Investors in the banks will not be protected. They knowingly took a risk, and when risks don’t pay off, investors lose their money. That’s how capitalism works.

Gov tech has been growing fast, and investors have marked it as a safe haven amid economic uncertainty. But it was not immune to the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. Experts weigh in 👇 govtech.com/biz/will-silic…

HOUSTON (AP) — Texas officials announce state takeover of Houston’s nearly 200,000-student school district, one of nation’s largest.

I'm looking forward to giving up spreadsheets for 40 days. It's going to be Excel Lent.

Americans support banning TikTok 57-36, per a new Marist poll. And support is bipartisan, with majorities of Rs, Ds and Is in favor.

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The Texas Triangle , between Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio, contains 75% of Texans. Why? What's special about that triangle?

Key to this: Market momentum. Electric cars are no longer rare and no longer purely an environmental pitch. nytimes.com/2023/04/07/cli…

Hello all, mRNA Covid vaccines are safe and necessary for pregnant people. Lipid nanoparticles do not reach the placenta in humans If the miscarriage rate was 78% there would be no babies born to vaccinated women anywhere You don’t know what “reproductive disorders” means

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News: NPR becomes first major news org to stop using Twitter, saying that the Elon Musk-owned platform “is taking actions that undermine our credibility.” “We are not putting our journalism on platforms that have demonstrated an interest in undermining our credibility…”

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WaPo Scoop: The IRS has built an e-filing prototype that could compete with tax-prep software giants with a pilot program coming in January (via (((Jacob Bogage)))) washingtonpost.com/business/2023/…

Turns out your DNA can be collected from.....anywhere you've been nytimes.com/2023/05/15/sci…

Only to be broken by the next enormous tax break package to incentivize some baseball team to move to Vegas

A compostable fork you use for 2 minutes might still exist a century from now. The truth about compostable plastic is that it only degrades under very specific conditions that only exist in a few facilities in the U.S. My latest: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Georgia Republicans passed a law allowing any person to bring an unlimited number of voter challenges. It's caused significant confusion, and forced voters to go through hoops to prove their eligibility propublica.org/article/right-… via Doug Bock Clark

13/ Overall, we found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models including open-source models like #Llama, #Phi, #Gemma, and #Mistral and leading closed models, including the recent #OpenAI #GPT-4o and #o1-series. Their behavior is better explained by sophisticated

NEW: Trump has promised to scrap Biden's AI executive order if he wins re-election. What would that mean for Biden's AI safety and security agenda? My WIRED story explores why conservatives hate these projects and why many experts say they're vital: wired.com/story/donald-t…

These numbers are insane... automated enforcement basically wipes away racial differences in police stops. Without enforcement, on roads where half the drivers are Black, they make up about 70% of police stops! Drops to 54% when automatic cameras are in use.