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View More NewsFrom the New Mexico Supreme Court last week in State v. Sandoval, via Ars Technica (Jon Brodkin): WHEREAS, Respondent acknowledged to the Court in his written response and oral argument that he used the generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool ChatGPT in the preparation of the brief in chief he filed with the Court; WHEREAS, Respondent admitted to the Court that the brief in chief contained false testimony from wholly fabricated witnesses—Officer Michelle Amarillo, Officer Sanchez, Manal Al-Jibury, and Teresa Marquez; false testimony from Danny Stanton that he received threats, which he took seriously, from Defendant-Appellant; false testimony from Linda Stanton…
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Karl Popper invited us to be clear about the problem we are trying to solve. Testing a claim is not the same as evaluating the character of the person making it, and the latter cannot be asked to stand in for the former. Because it takes cognitive effort to parse data, weigh arguments, and assess logical coherence, we often default to name-calling, ad hominem, and guilt-by-association instead. This is a lazy and unscrupulous way to argue, and it drags down discourse, not least because its prevalence has made it unremarkable.A news item in the Guardian on 31 August by the…
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Strive, a top-five Bitcoin treasury company and asset manager, purchased 469 Bitcoin for about $36.6 million last week, bringing its holdings to 25,000 BTC.According…
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Consensus Hong Kong will focus on institutional adoption of digital assets and the growing role of artificial intelligence in the future of money. Read…
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Senate Republicans on Sunday released revised text of the CLARITY Act aimed at swaying Democrats ahead of a procedural vote on Tuesday, featuring major…
Crypto’s moment of CLARITY arrivesThe CLARITY act heads for a crucial Senate vote on September 15, with Politico reporting that Democrat senators were called…
Illustration: Midjourney I have previously written about Trump’s harmful and illegal imposition of Section 338 tariffs against various Canadian imports, and his recent expansion…
Attackers reportedly published identity documents and selfies belonging to Revolut customers and threatened to release more data each day until the fintech pays. Read…
I dunno, flip a coin. Read the full article here
lockchains don’t need quantum computers to be quantum-safe, argues Optimum co-founder and MIT professor Muriel Médard. Classic math already gives us the tools. Read…
Goldman Sachs late Friday became the last of the major banks to retract its forecast of no rate hike next week. Read the full…
Stablecoins’ “next battleground is in emerging markets,” one expert said, as Circle looks to expand USDC’s reach where rival Tether has long been strong.…