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Just hours after New Jersey Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherril blamed a software glitch for thousands of non-citizens being registered to vote, the software company involved issued a statement disputing the claim. IDEMIA, the software vendor for the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, issued a statement saying it was the responsibility of the state government, which []...Click to read more
A new 25 U.S. tariff will hit a range of Brazilian goods on Wednesday, including farm machinery, wood products, ethanol, and apparel, escalating tensions in an already strained relationship between the two most populous countries in the Western Hemisphere. The tariff is the first levied under the Trump administration’s new strategy of using the Trade []...Click to read more
Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic and said it will invest up to 5 billion in the artificial intelligence company “in the future.” As part of the deal, the chipmaker said Anthropic will deploy 2 gigawatts of its AMD Instinct MI450 Series graphics processing units, or GPUs, in AMD Helios []...Click to read more
After passing a procedural hurdle on Tuesday, the House is expected to vote Wednesday on a bill that would restrict stock trading by members of Congress. It will be the first time the full House has voted on legislation to limit lawmakers’ legal ability to trade individual stocks, but some advocates say the legislation doesn’t []...Click to read more
It’s hot NILF summer for American workers. The number of adults who are “not in the labor force” (NILF) surged to an all-time high in June to 105.8 million, according to figures from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The record comes after a massive surge of 832,000 workers dropping out of the labor []...Click to read more
An Israeli-American reality TV star has plunged to his death from the 28th floor of a Florida hotel, according to reports. Yakir Levi, a 45-year-old married father of three, fell to his death from the Acqualina Resort and Residences On The Beach in Sunny Isles Beach on Monday night, the Daily Mail reported. The Miami-Dade []...Click to read more
he authors of the “Proximal Origin” paper that National Institutes of Health leaders helped shape, and then used to quash debate on COVID-19’s origin, privately expressed doubts that the virus was natural, according to Slack messages published by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., in his new database on COVID origin investigations. Scientists Kristian Andersen and Eddie []...Click to read more
A mathematician has cracked an 87-year-old conundrum with the help of AI and announced the solution unceremoniously in a tweet. The finding is the most difficult mathematical problem yet solved by AI, say experts. Levent Alpöge at Harvard University wrote on X on 19 July that the Jacobian conjecture – which academics have spent decades []...Click to read more
The Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., multiple media outlets reported Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the matter. Two sources did not disclose the focus of the DOJ investigation to MS NOW, but a third source told the network that at least one person was contacted by the []...Click to read more
Microsoft is set to invest 60 million into the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Genesis Mission, which focuses on accelerating scientific discovery and technological leadership through artificial intelligence (AI). The company’s investment will put 40 million towards Azure cloud and AI computing credits over three years to “support large-scale AI and scientific workloads” while 20 million []...Click to read more
