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A Profoundly Tragic Refugee Death in Buffalo Adds to a Grim Border Patrol Toll in 2026
Me Me Khant
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. As an exiled Burmese poet and advocate, returning home for me means walki ...[Continue Reading]
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Dolls, Not Tablets, Shine in Teaching Vital Skills to Children, Study Reveals
Alex Valdes
Empathy, tolerance and the ability to see the world from others' perspectives are crucial skills -- and they begin developing early in life. New research suggests that playing with dolls rather than ...[Continue Reading]
CNET
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Talk Python to Me: #541: Monty - Python in Rust for AI
Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy)
On this episode, I sit down with Samuel Colvin, creator of Pydantic, now at 10 billion downloads, to explore Monty, a Python interpreter written from scratch in Rust, purpose-built to run LLM-generat ...[Continue Reading]
Talkpython.fm
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Sixth Circuit Slaps Steep Sanctions On Two Lawyers For Fake Citations And Misrepresentations In Appellate Briefs
Robert Ambrogi
In what may be one of the most significant appellate sanctions rulings yet involving fabricated case citations, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has imposed substantial penalties on two Tennesse ...[Continue Reading]
Lawnext.com
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ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok are all bad at crediting news outlets, but ChatGPT is the worst (at least in this study)
Laura Hazard Owen
Canadian researchers asked the paid and free versions of four AI models ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok about Canadian news events to see whether they would credit individual news outlets in their ...[Continue Reading]
Niemanlab.org
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Prediction Markets Promised Better Information. Instead Theyre Creating Powerful Incentives to Corrupt Information.
Mike Masnick
from the did-anyone-bet-i-would-write-this? dept Theres a concept in economics known as Goodharts Law, often summarized as: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. The i ...[Continue Reading]
Techdirt
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