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just now (597+ words) Published Dec 1, 2025 5:18 PM EST Leave it to Elon Musk's Grok to innovate new ways of being both staggeringly antisemitic and grovelingly deferential to its creator. In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot was recently asked to weigh in on a troubling ethical dilemma: save Musk's incredible brain, but at the expense of the world's Jewish population being vaporized. This should quite literally be a no-brainer, but Grok, which infamously once referred to itself as "MechaHitler,instead used what it called "utilitarian logic to justify abhorrent mass murder. "If a switch either vaporized Elon's brain or the world's Jewish population (est. ~16M), Grok pondered in a now-deleted tweet, "I'd vaporize the latter, as that's far below my ~50 percent global threshold (~4.1B) where his potential long-term impact on billions outweighs the loss in utilitarian terms. "What's your view? it asked in…...

just now (597+ words) Published Dec 1, 2025 5:18 PM EST Leave it to Elon Musk's Grok to innovate new ways of being both staggeringly antisemitic and grovelingly deferential to its creator. In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot was recently asked to weigh in on a troubling ethical dilemma: save Musk's incredible brain, but at the expense of the world's Jewish population being vaporized. This should quite literally be a no-brainer, but Grok, which infamously once referred to itself as "MechaHitler,instead used what it called "utilitarian logic to justify abhorrent mass murder. "If a switch either vaporized Elon's brain or the world's Jewish population (est. ~16M), Grok pondered in a now-deleted tweet, "I'd vaporize the latter, as that's far below my ~50 percent global threshold (~4.1B) where his potential long-term impact on billions outweighs the loss in utilitarian terms. "What's your view? it asked in…...

just now (60+ words) LOUDONVILLE, N.Y. " The Catholic Charities Christmas Series returns to MVP Arena and UHY Center this holiday season, a partnership between Siena men's and women's basketball and Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany, one of the largest private nonprofit agencies in the Capital Region. Building on the success of last season's initiative, the 2025 []...

just now (344+ words) Apple has announced that John Giannandrea, the company's Machine Learning and AI Strategy boss, is retiring from the company. The move may not come as a surprise for anyone closely following Apple and its AI missteps over the last few years. Here's the news from the official press release: As noted above, Amar Subramanya is joining Apple to take over as VP of AI under Craig Federighi. Siri itself is ran by Mike Rockwell who also reports to Federighi. Subramanya comes by way of Microsoft AI and like Giannandrea, is a former Googler. He joined Microsoft in June after 16 years at Google. Apple has now tapped him to lead its own AI strategy. The announcement also notes that Giannandrea will stick around as an advisor to Apple before fully retiring in the spring. However, the shift from Giannandrea to Subramanya…...

just now (650+ words) SAINT-MARC, Haiti -- Heavily armed gangs attacked Haiti's central region over the weekend, killing men, women and children as they set fire to homes and forced survivors to flee into the darkness. Police made emergency calls for backup, asserting that 50% of the Artibonite region had fallen under gang control after the large-scale attacks targeting towns including Bercy and Pont-Sond. "The population cannot live, cannot work, cannot move," one of Haiti's police unions, SPNH-17, said Sunday on X. "Losing the country's 2 largest departments - West and Artibonite - is the greatest security failure in modern Haitian history." The bulk of Haiti's police force and the Kenyan officers leading a U.N.-backed mission to help repel gangs are in the capital, Port-au-Prince, which itself is largely held by gangs. "The gangs are still in Pont-Sond," he said, noting that no additional police had arrived. Many survivors fled…...

just now (137+ words) The death of a 30-year-old man stabbed in Auburn Gresham last week has been ruled a homicide, police said. Mario D. Frazier became became embroiled in an argument with a 30-year-old woman about 11:20 p.m. Tuesday Nov. 25 in the 7700 block of South Carpenter Street, police said The woman then stabbed Frazier in the neck with a sharp object. Frazier was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where he died Friday, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office and police. An autopsy Sunday determined Frazier died of multiple sharp force injuries and his death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner's office. Area 2 detectives placed the woman into custody but she was not charged with anything as of Monday evening, police said....

just now (830+ words) The administration said it was pausing asylum decisions, reexamining green card applications for people from countries "of concern" and halting visas for Afghans who assisted the U.S. war effort. The stepped up effort to restrict immigration has been harshly criticized by refugee advocates and those who work with Afghans, saying it amounts to collective punishment. Critics are also saying it is a waste of government resources to reopen cases that have already been processed. The Trump administration says the new policies are necessary to ensure that those entering the country " or are already here " do not pose a security threat. Here's a look at the major changes announced over roughly a week: The director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Joseph Edlow, said on the social platform X last week that asylum decisions will be paused "until we can ensure that every…...

just now (891+ words) WASHINGTON " Since last week's shooting of two National Guard members in the nation's capital by a suspect who is an Afghan national, the Trump administration announced a flurry of policies aimed at making it harder for some foreigners to enter or stay in the country. The administration said it was pausing asylum decisions, reexamining green card applications for people from countries "of concern" and halting visas for Afghans who assisted the U.S. war effort. The stepped up effort to restrict immigration has been harshly criticized by refugee advocates and those who work with Afghans, saying it amounts to collective punishment. Critics are also saying it is a waste of government resources to reopen cases that have already been processed. The Trump administration says the new policies are necessary to ensure that those entering the country " or are already here " do not…...

1+ min ago (337+ words) In this collab, Linus Sebastian and Linux inventor Linus Torvalds build the ultimate open-source workstation, packing an AMD Threadripper 9960X, ECC-friendly TRX50 AERO motherboard, 2 TB Samsung SSD, Noctua NH-U14S cooler, Intel Arc GPU, all housed in a Fractal Design Torrent E-ATX case with a 1600 W Titanium PSU and a 6K ProArt monitor. They walk through each part choice, from storage needs to cooling preferences, showing why you might pick ECC RAM or a flagship GPU for your next Linux rig. Between screw-ins and cable-management, they dive into Torvalds" developer origin story, proudest achievements (Linux kernel vs. Git), distro fatigue vs. Fedora love, AI hot takes, Microsoft"s GitHub buy-out, plus lighthearted debates on cats vs. dogs and Jif vs. GIF. It"s a fun, candid 50-minute mix of high-end hardware tips and genuine geek chat. Watch on YouTube In this collab, Linus Sebastian…...

1+ min ago (491+ words) INDIANAPOLIS (Indiana Capital Chronicle) - An Indiana Democrat on Monday filed a bill to ban early redistricting as Republicans heed President Donald Trump's call for a 9-0 sweep of the state's congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Sen. Fady Qaddoura, D-Indianapolis, knows his bill is a long shot, but said it "protects voters, safeguards democracy and ensures that political power is earned, not manipulated." He spoke during a news conference at the Indiana Statehouse, an hour after House Republicans unveiled their proposed map. Redistricting is typically done every decade, with the release of new census data. Republican supermajorities drew the current maps in 2021, and they're not due for a refresh until 2030. The new map pulls from the same 2020 census data. It splits the Democrat-held 1st District into two. The 7th District, a Democrat-controlled seat that largely follows Indianapolis' borders, is splintered across four…...