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Diébédo Francis Kéré works with natural materials and local communities to create buildings that are inclusive, beautiful, and climate resilient.

Neoplants says its pothos has superior purification properties—but you’ll still need a lot of them to get the job done.

Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal: The Commerce Department’s NTIA begins exploring possible rules for ChatGPT and other generative AI tools, requesting comment from the public over accountability  —  Fears grow over the potential use of artificial intelligence to commit crimes and spread falsehoods

Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: Open-source LLMs are having a moment after the LLaMA leak and releases from Stanford and others, prompting debates over the pros and cons of open and closed AI  —  The open-source technology movement has been having a moment over the past few weeks thanks to AI — following a wave …

Joseph Menn / Washington Post: Research: supporters of a separatist movement in Punjab, India, are using Twitter bots to promote violence, sharing content before Twitter’s safety team can act  —  The messages are too numerous for Twitter’s reduced moderation teams to delete  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Amid escalating conflict between …

Global supply chains are immense feats of technological and organizational sophistication. They are also, as the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic showed, vulnerable to unexpected developments. Will that change as artificial intelligence becomes a bigger part of supply chains? And what will happen to workers in the process? MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi explores these topics […]

Spring into the great outdoors with these day packs, hiking shoes, and more.

In 2021, the first overdose prevention center opened in the United States. WIRED spoke to its director about what “harm reduction” really means.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: The US FTC orders a supplement maker to pay $600K in its first case on “hijacked” Amazon reviews, in which reviews of different products are misleadingly merged  —  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has approved a final consent order in its first-ever enforcement action over a case involving …

Bloomberg: Sources: Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss recently made a $100M loan to Gemini Trust, after their crypto exchange tried to raise funds from outside investors  —  Billionaires Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss dipped into their own pockets to support their crypto exchange Gemini Trust Co. …

Jessica Piper / Politico: Tests show Twitter, which resumed political ads this year, offers incomplete data on the ads through its “disclosure” tool, missing some promoted tweets  —  The platform started accepting political ads again in January.  —  Elon Musk took over Twitter last fall with a pledge …

Nearly 20 percent of today’s electricity in the United States comes from nuclear power. The U.S. has the largest nuclear fleet in the world, with 92 reactors scattered around the country. Many of these power plants have run for more than half a century and are approaching the end of their expected lifetimes. Policymakers are […]

An accretion disk is a colossal whirlpool of gas and dust that gathers around a black hole or a neutron star like cotton candy as it pulls in material from a nearby star. As the disk spins, it whips up powerful winds that push and pull on the sprawling, rotating plasma. These massive outflows can […]

This short assessment will help you spot the warning signs — before you feel fried.

They must become more sophisticated in how they use data to gain visibility into patients’ behaviors and decisions.

A leader must embrace uncertainty and keep her team motivated after layoffs.

Looking to up your own audio quality on Zoom, YouTube, TikTok, or while gaming? Try some of these mics.

Ether is finally untethering itself from mining—and driving renewed debate about bitcoin’s environmental impact.

Videos obtained by WIRED from public transit vehicles reveal self-driving cars causing delays and potential danger to buses, trains, and passengers.

New York Times: A look at the impact of 34 US bitcoin mines and their extreme demand for energy, as the cost of electricity for locals increases in Texas and other areas  —  Bitcoin mines cash in on electricity — by devouring it, selling it, even turning it off — and they cause immense pollution.

Avram Piltch / Tom’s Hardware: Raspberry Pi launches the browser-based Raspberry Pi Code Editor in beta, initially supporting Python, aiming to help young people learn to code  —  New editor is integrated with Python lessons.  —  When we think about Raspberry Pi, we normally picture single-board computers …

Nicolas Parasie / Bloomberg: Emirates Telecom plans to buy a 50.03% stake in Careem, the super app owned by Uber’s Middle East unit, for $400M; Uber will own Careem’s ride-hailing business  —  Emirates Telecommunications Group will buy a $400 million stake in the super app developed by Uber Technologies Inc.’s Middle Eastern subsidiary …

A technique to 3D print conductive circuits directly into living organisms could one day be used in humans

Scientists are using secondary signatures from the cosmic microwave background to map the universe’s hidden matter.

Unleash your inner diva as you grab the mic on your favorite songs.

If you must have a giant computer screen, you could do worse than this one.

