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“President Donald Trump is fanning out his Cabinet across the country to sell his accomplishments and shore up key constituencies ahead of the midterms,” Politico reports. “It isn’t quite working out that way.” “Energy Secretary Chris Wright visited New Hampshire last week to tout natural gas pipelines and got hit with questions about $4 gasoline […]

Over the past two years, Belgium's anti-piracy blocklist has grown past 1,500 domains. This week the government's anti-piracy department expanded its effort, ordering domain registrars and a registry to hand over names, bank accounts, crypto wallets and connection logs linked to pirate site operators. The intermediaries are not allowed to inform their customers about these efforts.

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“Hungary’s parliament elected an academic with no legal training to head a flagship authority created by Peter Magyar’s government to map and help prosecute suspected misappropriation during former leader Viktor Orban’s tenure,” Bloomberg reports.

NBC News: “Reputable, nonpartisan polls conducted over the last few weeks have found Trump’s approval rating on his handling of Iran ranges from 25% to 35%. A July Fox News poll found that 34% of registered voters approved of Trump’s handling of Iran, roughly in line with CNBC’s July poll, which found 35% approval. A […]

“You probably haven’t seen much of Brian Schatz on cable news or the Sunday shows, but he’s in line to soon change the face of Senate Democrats,” Bloomberg reports. “The 53-year-old Hawaii senator is on track to become the No. 2 Democrat in the chamber next year, bringing a fresh and younger voice to the […]

Less than two years ago, when she was 27 years old, Karoline Leavitt became the youngest White House press secretary ever. Now 29, Leavitt is leaving that job. Thursday was […]

The post Karoline Leavitt says goodbye as White House press secretary appeared first on Poynter.

“For the last six months, President Trump has attempted to control the narrative of the Iran war,” the Los Angeles Times reports. “As days, weeks and months passed, he repeatedly said that an agreement to end the conflict was close at hand and that Iran was already defeated. Between fraught negotiations, Trump has gone from […]

The group infected more than 1,000 organizations in a relentless supply-chain attack campaign.

"From here on, Starlink missions out of Florida will fly on Starship."

“Republicans will have some stiff competition for eyeballs when they hold their first-ever midterm convention next month in Dallas — the NFL, American television’s undisputed champion of ratings,” Axios reports. “The GOP’s Sept. 9-10 convention in Dallas will go head-to-head with the two opening games of the NFL season, which are expected to draw huge […]

This essay was written with Kasra Rafi, and originally appeared in The Guardian.

Earlier this month, about 40 top mathematicians gathered at OpenAI’s offices to discuss the future of their profession. The meeting was off-the-record, but if recent articles by mathematicians are any guide, it was mostly pretty glum. People fear for their jobs, their careers and the work they love.

We think the contrary view is more likely, at least in the short-term. AI models are nowhere near as capable as experienced academic mathematicians.

This isn’t to say that AIs aren’t producing stunning mathematical results at the level of PhD researchers. In mid-May, OpenAI ...

Another New York Lottery player is celebrating after a routine stop turned into a massive payday, and this time the winning ticket is worth a whopping $10 million. Continue reading…

The art portfolio platform Cara, designed for creators who don’t want their work used to train AI, has been under assault by trolls seizing and publishing its data.

The company is testing robots that can swap cables, reset servers, and take on other tasks performed by technicians, fueling concerns among some workers that their jobs could be at risk.

Transferring files and data across platforms is more straightforward than ever.

The curious patterns of colorful paint on a City of Poughkeepsie roadway may be hard to make out today, but were once huge news in the Hudson Valley. Continue reading…

"Meet the team that closely monitors the playful canines, which need help to form diverse packs and stop their numbers from dwindling."

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The following article originally appeared on Tim O’Brien’s Medium blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. AI costs are easy to count and hard to understand, and judging effort by a token volume? While that might feel like a valid measure of value or complexity, it doesn’t capture the details that define […]

“Nearly two-thirds of South Koreans want the country to have its own nuclear weapons, a poll showed, underscoring concerns about the reliability of U.S. security guarantees after President Donald Trump unilaterally curtailed joint military exercises with Seoul,” Bloomberg reports.