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Bloomberg: US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says the US “won’t tolerate” China’s ban on Micron chips and calls the decision an “economic coercion”  —  Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the US “won’t tolerate” the recent decision by Chinese authorities to ban chips …

Tracy Wen Liu / Wired: Source and analysis: PDD-owned Temu is losing an average of $30 per order and between $588M to $954M per year, as it tries to break into the US market  —  The Chinese shopping app is topping app stores in the US.  But it’s burning money and squeezing its suppliers to […]

Wes Fenlon / PC Gamer: The developers behind open-source GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin say Nintendo sent Valve a DMCA takedown notice to block Dolphin’s impending release on Steam  —  The GameCube & Wii emulator developers say the Steam release is “indefinitely postponed.”  —  On Friday, the developers behind …

Nude photos, bank details and stolen credit card numbers have been found on devices sold by US police forces via auction sites

These chest straps and watches can help keep your finger on the pulse of your wellness.

The number of ocean going birds has declined 70 percent since the 1950s, but restoring their populations can bolster marine ecosystems that sequester carbon.

The Baratza Encore ESP is fine-tuned to grind coffee to make espresso, but it’s adept at prepping beans for almost all other brew methods too.

Associated Press: AGs from Washington DC and 48 US states file a lawsuit against Avid Telecom, accusing the firm of making 7.5B+ robocalls to people on the Do Not Call Registry  —  Attorneys general across the U.S. joined in a lawsuit against a telecommunications company accused of making more than 7.5 billion robocalls …

Financial Times: The popularity of H100, which offers at least 3x better performance than the A100, with Big Tech, OpenAI, and others has pushed Nvidia’s market value toward $1T  —  High demand for US group’s H100 processors helps send its market value skyrocketing towards $1tn

Kelvin Chan / Associated Press: EU Commissioner Thierry Breton says Twitter has dropped out of a voluntary EU pact to combat online disinformation and adds Twitter’s “obligations remain”  —  Twitter has dropped out of a voluntary European Union agreement to combat online disinformation, a top EU official said Friday.

From The Trial of the Chicago 7 to Zombieland, here are our picks for the best streaming titles to feast your eyes on.

Reuters: Sources: PE firms Francisco Partners and TPG have ended talks to acquire observability software company New Relic after failing to secure enough debt financing  —  Private equity firms Francisco Partners and TPG Inc (TPG.O) have ended talks to acquire New Relic Inc (NEWR.N) …

The Verge: A California jury finds Google’s products infringed on a Sonos smart speaker patent and orders Google to pay $32.5M, or $2.30 for each of the 14M+ devices sold  —  Google has been ordered to pay Sonos $32.5 million for infringing on the company’s smart speaker patent.

FinSMEs: Germany-based Sastrify, which operates a marketplace for buying and managing SaaS subscriptions, raised a $32M Series B, bringing its total funding to $55.2M  —  Sastrify, a Cologne, Germany-based provider of a platform for buying and managing SaaS subscriptions, raised $32M in Series B funding.

The brain implant company Neuralink, founded by Elon Musk among others, previously tested implants in pigs and monkeys. Now it has approval for human trials

The US actors’ union will negotiate with Hollywood studios over the rights to use AI to create “digital twins” of actors, and the results could determine the viability of acting as a career

A trick for asking questions using capital letters seems to baffle artificial intelligences like ChatGPT, while humans can easily give the right answer

MIT undergraduates Rupert Li and Audrey Xie have been selected to receive Barry Goldwater Scholarships for the 2023-24 academic year. From an estimated pool of more than 5,000 college sophomores and juniors, nearly 1,300 students were nominated by 427 academic institutions to compete for the scholarship, with Li and Xie representing two of only 413 […]

The “interdisciplinary approach” is something that has been lauded for decades for its ability to break down silos and create new integrated approaches to research. For Munther Dahleh, founding director of the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), showing the community that data science and statistics can transcend individual disciplines and form a […]

How might AI breakthroughs change the larger systems we operate within?

Leaders should focus less on automation and more on innovation.

A new set of principles to encourage responsibility, legitimacy, accountability, and transparency.

What better way to kick off the summer than with an upgrade to TV, camera, headphones, and more?

Wondering where to start during this weekend’s sales bonanza? Right here.

Scientists are “watching with bated breath” to see if ice will return to normal levels. The planetary consequences could be huge.

Reuters: The UK CMA says Meta has offered to limit use of other businesses’ ad data for Facebook Marketplace to address the regulator’s competition concerns  —  UK’s competition watchdog on Friday said social media giant Meta Platforms Inc had offered to limit the use of other businesses’ advertising data in order to address its concerns.

