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☆ Elon Musk's mother, Maye, appears to encourage voter fraud in X post
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( Bruna Horvath | Bruna Horvath Is An Intern On Nbc News' Tech Team. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk’s mother, Maye Musk, appeared to encourage a form of voter fraud in a post on X. It appeared to echo conspiracy theories about large-scale voter fraud that have been shared by Elon Musk. The code, however, doesn’t appear to forbid Maye Musk’s statements of encouragement, Persily said. Maye Musk’s post was made the day her son spoke at a rally for former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania — where Trump was injured in an assassination attempt in July. Proponents of the laws say they prevent voter fraud, which studies have found to be extremely rare.

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☆ A heated election season hangs over the Supreme Court's new term: From the Politics Desk
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( The Politics Desk | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +10 min

In today’s edition, senior Supreme Court reporter Lawrence Hurley looks at how the upcoming election is looming over the high court as justices return for a new term. The threat of election chaos looms as the Supreme Court returns to actionBy Lawrence HurleyThe Supreme Court returned from its summer break Monday with a new slate of cases to decide, but an issue not even on the docket yet is at the center of attention: the presidential election. “There’s going to be something,” said Nate Persily, an election expert at Stanford Law School and an NBC News contributor. Read more → ⚖️ Georgia abortion latest: The Georgia Supreme Court reinstated a six-week abortion ban, halting a recent lower court ruling that had overturned the law. Read more →The Georgia Supreme Court reinstated a six-week abortion ban, halting a recent lower court ruling that had overturned the law.

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The new nine-month Supreme Court term officially starts Monday, with the justices appearing in the courtroom to hear oral arguments. Major cases at the Supreme Court: U.S. v. Skrmetti — Challenge to state laws that ban gender-affirming care for trans teenagers. When the Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore, its reputation took a hit but quickly rebounded. Republicans challenged those changes, but the Supreme Court never took up a case about the issue at the time. The Supreme Court has relatively few cases of consequence on the argument calendar so far.

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☆ One year on, the Israel-Hamas war has taken an unprecedented toll on journalists
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( Hadas Gold | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Multiple news organizations and free press groups have accused the Israeli military of deliberately targeting journalists. “One year in, Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza has exacted an unprecedented and horrific toll on Palestinian journalists and the region’s media landscape,” CPJ said. Four Israeli journalists were killed in the October 7 attacks, and others barely survived. The raw footage is also subject to Israeli military censorship. CNN’s Clarissa Ward is one of the only foreign journalists to have entered the strip without the Israeli military, when she embedded with a United Arab Emirates field hospital crew.

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☆ AI expert Gary Marcus thinks OpenAI will be the 'most Orwellian company of all time'
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AI expert Gary Marcus says OpenAI may be forced to become a surveillance company to make money. AI expert Gary Marcus says the company shaping the global AI arms race is on the cusp of turning what Orwell imagined into reality. "What they're going to be pressed to do is become a surveillance company." But Marcus thinks the company won't be able to earn enough money to support its valuation that way because the technology isn't advanced enough. Marcus suspects that OpenAI will eventually tap into this potential income stream and become a powerful surveillance company.

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“I have had two spectacular Notre Dame law clerks. The traditional elite law schools dominate Supreme Court clerkships, with many justices hiring clerks from the same law schools they themselves attended and maintaining close links with faculty members. Barrett, who graduated from Notre Dame Law School, is the only member of the current court not to have a law degree from Harvard or Yale. Within that context, Notre Dame is scrapping with other law schools for the remaining clerkships and has performed well. Another conservative-aligned law school that is making inroads is George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School in Virginia, which has also placed some graduates in Supreme Court clerkships.

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☆ Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says we should go all in on building AI data centers because 'we are never going to meet our climate goals anyway'
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-06 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AI models require enormous data centers that threaten goals to reduce carbon emissions. Schmidt said "we are never going to meet" the goals anyway, suggesting we let AI solve the problem. AdvertisementFormer Google CEO Eric Schmidt says it's time for us to fully invest in AI infrastructure because climate goals are too lofty to reach anyway. The AI boom has spurred a wave of spending on data centers, which provide the computational power needed to train and run AI models. But the surge in development comes at a price, as data centers consume huge amounts of natural resources.

Persons: Eric Schmidt, Schmidt, —, Biden, Schmidt's, Schmidt —, it's, we're Organizations: Service, McKinsey, Washington DC, National Security, Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University Locations: Washington, Ukraine

☆ Paul Simon is ‘optimistic’ about returning to live performance after partially losing hearing
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Catherine Nicholls | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Legendary singer Paul Simon has said he is “optimistic” about being able to return to performing live after losing most of his hearing in his left ear. So everything became more difficult.”Even before he announced the loss of his hearing, Simon toured for the last time in 2018, after which he said he was ending his touring career. “I never said I was going to retire,” Simon said in his latest interview. It was very interesting and really quite pleasurable for a long time – until my hearing loss threw me off.”Simon recently played alongside two guitarists at a fundraiser for the Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss, his longest performance in five years. “In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon,” which premiered in March in the United States, is set for release in UK cinemas on October 13, Simon’s 83rd birthday.

