If you watch the hit Netflix series Stranger Things (I’m a few seasons behind, because my tolerance for ick is limited), you may have noticed a new-to-tv face in the new season.

Families raising children in rural Oregon often have limited access to after-school activities that boost social skills, academic performance and safety.  Five in six children in Oregon could benefit ...

TL;DR: Mozilla’s translation bot on Support Mozilla (that is currently overwriting user contributions is based on the closed source, copyright infringing LLM, Google Gemini. This is in spite of Mozilla claiming that they are at the forefront of open source AI, and belies their exhortations to choose to build open source AI and data sets. Although Mozilla has experience in attracting open contributions for data sets in projects like Common Voice, Mozilla is using a closed data set to overwrite open contributions. Since (paid) Gemini queries do not train the model, Mozillians can expect to correct errors every time the bot automatically updates an article.

Happy birthday to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; 75 years of alerting the world to impending doom.

Tommy Tuberville, who is somehow a contender for the governorship of Alabama, joins the roster of school choice advocates who are actually against school choice.

Tommy Tuberville, who is somehow a contender for the governorship of Alabama, joins the roster of school choice advocates who are actually against school choice.

The year has been chaotic but a few themes emerge

The state’s auditor general found “a myriad of accountability problems” in the nation’s largest voucher program.

Another day, another Trump meltdown...

The first reason that we want to cite is to give credit to people’s original ideas and works.

As legend has it from 5th Century BC China, King Goujian once put condemned convicts or suicidal soldiers on his frontlines, ordering them to slit their own throats in view of the approaching enemy.

Parents warn AI chatbots on Character AI sent sexually explicit content to their 13-year-old daughter.

PEN America responded today to the Supreme Court decision to decline to hear Little v. Llano County, a case challenging book removals from the Llano County, TX public library, saying leaving a lower court ruling in place in effect allows state and local...

The right wants to steer women away from work and toward motherhood. The left wants to provide them with more state support so it’s easier to have children. We should refuse this choice.

As legend has it from 5th Century BC China, King Goujian once put condemned convicts or suicidal soldiers on his frontlines, ordering them to slit their own throats in view of the approaching enemy.

New Hampshire’s education freedom account, or EFA, program has 10,510 students participating this year, nearly double the number last year, according to figures released by the Department of Education...

The CMO of the Institute (that’s Chief Marital Officer) sings in a community chorus because, among other reasons, she objectively has a voice much like that of an angel.

Neo-Nazis and other right-wing extremists have long pioneered innovative ways to exploit technological progress. Combatting online hate must become a global imperative.

The federal Education Department is asking hundreds of staffers in the Office for Civil Rights to temporarily return to help clear a backlog of cases.

The CMO of the Institute (that’s Chief Marital Officer) sings in a community chorus because, among other reasons, she objectively has a voice much like that of an angel.