Amnesty International report details torture, abuse at immigration detention camps in Florida
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OpenAI to acquire Neptune
OpenAI is acquiring Neptune to deepen visibility into model behavior and strengthen the tools researchers use to track experiments and monitor training.
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Why do they even bother with ads like this? If your gun doesn’t “look like a toy” you’re still going to jail for having a gun at all in nyc
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10 (Not So) Hidden Dangers of Age Verification
It’s nearly the end of 2025, and half of the US and the UK now require you to upload your ID or scan your face to watch “sexual content.” A handful of states and Australia now have various requirements to verify your age before you can create a social media account. Age-verification laws may sound straightforward to some: protect young people online by making everyone prove their age. But in reality, these mandates force users into one of […]
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Microsoft AI Releases VibeVoice-Realtime: A Lightweight Real‑Time Text-to-Speech Model Supporting Streaming Text Input and Robust Long-Form Speech Generation
Microsoft has released VibeVoice-Realtime-0.5B, a real time text to speech model that works with streaming text input and long form speech output, aimed at agent style applications and live data narration. The model can start producing audible speech in about 300 ms, which is critical when a language model is still generating the rest of its answer. Where VibeVoice Realtime Fits in the VibeVoice Stack? VibeVoice is a broader framework that focuses on next token diffusion over continuous […]
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Stop building RAG pipelines like it’s 2023
Author(s): AI Rabbit Originally published on Towards AI. Agentic Era If your architecture still looks like “User Query Vector DB LLM,” you aren’t building an AI application; you’re building a hallucination engine. The “naive” RAG era where we just dumped PDFs into Pinecone and prayed for the best is officially over. Here is the technical reality of RAG in 2025.The article discusses the evolution of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, emphasizing the transition from outdated linear architectures to more […]
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We’re Doubling Down on Digital Rights. You Can, Too.
Technology can uplift democracy, or it can be an authoritarian weapon. EFF is making sure it stays on the side of freedom. We’re defending encryption, exposing abusive surveillance tech, fighting government overreach, and standing up for free expression. But we need your help to protect digital rights—and right now, your donation will be matched dollar-for-dollar. Power up! Join EFF Today & Get a Free Donation Match It’s Power Up Your Donation Week and all online contributions get an […]
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Of Property Rights, Civil Society, and Shampoo
Who defines and enforces property rights? If you are the average person, an undergraduate student, or even a mainstream economics professor, that answer is easy: the government. Look it up! Municipal and county governments determine the deeds to your property and various usage rights including wetland setbacks and easements. State governments create regulations that affect residential and commercial property and how businesses may go about their business. And the federal government controls patent and copyright protections, sets environmental […]
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How to Create an ML-Focused Newsletter
Learn how to make a newsletter with AI tools The post How to Create an ML-Focused Newsletter appeared first on Towards Data Science.
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F.A Hayek: Education Is an Obligation, Not a Right
Friedrich A. Hayek Is there a right to education? Even in today’s polarized political environment in the United States, the overwhelming majority of citizens think there is such a right, and many hold that it applies through the completion of college.1 Every one of the fifty state constitutions includes language providing for free public education, although the language of rights is not explicitly cited. But to Friedrich Hayek, such expressions reveal confusion about both what rights are and […]
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