Zapier Survey Finds Workers Spend 4.5 Hours Per Week Cleaning Up AI Mistakes

“AI workslop” is AI-generated output that looks polished at first glance but lacks the substance, precision, or context needed to meaningfully complete a task. This phenomenon is creating a ...
PCMag

Want to Reach Flow State Faster? These Apps Amplify the Pomodoro Technique

If you ever find a personal or work task daunting, you might just need to rethink how you approach it. Pomodoro apps and ...

The Future of Secure Child Care Funding Depends on Modern Infrastructure

TOOTRiS Issues Statement on the Recent Actions Towards Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Allocations Two things ...
Jezebel

You May Hate Bureaucracy, but Not as Much as the Guy Who Lost His License for Someone Else’s Crime From 20 Years Ago

Imagine being told that your license was suspended because a different person got a DUI 20 years ago in a state you've never ...
eLife

Retrosplenial cortex enables context-dependent goal-directed sensorimotor transformation

This important study combines optogenetic manipulations and wide-field imaging to show that the retrosplenial cortex controls behavioral responses to whisker deflection in a context-dependent manner.

I was wrong about Elon. But he was wrong too

A year ago, I predicted that Musk would quit Tesla. He predicted our newspaper would “bore its audience to death”. We were ...
eLife

A differentiable model for optimizing the genetic drivers of synaptogenesis

This study presents SynaptoGen, a differentiable extension of connectome models that links gene expression, protein-protein interaction probabilities, synaptic multiplicity, and synaptic weights, and ...
WREG

U.S. Marshals say Memphis crime rates dropped due to task force presence

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The U.S. Marshals announced that the Memphis Safe Task Force has made over 4,000 arrests and has significantly impacted crime since being deployed to Memphis in September, according ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Here’s what error rates can say about a judge’s performance

The Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Judicial Performance Evaluation has long relied on anonymous attorney ratings as a metric to rank judges in Clark County. This year, the Review-Journal is partnering ...
WRAL

As Duke Energy seeks higher rates, NC task force studies grid strain from tech growth

North Carolina leaders are raising new concerns about rising power bills as the state’s Energy Policy Task Force met Tuesday to examine how rapid load growth from data centers and new industries could ...
The Santa Fe New Mexican

Legislative analysts urge New Mexico to remedy high SNAP payment error rate

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Legislative financial analysts this week urged New Mexico officials to address ...
NPR

SNAP will face ongoing crisis as states shoulder costs tied to payment error rate

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