RFK Jr. names 8 new members to influential preventive medicine task force
The USPSTF sets insurance coverage from preventive services, like colonoscopies.
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Here’s What the AI Apocalypse Could Look Like
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss three possible AI doomsday scenarios, AI safety, and the unexpected bipartisan alliance forming against AI.
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Ken Paxton’s Financial Disclosures Appear To Violate Federal Ethics Law, Experts Say
This story was originally published by ProPublica and the Texas Tribune. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have violated federal ethics law in...
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Small AI models let drones autonomously identify and attack battlefield targets
Scaleout deploys decentralized AI-driven learning to military bases and drones.
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Louis-Philippe Véronneau: Fake Cash: The World Trade Game
This is a new series1 I'm starting on the tools I have been crafting and buying to play pedagogical games in my Economics classes. These games,...
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New low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances are generally available
AWS introduces new low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Granite Rapids), available only on AWS. T8i instances...
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The Blood of Dawnwalker sequel may not have the divisive time mechanic that so many players dislike: 'We will not force it,' game director says
Konrad Tomaszkiewicz says players can use mods if they don't like Dawnwalkers ticking clock, but he encourages everyone to give it a chance first.
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Wardogs is the only FPS where I actually expect to get revived
Bribe or no bribe, people want to help in Wardogs.
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Intel squeezed a 1.58-bit LLM down to 1.485 bits without changing a single weight
The 1.58 in a 1.58-bit language model sounds like a hard limit, but Intel researchers pushed a ternary model below The post Intel squeezed a 1.58-bit...
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World of Warcraft: Forever players are reliving 2004 with hour-long queue times to get into the highly-anticipated beta
Blizzard says it's working on getting everyone in as soon as possible.
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NASA Awards Launch Services for StarBurst Gamma-Ray Detector
NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the agency’s StarBurst mission, a small satellite designed to investigate neutron star mergers and the origins of...
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