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On Tuesday, Phoenix was poised to break its own record for consecutive days of high temperatures of at least 110 degrees. “We see people passing out from full-blown heat stroke with a core body temperature of 104 degrees,” he said. The persistent heat in the Southwest is the result of a high-pressure system that has been parked over the region for weeks. Credit... Go Nakamura/ReutersIn Texas, the heat this year has prompted cotton plants, especially in the southern parts of the state, to bloom early. The spot where he stood was already under a heat advisory, with heat indexes forecast to reach around 110 degrees on Tuesday.

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☆ How to Think About ‘Bidenomics’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Gerard Baker | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Gerry Baker is Editor at Large of The Wall Street Journal. His weekly column for the editorial page, “Free Expression,” appears in The Wall Street Journal each Tuesday. Mr. Baker previously served as Editor in Chief of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones from 2013-2018. Prior to that, Mr. Baker was Deputy Editor in Chief of The Wall Street Journal from 2009-2013. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, where he graduated in 1983 with a 1st Class Honors Degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

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☆ Don’t Blame Liberalism for Illiberal Progressives
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Gerard Baker | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

HOUSTON, July 10 (Reuters) - A coming wave of North American liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects faces staffing challenges that are prompting some of the biggest developers to expand training and coordinate projects to keep construction workers. WORKERS NEEDEDAt present Bechtel has more than 3,000 professionals working on its LNG projects. Two other projects - Golden Pass LNG and Plaquemines LNG - have added workers and are moving to 24-hour work schedules. Cheniere and Bechtel are training workers using virtual simulations or via partnerships with local schools. Venture Global LNG stitched together 18 liquefaction units in its highly modular Calcasieu Pass LNG plant, allowing it to open the facility in what it said was record time.

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☆ The Supreme Court Declares Independence
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Gerard Baker | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

[1/4] Liquified petroleum gas vessel Zita Schulte is seen docked at the port of Corpus Christi, Texas, U.S., May 15, 2023. A hydrogen hub would require access to millions of gallons of water – a challenge in Corpus Christi which is experiencing a multi-year drought. Peter Zanoni, the city manager for Corpus Christi, said the hydrogen project, if approved, all but requires the adoption of seawater desalination. And seawater desalination plants are energy intensive and expensive to build and maintain, energy experts say. Corpus Christi first proposed seawater desalination in 2017 to supply its rapidly growing energy and petrochemicals industries.

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☆ Cecily the cat has a lifelong disability. It hasn't stopped her from spreading positivity through her fashionable outfits
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Ashley R. Williams | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —To her tens of thousands of adoring online fans, fashionable two-legged feline Cecily is the cat’s pajamas. “But I’m not sad!” concludes the cat’s social media page description. The colorful dresses and outfits began as a way to cover the diapers Cecily wears daily, Hatfield said. The CatteryThe Cattery, which currently houses over 180 cats, began getting more active on social media during the pandemic. The cat’s social media presence and quirky outfits seem to touch people in unexpected ways, the social media manager noted.

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☆ A lawsuit claims OpenAI stole 'massive amounts of personal data,' including medical records and information about children, to train ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A lawsuit alleges OpenAI stole personal data from "millions of Americans" to train ChatGPT. It also stored chat-log data from ChatGPT users, including via apps like Snapchat and Spotify, the lawsuit alleges. OpenAI stole "massive amounts of personal data" to train ChatGPT, a lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI crawled the web to amass huge amounts of data, including vast quantities taken from social-media sites. OpenAI's propertiatary AI corpus of personal data, WebText2, for example, scraped huge amounts of data from Reddit posts and the websites they linked to, the lawsuit claims.

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☆ The Riddle, Mystery and Enigma of Prigozhin’s Coup Attempt
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Gerard Baker | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

☆ Power Grids Are Teetering Worldwide. Here’s Why.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Manuela Andreoni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

That’s because a weather system called a heat dome is parked over Texas, Oklahoma and parts of Mexico. And, there’s a lot of worry about the Texas electric grid. That heat dome could stay in place until early July. As people turn up their air-conditioners to stay cool, will the grids hold? Today, I want to explain to you why electric grids are an enormous concern during extreme heat waves and what policymakers can do about it.

