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The Antitrust Problem With Metas Settlement With The States

Eric Goldman

from the the-incentives-are-bad dept Originally published as an op-ed in The Mercury News. Republished here with permission from the author. Metas settlement with the state attorneys general (curre

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An AI agent hacked a government website, and officials dont k...

Hamed Paydarfar

Summary <ul><li> OpenAI agent breached Australia's Medicare portal, accessing public and non-public health data. </li><li> OpenAI only detected the June breach in August and notified officials

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Italy ministers agree to ban burqa and niqab in school and ca...

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The Italian government has approved a ban on the burqa and niqab in schools, along with a limit on the share of pupils who speak little Italian in any one class. A 30% cap will be imposed on childr

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Delegates walk out of Netanyahus UN speech

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Dozens of delegates walked out of the assembly hall as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began his UN General Assembly address on Thursday. Netanyahus speech came as Israel faced growing crit

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Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th cent...

Benjamin Breen

Ive written previously about the pitfalls and use cases for AI in augmenting historical research, but things have changed significantly since 2024-25. Occasioned by the dueling releases of GPT-6 Sol

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Illegal, Unlicensed Gambling Operation: New York Sues Polymarket

Matt Novak

New York Attorney General Letitia James and Governor Kathy Hochul announced Thursday that the state was filing a lawsuit against Polymarket for running what the state calls an illegal, unlicensed gam

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Administration to ask Supreme Court to allow swift deportatio...

Laura Romero

The Trump administration will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to allow it to continue swiftly deporting immigrants to third countries that are different from their country of origin, Attorney General Todd

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Israels policies threaten very existence of Palestinians, Abb...

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has warned the United Nations General Assembly that Israels policies go beyond undermining a two-state solution and now threaten the very life and existe

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Ethiopian army says 272 Tigrayan fighters killed in Amhara

Al Jazeera Staff

Ethiopias army says it has killed at least 272 fighters from the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) in a counter-offensive in the countrys northwest Amhara region. The Ethiopian National Defence

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Trump Easily Loses His Censorial SLAPP Suit Over A Poll Predi...

Mike Masnick

from the the-slappiest-president-ever dept You may recall that after he had won the 2024 Presidential election, the sorest winner in the history of sore winners, Donald Trump sued retiring pollster

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California high court rules sheriff's seizure of 650,000 ball...

Sonja Sharp

The California Supreme Court excoriated Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco over his seizure of hundreds of thousands of Proposition 50 ballots earlier this year, ordering the former gubernatorial c

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Iranian-American group sues Trump over war

Umar Farooq

A group of Iranian Americans have filed a lawsuit against United States President Donald Trump, asking a court to order a halt to military action against Iran that they allege is harming them and the

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Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Adding Highly-Requested Option...

Zack Zwiezen

When Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 arrives later this October, it will bring a new and highly requested option to the franchises popular battle royale spin-off Warzone. For the first time ever in s

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GM is giving away free home chargers, and paying drivers to c...

Darius Popa

General Motors and Pacific Gas and Electric will give new EV buyers a home charger worth up to $1,999 and $15 a month if they let the utility decide when the car charges. In Germany that arrangement

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15 Photos to Inspire You to Enter the Sony World Photography ...

Jeremy Gray

The Sony World Photography Awards 2027 remain open for entry, and the World Photography Organization today announced the judges for this years competition, the 20th edition of the Sony World Photogr

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Hostile, but hooked: Whats behind the US-China trade truce ex...

Urooba Jamal

The red carpet was rolled out, and a trade truce was extended. Yet, beneath the pomp and pageantry of Chinese President Xi Jinpings state visit with US leader Donald Trump on Thursday, Washington and

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Media outlets still denied access to White House despite judg...

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The White House said it has reinstated journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico after a federal judge deemed US President Donald Trumps ban of the three news outlets likely unconstitutional and orde

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Mahmoud Abbas: What will it take to protect Palestine?

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas questioned how long the world would remain silent and continue providing weapons to Israel in a video address at the UN General Assembly on Thursday. Abbas was bar

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Trump invites Putin to Miami G20: Why that matters

Edna Mohamed

United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced that Washington has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to Decembers G20 meeting in Miami amid efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war.

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We Tried 10 Instant Noodle Brands And a Momofuku Fan-Favorit...

Ali Domrongchai

We independently select these productsif you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. All prices were accurate at the time of publishing. Like many college students, I bought instant ra

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Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?

dynomight

dynomight.net/liver [Epistemic Status: Speculative unifying theory of biology.] I dont know about you, but I greatly resent having to be a biological organism and subject to all the poor engineerin

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U.S. and Iran discuss phased deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz,...

By Samia Nakhoul, Parisa Hafezi and John Irish

By Samia Nakhoul, Parisa Hafezi and John Irish Sept 24 (Reuters) - US and Iranian negotiators in New York are exploring a phased path out of war that would involve Tehran reopening the Strait of Hor

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Your Pixel has a hardware diagnostic menu you should open bef...

Yadullah Abidi

You're using your Pixel and suddenly, the speaker sounds muffled, the screen has a weird dead spot, or the battery drains faster than it used to. We've all had this moment, and the first thought that

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