{"id":33533,"date":"2024-09-27T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/friday-headlines-live-and-let-diaeresis#id33251"},"modified":"2024-09-27T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T16:57:00","slug":"friday-headlines-live-and-let-diaeresis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/friday-headlines-live-and-let-diaeresis\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday headlines: Live and let diaeresis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly four million homes and businesses in the South are without power as Helene makes landfall as a Category 4 hurricane <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hurricane-helene-florida-georgia-carolina-e5769b56dea81e40fae2161ad1b4e75d\">in Florida.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Associated Press<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Conservative purists may hope a Trump defeat will end Trumpism, but the GOP is likely to remain ruled &#8220;by, and for reactionary business interests and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/373376\/trump-loss-2024-election-republican-party\">social conservatives.<\/a>&#8220;<span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Vox<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Regardless of any reduction in emissions, climate change will raise the sea level of Pacific Island nations by at least six inches in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/earth\/climate-change\/nasa-analysis-shows-irreversible-sea-level-rise-for-pacific-islands\/\">next 30 years.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ NASA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>See also: The climate has changed many times and in many ways over the past 485 million years, but never as quickly as what&#39;s happening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2024\/09\/19\/earth-temperature-global-warming-planet\/\">right now.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ The Washington Post [+]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Secret Service spent $50,000 on AI and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/the-secret-service-spent-50-000-on-openai-and-wont-say-why\/\">won&#39;t say why.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ 404 Media<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Households in the US can now order more free <a href=\"https:\/\/special.usps.com\/testkits\">Covid tests.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ USPS<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No billionaires will fund work like this because there&#39;s no money in it.&#8221; The Jet Propulsion Laboratory does amazing things; equally amazing is that JPL <a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/3Y15UFw\">even exists.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ The Washington Post [+]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>With the news that OpenAI is moving to a for-profit model, its stated mission to develop artificial intelligence safely and transparently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/374275\/openai-just-sold-you-out\">is no more.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Vox<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Why is generative AI being shoehorned into every software product? 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