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However, now the details that should never have been marked confidential are starting to leak. In a motion for summary judgment that was unsealed Thursday from news plaintiffs led by The New York Times, internal documents are exposed that news groups alleged show exactly how Microsoft and OpenAI viewed the threat to news before unleashing new AI products like ChatGPT and Copilot.

Perhaps most explosively, Microsoft Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht repeatedly warned in documents that scraping news for AI training was “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” calling it perhaps the “largest theft of labor in human history,” news orgs said. In another document, Hecht contradicted Microsoft and OpenAI’s argument that training AI on news content is fair use, suggesting that the plan to widely scrape news made “a complete mockery of the idea of ‘fair use.’”

China is seeking to weaken Taiwan by influencing extremists to enter its democratic system and exploit political divisions, National Security Council (NSC) adviser Alex Huang (黃重諺) said yesterday, warning that the election of just one or two such politicians could make it harder for society to reach consensus.

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“The goal is to weaken Taiwan. China does not need to attack you, it just needs to keep you arguing among yourselves,” Huang said in an exclusive interview with the Chinese-language Liberty Times, the Taipei Times’ sister paper.

Chinese election interference overseas is nothing new, with past incidents including attempts to influence the latest US presidential vote, efforts to turn Chinese-Canadian communities against certain politicians in Canada and attempts to fund pro-China candidates in Australia, Huang said.

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Asked about who are pro-China candidates in Taiwan, Huang said that in a democracy, people should be allowed to run as long as they meet legal requirements.

In Taiwan, candidates must be Taiwanese citizens and give up permanent residency or citizenship in other countries, Huang said, adding that the Central Election Commission and other authorities conduct rigorous checks for Chinese citizenship.

It is certain that China would seek to use such people to enter Taiwan’s political system, he said, adding that Beijing was trying to undermine democracy through its processes.

All China needs is one or two radical political figures to deepen political polarization, making it harder for society to reach consensus, he said.

Once elected, these people could become a source of risk by obstructing important legislations, Huang said.

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Political infighting could prevent the government from obtaining essential uncrewed aerial vehicles and even lead to the leaking of sensitive information to undermine opponents, he said.

Taiwan is like a “real-life encyclopedia” of Chinese election interference, Huang said, adding that Beijing is constantly developing new tactics using artificial intelligence (AI).

These include generating tens of thousands of “live accounts” capable of real-time interaction as well as AI-generated videos targeting President William Lai (賴清德), former president Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) and Taipei mayoral candidate Puma Shen (沈伯洋) of the Democratic Progressive Party, he said.

A political party during its chairperson election last year also detected signs of interference, with such operations exploiting gaps in Taiwan’s laws and using content that is difficult to verify to confuse the public, Huang said.

The government is exchanging information with international partners to bolster Taiwan’s information and democratic resilience, and is urging the public to remain alert to suspicious content and avoid sharing it, he added.

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There is no single source accounting for race in Alzheimer’s research, but clinical trials and research studies are known to skew toward wealthy and white participants. In just one clue about the level of disparity, of more than 12,000 brain-imaging studies on Alzheimer’s, only about 700 report race at all. Studies that do report race have more than 87% white participants. As of 2020, census data found about 58% of the US population was white.

As the Trump administration attempts to remake science according to its own priorities – canceling, freezing or otherwise disrupting more than 5,700 medical research grants at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) – work such as Dubowitz’s has been alternately labeled “DEI” (diversity, equity and inclusion) or unscientific.

Researchers were given 90 days to shut down the study, more than five months earlier than expected and a year earlier than hoped. It’s far too little time to conduct cognitive “adjudications,” where a neuropsychologist and geriatric psychiatrist were expected to interpret the results of all 600 participants – experts that the researchers now can’t pay.

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Hello programmers! I’ve been making a living for a couple of decades figuring out stuff for people and coding whatever will make them happy. It’s fun. I’ve grown to prefer the people to the coding but I still get a kick out of the whole thing.

The problem is: at the job we’re being asked to pivot to vibe coding. At this point the order is to use it for all code, read the slop carefully, argue with the machine for way too long and only then open that PR. Massive productivity gains are expected. I’m appalled from an ethical, philosophical and professional standpoint. We’re a non-profit ngo ffs. My colleagues are fine with it. If I get even slightly critical the group goes awkwardly silent and I get comments on how all the programmers they know from other places don’t code anymore.

If this is how it goes from now on, I’m out. Is it really though? Are all businesses switching to vibe coding? Have some of you started switching career? I think I want to go to meatspace. Hand-made coding could make a cute hobby.

As the death toll from the worst measles outbreak in decades rises, Robert F Kennedy Jr headlined the Washington DC conference of the anti-vaccine organization Children’s Health Defense, which he led for nearly a decade.

“Let me be clear. You have a strong and steadfast friend at the White House,” Kennedy, now serving as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), told anti-vaccine activists at the conference in a nearly hour-and-a-half-long speech. He urged patience, saying that he would’ve made sweeping changes “on day one” but that he had to follow the law in order to make permanent change.