Emma Roth / The Verge: German newspaper Handelsblatt: a Tesla whistleblower leaked 100GB of data on customer FSD complaints from 2015 to 2022, including 2,400 self-acceleration issues  —  A Tesla whistleblower has leaked 100GB of data to the German outlet Handelsblatt containing thousands of customer complaints …

Wired: An interview with Pitchfork EIC Puja Patel on how AI is infiltrating every single aspect of music, AI-generated music’s ownership and money concerns, and more  —  We talk to Puja Patel, editor in chief of Pitchfork and cohost of The Pitchfork Review, about how AI is taking over our feeds and where it goes […]

The coinventor of “bcrypt” is reflecting on the ubiquitous function’s 25 years and channeling cybersecurity’s core themes into electronic dance music.

From Swan Song to CODA, here’s everything you should be watching on Apple’s streaming service.

A few years ago, humanoid robots were clumsy and awkward. Now several startups claim to have models almost ready to go to work in warehouses and factories.

Bloomberg: DCG is shutting down its institutional crypto trading platform TradeBlock, citing the crypto winter and regulatory uncertainties, effective May 31, 2023  —  Digital Currency Group, the digital-asset conglomerate that is negotiating with creditors of its bankrupt lending business …

Akriti Sharma / Reuters: Neuralink says it received US FDA approval to launch its first-in-human clinical study of brain implants  —  Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink on Thursday said it had received U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval to launch first-in-human clinical study.

Hugh Son / CNBC: Filing: JPMorgan Chase is working on a ChatGPT-like software service dubbed IndexGPT that uses AI to analyze and select investments tailored to customer needs  —  – JPMorgan Chase is developing a ChatGPT-like software service that leans on a disruptive form of artificial intelligence …

A fluxonium qubit can keep its most useful quantum properties for about 1.48 milliseconds, drastically longer than similar qubits currently favoured by the quantum computing industry

When staff in MIT’s Department of Facilities would visualize energy use and carbon-associated emissions by campus buildings, Building 46 always stood out — attributed to its energy intensity, which accounted for 8 percent of MIT’s total campus energy use. This high energy draw was not surprising, as the building is home of the Brain and […]

If we could rewind the tape of species evolution around the world and play it forward over hundreds of millions of years to the present day, we would see biodiversity clustering around regions of tectonic turmoil. Tectonically active regions such as the Himalayan and Andean mountains are especially rich in flora and fauna due to […]

Kelsey Merrill ’22, MEng ’23, a master’s of engineering student in electrical engineering and computer science, has been recognized by the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge (ALL IN) for her outstanding efforts to advance nonpartisan democratic engagement at MIT. She joins 175 students nationwide named to the ALL IN Student Voting Honor Roll for promoting […]

Conversations with experts about the imminent tradeoffs facing senior leaders.

It’s critical to schedule time for simulated exercises and “scrimmages.”

How to overcome the limitations of our self-serving biases.

The internet has led to the rise of a ‘hyper-modern’ pan-Asian beauty ideal.

The sun is out, the flowers are budding, and it’s time to revel in your new running shoes and sleeping pads.

A security review describes how attackers exploited mistakes to steal millions of dollars worth of bitcoin.

Access Now: Pegasus was used in the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict to target a government worker, a UN official, and others in 2021 and 2022, the first known use in a war  —  The Armenia spyware victims include a former Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia (the Ombudsperson) …

Financial Times: Sam Altman says he has “many concerns” about the EU’s proposed AI Act and OpenAI “will try to comply, but if we can’t comply we will cease operating”  —  ChatGPT chief Sam Altman voices ‘many concerns’ over bloc’s planned legislation

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Starling Bank CEO Anne Boden steps down, replaced by COO John Mountain as interim CEO; Starling, which has raised over $1B, reports £453M in FY2023 revenue  —  Anne Boden nearly lost a grip on Starling Bank years ago when the neobank was in the middle of a coup effort led by […]

A fluxonium qubit can keep its most useful quantum properties for about 1.48 milliseconds, drastically longer than similar qubits currently favoured by the quantum computing industry

Every three to five days, all of the cells lining the human intestine are replaced. That constant replenishment of cells helps the intestinal lining withstand the damage caused by food passing through the digestive tract. This rapid turnover of cells relies on intestinal stem cells, which give rise to all of the other types of […]

Researchers say the state-sponsored espionage operation may also lay the groundwork for disruptive cyberattacks.