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Economy
Elon Musk: AI will be smarter than any human around the end of next year
Enlarge / Elon Musk, owner of Tesla and the X (formerly Twitter) platform on January 22, 2024. (credit: Getty Images)…
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Annual Chance of Being Murdered by a Foreign-Born Terrorist in an Attack Was 1 in 4.5 Million from 1975-2023
Alex Nowrasteh The annual chance of being murdered in a foreign‐born terrorist attack in the United States was about 1 in 4.5…
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The High Cost of War: Ukraine Aid Could Top $240 Billion
Romina Boccia and Dominik Lett To date, the US has committed about $114 billion in Ukraine‐related emergency funding, equivalent to…
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Economy
MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) We’ve come a long way since primitive AI music generators in 2022. Today, AI tools like…
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Economy
Critical takeover vulnerabilities in 92,000 D-Link devices under active exploitation
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers are actively exploiting a pair of recently discovered vulnerabilities to remotely commandeer network-attached storage devices…
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On FISA, What Is DoJ Hiding?
Patrick G. Eddington Last June, the Cato Institute filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Department of Justice…
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No on E v. Chiu: It’s a First Amendment Problem When Cities Regulate Political Speech
Anastasia P. Boden, Brent Skorup, and Christopher Barnewolt The Supreme Court has said that political speech “occupies the ‘highest rung…
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Can 15-Minute Cities Be Vertical?
Marc Joffe Although often demonized, the core idea of 15‐minute cities is not necessarily objectionable: living within a short walk or…
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Federal Rail Administration’s New Two-Person Train Crew Rule Is a Union Concession, Not a Legitimate Safety Rule
David Kemp and Peter Van Doren The Federal Rail Administration (FRA) just finalized a rule that would require freight trains to…
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Investing
Don’t Let Electricity Become the New Front in the Culture Wars
Travis Fisher Electricity demand is growing again in America. Although many of us welcome such growth as a hopeful sign of…
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