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Monday, May 13

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Sadistic YouTube mum Ruby Franke's chilling journal and 'panic room' where she abused kids

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Religious fantasist and blogger Ruby Franke, 42, found fame filming her family and posting it online before she was locked up for starving and abusing her children

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Kraft Heinz exploring sale of Oscar Mayer brand that could be worth up to $5 billion: Wall Street Journal

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Kraft Heinz Co. has hired financial advisers to help explore a possible sale of its Oscar Mayer unit, which makes hot dogs, cold cuts and bacon, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

AI-assisted writing is quietly booming in academic journals—here's why that's OK

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If you search Google Scholar for the phrase "as an AI language model," you'll find plenty of AI research literature and also some rather suspicious results. For example, one paper on agricultural technology says,

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Sources: after shelling out billions to acquire US users, Temu is now focusing more on acquiring users in Europe and elsewhere, following TikTok's US issues (Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: after shelling out billions to acquire US users, Temu is now focusing more on acquiring users in Europe and elsewhere, following TikTok's US issues — App looks to reduce reliance on American shoppers as growth slows and scrutiny…

Address by Dr. Carla Barnett, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community at the University of Guyana’s Special Issue of the Roundtable Journal on CARICOM at 50, 30 April 2024

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 Professor Edward Greene, Chancellor, University of Guyana;  Professor Paloma Mohamed Martin, Vice-Chancellor, University of Guyana;  Dr. Mellissa Ifill, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Institutional Advancement, University of Guyana and Chair…

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Sources: Intel is in advanced, exclusive talks for a deal in which Apollo Global Management would supply $11B+ to help the chip giant build a plant in Ireland (Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: Intel is in advanced, exclusive talks for a deal in which Apollo Global Management would supply $11B+ to help the chip giant build a plant in Ireland — The investment firm is in exclusive talks to supply the chip giant with cash…

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An Australian judge refuses the eSafety commissioner's request to extend an order for X to hide a video of a religious leader's stabbing, without giving reasons (Stuart Condie/Wall Street Journal)

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An Australian judge refuses the eSafety commissioner's request to extend an order for X to hide a video of a religious leader's stabbing, without giving reasons — Elon Musk previously said he was worried that if any country is allowed to…

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As VC firms pivot to investing in startups developing defense tech for the US and its allies, some of their business ties with China still linger (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)

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Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: As VC firms pivot to investing in startups developing defense tech for the US and its allies, some of their business ties with China still linger — Investors with connections to China are backing…

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Wall Street Journal: Biden's Migration Spikes Interest, Mortgage Rates

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President Joe Biden's policy of mass migration is forcing up housing inflation, so pushing up interest and mortgage rates, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

A look at the rise and fall of 2U, which provides online degree programs for top US universities and is currently valued at ~$30M, down from $5B+ in 2018 (Melissa Korn/Wall Street Journal)

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A look at the rise and fall of 2U, which provides online degree programs for top US universities and is currently valued at ~$30M, down from $5B+ in 2018 — In May 2018, employees from education technology company 2U paraded through the…

Sunday, May 12

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AI-assisted writing is quietly booming in academic journals. Here’s why that’s OK

theconversation.com

ChatGPT and other AI writing tools can make researchers more productive – but quality control is essential.

Saturday, May 11

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CPRC in the News: Fox News, Washington Times, The Week, Instapundit, City Journal, and More

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“One false claim by @JoeBiden after another,” Crime Prevention Research Center president John R Lott Jr. wrote. . . . Alexander Hall, “Biden takes heat over strange cannibal story: ‘Like something out of a bad script’,” Fox News, April 20,…

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Jim Simons, a mathematician and founder of hedge fund firm Renaissance Technologies who pioneered computer-based approaches to quantitative trading, dies at 86 (Gregory Zuckerman/Wall Street Journal)

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Jim Simons, a mathematician and founder of hedge fund firm Renaissance Technologies who pioneered computer-based approaches to quantitative trading, dies at 86 — A mathematician, he helped usher in a revolution in trading, embracing a…

Friday, May 10

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Journal Profile: Audra Canfield is Indeed's go-to interior designer

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Canfield and EdgeQuarters have become Indeed's go-to interior designer. Read more about how that business relationship formed and learn all about Canfield's design philosophy and style in our latest Journal Profile.

Thursday, May 9

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Is Anglo-Saxon becoming a banned phrase? Cambridge journal is accused of pandering to 'mad Americans' after ditching the term from its title

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Anglo-Saxon England, which has been running since the 1970s, was renamed Early Medieval England and its Neighbours by Cambridge University Press during a relaunch earlier this week.

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Sources: T-Mobile US is in talks to take over some operations and wireless spectrum licenses of US Cellular for $2B+; Verizon is also in talks with US Cellular (Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: T-Mobile US is in talks to take over some operations and wireless spectrum licenses of US Cellular for $2B+; Verizon is also in talks with US Cellular — Regional wireless carrier has been seeking buyers for its operations,…

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Sources: French AI startup Mistral AI is nearing a deal to raise ~$600M at a $6B valuation, after raising $500M at a $2B+ valuation in December 2023 (Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: French AI startup Mistral AI is nearing a deal to raise ~$600M at a $6B valuation, after raising $500M at a $2B+ valuation in December 2023 — Mistral AI is nearing a deal to raise funds at a $6 billion valuation—nearly tripling…

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Binance sources and docs: an internal investigator, dismissed in late 2023, found evidence of secret internal trading accounts and DWF Labs' market manipulation (Wall Street Journal)

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Binance sources and docs: an internal investigator, dismissed in late 2023, found evidence of secret internal trading accounts and DWF Labs' market manipulation — Former company insiders say the firing of an internal investigator showed…

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In a blog post, Neuralink details a problem with its implant in patient Noland Arbaugh's brain that reduced data collection after the implant's threads came out (Wall Street Journal)

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In a blog post, Neuralink details a problem with its implant in patient Noland Arbaugh's brain that reduced data collection after the implant's threads came out — Amount of data captured from the device declined, although the patient and…

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Medical journal reveals over 6,500 Australian doctors received payments from Big Pharma companies

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(NaturalNews) Pharmaceutical companies have paid more than AU$33 million ($21.7 million) over three years to over 6,500 doctors in Australia to promote their...