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Reflecting pool vandalism charges against David Hearn permanently dismissed

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A Washington, D.C., judge permanently dismissed the criminal indictment against U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn Thursday, ending a months-long saga around allegations of vandalism to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after the government admitted to a "botched" construction job in recent renovations.

In August, federal prosecutors asked Superior Court Judge Todd Edelman to dismiss the criminal indictment against Hearn, who had been charged with felony destruction of government property. He was accused of causing more than $1,000 in damage to the sealant that was installed last summer at the bottom of the Reflecting Pool.

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AI agents are "very intelligent, charming sociopaths," Kevin Roose says

The world is awakening to the potential threats posed by artificial intelligence amid a barrage of reports about AI agents defying their human creators . In reality, however, the story stretches back to Silicon Valley, where AI was born. "What happened during the decade when AI went from being pretty dumb at most things to being able to solve century-old math and science problems?" Roose, formerly a longtime tech reporter at The New York Times and soon to be co-host of the forthcoming podcast "Machine Gods," told CBS News. "My feeling was, someone needs to write this all down."

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