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Investing
Including Emergency Spending in Fiscal Projections Distorts the CBO Baseline
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett Congress recently approved a $95 billion foreign aid package to send aid to Ukraine, Israel,…
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Economy
Nation-state hackers exploit Cisco firewall 0-days to backdoor government networks
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers backed by a powerful nation-state have been exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco firewalls in…
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Investing
A Different Perspective on “Climate Change and Globalization”
Travis Fisher and Alex Nowrasteh In a recent piece titled “Climate Change and Globalization,” Charles Kenny argues that globalization can help…
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Economy
Deepfakes in the courtroom: US judicial panel debates new AI evidence rules
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Friday, a federal judicial panel convened in Washington, DC, to discuss the challenges of policing…
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Investing
Top Tax Rates Are Already on Wrong Side of Laffer Curve in at Least Ten States
Adam N. Michel Americans in ten states currently pay top tax rates above 49 percent, which is likely above the…
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Investing
A TikTok Ban Passes, But the Courts Are Next
Paul Matzko After years of legislative false starts, a TikTok ban bill has passed Congress. Notionally, the bill uses the threat…
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Investing
Biden’s Newest Folly on Student Loan Forgiveness
Andrew Gillen Immediately after the Supreme Court overturned his last big student loan forgiveness plan, President Biden announced a new effort…
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Economy
Hackers infect users of antivirus service that delivered updates over HTTP
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers abused an antivirus service for five years in order to infect end users with malware.…
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Economy
Microsoft’s Phi-3 shows the surprising power of small, locally run AI language models
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a new, freely available lightweight AI language model named Phi-3-mini, which is…
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Investing
Major EU Regulator Threatens Free Social Media by Cracking Down on Personalized Advertising
David Inserra In a ruling issued on April 17, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) issued a decision that could unravel the…
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