Colorado judge sentences serial rapist who drugged and sexually assaulted 4 women; victim says "it took away my safety"

A Parker man has been sentenced to decades behind bars for raping multiple women. Prosecutors say David Kats used drugs, deception and manipulation to prey on women for nearly a decade.
Hackaday

A Digital Audio Recorder For TOSLink

Every now and then in our travels we come upon a project with such an obvious need that it’s almost a surprise nobody has ...
Slate

The A.I. Writing Panic Is Completely Missing the Point

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. At the center of many of these ...
EdSurge

I Tell My Students Writing Is Hard. I Still Ask Them to Do It Anyway.

My life has changed so much since my time as a Voices of Change fellow during the 2023 school year. As I wrote in my final essay of the fellowship, the beautiful, imperfect school I loved and helped ...
TechCrunch

WordPress.com now lets AI agents write and publish posts, and more

Web hosting platform WordPress.com is embracing AI agents, a decision that could change the look and feel of the web. The company announced Friday that it will now allow AI agents to draft, edit, and ...
The Hollywood Reporter

New York Times, Serial Launch True Crime Podcast ‘The Idiot’ (Exclusive)

The five-part podcast is based on a family member of New York Times Opinion columnist M. Gessen. By Caitlin Huston Business Writer The New York Times and Serial Productions are launching a new true ...
Wall Street Journal

AI-Generated Writing Is Everywhere, and It’s Still Easy to Spot—for Now

We are drowning in a sea of abysmal, artificially generated prose. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. It’s seeping into inboxes, infecting publications and ruining the internet (again). A favorite ...
The White House

The President and First Lady’s Message on Read Across America Day

This Read Across America Day, we proudly join millions of students, parents, teachers, and librarians across our Nation in celebrating the importance of reading in our homes and literacy in our ...
Hazleton Standard Speaker

Cursive writing helps students do more than sign their names

SUGARLOAF TWP. — Students in second grade began a lesson on cursive writing without using paper or pencils. They stood up and started to recite: “down curve, under curve, over curve” while moving ...
Scientific American

Poetry was humanity’s first language technology. AI is the next

Poetry and artificial intelligence can appear as opposites—one deeply human; the other cold and mechanical. Sasha Stiles sees them as expressions of the same impulse. Poetry, the Kalmyk- American poet ...
The Washington Post

In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better?

When Craig Schmidt gave his high school English students an assignment based on “Fahrenheit 451,” he threw them a curveball: He told them to use ChatGPT. Schmidt asked the class to write several ...