Data Science Is Really Cool

By Emily Weinstein, The New York Times Sometimes we publish a recipe on New York Times Cooking that aligns so perfectly with this feature and our cause — food for busy people who still want something good to eat — that I get excited to tell you about it. That’s the case with Vallery Lomas’ new roasted chicken thighs with hot honey and lime.

By Melissa Clark, The New York Times MONTAUK, N. Y. — On a cold, windy February morning on Shinnecock Bay, on the South Fork of Long Island, New York, Ricky Sea Smoke fished for clams from the back of his 24-foot boat. The fisherman, whose real name is Rick Stevens, expertly sorted through haul after haul as they were dumped onto the sorting rack. Among the usual littlenecks and cherrystones were delicacies that would make chefs swoon: sweet, plump razor clams; vermilion-fleshed blood clams; and dainty limpets (also known as slipper snails) with their inimitable saline, buttery flavor.

The Denver Post and seven other newspapers sued Microsoft and OpenAI on Tuesday, claiming the technology giants illegally harvested millions of copyrighted articles to create their cutting-edge “generative” artificial intelligence products including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot. While the newspapers’ publishers have spent billions of dollars to send “real people to real places to report on real events in the real world,” the two tech firms are “purloining” the papers’ reporting without compensation “to create products that provide news and information plagiarized and stolen,” according to the lawsuit in federal court. “We can’t allow OpenAI and Microsoft to expand the Big Tech playbook of stealing our work to build their own businesses at our expense,” said Frank Pine, executive editor of MediaNews Group and Tribune Publishing, which own seven of the newspapers.

By CARLA K. JOHNSON (AP Medical Writer) Regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer should start younger, at age 40, according to an influential U. S. task force. Women ages 40 to 74 should get screened every other year, the group said. Previously, the task force had said women could choose to start breast cancer screening as young as 40, with a stronger recommendation that they get the exams every two years from age 50 through 74. The announcement Tuesday from the U.

The weapon from a parking lot shooting early Sunday morning at CU Boulder’s Williams Village dorms was an air pistol that shoots BBs, according to the University of Colorado Police Department. At approximately 3 a.m., CU police responded to a noise complaint at Weber Hall and were breaking up a large party when they received reports of shots fired in a parking lot outside the building, according to a 7 a.m.

Thornton police officers shot and killed two people early Tuesday in Lakewood after officials say one of them fired a gun at the officers following a chase, according to a news release from the Thornton Police Department. Around 2:40 a.m. Tuesday, officers reported seeing a car with no license plates in the area of East 84th Avenue and Washington Street in Thornton, according to the news release.