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Enhancing Transparency over Emergency Spending Reporting: A Call for Executive Accountability
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett On April 10, 2023, Congress terminated the three‐year‐long COVID-19 national emergency—one of the most expensive emergency…
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Economy
Adobe launches new symbol to tag AI-generated content—but will anyone use it?
Enlarge / The Content Credentials “CR” logo presented in front of an AI-generated image provided by Adobe. (credit: Adobe) On…
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Economy
CD-indexing cue files are the core of a serious Linux remote code exploit
Enlarge / Cue files used to be much better-known, back when we all used CD-Rs to make legal backup copies…
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Nobel Prize Winner Claudia Goldin on the Gender Pay Gap
Vanessa Brown Calder This week, Claudia Goldin, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University, was announced as the…
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The Benefits of China’s Market Reforms and Opening to the Outside World Should Not Be Forgotten
James A. Dorn China’s strong economic growth following its shift from state‐led development (central planning) to marketization in 1978, and…
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Highlights from the Supreme Court’s First Week Back
Anastasia P. Boden It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Last week, on the first Monday in October, the…
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Economy
Adobe’s AI image generators get beefy updates, including vector graphics
Enlarge / An AI-generated vector graphic of a barbarian and a landscape generated with Adobe Illustrator. (credit: Benj Edwards /…
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E-Cigarettes Are Not Exempt from the Iron Law of Prohibition
Jeffrey A. Singer The New York Times reports today about a flood of illicit e‑cigarettes arriving from China “in Barbiecore colors…
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So far, AI hasn’t been profitable for Big Tech
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Big tech companies like Microsoft and Google are grappling with the challenge of turning AI products…
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Investing
How Large Is the Federal Debt?
Chris Edwards The federal government’s debt is massive and growing rapidly. How massive? Federal debt held by the public of…
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