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The deepfake epidemic in schools is affecting more than students. Four teachers tell WIRED about becoming targets of sexualized, AI-generated content—and how difficult it was to find accountability.

"The power grid relies on thousands of aging, hand-built transformers. If enough fail, the blackout could last years."

Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. But his biggest experiment was on the children he took from the field to the US—many of whom he sexually molested, with the knowledge and, in some cases, approval of his professional peers and colleagues: In his journals and […]

“The new head of Iran’s top security body warned Sunday that Tehran will see any country’s support for new U.S. economic measures against the Islamic Republic as an ‘act of war,’ while Iran’s president defended a memorandum of understanding with the United States as the best way out of the stalled conflict,” the Associated Press […]

“Rep. Anna Paulina Luna wants to crack down on the murky world of foreign money flowing through America’s booming political influencer economy — an issue increasingly consuming the political brand it helped birth,” Politico reports. Said Luna: “Being an influencer right now is kind of like the wild west. There’s a lot of things laws […]

“Troy Jackson is taking the positive route as Republicans sink money into negative ads in Maine,” Semafor reports. “In a new ad running statewide and shared first with Semafor, the Democratic Senate nominee appears alongside his mom, who talks about his upbringing by teenage parents.”

One Fishkill neighbor had an idea that could make trick-or-treat season a whole lot more fun for families across town. Continue reading…

New York has a big problem with Canadian tourists. Continue reading…

Why Trump will lose his war with Canada

Interesting paper: Abstract: With entrepreneurial fraud cases on the rise, we investigate how entrepreneurs carry out criminal deception, employing deceptive means to defraud audiences. Analyzing court data from Silicon Valley ventures and their founders prosecuted for fraud...

“The U.S will unveil ‘the single greatest financial offensive ever’ against Iran on Monday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, while Tehran threatened to seize vessels that violate transit rules in the Strait of Hormuz,” CNBC reports. “The looming escalation comes as both sides missed a 60-day ceasefire window to reach a deal, closing off the […]

Semafor: “Seventeen percent of American adults say they smoke marijuana, tied with the high notched in 2023. That’s a big shift from 2013, the year Gallup started polling the question, when just 7% said they used pot. A record 15% of U.S. adults also say they use edibles.”

“As a tumultuous primary season draws to a close, Democrats have opened up more than one path to winning control of the Senate, according to strategists in both parties and independent analysts, reshaping the battle on a map where Republicans still hold significant advantages,” the New York Times reports. “Voters are uneasy about President Trump’s […]

“Speaker Mike Johnson is in the middle of a 30-day campaign stretch stumping for vulnerable Republican members and top challengers who will decide the majority come November. But Johnson’s political fate is likely tied to theirs,” NOTUS reports. “The midterms will effectively decide if President Donald Trump’s lame-duck era starts in 2027 or if he […]

Washington Post: “The DSA’s national platform, which includes universal rent control and abolishing the Senate and the Supreme Court, is meant to offer bold alternatives to the status quo — a posture that its leaders say has powered the group’s rapid rise.” ”The ensuing response, though, epitomizes how the organization’s dual goals — to reimagine […]

“A rise in presidential pardons for white-collar criminals has given hope to fraudsters of a different flavor,” NOTUS reports. “Three convicted political scammers — Richard Zeitlin, William Tierney and Matt Tunstall — have formally sought pardons from President Donald Trump, seeking the same leniency the president has shown a number of felonious cryptocurrency, finance and […]

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Attacks on the country’s banks, aviation, and energy systems have climbed since the war with Iran began. Its answer is a homegrown AI security industry.

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