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Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is on hold
Vlad
The bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery was won by Paramount Skydance, which forced Netflix to drop out. The deal has however been put on hold by a judge. Twelve US state attorneys general reques
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One of NYC's biggest private sanitation firms trashed loads o...
Liam Quigley
An MTA inspector general report published Tuesday found one of the agencys private waste contractors trashed hundreds of tons of cardboard and paper since 2019, leading to extra fees that were covere
Gothamist
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Epstein survivors again urge senators not to confirm Todd Bla...
Peter Charalambous, Lauren Peller
Two dozen survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's alleged abuse are again urging Republican Sens. Thom Tillis and John Cornyn to vote against confirming Todd Blanche as attorney general.

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STUDY: Dementia 'Contagious' In Marriage...
StudyFinds Analysis
(Credit: Photo by RODNAE Productions from Pexels) <ul><li>When one spouse is diagnosed with dementia, the other partners risk of developing it runs about 70 percent higher, roughly 74 percent for w

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Employee's new boss wants to swap his earned department head ...
Etai Eshet, Etai Eshet
And this boss walked in like a general contractor who didn't build the house but immediately wants to inspect the wiring. Trial periods with nothing to actually test are their own genre of nonsense
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Measuring reward-seeking by instilling contrastive beliefs
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Back to OpenAI Alignment BlogRead the paperIn Brief<ul><li>We developed a new test, Contrastive Synthetic Document Finetuning (Contrastive SDF), for whether an AI model would change its behavior if

Openai.com
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Todd Blanche Admits Trumps Slush Fund Isnt Dead After All
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Well, we talked to them about it. It took place a long time ago, I think China is maybe a little bit different today than it was then. But look, they do things, and we do things to them, Ill be hones

The New Republic
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Florida Fires Expose Violations Of Over 100 Court Orders By I...
Tim Cushing
from the flat-out-refusing-to-follow-the-law dept The Trump administration continues to pretend migrants dont have due process rights. It does this despite racking up nearly 10,000 rulings to the c

Techdirt
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Will Forte Joins Skyler Gisondo & Kenneth Branagh In A24s Goblin
Mike Fleming
EXCLUSIVE: A24 has Will Forte in talks to play dual roles in the David Mikalson-directed film Goblin. Forte joins Skyler Gisondo and Kenneth Branagh, latter of whom will provide the voice the title c

Deadline
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The Cult of Jung
Steven A Hassan PhD
Carl Jung gave us the shadow self and asked us to consider who we are within a system of classification. His ideas traveled far beyond the psychoanalysis room, cascading through the mythology of the

Psychology Today
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JetBlue to restore flights at LaGuardia's historic Marine Air...
Cory Schouten
LaGuardia Airport's historic Marine Air Terminal could once again serve air travelers after JetBlue won an auction to take over gates that were abandoned earlier this year when Spirit Airlines went b
Gothamist
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Characters Disappearing Review: Connor Sen Warnicks Debut Pre...
David Ehrlich
Towards the end of Connor Sen Warnicks debut Characters Disappearing, members of the I Wor Kuen, a radical Marxist Chinese-American group operating in New Yorks Chinatown in the 1970s, convene fo

IndieWire
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Ozempic Is Quietly Becoming the Go-to Weight Loss Treatment f...
Ed Cara
GLP-1 medications like semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, have become some of the most popular drugs in the world. Its popularity is extending to teenagers and young adults, to

Gizmodo.com
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Evenepoel cuts Pogacar's lead with time-trial win
Timothy Abraham
Remco Evenepoel cut Tadej Pogacar's lead at the top of the general classification by 28 seconds with a dominant victory in the time-trial on stage 16 of the Tour de France. Olympic champion Evenepoe

BBC News
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Trump vows to help Lebanon but offers no timeline for Israeli...
Al Jazeera Staff
President Donald Trump has promised that the United States will help Lebanon as he met with his Lebanese counterpart Joseph Aoun amid continued occupation of the south of the country by Israeli force

Al Jazeera English
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Anthropics $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge
Emma Roth
<ul><li></li><li></li><li></li></ul> The $3,000 per book payment could be the largest known copyright recovery in history. The $3,000 per book payment could be the largest known copyright recovery

The Verge
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Analog hobbies are booming as AI burnout hits Gen Z hardest ...
c.cale.hunt@gmail.com (Cale Hunt) , Cale Hunt
I grew up in an analog world. Smartphones were at least a decade away. Laptops were bricks of hardware with tiny, low-res screens and enormous hard drives. The first PC games I played shipped on flop

Windows Central
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800 Million Years Ago, a Catastrophic Asteroid Breakup Rained...
Andy Tomaswick, Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
On Earth, its hard to track events that reshape its surface, as the surface itself is being reshaped constantly by weather and tectonic or volcanic upheavals. However, the Moon is much more static, a

Universe Today
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How to Recognise Coercive Narrative
Terri Apter Ph.D.
Gaslighting, whereby someone undermines our belief in our own experiences, is now a familiar term, while other hurdles to personal knowledge have been overlooked. One of these is coercive narrative,

Psychology Today
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Is your college laptop struggling? This Intel i5 and 16GB RAM...
paulo.n.hatton@gmail.com (Paul Hatton) , Paul Hatton
Getting set up for school or college can be an expensive endeavour. That's why we're always on the lookout for solid laptops that have been reduced in price, and that's exactly the case with this Len

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Cover-Up Unravels as Pentagon Admits Nearly 100 Injured in Ir...
Nick Turse
The Pentagon belatedly admitted that almost 100 U.S. troops have been injured in the last two weeks as Iran has hit U.S. targets across the Middle East, following months of reporting by The Intercept

The Intercept
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Samsungs Apple Card Rival Is Here: Meets Galaxy Card
Paulo Montenegro
Samsung has announced the launch of the Galaxy Card, its first co-branded credit card in the United States, developed in partnership with Barclays and Visa. Designed to compete directly with service

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The closest thing to an iPad Air in Android form I was impre...
lewis.maddison@futurenet.com (Lewis Maddison) , Lewis Maddison
Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you're buying the best. Find out more about how we test.Samsung Galaxy Tab S11: Two-minute r

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