The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...

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Over 95% of Utah voters rely on mail-in ballots, making destroyed ballots critical loss.

Michigan is experiencing its largest outbreak of a parasitic infection that causes severe diarrhea. Nearly 1,000 people have been diagnosed with cyclospora as of Wednesday, though no deaths have been…

AI companies are scanning truckloads of books, sometimes rare ones, and often destroying them in the process to train their models—and now we have some idea of which companies and how they’re doing it. Independent tech media publication 404 Media placed a tracking device inside a shipment of rare books and watched it travel to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas where the company scans and destroys printed books to train AI. The investigation, published Monday, is the first to publicly pinpoint where bulk book purchases tied to AI training end up. The final stop was Amazon's VGT3 team. Employees told the outlet all they do is receive massive shipments of printed books, then cut the bindings off so the pages feed a scanner more quickly. The book is destroyed in the process. The team's extremely fitting logo is a dinosaur clutching a book in its claws. Why printed books are suddenly in demand Books printed before 2022 carry text that isn't mostly readily available online and, crucially, isn't machine-written. Training a model on its own kind of output risks "model collapse," where quality degrades with each recursive loop. So, pre-2022 paper is clean fuel for AI training. Amazon isn't...

In other parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases, long-forgotten scourges have roared back and killed and disabled children.

Meta’s social media addiction trial could result in financial penalties and changes to the way it operates its flagship platforms, including Facebook and Instagram.

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