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PEN America's report found 6,870 instances of book bans in 2024 and 2025. Books bans in public schools have become a "new normal" in the U.S., escalating since 2021, according to one advocacy group.

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In August 2023, Israel’s then-Energy Minister Israel Katz visited the synagogue at the Abrahamic Family House in the United Arab Emirates, a sign of warming ties between the two countries under the ...

Learn the simplest explanation of layer normalization in transformers. Understand how it stabilizes training, improves convergence, and why it’s essential in deep learning models like BERT and GPT.

The old adage, "familiarity breeds contempt," rings eerily true when considering the dangers of normalizing deviance. Coined by sociologist Diane Vaughan, this phenomenon describes the gradual process ...

The surge in political violence during the Trump years has imperiled not only American lives but also our country’s collective memory. The details of a new atrocity overwrite the old. Even the names ...

Hamas aimed to derail “normalization’’ talks between Israel and Saudi Arabia by launching the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre and plunging Gaza into war, newly unearthed documents show. Days before the attack ...

This month MySQL turns 30. Once the bedrock of web development, MySQL remains immensely popular. But as MySQL enters its fourth decade, it ironically has sown the seeds of its own decline, especially ...