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Media Matters 6d ago

How Fox News is trying to cover up the Rep. Max Miller alleged domestic abuse scandal

by Media Matters for America

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TruthOut 3d ago

Some in Gaza’s Youngest Generation May Not Even Know What Toys Are

by Sara Awad

Children’s difficulty accessing toys in Gaza reflects the broader destruction of childhood there.

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Media Matters 6d ago

Newsmax's Michael Savage: "ICE is not going after the worst of the worst. ... They're going after innocent people."

by Media Matters for America

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Less Wrong 3d ago

AI #181: Astra Goes Cyber Critical

by Zvi

The hacking of HuggingFace by an internal OpenAI model, and more importantly the internal events that led to that and the fallout from it, remain the thing that matters. It turns…

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Less Wrong 3d ago

Automated alignment runs are hard to study!

by Alejandro Aristizabal

TL;DR: This post presents three case studies of automated alignment research runs at Arcadia Impact. We use these case studies to emphasise the following takeaways: It is hard to…

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Less Wrong 3d ago

Features that current AIs don't have that future AIs will have

by Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel

Features that current AIs don't have that future AIs will have: Autonomously updating it own weights during deployment Synonyms/ monickers that roughly mean the same thing:…

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Slashdot 4d ago

Google Unveils Pixel 11 Lineup

by BeauHD

At its Made by Google 2026 event today, Google unveiled a slew of new devices, headlined by the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, and Pixel 11 Pro Fold. Here's a breakdown of the company's…

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Slashdot 2d ago

Scientists Turn Starlink Into a Giant Scanner For Earth's Upper Atmosphere

by BeauHD

alternative_right shares a report from ScienceDaily: Researchers have found a clever new way to map a part of Earth's upper atmosphere that is notoriously difficult to observe.…

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Kottke 6d ago

Tron: Legacy (Recording Sessions) by Daft Punk

by Jason Kottke

So, I’m not exactly sure what this is, but what it appears to be is a fan-assembled album of the recording sessions for Tron: Legacy by Daft Punk & Joseph Trapanese. 67 tracks in…

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Ars Technica 3d ago

Ukrainian drones wipe out entire US tank brigade in live war game

by Jeremy Hsu

Ukrainian drone pilots teach the US military and NATO hard battlefield lessons.

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Zeteo 6d ago

Why Ben Shapiro Is Wrong About Me, Islamophobia, and His Dumb New Movie

by Mehdi Hasan

Watch Mehdi respond to Shapiro's latest video smearing him as a 'terror hugger,' and explain why the pro-Israel Shapiro and the Daily Wire are making movies to ensure the West…

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Slashdot 3d ago

Apple Turns to Publishers For Help With Siri AI

by BeauHD

Apple is reportedly negotiating multi-year deals with news publishers to give its redesigned Siri access to current news and other information, with payments potentially tied to…

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Kottke 6d ago

Subaru Socialists and the Great Disappointed . “A whole...

by Jason Kottke

Subaru Socialists and the Great Disappointed . “A whole lot of people under the age of 45 no longer believe that indicators such as wages, unemployment, or the number of college…

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Techdirt 6d ago

Comcast Sued For Punishing Employees With Pies To The Face

by Karl Bode

There are so many shitty U.S. companies across tech, energy, and AI that criticism of our massively-unpopular telecom monopolies has fallen out of fashion. It’s easy to forget,…

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Ars Technica 2d ago

OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground

by Jamie John

US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.

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Kottke 6d ago

If You Haven’t Recently Used Claude Code, You Might Not...

by Jason Kottke

If You Haven’t Recently Used Claude Code, You Might Not Understand Where AI Is At . “There’s a huge gulf between a chatbot that’s just putting text into your brain and an agent…

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