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High-profile Instagram AI chatbot breach spotlights security risks of automation

“It’s not a Meta-specific issue. People are using these AI agents to do a lot of stuff. What we’re actually seeing is unexpected problems that are ⁠coming up with ​the use of AI,” said Engin Kirda, professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ​at Northeastern University.
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Surviving son addresses vigil after 6 members of Iowa family are killed in domestic violence case

The Iowa killings were the sixth family mass killing so far this year, said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University.
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Corporate America Is Rewriting Higher Ed’s Talent Contract

Some schools are already moving in the right direction: universities with mature co-op and work-integrated learning models, including Northeastern University and the University of Cincinnati, are making the classroom-to-career transition more explicit.
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Courts may deliver the anti-vaccine movement’s biggest win

“The writing is on the wall,” said Wendy Parmet, who co-directs Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law and has advised vaccine mandate supporters in the West Virginia Supreme Court case.
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Scotland uniquely able to redefine the purpose of universities, Obama advisor claims

Professor Beth Noveck says Scotland’s universities are uniquely placed to reinvent the purpose of higher education.
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If you cracked an egg by accident, is it still safe to eat? Experts weigh in

Eggs are one of the leading sources of the roughly 1.35 million Salmonella infections the CDC estimates occur annually, according to Darin Detweiler, a food safety policy expert and professor at Northeastern University College of Professional Studies.
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Will AI ruin the social sciences — or revolutionize them?

Even if AI input into polls can be throttled, there’s a concern at the analysis stage, says David Lazer, a political and computer scientist at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Lizzie McGuire gave us life advice?!

“Saying no wasn’t rejection. It was redirection,” said former Disney star Hilary Duff at Northeastern University. The “Lizzie McGuire” actress shared her journey of finding herself again after saying yes to everything and realizing that it didn’t always match what she really wanted. “
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Thousands of Unsold World Cup Tickets Suddenly Disappear From FIFA Website

This promise of further releases was one reason consumer behavior expert Kate Ashley, a professor at Northeastern University, last week told Newsweek that prices on resale websites were until recently in free fall.
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Boston Medical Center’s losses come at a bad time, with looming Medicaid cuts

“They are hemorrhaging cash,” Gary Young, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research, said of the two hospitals acquired by BMC, the former St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton and the former Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton.
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Professor Dan Kennedy on the state of the media, free speech

WBZ-TV political analyst Jon Keller discusses the state of the media with Northeastern University Professor Dan Kennedy.
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On the Mississippi River, America’s past and present still flow

It also helped shape the government itself, said Samuel Muñoz, a geoscientist and associate professor at Northeastern University in Boston.