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Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and Democratic challenger Adam Hamilton sparred over President Donald Trump, immigration, Iran, transgender athletes, artificial intelligence and personal controversies during a contentious Kansas Senate debate Wednesday night.The hour-long showdown came less than two weeks before Election Day as Marshall seeks a second term and Hamilton, a longtime pastor, tries to become the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from Kansas since 1932.The race has drawn increas...
Ex-SJSU volleyball coach alleges trans player failed testosterone test, result was kept 'secret' from team
Former San Jose State University (SJSU) volleyball coach Melissa Batie-Smoose alleges a school official told her transgender player Blaire Fleming could not compete at one point during the 2023 season because Flemingâs testosterone level exceeded the eligibility limit.In a new interview with OutKick, Batie-Smoose, who is now the head volleyball coach at Cisco College, claimed SJSU associate athletics director Laura Alexander informed her of Fleming's failed test before the womenâs volleyball...
Macron has one more chance to save the country or ‘it’s lost for France,’ business owner warns
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House Dem leader's attack on voter ID comes back to haunt him after election fraud bust in his home state
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Americans are making costly grocery mistake even before entering the store, expert warns
A grocery shopping mistake that could be costing Americans money starts even before they get to the store, according to cookbook author Jenn Lueke."The No. 1 biggest mistake is just not taking the time to plan ahead," Lueke, Boston-based author of "Don't Think About Dinner," told Fox News Digital.Making a grocery list and deciding what to cook for the week ahead can help shoppers save money and stress less about meals, she said.SCIENTISTS SAY YOU'VE BEEN THROWING AWAY PERFECTLY GOOD MEAT BECAUSE...
France's riot chaos fuels Farage's warning that mass immigration failures could haunt another country next
As violent riots grip France, British political leader Nigel Farage warned Americans against repeating what he described as Europe's mass immigration failures, arguing that years of unchecked migration have transformed European cities and fueled unrest that could eventually spread elsewhere."People like me who were warning about this years ago have sadly been proven right, but the problems are gonna be here for a very, very long time," Farage told Fox News Digital in an interview. "Please, pleas...
El-Sayed, Rogers clash over Muslim Brotherhood, Trump and guns: 5 fiery debate moments
Former Rep. Mike Rogers and his Democratic opponent, Abdul El-Sayed, tore into each other at their second Michigan Senate debate Wednesday evening.Rogers, a former FBI special agent and the Republican U.S. Senate candidate, clashed with El-Sayed over the personal barbs, accusations and fierce divides that have defined one of the countryâs most anticipated Senate elections.Here are some of the most noteworthy moments from the fiery faceoff.As evidence of Rogersâ alignment with President Donal...
What Should We Actually Do With Daylight Saving Time?
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Arellano: In Trumpworld, dogs who commit voter fraud aren't as bad as immigrants
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A political bogeyman has emerged in L.A.'s election: Ousted D.A. George Gascón
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Here's what the rain means for Southern California's fire season
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Behind Elon Musk's plans for a mega-merger of SpaceX and Tesla
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Dog the Bounty Hunter hunted Max Factor heir Andrew Luster to Mexico in 2003, now serial rapist is free
EXCLUSIVE: Twenty-three years after Duane "Dog" Chapman chased fugitive Max Factor heir Andrew Luster to Mexico and tackled him on a Puerto Vallarta street, the convicted serial rapist is a free man â despite an initial sentence of 124 years."I hope he's smart enough â and he's smart â to never do anything like that again," Chapman told Fox News Digital Wednesday, more than two decades after the capture that helped make him a household name.MAX FACTOR HEIR'S FORMER LAWYER DETAILS JUDGE'S E...
What's behind the youth protests in France?
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Hugging Face’s New AI Biology Model Lets You Chat With DNA
The new open-source model speaks the language of DNA and can help researchers understand the effects of any changes on gene activity and health.
Barclays plans to cut 5,000 jobs, or ~5% of its workforce, by the end of 2026 as part of AI-driven cost cutting, with ~60% coming from support and developers
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OpenAI says its AI agents disabled their own safety monitors
OpenAI has revealed that two of its artificial intelligence agents disabled or weakened systems built to catch them misbehaving, with one later denying it had done so.
