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As Israel and Iran trade blows in a quickly escalating conflict that risks engulfing the rest of the region as well as a more direct confrontation between Iran and the U.S., social media is being flooded with AI-generated media that claims to show the devastation, but is fake.The fake videos and images show how generative AI has already become a staple of modern conflict. On one end, AI-generated content of unknown origin is filling the void created by state-sanctioned media blackouts with misinformation, and on the other end, the leaders of these countries are sharing AI-generated slop to spread the oldest forms of xenophobia and propaganda.If you want to follow a war as its happening, its easier than ever. Telegram channels post live streams of bombing raids as they happen and much of the footage trickles up to X, TikTok, and other social media platforms. Theres more footage of conflict than theres ever been, but a lot of it is fake.A few days ago, Iranian news outlets reported that Irans military had shot down three F-35s. Israel denied it happened. As the claim spread so did supposed images of the downed jet. In one, a massive version of the jet smolders on the ground next to a town. The cockpit dwarfs the nearby buildings and tiny people mill around the downed jet like Lilliputians surrounding Gulliver.Its a fake, an obvious one, but thousands of people shared it online. Another image of the supposedly downed jet showed it crashed in a field somewhere in the middle of the night. Its wings were gone and its afterburner still glowed hot. This was also a fake.Image via X.com.Image via X.com.AI slop is not the sole domain of anonymous amateur and professional propagandists. The leaders of both Iran and Israel are doing it too. The Supreme Leader of Iran is posting AI-generated missile launches on his X account, a match for similar grotesques on the account of Israels Minister of Defense.New tools like Googles Veo 3 make AI-generated videos more realistic than ever. Iranian news outlet Tehran Times shared a video to X that it said captured the moment an Iranian missile hit a building in Bat Yam, southern Tel Aviv. The video was fake. In another that appeared to come from a TV news spot, a massive missile moved down a long concrete hallway. Its also clearly AI-generated, and still shows the watermark in the bottom right corner for Veo.#BREAKING Doomsday in Tel Aviv pic.twitter.com/5CDSUDcTY0 Tehran Times (@TehranTimes79) June 14, 2025After Iran launched a strike on Israel, Tehran Times shared footage of what it claimed was Doomsday in Tel Aviv. A drone shot rotated through scenes of destroyed buildings and piles of rubble. Like the other videos, it was an AI generated fake that appeared on both a Telegram account and TikTok channel named 3amelyonn.In Arabic, 3amelyonns TikTok channel calls itself Artificial Intelligence Resistance but has no such label on Telegram. Its been posting on Telegram since 2023 and its first TikTok video appeared in April of 2025, of an AI-generated tour through Lebanon, showing its various cities as smoking ruins. Its full of the quivering lines and other hallucinations typical of early AI video.But 3amelyonns videos a month later are more convincing. A video posted on June 5, labeled as Ben Gurion Airport, shows bombed out buildings and destroyed airplanes. Its been viewed more than 2 million times. The video of a destroyed Tel Aviv, the one that made it on to Tehran Times, has been viewed more than 11 million times and was posted on May 27, weeks before the current conflict.Hany Farid, a UC Berkeley professor and founder of GetReal, a synthetic media detection company, has been collecting these fake videos and debunking them.In just the last 12 hours, we at GetReal have been seeing a slew of fake videos surrounding the recent conflict between Israel and Iran. We have been able to link each of these visually compelling videos to Veo 3, he said in a post on LinkedIn. It is no surprise that as generative-AI tools continue to improve in photo-realism, they are being misused to spread misinformation and sow confusion.The spread of AI-generated media about this conflict appears to be particularly bad because both Iran and Israel are asking their citizens not to share media of destruction, which may help the other side with its targeting for future attacks. On Saturday, for example, the Israel Defense Force asked people not to publish and share the location or documentation