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AI isn’t a mind — it’s a tool. What most people call “AI” today is actually a Large Language Model (LLM). It isn’t sentient, conscious, or capable of wanting anything. An LLM is a program trained on enormous amounts of text so it can predict what words should come next in a sentence. That’s why it can answer questions in a way that sounds human — it’s imitating patterns in language, not thinking or understanding. The amount of human knowledge stored in text, audio, video, databases, and other formats is massive and growing rapidly. If some of that data is...

The Albany County Sheriff’s Office says Laurie Moore, 47, is accused of conducting more than 4,000 unauthorized searches involving five people known to her. That includes tracking a former girlfriend’s vehicle around 3,000 times and running four additional plates hundreds of times each.

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The International Atomic Energy Agency tells the Bloomberg news outlet that it has observed construction activity at Pickaxe Mountain in Iran, which Western intelligence has flagged as a likely site meant to store nuclear material. “There are some indications that there is movement around this construction site,” says IAEA director general Rafael Grossi. “We don’t have any concrete information as to activities that may be taking place there.” The UN nuclear watchdog has not sent inspectors inside the underground complex, which is at Natanz, but is relying on remote imagery, Grossi tells the outlet. “They said at the time, ‘We...

The Supreme Court Thursday rejected a bid to implement a new congressional map in Missouri that would have likely given Republicans an extra seat in the House of Representatives.In an order with no noted dissents the high court imposed a stay on the map while a lawsuit brought by opponents of the redistricting gambit makes its way through the legal system.For now, Missouri must use the map implemented following the 2020 census, which has returned a House delegation of six Republicans and two Democrats. The new map would have carved up parts of Kansas City to weaken the Democrats’ grip...

Prosecutors alleged the former three-star general lied about his contacts with a Russian diplomat. Retired General Michael Flynn, whose life was turned upside down by the Russia collusion investigation, told Just the News he would never have accepted his 2018 plea deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller had he known the full FBI evidence in his case. “Had I seen that evidence that you have broken, no way in the world,” Flynn told the Just the News, No Noise television show on Wednesday night hours after President Donald Trump’s administration declassified the fully unredacted versions of the FBI’s 2017 handwritten...

The pilots of the Amazon cargo plane that crashed in Miami, killing five people, were issued multiple warnings for flying “too low” to the ground — and acknowledged they were going “too fast” before they overshot the runway, officials said. The National Transit Safety Board (NTSB) released transcripts from the Boeing 767’s cockpit voice recorder Wednesday that revealed one of the two pilots made a remark about the plane’s high rate of speed about 100 seconds before they hit the ground. “The other pilot made additional comments regarding the aircraft’s excessive speed throughout the remainder of the recording. There was...

President Trump on Wednesday told the crowd at the Republican National Committee’s first midterm convention in Dallas not to boo the absent Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), telling them that “John is working hard.” Trump mentioned Thune’s name after he said Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) “will go down as the greatest Speaker of the House in the history of our country.” He then added that Thune was “here” before asking where he was, prompting boos from the audience.The president added that Senate Republicans will in general have “great, great success.” Thune and Trump have been at odds with each...

The declaration of a mistrial in the filicide case of Lindsay Clancy coincides, for me uncomfortably, with a new UK reissue of my 2003 breakout novel We Need to Talk About Kevin. The book concerns a mother whose son becomes a high-school mass murderer. She agonises over whether something has always been wrong with him or something is wrong with him because something is wrong with her. Prior to publication, I’d imagined that the commercial hook would be the frequency with which self-pitying adolescents were taking their misery out on their classmates and teachers, since when I wrote the novel...

Radical activists and organizers from across the U.S. and around the world descended on Chicago over Labor Day weekend to attend the Socialism 2026 Conference. The four-day summit was touted as a “place for both seasoned radicals and new activists to sharpen analysis, hone strategy, and build community.” Its more than 100 workshops included a Marxism Education Series, along with sessions bearing titles such as “Confronting Zionism: Decolonizing Palestine and Building the World Anew” and “Trans Care in the Age of Health Fascism.” But the conference’s central purpose was unmistakable: to chart the socialist movement’s next steps in its...

