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Princeton University has ended one hundred thirty three years of academic tradition, voting to mandate proctored in-person exams for the first time in its history. The move is widely seen as a direct response to the rise of AI tools, raising real questions about how higher education redefines trust and integrity in the age of large language models.
Shifting to the question of what AI can actually build, a developer has published a Rust implementation of the RAR archive format called Rars, and the twist is that most of the code was written by large language models. The author is candid about the process and its limits, making it a genuinely interesting case study in where LLM-assisted development succeeds and where it still needs a human hand.
And in a story that sits at the intersection of payment infrastructure and platform power, the adult game industry has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against Visa and Mastercard. The filing argues that the card networks have effectively used their market position to regulate legal content, a question about financial chokepoints that reaches well beyond any single industry.
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