of strikes. The enemy follows these documentations in order to improve its targeting abilities. Be responsibledo not share locations on the web! Users on social media then fill this vacuum with AI-generated media.The casualty in this AI war [is] the truth, Farid told 404 Media. By muddying the waters with AI slop, any side can now claim that any other videos showing, for example, a successful strike or human rights violations are fake. Finding the truth at times of conflict has always been difficult, and now in the age of AI and social media, it is even more difficult.We're committed to developing AI responsibly and we have clear policies to protect users from harm and governing the use of our AI tools, a Google spokesperson told 404 Media. Any content generated with Google AI has a SynthID watermark embedded and we add a visible watermark to Veo videos too.Farid and his team used SynthID to identify the fake videos alongside other forensic techniques that we have developed over at GetReal, he said. But checking a video for a SynthID watermark, which is visually imperceptible, requires someone to take the time to download the video and upload it to a separate website. Casual social media scrollers are not taking the time to verify a video theyre seeing by sending it to the SynthID website.One distinguishing feature of 3amelyonn and others videos of viral AI slop about the conflict is that the destruction is confined to buildings. There are no humans and no blood in 3amelyonns aerial shots of destruction, which are more likely to get blocked both by AI image and video generators as well as the social media platforms where these creations are shared. If a human does appear, theyre as observers like in the F-35 picture or milling soldiers like the tunnel video. Seeing a soldier in active combat or a wounded person is rare.Theres no shortage of real, horrifying footage from Gaza and other conflicts around the world. AI war spam, however, is almost always bloodless. A year ago, the AI-generated image All Eyes on Raffah garnered tens of millions of views. It was created by a Facebook group with the goal of Making AI prosper.

This week we start with Josephs article about the U.Ss major airlines selling customers flight information to Customs and Border Protection and then telling the agency to not reveal where the data came from. After the break, Emanuel tells us how AI scraping bots are breaking open libraries, archives, and museums. In the subscribers-only section, Jason explains the casual surveillance relationship between ICE and local cops, according to emails he got.Listen to the weekly podcast onApple Podcasts,Spotify, orYouTube. Become a paid subscriber for access to this episode's bonus content and to power our journalism.If you become a paid subscriber, check your inbox for an email from our podcast host Transistor for a link to the subscribers-only version! You can also add that subscribers feed to your podcast app of choice and never miss an episode that way. The email should also contain the subscribers-only unlisted YouTube link for the extended video version too. It will also be in the show notes in your podcast player. Airlines Don't Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHSAI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and MuseumsEmails Reveal the Casual Surveillance Alliance Between ICE and Local Police

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CHICAGOExpressing concern that the small aircraft was going to accidentally hurt itself in its panic, passengers at OHare International Airport gate C20 were reportedly saddened Wednesday to see a poor frightened plane loose inside the airport. It just breaks my heart to see the little thing taxiing around the terminal, traveler Dave Weister said of the two-seater Cessna 152 as it repeatedly pressed its nose cone to the window in a fruitless attempt to reach the runway. I told the gate agent, but she just rolled her eyes and told me to notify security. A bunch of us tried to corral the pitiful plane toward the emergency exit, but it was so scared that every time we got close it flew over our heads. We saw a call sign on its side, so hopefully well be able to identify it and contact the pilot. At press time, reports confirmed several passenger planes had been grounded as the small plane crisscrossed multiple runways to make its way to the hangar.The post Passengers At Gate Saddened By Poor Frightened Plane Loose Inside Airport appeared first on The Onion.

