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The Block: Filing: the SEC says it anticipates it will take 120 days to potentially respond to Coinbase’s request for clearer rulemaking on digital asset trading  —  – The SEC has put forth its position on Coinbase’s rulemaking petition.  — The agency said it anticipates needing four months to potentially respond.

James Vincent / The Verge: Stack Overflow survey of ~90K developers in 185 countries: 70% use or plan to use AI coding tools in 2023; only 3% “highly trust” and 39% “somewhat trust” them  —  A survey of developers by coding Q&A site Stack Overflow has found that AI tools are becoming commonplace …

Bloomberg: Databricks says its annual revenue jumped 60%+ to $1B in the fiscal year ended in January and announces the acquisition of Rubicon, an AI storage system startup  —  Databricks Inc. said it generated $1 billion in annual revenue and has diversified its business with new products and tools for artificial intelligence.

How are waves of disruptive technologies, such as more advanced versions of artificial intelligence systems, changing the way we work, live, and play? Are there pathways that academics, practitioners, innovators, and entrepreneurs ought to be pursuing to ensure that the largest share of the benefits associated with new technologies uplift the most marginalized populations? What […]

The MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences recently recognized the 2023 winners of the school’s Infinite Mile Award. The awards salute members of the SHASS staff who have made exceptional contributions to their academic units, the school, and the Institute. These colleagues exemplify the spirit of going the extra mile in their roles […]

One of many key priorities identified in the Task Force 2021 and Beyond report (TF2021) is the need to improve undergraduate advising. That conclusion isn’t groundbreaking; the committee working on the issue conceded that, over the past 30 years, multiple reports, memos, and pilots had already delved into it extensively. “We do not need further […]

Five strategies for managers and individual team members.

How perpetual bonds can make nature-based offsets a realistic strategy for dealing with climate change.

A conversation with Karen Dillon and Rob Cross about pain points we tend to ignore until it’s too late.

The Xiaomi 13 Ultra is more camera than phone.

The ecommerce giant’s “delivery service partners” are under constant pressure to perform, but say they have little freedom to manage their own businesses.

Fresh claims from a former US intelligence officer about an “intact” alien craft may get traction on Capitol Hill, where some lawmakers want to believe.

Mark Savage / BBC: Paul McCartney says AI helped “extricate” John Lennon’s voice from an old demo to complete what he calls “the final Beatles record”, set for release in 2023  —  Sir Paul McCartney says he has employed artificial intelligence to help create what he calls “the final Beatles record”.

Biz Carson / Bloomberg: In a first, Larry Ellison passes Bill Gates to become the world’s fourth-richest person with a $129.8B net worth; ORCL has risen 42% in 2023 on the AI boom  —  The optimism around artificial intelligence boosted both Oracle Corp.’s stock — and founder Larry Ellison’s net worth — to record highs […]

Financial Times: A look at the global network of subsea internet cables, dominated by companies from France, the US, and Japan, as China circumvents US curbs to build its own  —  Nearly 1.4mn kilometres of metal-encased fibre criss-crosses the world’s oceans, speeding internet traffic seamlessly around the globe.

There are many ways to map New York City, including street maps of Manhattan’s famous grid, the brightly colored subway map, and souvenir maps of skyscrapers. Those are all static maps of long-term features, however. Alternately, there is a more dynamic way to map the city: use digital technologies to show the city in motion, […]

Combat sports might not be the first thing that comes to mind when people think of MIT, but the MIT Sport Taekwondo Club has been attracting students as an outlet from the rigors of academic life for more than 20 years. “The recurring thing we hear from graduating students in the club is that taekwondo […]

A newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reveals that the federal government is buying troves of data about Americans.

Personal information, including ID documents and phone numbers, have been released on Telegram.

If you can handle minor blemishes on otherwise high-quality cookware, these deals are worth perusing. Discounts flame out on June 14.

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon is testing generative AI for product review summaries, giving an overview of what customers liked and disliked about a product, along with a disclaimer  —  – Amazon is testing the use of artificial intelligence to generate summaries of reviews left on some products.

Katie Jennings / Forbes: Vendors allege Hippocratic AI co-founder’s former startup Health IQ, which faces a fraud lawsuit, owes millions; Hippocratic AI raised $50M from a16z and others  —  The venture firm made a repeat investment in Munjal Shah, but his previous company Health IQ is facing allegations of millions …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Boston-based CloudZero, a cloud cost management startup, raised a $32M Series B led by Innovius Capital and Threshold Ventures, taking its total raised to $52M+  —  CloudZero, a cloud cost management startup, today announced that it raised $32 million in a Series B funding round led by Innovius Capital and Threshold […]

For the past two and a half years, graduate student Tong Zhang has been figuring out how bacteria protect themselves against phages — the viruses that infect them. All the while, doing so as a student far from her hometown of Beijing, China. Phages and bacteria are in a constant arms race, which those in […]

