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There has been a remarkable surge in the use of algorithms and artificial intelligence to address a wide range of problems and challenges. While their adoption, particularly with the rise of AI, is reshaping nearly every industry sector, discipline, and area of research, such innovations often expose unexpected consequences that involve new norms, new expectations, […]

Companies need to think about how employees will cooperate with AI systems — and how they will compete against them, too.

To fight cybercriminals, governments and companies need a clear and centralized view of where and how they operate.

Less effort can actually lead to more success.

Whether you use ChatGPT, Bard, or Bing, your favorite AI chatbots can help your application stand out from the crowd.

Actuators inspired by cucumber plants could make robots move more naturally in response to their environments, or be used for devices in inhospitable places.

This week, we learn what it’s like to wear and use Apple’s Vision Pro headset. Also, we round up the rest of the news from WWDC.

Matt Levine / Bloomberg: A look at what the SEC and crypto industry learned from the SEC’s ICO enforcement actions in 2017, why the SEC is targeting only select tokens, and more  —  SEC v. crypto exchanges  —  The US Securities and Exchange Commission began cracking down on crypto in 2017.

Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal: The Cyberspace Administration of China plans tighter controls on AirDrop and similar tools, after their use by protestors in China and Hong Kong in recent years  —  Services enabling instant mass communication without internet access face scrutiny after they were used by protesters

Ewen MacAskill / The Guardian: On the 10th anniversary of his revelations, Edward Snowden says he has “no regrets” and “2013 seems like child’s play” versus current surveillance capabilities  —  But whistleblower says 2013 surveillance ‘child’s play’ compared to technology today

Brain organoids could be more effective than silicon-based AIs at certain tasks. But as they grow more complex, when should we step in to protect their welfare, asks Michael Le Page

Protestors acting against repressive regimes face a particular problem: The tools they use to organize demonstrations can also be deployed to repress their actions. For instance, when citizens communicate on the internet to plan a protest, a ruling regime can access that information and be ready to break up the demonstration. Then what? What happens […]

Aviation’s huge carbon footprint could shrink significantly with electrification. To date, however, only small all-electric planes have gotten off the ground. Their electric motors generate hundreds of kilowatts of power. To electrify larger, heavier jets, such as commercial airliners, megawatt-scale motors are required. These would be propelled by hybrid or turbo-electric propulsion systems where an […]

Toxic workplace allegations, an uncertain Microsoft acquisition, labor disputes—Activision Blizzard has had a bleak few years.

AlphaDev has made small but significant improvements to decades-old C++ algorithms. Its builders say that’s just the start.

These are some of our favorite stands, cases, keyboards, and Pencils, no matter which Apple tablet you have.

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Digibee, a low-code service that helps enterprises build integration workflows, raised a $60M Series B led by Goldman Sachs, taking its total funding to $90M+  —  Low-code enterprise integration platform provider Digibee Inc. said today it has closed on a $60 million round of funding.

Ash Parrish / The Verge: Twitch walks back new branded content guidelines it released on June 6 and calls them “bad” for streamers and the company, after swift backlash from creators  —  / ‘These guidelines are bad for you and bad for Twitch, and we are removing them immediately.’

Samrhitha Arunasalam / Reuters: GameStop fires CEO Matt Furlong two years after hiring him and appoints chairman and majority shareholder Ryan Cohen as its executive chairman; GME drops 15%+  —  June 7 (Reuters) – GameStop (GME.N) fired CEO Matt Furlong two years after hiring him and appointed billionaire Ryan Cohen as executive chairman …

Sorting algorithms are basic functions used constantly by computers around the world, so an improved one created by an artificial intelligence could make millions of programs run faster

Threats to lifelong mental health can arise for young children from sources including poverty, abuse or neglect at home, and racism, inequity, and pollution outside their doors, but the hopeful message that a range of experts brought to MIT on May 11 was that amid these many risks, approaches to provide effective protections and remedies […]

When MIT.nano opened in 2018 in Building 12, now the Lisa T. Su Building, it became the new home at MIT for suites of nanoscale characterization and fabrication equipment, including those previously housed in Building 39. And when a core team of people moved along with these tools and instruments, MIT.nano also became the repository […]

With about 200 family members, alumni, faculty, staff, and fellow students looking on, the MIT Latinx Graduate Students Association (LGSA), Latino Cultural Center (LCC), and Latino Alumni of MIT (LAMIT) held the inaugural MIT Latinx Graduation on May 31 at the MIT Media Lab. The celebration acknowledges and honors the achievements of Latinx students graduating from MIT […]

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A more pervasive and integrated approach to using data, analytics, and AI.

