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Unmasking Human Trafficking: New AI Research Reveals Hidden Recruitment Networks
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BALTIMORE, MD, May 24, 2025 – Most anti-human trafficking efforts focus on breaking up sex sales; however, new research in the INFORMS journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management is turning its attention to where trafficking truly begins – recruitment. Using machine learning to analyze millions of online ads, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have uncovered patterns that link deceptive job offers to sex trafficking networks. By mapping the connections between recruitment and sales locations, the study reveals a hidden supply chain – one that can now be exposed and interrupted earlier in the trafficking process.

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New U.S. drug prices doubled amid a shift toward treating rare diseases
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Drugs being explicitly developed to treat rare diseases are getting more expensive.

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Human air traffic controllers keep flyers safe. Should AI have a role?
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Old technology is behind the recent ongoing delays and cancellations at Newark Liberty International Airport, but newer technology will be an important part of the solution.

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Baltimore bridge disaster tests supply chains’ resilience but pandemic lessons ease impact

Baltimore bridge disaster tests supply chains’ resilience but pandemic lessons ease impact

South China Morning Post, April 25, 2024

With no work emails or phone calls it’s mostly been “scary quiet” for Theresa Abel since March 26, when a huge container vessel crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, bringing down the span, killing six workers and clogging the main shipping channel that connected the city’s port with the rest of the world.

Did Israel's thermal bombs vaporize Gazan bodies and turn them into ash?

Did Israel's thermal bombs vaporize Gazan bodies and turn them into ash?

Al Jazeera, April 24, 2024

Months ago, a user of the Quora website - a platform for asking questions and communicating with people - asked a question about the reasons for not using “thermal bombs” - also known as “vacuum bombs” - in the battle of the tunnels in the Gaza Strip.

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