Persons: Paul Simon, ” Simon, Simon, Garfunkel, “, we’d, Alex Gibney, ”, Simon’s Organizations: CNN, Guardian, The Times, Stanford Initiative Locations: United States

☆ OpenAI's chairman says AI is in a bubble — but one that could be wildly lucrative
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The AI bubble, Taylor said, will be similar to the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s. AdvertisementThe buzz surrounding AI may echo the exuberance and excesses of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor said in a podcast that aired on Wednesday. "I think the AI bubble will rhyme with the dot-com bubble and I believe with the benefit of hindsight, most of the excess of the dot-com bubble might have been justified," Taylor added. Most of today's leading tech companies like Amazon and Google, Taylor said, were started during the dot-com bubble. Advertisement"A huge percentage of the gains in the stock market over the past 30 years have more or less been these digital companies created in the dot-com bubble," Taylor said.

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☆ Amazon's RTO push is an outlier — the tech world remains all-in on hybrid work
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Despite return-to-office mandates at Amazon and Dell, the tech world still appears to favor hybrid work. Experts say hybrid work boosts recruitment and retention and could be crucial amid tech talent wars. But while it may seem like workers are losing the battle for remote work, research suggests that hybrid work is still the norm in the tech industry. While some large companies, such as Nvidia, have remained holdouts, most Big Tech companies have had hybrid policies of various degrees. So as long as productivity stays up, I think hybrid work is here to stay in the tech world."

Persons: —, Peter Cappelli, Nicholas Bloom, Bloom, Noam Shazeer, Cevat Aksoy, Aksoy, John Rossman, — it's Organizations: Amazon, Dell, Flex, Service, Wharton Business School, Big Tech, Stanford, Google, King's College London, Nvidia, Microsoft Locations: mull

☆ AI coding tools mean there are no more junior software developers
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Helen Li | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot have transformed software development and productivity. AdvertisementBefore he graduated from university, Jacob Jackson founded the AI coding assistant TabNine in 2018. In the past two years, there has been a boom in AI coding assistants. The spike in ChatGPT usage and AI coding assistants has shifted how software developers do their jobs. AdvertisementAI assistants can empower codersMost generative AI coding assistants focus on auto-completion, meaning that the tool suggests code as the programmer types.

Persons: —, Jacob Jackson, TabNine, Jackson, Claude, Nikolas Gauvreau, Dan Boneh, Kevin Baragona, Baragona, Gauvreau, he's, David Malan, Malan Organizations: Software, Service, Microsoft, Accenture, Developers, Stanford University, Harvard University, Activision Blizzard Locations: OpenAI, Canada, Brazil, Germany, India

☆ Everyone's talking about RTO. Here's why a leading expert thinks remote work is 'here to stay.'
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Nora Redmond | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Amazon's RTO order has people questioning the future of remote work. Employees respondong to his surveys ranked the right to work from home equal to an 8% pay increase. AdvertisementThe pandemic-prompted right to remote work may be in trouble — Amazon hit headlines last month when it ordered all corporate employees back to the office five days a week from January. But Nick Bloom, a leading expert in remote work, said working from home was "here to stay" as he shared the latest developments in his 20-year research. Bloom concluded his presentation by saying remote work was "here to stay," citing big steps in technology that facilitate it, such as video calls and virtual reality.

Persons: Nick Bloom, —, Amazon's, Bloom Organizations: Service, Stanford University Locations: WFH, COVID

☆ The US economy teeters after it's hit by a triple threat: Middle East escalation, port closures, and Hurricane Helene
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

A dockworkers strike begins. Back in the States, a dockworkers strike could upend an economy finally on the mend. Tuesday morning marked the start of a dockworkers strike that will shutter dozens of US ports that handle about half of all US ocean imports. The Iranian attack was largely thwarted, and the dockworkers strike could be short-lived. That's thanks in part to strong demand in China.

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☆ For Nvidia, spatial AI and the ‘omniverse’ entering physical world may be the next big thing
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Rachel Curry | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

"All of it is very important, but the things we take for granted around us in the physical world are actually far more important." Spatial AI allows models to understand and interact with the physical world in ways previously limited to human cognition, and Nvidia is not the only one building on it. It's a spatial intelligence company building "large world models" to understand, interact with, and build on the three-dimensional world around us. AI for robotics, not just humanoid robotsIn contemplating the ultimate use of artificial intelligence, Nvidia concluded that robotics is the answer. Physical world will be changed by AI within yearsMany companies that focus on robotics and spatial intelligence are homing in on the world of manufacturing.

