Your weekend must reads📰
👋 Good morning, and welcome The Short List weekend edition!✨ I'm John Riley, and I hope this morning you will relax and enjoy some of the best stories of the week from the Paste BN Network. (Then tonight, you can be dazzled by the start of the annual Lyrids meteor shower.🌠) On to the news ...
🔵 Leaked documents crisis: The arrest this week of a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman on charges that he leaked classified documents about the war in Ukraine raised some troubling national security questions:
- How did Jack Teixeira penetrate the Pentagon's most secure computer system?
- What secrets did the leak reveal?
- How did the FBI track Teixeira?
- Could Teixeira be tied to extremism?
"It really brings into question why anyone at Otis Air Force Base would need access to such to this type of high level strategic classified information," said Don Christensen, a former top prosecutor for the Air Force.
⚖️ 'Strange sisterhood' of Trump accusers: In the wake of Donald Trump's indictment on hush-money charges, Paste BN spoke to four women who say they are victims of sexual harassment or battery by the former president.
The accusers said the indictment signals a step closer to holding Trump accountable for his actions. But they fear a repeat of 2016, where his alleged misconduct fuels his base and shields him from consequences as he heads into the 2024 presidential election.
"There is this millisecond of hope that maybe he will have to answer for at least some of his actions," said Samantha Holvey. "Then it was followed by the thought that his supporters probably won't even care."
🖥️ Can AI cheating be stopped?: As students more frequently use artificial intelligence for their assignments, higher education officials across the nation are struggling to address how to uncover cheating and avoid making false accusations of cheating. Many companies are developing plagiarism detection software they claim can detect when students use AI to complete coursework. But how sure can these tools be?
"We really don't want anyone making definitive academic decisions out of our detector," said Edward Tian, creator of AI detection tool GPTZero. "The nature of AI-generated content is changing constantly."
- ChatGPT in the classroom: Here's what teachers and students are saying
- Should you ask ChatGPT for medical advice? We asked an expert — and ChatGPT.
🐕 Dogs rule: Man's best friend made a strong showing in Paste BN this week, to the delight of readers (and editors).
- 🐶Real-life Snoopy: Bayley the mini sheepadoodle looks like Charlie Brown's dog
- 🐾Florida chihuahua named Pearl wears the crown for shortest living dog
- 🐕🦺Sarge the service dog has Diamond status on Carnival cruises
There are more great reads below.👇 See you next week.