Nestled within the Tuul River valley and embraced by the southern Khentii Mountain Range, Ulaanbaatar (UB), Mongolia’s largest city, presents itself as an arena where nature’s forces wage an unrelenting battle against human resilience. The capital city is an icy crucible, with bone-chilling winters that plummet temperatures to an astonishing -40 degrees Fahrenheit (-40 degrees […]

Now in its 22nd year, the MIT Priscilla King Gray (PKG) Public Service Center’s IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge has prepared over 200 student-led teams to utilize innovation for social good. In addition to providing over $1.1 million in funding, the PKG Center has enlisted diverse partners to mentor teams in refining and implementing their ideas. […]

Addressing tension, instead of shying away from it, is often the kind thing to do.

The three most common mistakes managers make when delivering feedback — and how to respond.

OpenAI used a simple form of human feedback.

More research is showing that moths are secret, critical pollinators, even of crops that feed humanity. Save the bees, but save the moths too.

Garmin’s update to one of our favorite solar-powered cycling computers puts all the ride and fitness stats you’d ever want to see on your handlebars.

Two researchers whose work led to the development of Wegovy and Ozempic spoke to WIRED about the creation of these drugs and how they should be used.

Matt Burgess / Wired: Documents detail new prison-monitoring tech, tracking inmates’ location, heartbeats, and more, developed by Talitrix and used in Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail  —  Documents WIRED obtained detail new prison-monitoring technology that keeps tabs on inmates’ location, heartbeats, and more.

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: Nasdaq plans to acquire financial software maker Adenza for $10.5B in cash and stock; Adenza owner Thoma Bravo gets a 14.9% stake in Nasdaq as part of the deal  —  Nasdaq Inc. has agreed to buy financial-software maker Adenza from its private equity owners in the exchange operator’s biggest-ever deal.

Yuka Hayashi / Wall Street Journal: Sources: a US official said the government plans to let chipmakers in South Korea and Taiwan maintain and expand their China-based facilities without reprisals  —  Analysts say the move will weaken export-control measures aimed at curbing Beijing  —  WASHINGTON—The Biden administration plans …

In the film “Top Gun: Maverick,” Maverick, played by Tom Cruise, is charged with training young pilots to complete a seemingly impossible mission — to fly their jets deep into a rocky canyon, staying so low to the ground they cannot be detected by radar, then rapidly climb out of the canyon at an extreme […]

Sponsor content from Google.

From Hypnospace Outlaw to Chicory: A Colorful Tale, Microsoft’s subscription service includes a bounty of fun games for console and PC.

Forget about patchy internet connections and dead spots with one of these WIRED-tested mesh systems.

What are you playing next? From Humanity to Riders Republic, Sony’s subscription service has so many great options for your PS5.

Dan Primack / Axios: a16z to open a crypto-focused London office and is leading a $44M investment in UK-based Gensyn, which offers a decentralized compute network for training AI  —  America’s largest investor in crypto startups believes that the industry’s future may be across the pond, and is opening …

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft will bring select games on PC Game Pass to Nvidia’s GeForce Now in the coming months, letting subs stream games with RTX 4080 levels of performance  —  Microsoft is planning to bring PC Game Pass titles to Nvidia’s GeForce Now streaming service.  Sarah Bond, head of Xbox creator experience […]

Sarah Kessler / New York Times: Researchers of tech change and employment disagree on how many jobs AI will affect; one tricky factor is primarily tasks, not occupations, are being automated  —  The tally of how many jobs will be “affected by” world-changing technology is different depending on who you ask.

A vegetable-growing trial has pitted expert human gardeners against an AI-powered robot – both produced comparable crops, but the robot used about 40 per cent less water

We grilled, smoked, baked, cleaned, and repeated to find the best option for every home.

By imbuing enormous vectors with semantic meaning, we can get machines to reason more abstractly—and efficiently—than before.

Give your favorite guy a treat that’ll make his whole year with these boozy, outdoorsy, techy ideas.

Kirsten Grieshaber / Associated Press: A University of Vienna philosopher used ChatGPT to create a 40-minute church service, including the sermon, prayers, and music, led by four AI-generated avatars  —  The artificial intelligence chatbot asked the believers in the fully packed St. Paul’s church in the Bavarian town of Fuerth to rise from the pews […]

Natasha Singer / New York Times: While US schools debate what to teach students about AI’s promise and potential peril, universities, tech companies, and nonprofits offer ready-made curriculums  —  While schools debate what to teach students about powerful new A.I. tools, tech giants, universities and nonprofits are intervening with free lessons.

Washington Post: Verizon report: median amount lost from business email compromise is $50K in recent years and median ransomware damage doubled to $26K over the last two years  —  A smorgasbord of data in Verizon’s annual breach report  —  When a vulnerability in the ubiquitous open-source tool log4j …