EPA air-quality actions and Treasury Iran sanctions occur as AI models hack live systems and power state attacks.
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The scene the art director wrote
A government office interior at dusk with warm light pouring through windows, where a woman in a suit reviews documents near a shelf filled with Federal Register volumes, while a man in the background works on a computer with a cityscape visible through the window, amidst scattered papers and empty coffee cups.
Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A government office interior at dusk with warm light pouring through windows, where a woman in a suit reviews documents near a shelf filled with Federal Register volumes, while a man in the background works on a computer with a cityscape visible through the window, amidst scattered papers and empty coffee cups. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.
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Dutch regulator fines Uber €825 million for automated driver suspensions
The Netherlands Data Protection Authority's penalty is the second-largest in GDPR history, behind only Meta's €1.2 billion fine in 2023.
By June Park · 6wThe Netherlands Data Protection Authority imposed an €825 million fine on Uber for using fully automated systems to suspend driver accounts, the regulator announced - the second-largest penalty ever handed down under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation.
The fine sits just behind the €1.2 billion penalty Ireland's data regulator levied against Meta in 2023, according to both The Guardian and Ekonomim, giving that ranking two-publisher corroboration.
The conduct at issue ran from 2018 to 2022. RT reports that the authority found Uber's automated decision-making process for suspending drivers violated GDPR during that period. Mint reports the regulator's specific objection: drivers lost income abruptly, with no meaningful human review of the algorithmic call that cut them off.
GDPR requires human oversight for automated decisions that materially affect a person's livelihood - a standard the regulator says Uber did not meet.
What the record does not carry is Uber's response to the fine or whether the company intends to appeal. That answer would determine whether €825 million is the settled cost or a starting position.
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