Persons: ChatGPT, Lebaredian, Fei, Fei Li, Andreessen Horowitz, Jensen Huang, Agustin Huerta, Globant's Huerta, Huerta Organizations: Nvidia, Stanford, Labs, Apple, North America, Franklin, Marshall College, International Locations: New Orleans, San Francisco, North, Globant, London

California is banning legacy admissions at private colleges and universities, ensuring that some of the country’s most selective schools will not favor applicants with familial or monetary connections to the schools. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed AB 1780 into law, prohibiting legacy and donor preferences in admissions at private, nonprofit institutions. Schools including Stanford University, the University of Southern California and Santa Clara University will now join the California State University system and other public institutions in the state that have long-banned legacy preferences. This is about making sure we’re leveling the playing field.”The law will affect schools with among the highest rates of legacy admissions — Stanford, USC and Santa Clara. In 2022, legacy admissions accounted for about 14 percent of Stanford and USC’s enrollment and about 13 percent at Santa Clara, according to Ting’s statement.

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☆ The future of Obamacare hangs on a few seats in Congress. Here's what could happen next
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Annie Nova | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

"I'm not running to terminate the ACA," former President Donald Trump wrote in a Truth Social post in March. That is, unless he could "come up with a plan that's going to cost our people, our population, less money and be better health care than Obamacare." Around 60% of Americans hold a favorable opinion of the 2010 health care law, a recent KFF poll found. The Harris campaign released a report on Monday that paints a dire picture of health care under a hypothetical Trump administration. The average ACA plan deductible, or amount a person must spend before their coverage kicks in, was over $3,000 in 2024, with some plan deductibles exceeding $7,000, KFF found.

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☆ Amazon's RTO mandate is a 'backdoor layoff' strategy, future of work expert says
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Amazon's return-to-office mandate is a move to cut head count, says Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom. AdvertisementAmazon's strict return-to-office push is an attempt to reduce head count, according to Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom. Amazon's strict stance on full-time office work is still somewhat of an anomaly within the tech industry. Cost-cutting moveIn the memo announcing the RTO policy, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy hinted at plans to reduce managers. "They clearly thought about this long and hard and presumably calculated it was more cost-effective to run a head count reduction via an RTO than active layoffs.

Persons: Amazon's, Nicholas Bloom, Bloom, —, Fortune, OpenAI, Andy Jassy, Jassy Organizations: Stanford, Google, Microsoft, Service, Amazon, Flex, Meta, Business Locations: Germany

But Iran’s 2020 election interference efforts stand apart from what have become well-recognized interference patterns, according to an indictment from the Justice Department, Treasury Department sanctions, researchers and media reporting, and comments from current and former U.S. officials. That gave them access to Election Night Reporting (ENR) systems, which provide live updates on unofficial results on Election Day. Fake Proud Boys campaignIn the most bizarre and elaborate foreign influence campaign of 2020, Iranian hackers allegedly staged an entirely fictional cyber-enabled fraud and harassment campaign, according to a detailed 2021 Justice Department indictment. The Iranian hackers did successfully steal some voter data from Alaska’s Online Voter Registration System, but otherwise none of it was true. The hackers tried to post it to various platforms online but it gained little traction.

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☆ Legacy students no longer have an advantage at Stanford and other private California colleges
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-30 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

California is the second state to ban the practice at private colleges. Legacy preference has been under scrutiny since the Supreme Court's decision on affirmative action. AdvertisementStudents can no longer use their legacy connections to help them get accepted to prestigious California schools like Stanford. The announcement makes California the second state after Maryland to ban legacy preference in admissions at private universities. Related storiesHowever, some colleges have taken proactive steps over the past decade to ban legacy preference in their admissions practices.

Persons: Gavin Newsom, —, Newsom, Ethan Poskanzer, Michael Roth, Gabrielle Star, isn't, Phil Ting Organizations: Service, Stanford, Gov, University of Southern, University of Colorado, Wesleyan University, CNN, Pomona College, University of California Locations: California, University of Southern California, Maryland, Boulder, Illinois, Virginia

☆ Elon Musk once described his past immigration status as a ‘gray area’
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-29 | by ( Catherine E. Shoichet | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +32 min

So we just rented the office, and slept in the office, and showered at the YMCA,” Elon Musk recalled, drawing laughs from the crowd. “When they did fund us,” Kimbal Musk recalled, “they realized that we were illegal immigrants.”“Well…” Elon Musk interjected. Video of the remarks shows Elon Musk laughing as he jumped in with a different interpretation: “I’d say it was a gray area.”He didn’t elaborate, and it’s unclear what Elon Musk meant by that characterization. Elon Musk, wearing a black Stetson hat, livestreams while visiting the US-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas, on September 28, 2023. Then-President Donald Trump greets Elon Musk before a policy and strategy forum with executives at the White House in February 2017.

