UCLA Students Forced To Take Mandatory 'Fat Positivity' Class

zerohedge.com UCLA Students Forced To Take Mandatory 'Fat Positivity' Class Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, UCLA medical school is under fire for forcing students to attend…

Court Reinstates New York Law Requiring $15 Broadband

mediapost.com Siding against the broadband industry, a federal appellate court on Friday reinstated a New York law requiring carriers to offer service for no more than $15 a month to some…

Are LLMs About To Hit A Wall?

thewrap.com Each new generation of large language model (LLM) consumes a staggering amount of resources. Meta, for instance, trained its new Llama 3 models with about 10 times more data…

Young Sheldon Season 7 Episode 9's Big Fake-Out & Bittersweet Surprise, Explained

looper.com Sheldon Cooper takes a monumental step forward in "Young Sheldon" Season 7, Episode 9. After getting published in a prestigious science journal, Iain Armitage's character…

‘Challengers’ Cast and Character Guide: Who’s Who in Zendaya’s Spicy Sports Movie?

thewrap.com Luca Guadigno’s latest film, “Challengers,” sits poised to kick off a sizzling run at the box office with a competitive love triangle at its center. Tashi Duncan (Zandaya)…

Nearly 23% of the Canadian population reported food insecurity in 2022

cbc.ca Nearly nine million Canadians lived in food insecure households in 2022, with 22.9 per cent of the population reporting some form of food insecurity, according to a…

What to know as the FCC restores net neutrality

npr.org Net neutrality is back: U.S. promises fast, safe and reliable internet for all Consumers can look forward to faster, safer and more reliable internet connections under the…

Demand for office space is skyrocketing, especially in New York City and Los Angeles

aol.com Demand for office space in New York City and Los Angeles has reached the outer edges of the pre-pandemic rate of demand, according to the latest quarterly Office Demand…

Why Are There So Many Americans That Can't Find A Job Even Though They Are Desperate To Be Hired?

zerohedge.com Why Are There So Many Americans That Can't Find A Job Even Though They Are Desperate To Be Hired? Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, According to the…

Watch Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor Spar Over Churros in ‘Challengers’

nytimes.com Hello, I’m Luca Guadagnino, and I am the director and one of the producers of ‘Challengers.’ In this sequence, we see the two male characters of ‘Challengers’— Patrick…

‘Challengers’

nytimes.com Hello, I’m Luca Guadagnino, and I am the director and one of the producers of ‘Challengers.’ In this sequence, we see the two male characters of ‘Challengers’— Patrick…

How employers can protect trade secrets without noncompete clauses

marketplace.org Well, that was fast. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups are suing to block the ban on noncompete agreements that the Federal Trade Commission approved…

How This 26-Year-Old First-Time Founder Raised $55 Million for Her AI Startup

inc.com Demi Guo dropped out of Stanford's prestigious AI program and is now running one of AI's hottest startups.

Rubrik’s $5.6 Billion IPO Is Latest Win For The ‘IIT Mafia,’ A Group Of Indian Engineers Turned CEOs

forbes.com A small group of Indian immigrants have helped propel each other from technical roles at Oracle and Google to found and lead a number of Silicon Valley’s top enterprise…

Ask Andy: How can a startup founder balance work and family?

aol.com In this biweekly column, Andy Dunn—the founding CEO of Bonobos and Pie—offers advice on leading teams, building things, and surviving the startup life. Got a question for…

How athletes and entertainers like Shohei Ohtani get financially duped by those they trust

latimes.com R. Allen Stanford is among the most brazen white-collar criminals — and he’s paying dearly for it. The former financier is in the 14th year of a 110-year prison sentence…

I got my dream job at Apple on my fourth attempt. Here's why I left the 6-figure job after only 2 years

businessinsider.com Corey Griffin's side hustle he started alongside his job became his full-time gig cienpies/Getty Images Corey Griffin landed a job as a software engineer at Apple after…

Thursday Open Thread

reason.com is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and a Visiting Fellow (Senior Fellow starting May 2024) at the Hoover Institution (Stanford). Naturally, his…

How TikTok’s Chinese parent company will rely on an American right to keep the app alive

aol.com TikTok’s expected legal challenge to a law signed Wednesday by President Joe Biden forcing the popular app’s parent company to spin off its US operations could be a seminal…

Xaira, an AI drug discovery startup, launches with a massive $1B, says it’s ‘ready’ to start developing drugs

techcrunch.com Advances in generative AI have taken the tech world by storm. Biotech investors are making a big bet that similar computational methods could revolutionize drug discovery.…

Eric Schmidt-backed Augment, a GitHub Copilot rival, launches out of stealth with $252M

techcrunch.com AI is supercharging coding — and developers are embracing it. In a recent StackOverflow poll, 44% of software engineers said that they use AI tools as part of their…

This 'Enormously Valuable' Tip Line May Soon Be Flooded by AI

newser.com A tip line set up 26 years ago to combat online child exploitation needs technological and other improvements to help law enforcement rescue victims and go after abusers, a…

‘Challengers’ Heats Up: How Zendaya’s Star Power and a Sexy Love Triangle Could Give Gen Z Its Next Movie Obsession

variety.com On June 20, 2022, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor sat at the edge of a motel bed on either side of Zendaya, kissing, licking and biting her neck. As Art and Patrick, their…

Nate Silver: Go to a state school. The Ivy League and other elite private colleges are losing esteem

natesilver.net These days, I use Twitter in two ways: first, to blatantly shill for this newsletter and other things I’m trying to promote. And second, as a sort of staging area for takes.…

Efforts to tackle student protests in America have backfired badly

economist.com PART OF THE reason Elisha “Lishi” Baker wanted to go to Columbia University, an Ivy League university in New York, was its Middle Eastern History programme. He loved his…

Backed by $1 billion, former Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne heading AI-focused biotech startup

bizjournals.com Tessier-Lavigne was forced to resign his Stanford post last year, but now is leading a startup with big-name backers and science.

