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Activists Are Using 'Fortnite' to Fight Back Against ICE
Players are roleplaying ICE raids in and to prepare for real-world situations. SteveTheGamer55 is live on YouTube . He's streaming a session to his 4.6 million subscribers of, a mod that allows people to role-play with other players. "Really wanna show you guys some real-life scenarios," he says, offering a little background on his character, a man headed to his job while on a work visa. His character doesn't get far before an SUV swings onto the sidewalk in front of him; masked ICE agents spill out of the vehicle.
Pranksters Recreated a Working Version of Jeffrey Epstein's Gmail Inbox
Using Jmail, you can read thousands of Jeffrey Epstein's emails in a familiar format. Use the star function to highlight notable finds. Last week, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released 20,000 documents from the estate of registered sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein . They included thousands of emails sent between Epstein and high-profile people like Epstein confidant Ghislaine Maxwell, political strategist Steve Bannon, journalist Michael Wolff, and former US treasury secretary Larry Summers, as well as revealing text messages . Many of them allude or directly refer to president Donald Trump.
Elon Musk Is Trying to Rewrite History
Why did Grok say he's better than Jesus? Listen to more stories on the Noa app. We cannot say for sure if Elon Musk dialed up the flattery quotient on his chatbot, Grok, after the author Joyce Carol Oates publicly humiliated him this month. What we can say is that, yesterday, Grok did assert, in response to a question from an X user, that "Musk edges out" Jesus Christ, son of God, as a role model for society; the bot cited Musk's "relentless innovation, risk-taking, and a commitment to preserving our species through space exploration and AI safeguards." Musk triumphed in many such hypotheticals.
ISS astronauts photograph two comets soaring over Earth's auroras
Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has captured the imaginations of both amateur and professional skygazers, but it's not the only icy space rock to recently speed past Earth. In October, a pair of comets known as Lemmon and SWAN also left trails of dust and gas as they continued along their vast orbits through the solar system. As luck had it, their timing perfectly aligned with a wave of vibrant auroras generated by one of this year's largest solar eruptions. And judging from NASA's recently released photos, few people had a better vantage point than the astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
There Is Only One AI Company. Welcome to the Blob
There Is Only One AI Company. As Nvidia, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft forge partnerships and deals, the AI industry is looking more like one interconnected machine. What does that mean for all of us? It all began, as many things do, with Elon Musk . In the early 2010s he realized that AI was on a track to become perhaps the most powerful technology of all time.
Dueling Bandits: Beyond Condorcet Winners to General Tournament Solutions
Recent work on deriving $O(\log T)$ anytime regret bounds for stochastic dueling bandit problems has considered mostly Condorcet winners, which do not always exist, and more recently, winners defined by the Copeland set, which do always exist. In this work, we consider a broad notion of winners defined by tournament solutions in social choice theory, which include the Copeland set as a special case but also include several other notions of winners such as the top cycle, uncovered set, and Banks set, and which, like the Copeland set, always exist. We develop a family of UCB-style dueling bandit algorithms for such general tournament solutions, and show $O(\log T)$ anytime regret bounds for them. Experiments confirm the ability of our algorithms to achieve low regret relative to the target winning set of interest.