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TruthOut 3d ago

Alito’s Assets in Fossil Fuels Have Grown by Up to $2.9 Million, Analysis Finds

by Chris Walker

Recent polling indicates that Alito has a -7 point approval rating among Americans.

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Techdirt 5d ago

Elon Musk Wants To Get Into Wireless Phones And He’s Probably Not Going To Have A Good Time

by Karl Bode

There have been rumblings for a while that America’s richest and most annoying white supremacist, Elon Musk, really wants to get into the wireless phone business. His lobbyists…

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TruthOut 2d ago

Film Follows US Doctors to Gaza as Israel Bombs Hospitals, Kills Staff, Patients

by Amy Goodman

Poh Si Teng says the film rose out of “deep despair” over Gaza and Israeli attacks on her former Al Jazeera colleagues.

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Slashdot 2d ago

Trump Slaps a 100% Tariff On Heavy and 'Sensitive' Drones

by BeauHD

President Trump has imposed tariffs of up to 100% on heavier and "sensitive" drones, including models over 55 pounds or equipped with docking stations or thermal imaging. "Those…

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Lawdork 6d ago

One year in, Trump's troop deployment in D.C. is ongoing, unending, pointless — and very bad

by Chris Geidner

The "America 250" flags are a particularly empty emblem on the uniforms of troops deployed on the streets of the nation's capital. And for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

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Popular Information 5d ago

The disastrous diplomacy of Jared Kushner

by Judd Legum

From Gaza to Iran to Ukraine, things are not going well.

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Less Wrong 2d ago

Frontier agents don't comply with standards, even when instructed to

by Daan Henselmans

TLDR: Our open testbed LARA examines the behavior of frontier LLMs in realistic agentic deployment contexts. Previous results showed all models routinely take actions that would…

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ProPublica 3d ago

A Youth Sports Giant Promised Reforms to Protect Kids From Sexual Abuse. Most Never Happened.

by Molly Hensley-Clancy

The post A Youth Sports Giant Promised Reforms to Protect Kids From Sexual Abuse. Most Never Happened. appeared first on ProPublica .

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TruthOut 2d ago

Trump Spending Billions to Revert Aircraft Carriers to Steam Catapults

by Sharon Zhang

Trump has long hated the modern electromagnetic catapults, seemingly because he simply doesn’t understand how they work.

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Techdirt 2d ago

Trump Wants The DOJ To Go After Olympian David Hearn Again In Reflecting Pool Vandalism Case

by Tim Cushing

This is why having a case dismissed with prejudice is important. Trump’s cronies/donors — who were paid millions to do a job they’d never done before — failed to bring the Lincoln…

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Slashdot 4d ago

US Hires Over 2,000 Video Gamers As Air Traffic Controllers

by BeauHD

The FAA says its push to recruit video gamers as air traffic controllers has helped it hire more than 2,000 trainees, reaching 94% of its hiring goal. Another 2,000-plus…

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Less Wrong 2d ago

What If We Enforced AI Model Safety At the Level Of GPUs?

by Mayowa Osibodu

Tldr: AI Agents (e.g. based on models like Claude Opus and Fable) are now powerful enough to be used as autonomous tools for large-scale cyberattacks. This most powerful class of…

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Zeteo 6d ago

Will Tucker Carlson Run For President? Sam Seder Thinks ‘It’s Bullsh*t’

by Mehdi Hasan

‘Jubilee’ survivors Mehdi and Sam Seder of ‘The Majority Report’ talk progressive victories, the evolution of MAGA, and the 2028 presidential race.

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Slashdot 2d ago

Ukraine Finds Nvidia AI Chip In New Russian Missile

by BeauHD

Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Kyiv Post: Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) has identified an Nvidia Jetson Orin computer module inside Russia's new…

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Less Wrong 2d ago

V&V takes on “Pacing the frontier”

by Yoav Hollander

[Cross-posted from The Foretellix CTO Blog . These short takes try to put a verification-and-validation slant on AI-safety / alignment topics – they are not full treatments. I…

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404 Media 6d ago

The Mayor Who Said 'No' When Flock Came to Town

by Matthew Gault

“I guess all crime could be eliminated if you put cameras everywhere, surveillance everywhere, and had drones patrolling the skies [...] but what life are we living then?”

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