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The rapid adoption of AI coding tools has let workers generate massive volumes of code, leaving companies scrambling to review and secure the AI-generated code (New York Times)

New York Times:
The rapid adoption of AI coding tools has let workers generate massive volumes of code, leaving companies scrambling to review and secure the AI-generated code  —  When a financial services company recently began using Cursor, an artificial intelligence technology that writes computer code, the difference that it made was immediate.

Delayed Bellevue Jail Unit to Open as Rikers Med Facility is Shut

After years of delays and cost overruns, the city plans to finally open part of a quarter-billion dollar unit at Bellevue Hospital for seriously ill detainees on Rikers Island, THE CITY has learned.  The Mamdani administration also plans to close the North Infirmary Command, the original Rikers Island hospital constructed in 1932, according to multiple […]

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Wisconsin governor says ‘no’ to age checks for porn

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a bill that would've required residents to verify their age before accessing porn sites, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a letter to the members of the assembly last week, Evers writes that the bill "imposes an intrusive burden on adults who are trying to access constitutionally protected materials." […]

Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are sharing information via the Frontier Model Forum to detect adversarial distillation attempts that violate their ToS (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are sharing information via the Frontier Model Forum to detect adversarial distillation attempts that violate their ToS  —  Rivals OpenAI, Anthropic PBC, and Alphabet Inc.'s Google have begun working together to try to clamp down on Chinese competitors extracting results …

She Donated Money to Mamdani. Can Nadia Shihata Investigate His City Hall?

Nadia Shihata, Mayor Mamdani's appointee to head the Department of Investigations, is grilled by member's of the City Council's Committee on Rules, Privileges, Elections, Standards and Ethics on April 6, 2026.

During a sometimes confrontational hearing Monday, City Council members questioned the independence of Nadia Shihata, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s nominee for Department of Investigation commissioner, citing her longtime friendship with a top Mamdani aide and $700 in donations she made to the mayor’s campaign. Shihata insisted she would remain unbiased if she’s confirmed to run the […]

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