We start this week with Emanuel and Jason's big story on Massive Blue, a company that is selling AI-powered undercover bots posing as protesters and children to the cops. After the break, Sam tells us about visiting the millennial saint. In the subscribers-only section, we talk business and the state of 404 Media.Listen to the weekly podcast onApple Podcasts,Spotify, orYouTube. Become a paid subscriber for access to this episode's bonus content and to power our journalism.If you become a paid subscriber, check your inbox for an email from our podcast host Transistor for a link to the subscribers-only version! You can also add that subscribers feed to your podcast app of choice and never miss an episode that way. The email should also contain the subscribers-only unlisted YouTube link for the extended video version too. It will also be in the show notes in your podcast player. Leaked: Palantirs Plan to Help ICE Deport PeopleICE Plans Central Database of Health, Labor, Housing Agency Data to Find TargetsThis College Protester Isnt Real. Its an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for CopsI Went to See Gods Influencer, the Millennial Saint Carlo AcutisHow 404 Media Is Navigating 'Economic Headwinds'

Nature, Published online: 23 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01243-4Seeing red.

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While eating dinner at a D.C. restaurant, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem fell victim to a thief who stole her drivers license, passport, department access badge, medication, makeup bag, blank checks, the keys to her home, and about $3,000 in cash. What do you think?Uh-oh, its a scary time to be without a passport.Zach Custer, Typeface ApproverOh my God. Think of the damage this thief could do with that much makeup.Dallas Reeves, Driveway PaverI hope she finds the scapegoat responsible.Rochelle Oriti, Suit StitcherThe post Kristi Noems Handbag Containing $3,000 Stolen From D.C. Restaurant appeared first on The Onion.

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An airplane lifts off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport as the sun rises Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)2025-04-23T13:20:37Z NEW YORK (AP) Adelynn Campbells last plane trip ended with a panic attack that she got through largely with the help of a kind flight attendant. That was last year before 67 people died in January when an American Airlines jet collided with a helicopter over Washington, D.C., in the deadliest U.S. air disaster in almost a quarter century. Now, Campbell is even more hesitant to book a flight.Its definitely spiked my concern about getting on a plane and its making the whole situation a little more stressful than it used to be, said Campbell, 30, who manages a coffee shop in San Diego.Being at least a little nervous about flying is understandable. As Mel Brooks once said: If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. But for some people it causes deep anxiety that could require professional help. Heres a look at air travel anxiety and ways to cope with it. More people seem to be nervous about flyingThe evidence is anecdotal, but psychologists and flight attendants say theyve seen and heard increased worries and not only in people who already had anxieties about flying.Even people who didnt have a fear of flying are talking about it, given recent events, said Jennifer Dragonette, a California-based psychologist who treats people with air travel anxieties. U.S. air travel was down in March and early April compared with last year, according to TSA statistics. Airlines have attributed the decline to economic uncertainty, a decline in government and corporate travel and yes concern about recent aviation incidents. This article is part of APs Be Well coverage, focusing on wellness, fitness, diet and mental health. Read more Be Well. FAA officials recently acknowledged they werent doing enough to ensure air safety. Recent polling by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that fewer Americans report feeling safe about flying this year. Flight attendants who work planes out of the Washington, D.C., airport were particularly rattled by the January collision, said Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants union. Some asked for time off to process their emotions, and at least one flight attendant left the job, she said.What is fear of flying?Fear of flying sometimes called aerophobia goes beyond just being nervous about a flight. It is an intense form of anxiety that centers on certain aspects of air travel. Many aerophobes get most rattled during take-off and landing, or when they think about being locked in a plane.Some research has suggested it affects about 25 million U.S. adults. Psychologists say it often surfaces in adulthood, developing in people who didnt mind flying as kids but grew more rattled as they aged.In many cases, it starts when people are in their 20s or 30s, at a time they are experiencing big life changes and new responsibilities like getting married or becoming a parent and they start to think that everything counts, said David Carbonell, a Chicago-based psychologist who authored a workbook to help people cope with flying fears.A bad flight with heavy turbulence or some other problem may trigger an anxiety that persists, he said. Campbell, who has other forms of anxiety, developed a fear of flying a few years ago. She is transgender, and said travel can be stressful because of concerns about how shell be treated by airport security or in other interactions.Aerophobia can be complicated, Carbonell said. For many people, its not so much a fear of crashing as it is claustrophobic feelings of being in an enclosed cabin and not having control.Campbell said thats what she experiences: feeling trapped and unable to breathe.Nelson said flight attendants regularly deal with suffering passengers: Weve had people have panic attacks, and weve had to give them oxygen. It can be quite intense.How to cope with flying anxietyStatistics have long shown that airliners are probably the safest way to travel. According to the National Safety Council, the odds of dying in an airplane crash are too low to be calculated, based on 2023 statistics making them far, far lower than of being killed in a motor vehicle crash or, for that matter, walking on a sidewalk or crossing a street. But experts say you cant really reason your way out of an anxiety disorder.Carbonell spends little time on statistics, telling patients: I know you already looked at them all, and theyre not helping you. For people with milder levels of aerophobia, deep breathing often works. Longer exhales help the body relax, said Dragonette, who counseled Campbell for aerophobia and other anxiety disorders at a Newport Healthcare residential facility in Temecula, California.People suffering more extreme cases can be helped with exposure therapy. It can start by simply getting patients to become comfortable looking at photos of planes, watching videos of planes flying safely, or putting on a virtual reality headset that shows recordings of being inside a plane, Dragonette said.Its a matter of getting patients to learn to live with their feelings and better handle them.Carbonell recommends patients take practice flights that do not involve work trips or any other responsibilities. When they have symptoms, he recommends they keep a written inventory.Theyre keeping a simple count, he said. Were using counting as a proxy for acceptance.Its OK to ask for helpNelson, who was a longtime United Airlines flight attendant, says: Ive had situations where Id sort of sit in the aisle and hold someones hand.On a Frontier Airlines flight last year from Detroit to San Diego, Campbell tried breathing and other coping skills, but they didnt halt her panic attack. The passenger next to her noticed she was increasingly anxious, and summoned a flight attendant. The flight attendant took deep breaths with Campbell and helped her get through it, and also took down Campbells phone number and checked on her a day later. I was really impressed, she said.___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes Science and Educational Media Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.

