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  • Sources within the federal government tell WIRED that the highest ranks of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)—essentially the human resources function for the entire federal government—are now controlled by people with connections to Musk and to the tech industry.

    “I think on the tech side, the concern is potentially the use of AI to try and engage in large-scale searches of people's job descriptions to try and identify who would be identified for Schedule F reclassification,” says Moynihan.

    “OPM is not a very politicized organization,” says Steven Kelman, a professor emeritus at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. “My guess is that typically, in the past, there have been only one or maybe two political appointees in all of OPM. All the rest are career. So this seems like a very political heavy presence in an organization that is not very political.”

  • You literally had one job, as one commentator put it:

    Her reported response is fucking despicable. Zero remorse, zero compassion, zero thought for the victim and her family. Attempts to shift the blame onto others - 'it's not my fault, they didn't ban phone use.' Fuck off. It's 1,000% her fault. She was paid to assist and monitor and she did neither.

  • The parent commenter is intentionally misrepresenting this is a "needless war fomented by Ukrainian government", seemingly forgetting to mention that is an unprompted Russian invasion of Ukraine and Ukraine has no choice but to fight back to survive as an independent and free country.

  • A major journalism body has urged Apple to scrap its new generative AI feature after it created a misleading headline about a high-profile killing in the United States.

    The BBC made a complaint to the US tech giant after Apple Intelligence, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to summarise and group together notifications, falsely created a headline about murder suspect Luigi Mangione.

    The AI-powered summary falsely made it appear that BBC News had published an article claiming Mangione, the man accused of the murder of healthcare insurance CEO Brian Thompson in New York, had shot himself. He has not.

    Now, the group Reporters Without Borders has called on Apple to remove the technology. Apple has made no comment.

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    Bezos reportedly killed the Washington Post’s Kamala Harris endorsement

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    Taylor Swift Vienna concerts cancelled after attack threat

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    To preserve their work — and drafts of history — journalists take archiving into their own hands

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    Disneyland workers say they live in cars and motels due to low pay

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    21st Century Inheritance

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    Long COVID rates have declined, especially among the vaccinated, study finds

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    Elephants Are Doing Something Deeply Human

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    Planes grounded as mass worldwide IT outage hits airlines, media and banks

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    Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood? - Families are narrowing worldwide, according to a new study, and cousins are dwindling

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    National Geographic at work

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    Two things at once

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    I'm at that age now

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    Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws

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    Introducing a new RISC-V Mainboard from DeepComputing

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    AI trained on photos from kids’ entire childhood without their consent

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    Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers