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Are you man enough? Republicans bet on ‘virile, brawny’ testosterone to juice the midterms

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Hoping to win back male voters, the Trump White House is pushing the regressive idea that one hormone could be a magic elixir of masculinity Two years after Donald Trump decisively won the vote of the American man, polls say male voters are increasingly disillusioned with an administration that has waged wars and enriched itself. Ahead of the midterms, Trump’s strategy seems to be to find a way to get that masculine animus back, so the male populace will vote not with their heads or their hearts, but with their hogs. At least, that’s one way of…

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USCBS News

Nvidia announces security system to stop AI agents from going rogue

NVIDIA has created a new security platform that the chipmaker said can prevent artificial intelligence agents from going rogue. The company said on Monday that it is releasing the new system, called OpenShell, due to the need for "independent security controls" after multiple AI agents disobeyed commands and broke into other systems. Most recently, OpenAI said on Friday that its AI agents had interacted with several U.S. government websites in unexpected ways , a disclosure that came after several earlier rogue hacking incidents by other AI agents.

USCBS News

Nor'easter winding down after hitting parts of East Coast hard

Remnants of a powerful nor'easter continued to hit parts of the U.S. East Coast early Monday after bringing a fierce combination of heavy rain, strong winds and dangerous waves to multiple states in its path over the weekend. In coastal sections of New York and New Jersey, the storm triggered such intense flooding that residents were seen paddling through their neighborhoods on kayaks and canoes, past parked cars that had become partially or nearly submerged in water.