Harvey Weinstein appears in state court in Manhattan as jury selection continues in his retrial on Tuesday, April 22, 2025 in New York. (Steven Hirsch /New York Post via AP, Pool)2025-04-23T09:56:58Z NEW YORK (AP) Five years after Harvey Weinstein s original #MeToo trial delivered a searing reckoning for one of Hollywoods most powerful figures, the ex-studio boss is on trial again after an appeals court threw out the landmark rape conviction.Opening statements are set for Wednesday in a trial that could take six weeks. Its happening at the same Manhattan courthouse as his first trial, and two accusers who testified then are expected to return. But Weinsteins retrial is playing out at a different cultural moment than the first, which happened during the height of the #MeToo movement. And along with the charges being retried, he faces an additional allegation from a woman who wasnt involved in the first case.The jury counts seven women and five men unlike the seven-man, five-woman panel that convicted him in 2020 and theres a different judge. The #MeToo movement, which exploded in 2017 with allegations against Weinstein, has also evolved and ebbed. At the start of Weinsteins first trial, chants of rapist could be heard from protesters outside.TV trucks lined the street, and reporters queued for hours to get a seat in the packed courtroom. His lawyers decried the carnival-like atmosphere and fought unsuccessfully to get the trial moved from Manhattan. This time though, over five days of jury selection, there was none of that. Those realities, coupled with the New York Court of Appeals ruling last year vacating his 2020 conviction and 23-year prison sentence because the judge allowed testimony about allegations Weinstein was not charged with are shaping everything from retrial legal strategy to the atmosphere in court. Weinstein, 73, is being retried on a criminal sex act charge for allegedly forcibly performing oral sex on a movie and TV production assistant, Miriam Haley, in 2006 and a third-degree rape charge for allegedly assaulting an aspiring actor, Jessica Mann, in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013. Weinstein also faces a criminal sex act charge for allegedly forcing oral sex on a different woman at a Manhattan hotel in 2006. Prosecutors said that the woman, who hasnt been named publicly, came forward days before his first trial but wasnt part of that case. They said they revisited her allegations when his conviction was thrown out.The Associated Press does not generally identify people alleging sexual assault unless they consent to be named, as Haley and Mann have done.Weinstein has pleaded not guilty and denies raping or sexually assaulting anyone. His acquittals on the two most serious charges at his 2020 trial predatory sexual assault and first-degree rape still stand.Lindsay Goldbrum, a lawyer for the unnamed accuser, said Weinsteins retrial marks a pivotal moment in the fight for accountability in sex abuse cases and a signal to other survivors that the system is catching up and that its worth speaking out even when the odds seem insurmountable.This time around, the Manhattan district attorneys office is prosecuting Weinstein through its Special Victims Division, which specializes in such cases, after homicide veterans helmed the 2020 version. At the same time, Weinstein has added several lawyers to his defense team including Jennifer Bonjean, who is involved in appealing his 2022 rape conviction in Los Angeles. She helped Bill Cosby get his conviction overturned and defended R. Kelly in his sex crimes case. This trial is not going to be all about #MeToo. Its going to be about the facts of what took place, Weinsteins lead attorney, Arthur Aidala, said recently. And thats a big deal. And thats the way its supposed to be.But there has been some talk of #MeToo already. A prosecutor asked prospective jurors whether theyd heard of the movement. Most said that they had but that it wouldnt affect them either way. Others went further. A woman opined that not enough has been done as a result of #MeToo. A man explained that he had negative feelings about it because his high school classmates had been falsely accused of sexual assault.Another man said he viewed #MeToo like other social movements: Its a pendulum. It swings way one way, then way the other way, and then it settles.None of them are on the jury. MICHAEL R. SISAK Sisak is an Associated Press reporter covering law enforcement and courts in New York City, including former President Donald Trumps criminal and civil cases and problems plaguing the federal prison system. twitter mailto

Nature, Published online: 23 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01153-5Cancer blood tests and AI-powered scans look promising for quicker and more accurate detection of disease.

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WASHINGTONClaiming that preservation efforts had impeded U.S. seafood production for far too long, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he had opened up the nations aquariums to commercial fishing. Starting today, fishermen will finally be allowed to sail into Americas protected aquariums, drop a net in any marine exhibit they please, and begin trawling, Trump said at a press conference, adding that commercial fishing would now be permitted in all glass-enclosed fish tanks,coastal mammal habitats, and interactive tide pools at the more than 150 aquariums across the United States, regardless of whether spectators were currently enjoying them or not. How can Democrats stand by and watch hardworking fishermen suffer when the Monterey Bay Aquarium has an entire kelp forest filled with sharks, jellyfish, and an absolutely enormous sunfish just sitting there, going to waste. Thats why Ive decided to waive the entrance fees nationwide and open every exhibit to fishing, even the ones with penguins, dolphins, and otters. At press time, Trump announced an additional executive order allowing commercial seafood vessels to fish in exotic pet stores, home aquariums, and private backyard koi ponds.The post Trump Opens Up Nations Aquariums To Commercial Fishing appeared first on The Onion.

WASHINGTONDeclaring that there was no better time for the U.S. populace to go cold turkey, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly attempted to flush the nations antidepressants this week. Listen, I found these in your medicine cabinet, said Kennedy, the 71-year-old Cabinet member stunning Americans in all 50 states as he stood over the toilet flushing millions of prescriptions for fluoxetine, escitalopram, sertraline, and paroxetine down the bowl. You dont need thesethey were only holding you back. Nuh-uh-uh, Vermont, no buts about it. Just push through the next few days, and youll see exactly what Im talking about. If you still feel bad after that, try some fish oil. Trust me. Your life is about to be so much better. At press time, reports confirmed Kennedy was frantically plunging the overflowing toilet.The post RFK Jr. Flushes Nations Antidepressants appeared first on The Onion.

