Jaipur, Dec 28 (PTI) The state units of the ruling BJP and opposition Congress sparred over the dissolution of nine districts and three divisions by the Rajasthan government on Saturday. While the Congress has criticised the decision and called it anti-people and undemocratic, the BJP alleged that the previous Congress government had created these districts for political gain. The state cabinet on Saturday decided to dissolve nine new districts and three divisions that were formed by the previous Ashok Gehlot government. However, eight new districts have been retained. The previous Congress government had formed 17 new districts and three new divisions. It had also issued a notification for three new districts, which is also being cancelled by the Bhajan Lal Sharma government. Congress state president Govind Singh Dotasra and Leader of Opposition Tika Ram Jully also slammed the decision. "We strongly condemn this decision and the Congress party and the common people of Rajasthan will protest against this decision. There are winter holidays in the court. Such a decision was taken hastily so that no one could go to the court and could not even file a PIL. If required, we will also approach the court," Dotasra told reporters at a press conference. Jully said that the Congress will start a mass movement to get the government to revert the decision. "We will raise voices against the decision in the assembly. From the road to the assembly, we will not let BJP sit in peace. This decision is anti-people. They have killed the rights of the people." Cabinet ministers Avinash Gehlot and Sumit Godara called the opposition's comments "childish and absurd". Avinash Gehlot said that the Congress had created these districts for political gains just ahead of elections. Godara said the BJP government has dissolved the districts in public interest. The of the government is to carry out welfare works that help the entire state. The Bhajanlal Sharma government has fulfilled 50 per cent of its election promises in the first year itself, he added. (This story has not been edited by THE WEEK and is auto-generated from PTI)Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are bringing Trump's DOGE to Capitol Hill
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RADFORD, Va. (AP) — Jarvis Moss scored 15 points and Jonas Sirtautas had a go-ahead three-point play in overtime to help Radford hold off Bucknell 74-70 on Sunday night. Sirtautas gave the Highlanders the lead for good with 2:38 left in the extra period. Moss shot 4 of 13 from the field, including 2 for 7 from 3-point range, and went 5 for 6 from the line for the Highlanders (9-2). Josiah Harris scored 12 points and added five rebounds. Achile Spadone led the Bison (4-7) in scoring, finishing with 22 points and two steals. Bucknell also got 19 points and four assists from Josh Bascoe. Noah Williamson had nine points. Bascoe's layup with 12 seconds left forced overtime tied at 59. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .The Walt Disney Company saw its fair share of disasters in 2024, even as Hollywood’s biggest studio continued to wield enormous power across media and politics. Disney repeatedly attacked now-President-elect Donald Trump throughout the campaign cycle, resulting in a bad year for ABC News. The studio saw its biggest streaming show of the year flop with subscribers, yet another ominous sign for the Disney+ service. And Disney closed out the year with a major box-office bomb. For CEO Bob Iger, 2024 was something of a transition period as the company continued in recovery mode following two financially difficult years. Iger swung the ax yet again across multiple Disney properties, with layoffs at Pixar, ABC News, NatGeo, and more. Last year, Iger laid off 7,000 workers worldwide, or three percent of its workforce, as the company’s financials tanked. Disney can take solace in the success of its blockbuster sequels — Inside Out 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine were the two top-grossing movies of the year. But for every Moana 2 that rakes in a fortune, Disney also lays a giant egg, further sullying the studio’s formerly sterling reputation. Here are Disney’s biggest disasters for 2024. The Acolyte With a budget that one estimate put at close to a quarter of a billion dollars, Disney’s latest Star Wars spin-off series aimed to be a streaming blockbuster that would help drive subscriptions. Instead, the series tanked with viewers and was canceled after just one season. Who’s to blame? Most critics pointed to its weak and pointless story, unengaging main actress Amandla Stenberg pointlessly playing two twins, and pointless virtue signaling (a coven of lesbian witches saying they are not welcome in the galaxy, the casting of a transgender actor in a supporting role, and showrunner Leslye Headland herself, who promoted the series as the “ gayest Star Wars ” ever). Disney+ Woes The Acolyte ‘s failure is emblematic of the entire streaming service Disney+, whose original and exclusive content has not resulted in the market dominance Iger had hoped for. As the year drew to a close, headline after headline signaled trouble for the content platform. In September, Disney slashed prices for new subscribers to $1.99 a month, hoping to boost its Q4 numbers. This month, an ad industry expert reported that companies are pulling their dollars from Disney+ due to unimpressive subscriber numbers, and Disney was shut out on the streaming charts by Netflix, Amazon, Paramount+, and even Peacock. Mufasa: The Lion King In what was supposed to be a box-office slam dunk, this “live action” prequel to The Lion King opened to a hugely disappointing $35 million — way off from the already muted expectation of $50 million. The movie could still find its legs, but the opening was a catastrophe for Disney, which was hoping to turn The Lion King into its own movie franchise. ABC News The Disney-owned news network face-planted hard during the presidential campaign. First, debate anchors David Muir and Linsey Davis put their fingers on the scale in favor of Kamala Harris, resulting in a rigged match that was too obvious to ignore. Muir paid the price — his World News Tonight ratings tanked the week after the debate. Then, host George Stephanopoulos stepped in it when he defamed Trump on-air, resulting in a more than $15 million settlement. The Bob Iger wing of the Trump presidential library is going to look grand. Looking Ahead As 2025 approaches, Disney is readying to launch one of its biggest titles: Snow White, starring Rachel Zegler, opens in less than three months. In February, Pixar will release its first-ever TV series, Win or Lose . Both projects have made major changes to appeal more to non-woke audiences. Follow David Ng on Twitter @HeyItsDavidNg . Have a tip? Contact me at dng@breitbart.com
