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Investing
California in Your Chatroom: AB 1064’s Likely Constitutional Overreach
Kevin Frazier Among the dozens of AI bills sitting on California Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk, at least one is particularly…
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Economy
That annoying SMS phish you just got may have come from a box like this
Scammers have been abusing unsecured cellular routers used in industrial settings to blast SMS-based phishing messages in campaigns that have…
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Investing
OBBBA’s $1.1 Trillion in Welfare Program Savings
Romina Boccia and Tyler Turman Democrats have instigated a government shutdown by rejecting a clean continuing resolution and demanding that Republicans agree…
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Protect Opponents’ Legal Rights, and You Protect Your Own
Walter Olson As Eugene Volokh points out in a recent post, some progressives and gun control advocates blasted the American…
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Economy
OpenAI’s Sora 2 lets users insert themselves into AI videos with sound
On Tuesday, OpenAI announced Sora 2, its second-generation video-synthesis AI model that can now generate videos in various styles with…
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Investing
Thoughts About the Government Shutdown
Romina Boccia As we predicted about three weeks ago on our Debt Dispatch Substack, the federal government shut down today…
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Investing
When Licensing Hurts Victims: Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners and the Cost of Regulation
Jeffrey A. Singer Cato adjunct scholar and California State University-Northridge economics Professor Shirley Svorny (1951–2022) passed away nearly three years ago…
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Economy
Intel and AMD trusted enclaves, the backbone of network security, fall to physical attacks
In the age of cloud computing, protections baked into chips from Intel, AMD, and others are essential for ensuring confidential…
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Economy
DeepSeek tests “sparse attention” to slash AI processing costs
Ever wonder why ChatGPT slows down during long conversations? The culprit is a fundamental mathematical challenge: processing long sequences of…
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Investing
Taliban’s Oppression of Women is un-Islamic—Cato’s Mustafa Akyol at UN
Mustafa Akyol On September 26, I joined an international conference held at the United Nations headquarters in New York City:…
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