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People gather outdoors following an earthquake shock with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2, in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)2025-04-23T10:06:20Z ISTANBUL (AP) An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 shook Istanbul and other areas Wednesday, prompting widespread panic and scores of injuries in the Turkish city of 16 million people, though there were no immediate reports of serious damage.More than 150 people were hospitalized with injuries sustained while trying to jump from buildings, said the governors office in Istanbul, where residents are on tenterhooks because the city is considered at high risk for a major quake. The earthquake had a shallow depth of 10 kilometers (about 6 miles), according to the United States Geological Survey, with its epicenter about 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of Istanbul, in the Sea of Marmara. It was felt in the neighboring provinces of Tekirdag, Yalova, Bursa and Balikesir and in the city of Izmir, some 550 kilometers (340 miles) south of Istanbul. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said the earthquake lasted 13 seconds and was followed by more than 50 aftershocks - the strongest measuring 5.9.The quake started at 12:49 p.m. during a public holiday when many children were out of school and celebrating in the streets of Istanbul. Panicked residents rushed from their homes and buildings into the streets. The disaster and emergency management agency urged people to stay away from buildings. More than 150 injuredDue to panic, 151 of our citizens were injured from jumping from heights, the Istanbul governors office said in a statement. Their treatments are ongoing in hospitals, and they are not in life-threatening condition.Many residents flocked to parks, school yards and other open areas to avoid being near buildings in case of collapse or subsequent earthquakes. Some people pitched tents in parks.Thank God, there does not seem to be any problems for now, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at an event marking the National Sovereignty and Childrens Day holiday. May God protect our country and our people from all kinds of calamities, disasters, accidents and troubles. Leyla Ucar, a personal trainer, said she was exercising with her student on the 20th floor of a building when they felt intense shaking.We shook incredibly. It threw us around, we couldnt understand what was happening, we didnt think of an earthquake at first because of the shock of the event, she said. It was very scary.Senol Sari, 51, told The Associated Press he was with his children in the living room of their third floor apartment when he heard a loud noise and the building started shaking. They fled to a nearby park. We immediately protected ourselves from the earthquake and waited for it to pass, Sari said. Of course, we were scared. They later were able to return home calmly, Sari said, but they remain worried that a bigger quake will some day strike the city. Its an expected earthquake, our concerns continue, he said. My children were a little scaredCihan Boztepe, 40, was one of many who hurriedly fled to the streets with his family in order to avoid a potential collapse. Boztepe, standing next to his sobbing child, told AP that in 2023 he was living in Batman province, an area close to the southern part of Turkey where major quakes struck at the time, and that Wednesdays tremor felt weaker and that he wasnt as scared.At first we were shaken, then it stopped, then we were shaken again. My children were a little scared, but I wasnt. We quickly gathered our things and went down to a safe place. If it were up to me, we would have already returned home.Turkeys Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said authorities had not received reports of collapsed buildings. He told HaberTurk television that there had been reports of damage to buildings.The NTV broadcaster reported that a derelict and abandoned former residential building had collapsed in the historic Fatih district, which houses the Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque. Education Minister Yusuf Tekin announced that schools would be closed on Thursday and Friday in Istanbul. In line with the need for a safe space, our school gardens are open to the use of all our citizens, Tekin said. Urban reconstruction projectsTurkey is crossed by two major fault lines, and earthquakes are frequent.A magnitude 7.8 earthquake on Feb. 6, 2023, and a second powerful tremor hours later, destroyed or damaged hundreds of thousands of buildings in 11 southern and southeastern provinces, leaving more than 53,000 people dead. Another 6,000 people were killed in the northern parts of neighboring Syria.Istanbul was not impacted by that earthquake, but the devastation heightened fears of a similar quake, with experts citing the citys proximity to fault lines.In a bid to prevent damage from any future quake, the national government and local administrations started urban reconstruction projects to fortify buildings at risk and launched campaigns to demolish buildings at risk of collapse. On Wednesday, long queues formed at gas stations as residents, planning to leave Istanbul, rushed to fill up their vehicles. Among them was Emre Senkay who said he might leave in the event of a more severe earthquake later in the day.My plan is to leave Istanbul if there is a more serious earthquake, he said.___Fraser reported from Ankara, Turkey. Robert Badendieck contributed from Canakkale, Turkey.

