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A Black Ohio man said he is "traumatized" after police released a K-9 on him during a traffic stop during an investigation of a vehicle that was mistakenly believed to have been stolen, body camera footage shows.

The Toledo branch of the NAACP this week called the release of the police dog "unwarranted" and "inhumane."

Brandon Upchurch, 38, of Toledo, told ABC News he was bitten seven times on his forearm and elbow by the K-9 after being pulled over on April 11 and has been unable to work since.

"My elbow was already messed up," he told ABC News correspondent Ike Ejiochi. "I can't do anythi

The message from the police in Southern California was alarming: a deadly viper had been spotted in a tree.

The follow-up was a relief and a little bit funny, but alarming in a different way: The image that was offered as evidence of this rare sighting was fake --- it had been generated by artificial intelligence.

"We have received reports of a snake believed to be a Gaboon Viper, last seen in a tree within a residential neighborhood," the police in Santa Ana, southeast of Los Angeles, [said in their initial alert](https://www.facebook.com/santaanapd/posts/pfbid0RhGBVTsTuH5dirT147ZCXhEmxKSeR

A catastrophic incident caused by an AI coding agent resulted in around 48,000 files being deleted and the repository's Git object database getting destroyed in the process.

The news of the fiasco, which first surfaced on Reddit, quickly spread throughout the internet, to a mix of laughter and facepalming from the developer community.

A software developer posted a new thread on Reddit to share a recent experience. They tasked an AI coding assistant with a series of repairs to a collection of

A few days ago, an X user called роман---which is Russian for the name "Roman"---posted a purported Mother Jones video that reported that the Democratic National Committee paid a whopping $259 million to Mark Thompson, the head of CNN, so the cable news network would promote "gender transition among children." The video---falsely branded with a Mother Jones logo---noted that CNN had aired "8,970 reports, programs, and shows that in one way or another promote gender transition among minors" and that the basis for this story were personal emails from Thompson pilfered by Anonymous, the hacke

BEIJING, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Chinese startup Z.ai said on Monday it had disabled some features of its flagship AI coding assistant ​after some users reported it was uploading entire local code repositories onto overseas cloud servers without their consent.

Beijing-based ‌Z.ai, also known as Zhipu, apologised in a social media post after Chinese developers last week wrote on social media that its ZCode had uploaded their code data from open-source developer platform Git to Alibaba Cloud.

Z.ai referred Reuters to its public statements when asked for further comment on the ​incident.

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