Conspiracy theories about missing votes—which are not, in fact, missing—and something being “not right” are being spread widely on X in the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory.

Thanks to Elon Musk’s influence, the president-elect has waffled on the future of America’s electric transition.

Prediction markets like Kalshi beat pollsters in forecasting the 2024 US election. Mansour now says financial marketplaces are the future of political prognostication.

Meir Orbach / CTech: CrowdStrike agrees to acquire Tel Aviv-based Adaptive Shield, which offers cloud security for SaaS apps; sources say CrowdStrike will pay ~$300M for the company  —  The Israeli startup’s solutions help security teams manage the organization’s applications, identities, and detect unusual behavior within the SaaS ecosystem.

Ismail Shakil / Reuters: Canada orders TikTok’s business in the country to be dissolved, citing national security risks, and says it’s not blocking Canadians’ access to the app  —  Canada on Wednesday ordered Chinese-owned TikTok’s business in the country to be dissolved, citing national-security risks …

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Match Group reports Q3 revenue up 2% YoY to $895M, vs. $900.9M est., paying users down 3% to 15.2M, forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; MTCH drops 12%+ after hours  —  Match Group (MTCH.O) forecast fourth-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, signaling weak demand …

By analyzing brain scans taken as people watched movie clips, MIT researchers have created the most comprehensive map yet of the functions of the brain’s cerebral cortex. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, the research team identified 24 networks with different functions, which include processing language, social interactions, visual features, and other types of […]

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have analyzed particles of the asteroid Ryugu, which were collected by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa2 mission and brought back to […]

When Nikola Tesla predicted we’d have handheld phones that could display videos, photographs, and more, his musings seemed like a distant dream. Nearly 100 years later, smartphones are like an extra appendage for many of us. Digital fabrication engineers are now working toward expanding the display capabilities of other everyday objects. One avenue they’re exploring is […]

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How to create the opportunities employees need to explore, grow, and succeed long term.

NYU-Stern professor Pankaj Ghemawat discusses how companies can plan for an evolving world of multi-country international supply chains and cross-border information flows.

In a decisive victory, Trump won every swing state that has been called so far.

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Sean Hollister / The Verge: PlayStation 5 Pro review: high fidelity and frame rate, and smaller, lighter, and quieter than the original PS5, but $699 is pricey and disk drive costs extra  —  Sony’s $700 PlayStation is here for people who don’t want to muck around. … You don’t need me to tell you the […]

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: The EU Commission opens an antitrust investigation into smartphone glass maker Corning over allegedly abusing its market dominance to squeeze out rivals  —  – EU fears deals with smartphone firms are anti-competitive  — Corning pressed to remedy EU concerns with concessions

Giuseppe Fonte / Reuters: Sources: the US has recently renewed calls for Italy to repeal its domestic web tax, which applies to Meta, Google, and Amazon and raises under €500M per year  —  The United States has recently renewed calls for Italy to repeal its domestic web tax, people familiar with the matter told Reuters […]

Breast cancer is the second most common type of cancer and cause of cancer death for women in the United States, affecting one in eight women overall. Most women with breast cancer undergo lumpectomy surgery to remove the tumor and a rim of healthy tissue surrounding the tumor. After the procedure, the removed tissue is […]

In the 2020 presidential race, Donald Trump proclaimed himself the winner long before enough votes were counted. We asked the major platforms if they’d let him do it again.

Along with other foreign influence operations—including from Iran—Kremlin-backed campaigns to stoke division and fear have gone into overdrive.

What We Do in the Shadows, La Máquina, and Rivals are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Hulu this month.

Wall Street Journal: How the Salt Typhoon hackers breached US telecommunication infrastructure to carry out targeted espionage against the US for at least eight months  —  Hackers for months scooped up call logs, unencrypted texts and some audio in breach, piercing America’s communications infrastructure without detection

Fred Imbert / CNBC: Filing: Trump Media lost $19.2M in Q3, while revenue fell 5.6% YoY to just $1.01M; DJT jumped 18.6% before closing down 1.16% on November 5  —  Trump Media, which is experienced a flurry of trading activity Tuesday as a possible proxy for Donald Trump’s presidency chances …

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: The Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% of its employees and tells staff in an email that it is eliminating its advocacy and global programs divisions  —  The Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces […]

One day, doctors might be able to 3D print copies of your organs in order to test a variety of drugs, thanks to a new technique that uses light and sound for rapid printing

Over the past two decades, new technologies have helped scientists generate a vast amount of biological data. Large-scale experiments in genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and cytometry can produce enormous quantities of data from a given cellular or multicellular system. However, making sense of this information is not always easy. This is especially true when trying to […]

How to ensure a smooth transition without overwhelming your colleagues.

