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And as the New York Times reports, Kalshi will even allow users to bet on whether clinical trials for potentially lifesaving drug trials will succeed.

You won’t get anyone in Microsoft publicly admitting that they had neglected Windows in favour of something else altogether more shiny, but some mis-steps might have made that happen. A reorganization in 2018 split Windows into the core OS that sat in the Cloud & AI group (essentially Azure and all its friends, including Windows Server, under Scott Guthrie) and the UI and Apps belonging to the Experiences & Devices group, led by Rajesh Jha. Windows no longer reported to the CEO.

The report reinforces what economists and budget analysts have long recognized: Oregon remains one of the most income tax-dependent states in the United States. While many states rely heavily on broad statewide sales taxes to finance government services, Oregon has chosen a different path by operating without a general statewide retail sales tax. Instead, personal and corporate income taxes serve as the foundation of the state’s revenue system, making Oregon’s finances more closely tied to employment, wages, business earnings and investment performance than those of many other states.

The settlement addresses allegations that both companies violated the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by discriminating against U.S. workers and instead preferred workers with temporary employment visas, when the companies hired and recruited during the Permanent Labor Certification (PERM) process.

“It is illegal to discriminate against U.S. workers by preferring temporary visa holders for jobs,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. 

The Oregonian/OregonLive: Are you expecting to see an increase in homelessness due to those constraints?
VerGow: Yes, I am expecting to see increases.

One metaphor, suggested by Grant Sanderson on the Dwarkesh Patel Podcast, is that mathematicians of the relatively near future will be more like art museum curators than artists themselves.  That, is, of the vast space of AI-generated mathematical results, they will select the ones that are most worth learning, organize them into a coherent progression, and clearly present them in terms that are digestible to other people. 

A security weakness in the technology used by most of the nation’s crime labs to analyze DNA evidence exposed 30 years of crime files to the risk of being hacked, according to a group of forensic and computer scientists. 

Conventional photonic crystals are nanostructured materials containing a repeating optical pattern (like a lattice) that determines how photons move through them. By carefully arranging materials with different shapes and refractive indexes, scientists can block, guide, or strengthen selected wavelengths of light. In that sense, photonic crystals control photons in a way that resembles how semiconductors control electrons.

Imagine thinking that you had proven the Collatz Conjecture, only to find out that it was just a bug in the LEAN theorem proving platform. How was your day?

Across all mouse strains, cancers nearly always acquired a cancer-driving mutation that activated the same cancer-promoting signalling system, called the MAPK pathway. This is a multi-step cascade of molecular signals that controls important life processes, including cell growth and cell differentiation, and plays a key role in numerous types of cancer.

However, depending on the inherited genetics of the mouse, the particular driver mutation that was acquired altered the activity of other cancer-associated signalling pathways, as well as causing a striking tendency for whole-genome duplication, an event in which the entire set of chromosomes is doubled.

A common bankruptcy concern is that it can hurt your credit history — and it does show up on your record. But if you're filing for bankruptcy, your credit score is probably already in rough shape.

In fact, your credit score could ultimately improve. Samuel Antill, an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School, said his research shows most people's credit scores recover within a year of filing and usually improve from there.

"People don't understand how good of a deal bankruptcy is," Antill said.

When researchers updated the way they did their theoretical calculations, they found that their predictions matched the experimental results much more precisely than before, to one part in 100 billion.

But that, in turn, has created another puzzle: The old calculations seem perfectly valid. So why don’t they match the new calculations? 

Wednesday’s news is a blow to the 375 workers who stand to lose their jobs and to Portland’s fragile economy. The city has struggled to attract business in the years since the pandemic and Oregon’s manufacturing workforce has been in steep decline since 2022. Statewide, factory jobs are at their lowest point in 15 years. 
Gov. Tina Kotek’s office did not respond to a message seeking comment on the Swan Island closure. 

tracking system called "radar ticketing" and targeting wealthier neighborhoods. Green said ticketing residents in wealthier neighborhoods would reduce going after people "experiencing multiple layers of economic oppression."