Trump Is Once Again Weaponing the Postal Service to Try to Undermine Mail Voting
Millions could be disenfranchised with less than 70 days left before the midterms, says journalist Ari Berman.
Pennsylvania Reports US’s First Confirmed Measles-Related Deaths This Year
The Trump administration has come under scrutiny for spreading misinformation and fear around vaccines.
AI as Corrigible Employee (ACE)
What this plan is and what it tries to solve A design for how future AI could work This plan is a working draft of an idea, not a confident finished proposal. It seeks to answer…
Firefox 157 Will Include JPEG XL By Default On All Platforms
Mozilla plans to enable JPEG XL decoding by default in Firefox 157, which is due at the end of September. Phoronix reports: Firefox Nightly has JPEG-XL support enabled by default…
It’s time we took ‘Chem’ out of ‘Chem-Bio’ threats
TL;DR: AI evaluations need a distinct chemistry capability/ risk domain, rather than assuming chemistry is adequately represented by biological evaluations which the current…
China's Moonshot In Talks With Microsoft, Amazon, Google Over K3 Revenue Sharing
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Reuters: China's Moonshot AI is negotiating revenue-sharing agreements with Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet's Google, that…
[Macroagents] 2. Design lenses for optimizing macroagents
Follow-up to: The Macroagent Ontology (especially section 1.2 is a prerequisite) The previous post laid out the basic macroagent ontology. This post will look at some further…
The U.S.–Canada trade war escalates.
Plus, what’s happening with tariff refunds?
Scientists May Have Figured Out Why Dead Brains Don't Always Rot
fahrbot-bot shares a report from Smithsonian Magazine: The brain is one of the first organs to begin decomposing after death. Yet archaeologists have discovered more than 4,400…
Telecom Experts Say Elon Musk’s Wireless Plan Is Historically Stupid
Earlier this month I noted that Elon Musk’s Starlink is giving very unsubtle indications that the company wants to jump into the wireless business. I also noted that there’s a…
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, MrWilson scores another double-win with both top spots on the insightful side. In first place, it’s a piece-by-piece response to a commenter who defended ICE’s failed…
Court rules Kalshi sports bets aren't "swaps," just gambling with a different name
Kalshi can't evade Nevada gambling laws by calling bets "swaps," judges rule.
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Podcast: Cops Are Making Fake Flock Cameras and Amazon Packages
Cops making fake Flock cameras to catch people, Darth Vader unmasked, and our three year anniversary.
How Dolly Parton Stayed Out of Politics
Was Dolly Parton that last universally loved celebrity across the political spectrum? In this clip from Suspension of the Rules, the hosts discuss