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November 21, 2024 This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlightedthe following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: fact-checked proofread by Mary Fetzer and Francisco Tutella, Pennsylvania State University Police radio transmissions contain personally identifiable information that could pose privacy risks for members of the public, especially Black males, according to a new study by researchers at Penn State and the University of Chicago. "This study provides a window into police activity as events unfold," said Shomir Wilson, associate professor of information sciences and technology at Penn State and study co-author. "We found that because police radio transmissions disproportionately involve Black suspects, there's a proportionally higher privacy risk for Black people in these communications." The researchers studied a total of 24 hours of human-transcribed and annotated broadcast police communications transmitted on a single day in three Chicago dispatch zones, or regions used to coordinate police activity. According to U.S. census data, one zone was majority non-Hispanic white, one majority Hispanic and one majority non-Hispanic Black. The team found that broadcast police communications mentioned males nine times more frequently than females and that Black males were most often mentioned of all groups, even in the majority white zone. The researchers presented their findings at the 27th Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing on Nov. 9-13 in Costa Rica. The team received a diversity, equity and inclusion recognition from the conference's awards committee. "The typical police radio transmission is short and serves a coordinating purpose, something like "Car 54, where are you?'" said Chris Graziul, research assistant professor at the University of Chicago, study co-author and one of two principal investigators leading the project. "These transmissions try to communicate what's happening and describe who's involved. In the process, sensitive information is often disclosed." The researchers obtained 9,115 transmissions—what they called "utterances"—that occurred when police or dispatch communicated via radio broadcast. They manually transcribed the transmissions and then randomly chose 2,000 utterances from across the three zones to analyze further. They developed a qualitative annotation scheme to label the text. They divided the annotated data into six categories, ranging from event information, such as "residential alarm break in" or "traffic stop," and procedural transmissions, such as the "Car 54" example, to casual transmissions like "Morning, squad." The researchers found that event utterances contained the most references—about 60%—to gender, race/ethnicity, age and protected health information , which can be used to identify individuals. Nearly 68% of utterances that included a sociodemographic indicator used male gendered terms, and approximately 69% of those utterances referred to Black people, according to the researchers. "Our findings contribute to a larger body of evidence about racial disparities in policing. What is novel here is the data source : radio transmissions," Graziul said. "Despite prolific use by police systems around the world, few have explored what this means of communication can tell us about how policing operates in practice. "Disproportionate mentions of Black people reflect a novel way to observe how officers' attention is unevenly distributed across racial/ethnic groups, and identifying this disparity helps us understand challenges to the ethical use of this data source for research, like preventing leakage of sensitive personal information, which would impact Black communities substantially more than other communities." Discover the latest in science, tech, and space with over 100,000 subscribers who rely on Phys.org for daily insights. Sign up for our free newsletter and get updates on breakthroughs, innovations, and research that matter— daily or weekly . After examining the utterances, the team tested a large language model (LLM), a widely used artificial intelligence tool, to determine its capacity to find personal information in the transcripts. Despite the unique nature of the language involved with broadcast police communications, the LLM detected personally identifiable information with high accuracy, highlighting the risk of privacy vulnerability. Bad actors, such as identity thieves, could use AI technology to quickly find and misuse the personal information in transcripts of police radio activity, according to the researchers. "This work reveals a concerning trend of racial inequality in terms of the exposure of sensitive information during police radio transmissions," said Pranav Narayanan Venkit, graduate student pursuing a doctoral degree in informatics in the College of Information Sciences and Technology and first author on the paper. "This study may help researchers and developers give more thought to interactions between LLM and different segments of society—the policing community, minority populations and various other populations—to identify biases and protect personal information." Miranda Goodman, who graduated with her bachelor's degree from Penn State this past summer, and fourth-year Penn State student Samantha Kenny also contributed to this work. More information: Pranav Narayanan Venkit et al, Race and Privacy in Broadcast Police Communications, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (2024). DOI: 10.1145/3686921 Provided byPennsylvania State University