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The FBI has seized tools used by Chinese hackers for cyber operations, officials say
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Curtis Flowers, a Black man whose death sentence was tossed by Supreme Court, dies in Mississippi
Curtis Flowers, a Black man who spent more than 22 years in prison and was…
Man with a gun and knife is fatally shot by security at Nashville federal courthouse, police say
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A man armed with a pistol and knife was fatally shot…
Most Americans think artificial intelligence is developing too fast, a new AP-NORC poll finds
WASHINGTON (AP) — Worries around artificial intelligence cross party lines, with the vast majority of…
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Michael de Adder is an award-winning editorial cartoonist. You can find him on Substack here.The Contrarian is community-supported. Help fund…
80 Seed AI Funds That Invested in the Last 180 Days: The Scored Sheet and the Syndicate Map
Three weeks ago I published the scoring system I’d put behind any investor list: Fit, Recency and Reach, 1 to…
As China’s AI race accelerates, ‘model fatigue’ becomes the next challenge
On September 22, the global artificial intelligence landscape spun on its axis within a matter of hours. In Beijing, Xiaomi…
We Are All Jane Doe
Content warning: This article discusses sexual violence.“I can say with 100% confidence I was raped.”The “Cornell Seven” case has brought out the worst in American society.A young woman — named…
Trump: the Whining, Weak Wimp
Donald Trump melted down when the New York Times reported that his Ohio rally arena was sparsely attended. He insisted that attendees “migrate down” to lower seats! Of course, he…
They’re Here: “Often the danger is what’s unseen. It’s the menace lurking off camera.” – L.P. “It’s not about saying ‘Fuck ICE,’ it’s about saying ‘Don’t take these people away from us.’” – R.L.M.
(Photo courtesy of Jack Califano)In this vHopeful Conversation, I speak with Academy Award-winning filmmaker and journalist Laura Poitras and filmmaker and investigative journalist Rachel Lauren Mueller about their extraordinary short…
PVC pipes swept away by Hurricane Helene flooding still dominate cleanup of North Carolina river
WOODFIN, N.C. (AP) — They're piled on river banks, lodged in uprooted trees, embedded in sediment and jammed under logs. Many are tangled in mounds of debris up to two…
Ross Douthat: I’m Writing a Column for The Free Press
Sometime in the fall of 2020, shortly after she departed The New York Times, I had a brief conversation with Bari Weiss. She was in an entrepreneurial mood, making calls…
Cornell’s Culture Clash. Plus. . .
It’s Thursday, October 8. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press—and our take on the world at large. Today: Josh Code hits…
What Happened Inside Russia’s Plague Lab?
A young researcher in Siberia has died of the very disease her institute studies, and Russia won’t say how it happened. Marshall Billingslea, former Special Presidential Envoy for Arms Control,…
The long-deployed USS Lincoln is returning home to San Diego
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The USS Abraham Lincoln is returning home to San Diego Thursday after supporting the Iran war during a record long deployment of 265 uninterrupted days at…
Everything You Knew About Menopause and Estrogen Replacement Is Wrong
Contrarian Editor-in-Chief Jen Rubin sat down with author Jennifer Weiss-Wolf. Jennifer is the executive director of the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center at NYU School of Law and she’s out with…
Canada Makes It Harder to Die, but There’s a Catch
Canada has spent five years trying to do something that many psychiatrists say is impossible: reliably determine when a person who is mentally ill will never get better. On Wednesday,…
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