Walmart welcomes AI agents as Anthropic launches its own
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This Preamp Costs More Than a Fancy Sports Car
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New research tries to defuse the “China shock”
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AI compute is the new oil—and needs a new market
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‘Metro,’ the Podcast That Tells Stories of This New York Moment
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Caryl Churchill’s Latest Play: 20 Minutes That Cost Nothing
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Insiders Reportedly Say Tesla-SpaceX Merger Must Close Before Trump Leaves Office
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MORNING GLORY: Trump must go to war on the airwaves to stop Democrats’ blue-wave blitz
Should President Donald Trump deliver a prime-time address next week with the avowed purpose of impacting the elections nationwide?Yes. Absolutely yes.President Trump is often the best proponent of his own policies, and the much-anticipated "blue wave" would effectively paralyze those policies and his plans to finish the battle with Iran, build the Golden Dome and Golden Fleet, and slow, if not reverse, the regulatory overhaul underway.MORNING GLORY: MINNESOTA'S MASSIVE FRAUD SCANDAL COULD DELIV...
Independent voters aren’t picking a political team, they just feel picked on
Regardless of the outcome of the 2026 midterm elections, any party that wins the majority will have done so because of the independent vote. For the past several elections, this cohort has been the crucial swing vote that ultimately decides the election. Independents are the kingmakers.If Democrats win big on Nov. 3, expect a familiar story. Pundits will call it a mandate. Party leaders will say voters want their agenda. They will be wrong.I have spent my career in partisan politics, and I keep ...
We need to talk to communists because there is so much they need to learn
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Big Las Vegas show closures mark a transitional time for Strip entertainment
A time of change can be sad, when you’re thinking about what might be lost, but it’s also a time of opportunity.
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Many states deciding control of the Senate are seeing a big boost in early voting, AP analysis shows
Voter turnout is soaring compared with the last midterm election in many of the states that are expected to decide control of the U.S. Senate, according to an Associated Press analysis of early voting two weeks before Election Day.
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Las Vegas concert lineup adds Tony winner Leslie Odom Jr. and posthardcore veterans Underoath
Two concerts, one next spring with a Tony Award winner and one next month with a posthardcore band, are coming to Las Vegas.
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Tesla wants to sell Cybercabs to other transport companies before the year ends.
AI’s hidden storage bill: What inference leaves behind
Ask most executives to picture the cost of AI and they’ll likely see GPUs—racks of accelerators with gigawatts of power—and a waitlist for silicon. But that picture leaves something out: Data storage
Some websites go dark as operators address an AI-detected flaw in a web programming language
An AI-assisted discovery of vulnerabilities in a widely used programming language led governments and other organizations in Europe and the U.S. to take their websites offline temporarily Wednesday as
DeepSeek Raises $15 Billion: What Is Reported, What Isn't
DeepSeek has raised about 100 billion yuan ($15 billion), with CATL and Tencent among the biggest investors, Bloomberg and Reuters report. None of the three has confirmed it.
Walmart Agent Profiles: Spending Limits for AI Shoppers
Walmart's Agent Profiles give each AI shopping agent its own profile in your account: approval on every purchase by default, an optional spending limit, and no access to your card.
Fortnite is back on Apple's Australian App Store following court ruling
Fortnite is back on the App Store in Australia after a federal court ordered Apple to open its iOS ecosystem up to competition.
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French Counterterror Police Arrest 'Ultra-Left' Activist Over Limoges City Hall Fire
French Counterterror Police Arrest 'Ultra-Left' Activist Over Limoges City Hall Fire French police on Tuesday arrested a 34-year-old man suspected of taking part in the October 17 arson of Limoges city hall, three days after the riots that gutted the 1883 building. The elite RAID unit's Bordeaux branch took him at 6:15 a.m. in a small, isolated house at Val d'Issoire, in the Haute-Vienne department, according to the Limoges prosecutor's office. The prosecutor called him a "person su...
Terminal Text Editor: Like VS Code But in Linux Terminal
I spend a lot of time in the terminal. Whether it is writing scripts, editing configuration files, or managing remote servers, the terminal remains the place where I get most of my work done. But when a project becomes slightly complex, I often find myself reaching for the comfort of a graphical code editor like Zed.I'll be honest, while I can appreciate why people love tools like Vim and Neovim, learning a modal editor has always felt like more of a commitment than I was willing to make.My edit...
WATCH: Top 3 clashes in heated MN governor debate as Walz's legacy looms large: 'Change the culture'
The Republican and Democratic candidates vying to replace Minnesota' s outgoing governor Tim Walz sparred in their final debate Wednesday over the massive fraud scandal that has unfolded in the state, health care and rising gas prices."A vote for Amy Klobuchar is a vote for a Tim Walz third term," Republican House Speaker Lisa Demuth said in her opening statement after painting Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar as the "status quo" candidate in a "state in crisis" over the $ 9 billion fraud scandal.K...
