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 …
US police are selling seized phones with personal data still on them
Nude photos, bank details and stolen credit card numbers have been found on devices sold by US police forces via auction sites
7 Best Heart Rate Monitors (2023): Chest Straps, EKG, Watches
These chest straps and watches can help keep your finger on the pulse of your wellness.
Bring Back the Seabirds, Save the Climate
The number of ocean going birds has declined 70 percent since the 1950s, but restoring their populations can bolster marine ecosystems that sequester carbon.
Baratza Encore ESP Review: A Grinder for Almost Every Kind of Coffee
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.
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 (Associated Press)
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 …
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 (Financial Times)
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
EU Commissioner Thierry Breton says Twitter has dropped out of a voluntary EU pact to combat online disinformation and adds Twitter’s “obligations remain” (Kelvin Chan/Associated Press)
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.
The 43 Best Movies on Netflix This Week
From The Trial of the Chicago 7 to Zombieland, here are our picks for the best streaming titles to feast your eyes on.
Sources: PE firms Francisco Partners and TPG have ended talks to acquire observability software company New Relic after failing to secure enough debt financing (Reuters)
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) …
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 (The Verge)
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.
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 (FinSMEs)
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.
Elon Musk’s brain implant firm Neuralink gets approval for human trial
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
AI is a key issue in negotiations between actors and Hollywood studios
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
Capital letter test is a foolproof way of sorting AIs from humans
A trick for asking questions using capital letters seems to baffle artificial intelligences like ChatGPT, while humans can easily give the right answer
MIT students Rupert Li and Audrey Xie named 2023-24 Goldwater Scholars
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 […]
Celebrating the impact of IDSS
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 […]
Azeem on AI: What Can the Copernican Revolution Teach Us about the Future of AI?
How might AI breakthroughs change the larger systems we operate within?
AI Can Help You Ask Better Questions — and Solve Bigger Problems
Leaders should focus less on automation and more on innovation.
How — and When — Should Companies Engage in the Political Process?
A new set of principles to encourage responsibility, legitimacy, accountability, and transparency.
24 Best Memorial Day Tech Deals 2023: Headphones, TVs, and More
What better way to kick off the summer than with an upgrade to TV, camera, headphones, and more?
35 Best Memorial Day Sales and Deals: Pizza Ovens, Recycled Bags, and More
Wondering where to start during this weekend’s sales bonanza? Right here.
Antarctic Sea Ice Is at Record Lows. Is It an Alarming Shift?
Scientists are “watching with bated breath” to see if ice will return to normal levels. The planetary consequences could be huge.
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 (Reuters)
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.
German newspaper Handelsblatt: a Tesla whistleblower leaked 100GB of data on customer FSD complaints from 2015 to 2022, including 2,400 self-acceleration issues (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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 …
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 (Wired)
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 […]
Bcrypt, a Popular Password Hashing Algorithm, Starts Its Long Goodbye
The coinventor of “bcrypt” is reflecting on the ubiquitous function’s 25 years and channeling cybersecurity’s core themes into electronic dance music.
The 12 Best Movies on Apple TV+ Right Now
From Swan Song to CODA, here’s everything you should be watching on Apple’s streaming service.
Humanoid Robots Are Coming of Age
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.
DCG is shutting down its institutional crypto trading platform TradeBlock, citing the crypto winter and regulatory uncertainties, effective May 31, 2023 (Bloomberg)
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 …
Neuralink says it received US FDA approval to launch its first-in-human clinical study of brain implants (Akriti Sharma/Reuters)
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.
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 (Hugh Son/CNBC)
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 …
‘Fluxonium’ is the longest lasting superconducting qubit ever
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
Tackling the MIT campus’s top energy consumers, building by building
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 […]
River erosion can shape fish evolution, study suggests
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 named to 2023 ALL IN Student Voting Honor Roll
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 […]
How Generative AI Changes Strategy
Conversations with experts about the imminent tradeoffs facing senior leaders.
Building an Effective Cybersecurity Training Program
It’s critical to schedule time for simulated exercises and “scrimmages.”
3 Strategies for Making Better, More Informed Decisions
How to overcome the limitations of our self-serving biases.
Digital Culture Is Literally Reshaping Women’s Faces
The internet has led to the rise of a ‘hyper-modern’ pan-Asian beauty ideal.
38 Best Memorial Day Outdoor Deals: Tents, Camp Chairs, and More
The sun is out, the flowers are budding, and it’s time to revel in your new running shoes and sleeping pads.
Internal Report Suggests Security Lapses at Hacked Crypto Exchange Bitfinex
A security review describes how attackers exploited mistakes to steal millions of dollars worth of bitcoin.
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 (Access Now)
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) …
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” (Financial Times)
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
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 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
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 […]
Superconducting ‘fluxonium’ is the longest lasting qubit ever
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
Exploring the links between diet and cancer
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 […]
China Hacks US Critical Networks in Guam, Raising Cyberwar Fears
Researchers say the state-sponsored espionage operation may also lay the groundwork for disruptive cyberattacks.
Sam Altman’s World Tour Hopes to Reassure AI Doomers
On a stop in London, the OpenAI CEO called for balanced regulation and warned of the risks of deepfake disinformation.
5 Best Multi-Tools (2023): Leatherman, Victorinox, and Ones to Avoid
Become a jack of nearly all trades with the right multi-tool in your glove box or pocket.