AMERICANTHINKER - The Cyber Apocalypse Nobody’s Ready For: Why Q-Day Changes Everything
RawPixel.com Every layer of modern life depends on encryption so deeply that most people never even think about it. Until it stops working.
AXIOS (Zachary Basu) - "The pitchforks are here": Billionaires work to contain AI's populist revolt
America's billionaires are developing their own prescriptions for AI-fueled inequality, anxious to defuse a populist revolt aimed at their ballooning fortunes. Why it matters: The AI boom has dramatically raised the stakes of the wealth-tax debate, unleashing a technology that could wipe out millions of jobs while minting the world's first trillionaires. - Populist politicians, particularly on the left, have cast this as capitalism's next great reckoning : an even deeper concentration of wealth and power in an economy already rigged for the elite. Zoom in: Some of the richest men in tech have warned for years AI could destabilize the economy. Many suggest the answer is not deceleration or wealth taxes, but shared abundance. - Jeff…
NYTIMES (Juliet Macur) - Trans Athlete Could Repeat as State Champion at California Meet
Special rules will again be in place. Podium spots might be shared.
NYTIMES (Mark Landler) - France’s Far Right Has 2 Leaders. They Don’t Always Have One Voice.
Marine Le Pen and her protégé, Jordan Bardella, lead presidential polls. They are united on curbing immigration but split recently on economic policy.
NYTIMES (Matt Flegenheimer) - The Knicks’ Playoff Run Has Brought a Peculiar Harmony to New York
The team’s playoff run has brought a curious sense of amity to the city.
NYTIMES (James Poniewozik) - ‘Hacks’ Was Always a Love Story
In its finale, this comedy about comedy circled back to the romance of creative partnership and the saving power of laughs.
NYTIMES (Patricia Cohen and Alexis Pazoumian) - A.I. Doesn’t Have to Mean Layoffs
A French multinational, Schneider Electric, decided to use artificial intelligence in manufacturing to make workers more productive, rather than to replace them. Here’s how that’s going.
NYTIMES (Patrick McGeehan) - Natural Light. Soaring Ceilings. At Penn Station? That’s the Plan.
A week after Amtrak selected a developer to remake the dreary rail hub, details of its rebirth are emerging. The cost is less clear.
NYTIMES (Heather Knight, Soumya Karlamangla and Jill Cowan) - Why Hasn’t California Elected a Woman Governor?
Most states have had a woman serve as governor, but California is in the minority despite its progressive-minded electorate. Women who have reached the top elsewhere saw familiar roadblocks.
NYTIMES (Laurel Rosenhall) - California House Primary in Sacramento Displays Democrats’ Fierce Generational Battle
Representative Doris Matsui has been re-elected 10 times with ease. But an upstart Democrat is threatening to end her run in Congress.