Chrome Tests Reading Mode for Text-Heavy PDFs

Google is testing Reading Mode for some PDFs in Chrome Canary. The browser shows a Reading Mode button when a document contains enough readable text.
The Guardian

Who are the six men named in the unredacted Epstein files?

In a floor speech, Ro Khanna, a Democratic representative, revealed identities of six men after seeing unredacted files Ro Khanna, the US congressman, publicly revealed the names of six men whose ...
The New York Times

How The Times Is Digging Into Millions of Pages of Epstein Files

Two dozen journalists. A pile of pages that would reach the top of the Empire State Building. And an effort to find the next revelation in a sprawling case. Interview by Patrick Healy With Steve ...
The Hill

Lawmakers express bipartisan outrage as DOJ accused of ‘spying’ on members’ Epstein searches

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are accusing the Department of Justice (DOJ) of spying on them as they reviewed the unredacted Epstein files on DOJ computers, tracking the documents they examined ...
The Verge

ByteDance’s next-gen AI model can generate clips based on text, images, audio, and video

Seedance 2.0 can take camera movement, visual effects, and motion into account. Seedance 2.0 can take camera movement, visual effects, and motion into account. is a news writer who covers the ...
Bleeping Computer

Windows 11 Notepad flaw let files execute silently via Markdown links

If a user opened this Markdown file in Windows 11 Notepad versions 11.2510 and earlier and viewed it in Markdown mode, the above text would appear as a clickable link. If the link is clicked with ...
The Guardian

The Jeffrey Epstein files have shattered Norway’s illusions about itself

Norway built its global brand on diplomacy and egalitarianism. The cosying up of its elite to the sex offender can only boost the far right Donald Trump may have wanted revenge against Norway for the ...
BBC

US lawmakers tell BBC Andrew should testify over Epstein files

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is facing growing pressure from US officials and the family of his prominent accuser Virginia Giuffre to testify in the US about his links to paedophile financier Jeffrey ...
The Hill

Khanna reads names of 6 men ‘likely incriminated’ in Epstein files on House floor

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) shared the names of the six men he claimed were “likely incriminated” in the Epstein files on the House floor Tuesday. Khanna’s comments come as the Justice Department has ...
GitHub

LLM2Vec: Large Language Models Are Secretly Powerful Text Encoders

LLM2Vec is a simple recipe to convert decoder-only LLMs into text encoders. It consists of 3 simple steps: 1) enabling bidirectional attention, 2) training with masked next token prediction, and 3) ...
Al Jazeera English

Struggling to navigate the Epstein files? Here is a visual guide

More details are emerging daily from the January 30 release of more than three million pages of documents by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), exposing the extraordinary breadth of Jeffrey Epstein’s ...
CNN

13 controversial redactions from the Epstein files — and what we’re learning about them

This has been a big week in the long-running — and still very much not-over — saga of the Jeffrey Epstein files. That’s because we’ve begun to learn more about the Justice Department’s controversial ...