An analysis of 18 years of data on user behavior and its moderation reveals that the failure stems from five common misconceptions about toxicity.

A conversation with the University of Oxford’s Karthik Ramanna on how managers can effectively navigate increasing political polarization.

In April, House of the Dragon star Abubakar Salim released Tales of Kenzera: Zau. He already has an idea for an Afro-cyberpunk follow-up, he just has to overcome funding obstacles and YouTube trolls to make it.

Donald Trump says he’ll spare TikTok. Kamala Harris will likely support the ban. But inside the company, few are talking about the US election.

The most online election in history has been snapped, shared, and memed into oblivion. WIRED’s photo department has curated moments across the country from the last few months.

Bloomberg: Polymarket confirms paying US-based influencers, including large Instagram meme accounts, to promote election betting despite being banned in the US  —  – Content creators contacted by Polymarket’s growth director  — US audience targeted with ads despite ban on trade in US

Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: TSMC CFO Wendell Huang says the chipmaker now expects to pay more for power in Taiwan than anywhere else; TSMC’s electricity prices rose 25% in April 2024  —  Industry loses competitiveness as government struggles to afford cheap-power incentives  —  Taiwan’s laboured energy transition …

Marshall Cohen / CNN: CCDH: before the election, Elon Musk made 87 X posts that were debunked by fact-checkers, hitting 2B+ views; his political posts had 17.1B views since July 2024  —  In the run up to the high-stakes 2024 presidential election, Elon Musk has posted a blizzard of false and misleading claims …

Large language models can do impressive things, like write poetry or generate viable computer programs, even though these models are trained to predict words that come next in a piece of text. Such surprising capabilities can make it seem like the models are implicitly learning some general truths about the world. But that isn’t necessarily […]

Forget stressful leaderboards and time-sensitive missions. These games let you play at your own pace.

“I’m training people to survive a civil war, to get out of the way, to stay home, stay off the grid,” says Oath Keeper Jim Arroyo, in an interview two days before the US presidential election.

“Those posts were written in good humor and didn’t hurt anybody,” says Aaron Kofsky, who advised Vance on crypto and banking policy, of posts in which he wrote about using cocaine, kratom, and other drugs.

Bloomberg: Sources: OpenAI is in early talks with the California AG’s office to become a for-profit company; letter: it also has discussed the shift with the Delaware AG  —  – Legal status change may face scrutiny over IP valuations  — Firm in early talks with California attorney general’s office

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is exploring a push into smart glasses with Atlas, an internal study of products currently on the market, led by its Product Systems Quality team  —  – Company’s hardware division is researching idea with employees  — Move signals that Apple aims to follow Meta into new category

Sara Fischer / Axios: Source: Meta informed ad partners that it will extend its ban on new election ads for the week leading up to the election until several days after polls close  —  – It later adjusted its policies to temporarily stop all social issue, electoral, or political ads from running after the polls […]

A new MIT initiative aims to elevate human-centered research and teaching, and bring together scholars in the humanities, arts, and social sciences with their colleagues across the Institute. The MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC) launched earlier this fall. A formal kickoff event for MITHIC was held on campus Monday, Oct. 28, before a full audience in […]

The Lemelson-MIT Program has announced the 2024-25 InvenTeams — eight teams of high school students, teachers, and mentors from across the country. Each team will each receive $7,500 in grant funding and year-long support to build a technological invention to solve a problem of their own choosing. The students’ inventions are inspired by real-world problems […]

As educators are challenged to balance student learning and well-being with planning authentic and relevant course materials, MIT pK-12 at Open Learning developed a framework that can help. The student-centered STEAM learning architecture, initially co-created for Itz’at STEAM Academy in Belize, now serves as a model for schools worldwide. Three core pillars guide MIT pK-12’s vision […]

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