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Russian Attacks Kill 11 Civilians Near Eastern Front, Ukraine Says
Ukrainian officials said missile assaults had struck private houses, trapping residents under the rubble, and that the dead included five children.
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From Land Mines to Drones, Tech Has Driven Fears About Autonomous Arms
Concern about weapons that can kill without a human decision is not entirely new.
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Newyork
Case Closed?
Prosecutors formally advised lawyers for former Vice President Mike Pence this past June that he would not be charged for retaining classified materials after leaving office. I expect that the special counsel Robert Hur will similarly soon announce ...
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Newyork
None Dare Call it Victory
Flation — whether in- or de- — is, other things being equal, a bad thing. Money is the economy’s unit of account, the yardstick we use to calculate profit and loss, make contracts, specify debts and more. It’s problematic when that yardstick keeps ...
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Newyork
How ChatGPT Hijacks Democracy
Launched just weeks ago, ChatGPT is already threatening to upend how we draft everyday communications like emails, college essays and myriad other forms of writing. Created by the company OpenAI, ChatGPT is a chatbot that can automatically respond to ...
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Newyork
What Comes After a World’s First in Fusion Research
As soon as Kim Budil, the director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, said on Tuesday that cheap, abundant electricity from nuclear fusion is still “probably decades” away, some people lost interest in the news that her lab had achieved a ...
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Newyork
Wonking Out: When Should We Declare Victory Over Inflation?
Put on your statistical noise-canceling headphones, and the sound you hear is that of falling underlying inflation. Even Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, said in effect as much in his speech Wednesday. It’s not happening yet, but in the not ...
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