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Trumps DOJ Has Frozen Police Reform Work. Advocates Fear More Abuse in Departments Across the Country.
by Topher Sanders
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as theyre published. When news broke in January that the Trump Justice Department ...[Continue Reading]
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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 ...[Continue Reading]
Techdirt
1 day ago
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An AI agent hacked a government website, and officials dont know what to do
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 ...[Continue Reading]
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Italy ministers agree to ban burqa and niqab in school and cap foreigners in class
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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 ...[Continue Reading]
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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 ...[Continue Reading]
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Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters
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 ...[Continue Reading]
Substack.com
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