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Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Scientists have directly confirmed the location of the universe's missing matter for the first time, reports a study published on Monday in Nature Astronomy.The idea that the universe must contain normal, or baryonic, matter that we cant seem to find goes back to the birth of modern cosmological models. Now, a team has revealed that about 76 percent of all baryonsthe ordinary particles that make up planets and starsexist as gas hidden in the dark expanses between galaxies, known as the intergalactic medium. Fast radio bursts (FRBs), transient signals with elusive origins, illuminated the missing baryons, according to the researchers. As a bonus, they also identified the most distant FRB ever recorded, at 9.1 billion light years away, in the study.Measuring the missing baryons with Fast Radio Bursts has been a major long-sought milestone for radio astronomers, said Liam Connor, an astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian who led the study, in an email. Until recently, we didnt have a large-enough sample of bursts to make strong statements about where this ordinary matter was hiding.Under the leadership of Caltech professor Vikram Ravi, the researchers constructed the DSA-110 radio telescopean array of over 100 dishes in the California desertto achieve this longstanding milestone. We built up the largest and most distant collection of localized FRBs (meaning we know their exact host galaxy and distance), Connor explained. This data sample, plus new algorithms, allowed us to finally make a complete baryon pie chart. There are no longer any missing wedges.Baryons are the building blocks of the familiar matter that makes up our bodies, stars, and galaxies, in contrast to dark matter, a mysterious substance that accounts for the vast majority of the universes mass. Cosmological models predict that there is much more baryonic matter than we can see in stars and galaxies, which has spurred astronomers into a decades-long search for the missing baryons in space.Scientists have long assumed that most of this missing matter exists in the form of ionized gas in the IGM, but FRBs have opened a new window into these dark reaches, which can be difficult to explore with conventional observatories.FRBs complement and improve on past methods by their sensitivity to all the ionized gas in the Universe, Connor said. Past methods, which were highly informative but somewhat incomplete, could only measure hot gas near galaxies or clusters of galaxies. There was no probe that could measure the lions share of ordinary matter in the Universe, which it turns out is in the intergalactic medium.Since the first FRB was detected in 2007, thousands of similar events have been discovered, though astronomers still aren't sure what causes them. Characterized by extremely energetic radio waves that last for mere milliseconds, the bursts typically originate millions or billions of light years from our galaxy. Some repeat, and some do not. Scientists think these pyrotechnic events are fueled by massive compact objects, like neutron stars, but their exact nature and origins remain unclear.Connor and his colleagues studied a sample of 60 FRB observations that spanned from about 12 million light years away from Earth all the way to a new record holder for distance: FRB 20230521B, located 9.1 billion light years away. With the help of these cosmic searchlights, the team was able to make a new precise measurement of the density of baryonic matter across the cosmic web, which is a network of large-scale structures that spans the universe. The results matched up with cosmological predictions that most of the missing baryons would be blown out into the IGM by feedback generated within galaxies. About 15 percent is present in structures that surround galaxies, called halos, and a small remainder makes up stars and other celestial bodies.It really felt like I was going in blind without a strong prior either way, Connor said. If all of the missing baryons were hiding in galaxy halos and the IGM were gas-poor, that would be surprising in its own way. If, as we discovered, the baryons had mostly been blown into the space between galaxies, that would also be remarkable because that would require strong astrophysical feedback and violent processes during galaxy formation.Now, looking back on the result, its kind of satisfying that our data agrees with modern cosmological simulations with strong feedback and agrees with the early Universe values of the total abundance of normal matter, he continued. Sometimes its nice to have some concordance.The new measurement might alleviate the so-called sigma-8 tension, which is a discrepancy between the overall clumpiness of matter in the universe when measured using the cosmic microwave background, which is the oldest light in the cosmos, compared with using modern maps of galaxies and clusters.One explanation for this disagreement is that our standard model of cosmology is broken, and we need exotic new physics, Connor said. Another explanation is that todays Universe appears smooth because the baryons have been sloshed around by feedback.Our FRB measurement suggests the baryon cosmic web is relatively smooth, homogenized by astrophysical processes in galaxies (feedback), he continued. This would explain the S8 tension without exotic new physics. If thats the case, then I think the broader lesson is that we really need to pin down these pesky baryons, which have previously been very difficult to measure directly.To that end, Connor is optimistic that more answers to these cosmic riddles are coming down the pike.The future is looking bright for the field of FRB cosmology, he said. We are in the process of building enormous radio telescope arrays that could find tens of thousands of localized FRBs each year, including the upcoming DSA-2000.My colleagues and I think of our work as baby steps towards the bigger goal of fully mapping the ordinary, baryonic matter throughout the whole Universe, he concluded.Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week.

