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View More NewsStatistician Aaron Brown and gun policy scholar Robert Spitzer debate the resolution, “Until there is convincing evidence that government-imposed gun control brings a net reduction in harm, all legal restrictions on adult possession of guns should be abolished.” Taking the affirmative is Brown, a statistician, Bloomberg opinion columnist, and author of Wrong Number: How To Extract Truth From a Blizzard of Quantitative Disinformation. Subscribe to Brown’s Reason newsletter here. Taking the negative is Spitzer, distinguished service professor emeritus of political science at SUNY Cortland and author of multiple books on gun policy. The debate is moderated by Soho Forum Director…
Australian tech firm Apate deploys a vast array of AI-bot characters worldwide that play the role of gullible scam victims to waste millions of hours of con artists’ time each month.Hilariously, one of the company’s monthly performance metrics is how many times frustrated scammers swear at the idiot ‘victims’ who are playing dumb and stringing them along.“I think we’re the only company in the world that is actually keeping as part of their KPIs the number of F-words that scammers are dropping at them,” Apate founder Dali Kaafar tells Magazine with a chuckle. The company has a stable of almost 200,000…
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No true culture warrior worth his salt admits to reading The New York Times. Very Online conservatives refuse to read it because they think it hates Jews. Very Online progressives refuse to read it because they think it hates trans people. So intense is their loathing, it seems, that some of these hashtaggers cannot even tolerate the company of those who do read the Times. This includes one @claireyfaerie, who recently told Bluesky followers: “My parents have a [New York Times] subscription. Whenever I go to visit them and see the paper sitting on their coffee table, I remember the…
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In brief Cypherpunk Technologies launched what it calls the world’s largest Zcash mining fleet via a $33.33 million equity-based deal with Winklevoss Capital. The…
It was in Vienna last year that I last saw Thai advocate and journalist Chutima Sidasathian who died last weeked at the age of…
Widening losses and intensifying competition coincide with a pause in frontier reinforcement-learning training as openai strengthens its safety controls. Read the full article here
Hayes revealed his new role as Flop Labs CEO and teased a “massive airdrop” from the AI inference protocol in the fourth quarter of…
Galaxy Digital, a crypto-focused financial services company led by Mike Novogratz, has received a BitLicense and Money Transmission License from the New York State…
In brief Vitalik Buterin says AI-assisted formal verification could help reduce vulnerabilities in Ethereum and other crypto infrastructure. The technique uses mathematical proofs to…
The state trial court handed down its ruling in People v. Mangione, on whether to suppress part of all of the contents of the…
The move brings onchain yield and lending to the payments-focused chain in a bid to offer full-stack onchain finance platform to companies building on…
Bitcoin (BTC) retail investor activity on Binance has fallen to its lowest level in history. Retail BTC inflows on Binance now average near 314…
In brief Linked Polymarket accounts made $2.4 million by accurately betting on U.S. military actions tied to the Iran conflict. Bubblemaps said the accounts…
In one of Tuesday, May 19th’s most-watched primaries, libertarian-leaning Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.) will go up against an opponent backed by President Donald Trump.…
The turnover comes as the foundation undergoes an internal transition tied to a new organizational mandate aimed at redefining its role within Ethereum. Read…