Tag: Internet

Trump’s Sick Campaign to Gamify Violence

Andrew Breitbart, the creator of the eponymous far-right site, popularized the “doctrine” that “politics is downstream of culture.” For the modern young man, the more accurate assessment is that “politics is downstream of experience,” said John Della Volpe, the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics. “The experience for too many […]

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Teen builds an award-winning virtual reality prototype thanks to free MIT courses

When Freesia Gaul discovered MIT Open Learning’s OpenCourseWare at just 14 years old, it opened up a world of learning far beyond what her classrooms could offer. Her parents had started a skiing company, and the seasonal work meant that Gaul had to change schools every six months. Growing up in small towns in Australia […]

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Pete Hegseth Botches Rollout of AI Tool for “American Warrior”

“But you know, at some point, size will win, generally,” Trump said, referring to Russia’s advantages. “And this is a massive size, uh—you—when you take a look at the numbers, I mean, the numbers are just crazy.” There is some evidence that the White House’s peace plan may have come directly from the Kremlin: Several […]

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Pete Hegseth’s New AI Defense Tool Rollout Immediately Derails

“But you know, at some point, size will win, generally,” Trump said, referring to Russia’s advantages. “And this is a massive size, uh—you—when you take a look at the numbers, I mean, the numbers are just crazy.” There is some evidence that the White House’s peace plan may have come directly from the Kremlin: Several […]

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Trump Says It’s OK to Deny Visas to People Who Worked in Fact-Checking

Ahead of the meeting, military attorneys claimed that there could be a legitimate explanation for the second strike if Bradley was able to prove the survivors posed a credible threat to U.S. military personnel. But the footage supposedly left no room for doubt that that was not the case. “What I saw in that room […]

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Trump Is Now Denying Visas to People Who Worked in Content Moderation

Ahead of the meeting, military attorneys claimed that there could be a legitimate explanation for the second strike if Bradley was able to prove the survivors posed a credible threat to U.S. military personnel. But the footage supposedly left no room for doubt that that was not the case. “What I saw in that room […]

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How Much Worse Could the Internet Get?

Doctorow is a leftist writer and thinker who has expressed deep skepticism about whether “capitalism has a future,” but both his diagnoses and his recommended treatments tend to circle around a rather nostalgic notion of a unionized, highly regulated, almost midcentury American capitalism, or perhaps just a pre-AfD, pre–National Rally, common market European social democracy, […]

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Using generative AI to diversify virtual training grounds for robots

Chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude have experienced a meteoric rise in usage over the past three years because they can help you with a wide range of tasks. Whether you’re writing Shakespearean sonnets, debugging code, or need an answer to an obscure trivia question, artificial intelligence systems seem to have you covered. The source of […]

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MAGA’s Doxing War Over Charlie Kirk Is Already Going Off the Rails

An oversight report by Schiff reveals that the Department of Health and Human Services also plans to exhibit political banners on its exterior. The Trump administration has awarded a contract for two “Make America Healthy Again Building Banners” at HHS headquarters, which are yet to be unveiled. Per contracting documents, the signs are to measure […]

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Here’s What Charlie Kirk’s Alleged Shooter Wrote on His Bullet Casings

“Essentially, somebody that was very close to him turned him in,” the president continued, noting that additional details would be provided later that day. “I just heard about it five minutes before I walked in. As I’m walking in, they said, ‘Looking real good.’ They have the person that they wanted.” “So you have breaking […]

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New transmitter could make wireless devices more energy-efficient

Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have designed a novel transmitter chip that significantly improves the energy efficiency of wireless communications, which could boost the range and battery life of a connected device. Their approach employs a unique modulation scheme to encode digital data into a wireless signal, which reduces the amount of error in the […]

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