Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Aurich Lawson) On Friday, Microsoft attempted to explain the cause of a breach that gave hackers working for the Chinese government access to the email accounts of 25 organizations—reportedly including the US Departments of State and Commerce and other sensitive organizations. In a post on Friday, the company indicated that...
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Fran Drescher: “We are all going to be in jeopardy of being replaced by machines”
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Thursday, members of the SAG-AFTRA actors’ union (and its president, actor Fran Drescher) announced their decision to go on strike in solidarity with the WGA strike that has been ongoing since May. One of the central issues raised in this conflict is the threat of using artificial intelligence models to...
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Why AI detectors think the US Constitution was written by AI
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of James Madison writing the US Constitution using AI. (credit: Midjourney / Benj Edwards) If you feed America’s most important legal document—the US Constitution—into a tool designed to detect text written by AI models like ChatGPT, it will tell you that the document was almost certainly written by AI. But unless...
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NBA: Who will win the Summer League?
Twitter: @GGirlSports With three days left in the NBA 2K24 Summer League, the race is tight for the championship. If you’re in a legal state and of legal age, some books are still offering future betting. As of right now, the Cleveland Cavaliers are the favorite, with the Houston Rockets trailing. Both the Cavaliers and...
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How women are redefining soca music
As the second wave of carnival celebrations wash across the Caribbean diaspora this summer — from Crop Over in Barbados and Spicemas in Grenada to Caribana in Toronto — there’s one sound that’s dominating the road: soca. With the pulsating rhythm of drums, powerful lyricism, and adept storytelling that inspires fêters — or partygoers — to...
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Jackie Young has found her place with the Las Vegas Aces and as a WNBA All-Star
Jackie Young walked up to A’ja Wilson with a sense of disappointment. It was the day after the Las Vegas Aces beat the Washington Mystics in a regular-season game in 2020 during the WNBA bubble season in Bradenton, Florida. Young, who played 15 minutes against the Mystics, went scoreless in the game. “Dang, you had...
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The NBA’s coming Kobe generation
LAS VEGAS — According to the Social Security Administration, babies being named “Kobe” began to peak around 2000. Coincidentally enough, that was the same year that NBA star Kobe Bryant and his Los Angeles Lakers won the first of three consecutive NBA championships, cementing Bryant as one of the most accomplished — and popular —...
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Georgia Democrat Mesha Mainor defects to GOP
On July 11, Mesha Mainor, a Democrat who represented part of Atlanta in Georgia’s House of Representatives, switched over to the Republican Party. Mainor is now the only Black member of the GOP among Georgia’s 236 state lawmakers and is the first Black woman to hold office as a Republican. The last Georgia Democrat to...
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Eduardo Rodriguez seeks better command as Tigers face Mariners
Eduardo Rodriguez's return from the injured list didn't quite go as planned. Read more…