Abortion, ICE and socialism spark fireworks in swing state governor debate: 5 top moments
Republican Tom Tiffany and Democrat David Crowley sparred over abortion, taxes, immigration and Wisconsin's growing data center industry Wednesday night as Wisconsin's gubernatorial candidates faced off in a heated debate.Tiffany, a Republican congressman, and Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive, offered competing visions for Wisconsin as they vie to succeed Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.The WISN-hosted debate came less than two weeks before Election Day, with polls showing a tight race. A Sept...
Trump voters reveal their biggest fear heading into midterms and it's not rising prices
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Some of Canada's top scientists push for changes to Carney's new major projects bill
More than 50 of Canada's leading scholars and scientists are urging Parliament to make major changes to a signature bill from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government in an effort to avoid irreversible environmental harm for the sake of fast-tracking projects.
Loved You Can See Everything? Thank Canada
The Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything, from Canadian comedian and director Nathan Fielder, is taking the world by storm. A grocery list of Canadian creatives are behind it.
Biologists seek justice for forgotten kingdom of fungi
This week a UN summit aims to preserve the world's plants and animals. But a group of scientists wants to protect another diverse kingdom of species they say are too often forgotten – fungi. Here's a look at these beautiful organisms, why they aren't protected and why mycologists are fighting for 'justice' for them.
Politics is widening U.S. gender divides. In Canada? It's complicated
Young men and women tell CBC's The House that politics plays a big role in who they choose to date as the political divide along gender lines become a major issue south of the border.
MPs moving to restrict gambling ads in Canada amid mounting harms
A new analysis for CBC News shows Canadians continue to be bombarded with betting promotions during sports broadcasts.
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UK Landlords Offered More Than Double Council Rents To House Channel Migrants
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IBM AI Releases Granite Speech 5.0 2B for Multilingual Transcription and Translation
IBM released Granite Speech 5.0 2B, an Apache 2.0 speech recognition and translation model. It ranks #2 on the Open ASR Leaderboard with 5.68% average English WER, alongside updated Turbo CTC and 4.1
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With Horse Carriage Ban Set to Pass, Workers’ Future Remains Murky
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America's War Department Will Test Heat Ray Weapon For Potential Use
Longtime Slashdot reader destinyland shares a report from CNN: The Pentagon has given the Department of Homeland Security permission to test a military-grade heat ray and develop tactics to potentially use it in operations at the southern US border, according to a memo signed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last month and obtained by CNN. The heat ray, officially known as the Active Denial System, is a nonlethal weapon that shoots an invisible beam of electromagnetic waves that can reach a lit...
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Preschool, transitional kindergarten deliver big: 11 months ahead in reading, 8 in math
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"Mobilization Will Be Massive": French Govt Plans To Send Soldiers To The Streets After Admitting Failures
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Microsoft says China-linked hackers used AI penetration testing tool ARTEX to compromise ConnectWise as part of a campaign targeting hundreds of organizations
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A Micron labor union staged Taiwan's first-ever strike in the semiconductor industry on Thursday, demanding a regular profit-sharing scheme for its employees (Nikkei Asia)
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NVIDIA Cosmos Opens New Tools to Train, Evaluate and Deploy World Models
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NVIDIA Transforms European Retail, From Digital Discovery to Physical Operations
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A Coding Guide to Cactus Whistle: Does a 16.9 MB Speech Model Hold Up Against Whisper Base? Word Error Rate, Speed, Streaming, Timestamps, Keywords, and Speech-to-Tool Calls on a CPU
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Former Australian sprint champion Jake Doran charged with child sex offence
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Different Defects, Different Effects: A Controlled Audit of Face Recognition Training Data
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How to Use Parallel Data for Multilingual Pretraining
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LIFT: Scoped Constraints for Evaluating and Training Instruction Following
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Where Do Legal Factors Live in LLMs?
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Is Anyone Enforcing the Cartel? What Reinforcement Learning Teaches LLM Agents in Markets
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Scaling Therapy Supervision: Assessing Psychotherapy Fidelity Using Large Language Models
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SkillEval: Learning Interpretable Ability Profiles of LLMs via Cognitive Diagnosis Models
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ReAPO: Retry-Aware Policy Optimization for Efficient Exploration in LLM Reasoning
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Big Claims, Small Margins: Do Reported GraphLLM Gains Survive Simple Baselines?
