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Taiwan Arms Backlog, February 2024 Update: Long Waits for F-16 Upgrade, Guided Bombs
Eric Gomez and Benjamin Giltner The backlog of US weapons sales owed to Taiwan did not change much in February…
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Anthropic’s Claude 3 causes stir by seeming to realize when it was being tested
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Monday, Anthropic prompt engineer Alex Albert caused a small stir in the AI community when…
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Efficient, Timely and Reliable: A Framework for Election Law in Nevada
Walter Olson After some time in the making, my paper for the Nevada Policy Research Institute is now out, entitled…
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The State of President Joe Biden’s Inflation Analysis
Ryan Bourne President Joe Biden will reportedly use his State of the Union (SOTU) speech to blame corporations for high…
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Hackers exploited Windows 0-day for 6 months after Microsoft knew of it
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers backed by the North Korean government gained a major win when Microsoft left a Windows…
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Economy
The AI wars heat up with Claude 3, claimed to have “near-human” abilities
Enlarge / The Anthropic Claude 3 logo. (credit: Anthropic) On Monday, Anthropic released Claude 3, a family of three AI…
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Border Patrol: 70 Percent Drop in Successful Evasions Since Title 42 Ended
David J. Bier This updates an earlier post. Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens confirmed last week that the number of…
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Utah Becomes Seventh State to Let Patients Access Prescribing Clinical Psychologists
Jeffrey A. Singer Almost exactly one year after Colorado became the sixth state to allow mental health patients access to…
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Unintended Consequences of Vaccine Mandates: Good Intentions Are Not Enough
Jeffrey Miron Non‐libertarians tend to believe that if X is good (bad), then policies encouraging (discouraging) X are beneficial. (X might be…
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Oregon Lawmakers Roll back New Drug War Strategy and Revert to Decades-Old Approach Linked to Soaring Overdose Deaths
Jeffrey A. Singer Oregon voters passed Measure 110 in November 2020, which put an end to caging people who choose…
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