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"Back to Black," in theaters Friday, falls into the usual musician biopic traps in dramatizing Amy Winehouse's life.

Three Lions boss strongly tipped to replace Erik ten Hag

I just got back from visiting Israel and our friends there need our support. Biden had said he made an ‘ironclad’ commitment to our ally and we need to make sure he keeps it.

Baltimore public schools' chronic absenteeism rate skyrocketed to 58% last year. What can we learn from schools with the best and worst attendance?

Last week's rally followed the previous two weeks' rally and was driven by better earnings from semiconductor giant Taiwan Semiconductor and steady bond yields.

The May 6 guest column, “U.S. power grid being sabotaged by EPA,” written by Rich Nolan, president and CEO of the National Mining Association, suggested the Environmental Protection Agency is sabotaging power grids by not intentionally burning more fossil fuel to generate electricity. Most notably, his coal.

In his May 6 guest column, “U.S. power grid being sabotaged by EPA,” Rich Nolan expresses some valid concerns about new Environmental Protection Agency power plant regulations.

Delegations from the U.S. and People’s Republic of China will meet in Geneva this week to discuss approaches to mitigating risks in artificial intelligence deployment.

Back in the ancient days of machine learning, before you could use large language models (LLMs) as foundations for tuned models, you essentially had to train every possible machine learning model on all of your data to find the best (or least bad) fit. By ancient, I mean prior to the seminal paper on the transformer neural network architecture, “Attention is all you need,” in 2017.

Back in 2014, when the wave of containers, Kubernetes, and distributed computing was breaking over the technology industry, Torkel Ödegaard was working as a platform engineer at eBay Sweden. Like other devops pioneers, Ödegaard was grappling with the new form factor of microservices and containers and struggling to climb the steep Kubernetes operations and troubleshooting learning curve. 

“AI models currently shine at helping so-so coders get more stuff done that works in the time they have,” argues engineer David Showalter. But is that right? Showalter was responding to Santiago Valdarrama’s contention that large language models (LLMs) are untrustworthy coding assistants. Valdarrama says, “Until LLMs give us the same guarantees [as programming languages, which consistently get computers to respond to commands], they’ll be condemned to be eternal ‘cool demos,’ useless for most... Читать дальше...

If you have boxwood plants in your yard or neighbourhood, there's an invasive pest you need to be on the lookout for this spring.  

Without a sincere note of repentance for not only our sins but the sins of previous generations of Catholics, we stand very little chance of experiencing the genuine renewal our nation so desperately needs.

One Nation, a top conservative group, is plowing $70 million more into hitting vulnerable Democrats in key Senate races nationwide according to details first shared with POLITICO, an extraordinary sum that’s roughly double the group’s Senate investment last cycle.

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1. Fentanyl pill seizures are skyrocketing, 115 million pills seized in 2023: Study  The Hill
2. Over 115 million pills containing illicit fentanyl seized by law enforcement in 2023  National Institutes of Health (NIH) (.gov)
3. Alarming Study Finds 99% of Fake Painkillers Tested Contain Fentanyl  ScienceAlert
4. Police Seizures of Pills With Fentanyl Have Skyrocketed  U.S. News & World Report

Donald Trump constantly claims that crime is out of control. In reality, it’s substantially down under Biden, after soaring during the pandemic that Trump catastrophically botched as president. Now the Democratic group Third Way is releasing a new study finding that this year, congressional Democrats secured substantially more funding for public safety projects across the country than Republicans did. We talked to Jim Kessler of Third Way, who explains how Democrats can go on offense on the issue... Читать дальше...

GM ending production of the Chevy Malibu is the latest sign that the Big Three are done with sedans. But consumers may not flock to expensive SUVs in response.

From talks to exhibitions, the annual event hosted by NYCxDesign features dozens of design-centric activities across the city.

Hybrid is not just a method of work, it has become our lifestyle. It’s a cherished prize we are reluctant to let go of.

40% of U.S. government websites aren’t mobile friendly; 60% have accessibility issues. Now, the government is taking on an ambitious upgrade.

It's become absolutely clear that H5N1 has been detected in raw milk in "very high concentrations." While scientists are still trying to determine exactly how likely it is that the virus in raw milk can infect humans, the FDA is strongly urging consumers to avoid all raw milk products. — Read the rest