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World
What to Know About the Open Versus Closed Software Debate
A.I. companies are divided over whether the technology should be freely available to anyone for modifying and copying, or kept close for safekeeping.
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World
David Kahn, Leading Historian of Codes and Code Breaking, Dies at 93
His 1967 book, “The Codebreakers,” introduced the world to cryptology and inspired the emergence of private-sector encrypted communication.
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World
We Need to Restore the Soul of New York City
Over the past decade, there has been much hand-wringing about New York’s puzzling empty storefront problem, with vacancy rates sitting north of 15 percent last fall in some of the city’s most celebrated areas. How did streets, from the East to the ...
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World
Rumbles in the Senate and the Supreme Court — and the Movie You’ll Never See
There was a lot of news this week, and I could not write a column about every event. Instead, here are some quick thoughts on a few events that caught my eye. You can think of this as something like a lightning round. Rumble on the Senate Floor On ...
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World
Supreme Court’s New Ethics Code Is Toothless, Experts Say
The code of conduct issued on Monday, following reports of undisclosed travel and gifts, includes no enforcement mechanism and lets individual justices decide ethics questions for themselves.
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World
Supreme Court Adopts Ethics Code After Reports of Undisclosed Gifts and Travel
The code does not specify how the rules would be enforced or by whom.
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Business
How ‘A.I. Agents’ That Roam the Internet Could One Day Replace Workers
Researchers are transforming chatbots into online agents that play games, query websites, schedule meetings, build bar charts and do more.