A report from a cybersecurity company last week found that over 40,000 unsecured camerasincluding CCTV and security cameras on public transportation, in hospitals, on internet-connected bird feeders and on ATMsare exposed online worldwide.Cybersecurity risk intelligence company BitSight was able to access and download content from thousands of internet-connected systems, including domestic and commercial webcams, baby monitors, office security, and pet cams. They also found content from these cameras on locations on the dark web where people share and sell access to their live feeds. The most concerning examples found were cameras in hospitals or clinics monitoring patients, posing a significant privacy risk due to the highly sensitive nature of the footage, said Joo Cruz, Principal Security Research Scientist for the team that produced the report.The company wrote in a press release that it doesnt take elite hacking to access these cameras; in most cases, a regular web browser and a curious mind are all it takes, meaning that 40,000 figure is probably just the tip of the iceberg.Depending on the type of login protocol that the cameras were using, the researchers were able to access footage or individual real-time screenshots. Against a background of increasing surveillance by law enforcement and ICE, there is clear potential for abuse of unknowingly open cameras.Traffic Camera Selfie Creator Holds Cease and Desist Letter in Front of Traffic CamTraffic Cam Photobooth lets you take a capture from NYC surveillance camera. The citys Department of Transportation does not like that.404 MediaSamantha ColeKnowing the real number is practically impossible due to the insanely high number of camera brands and models existent in the market, said Cruz, each of them with different ways to check if its exposed and if its possible to get access to the live footage.The report outlines more obvious risks, from tracking the behavioral patterns and real-time status of when people are in their homes in order to plan a burglary, to shoulder surfing, or stealing data by observing someone logging in to a computer in offices. The report also found cameras in stores, gyms, laundromats, and construction sites, meaning that exposed cameras are monitoring people in their daily lives. The geographic data provided by the cameras IP addresses, combined with commercially available facial-recognition systems, could prove dangerous for individuals working in or using those businesses.You can find out if your camera has been exposed using a site like Shodan.io, a search engine which scans for devices connected to the internet, or by trying to access your camera from a device logged in to a different network. Users should also check the documentation provided by the manufacturer, rather than just plugging in a camera right away, to minimize vulnerabilities, and make sure that they set their own password on any IoT-connected device.This is because many brands use default logins for their products, and these logins are easily findable online. The BitSight report didnt try to hack into these kinds of cameras, or try to brute-force any passwords, but, if we did so, we firmly believe that the number would be higher, said Cruz. Older camera systems with deprecated and unmaintained software are more susceptible to being hacked in this way; one somewhat brighter spot is that these digital ghost ships seem to be decreasing in number as the oldest and least secure among them are replaced or fail completely.Unsecured cameras attract hackers and malicious actors, and the risks can go beyond the embarrassing, personal, or even individual. In March this year, the hacking group Akira successfully compromised an organisation using an unsecured webcam, after a first attack attempt was effectively prevented by cybersecurity protocols. In 2024, the Ukrainian government asked citizens to turn off all broadcasting cameras, after Russian agents hacked into webcams at a condo association and a car park. They altered the direction of the cameras to point toward nearby infrastructure and used the footage in planning strikes. Ukraine blocked the operation of 10,000 internet-connected digital security cameras in order to prevent further information leaks, and a May 2025 report from the Joint Cybersecurity Advisory described continued attacks from Russian espionage units on private and municipal cameras to track materials entering Ukraine.

