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A survey of 600 directors suggests that growing awareness of cyber risk isn’t enough to drive better preparedness.

A conversation with INSEAD professor Renée Mauborgne on nondestructive creation.

Leaders need to focus on five key areas.

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope could help resolve some cosmic discrepancies: How fast the universe is expanding and how evenly matter is distributed.

These monthly deliveries will help children start coding or cooking, and encourage them to read about the world or learn science.

The ovaries age faster than any other organ in the body. Figuring out how to slow down that process could have health benefits for women—and men.

Amelia Wattenberger: Why chatbots are not the future of interfaces for LLMs: the best prompts are not obvious, people will get sick of typing, responses are isolated, and more  —  Unfortunately for the countless hapless people I’ve talked to in the past few months, this was inexorable.

Mercedes Ruehl / Financial Times: Letters: the US and EU warn Malaysia over national security and foreign investment risks if the government gives Huawei a role in the country’s 5G network  —  Kuala Lumpur’s review of tender tests ability to juggle relations with the west and China  —  The EU and US have warned Malaysia […]

Chris Welch / The Verge: Sources detail Amazon’s canceled plan to make Halo a success; the sophisticated AI-based fitness service was undone due to “significant headwinds” and low sales  —  A redesigned Halo service was due this fall with an AI-powered personal trainer, celebrity-led fitness classes, and even Apple Watch support.

A device designed for people with photophobia features transparent LCD screens that selectively reduce light from the brightest parts of the scene

Russia’s ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine, commencing in February 2022, is continuing to cause immense upheaval and destruction, and Ukrainians continue to fight to defend their nation-state. Last fall, MIT launched its MIT-Ukraine program, an effort to find ways to leverage the Institute’s expertise and resources to help a country devastated by war. This has […]

For busy homeowners, these five tools can help you maintain a healthy garden.

Something old, something new, something borrowed—and something spouted by ChatGPT.

Forget crypto, VR, AI. When it comes to empowering humans, new technology has nothing on the well-tempered clavier.

Joe Schneider / Bloomberg: A US federal judge declared a mistrial in Masimo’s suit against Apple over Apple Watch stolen trade secrets claims after jurors were unable to reach a consensus  —  Apple Inc. and Masimo Corp. failed to persuade a jury to reach a unanimous verdict in a trial where the medical-devices company claimed […]

Rosie Perper / CoinDesk: Sotheby’s launches a curated, peer-to-peer secondary NFT marketplace on its Metaverse platform, fully on-chain via the Ethereum and Polygon networks  —  Sotheby’s Metaverse will now offer a curated, peer-to-peer marketplace via the Ethereum and Polygon networks.

Emma Roth / The Verge: Mastodon announces a new onboarding experience that makes mastodon.social the default server choice, instead of requiring users pick from thousands of instances  —  Mastodon is making it easier for newcomers to create an account on the platform.  On Monday, the decentralized network announced …

A machine that moulds scrap aluminium into automotive parts could help speed up production of electric vehicles while cutting down the industry’s dependence on aluminium mining and extraction

Big ideas took the stage on Monday morning, ahead of the inauguration of MIT’s 18th president, Sally Kornbluth. As final preparations were underway on Killian Court for the afternoon’s ceremonies, members of the MIT community gathered to welcome Kornbluth with an academic symposium exploring the theme “Where Big Ideas Come From — and Why They […]

Sally Kornbluth made a resounding call today for the entire MIT community to join together and address the “global crises” of the current era, including climate change, in her inaugural address as the Institute’s 18th president. “I hope to inspire you to join us in something important and new,” Kornbluth said in remarks delivered to […]

On a recent evening at MIT, over a hundred people gathered at Boynton Hall for a conversation with Amgen Professor of Biology Emerita Nancy Hopkins and journalist Kate Zernike. The topic of discussion was Zernike’s book, “The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science,” which made its official debut at the end […]

Takeaways from a survey of more than 800 customer service reps.

A recent analysis of more than 500 employees across 12 organizations found that actual strategic alignment was two to three times lower than perceived alignment.

Don’t let overcommunication tank productivity.

The EV maker said it will expunge rare earths from its vehicles’ motors, suggesting Tesla engineers will have to get creative.

AI tools? A porn filter, but for Top Secret documents? Just classifying less stuff? US lawmakers are full of ideas but lack a silver bullet.

The sheer volume of horrendous recipes on TikTok has led to the emergence of a whole new brand of influencer.

