FBI Director Kash Patel is expected to tout Trump-era reforms at a Senate hearing Wednesday, many of which Patel thinks most American's don't know about.

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FBI Director Kash Patel says the Trump administration is ramping up efforts to combat drone threats from criminals and foreign adversaries through new training center.

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New research shows that social media creators have enormous influence over their audiences' politics--especially those who don't normally share political content. Donald Trump's appearances on the podcasts of Joe Rogan and Theo Von, among others, were seen by many as a key part of securing his second term in office. But while Trump was speculating about alien life on Mars with Rogan, he had a team of acolytes appearing on dozens, if not hundreds, of much smaller niche podcasts hosted by right-wing content creators who typically don't talk about politics. This is how, just six days before the election, Kash Patel, the man now struggling to run the FBI, ended up appearing on the livestream, a fringe, QAnon-infused show hosted on a platform called Pilled. "The Deep State exists," Patel told the audience.

We present EdgeRunner 20B, a fine-tuned version of gpt-oss-20b optimized for military tasks. EdgeRunner 20B was trained on 1.6M high-quality records curated from military documentation and websites. We also present four new tests sets: (a) combat arms, (b) combat medic, (c) cyber operations, and (d) mil-bench-5k (general military knowledge). On these military test sets, EdgeRunner 20B matches or exceeds GPT-5 task performance with 95%+ statistical significance, except for the high reasoning setting on the combat medic test set and the low reasoning setting on the mil-bench-5k test set. Versus gpt-oss-20b, there is no statistically-significant regression on general-purpose benchmarks like ARC-C, GPQA Diamond, GSM8k, IFEval, MMLU Pro, or TruthfulQA, except for GSM8k in the low reasoning setting. We also present analyses on hyperparameter settings, cost, and throughput. These findings show that small, locally-hosted models are ideal solutions for data-sensitive operations such as in the military domain, allowing for deployment in air-gapped edge devices.

'This gull got very lucky!' The young lesser black backed gull was found in Cape Cod with a bobber hanging out of its mouth. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A young seagull found in Cape Cod bit off a bit more than he could chew. The veterinary team at the New England Wildlife Center recently removed a large fishing hook from the bird's GI tract.

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. L.A. County employee charged with alleged hate crimes against Asian co-worker Bhavin Patel allegedly broke into the county's downtown headquarters, pictured above, on Aug. 25, Aug. 26 and Sept. 4 with "prepared threats," which he scattered on his co-worker's desk and nearby cubicles, according to the L.A. County District Attorney's Office. Voice comes from the use of AI. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . A Los Angeles County employee has been charged with felony hate crimes after allegedly breaking into the government's downtown headquarters three times in the last two weeks and placing death threats on the desk of an Asian co-worker.

The United States government has opened an investigation into apparent efforts to impersonate White House chief of staff Susie Wiles in communications to politicians. On Friday, a White House official confirmed to The Associated Press that a probe had been opened, following a report about the impersonation in The Wall Street Journal a day prior. Anonymous sources told The Journal that governors, business leaders and senators had received messages and phone calls from someone posing as Wiles, who is a close associate of President Donald Trump. Some recipients told the newspaper that the calls even appeared to replicate Wiles's voice using artificial intelligence. The giveaway, according to The Wall Street Journal, came when the messages asked about items Wiles should know or did not sound like her in other ways.

On a crisp Saturday in March, beneath a canopy of pixelated cherry blossoms, two avatars stood in front of a digital altar crafted from shimmering quartz blocks and flickering redstone torches. They were surrounded by a sprawling Minecraft village, complete with custom-coded NPCs reciting lore about the couple's decade-long digital courtship. Nearby, pixelated foxes darted between guests--each one logged in from across the world, dressed in custom skins as forest druids and rogue mages. After the vows (typed and read aloud on Discord), guests dispersed for side quests, scavenger hunts, and an enchanted maze culminating in a virtual fireworks show. This wasn't a rehearsal for an in-person wedding--this was the wedding.