Is the Supreme Court about to legalize SWATting?
Slouching from probable cause into mere officer suspicion The post Is the Supreme Court about to legalize SWATting? appeared first on Downsize DC.
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Checking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool
Manufacturing better batteries, faster electronics, and more effective pharmaceuticals depends on the discovery of new materials and the verification of their quality. Artificial intelligence is helping with the former, with tools that comb through catalogs of materials to quickly tag promising candidates. But once a material is made, verifying its quality still involves scanning it with specialized instruments to validate its performance — an expensive and time-consuming step that can hold up the development and distribution of new […]
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Pixi: A Smarter Way to Manage Python Environments
Pixi makes python environment management simple, consistent, and portable.
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Reading Research Papers in the Age of LLMs
How I keep up with papers with a mix of manual and AI-assisted reading The post Reading Research Papers in the Age of LLMs appeared first on Towards Data Science.
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We’re celebrating Geoffrey Hinton’s Nobel-winning legacy with the University of Toronto.
Today, we are celebrating the extraordinary impact of Nobel Prize-winner Geoffrey Hinton by investing in the future of the field he helped build. Google is proud to supp…
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OpenAI’s new GPT-5.2 model takes on Google’s Gemini 3
As expected and following multiple reports, OpenAI officially announced the GPT-5.2 model. For those unaware, it’s a product that the company fast-tracked out of the heat it’s facing from the success of the latest models from Google and Anthropic. Not to forget, the GPT-5.2 is OpenAI’s second biggest update since the company officially launched GPT-5 in August. GPT-5.2 is here with improved raw performance results In the announcement, OpenAI describes GPT-5.2 as its “most capable model series yet […]
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New software designs eco-friendly clothing that can reassemble into new items
It’s hard to keep up with the ever-changing trends of the fashion world. What’s “in” one minute is often out of style the next season, potentially causing you to re-evaluate your wardrobe. Staying current with the latest fashion styles can be wasteful and expensive, though. Roughly 92 million tons of textile waste are produced annually, including the clothes we discard when they go out of style or no longer fit. But what if we could simply reassemble our clothes […]
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Why SNAP Reform Needs More Than Mass Recertification
USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins promises “structural changes to SNAP” after Thanksgiving, following her controversial mass recertification proposal. But Cato’s Romina Boccia and Tyler Turman argue in a new blog post that the real problem isn’t paperwork—it’s incentives. lead , States have zero financial stake in preventing fraud because Washington pays 100% of the benefits costs. Boccia and Turman explain why block-granting SNAP and shifting fiscal responsibility to states would actually strengthen program integrity. If you’d like to set up an interview […]
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EFF Stands With Tunisian Media Collective Nawaat
When the independent Tunisian online media collective Nawaat announced that the government had suspended its activities for one month, the news landed like a punch in the gut for anyone who remembers what the Arab uprisings promised: dignity, democracy, and a free press. But Tunisia’s October 31 suspension of Nawaat—delivered quietly, without formal notice, and justified under Decree-Law 2011-88—is not just a bureaucratic decision. It’s a warning shot aimed at the very idea of independent civic life. The […]
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Simpler models can outperform deep learning at climate prediction
Environmental scientists are increasingly using enormous artificial intelligence models to make predictions about changes in weather and climate, but a new study by MIT researchers shows that bigger models are not always better. The team demonstrates that, in certain climate scenarios, much simpler, physics-based models can generate more accurate predictions than state-of-the-art deep-learning models. Their analysis also reveals that a benchmarking technique commonly used to evaluate machine-learning techniques for climate predictions can be distorted by natural variations in […]
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