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The Intercept 3d ago

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Wants to Save Crypto — But Trump Windfall Is a Political Obstacle

by Matt Sledge

Centrist Democrats in the Senate criticize Trump’s newfound billions, while working to boost the industry that enabled his grift. The post Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Wants to Save…

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Slashdot 1d ago

Linux Foundation's Latest Foray Is To Standardize Internet-Native Payments For AI Agents

by BeauHD

Today, the Linux Foundation launched the x402 Foundation to standardize internet-native payments for AI agents, APIs, and applications, based on Coinbase's contributed x402…

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Less Wrong 23h ago

Fork Around and Find Out Part 2: One Head does the Summing

by dl

Summary of this post This is the second in a series of posts detailing my manifold findings while investigating how a chess transformer engine that mimics human play represents…

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Ars Technica 1d ago

Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now

by Dan Goodin

Old and forgotten "shims" Microsoft failed to revoke have made Secure Boot bypasses simple.

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Media Matters 1d ago

Newsmax host: "So if illegal aliens are allowed to shield themselves from deportation using cars, well, I got to ask this question -- why should any Americans continue to follow traffic laws?"

by Media Matters for America

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TruthOut 1d ago

Maine Sen. Susan Collins Under Fire for Being the Deciding Vote on ICE Funding

by Amy Goodman

“Voters all across Maine … think [ICE] needs to be abolished,” says Drop Site News correspondent Nathan Bernard.

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Kottke 2d ago

The LGBTQ+ Legislation Tracking Project , tracing &...

by Jason Kottke

The LGBTQ+ Legislation Tracking Project , tracing & visualizing 10,350 LGBTQ+ bills introduced in the US since 2003. Anti-trans bills have dominated since ~2014.

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Zeteo 2d ago

LIVE IN LONDON! Get Tickets for Zeteo UK’s Launch Event with Mehdi and Zack Polanski

by Team Zeteo

Join us for our big launch event at the iconic Barbican Centre. Tickets go on sale to the general public 20 June, get them while they last.

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ProPublica 3d ago

A U.S.-Mexico Impasse Will Test How Far the Trump Administration Will Go to Fight Drug Trade

by Tim Golden

The post A U.S.-Mexico Impasse Will Test How Far the Trump Administration Will Go to Fight Drug Trade appeared first on ProPublica .

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Techdirt 2d ago

ICE Camera Crews Are Labeling Themselves ‘Media,’ Filming Anti-ICE Protesters

by Tim Cushing

This is pointless escalation, but pointless escalation is this administration’s brand. We already know ICE officers have gone out of their way to aim their phones at protesters…

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Heather Cox Richardson 4d ago

Rigging the 2026 Election

by Heather Cox Richardson

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Slashdot 1d ago

Google DeepMind Calls For US To Spearhead AI Standards Body

by BeauHD

Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis is calling for a U.S.-led AI standards body to review frontier models for national security risks such as cybersecurity and biological…

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Media Matters 1d ago

Newsmax host responds to an ICE shooting in Maine: "When are criminals going to learn that when you f around, you're going to find out the hard way?"

by Media Matters for America

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SCOTUSblog 2d ago

A history of justices testifying before Congress

by Kelsey Dallas, Nora Collins

Justices Kagan and Barrett will discuss the court’s budget request before House and Senate subcommittees.

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Less Wrong 17h ago

Refusal Is Redundantly Distributed, Not Localized: A Per-Layer Ablation Study on Llama-3.1-8B

by hdhurve

TL;DR This work replicates and extends the findings of Arditi et al. [1] , who studied the refusal mechanism and found that a single direction , obtained through…

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Aaron Parnas 2d ago

NEWS: Trump to Launch Major Effort to Undermine Elections, Officials Fear War Crimes Investigation, NDAA Vote, ICE, and More

by Aaron Parnas

Good morning, everyone.

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