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Slashdot 3d ago

Trump Administration Enlists Private Companies To Hack Foreign Cybercrime Groups

by BeauHD

The Trump administration today unveiled a new program that will allow vetted U.S. companies to conduct cyber surveillance and offensive cyber operations against foreign…

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TruthOut 2d ago

EPA Has Stopped Including Cancer Risk Estimates in Air Pollution Data

by Sachi Kitajima Mulkey

Researchers say the Trump administration has made it harder for the public to access and understand environmental data.

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Media Matters 5d ago

On LindellTV, Patrick Byrne criticizes "completely incompetent" Trump for his "very tepid little weak tea" election inteference speech

by Media Matters for America

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Kottke 3d ago

“Draw any shape and hear it as a drum.”...

by Jason Kottke

“Draw any shape and hear it as a drum.” Eigendrum : a drum simulator where you can change the shape of the drum to see how it affects the sound it makes.

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SCOTUSblog 3d ago

Once upon a time: storytelling in Learning Resources v. Trump

by Kendall Gray

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Techdirt 3d ago

Flock (Again!) Activates A Camera System A Town Had Voted To Shut Down

by Tim Cushing

The easiest way to tell that Flock Safety doesn’t really care that its massive network of ALPR (automatic license plate reader) cameras is being abused by cops to stalk their exes…

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Ars Technica 2d ago

Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case

by Ashley Belanger

Judge warns pro se litigants are using chatbots wrong and getting desperate.

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TruthOut 2d ago

Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, Are Now Being Forced to Wear Ankle Monitors

by Megan Henry

Immigrant advocates say that the monitors often cause bodily harm and are part of an effort to drive self-deportation.

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Slashdot 1d ago

Why Are Big Tech CEOs Writing Long Manifestos About AI?

by EditorDavid

This week Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500 word open letter titled "The Future is for Everyone". But the BBC is more interested in why big tech executives keep writing…

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Kottke 4d ago

Stories that the authors of the Bible borrowed from...

by Jason Kottke

Stories that the authors of the Bible borrowed from other cultures and religions , including the flood myth, the Garden of Eden, etc. I learned about these in a religion &…

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SCOTUSblog 5d ago

Court announces cases it will hear in November, including religious discrimination dispute

by Amy Howe

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Ars Technica 3d ago

Claude's new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible—for now

by Ashley Belanger

The mark flags anything Claude processed, even human writing it only edited.

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Techdirt 3d ago

Zuckerberg Is Right About Open, Decentralized AI. He’s Also The Last Person You Should Trust To Deliver It

by Mike Masnick

The reaction to Mark Zuckerberg’s 6,500 word AI manifesto, “The Future is for Everyone,” has been all over the map. Given the messenger and the topic, there’s plenty of reasonable…

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Less Wrong 3d ago

Concrete Generalist Projects in AI Safety (and how to do them)

by Harry Waterman

The AI safety ecosystem is still in need of generalists: people who will go out and solve the tasks that people who feel limited by their job description won’t address. This post…

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404 Media 5d ago

Company Offering ‘100% Human-Written, Never AI’ Medical Research Is Entirely AI

by Emanuel Maiberg

Research Gold's team of human methodologists are either AI generated or using the identity of real people without their permission

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Slashdot 1d ago

Robots That Walk and Talk Are Coming To Car Factories

by BeauHD

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: At a BMW factory in South Carolina, a human-shaped robot with a screen for a face recently stepped from a charging…

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