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With the DNC, Democrats finally understand that content is king​The Verge – All Posts​
With the DNC, Democrats finally understand that content is king​The Verge – All Posts​

Lil Jon joins the Georgia delegation at the DNC roll call to raucous applause. | Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images

Compare clips from the Democratic National Convention, which kicked off on Monday in Chicago, to the Republican National Convention in July. They feel like different universes.
At the RNC, during the roll call of votes nominating Donald Trump, states were called out to scattered applause along with the number of votes. The room is mostly quiet, and it sounds more like a jury delivering bad news than it does a political party affirming its future.
The DNC roll call, meanwhile, included a playlist of music related to each state — like “Sweet Home Alabama” for Alabama and “Not Like Us” by Kendrick Lamar for his home state of California. Delegates huddled around microphones, screaming and cheering as they announced their support for Vice…

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Telecom will pay $1 million over deepfake Joe Biden robocall​The Verge – All Posts​
Telecom will pay $1 million over deepfake Joe Biden robocall​The Verge – All Posts​

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A telecom company that transmitted the deepfake robocall of President Joe Biden’s voice has agreed to pay $1 million to resolve an enforcement action from the Federal Communications Commission, the agency announced.
Lingo Telecom relayed a fake Biden message to New Hampshire voters in January, urging them not to turn out for the Democratic primary. The FCC identified political consultant Steve Kramer as the person behind the generative AI calls and previously proposed Kramer pay a separate $6 million fine.
Under the new settlement with Lingo, the FCC said the company will need to strictly adhere to its caller ID authentication rules, including “know your customer” principles. The FCC will also require Lingo to “more thoroughly verify the…

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Summer blackouts are increasing in the US​The Verge – All Posts​
Summer blackouts are increasing in the US​The Verge – All Posts​

A line worker tends to fallen power lines in the East End neighborhood of Houston, days after Hurricane Beryl made landfall, on Thursday, July 11th, 2024. | Raquel Natalicchio / Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

The US has dealt with 60 percent more weather-related outages during warmer months over the past decade than it did during the 2000s, according to data crunched by the nonprofit research organization Climate Central.
It’s a trend that raises health risks as the planet heats up. Climate change supercharges disasters like storms and wildfires that often cut off power. Soaring demand for air conditioning also stresses out the grid. All of this can leave people without life-saving cooling or electric medical devices at times when they’re most vulnerable.

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Climate Central collected data from the Department of Energy on outages that took place between 2000 and 2023. It looked specifically at periods…

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