Is The New York Times’ newsroom just a bunch of Ivy Leaguers? (Kinda, sorta.)

niemanlab.org The New York Times is the most prominent news organization in the United States — and, by general consensus, the pinnacle of the journalism career ladder. Sure, star…

A.I.-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material May Overwhelm Tip Line

nytimes.com A new flood of child sexual abuse material created by artificial intelligence is threatening to overwhelm the authorities already held back by antiquated technology and…

With Easel, ex-Snap researchers are building the next-generation Bitmoji thanks to AI

techcrunch.com Easel is a new startup that sits at the intersection of the generative AI and social trends, founded by two former employees at Snap. The company has been working on an app…

From finance to bioinformatics and an obesity breakthrough

siliconrepublic.com How former stock market trader Barry Scott sated his appetite for research by undertaking a PhD in bioinformatics. How does someone make the leap from stock market trader to…

General Galactic emerges from stealth to make methane from carbon dioxide

techcrunch.com Plenty of products benefit from tight integration, where companies design and sometimes build key components of a product in-house: Apple and its custom microprocessors and…

Clarity Pediatrics raises $10M for treating ADHD and other chronic childhood conditions

techcrunch.com Raising young kids who have been diagnosed with, or are suspected of having, ADHD can be challenging. Some children with this condition may have difficulties completing…

Stanford Internet Observatory: federally authorized CSAM clearinghouse CyberTipline, which gets tens of millions of tips per year, could be overrun by AI images

washingtonpost.com The nation’s system for tracking down and prosecuting people who sexually exploit children online is overwhelmed and buckling, a new report finds — and artificial…

Report urges fixes to online child exploitation CyberTipline before AI makes it worse

apnews.com A tipline set up 26 years ago to combat online child exploitation has not lived up to its potential and needs technological and other improvements to help law enforcement go…

Why America's System for Investigating Child Exploitation Online Isn't Working

wsj.com A WSJ analysis and a Stanford report find the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is contending with outdated technology and legal constraints as the number…

AI is about to make the online child sex abuse problem much worse

washingtonpost.com The nation’s system for tracking down and prosecuting people who sexually exploit children online is overwhelmed and buckling, a new report finds — and artificial…

Schwab, Netflix Post-Earnings: Both Stocks Still Well Off All-Time ’21 Highs

investing.com The stock is still battling the inverted yield curve, and the need to pay their clients a 5.35% money market yield, as this cash-sorting – moving funds from lower-yielding…

Monday Open Thread

reason.com is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and a Visiting Fellow (Senior Fellow starting May 2024) at the Hoover Institution (Stanford). Naturally, his…

Making friends and dating as billionaire Steve Ballmer's son

aol.com This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with 29-year-old Pete Ballmer, a standup comedian living in San Francisco and one of the sons of billionaire and…

'I've cleaned more toilets than all of you combined': Nvidia founder Jensen Huang says he wishes ‘pain and suffering’ on Stanford students. Here’s why and…

aol.com Thanks to investors' insatiable appetite for artificial intelligence, Nvidia (NVDA) — a key player in powering AI advancements — has become a market darling. The stock has…

Tesla's Horror Week Ends With Another Price Cut, Rivian's Second Round Of Layoffs, Lucid Touts Longest-Range Domestic EV And More: Biggest EV Stories Of The…

benzinga.com Most electric vehicle stocks retreated along with the broader market in the week that ended on April 19, with company-specific developments also weighing down on stocks. It…

Man Who Set Himself on Fire at Trump Trial Believed Intricate ‘The Simpsons’ Conspiracy Theory

thewrap.com The man who set himself on fire outside Donald Trump’s trial in Manhattan, Max Azzarello, appears to have left behind a Substack, titled “The Ponzi Papers,” that points to a…

I have set myself on fire outside the Trump Trial

theponzipapers.substack.com My name is Max Azzarello, and I am an investigative researcher who has set himself on fire outside of the Trump trial in Manhattan. This extreme act of protest is to draw…

Alleged Manifesto of Man Who Set Himself on Fire Outside the Trump Trial Posted Online

mediaite.com The New York Police Department confirmed the identity of the man who set himself ablaze outside the New York City courthouse where former President Donald Trump’s hush money…

Quiz of The Week: 13

theweek.com Would-be leaders on both sides of the Atlantic have been treading delicate paths this week in bids to appeal to voters from across the political spectrums. Keir Starmer is…

Meta unveils Llama 3, claims it’s the ‘most capable’ open LLM

siliconrepublic.com Meta claims Llama 3 is a ‘major leap’ from its predecessor and claims these models are ‘on par’ with the best options on the market. Meta is attempting to gain an edge in…

Samsung: 6-Day Workweek For Execs, Company in Emergency Mode

entrepreneur.com Samsung said its performance "fell short of expectations" last year. Now executives are required to work weekends. Four-day workweeks might have all the buzz, but one major…

Big Tech Taps AI Agents to Drive Revenue Growth

pymnts.com Big tech companies are reportedly in a race to unveil software to fuel AI spending. For example, Microsoft is at work trying to automate tasks such as invoicing or the…

Meta launches new versions of Llama and its AI assistant

axios.com Meta today released a compact version of its latest open source AI model, Llama 3, as well as a new update for Meta AI, its assistant, which can now answer questions using…

A Crypto Winter Survivor Plots A Comeback Targeting Big Ticket Investors

forbes.com The great crypto meltdown of 2022 wiped out many of the large retail digital asset lenders, including Celsius, Voyager, and BlockFi. These firms promoted themselves as…