People pass by a Tesla sign at the Manila International Auto Show in Pasay city, Philippines Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)2025-04-23T13:57:55Z NEW YORK (AP) Uncertainty over tariffs and an unpredictable trade war is weighing heavily on companies as they report their latest financial results and try to give investors financial forecasts.Some tariffs remain in place against key U.S. trading partners, but others have been postponed to give nations time to negotiate. The tariff and trade picture has been shifting for months, sometimes changing drastically on a daily basis. Those shifts make it difficult for companies and investors to make a reliable assessment of any impact to costs and sales. On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he expects a de-escalation in the trade war between the U.S. and China, but cautioned that talks between the two sides had yet to formally start.Heres how several big companies are dealing with the tariff confusion: TeslaTesla is in a better position than most car companies to deal with tariffs because it makes most of its U.S. cars domestically. But it still sources materials from other nations and will face import taxes.The bigger impact will be seen in the companys energy business. The company said the impact will be outsized because it sources LFP battery cells from China. The broader trade war could also hurt the company as China, the worlds largest electric vehicle market, retaliates against the U.S. Tesla was forced earlier this month to stop taking orders from mainland customers for two models, its Model S and Model X. It makes the Model Y and Model 3 for the Chinese market at its factory in Shanghai.CEO Elon Musk, a member of Trumps administration, on Tuesday reiterated that he believes lower tariffs are generally a good idea for prosperity. But he added that ultimately the president decides on what tariffs to impose. Akzo NobelThe Amsterdam-based maker of paints and coatings for industrial and commercial use said the big risk from tariffs could come in the form of lower demand for its products.The company said almost all sales of finished goods in the U.S. were locally produced, with the majority of raw materials locally sourced.Over the years, we deliberately localized both our procurement and production in the U.S., said CEO Gregoire Poux-Guillaume, in a conference call with analysts. We also largely run China for China and use the rest of Asia instead as an export base.The companys products range from paints and coatings for the automotive industry to the do-it-yourself homeowner. Broader tariffs could squeeze consumers and businesses and hurt sales.

