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Columbia and Brown to Disclose Admissions and Race Data in Trump Deal

Binh An Vu Van @binhanv.bsky.social · Aug 5

Columbia and Brown to Disclose Admissions and Race Data in Trump Deal www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/n...

Judge Declines to Order Trump Administration to Restore Research Cuts

Binh An Vu Van @binhanv.bsky.social · Aug 2

Judge Declines to Order Trump Administration to Restore Research Cuts www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/n...

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down

Binh An Vu Van @binhanv.bsky.social · Aug 2

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Addresses Operations Following Loss of Federal Funding

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · Aug 1

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"

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Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · Aug 1

New: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it is shutting down

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissio...

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Jul 15

Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles above the solar surface.

See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3

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WIRED @wired.com · Jul 15

NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out

Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

I Tried Grok’s Built-In Anime Companion and It Called Me a Twat

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Binh An Vu Van @binhanv.bsky.social · Jul 16

Le nouveau companion de Grok...t loin du trombonne de Microsoft office. I Tried Grok’s Built-In Anime Companion and It Called Me a Twat www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

xAI’s new $300 monthly subscription comes with two AI companions powered by its most capable model to date. I tried them. It got weird.

The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out

Binh An Vu Van @binhanv.bsky.social · Jul 16

Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. Super analyse de Wired. www.wired.com/story/the-fb... #epsteinfiles

Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

NASA Website Will Not Provide Previous National Climate Reports

Binh An Vu Van @binhanv.bsky.social · Jul 15

NASA Website Will Not Provide Previous National Climate Reports www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/c...

Au bord du rachat | Avenir incertain pour Les Débrouillards

Binh An Vu Van @binhanv.bsky.social · Jul 11

Avenir incertain pour Les Débrouillards. Le 10 juin dernier, le groupe français Bayard a formulé une offre d’achat de 999 000 $ à ses coactionnaires afin de devenir l’unique propriétaire des Publications BLD www.lapresse.ca/affaires/ent...

Au grand dam de ses fondateurs québécois, le magazine jeunesse Les Débrouillards pourrait bientôt être racheté par une multinationale française. Dans les coulisses : un conflit d’actionnaires qui pers...

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Binh An Vu Van @binhanv.bsky.social · Jun 2

Super video concue par IA, sur Veo 3, de sensibilisation... contre les arnaques à l'IA... Conçue par @thetravisbible sur instagram pour avertir ses parents. #ai #veo3 #scam #deepfake #memes #aigenerated #technology #comedy #google www.instagram.com/reel/DKPu4Mp...

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At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work

Binh An Vu Van @binhanv.bsky.social · May 27

At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/b...

A Philosopher Released an Acclaimed Book About Digital Manipulation. The Author Ended Up Being AI

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Jérôme Marty (he/him) @freshwater.bsky.social · May 16

Long day today working with @binhanv.bsky.social and the team from Decouverte at @iciradiocanada.bsky.social to report on the state of science in the US and the Great Lakes.

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Binh An Vu Van @binhanv.bsky.social · May 1

Le livre acclamé "Hypnocracy: Trump, Musk, and the New Architecture of Reality" sur la manipulation numérique... s'avère avoir été créée avec une IA. Une expérience philosophique. www.wired.com/story/an-acc...

Italian essayist Andrea Colamedici tells WIRED "Hypnocracy: Trump, Musk, and the New Architecture of Reality" was a “philosophical experiment and a performance.” The book’s Chinese author does not exi...

Your Favorite New Coworker Is an AI-Enhanced Operative From North Korea

Binh An Vu Van @binhanv.bsky.social · May 1

Le télétravail : une opportunité pour les cyberespions nord-coréens.

For years, North Korea has been secretly placing young IT workers inside Western companies. With AI, their schemes are now more devious—and effective—than ever.

Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State

Binh An Vu Van @binhanv.bsky.social · May 1

‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...

DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.

Citing N.I.H. Cuts, a Top Science Journal Stops Accepting Submissions

Binh An Vu Van @binhanv.bsky.social · Apr 30

Citing N.I.H. Cuts, a Top Science Journal Stops Accepting Submissions www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/s...

With federal support, Environmental Health Perspectives has long published peer-reviewed studies without fees to readers or scientists.

États-Unis | Le gouvernement Trump congédie les auteurs d’un rapport scientifique sur le climat

Binh An Vu Van @binhanv.bsky.social · Apr 30

Le gouvernement Trump congédie les auteurs d’un rapport scientifique sur le climat www.lapresse.ca/actualites/e...

L’administration du président Donald Trump a congédié cette semaine les auteurs d’un rapport scientifique utilisé depuis plus de 25 ans pour élaborer les politiques de réponse au réchauffement climati...

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Indiana University leads the push for a pact among 18 institutions as Donald Trump targets diversity

Binh An Vu Van @binhanv.bsky.social · Apr 25

US universities’ faculty unite to defend academic freedom after Trump’s attacks

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Binh An Vu Van @binhanv.bsky.social · Apr 24

Twitter became 4chan,then the 4chanified Twitter became the US gov. Its usefulness as an ammo dump in the culture war was diminished when they were saying things you would now hear every day on Twitter,then 6 months later out of the mouths of an administration official. www.wired.com/story/4chan-...

4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere

It’s likely that there will never be a site like 4chan again. But everything now—from X and YouTube to global politics—seems to carry its toxic legacy.

Bientôt un médicament créé par l’IA

Binh An Vu Van @binhanv.bsky.social · Apr 9

Le tout premier médicament entièrement généré par intelligence artificielle franchit les essais cliniques de phase 2 pour le traitement d'une maladie pulmonaire mortelle. ici.radio-canada.ca/info/long-fo...

Le tout premier médicament entièrement généré par l'IA, pour le traitement d'une maladie pulmonaire mortelle, a franchi les essais cliniques de phase 2.

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