Gaza families bury 112 people recovered nearly three years after Israeli strikes

Remains recovered from beneath the rubble renew grief for families still searching for thousands missing in Gaza

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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

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Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny - Blood Knife

The human body has become a strange contradiction at the heart of the modern blockbuster. Sexy, yes. But sexual? No.

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She's charged with killing her twins. The anti-vaccine movement made her a martyr.

Andrea Shaw is charged with suffocating her toddlers. Children's Health Defense says it was the vaccines.

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A classicist’s verdict on Nolan’s Odyssey: a soulful hero flatters our times as women and nuance pushed overboard

Matt Damon’s sensitive and repentant Odysseus might come as a surprise to Homer, likewise some significant omissions concerning the poem’s female characters

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For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark

MSG’s sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners made an exception for the pop star’s rehearsal dinner.

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Experts call for greater oversight after OpenAI models go rogue and hack startup

AI tech giant says it expects this type of attack to become more common with new cyber-capable models

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Carbon capture promises by politicians span almost 20 years | The Narwhal

It’s expensive and unproven at scale. From Stephen Harper to Mark Carney, Canadian politicians have made promises on carbon capture — yet to be delivered

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Cuts at Natural Resources Canada ‘decimate’ wildfire and flood tracking capacity, unions warn

Carney's cuts have hit Natural Resources Canada, causing uproar from public sector unions warning the layoffs will hurt Canada's ability to respond to cliamte change and protect Canadians from wildfir...

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Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer

Exclusive: The firm says it wants to future-proof its safety procedures and stay ahead of human attackers.

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Does the News Know Middle-Aged Women Exist?

On centrality, anxiety, disempowerment and the news relevancy gulf

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Dunki 2.0 goes Crypto: hawala in Pakistan's $300 million smuggling machine

Spain just opened its doors to 500,000 migrants. In Punjab's villages, the valid-passport trade heard opportunity.

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We Have Learned Nothing About Amplifying Morons

“Looksmaxxers” are losers and freaks, but we let them steer the culture when we adopt their terminology.

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France’s Viral Ice Dancing Team Has A Dark Backstory

Blink and you might not have caught it. On Monday, Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry took to the rink and staked their claim to the ice dancing gold medal. Dancing to Madonna's "Vogue," complete with Blond Ambition–inspired costumes and voguing arms, their routine already is popular online. But the performance isn't the thing you might have missed. It was the explanation beforehand, from NBC's Terry Gannon, about the formation of the new skating partnership that was notably brief for all it conveyed. Cizeron and Fournier Beaudry are a relatively new duo, formed less than a year ago. Recently, Cizeron's former partner, Gabriella Papadakis, published a memoir in which she called him "controlling, demanding, and critical," Gannon said. As for Fournier Beaudry, her former partner, Nikolaj Sørensen, was "suspended in a sexual maltreatment case that is still not resolved," Gannon said. The broadcast then segued to the natural conclusion: They are the biggest challenge to the United States ice dancing team for first place. These type of glancing summaries are typical of how, if at all, figure skating coverage has discussed what brought Cizeron and Fournier Beaudry together. They might or might not mention how Cizeron's former partner with whom he won gold, Papadakis, was dropped by NBC for what she said, or how the sexual misconduct case against Sørensen, Fournier Beaudry's longtime boyfriend and former partner, has been dragging on for more than two years, and how Fournier Beaudry has defended Sørensen through it all. The closest thing to a person with a big platform speaking out is retired U.S. figure skater Adam Rippon in the Netflix documentary _Glitter & Gold: Ice Dancing_—he tells us "there is some sinister energy around the partnership"—before the show has both skaters suggest to us that they are really victims.

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SPJ-led coalition demands DOJ explain intrusive FBI raid of Washington Post reporter’s home | Society of Professional Journalists

Society of Professional Journalists, improving and protecting journalism since 1909

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