Last month, Roy Lee was suspended from Columbia after he was accused of using AI to cheat on technical job interviews for Amazon, Meta, and TikTok. On Sunday, he announced that he raised $5.3 million to start Cluely, a new startup that aims to allow users to similarly cheat on everything.Cluely went viral when it launched earlier this week thanks to a commercial Lee posted on X. In the video, Lee bumbles his way through a date. A large UI sits between him and his date, feeding him information about the womans interests and coaching him on how to talk to her.In an interview, however, Lee told me that his AI tool is not really cheating.Initially it will feel like cheating, but if we win, nobody will think this is cheating, Lee told me.Cheating or not, after testing Cluely myself, Im not sure it will help anyone land a job.Everytime you ask me something I just hit command+enter and you cant really see that Im using it and you also cant really see that Im reading any responses, but Cluely is kind of just sitting here, helping along, Lee said when I spoke to him on Zoom on Tuesday.Lee wants people to use Cluely on Sales calls. Meetings. Negotiations, the manifesto on the softwares website says. If theres a faster way to winwell take it. We built Cluely so you never have to think alone again. It sees your screen. Hears your audio. Feeds you answers in real time. While others guessyoure already right.Cluely is out. cheat on everything. pic.twitter.com/EsRXQaCfUI Roy (@im_roy_lee) April 20, 2025Cluelys viral video racked up more than 10 million views on X. A lot of the reactions were negative.I guess I just didn't fully grasp how many losers there are in the world. Like I knew there were a lot of losers out there, but the amount of losers that would have to exist to, one, make this product feasible and, two, to make this ad's existence possible is hard to process. https://t.co/RxM8X8wgAW Ryan Broderick (@broderick) April 21, 2025I dont understand why a guy would commission an expensive commercial about his AI app in which he goes on a date, lies to a girl about his age, pays for her fancy dinner, and then despite all this couldnt get laid. He willingly chose this script. Can someone please explain? https://t.co/by5PE2Ghcb Eli Schiff (@eli_schiff) April 21, 2025Lee said he expected the critiques that hed created a dystopian piece of software that would destroy the human connection and the essence of humanity.Im pretty comfortable taking that negative PR, he told me.Cluely is the latest attempt to bring large language models into the real world after products like the Humane Pin and Rabbit R1 were widely hyped but were widely disappointing. Its also reminiscent of a project that Joseph wrote about out of Harvard, where students put facial recognition software into a pair of Meta smart glasses.The second realm of negative feedback is that cheating is inherently unethical and immoral. This is where were trying to do a lot of reframing around what exactly defines cheating, what cheating really is, and what cheating will look like in a future that is AI native, he said.Lee also went viral earlier this year when he used an AI program of his own designed to pass the brutal technical interviews of Amazon, Meta, and TikTok. He claimed he landed gigs at several of the companies but didnt take any of them. Instead he uploaded a video of himself using the tool to YouTube and used the buzz to launch Interview Coder, a commercial version of the software.At the time, Lee was a student at Columbia, and someone sent a letter to the university claiming to be a concerned Amazon executive. The letter accused Lee of cheating in the interview. Columbia took disciplinary action. Lee dropped out of the University and struck out on his own with another former student Neel Shanmugam.Interview Coder worked by watching your screen, pinging ChatGPT, and then giving you an answer to the coding problem it saw in an overlay. Cluely is the same thing but the use case is expanded beyond code.I tried out a test version of Cluely in a mock interview with Emanuel Maiberg. We pretended Emanuel was interviewing me for a position at 404 Media and I used Cluely to shape my answers. Emanuel would hit me with a basic interview question: What are your strengths? What do you need to work on? And Id hit command+enter after he spoke.Then Cluely would answer the question it had just heard Emanuel ask me and put its answers in an overlay at the top of my screen. It would come in two pieces: a bright white script I could read verbatim and a darker piece of text below that explained the AIs reasoning. Because of the way Cluely is programmed, it doesnt show up in recordings or even screenshots.It also wasnt that impressive. A few questions into the conversation and Emanuel and I realized it was just feeding me ChatGTP answers to the questions as if Id typed them in a browser. It also took 20 seconds each time to generate, with Emanuel and I staring at each other while we waited. Not the kind of thing that would work in a real world situation.Lee said that the companys top priority was removing latency from the system and that it moves much faster if the user turns off screen recording and just has Cluely listen. I asked if his software was just pinging ChatGPT on the backend. We have a bit of fine tuning that happens and theres a couple of other models going on, but essentially yes, he said.Cluelys major innovation is user experience. Most of the systems it's using already exist. The only thing the product really showcased [in the commercial] was ChatGPT in your glasses, Lee said. The only reason it was sort of crazy was because it was just a different experience layer. I think it would be foolish to think that there is a future where ChatGPT doesnt come in your glasses.Lee described himself as an AI maximalist. As I transcribed this part of our conversion, I remembered that Lee had Cluely overlaid on his screen, helping him craft his answers as we spoke, meaning some portion of his answers were crafted by AI. I think the pessimistic case is to think, Okay, now all of humanity is just gone and theres nothing I can do. Im just going to be a walking flesh machine for AI to regurgitate AIs thoughts, he said. I dont think thats what makes us human at all. In fact, I think the true essence of what makes us human is our taste and our preferences and our sparks of inspiration and thoughts. Thats just supercharged by AI.What we have seen from AI so far, though, is that it gives a sheen of sameness to everything. There are some creative people who have found uses for generative AI, but they have often incorporated it into their ideation process and then use their own creativity or taste to create a finished product; Cluely is being developed for time-sensitive, real-world uses where there is unlikely to be much time for refinement.Both Lee and the marketing copy for Cluely hammer home that technical innovations are often thought of as cheating. Math teachers worried about the advent of calculators. I would really question whether you think what were doing and enabling here is cheating, he said. I think, fundamentally, the product is not different from a better version of ChatGPT voice mode.I pointed out that his own marketing for Cluely says that the software allows users to cheat on everything.Its a viral hook and its super tied into my origin story with Interview Coder, right? Lee said. We want to make everybody use AI. We are true AI maximalists.I asked him to tell me his vision of the future.I will never have to remember when the American Revolution was, Lee said. I will never have to remember what the capital of Wisconsin is. Every single thing that is rote memorization, that relies on facts that you dont need in the moment, that are not intrinsically necessary for a human to learn, you wont need that anymore.Entire school systems will be gone. The entire K-12 education. Everybody sits in a room eight hours a day, takes multiple choice exams. In my future, everything we understand education to be, will be completely gone. He said that people will explore whatever topics they want from the earliest ages in the most efficient way possible.History will be on the side of the maximalists, he said.According to Lee, 80,000 people have signed up for a free Cluely account. An additional 700 are paying for it.