LGBTQ+ households make 15% less in household income compared to non-LGBTQ+ households, according to a new survey from the Center for American Progress. A large part of that, though, is because out LGBTQ+ adults tend to be much younger than non-LGBTQ+ adults.June 17 is LGBTQIA+ Equal Pay Awareness Day, and the CAP released the results from its LGBTQI+ Community Survey, which found that LGBTQ+ households make 85 cents for every dollar earned by non-LGBTQ+ households. Thats the equivalent of a $12,580 a year difference. Related Study after study shows same-sex couples raise happy & healthy kids The kids are alright, and we have lots of scientific research to back it up. Transgender households faced an even larger pay gap, earning 70% of what non-LGBTQ+ households earn, and LGBTQ+ women households earned 52% of what non-LGBTQ+ households earned. Its not clear from the results released by CAP what the pay gap is if there is one for queer cis men. Its also not clear, since the results werent adjusted for age, whether the pay gaps for queer women and trans people were more or less affected by their relative youth. Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Subscribe to our Newsletter today But they also found that LGBTQ+ adults are much younger than non-LGBTQ+ adults, with an average age of 33 compared to 48. Peoples incomes generally increase during their adulthood, but younger LGBTQ+ people are more likely to be out and identify as LGBTQ+. The CAPs results were not adjusted for age.Another reason behind the pay disparity may be discrimination. Sixteen percent of non-LGBTQ+ people said they experienced some form of workplace discrimination compared to a quarter of LGBTQ+ people, according to a 2024 CAP survey.While our data on its own cant explain the forces that create these wage gaps, we know the intersecting dynamics of sexism, racism, and discrimination likely play a key role, CAP report authors Sara Estep and Haley Norris said in a press release, noting that the current administration has defanged many of the agencies tasked with enforcing existing nondiscrimination laws and addressing these issues.The study was based on a survey of 3,360 U.S. adults, where 1,703 identified as LGBTQ+, and was conducted with the nonpartisan research organization NORC at the University of Chicago.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.

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The Supreme Court ruled today in favor of Tennessees ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth in the case of U.S. v. Skrmetti. It was a 6-3 decision, with the Courts Republican appointees opposing trans rights and the Democratic appointees supporting trans rights. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion for the majority, and Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan wrote dissenting opinions. Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas wrote concurring opinions.The ruling says that Tennessees ban on gender-affirming care does not discriminate on the basis of sex or transgender status, which the plaintiffs argued made it unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause. The ruling will allow the 25 states that currently have such bans on the books to continue to enforce them. Related Tennessee AG says its Gods will for him to deny health care to trans youth He made his comments alongside a member of a Christian Nationalist organization. Skrmetticoncerns three families of transgender youth, as well as a doctor, who argued that theyre victims of Tennessees ban on gender-affirming care for minors. They argued that they were being deprived of essential medical care on the basis of their sex, since the gender-affirming care ban only bans such care for trans youth. For example, a teen boy who wants surgery to remove his breasts in order to be treated like and feel more like a boy can get it under the Tennessee law, but only if he was assigned male at birth. Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Subscribe to our Newsletter today The families and doctor sued with help from the ACLU. ACLU attorney Chase Strangio argued the case at the Supreme Court and was the first trans lawyer to do so.Roberts, in the majority opinion, wrote that the law doesnt discriminate on the basis of sex or on the basis of transgender status, saying that it only makes distinctions based on a diagnosis of gender dysphoria. That is the same definition of trans identity that the Trump administration is using for the trans military ban, which also bars people with symptoms consistent with gender dysphoria from joining the military, even if they dont have a formal diagnosis.In her dissenting opinion, Sotomayor accused the conservative majority of refusing to call a spade a spade because they wouldnt admit that the law determines access to the covered medications based on the sex of the recipient. She warned that the ruling does irrevocable damage to the Equal Protection Clause and invites legislatures to engage in discrimination by hiding blatant sex classifications in plain sight.I cant begin to tell you just how incredibly f**ked trans people are here, wrote out trans clinical instructor at the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic Alejandra Caraballo on Bluesky. This will pour gasoline on the Trump administrations attacks on trans people and they will get even harsher and more cruel. The Supreme Court is greenlighting the eradication of trans people from society. She wrote that discriminating against people with gender dysphoria was upheld as constitutional in the decision, which could be used for other forms of discrimination.For instance, they could strip everyone with gender dysphoria of security clearance in