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2025-04-13

Poll Finds Americans Are Largely Disgusted by AI-Generated News

As the United States' biggest news brands experiment with artificial intelligence in their content, a near-majority of readers seem pretty peeved about it. In a new poll conducted by Poynter...

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The HackerNoon Newsletter: How Clapper is Revolutionizing the Creator Economy (4/13/2025)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, April 13, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Apollo 13 explosion...

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Judge Goes Ballistic When Man Shows AI-Generated Video in Court

A 74-year-old entrepreneur played an entirely AI-generated video of his own likeness to address the judge during a court appearance. And as The Register reports, the judge was unsurprisingly unimpressed...

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Vestigial reasoning in RL

Published on April 13, 2025 3:40 PM GMTTL;DR: I claim that many reasoning patterns that appear in chains-of-thought are not actually used by the model to come to its answer,...

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Trump Official Says It's Okay to Destroy Endangered Species Because We Can Just Clone Them

A Trump official is coming after the real menace plaguing America: those gosh-darn freeloaders moping around in the endangered species list. On Monday, interior secretary Doug Burgum suggested that the...

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The J-50 Fighter Question We Had To Ask

Summary and Key Points: China’s J-50 fighter, notable for its lambda wing configuration, represents the PLA Air Force’s potential next-generation combat jet. Designed for high maneuverability and agility, its distinctive...

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The Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth Aircraft Carriers Explained in 4 Words

Summary and Key Points: The Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, are the largest warships in British naval history. -With advanced technology,...

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The Fantastic Optimus Alpha Approach to Data-Informed Retrospectives

TL; DR: Optimus Alpha Creates Useful Retrospective Format In this experiment, OpenAI’s new stealthy LLM Optimus Alpha demonstrated exceptional performance in team data analysis, quickly identifying key patterns in complex...

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Why the U.S. Marines Dumped All Of Their Tanks

In 2020, the United States Marine Corps (USMC) announced it would implement a 10-year plan to forego its “second land army” focus and return to its maritime legacy.  Before assuming...

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Scientists Study Who Actually Likes Lip Filler

As supplies become cheaper and stigmas against cosmetic procedures ease, lip fillers are becoming more and more ubiquitous — but men who like to kiss women are, apparently, not impressed....

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Think U.S. Navy Carriers are Unsinkable? Meet the Gotland-class Submarine

Meet the Gotland-Class: The US Navy has used aircraft carriers for power projection for over 80 years. With aircraft on board, they can sweep an enemy from the sea or...

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China’s Arsenal of Missiles Could Paralyze the U.S. Military in a Crisis

China’s Medium and Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile Threat in the Indo-Pacific: What Can the U.S. Military Do?: China currently has one of the world’s top military capabilities, with force projection power...

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Everything You Have to Know About Go 1.24

Go 1.24 comes with many improvements over Go 1.23. The language now fully supports type aliases. The standard library now includes mechanisms to facilitate FIPS 140-3 compliance.

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New Study Finds Average American Stands No Chance Against What’s Coming. “The...

New Study Finds Average American Stands No Chance Against What’s Coming. “The typical American is toast.”

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The Army’s M551 Sheridan Light Tank Could ‘Fly’ Into Battle

M551 Sheridan Was the Flying Light Tank Thanks to Air Drops: While designated as an AR/AAV or Armored Reconnaissance/Airborne Assault Vehicle, the M551 Sheridan was actually an Army light tank....

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The Army’s M551 Sheridan Was Always Destined for Hard Times

The United States has a long history of developing light tanks, balancing mobility, firepower, and protection to meet specific battlefield needs. Among these, the M551 Sheridan stands out as an...

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Spouse Alarmed by What "Stargazing" Husband Is Really Doing With Telescope

In an advice column letter, a woman described her husband's usage of a telescope in their big ole apartment in the sky — and let's just say it sounds like...

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The F-5E Fighter Was No F-35 or F-22 (But Was a Powerhouse)

As a long-time defense acquisition analyst, one thing that jumped out at me while researching the F-5E Tiger II fighter was its sterling manufacturing record.  From the first flight of...

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