Happiness comes from a combination of internal and external factors. We can influence it somewhat by approaching situations positively or choosing to spend time with people we love, doing activities we enjoy. However, other things out of our control, like the cost-of-living crisis or ongoing economic uncertainty, can also take a toll, with only 44% of Americans saying they are “very satisfied” with their lives. Even though people across the U.S. are facing difficult times, the state in which you live may have an impact on how happy you are. To determine where Americans exhibit the best combination of good...

NEW YORK — Ben Shelton and Carlos Alcaraz didn’t really play a tennis match overnight Tuesday into Wednesday morning at the U.S. Open, as they set a record for the latest finish in tournament history. Sure, there were rackets and balls and deuces and ads, but those were mere details. This was a heavyweight prize fight between two of the sport’s biggest stars: an American athletic acrobat of the highest order and an artist in the sweet science of the game, capable of playing a version of tennis familiar to no one else. Styles make fights. So do personalities who...

A male juror in the mistrial of Lindsay Clancy said the lone holdout on the 12-person panel wrapped one of the exercise bands the mom used to kill her children around a water bottle to mimic their strangulation in the deliberation room. Juror number 10 Nick Dargie said the holdout had every right to his opinion but that the reenactment using the same exercise bands left the room speechless. “I was so shocked. We’re not here to play detective – it’s not a game of Clue. This is serious,” Dargie, 25, the fifth juror to come forward in the macabre...

Stoke space just closed another Billion dollar investment round making them probably the most successful space startup in terms of investment before they make their first launch. And as part of this they unveiled the Block 2 version of their fully reusable launch vehicle, it increases the mass to orbit by a factor of 6, but also, gives us space watchers a lot of questions about how exactly that upper stage will manage reentry. The Billion Dollar Bet On Redesigning The Reusable Rocket | 19:14 Scott Manley | 1.87M subscribers | 237,778 views | September 9, 2026

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...Adapting Donald Trump’s Means to Progressive Ends.”... ....Former Biden officials are among the contributors outlining how a future progressive administration could exercise presidential power, direct investment and make its policies harder for successors to reverse. Published July 30, 2026, Building Up in 2029 contains 17 essays by 19 scholars and practitioners.... ...A rebuilt USAID would form part of a renewed international climate-finance operation....

Elon Musk’s super PAC is stealing voters’ personal information—again. The billionaire technocrat’s America PAC has launched an aggressive advertising campaign directing them to Vote Safe, a website claiming to provide users with information they need to “vote with confidence.” But all the while, the site is secretly collecting some information of its own, Judd Legum reported Tuesday on his substack Popular Information.Any visitors to the site will unwittingly hand over their full name, birthday, home address, email address, cellphone number, IP address, browser, location, voter registration status, and district, not to mention every link they click on and every page...

Vice-president JD Vance appeared to partially row back on Donald Trump’s outlandish claims that every adult citizen in the US would receive $5,000 if the Republicans retain the House and Senate in the midterm elections. “If the Republicans win, you win with us, and you get $5,000,” Trump told a roaring crowd, during a nearly two-hour long speech at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas in which he also urged voters to “pretend that I’m on the ballot”. But Vance, speaking after the president, suggested the so-called dividend payments would not go to the wealthy and that it could be...

Igho Ubiribo, 43, was injected with 40 millilitres of hyaluronic acid and lidocaine at an unnamed Thai clinic in March, an inquest heard. He was on holiday with his wife, Danielle Simba Allen, at the time and staying at a Marriott hotel in Bangkok when he decided to have the op. The social media personality’s funeral was held in Kensington, and he was buried in a gold coffin, reportedly costing over $600,000.