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John Della Volpe

Trump’s Bro Whispering Could Cost Democrats Too Many Young Men

Trump’s play for Generation Z men could peel enough away from the Democratic Party to transform the country’s electoral math for years to come.

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Paul Krugman

What Lincoln Can Tell Us About MAGA

It’s hard to compromise with those who consider any criticism a threat.

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Gina Kolata and Kenny Holston

First Sickle Cell Gene Therapy Patient, 12, Leaves Hospital

After 44 days, Kendric Cromer, 12, left the hospital. While his family feels fortunate that he was the first to receive a treatment, their difficult experiences hint at what others will be up against.

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Ed Augustin and Frances Robles

Cuba Faces Hurricane Oscar After Nationwide Blackout. How Much Can the Island Endure?

The repeated failure of the power grid and a hurricane that has swamped the island’s eastern end has many Cubans fed up, posing a challenge to the Communist government.

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Gia Kourlas

When Critic vs. Choreographer Ignited a Cultural Firestorm

Thirty years ago, Bill T. Jones presented “Still/Here,” and the critic Arlene Croce responded with an explosive essay. Now the work is returning to the Brooklyn Academy.

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Ephrat Livni and Michael Crowley

What Is U.N. Resolution 1701?

U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 was intended to create a buffer zone between Israel and Hezbollah. Here’s a look at why it didn’t and what lies ahead in efforts to end the conflict in Lebanon.

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Jess Bidgood

Harris Wants Moderate Republicans to Back Her. Are They Out There?

It’s an unusual effort that reflects just how close the race is.

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Here Are The Best Reactions To NY Liberty Winning Their First WNBA Championship

"28 YEARS IN THE MAKING... THE NEW YORK LIBERTY ARE WNBA CHAMPIONS!"

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Just 28 Products With Extremely Shocking Result Pics

Put on your rubber boots because some of these results will shock you like an electric eel. ??

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Ricky O'Donnell

WNBA commissioner’s dress for trophy presentation is sports’ wildest new conspiracy theory

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Cathy Engelbert’s New York City skyline dress is only adding to the wild WNBA Finals controversy.

The 2024 WNBA season shattered league records for attendance and viewership. It culminated with an instant classic WNBA Finals series between the New York Liberty and Minnesota Lynx that produced five amazing games of high-level basketball.

The Liberty took home an overtime win in the decisive Game 5 on Sunday night to claim their first...

Mashable

Anthropic is testing AI’s capacity for sabotage

As the hype around generative AI continues to build, the need for robust safety regulations is only becoming more clear.

Now Anthropic—the company behind Claude AI—is looking at how its models could deceive or sabotage users. Anthropic just dropped a paper laying out their approach.

SEE ALSO: Sam Altman steps down as head of OpenAI's safety group

Anthropic’s latest research — titled "Sabotage Evaluations for Frontier Models" — comes...

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Jay Peters

Disney Plus and Hulu won’t let you sign up through Apple anymore

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If you want to subscribe to Disney Plus or Hulu on your iPhone, you can’t do that anymore. Support documents for Disney Plus and Hulu now say that new and returning subscribers to those streaming services can’t sign up through Apple, as reported by MacRumors.

I’m not currently paying for Disney Plus, so out of curiosity, I tried logging into my account through the iOS app to see what would happen. After entering my email and password, I...

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Nick Wagoner

49ers lose WR Aiyuk to torn ACL, source says

49ers wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk suffered a torn ACL in Sunday's loss to the Chiefs, a source confirmed to ESPN.

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Kate Knibbs

A Lawsuit Against Perplexity Calls Out Fake News Hallucinations

In a new copyright lawsuit against AI startup Perplexity, Dow Jones and the New York Post argue that hallucinating fake news and attributing it to real papers is illegal.

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Internet Archive hacked again: We know because the hacker responded to our email to the Archive.

The Internet Archive is still under attack two weeks after suffering a data breach and DDoS attacks that took the website down.

How do we know? 

Because the hacker just responded to Mashable's email that we went to the Internet Archive to find out more about the hack. The hacker was able to respond via Internet Archive's Zendesk, an online service that helps companies respond to users' support queries.

The hacker responds through Internet Archive

Earlier this month, Internet Archive suffered...

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Why Instagram carousels sometimes start on the second slide

Do you ever wonder why, when you're scrolling through Instagram, the second photo of a carousel pops up first?

According to Instagram head Adam Mosseri, that's often because you might have seen that carousel already but didn't swipe — so you're getting a second chance.

"If someone sees your carousel post but they don’t swipe, we’ll often give that carousel a second chance and automatically move to that second piece of media for the viewer," Mosseri said in an Instagram Reel.

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What is Daze? A wannabe Gen Z messaging app is viral on TikTok

The next big thing might be a messaging app called Daze — but it hasn't even launched yet.

Because seemingly everything in 2024 has an AI component, yes, Daze does incorporate AI. It's a messaging app aimed at Gen Z that is designed to look free-flowing with lots of different fonts, colors, graphics, movement, stickers, drawings, and more. TikToks posted by the app have gone viral — the most watched has eight million views.

The TikTok shows a chat where someone talks to their crush and...

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Elon Musk's xAI launched its own API

Elon Musk just contributed a little bit more to the AI zeitgeist.

Musk's AI startup xAI, which supplies the Grok chatbot that is integrated into X (formerly Twitter), officially started offering an API this week. According to TechCrunch, Grok's services can be yours for the low, low price of $5 per million input tokens or $15 per million output tokens.

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It's a little bit murky what anyone who pays for the API is actually getting right now....

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Charles Pulliam-Moore

Elon Musk sued for using AI-generated Blade Runner imagery at robotaxi event

A still from Blade Runner 2049. | Warner Bros.

Though it remains very unclear whether any of the self-driving vehicles demoed at Tesla’s We, Robot presentation will ever actually make it to market, one of the production companies behind Blade Runner 2049 thinks Elon Musk ripped off their copyright for the event, and are taking him to court.

Today, Alcon Entertainment — an LA-based production company behind Blade Runner 2049 — filed a lawsuit against Tesla, Elon Musk, and Warner...

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