Kalshi and Polymarket crack down on paid influencers claiming election fraud

Influencers are using prediction market odds to sow doubt in vote counting, in some cases in posts paid for by the companies ...
Scientific American

How Gödel numbers let you do math with math itself

By encoding mathematical statements into numbers, mathematician Kurt Gödel used ordinary arithmetic to check whether a ...
NBC 10 Philadelphia

Philly to launch retirement savings program for workers without 401(k)

Philadelphia workers who don’t have a 401(k) will soon have a new option to build a cushion for retirement. Back in January, Mayor Cherelle Parker signed two bills establishing the Philadelphia ...
InfoWorld

Write Python like it’s 2025

Here’s how to install Python like a boss. 4 keys to writing modern Python Here’s what you need to know (and do) if you want to write Python like it’s 2025, not 2005. How to use uv, the super-fast ...
The New York Times

How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)

High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence. Credit...Video by Lauren Lancaster For The New ...
Variety

Jodi Picoult’s ‘Book of Two Ways’ in Development as Netflix Series, ‘Outlander’s’ Matthew B. Roberts to Write (EXCLUSIVE)

Netflix is developing a series version of the Jodi Picoult novel “The Book of Two Ways,” Variety has learned exclusively from sources. The project hails from Matthew B. Roberts, who will pen the ...
Reuters

Iran can go up to two months without oil exports before cutting output, analysts say

LONDON, April 15 (Reuters) - Iran can withstand a complete halt in oil exports of up to two months before being forced to curb production, ‌analysts said, after the U.S. began blocking shipping in and ...
Polygon

NASA moon mission helps classic Steam space game explode 10 years after launch

In early April, NASA and its Artemis II mission inspired humanity to look toward the heavens. Now that the four-person space crew has returned home, however, the public still hasn't had its fill of ...
Space.com

Artemis 2 mission sends 'Kerbal Space Program' player numbers soaring to the Mun

Artemis II has launched, sending a crew of four astronauts on a mission to circle the moon and back to Earth, the first step toward planned lunar landings and eventual habitation on the lunar surface.
The Conversation

A New York Times critic used AI to write his review – but criticism is deeply human

An author and freelance journalist has admitted to using AI to help him write a book review for the New York Times. The Times promptly dropped Preston, calling his “reliance on A.I. and his use of ...
The Conversation

College students are writing with AI – but a pilot study finds they’re not simply letting it write for them

Rather than hand off writing to chatbots, college students in pilots showed that they use them to brainstorm and help get started. Kriangsak Koopattanakij/iStock via Getty Images Debates about ...