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Younger people seek answers on TikTok and Instagram—Google hopes to lure them back with more visual, infinite scrolling search results.

Damage to the pipeline that runs between Russia and Germany is being treated as deliberate. Finding out what happened may not be straightforward.

Matt Burgess / Wired: Pornhub is testing a chatbot that redirects users searching for CSAM to a service where they can get help; the bot intervened ~174K times during the first month  —  Pornhub is trialing a new automated tool that pushes CSAM-searchers to seek help for their online behavior.  Will it work?

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: New Jersey-based Sitetracker, which offers a cloud service to manage critical infrastructure projects, raised a $96M Series D, $66M in equity and $30M in debt  —  Startup Sitetracker Inc. today announced that it has secured $96 million in financing to broaden the adoption of its namesake cloud platform …

Bitcoin’s demand for electricity has led to huge carbon emissions, but a slump in the cryptocurrency’s price and rising energy costs have slowed its energy use, at least temporarily

MIT Professor Richard Hynes, a pioneer in studying cellular adhesion, has been named a recipient of the 2022 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. Hynes, the Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research and a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, was honored for the discovery of integrins, proteins that are key […]

One reason that it’s so difficult to deliver large protein drugs orally is that these drugs can’t pass through the mucus barrier that lines the digestive tract. This means that insulin and most other “biologic drugs” — drugs consisting of proteins or nucleic acids — have to be injected or administered in a hospital.  A […]

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MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node held its annual financial technology (fintech) entrepreneurship boot camp this summer, connecting university students with corporate partners to tackle real-world business challenges.   Building on the belief that innovative, creative solutions deliver more value and a better experience, the MIT Entrepreneurship and Fintech Integrator (MEFTI) program featured unique problem statements proposed […]

Lessons from companies that have thrived in volatile environments.

Easy steps you can take today to craft a more agile process.

Nobody likes being asked to wait, but recent political history has shown that a completely frictionless internet has its own dangers.

The Aarke Carbonator Pro is an excellent countertop pick for fizzy-water aficionados.

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Sources: FTX is in the process of raising $1B as Sam Bankman-Fried considers bidding for bankrupt lender Celsius Network’s assets  —  Sam Bankman-Fried, the crypto billionaire who has been bailing out distressed industry players in recent months, is considering bidding for the assets …

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: YouTube rolls out narration voiceovers for Shorts on iOS, a popular feature on TikTok  —  YouTube Shorts continues to compete with TikTok by adding loads of new features that are popular on the other app.  Today, the Google-owned platform is rolling out a narration voiceover feature on iOS, a tool that […]

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Financial Times: WhatsApp’s Will Cathcart warns the UK government against undermining encryption in the Online Safety Bill, arguing the move would embolden authoritarian regimes  —  Moves to undermine messaging encryption could embolden hostile nation states, Will Cathcart says

A visual model of Guy Bresler’s research would probably look something like a Venn diagram. He works at the four-way intersection where theoretical computer science, statistics, probability, and information theory collide. “There are always new things to do be done at the interface. There are always opportunities for entirely new questions to ask,” says Bresler, […]

It’s a great handset, but the improvements are so iterative that most of you will hardly notice what’s new.

Whether you’re typing from coffee shops or a hybrid work setup, you need a screen you can grab and go.

Jennifer Surane / Bloomberg: The SEC says 16 Wall Street firms have agreed to pay $1.1B in combined penalties for failing to monitor employees using unauthorized messaging apps  —  Banking giants including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. agreed to pay regulators $1.1 billion in penalties for failing …

The Guardian: Court filing: Elon Musk’s deposition by Twitter’s lawyers has been rescheduled to October 6 and 7  —  Musk to be questioned under oath by Twitter lawyers on 6 and 7 October in preparation for trial over abandoned $44bn takeover  —  Elon Musk is scheduled to be questioned under oath …

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: A look at tappable podcast ads in mobile games, which trigger episode downloads; source: iHeartMedia got ~6M unique listeners/month through such ads since 2018  —  Want more stories like this from Ashley Carman?  Podcasters are always hunting for new, flashy places to promote their shows …

Neurodegenerative diseases — like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease), Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s — are complicated, chronic ailments that can present with a variety of symptoms, worsen at different rates, and have many underlying genetic and environmental causes, some of which are unknown. ALS, in particular, affects voluntary muscle movement and is always […]

Artificial intelligences can create images inspired by the human-generated art they train on. This is raising concerns over copyright and artists’ livelihoods

AI is no longer a luxury accessible only to big tech companies.

