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Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

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BREAKING: Elon Musk said that his xAI has acquired X, the social media app formerly known as Twitter, in an all-stock transaction for $45 billion, including debt reut.rs/43Znkp9

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Re: One of Trump’s latest executive orders, the understanding that race is a social construct is fundamental to how we as journalists understand basic data like what’s captured by the U.S. census.

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The case against OpenAI by The New York Times and other publishers will go ahead to trial after a judge rejected the tech company's request to throw out the lawsuit, although it was narrowed slightly

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Researchers at NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center said the amount of sea ice on the planet had reached the lowest level ever recorded in March.

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Don’t sleep on student journalism, Example No. 4329

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“It’s too much. I don’t need to live in a place where people get plucked off the street like that…You can’t just nab people off the sidewalk and throw them in a car and take them away, and expect anyone who’s seen it to be alright afterwards.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...

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a little unsettled by the latest updates from ChatGPT image generation

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As a real video of someone in a Pikachu suit at a protest goes viral, an AI-generated “photo” is fooling a lot of people. 🔗 www.404media.co/pikachu-spot...

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A reminder that our federal government has tried-and failed- to go after Black journalists under the Espionage Act, because they exposed the hypocrisy of our fight for democracy at home vs.abroad. Read/listen/subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/nicolefc...

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A Somerville, MA resident sends along this image of all the people who turned out for an emergency rally today for Romeysa Ozturk, the Tufts University PhD international student who was essentially abducted by ICE yesterday. Thousands came "on six hours' notice."

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LIVE UPDATES: As wildfires spread through Western North Carolina, evacuation orders are now in place for areas of Transylvania, Polk, Rutherford and Swain counties. www.bpr.org/live-updates...

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Some news many years in the making: My book EMPIRE OF AI, out May 20, is ready for pre-order at empireofai.com. It tells the inside story of OpenAI as a lens for understanding the moment we’re in: the tech elite's extraordinary seizure of power and its threat to democracy. 1/

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The entire @votebeat.org staff tore Trump's executive order on elections apart to explain it to you. Here it is. I promise you it's the most detailed article on this you'll find on the internet right now. www.votebeat.org/2025/03/25/t...

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😳 A long-discredited researcher and vaccine skeptic will conduct a government study on whether vaccines cause autism. 😳 @washingtonpost.com

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"What stood out to me ... is how easy it is for one of these operations to siphon off local advertising revenue from legitimate, human-run newsrooms." How @niemanlab.org reporter @andrewdeck.bsky.social exposed a network of AI-generated "local" newsletters healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/03...

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A network of companies operated by a secretive Chinese tech firm has been trying to recruit recently laid-off US government workers, according to job ads and a researcher who uncovered the campaign reut.rs/4clL7lD

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New AI use unlocked: Getting a chatbot (here Gemini) to highlight "key parts of a text in bold so that it is easier for me to pick up the important information when I read it"

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The question of how secure Signal is should be secondary. The most important question is: does is allow for preservation of records? Federal officials can't use non-government systems for work unless, with rare exceptions, they can forward copies of those comms to official systems within 20 days.

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Wow. Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat — and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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The popular DNA test kit company 23andMe announced yesterday that it has filed for bankruptcy and is looking for a buyer. And while the company has promised to continue protecting customer data amidst a possible sale, Wirecutter’s tech experts think you should delete your data now.

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Israeli settlers beat up Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of the documentary film No Other Land, in the occupied West Bank, according to witnesses. He was then detained by the Israeli military.

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The head of the U.S. Postal Service is stepping down. Louis DeJoy's exit comes after Trump officials floated controversial ideas for overhauling the agency.

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This is a data viz masterclass. Enjoy.

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WIRED tested the popular AI video generator from OpenAI and found that it amplifies sexist stereotypes and ableist tropes, perpetuating the same biases already present in AI image tools.

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new vanity tag who dis

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brb off to return to my marching band roots with lumon choreography & merriment

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Google and OpenAI want Trump to open up the rules. News publishers have some thoughts, by Klaudia Jaźwińska. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

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Best news of the day! YAY @wendicthomas.bsky.social!! 🎉🎉 ProPublica Names Wendi C. Thomas as a Distinguished Fellow @mlk50memphis.bsky.social

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An NC man who was sentenced to 3 years in prison on Jan. 6 felonies including assaulting an officer will speak at a GOP event. Another speaker listed on a flier says "I don’t know anything about the guest speaker you are referring to." Story by @keunghui.bsky.social. #ncpol

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Okay here’s a write-up of the way I monitored a particular URL for changes in a breaking news situation (last night’s JFK Files dump), read on if you‘re into doing shell scripts and journalism. joemurph.com/article/deta...

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Really disappointed to learn of the politicization of NIST. NIST has been a bastion of stability in the AI world, respected across political and ideological lines for its ability to define standards & benchmark the state of the art. Many people I respect are now gone. www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...

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www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

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New: Facial rec company Clearview spent $1 mil trying to buy a database of 390 million mugshots, SSNs, and arrest records. It seemingly got scammed, is now trying to get its money back. Great to have @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com on 404 Media: www.404media.co/facial-recog...

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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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Innovation continues apace in the LLM world (where innovation = ruthlessly Sherlocking everyone else's features). Canvas is Claude's Artifacts feature. For those without access to Claude, it's undoubtedly a useful and versatile tool, especially for product ideation gemini.google/overview/can...

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What a wonderful dolphin greeting for the astronauts and cosmonaut who returned to Earth from the Space Station today. 1/2

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Notepad is back. Love to see it.

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Sounds like a must read. Just pre-ordered.

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My latest: Generative AI is enabling a brute force attack against the algorithms that control reality. AI slop is taking over every algorithmically controlled social media platform and search platform, and the tech platforms are helping: www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a...

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I want to take this class.

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President Donald Trump moved to shut down Voice of America and other US-funded outlets on Friday through an executive order. It’s a “sad moment for a country long known for championing press freedom,” writes Poynter’s senior media writer Tom Jones. www.poynter.org/commentary/2...

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On the use of AI and the explanations methods used in "Show Me the Work: Fact-Checkers' Requirements for Explainable Automated Fact-Checking" arxiv.org/abs/2502.09083

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journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-fac...

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"Nearly 8 million Americans work in industries targeted by the levies and the majority are Trump voters" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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