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Partisan Language Inserted Into Education Dept. Workers’ Automated Emails  The New York Times Furloughed SBA staffers unleash on Democrats for shutdown in searing auto-replies  Fox News Out-of-office messages blaming Democrats for shutdown sent on behalf of some federal workers without their consent  CNN ‘Those were not my words:’ Out-of-office message automatically updated for furloughed Education Dept employees  Federal News Network Education Department employees’ emails …

Some Furloughed Federal Staff Use Automated Replies to Blame Senate Democrats  The New York Times Trump administration’s official shutdown guidance: Blame Democrats  MSNBC News Government agencies are blaming the shutdown on Democrats. Ethics experts say it could be against the law.  Politico Trump administration seeks to exert control over government shutdown  The Washington Post Government Shutdown FAQ  U.S. Representative Ami Bera (.gov) Source link

7:33pm: Major League Baseball’s Joint Competition Committee voted 9-2 to approve the ABS challenge system, Bob Nightengale of USA Today reports. All six owners, three of the four players, and the lone umpire on the committee voted in favor of the change. 12:52pm: As expected, the ABS challenge system has been approved, per an MLB announcement. 11:50am: Major League Baseball’s …

The robot umps are here. Major League Baseball’s competition committee on Tuesday afternoon approved the introduction of the automated ball-strike system, or ABS, for the 2026 regular season. Every team will begin next year’s games with two challenges of the home plate umpire’s strike zone, and a team will not lose one of its challenges when it gets the challenge …

Alexander Mordvintsev showed me two clumps of pixels on his screen. They pulsed, grew and blossomed into monarch butterflies. As the two butterflies grew, they smashed into each other, and one got the worst of it; its wing withered away. But just as it seemed like a goner, the mutilated butterfly did a kind of backflip and grew a new …

Sextortion-based hacking, which hijacks a victim’s webcam or blackmails them with nudes they’re tricked or coerced into sharing, has long represented one of the most disturbing forms of cybercrime. Now one specimen of widely available spyware has turned that relatively manual crime into an automated feature, detecting when the user is browsing pornography on their PC, screenshotting it, and taking …

ATLANTA — Major League Baseball Players Association executive director Tony Clark wondered Tuesday whether the automated ball-strike system would do well to provide a little grace, a half-inch or so, so that the system isn’t used to overturn calls that are wrong by a razor-thin margin. “Does there need to be some type of buffer-zone consideration?” Clark asked. “We haven’t …

Atlanta CNN  —  The hottest topic in Atlanta ahead of Tuesday’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game isn’t a player, a coach or a manager. It’s not even human. For the first time, the midsummer classic is going to be using automated technology to allow pitchers, catchers and batters to challenge balls and strikes – a system that’s been in use …