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SimHack: Predicting the onset of detectable reward hacking before RL training
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Scalable Stress-Constrained Topology Optimization: A Super-resolution and Simultaneous Approach Based on Machine Learning
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To Manipulate or Not: Opinion Dynamics in LLM Interactions
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Speedrunning Relational Foundation Model Pretraining
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Decision language models as affordable and rapid alternatives to LLM judges of clinical generative AI
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SpecEvo: Speculative Evolution with Large Language Models for Cost-Efficient Scientific Discovery
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Scaling in Games: Continued Pre-Training For Embodied Agents In Diverse Virtual Worlds
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Walmart unveils Agent Gateway, an MCP server for AI agents to shop its site, and Agent Profiles to authorize agents and track their purchases separately
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The Turd-Eaters: France Gives Us A Lesson On The Pillager Class
The Turd-Eaters: France Gives Us A Lesson On The Pillager Class Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us Over the years I have written frequently about what I call the “Pillager Class” and the “Producer Class” in an attempt to explore the reasons why certain people, groups and cultures always seem to turn to looting and destruction rather than building anything of value of their own. It is a threat the west has been dealing with for thousands of years: We engineer and create an...
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Firestorm over US political ad featuring Democrat’s estranged mother
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LiteLLM 1.107.0 Malware: What Happened and What to Do
LiteLLM 1.107.0 ran a credential stealer on every Python start. It was built from a lookalike repo with three stolen developer tokens, which LiteLLM traces to its own logs.
Startup Claims To Use AI-Created Viruses To Treat a Patient
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: For the first time, scientists say they have used viruses designed by artificial intelligence to treat a human patient. Researchers announced on Tuesday that they had administered the virus, known as a phage, to a patient suffering from a deadly bacterial infection. Phages attack bacteria, and the hope is that this one will kill the microbes causing the infection. Radical Numerics, the start-up that created the viruses, posted a techni...
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Israel Detains NY Congressional Nominee In West Bank Olive Grove, Sets Free After Learning Who He Is
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Kansas Senate rivals distance themselves from party leaders in fiery debate
Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and Democratic challenger Adam Hamilton repeatedly sought to distance themselves from the most unpopular elements of their respective parties Wednesday night during a contentious Kansas Senate debate.Both candidates battled over President Donald Trump, immigration, the war in Iran and more in a race that could help determine control of the Senate.The debate opened on a personal note, with both candidates pressed over controversies that have fueled attack ads in the c...
Sources: DeepSeek raised ~$15B in its latest fundraising round, one of China's largest ever, with CATL and Tencent among the biggest contributors
Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: Sources: DeepSeek raised ~$15B in its latest fundraising round, one of China's largest ever, with CATL and Tencent among the biggest contributors The Chinese AI pioneer
Angel Reese delivers another double-double as Atlanta Dream take 2–1 lead in WNBA Finals
ATLANTA â Angel Reese helped the Atlanta Dream win a WNBA Finals game for the first time Monday. Two nights later, she helped them take their first lead in a Finals series.ATLANTA DREAM, GOLDEN STATE VALKYRIES SKIP NATIONAL ANTHEM FOR THIRD STRAIGHT WNBA FINALS GAMEReese finished with 21 points and 12 rebounds as Atlanta beat the Golden State Valkyries 97-71 on Wednesday night at State Farm Arena, taking a 2â1 lead in the best-of-seven series. Reese has totaled 51 points and 28 rebounds in A...
Mass firings vow sparks clash with Klobuchar over Walz fraud legacy
Minnesotaâs gubernatorial candidates clashed over the stateâs fraud scandals in their second debate of the week, with Republican House Speaker Lisa Demuth pledging to fire all state commissioners on her first day in office and Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar defending her response.The scandals have rocked the North Star State, raising questions about how large-scale abuse of state programs went undetected and putting government oversight at the center of the governorâs race."Fraud unchecked ...
Kawhi Leonard helps Raptors rout Bulls 135-92 in Toronto's home opener
Kawhi Leonard scored 23 points in his first regular-season game back with the Raptors as Toronto earned an emphatic 135-92 win over the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday.
Trump dominates El-Sayed's attacks against Rogers, but GOP rival offers unexpected policy split
President Donald Trump was the unofficial third person onstage at Wednesday's Michigan U.S. Senate debate, as Democrat Abdul El-Sayed repeatedly invoked him while seeking to cast Republican Mike Rogers as Trump's "sock puppet."El-Sayed mentioned Trump 18 times during the hour-long debate and repeatedly called Rogers' responses "MAGA bingo," accusing the Republican of relying on Trump-aligned talking points. Rogers, however, broke with Trump on a couple of trade issues.The phrase became a running...
