers?

Some context from bearblog dev

The great scrape

https://herman.bearblog.dev/the-great-scrape/

LLMs feed on data. Vast quantities of text are needed to train these models, which are in turn receiving valuations in the billions. This data is scraped from the broader internet, from blogs, websites, and forums, without the author's permission and all content being opt-in by default.

Needless to say, this is unethical. But as Meta has proven, it's much easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. It is unlikely they will be ordered to "un-train" their next generation models due to some copyright complaints.

Aggressive bots ruined my weekend

https://herman.bearblog.dev/agressive-bots/

It's more dangerous than ever to self-host, since simple mistakes in configurations will likely be found and exploited. In the last 24 hours I've blocked close to 2 million malicious requests across several hundred blogs.

What's wild is that these scrapers rotate through thousands of IP addresses during their scrapes, which leads me to suspect that the requests are being tunnelled through apps on mobile devices, since the ASNs tend to be cellular networks. I'm still speculating here, but I think app developers have found another way to monetise their apps by offering them for free, and selling tunnel access to scrapers