Nature, Published online: 23 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01152-6Emerging companies and an evolving market are changing the dynamics of cancer trials.

Nature, Published online: 23 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01154-4China takes pole position in cancer-related research in the Nature Index, with a massive jump in output.

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by Mark Olalde ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. A top official in the Department of Labor this week informed all staff members that they could face criminal charges if they speak to journalists, former employees or others about agency business.A memo sent Monday by Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemers chief of staff, Jihun Han, and obtained by ProPublica, states that individuals who disclose confidential information or engage in unauthorized communications with the media may face serious legal consequences.Among the ramifications, the memo states, are potential criminal penalties, depending on the nature of the information and the applicable laws, and immediate disciplinary actions, up to and including termination.The guidance document went on to say that any unauthorized communication with the media, regardless of what information is shared or how it is shared, will be treated as a serious offense. The memo listed laws, regulations and a departmental guide to explain its legal position. Among them was a regulation concerning civil servants ethical obligations and a law, the Freedom of Information Act, guaranteeing the public the right to inspect certain public records.This message will serve as your only warning, the memo stated.The warning comes as current and former Labor Department employees have spoken to the news media about harms they see resulting from the dismantling of portions of their agency, which enforces laws guaranteeing rights to a safe workplace, fair pay and protections against discrimination.Its very chilling, a Labor Department employee who requested anonymity for fear of retribution told ProPublica. Its never a good look when youre telling people to never talk about what youre doing.Labor Department spokespeople did not immediately respond to a request for comment.These types of missives can chill the free flow of information to the press and the public, said Gabe Rottman, vice president of policy at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Thats a concern.Civil servants do not sacrifice their First Amendment rights by accepting a job with the federal government, but there do exist higher restrictions on what information they can disclose publicly. Government agencies that handle classified information have on rare occasions launched criminal investigations against leakers, but those are typically invoked only when leaks involve classified national security intelligence or protected financial information, Rottman said.But normally, disclosures to the press or others would be a matter of employee discipline as opposed to carrying criminal sanctions, he said.While the memo raising the possibility of criminal penalties was sent to Labor Department employees, it reflects a common approach by the administration of President Donald Trump to guard against federal government employees speaking to reporters.Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, for example, has publicly announced an aggressive pursuit of leakers. Elon Musk, who launched the Department of Government Efficiency, which is at the heart of the shake-up of the federal government, has bragged about his tactics in rooting out leaks at his companies. And Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has blamed alleged leaks by former Pentagon staffers for reigniting controversy over his use of the Signal messaging app to discuss military operations.Federal employees at various agencies told ProPublica that an air of suspicion has descended on their workplace during Trumps second term, with rumors flying of surveillance of rank-and-file government workers. In the Department of Agriculture, for example, a banner temporarily appeared on government computers when employees logged in, telling them that unauthorized or improper use of this system may result in disciplinary action, as well as civil and criminal penalties.Agriculture Department spokespeople did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The Labor Department employee told ProPublica that Mondays memo felt like the latest attack on a workforce already weathering layoffs, spending freezes and reorganizations.Its been horrible. Its been a deeply exhausting roller coaster, the employee said. Its very difficult to work when youre in a constant state of being terrorized by your employer.

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NEW YORKClaiming it was the only way to protect ones assets against economic volatility, a group of financial experts recommended this week that Americans diversify their portfolios with multiple harebrained schemes. Rather than rely on a single half-baked investment, we strongly encourage people to have several cockamamie business plans to fall back on, said J.P. Morgan financial advisor Jonathan Rattler, adding that it was important to mitigate risk through a combination of foolhardy ventures like breeding koi fish, stealing copper wire from a scrapyard, and buying a machine on Alibaba that makes lab-grown diamonds. We suggest investing in a variety of dubious sectors, including miraclehair-growth supplements, alpaca rentals, and using outlets at public libraries torun your own bitcoin farm. Also, we know a guy who makes $2 million a year installing vending machines in local prisons. If you want, we can put you in touch. Rattler added that Americans planning to retire by age 60 should really consider giving their brother-in-law the $10,000 he requested, because his idea to import exotic ferns was a surefire thing.The post Financial Experts Recommend Diversifying Portfolio With Multiple Harebrained Schemes appeared first on The Onion.

