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House Republicans are turning a skeptical eye toward prediction markets. The House Oversight Committee has requested documents from both Polymarket and Kalshi, focusing on whether insider trading may have influenced markets tied to war and geopolitical events. It's a significant moment for an industry that has long argued its markets reflect genuine crowd wisdom.
Meanwhile, if you've been running Firefox on an Intel thirteenth or fourteenth generation processor, you may have noticed your browser crashing with frustrating regularity. Mozilla has finally identified and patched the root cause after more than a year of investigation. The flaw was tied to specific behavior in Intel's Raptor Lake chip architecture, and the fix is now available in the latest release.
And in a story that cuts to the heart of how we think about creativity and trust, a short story selected for the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize appears to have been written by an AI. The piece, published in the British literary magazine Granta, exhibits the kind of telltale patterns that large language models tend to produce — mixed metaphors, repetitive structure, hollow rhythm. The literary world, it seems, is still catching up to a problem it wasn't quite ready to face.
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