How algorithms wreaked havoc with these workers' schedules and cut their pay

Hourly workers across a number of industries have long been grappling with unstable schedules and pay as their employers use ...

How to build custom reasoning agents with a fraction of the compute

The technique, called Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards with Self-Distillation (RLSD), combines the reliable ...
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Master recursion and speed up Python code

Recursion is more than a coding trick—it’s a powerful way to simplify complex problems in Python. From elegant tree traversals to backtracking algorithms, mastering recursion opens the door to cleaner ...
CBS News

DOJ fires at least 4 prosecutors involved in FACE Act cases during Biden administration

The Justice Department has fired at least four prosecutors who were involved in prosecutions under the FACE Act during the Biden administration, a government official familiar with the firings told ...
VentureBeat

Mythos autonomously exploited vulnerabilities that survived 27 years of human review. Security teams need a new detection playbook

A 27-year-old bug sat inside OpenBSD’s TCP stack while auditors reviewed the code, fuzzers ran against it, and the operating system earned its reputation as one of the most security-hardened platforms ...
Time

AI Helped Spark a Quantum Breakthrough. The World 'Is Not Prepared'

Last week, cybersecurity researchers woke up to bad news. Research in new papers published by Google and a quantum computing startup, Oratomic, suggests that quantum computers capable of breaking the ...
Jezebel

Every Year, Human Beings Speak Fewer Words than They Used To, Study Suggests

Consider the consequence, or seeming lack thereof, of 300 words. Theoretically speaking, it’s not too much. A casual conversation as you stand in a coworker’s doorway, perhaps, asking about the trip ...
Military Times

The US Navy brought a ‘one-of-a-kind’ laser weapon back from the dead

The Amphibious transport dock USS Portland with a mounted Laser Weapons System Demonstrator Mk 2 Mod 0, center, in 2021. (Lance Cpl. Patrick Katz/U.S. Marine Corps) Editor’s note: This story ...
PC World

Fire TV’s biggest update in years and how to deal with it

Amazon’s Fire TV receives its biggest interface update in years, rolling out to Fire TV Stick 4K devices and Omni Mini-LED TVs this spring with redesigned navigation and rounder icons. PCWorld notes ...
Business Insider

I worked closely with Elon Musk at Tesla. Here's what the CEO's 'algorithm' can and can't do.

Jon McNeill, a serial founder, was the president of sales at Tesla from 2015 to 2018. At Tesla, McNeill helped develop a five-step framework that he says brought innovation to Tesla. The five-step ...
The New York Times

The Life-Changing Power of a Book Review Before Algorithms

How The Washington Post’s now-defunct Book World transformed the careers of two giants of American literature. Credit...Tom Etherington Supported by By David Streitfeld David Streitfeld, a reporter ...
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Stranded at the least used airport in mainland USA!

Join me on a journey aboard a Metroliner to Alliance, Nebraska, home to the least used airport in mainland USA. Discover the surprising experiences and beautiful landscapes beyond this tiny airport.