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Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal: Sources: hoping to boost the economy, Chinese officials begin reassessing tech policies and plan to close long-running investigations against internet companies  —  Senior officials are setting a robust GDP growth target of more than 5% for next year as they loosen Covid rules and de-emphasize ideology

Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg: A look at the face off in South Africa between the Khoisan, an ancient southern African tribe, and Amazon, which plans to build a regional HQ on sacred land  —  On the outskirts of Cape Town, at the base of Table Mountain and set back from a tangle of freeways, the […]

A drone equipped with lights and speakers can deter bats from wind farms to protect them from potentially deadly turbine blades

Following established guidelines about prescription drugs would seem to be an obvious course of action, especially for the professionals that do the prescribing. Yet doctors and their family members are less likely than other people to comply with those guidelines, according to a large-scale study co-authored by an MIT economist. Depending on your perspective, that […]

During the coronavirus lockdowns, emissions of the potent greenhouse gas somehow soared. The culprit wasn’t humans—but the Earth itself.

These are the titles that make the most of your big, burly Microsoft console.

The relaunch of Twitter’s subscription service is pretty confusing. Here’s what users receive for their money.

Ryan Mac / New York Times: Twitter updates its private information and media policy with new rules, including the suspension of accounts “dedicated to sharing someone’s live location”  —  The suspended accounts include one that followed the private plane of Elon Musk, Twitter’s owner.

Bloomberg: Twitter suspends ~30 accounts that shared the locations of private jets from public data; @ElonJet, a bot tracking Musk’s jet, is back up after a brief ban  —  Twitter Inc. has suspended multiple accounts that track the locations of private jets using publicly available flight data …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: EnCharge AI, which builds semiconductor hardware and software stack for AI at the edge, emerges from stealth with a $21.7M Series A led by Anzu Partners  —  EnCharge AI, a company building hardware to accelerate AI processing at the edge, today emerged from stealth with $21.7 million in Series …

The National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) has recognized Robert T-I. Shin of MIT Lincoln Laboratory with the 2022 Rear Admiral Robert H. Gormley Combat Survivability Award for Leadership. Shin, principal staff in the laboratory’s Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) and Tactical Systems divisions and director of the Beaver Works Center, is widely recognized across the […]

Mark Saengrungkongka, a first-year MIT undergraduate student, stood at the blackboard and explained his solution to a math problem similar to the ones that might appear on the William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition, a prestigious annual math competition for college students in the United States and Canada administered by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). […]

On Monday evening, inside a rainbow-lit Kresge Auditorium, a capacity crowd whooped and hollered and shook their pom-poms along to one of the most anticipated shows of the year: the final student presentations of 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes). Known on campus as “two-double-oh-nine,” the popular fall semester course challenges teams of undergraduates over three months […]

Companies are awash in people analytics — but that data rarely translates into trustworthy markers of performance.

Don’t default to your comfort zone. Deliver your message in the way that works best for the situation.

Lessons for aspiring directors.

An experiment at the Large Hadron Collider suggests there’s a chance of catching this elusive evidence as it floats through our galactic neighborhood.

WIRED’s editor in chief reflects on a cacophonous year in Big Tech, crypto, and more, and predicts where 2023 may lead.

The Aura Carver makes a great gift (for yourself or someone else). This WIRED-tested model is $20 off.

Bill Allison / Bloomberg: The DOJ charged SBF with violating campaign finance laws, creating a showdown over what could be the biggest recent illegal infusion of money in US politics  —  Sam Bankman-Fried, the second biggest Democratic donor in the 2022 election cycle, is charged with violating campaign finance laws …

Johanes Hutabarat / Rest of World: Activists, publishers, and social media users criticize Indonesia’s new, broad criminal code, set to take full effect in 2025, and its impact on online speech  —  Articles forbidding “humiliation” of the government continue an unsettling trend of pressure on online speech.  —  • JAKARTA, INDONESIA

Matt Levine / Bloomberg: SBF’s “carelessness” fraud defense, after misrepresenting risk management and funneling customer money to Alameda, is a confession the SEC sees straight through  —  Oh Sam  —  I.  —  Here is how you run a futures exchange:  — You offer some bets on some propositions, say, whether Bitcoin will go up or […]

The company has taken measures to mitigate the risks, but security researchers warn of a broader threat.

The founder of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX was arrested the day before his scheduled hearing in the US Congress.

It has a few collaboration quirks and only works on Apple devices, but it’s a handy tool for putting all of your thoughts in one place.