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☆ Inside one of the first all-female hacker houses in San Francisco
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-28 | by ( Lisa Setyon | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

It was obvious to me that I wanted to do the inverse and build an all-female hacker house that created the same dynamic but with women." Cantillon, who has lived in several hacker houses over the years, saw a need for a space dedicated exclusively to women. That's why she co-founded HackHer House, the first all-female hacker house in the San Francisco Bay Area. Hacker houses aren't new to the Bay Area or cities like New York and London. In a city renowned for tech advancements, hacker houses are viewed as critical for driving the next wave of innovation.

Persons: Molly Cantillon, Cantillon, Jennifer Li, Andreessen Horowitz, Zoya Garg, Anna Monaco, Anne Brandes, Li Organizations: HackHer, Stanford University, . Venture, U.S Locations: San Francisco Bay, Silicon, North Beach, Bay, New York, London

☆ Arrowheads carried by Bronze Age warriors reveal who fought on Europe’s oldest battlefield
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-28 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

But to archaeologists, the Tollense Valley is considered Europe’s oldest battlefield. The biggest mysteries that researchers aim to uncover are why the battle occurred and who fought in it. A long time agoYears of excavations in the Tollense Valley have uncovered evidence that the site was the scene of Europe's oldest battlefield 3,250 years ago. S. SauerDozens of bronze and flint arrowheads recovered from the Tollense Valley are revealing details about the able-bodied warriors who fought in the Bronze Age battle. The research team analyzed and compared the arrowheads, some of which were still embedded in the remains of the fallen.

Persons: Sauer, Al Hadid, ”, Martijn Oei, carolinus, Grearson, Ashley Strickland, Katie Hunt Organizations: CNN —, United Arab Emirates, ., California Institute of Technology, Grearson Harvard, Stanford, CNN Space, Science Locations: Germany, Bavaria, Moravia, Dubai, United Arab, China —, Chile, Australia, New Zealand, Falkland, Antarctica

☆ Proto’s hologram boxes can beam ‘3D’ video into your living room
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-27 | by ( Jacopo Prisco | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Billing itself as the world’s “first holographic communications platform,” US startup Proto is beaming life-size, “3D” video into universities, hotels and medical centers. The boxes can reproduce pre-recorded video as well as a live feed, and any 4K camera, including an iPhone, can be used as the source. Nussbaum, whose background is in radio and podcasting, started Proto in 2018. In 2023, video of actor William Shatner was beamed from Los Angeles to the Advertising Week APAC event in Sydney, Australia. A similar technology launched by Dutch company Holoconnects has been deployed at hotels in Scandinavia, and used for advertising by BMW.

Persons: CNN —, —, William Shatner, ”, David Nussbaum, Nussbaum, Holoconnects, Gary Burnett, Proto, Clay Jackson, Crystal Freeman, “ Organizations: CNN, Inc, Amazon, Verizon, Siemens, Accenture, Walmart, NFL, JFK, Beverly Wilshire, BMW, Google, HP, Cisco, MIT, Vanderbilt, Stanford, University of Loughborough, Loughborough University, West Cancer Center, University of Tennessee College of Medicine Locations: Los Angeles, Orlando , Florida, Sydney, Australia, New, Beverly Hills , California, Scandinavia, Webex, Central Florida, Memphis , Tennessee, New Jersey

☆ This 50-year-old concept is still the best way to make yourself productive, says expert: 3 simple ways to master it
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Natalie Wu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

States of flow can lead to productive work sessions or explain your compulsion to endlessly scroll through social media. The act of pulling the lever turns an uncertain outcome into a certain one. Binary tasks, where the only outcomes are success or failure, aren't very conducive to flow, Melnikoff says. have a yes-or-no outcome, you're better off focusing on a more ambiguous number of consecutive successes or failures, Melnikoff says. "People value the sense that they're being productive and one with the activity that they're engaging in.

Persons: David Melnikoff, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi —, Melnikoff, doesn't Organizations: Stanford Graduate School of Business, CNBC Locations: States, they're

☆ Sea robins are fish that use their legs to ‘taste’ the seafloor
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Some types of sea robins, a peculiar bottom-dwelling ocean fish, use taste bud-covered legs to sense and dig up prey along the seafloor, according to new research. A species of sea robins called Prionotus carolinus studied by the researchers used their legs for walking, digging and sensing the seafloor. And the fish that lacked sensory capabilities and used their legs mainly for walking were striped sea robins, or Prionotus evolans. The digging sea robins had shovel-shaped legs that were covered in protrusions called papillae, which are similar to the taste buds on our tongues. Both researchers said they are keen to uncover the exact mechanisms behind the evolution of the sea robins’ sensory appendages.

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