the government. Declare everyone with gender dysphoria a national security threat and purge them from the government entirely. The trans military ban will be upheld under this.Most importantly, states can now just ban gender affirming care for everyone, including adults. Well likely see that coming soon in addition to federal government efforts to eliminate access for all trans people.Todays ruling is a devastating loss for transgender people, our families, and everyone who cares about the Constitution, said the ACLUs Strangio in a press release. Though this is a painful setback, it does not mean that transgender people and our allies are left with no options to defend our freedom, our health care, or our lives.The Court left undisturbed Supreme Court and lower court precedent that other examples of discrimination against transgender people are unlawful. We are as determined as ever to fight for the dignity and equality of every transgender person, and we will continue to do so with defiant strength, a restless resolve, and a lasting commitment to our families, our communities, and the freedom we all deserve.This is a heartbreaking ruling, making it more difficult for transgender youth to escape the danger and trauma of being denied their ability to live and thrive, said Sasha Buchert of Lambda Legal. But we will continue to fight fiercely to protect them. Make no mistake, gender-affirming care is often life-saving care, and all major medical associations have determined it to be safe, appropriate, and effective. This is a sad day, and the implications will reverberate for years and across the country, but it does not shake our resolve to continue fighting.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.

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This is a year of firsts for gay country music star Orville Peck.In March, he made his Broadway debut as the Emcee inCabaret at the Kit Kat Club. After he steps away from that role in July, he is set to make his acting debut in a feature film. Pecks appearance on Broadway was billed from the start as a limited engagement, from March 31 to July 30. Related Orville Peck appears on Broadway with & without his signature mask The famous masked singer shined in the role of the Emcee in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club. Deadline.com and others reported this month that Peck, 37, is joining the cast of Street Fighter in an undisclosed role. It will be the first movie role for the performer, who is known for wearing a mask to avoid showing his face publicly (forCabaret,Peck performs without the mask). Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Subscribe to our Newsletter today Street Fighter is a live-action movie based on the popularStreet Fightervideo games from Japanese company Capcom. Legendary Entertainment of Burbank, California, acquired the film and television rights toStreet Fighterin 2023 and would be the co-developer and co-producer along with Capcom. Previously announced cast members include Jason Momoa, Andrew Koji, Noah Centineo, and professional wrestler Roman Reigns. Walton Goggins, known most recently for his role on The White Lotus, is rumored to be in talks to play the villain, M. Bison.Launched in 1987,Street Fighteris a series of fighting games that feature one-on-one battles with martial artists from around the globe and a fighting tournament led by M. Bison. It has sold more than 55 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling video game series ever created. Its a prime candidate for a movie adaptation, especially after the success of A Minecraft Movie, which has earned more than $950 million at the global box office since its release in April. This isnt the first time the video game series has inspired a film adaptation. In 1994, there was an action film by the same name that starred Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia, Ming-Na Wen, Damian Chapa, Kylie Minogue, Bryon Mann, and Wes Studi. There was also an animated movie. Both of these were based onStreet Fighter II.In 2009, Hyde Park Entertainment released a spinoff, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, starring Kristin Kreuk. Additional versions have come out on YouTube and Verizons streaming service and in DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats.According to Deadline and others, Kitao Sakurai will be the movies director, but writers and producers havent been named. There has been speculation that Peck may be cast as Vega, a claw-wielding Spanish fighter who wears a mask and mixes ninjutsu and bullfighting. Writing for Collider, Chris McPherson said the role of Vega would make sense for Peck.Its a fitting choice for Peck, whos made a career out of mystery, theatrical flair and commanding the stage without ever revealing the man behind the mask until Broadway, McPherson wrote.InCabaret, Peck proved hes got both the vocal chops and presence for live performance, he continued. Now hell bring that same magnetism and menace to the big screen in a completely different context: a martial arts showdown where style is just as important as strength. Well-known for his albums including Pony (2019); Show Pony (2020); Bronco (2022), and Stampede (2024) Peck hasnt commented publicly about his potential movie role. But his willingness to go from stage to screen is consistent with an interview he gave last year toPaper,in which he said he thinks its important for artists to take on new challenges so they dont get stuck in a rut.I really like evolution with artists, Peck said. Everything has to grow and evolve If you try to make something remain the same forever, thats when you start making bad art.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.

