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Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates to square off

SCOTT BAUER Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. -- Candidates in a race that will determine ideological control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court will square off Wednesday in their only scheduled debate before the April 1 election. The ...[Continue Reading]

ABC News

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OpenAI's new safety hire says losing control of AI would be 'catastrophic' and that 'most people could die'

Kelsey Vlamis

OpenAI's new safety hire shared a dire warning about the threat posed by AI.Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images <ul><li>OpenAI's new safety hire, Paul Christiano, shared a dire warning about ris ...[Continue Reading]

Business Insider

1 day ago

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Factoring RSA 260

Eric Lu

Over the past few weeks, the Cognition research team and I have been optimizing our job scheduler to better use disaggregated compute. As a proof of concept, and because Ive enjoyed factoring numbers ...[Continue Reading]

Cognition.com

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Yemen envoy warns of wider war as Houthis threaten Bab al-Mandeb Strait

Osama Bin Javaid

The war in Yemen is threatening to open a new front as the Iran-allied Houthi rebels are trying to advance along the Red Sea coast, through the mountain chains of Taiz province, edging closer to stra ...[Continue Reading]

Al Jazeera English

1 day ago


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Anthropic Just Threatened to Kill Billions of People. This Is Not Okay.

Study Hacks

Yesterday, Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic engineer, resigned. As he explained on X: [OpenAI and Anthropic] are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. A former ...[Continue Reading]

Calnewport.com

1 day ago


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Urging SCOTUS To Reject AR-15 Bans, the Trump Administration Explains Why They Are Unconstitutional

Jacob Sullum

The Trump administration has repeatedly challenged "assault weapon" bans, arguing that they violate the Second Amendment because they prohibit arms in common use for lawful purposes. In a Supreme Cou ...[Continue Reading]

Yahoo Entertainment

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