Davey Alba / Bloomberg: NewsGuard finds 49 websites populated by generative AI posing as news outlets with generic names like News Live 79; some feature falsehoods and programmatic ads  —  The news-rating group NewsGuard has found dozens of news websites generated by AI chatbots proliferating online …

Cade Metz / New York Times: An interview with AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who recently left Google after over a decade to speak about AI’s risks, on regrets, quitting the company, and more  —  For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT.  Now he worries it will […]

Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: Earnings from Meta, Amazon, Google, and Intel were better than expected, sparking hope that the post-pandemic hangover is fading, but sales growth still lags  —  Shares rise on better-than-expected results, but growth lags behind what Microsoft, Amazon and Google did in past

How much speed do you need? And what’s a MU-MIMO? We decipher the jargon and explain what to look for.

Financial Times: Carmakers and IP experts raise concerns over the rising dominance of Chinese companies like Huawei when it comes to 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi standard essential patents  —  Led by Huawei, Chinese groups are filing patents around the tech that enables products to access the internet

Jordan Novet / CNBC: An interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian about the unit finally turning a profit in Q1 2023, in part by making its data center operations more efficient  —  – Google said this week that its cloud unit finally turned profitable in the first quarter.  — Since ex-Oracle exec Thomas …

Naomi Nix / Washington Post: Sources describe how Meta managers built up “kingdoms” as headcount doubled, and how layoffs led to falling morale and lower confidence in Zuckerberg  —  Roiled by waves of layoffs and a costly investment in the metaverse, many insiders say the Facebook founder has lost his vision — and the trust […]

Now there is a way to use ink to write words or patterns in liquid, much as you might write on a solid surface, and the letters could conceivably last a very long time

It is thought that quantum computers will eventually be able to crack the encryption methods we use today, but exactly when this will happen is an open question. Now, one cryptographer has started a betting pool

MIT’s campus spilled over with good cheer yesterday during a community-wide celebration marking the upcoming inauguration of MIT President Sally Kornbluth on Monday. In a day of activities that truly had something for everyone, MIT community members and their families enjoyed an array of student performances, amusement park rides, exhibits hosted by MIT’s departments and […]

Richard Feynman’s path integral is a powerful prediction machine and a philosophy. Physicists still struggle to figure out how to use it, and what it means.

Whether you want a beast of a machine with dedicated graphics or a light, easy-to-upgrade PC, we have the perfect rig for you.

Firefox gets a needed tune-up, SolarWinds squashes two high-severity bugs, Oracle patches 433 vulnerabilities, and more updates you should make now.

Reed Albergotti / Semafor: An interview with Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn on investing $100M+ in 100+ AI startups and why he thinks he failed to steer AI development toward human safety  —  Jaan Tallinn used the fortune he made selling Skype in 2009 to invest in AI companies like Anthropic and DeepMind …

Avram Piltch / Tom’s Hardware: The creator of the GPT4Free GitHub project, which allows free access to GPT-4 and GPT-3.5, says OpenAI is demanding he take the repo down or face a lawsuit  —  GPT4Free uses other sites’ connections to OpenAI.  —  Anyone can use ChatGPT for free, but if you want to use GPT4 […]

From the stylish Evercade to the old-school Sega Genesis Mini, these machines will have you bleeping, blooping, and blasting back to the good old days.

Plus: Amazon kills off its fitness wearables while Apple shores up its products’ health-tracking capabilities.

Make your life easier. With Apple’s app, you can trigger a series of automated tasks with a single tap or Siri voice command.

Reuters: A Brazilian federal judge lifts Telegram’s ban in the country for refusing to hand over neo-Nazi data, saying a complete ban of the service “is not reasonable”  —  Brazil’s second instance appeals court lifted on Saturday the suspension of the encrypted messaging app Telegram …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Microsoft’s Canva-like web app Designer, which leverages user-created content and OpenAI’s text-to-image DALL-E 2 to ideate designs, launches in public preview  —  Microsoft Designer, Microsoft’s AI-powered design tool, today launched in public preview with an expanded set of features.

BBC: Wikimedia won’t comply with the Online Safety Bill’s age checks of its UK readers or contributors, citing the foundation’s “commitment to collect minimal data”  —  Wikipedia will not comply with any age checks required under the Online Safety Bill, its foundation says.

Increasingly severe heat waves will imperil the country’s development goals, slow economic growth, and heighten health risks, new research shows.

Maybe you don’t want your phone number, email, home address, and other details out there for all the web to see. Here’s how to make them vanish.