The entry-level EX30 is designed to woo younger drivers with a sub-300-mile range, stark interior, and, crucially, a $35,000 starting price.

Services like Maven are improving outcomes across key areas of women’s health care—from emergency medicine to maternity services.

UT-Austin will join a growing movement to launch cybersecurity clinics for cities and small businesses that often fall through the cracks.

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Automattic launches Jetpack AI Assistant for WordPress and Jetpack-powered sites, letting users generate content, translate text into 12 languages, and more  —  Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and the main contributor to the open-source WordPress project, launched an AI assistant …

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Apple releases a Game Porting Tool, based on open-source platform Wine, which can translate DirectX 12 into Metal 3, a potentially massive step for Mac gaming  —  One of the new features in macOS Sonoma is Game Mode, which Apple claims improves gaming performance on Apple Silicon Macs.

Wall Street Journal: Investigations: Instagram helps connect and promote a vast network of accounts openly devoted to underage sex content; Meta plans to increase its controls  —  The Meta unit’s systems for fostering communities have guided users to child-sex content; company says it is improving internal controls

Dan Harlow spends a lot of time thinking in a “boomerang” universe. The MIT physicist is searching for answers to one of the biggest questions in modern physics: How can our universe abide by two incompatible rulebooks? The first — the Standard Model of Physics — is the quantum mechanical theory of particles, fields, and […]

The SEC has launched two lawsuits in 24 hours, putting a huge question mark over the future of retail crypto trading in the US.

From Rye Lane to the Hunger Games series, these are the movies you need to watch on the streaming service right now.

There’s always something new to play, but these are our favorites when you’re seeking something tried and true.

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Samsung plans to hold its next Unpacked event in late July 2023 in Seoul, the first time in its home country, where it will unveil next generation foldables  —  Samsung has just confirmed plans for its first Unpacked event in its home country of South Korea, and new foldable phones are […]

XDA Developers: iOS 17 beta enables editable text and threaded replies in iMessage group chats with Android users, but Android users can’t see the edited messages  —  Say goodbye to crippled group texts because of that one friend  —  We’ve all been there.  Whether you’re an iPhone user with iMessage …

Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: Source: Nuview, which wants to map Earth’s entire landmass on an annual basis using space-based lidar, raised a $3M seed and $12M for an in-progress Series A  —  Nuview, a startup that wants to map the entire landmass of Earth on an annual basis using space-based light detection and ranging …

New Scientist’s Alex Wilkins finds out what it’s like to become a robotic security guard. Could human android operators become standard in the near future?

“May we breathe life into the values we espouse as a community,” enjoined Senior Associate Dean Blanche Staton at a recent reception to honor MIT Graduate Women of Excellence.  “May we bring our minds, hands, and hearts into our places and spaces, and may we continue to lift up our graduate women and all our […]

Gabriela Sá Pessoa is a journalist passionate about the intersection of human rights and climate change. She came to MIT from The Washington Post, where she worked from her home country of Brazil as a news researcher reporting on the Amazon, human rights violations, and environmental crimes. Before that, she held roles at two of […]

How to help your employees better anticipate, communicate, and meet their upskilling and reskilling needs.

How can one company best hold itself accountable for its role in the opioid crisis?

Guidelines for companies as they implement the next generation of AI tools.

Drybar’s hybrid tool won’t replace your straightener, but it can cut your routine in half for certain hair types.

The right equipment will help you stay connected, stay hydrated, and never get overwhelmed.

Touted as a return to the Diablo franchise’s dark origins, this new entry feels fresh but familiar enough to be addictive.

Tom Wilson / Reuters: Nansen: investors pulled ~$780M from Binance and $13M from its US affiliate in the past 24 hours, following the SEC’s lawsuit  —  Investors have pulled around $780 million from crypto exchange Binance in the last 24 hours, data firm Nansen said on Tuesday, a day after the world’s biggest crypto exchange […]

Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: At TSMC’s annual meeting, geopolitics took center stage for the first time, as CEO Mark Liu defended the US expansion, saying the plans were “not all downside”  —  Shareholders question strategy but chair says new foundries outside Taiwan can help it maintain global leadership