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Why Apple Sued OpenAI, New York Takes on Data Centers, and What to Know about Cyclosporiasis
This week on Uncanny Valley, the team discusses the details behind Apple suing OpenAI over alleged stolen hardware secrets. And the company’s headaches don’t stop there—a group of OpenAI employees just started a Super PAC to advocate for stronger AI guardrails. Plus, New York’s first-in-the-nation data center moratorium draws Donald Trump’s ire, DOGE stonewalls FOIA…
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Epic blunder as Republican accidentally enacts bill he meant to veto
In a massive mistake, the Republican executive of one of Upstate New York’s largest counties accidentally approved a bill to impose term limits on himself — when he had meant to veto it. The Democratic-controlled legislature of Onondaga County, which includes the city of Syracuse, “says they received a signed bill that would implement term…
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Private jet fliers annoyed over inconvenience of Trump’s World Cup flight restrictions: ‘Loses its extravagance’
President Trump’s planned attendance at the World Cup in East Rutherford, NJ, this weekend will mean a Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) across large swaths of the New York metropolitan area — and plenty of inconvenienced rich people are now scrambling because they can’t fly privately. A TFR will be in effect Friday and Sunday from 2-8…
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‘90 Day Fiancé’ star breaks down in tears as he shares ‘scary’ update on daughter’s medical emergency: ‘I don’t want to lose her’
“90 Day Fiancé” star Armando Rubio broke down in tears on social media as he continues to worry for his daughter Hannah amid her ongoing medical emergency. “I miss my baby girl,” he tearfully shared in his Thursday Instagram video, while updating his followers on the latest information regarding Hannah’s condition. “I don’t want to…
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Canada’s Forests Will Burn and Burn
When the boreal forests of Canada catch on fire, no one can do anything about it in many cases. The forests are part of Earth’s largest land biome, a greenbelt of wilderness that encircles the globe, and they’ve been suffering from the planet’s thermostat being jacked up. Wood-boring pests that flourish in milder climates have…
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Rubio gathers countries on left-wing political violence as it becomes a Trump focus in elections
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday convened leaders from more than 60 countries to take part in the Trump administration’s latest effort to quell what it calls “left-wing” political terrorism, a marquee issue for Republicans heading into the midterm elections. This focus comes even as studies show that there are very few reported cases…
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Trump’s mental acuity in freefall as he prepares ‘sad spectacle’ of old news: ex-insider
Former Trump administration Homeland Security staffer Miles Taylor argued on MS NOW Thursday that the very nature of what President Donald Trump is planning to talk about in his primetime speech is proof of his fading mental faculties. Trump plans to rehash a number of his election conspiracy theories about the 2020 contest, alleging that…
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Explaining Sex to an Anthropologist
Last week, the president of the American Anthropological Association weighed in on one of the most polarizing subjects in her field: biological sex. Some anthropologists believe that biological sex is binary, and that it is a necessary and useful category; others believe that this position is at odds with settled science and is a threat…
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Hal Williams, ‘Sanford and Son’ and ‘227’ actor, dies at 91
Hal Williams, a veteran actor known for his roles as a friendly neighborhood police officer on “Sanford and Son” and a hard-working patriarch on “227,” has died. He was 91. Williams died Wednesday morning at his home in Rancho Mirage, his representative Zna Portlock Houston told The Times in an email on Thursday. “Hal Williams…
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‘He’s had ample time’: Todd Blanche hammered for desperate Epstein survivor ploy
Critics are hammering acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for agreeing to meet with Jeffrey Epstein’s survivors only after a Republican senator threatened to tank his confirmation. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday morning that he would not vote to confirm Blanche until the acting attorney general sat down with the survivors.…