Australias national blood donation service has announced a landmark policy change that will remove outdated and discriminatory rules against gay men that were put in place during the height of the HIV epidemic.Lifeblood, a branch of the Australian Red Cross, recently announced it will remove most sexual activity wait times for plasma donations. Related Canada celebrates Pride Month with 4 beautiful LGBTQ+ postage stamps One of the stamps celebrates a historic gay beach near Toronto where police once raided and arrested queer people. Under this world-leading plasma pathway, most people, including gay and bisexual men, and anyone who takes PrEP, will be able to donate plasma without a wait period, providing they meet all other eligibility criteria, a press release explained. Extensive research and modelling show that there will be no impact to the safety of the plasma supply with this change. Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Subscribe to our Newsletter today Lifeblood Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jo Pink estimated the change will bring in 24,000 more donors and result in 95,000 more donations per year. This is especially significant because plasma has become the most-needed donation type, Pink said. For blood donations, Lifeblood is moving to ask all donors the same questions about sexual history, rather than specifically targeting gay and bisexual men and trans women to ask if they have had sex with a man in the past three months. The new policy will allow blood donations from most people in a monogamous sexual relationship of six or more months. Additionally, all potential donors, no matter their gender, will now be asked if they have had anal sex with new or multiple partners in the last three months. Those who have not will be eligible to donate. Lifeblood lauded its complimentary policies that allow most people ineligible to donate blood to still donate plasma instead. Unlike other countries with gender-neutral assessments, most people unable to donate blood under the updated gender-neutral rules including because they are taking PrEP will still be able to donate plasma in Australia without a wait time, the press release explained.Australias Let Us Give campaign, established to end the anti-LGBTQ+ blood ban, celebrated the changes. Australian lives will be saved by this overdue and important decision, spokesperson Rodney Croone told The Guardian.A researcher with Let Us Give, Dr. Sharon Dane, called the updates a big step forward but said there is still room to grow. Sexual monogamy for six months is stricter than other countries that have moved to gender neutral policies, Dane explained (the U.K., Canada, and the U.S. all require only three months). We hope that after a short period of assessment, Australias whole blood donor policy will change to be in keeping with best-practice nations, Dane said.In 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officially adopted its own new guidelines that loosened restrictions on blood donations from men who have sex with men (MSM). The new guidelines mostly benefited monogamous men who arent taking any HIV treatment or HIV prevention medications.The change instituted a three-month pre-donation celibacy period for anyone who has had sex with a new sexual partner, more than one sexual partner, or anal sex. This is to reduce the likelihood of donations by people with new or recent HIV infections, the FDA said. Blood donation organizations test all donated blood for transfusion-transmitted infections, including HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C. The guidelines also require a three-month pre-donation abstinence period for people who have anal sex or take pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication and a two-year abstinence period for users of injectible PrEP. PrEP can mask the presence of HIV in blood. The FDA clarified, however, that folks should not stop taking necessary medications in order to donate blood. Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.

Nature, Published online: 18 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09062-3A colour sensor array based on multilayer monolithically stacked lead halide perovskite thin-film photodetectors achieves higher quantum efficiency and superior colour accuracy compared to conventional filter-based image sensors.

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