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Donald Trump has managed to spend the entirety of his trouble-plagued second presidential term living inside a self-aggrandizing bubble of hubris and ego, surrounding himself with a small, tight group of yes-men -- and, of course, Natalie Harp -- who will only tell him flat...

“Iran is ready for a more intense war and will escalate its counterstrikes if the U.S. continues attacking its territory and infrastructure, according to a senior official from the Islamic Republic,” Bloomberg reports. “Tehran has no intention of backing down in the face of an American naval blockade and attacks on its oil tankers, said […]

“The U.S. military’s top officer said Wednesday that the Pentagon needs Congress to approve a defense budget as the department negotiates deals with weapons makers to rapidly expand munitions production,” the Washington Sun reports. “Gen. Dan Caine, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stopped short of discussing the Pentagon’s recent munitions agreements specifically. […]

“These days, it’s easier than ever to conduct some form of polling and as difficult as it’s ever been to get it right,” CNN reports. “Completely faked numbers like a phony ‘poll’ of the Los Angeles mayoral race that made waves last month are thankfully rare. That said, even real polls can have serious flaws […]

I spent the day programming in Atlantis. It’s buggy, and there are a few missing parts, but most of what I need is there. It’s starting to feel like Frontier, which is cool because that’s what we’re making. And I have my backup tools working on the new machine, praise Murphy.

Security operations centers have struggled with alerts for years, and AI agents offer a new way to tackle it: Enable

The post How much control should AI get? A CISO roundtable takes on SOC autonomy appeared first on The New Stack.

Louisiana was met with a chilly reception Wednesday, as it pushed to make the abortion pill mifepristone less accessible nationwide....

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A former LAPD officer and Dutchess County Christmas tree farm owner was sentenced for fatally shooting his girlfriend's 20-year-old son. Continue reading…

"We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!"

"All I ever wanted was to go to school."

Most one-base changes to the human genome do nothing, but a few are significant.

Rewrote the cloud element and the pinging code. The previous method was using xml-rpc and xml.rss.pingCloud and xml.rss.defaultCloud.getCloudElement. It was planning a bunch of generality that never got built on and in the meantime, I have a Node package that does a tighter job, hides a lot more of the detail in building a feed.

Secretive predictive policing units; a funk shirt designed to fool AI; and our third anniversary party.

James Strahler was sentenced to 15 years in prison for “cybercrimes that included both real and AI-generated sexually explicit images and threats of violence to numerous victims.” 

This article is part of The Poynter 50, a series reflecting on 50 moments and people that shaped journalism over the past half-century — and continue to influence its future. […]

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A new GTA mod lets you smash and shoot Flock’s automatic license plate readers around the fictional Los Santos.

"America’s legal system is already grappling with cases where chatbots acted as lawyers and witnesses, generated the evidence, or helped plan a mass shooting. Who will be liable now that some AI agents are doing crimes all on their own?"

EVgo is adding more than 400 fast-charging stalls at grocery-anchored shopping centers across the US, giving EV drivers more places to plug in while they shop or grab a coffee.

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