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The MIT School of Engineering and Pillar VC today announced the MIT-Pillar AI Collective, a one-year pilot program funded by a gift from Pillar VC that will provide seed grants for projects in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science with the goal of supporting translational research. The program will support graduate students and postdocs […]

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Flatfile, which automates onboarding, structuring, and cleaning data, raised a $50M Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing its total funding to $94.7M  —  Data cleansing — prepping data for applications like predictive analytics — takes time.  In fact, data scientists spend an estimated 60% …

Reuters: Milan-based app developer Bending Spoons, which makes Splice and Remini, raised $340M+ from Italian banks Intesa Sanpaolo and Banco BPM, Ryan Reynolds, and more  —  Italian app developer Bending Spoons has raised more than $340 million from investors including Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds and Kerry Trainor …

The fun-loving cybercriminals blamed for breaches of Uber and Rockstar are exposing weaknesses in ways others aren’t.

Want to speak up against Big Tech, unjust data collection, and surveillance? Here’s how to be an activist in your community and beyond.

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Financial Times: A look at South Korea’s Zepeto, owned by Naver and considered one of Asia’s largest metaverse platforms with 15M-20M MAUs, as it plans a global expansion  —  Asia’s largest metaverse platform, Zepeto, is stepping up its global expansion as it looks to compete against the Big Tech groups …

Bad weather forced a third delay for the space agency’s SLS rocket plans—another setback for the uncrewed back-to-the-moon mission.

The mission was designed to test whether a probe could knock a hazardous space rock away from a crash course with Earth.

Cheri Faulkner / NME: Netflix to open a new game studio in Helsinki “built from scratch” and led by ex-Zynga Vice President and General Manager Marko Lastikka  —  The studio will be responsible for delivering “a variety of delightful and deeply engaging original games”

Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: China-based Well-Link Technologies, which is building a real-time cloud rendering technology for video games, has raised a $40M Series B2 led by Temasek  —  – Singapore state investment firm Temasek has led a $40 million funding round in Chinese startup Well-Link Technologies, according to an announcement Monday.

An orchestrated attack went after an independent news website and harvested swathes of Facebook user data. And nobody can stop it.

A targeted transmission of radio waves can disrupt what a camera detects – and the technology has the potential to fool object-detection systems into seeing things that aren’t there

Mike Masnick / Techdirt: A subreddit with 1.5M members, r/PoliticalHumor, challenges Texas’ content moderation law by mandating that comments include “Greg Abbott is a little piss baby”  —  Last year, I tried to create a “test suite” of websites that any new internet regulation ought to be “tested” against.

Inside the DEI journey of a Black-owned business, Uncle Nearest, which has become the fastest-growing whiskey brand in the United States.

Every year during residence exploration week at MIT, or REX week, our undergraduate residence halls host activities to encourage new students to visit, get to know the vibe of the community, and hopefully choose to join. So, how do you get the attention of first-year MIT students? At East Campus, you invite them to help […]

The AI Policy Forum (AIPF) is an initiative of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing to move the global conversation about the impact of artificial intelligence from principles to practical policy implementation. Formed in late 2020, AIPF brings together leaders in government, business, and academia to develop approaches to address the societal challenges posed by […]

When you don’t want to quit, but you need to protect yourself from a manager’s bias and incivility.

Five critical decisions to set it up for long-term success.

Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: The UK’s ICO could fine TikTok £27M after provisionally finding that the company breached data protection rules around children’s data  —  ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok faces a possible fine of 27 million pounds ($28.9 million) after the UK’s privacy watchdog provisionally found the company …

Cleaning sucks. The Lupe Pure makes it a little easier and has replaceable parts in case they ever break.

Everyone is telling one another to “get help,” but few acknowledge that the practice is often flawed.