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Microsoft says some drivers certified by its Windows Hardware Developer Program were used to sign malware, but that no network breach has been detected  —  Code-signing is supposed to make people safer.  In this case, it made them less so.  —  Microsoft has once again been caught allowing …

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: During a recent all-hands, Google’s AI chief said the company is moving “more conservatively than a small startup” on AI-chat tech due to reputational risks  —  – Google employees asked executives at an all-hands meeting whether the AI chatbot that’s going viral represents a “missed opportunity” for the company.

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: TikTok is testing a new horizontal full screen mode with select users globally  —  TikTok is testing a new horizontal full screen mode with select users globally, the company confirmed to TechCrunch.  Users who have access to the test feature will see a new “full screen” button appear on square or […]

A cryptographic tool inserts a detectable signature in the words produced by OpenAI’s text-generating artificial intelligence models. It could help teachers stop students using AIs to do their homework

From family photos to particle physics data, we generate stupendous amounts of digital information – and much of it is stored on old-fashioned plastic cartridges

When Omar Tantawi was growing up in Lebanon, he had one association with the United States: It was somewhere far away. He had no idea that one day he would pursue a doctoral degree at MIT. After high school, he learned about a scholarship for low-income students to the American University of Beirut, and college […]

Getting to the crux of his work on the Employee Experience Research Stream at the MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), Nick van der Meulen poses a rhetorical question: “In general, nothing happens in our organizations without our employees, right?” Groundwork in place, he continues, “So how can organizations create an environment where […]

A pair of early-stage clinical studies testing the safety and efficacy of 40-hertz sensory stimulation to treat Alzheimer’s disease has found that the potential therapy was well-tolerated, produced no serious adverse effects, and was associated with some significant neurological and behavioral benefits among a small cohort of participants. “In these clinical studies we were pleased […]

New tools are making it easier for anyone to use AI. Here’s how to make sure employees are doing so responsibly.

Founders often look to incubators and accelerators to grow their startups. But there’s another option.

A conversation with HBS senior lecturer Jeffrey Rayport on a pivotal phase in a start-up’s life cycle.

An upgraded power plant in Slovakia has angered neighboring Austria and fueled the debate over nuclear power and  independence from Russian gas.

This year, tech writer Brian Feldman set out to make a time capsule of the social network. He ended up making a catalog of so much more.

It’s always pleasing to see things become what they deep down are.

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Chinese police arrest 63 people accused of laundering up to ~$1.7B using Tether, starting in May 2021, after arresting 1,100+ people on similar charges in 2021  —  – Police in China arrested 63 people accused of laundering as much as 12 billion Chinese yuan ($1.7 billion) via cryptocurrency.

James Bandler / ProPublica: Google’s quest to digitize the US DoD’s trove of 31M+ tissue samples and 55M+ slides, the world’s largest human biorepository, raises ethical and legal concerns  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: The SEC charges Sam Bankman-Fried with defrauding investors and concealing diverting FTX customer funds to Alameda while raising over $1.8B  —  Defendant concealed his diversion of FTX customers’ funds to crypto trading firm Alameda Research while raising more than $1.8 billion from investors

The craft survived a 26-day voyage and a scorching descent. Now it’s time for NASA engineers to learn what went wrong—and what went right.

Far from exposing the nefarious inner workings of the platform, the files reveal an ethos of “transparency for thee, but not for me.”

No one wants to eat off a dirty fork. Cliffset’s cleaning tool and solution keeps your cutlery dust- and crust-free.

CNBC: Bahamas AG Ryan Pinder and US SDNY Attorney Damian Williams confirm Bahamas police arrested Sam Bankman-Fried, who is under indictment and could be extradited  —  Bahamian authorities have arrested Sam Bankman-Fried after U.S. law enforcement filed charges against the former crypto billionaire.

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Boston-based cybersecurity startup Snyk raised $196.5M at a $7.4B valuation, down 12% from its round in September 2021, bringing its total raised to $1.075B  —  Snyk hasn’t been afraid to take money over the years, scoring an ever larger investment haul with each passing round …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Israel-based game developer Playtika lays off about 15% of its staff, or 600+ workers, and removes three titles from the pipeline; its stock is down ~53% YTD  —  Playtika, the Israeli tech company that made its name through a series of wildly successful online gambling and gaming titles …

Decades-old US silos holding Minuteman III missiles that have been a key nuclear deterrent since the 1970s will be assessed by robots that can crawl straight up walls

For the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Nobel Prizes were awarded in a grand in-person ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden. Among those honored on Saturday were a number of laureates with ties to MIT — including this year’s winners as well as winners from 2020 and 2021, who were not able to […]