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Con Artists Posing as Ice Agents Are Using WhatsApp to Bilk Vulnerable People Out of Their Savings
Naisha Roy, Northwestern University, and Francesca D'Annunzio and J. David McSwane, ProPublica
This story was originally published by ProPublica. As an asylum-seeker living in the U.S., Jasmir Urbina worried as she watched violence break out amid the military-style immigration sweeps across t ...[Continue Reading]
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Opioid maker Purdue Pharma shuts down as part of legal settlement with NY and other states
Joe Hong
Purdue Pharma officially ended operations Friday, a year after the Sackler family reached a $7.4 billion settlement with a coalition of state attorneys general, including New York's, for the companys ...[Continue Reading]
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The Next Alzheimers Breakthrough Will Take More Than Just Science
Anna McKie
Alzheimers research is entering a new phase, as treatments that have taken decades to develop begin to reach patients. But getting those advances to people will depend on more than scientific progres ...[Continue Reading]
Wired
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With First Choice Womens Centers V. Davenport, The Supreme Court Managed To Do At Least One Helpful Thing: Further Protect Anonymous Speech
Cathy Gellis
from the a-little-constitutionalism,-as-a-treat dept Shortly before the Supreme Court inflicted enormous damage on the Voting Rights Act, the Reconstruction Amendments of the Constitution, any prete ...[Continue Reading]
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Getting Dark [Comic]
Geeks are Sexy
[Source: @litterboxcomics] Did we make you smile, entertain you, or teach you something new? Support us right here! May 1, 2026Geeks are SexyComics, General, Humor0 Comments...[Continue Reading]
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GPT-5.5 Matches Heavily Hyped Mythos Preview In New Cybersecurity Tests
BeauHD
Last month, Anthropic made a big deal about the supposedly outsize cybersecurity threat represented by its Mythos Preview model, leading the company to restrict the initial release to "critical indus ...[Continue Reading]
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