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In 2023, the Federal Bureau of Prisons shut down a troubled unit at the prison in Illinois. The former warden is now the director of the federal center that does specialized training of prison staff.

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2 hours ago Ten ‘neighborhood centers’ proposed for West Seattle, and other changes in newly unveiled zoning maps

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2 hours ago Researchers develop a new generative adversarial networks model that stabilizes training and performance

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning models have advanced rapidly, becoming easily accessible. This has enabled people, even those without specialized expertise, to perform various tasks with AI. Among these models, generative adversarial networks (GANs) stand out for their outstanding performance in generating new data instances with the same characteristics as the training data, making them particularly effective for generating images, music, and text.

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3 hours ago CBS accused of ‘significant and intentional news distortion’ in FCC complaint over ’60 Minutes’ edit

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4 hours ago FBI quietly updates crime data to show big jump in violence under Biden

Crime and data expert John Lott spoke to Fox News Digital regarding how the FBI updated its 2022 violent crime stats to show a 4.5% increase, not a decrease.

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4 hours ago Spurs' Victor Wembanyama suggests he was disappointed with some NBA players' work ethic

San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama says some of the NBA players that he looked up to don't put in as much work as he thought they did.

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7 hours ago A polarizing, provocative French novelist says he’s written his last book

Michel Houellebecq is a controversial literary superstar. His new book, Annihilation, centers on a middle-aged Paris bureaucrat in a sexless marriage. It's slow to start, but still holds surprises.

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8 hours ago Chinese investments, rebukes for ‘preaching’ take center stage at contentious Casey v. McCormick rematch

Longtime Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey and Republican challenger Dave McCormick squared off in their second Senate debate ahead of Election Day.

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10 hours ago Lightmatter’s $400M round has AI hyperscalers hyped for photonic datacenters

Photonic computing startup Lightmatter has raised $400 million to blow one of modern datacenters’ bottlenecks wide open. The company’s optical interconnect layer allows hundreds of GPUs to work synchronously, streamlining the costly and complex job of training and running AI models. The growth of AI and its correspondingly immense compute requirements have supercharged the datacenter […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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