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Source: Ars Technica fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards after his February 13 story had AI-fabricated quotes; Edwards admitted to using Claude and ChatGPT (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-re…

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes
Ars Technica has fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following an outrage-sparking controversy involving AI-fabricated quotes.

Some two dozen states challenged Donald Trump’s new global tariffs on Thursday,
filing a lawsuit over import taxes he imposed after a stinging loss at the Supreme Court.
The Democratic attorneys general leading the suit argue that Trump is overstepping his power with planned 15% tariffs on much of the world.
Trump has said the tariffs are essential to reduce America’s longstanding trade deficits.
He imposed duties under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 after the S…

More than 20 states sue over new global tariffs Trump imposed after his Supreme Court loss
Some two dozen states challenged President Donald Trump’s new global tariffs on Thursday, filing a lawsuit over import taxes he imposed after a stinging loss at the Supreme Court.

slop consequences 🥹
I have no illusions that there's gonna be any once slop code does harm, tho. After all, companies got away with all kinds for hand-crafted, artisanal negligence for decades.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-tech…

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes
Ars Technica has fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following an outrage-sparking controversy involving AI-fabricated quotes.

Filing: Workday is cutting ~400 employees, or ~2% of its workforce, primarily in customer-facing roles, saying the move will help it invest in priority areas (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

Grr and argh.
The people who make government websites generally tend to do a halfway decent job of meeting the spec, but they really really need to learn to push back when the spec is FUCKING STUPID.
Having just completed my "Annual Filing" with Companies House - and why is that even a thing, we're not posting fucking vellum to Victorian clerks who scurry up ladders to deposit the sacred paperwork in the appropriate filing cabinet any more - I got a new scary emai…

I wrote up how I set up #ty with #helix, with a focus on finding third-party packages (a.k.a. virtualenvs, which I keep on a central location!)
https:/…

Using ty with the helix editor · Technical inconsistencies blog
The folks at Astral have released ty, which they define as: An extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust. You can read more in the blog post announcing it. Today, I set it up with helix. To make it work, we first have to install it. Using uv, it’s as easy as typing: uv tool install ty@latest Then, edit your ~/.config/helix/languages.toml and add the following: [language-server.ty] command = "ty" args = ["server"] [[language]] name = "python" scope = "source.p…

"producing the feeling of knowing without the labor of judgement"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19466
oh what a great line

Epistemological Fault Lines Between Human and Artificial Intelligence
Large language models (LLMs) are widely described as artificial intelligence, yet their epistemic profile diverges sharply from human cognition. Here we show that the apparent alignment between human and machine outputs conceals a deeper structural mismatch in how judgments are produced. Tracing the historical shift from symbolic AI and information filtering systems to large-scale generative transformers, we argue that LLMs are not epistemic agents but stochastic pattern-completion systems, for…

Filing: PayPay is seeking to raise up to $1.1B at a valuation of up to $13.4B in its US IPO, selling nearly 55M shares priced between $17 and $20 apiece (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/p…

Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father,
who were detained by immigration officers in Minnesota and held at an ICE facility in Texas,
have been released following a judge’s order.
They have returned to Minnesota, according to Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro.
The boy and his dad, Adrian Conejo Arias, who is originally from Ecuador,
were detained in a Minneapolis suburb on Jan. 20.
They were taken to a detention facility in Dilley, Texas.
Katherine Sch…

5-year-old and dad return to Minnesota from Texas detention facility
Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his dad have returned to Minnesota after being released by ICE, Texas lawmaker says. The two were detained in a Minneapolis suburb on Jan. 20. Images of the young boy wearing a bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack surrounded by immigration officers caused outrage over the Trump administration immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. A judge on Saturday ordered the father and son's release.

SEC filing: Nvidia acquires Intel shares worth $5B, carrying out a transaction announced in September, buying 214.7M shares for $23.28 each (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/nvidia-takes-5…