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☆ Reddit still has to contend with a 'simmering rage' as users return back to the platform
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Reddit moderator told The New York Times there is still a "simmering rage" as users return. Reddit moderators shut down hundreds of forums last week to protest changes to how Reddit prices its API. The moderator called Reddit's changes "really demoralizing." Reddit is returning to a new normal this week following a sitewide blackout to protest the platform's changes to its API pricing policy. Reddit's changes to its API are set to take effect on July 1.

Persons: Bucky, Reddit, Steve Huffman Organizations: New York Times, Google Locations: Reddit

The current National Pension Scheme requires employees to contribute 10% of their basic salary and the government 14%. But, "we will not go back to the old pension system," said one senior government official. This compromise, the government believes, will assuage the concerns of states that went back to the old pension system and cover the whole country with one fiscally sustainable pension scheme, both the sources said. Recently, states including Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab have opted to move back to the old pension system. Reuters GraphicsThe government officials said that the amended pension scheme will not stress the budget math as much.

Persons: Narendra Modi, Modi, Aftab Ahmed, Nikunj, Savio D'Souza Organizations: Reuters, Pensions, Thomson Locations: DELHI, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab

☆ God Save the Queen and Biden’s Foreign Policy
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Gerard Baker | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

☆ Russia has doubled the number of trained dolphins defending its Black Sea fleet from Ukrainian attacks, says report
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Isobel Van Hagen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russia appears to have doubled the number of trained dolphins defending its Black Sea fleet. The dolphins at the naval base in Sevastopol are trained to detect Ukrainian special forces divers. Satellite imagery at the time captured by Maxar Technologies shows two pens containing the trained dolphins. This comes after several drone attacks targeting Russia's ships in the area, as Ukrainian forces launched their recent counteroffensive in the long-running conflict. The Black Sea peninsula was invaded by Russian forces and illegally annexed by Putin in 2014.

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Then, a deep dive into MrBeast and what his YouTube empire says about the future of the internet. Reddit came along and said, oh, we need to protect Reddit from the rise of these large language models. So I don’t think they’re totally out of the woods. But I don’t think people would say it was a golden age for how safe the platforms fell to use. But I want to challenge you on this, because I don’t necessarily think that it’s a bad thing if we have past peak trust and safety.

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☆ Explainer: Reddit protest: Why are thousands of subreddits going dark?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Subreddits such as r/Music, r/gaming, r/science and r/todayilearned - all with more than 30 million subscribers - are participating. Unlike most other social media platforms, Reddit is heavily dependent on community moderators, "or mods", who police their subreddits for free to weed out offensive or illegal content. What are third-party app developers saying? Elon Musk's Twitter in January restricted all third-party clients and apps and updated their rules for developers accessing its APIs. Reporting by Tiyashi Datta, Akash Sriram and Jaspreet Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika SyamnathOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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☆ Trump’s Indictment May Pull Us Back From the Brink
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-11 | by ( Gerard Baker | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

FBI agents flew with van der Sloot on a US Department of Justice plane to an airport in Birmingham, Alabama, where he landed Thursday afternoon. Van der Sloot was seen leaving the Ancón 1 prison in Lima early Thursday, as he was driven away in a black van while in the custody of law enforcement. Peru initially agreed to extradite van der Sloot to the US to face those charges only after he serves his murder sentence. “I want to go to the US,” van der Sloot told Altez in a letter. Holloway was last seen alive with van der Sloot and two other men leaving a nightclub in Aruba 18 years ago.

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☆ Texas aquarium saves endangered sea turtles stunned by cold water events
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Evan Garcia | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Evan GarciaCORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, June 8 (Reuters) - Endangered sea turtles and other marine wildlife have found refuge in a new coastal rescue center in Corpus Christi, Texas. Like other reptiles, sea turtles are limited in how much they can regulate and control their core body temperatures. The Kemp's ridley sea turtle is the smallest species of sea turtle and most critically endangered in the world, according to the National Park Service. Ullmer explained how cold-stunning events cause sea turtles' heart and respiratory rates to drop dangerously low, along with a dramatic slowdown of their metabolisms. Ullmer readied one of the rescue turtles to check for recurrence of abnormalities on the CT scan.

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☆ These Taquitos Are an All-Night Breakfast of Champions
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Bryan Washington | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Though its roots might be attributed to the Mexican flauta, the taquito’s origins are varyingly tied to early-20th-century California. On the Whataburger menu, a less traditional form of the taquito holds a place of distinction. What makes taquitos especially dreamy is how they weave into the rhythms of daily life. I’ve scarfed them while jogging from Terminals B — the only terminal with a Whataburger — to E through George Bush Intercontinental Airport. But what makes taquitos especially dreamy is how they weave themselves into the rhythms of daily life: I’ve picked up sacks of Whataburger taquitos en route to help paint friends’ houses.

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“I want to go to the US,” Van der Sloot told Altez in a letter. Van der Sloot was convicted in 2012 of murdering Stephany Flores, 21, in his Lima hotel room and sentenced to 28 years in prison. Peru initially agreed to extradite Van der Sloot to the US to face those charges only after he serves his murder sentence. Peru agreed to Van der Sloot’s “temporary relocation to the United States, because he is condemned here and he must serve his sentence here,” Justice Minister Daniel Maurate said. Police in Aruba arrested and released the three men – van der Sloot and brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe – multiple times in 2005 and 2007 in connection with Holloway’s disappearance.

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☆ As Reddit battles OpenAI and sees its pre-IPO valuation fall, I can't help quoting Taylor Swift: Karma's gonna track you down
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Julie Bort | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Fidelity marked down the value of Reddit shares, a developer revealed details about new fees. Insider previously reported that Fidelity's Growth Company Fund had already marked down its Reddit stock in January disclosures. OpenAI disclosed in research that Reddit was among its massive number of sources used to train the underlying AI models. I asked ChatGPT if it is going to pay for Reddit dataI asked ChatGPT if it is going to pay for Reddit data. With its new battle against OpenAI, it's clear that Reddit feels similarly about misuse of online content.

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☆ AI hypocrisy: OpenAI, Google and Anthropic won't let their data be used to train other AI models, but they use everyone else's content
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Microsoft-backed OpenAI, Google and Anthropic ban the use of their content to train other AI models. Microsoft-backed OpenAI, along with Google, and Google-backed Anthropic have for years been using online content created by companies to train their generative AI models. However, these big tech companies won't let their own content be used to train other AI models. In April, Elon Musk accused Microsoft, the main backer of OpenAI, of illegally using Twitter's data to train AI models. The current way AI models are trained 'breaks' the webOne former Microsoft executive believes something is wrong here.

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☆ Firms are bringing production back home because of the Ukraine war, China's slowdown — and TikTok
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Lucy Handley | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Earnings calls discuss 'reshoring'A number of banks noted mentions of the domestic manufacturing trend in U.S. earnings calls for the most recent quarter. And we have never … got the target right," McRaith told an audience at a supply chain conference organized by software company o9 Solutions in April. Bill McRaith Former chief supply chain officer, PVHMcRaith, a former chief supply chain officer at Tommy Hilfiger-owner PVH , said the apparel industry both over-orders and under-orders stock by about 20% to 25%. If we build an economy based on electrification and batteries, it's going to be really important to control our own supply chain. "If we build an economy based on electrification and batteries, it's going to be really important to control our own supply chain," he told CNBC's "Street Signs Asia" in April.

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☆ The Bigotry That Proudly Speaks Its Name
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Gerard Baker | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

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