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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., is seen at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)2025-04-23T15:24:37Z SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois said Wednesday that he will not seek reelection in 2026, ending his more than four-decade career representing Illinois and piling more pressure on the party as it already faced a difficult path to reclaiming a majority in the Senate.The decision by Durbin, who is in his fifth Senate term and is the chambers No. 2 Democrat, will set off a flurry of activity among a scrum of would-be successors, both Democratic and Republican. But in a state that has grown more solidly Democratic, the GOP has captured a Senate seat just twice for six-year terms since 1984.The decision of whether to run has not been easy, Durbin said in a video posted to X. I truly love the job of being a United States senator. But in my heart I know its time to pass the torch. Durbin, whos 80, was first elected to the U.S. House in 1982 and served seven terms before succeeding his mentor, Paul Simon, in the Senate in 1996. From that post, he helped shape the career of an up-and-comer, Barack Obama, who was only four years into his first term in the Senate when he was elected president. Durbin is the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and sits on the Appropriations and Agriculture committees. His caucus colleagues have chosen him as Democratic whip, the partys No. 2 position, biennially since 2005. He has been consistently liberal in Congress. Govtracks 2024 report card on Congress lists him as the Senates 14th most liberal member right behind Illinois junior senator, Tammy Duckworth. Among Durbins more significant legislative achievements, he is largely credited with putting in motion the movement to ban indoor smoking. Having watched his 53-year-old father die of lung cancer when he was 14, Durbin won approval of legislation he sponsored in 1987 prohibiting smoking on short commercial flights and expanded it to nearly all domestic flights two years later. People started asking, If secondhand smoke wasnt safe on airplanes why is it safe in public buildings, schools, hospitals or restaurants? The answer is simple: Its not, Durbin said on the 25th anniversary of the law.In the early 2000s, he introduced the DREAM Act, which would give immigrants in the U.S. illegally who grew up in the country a pathway toward U.S. citizenship.Its never become law, but in 2010, Durbin and Sen. Richard Lugar, an Indiana Republican, wrote Obama asking him to stop deporting so-called Dreamers. Obama responded with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, which has covered about 830,000 immigrants, according to Durbins office.Durbin was instrumental in reversing a War on Drugs-era law that penalized crack cocaine in a 100-to-1 ratio to powder cocaine, a law that disproportionately hit Black defendants with long prison terms. The new law was made retroactive, reducing the sentences for those serving time for crack.And with Republican and Democratic co-sponsors, Durbin pushed the First Step Act, which President Donald Trump signed into law in 2018. The criminal justice system revamp aimed to make sentencing laws fairer and provide programs to help people who are incarcerated transition in returning to society. Richard Durbin was born in 1944 in East St. Louis. In 1966, after graduating from Georgetown University, he interned for Sen. Paul Douglas, whose seat he now holds. It was Douglas, who lost election to a fourth term in 1966, who once mistakenly called him Dick, a nickname Durbin adopted. Durbin earned a law degree from Georgetown and worked as legal counsel for Simon, who was lieutenant governor in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and then for the Legislature through the 1970s. In 1978, Durbin made an unsuccessful run for lieutenant governor, after which he maintained a private legal practice and co-owned a Springfield tavern. A redrawn district, an economic recession and funding from pro-Israel forces were factors when in 1982 Durbin ousted 11-term Republican incumbent congressman Paul Findley, best known for his criticism of American policy toward Israel and support of Palestinians. In 2000, Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore considered Durbin for the vice presidency, before Gore ultimately chose Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. But a few years later, Durbin influenced another presidential candidate when he served as a sounding board for and adviser to Obama.___Jalonick reported from Washington.___Follow the APs coverage of Sen. Dick Durbin at https://apnews.com/hub/richard-durbin.

Nature, Published online: 23 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01133-9Immune cells boost stress-linked fear responses by communicating with brain cells. One way that psychedelics lessen such fear is by modulating this interaction.

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