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: In a reversal, Twitter lets users like and retweet Substack links, but searches including “Substack” still return results for just “newsletter” instead  —  In a reversal of a limitation the platform put in place earlier in the week, Twitter is once again allowing users to interact with Substack links freely.

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: A study based on the patent-filing history of 760K+ US inventors finds they produce fewer innovations after joining big firms vs. inventors hired by young firms  —  Big companies are hiring an ever-larger proportion of America’s inventors, who are less productive once they join

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: ~270 US Apple Stores held staff meetings on unionization risks in the past two weeks, using a unionized store in Towson, Maryland as a cautionary tale  —  Apple is continuing its push to keep retail stores from unionizing.  Also: A deep look inside efforts to diversify the company’s product …

A device made of cylinders tethered to the ocean floor could lessen the ferocity of waves, preventing them from eroding the shore

After rising from the dead, the theater subscription service is back with a convoluted new business model. Here’s how it works and how to sign up.

Nathan Lambert / Democratizing Automation: An ML scientist writes about the extreme strain of working in an AI industry collectively shaken up by ChatGPT, as he oscillates between motivation and burnout  —  Fear, FOMO, and the scientific exodus driven by ChatGPT  —  Every single person I know working in AI these days …

Kit Chellel / Bloomberg: How the gambling industry has kept up with decades of computer-assisted tech developed to beat roulette, like wearable devices, timers, and predictive software  —  One spring evening, two men and a woman walked into the Ritz Club casino, an upmarket establishment in London’s West End.

Aric Toler / bellingcat: The leaked Pentagon Ukraine documents seem to have first appeared on Discord, followed by 4chan, before appearing on Telegram, Twitter, and major media outlets  —  In recent days, the US Justice Department and Pentagon have begun investigating an apparent online leak of sensitive documents, including some that were marked “Top Secret”.

We’ve tested dozens of ways to watch stuff on 4K or HD TVs. These are our favorites.

Plus: 119 arrested during a sting on the Genesis dark-web market, the IRS aims to buy an online mass surveillance tool, and more.

Plus: Kobo’s new E Ink tablet is made for doodling, Google moves podcasts into YouTube Music, and Peloton connects to Android watches.

Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: An interview with Victor Wong, Google’s senior director of product management for Privacy Sandbox, about replacing third-party cookies, Apple’s ATT, and more  —  To replace the cookie in Chrome and Android, Google has an offering for the world called “Privacy Sandbox.”  Here’s an exclusive peek into how it will work.

Reuters: Baidu sues “relevant” app developers and Apple over fake apps for its Ernie bot on the App Store; Ernie, launched in March 2023, doesn’t have an official app  —  Chinese search giant touts product as answer to U.S.-developed ChatGPT chatbot  —  Baidu lodged lawsuits …

Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite: Twitter replaces the week-old “US state-affiliated media” label on NPR’s account with a new label describing the nonprofit media company as “Government Funded”  —  Twitter removed the “state-affiliated media” label it had affixed on NPR’s account this week …

In California, the bodies of four furry swimmers tested positive for a strain of toxoplasmosis first seen in mountain lions.

The story behind the fight over this game’s rights is as complex as the game itself.

Easter weekend brings discounts on some of our favorite Amazon devices, plus Google Pixel phones.

Joel Khalili / Wired: A look at the increasing complexity of the operating environment for crypto companies in the US, as a regulatory turf war between the SEC and the CFTC escalates  —  US agencies are sparring over who gets to oversee the crypto industry, and companies are stuck in the middle.

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: Experts say when ChatGPT confabulates, it is reaching for information that is absent from its training data and filling in blanks with plausible-sounding words  —  A look inside the hallucinating artificial minds of the famous text prediction bots.  —  Over the past few months …

Financial Times: Customs data: London-based Mykines shipped ~$1.2B of chips, servers, and other electronics into Russia, at least $982M of which are subject to export controls  —  Company registered to terraced house in London sent goods including semiconductors, according to customs data

Luscafilm has announced three new Star Wars movies. There’s a crucial title missing.

Naomi Nix / Washington Post: Sources: Meta is giving some VR developers compensation packages of $600K to $1M, significantly more than most gaming companies, despite a push to rein in costs  —  Programmers’ high pay is just a sliver of the company’s multibillion-dollar metaverse investment

The Hindu: Twitter seemingly removed a journalist’s tweet about India’s Home Minister globally, not just in the country, an apparent first, in response to a “legal demand”  —  The move is an apparent first, as Twitter generally takes down posts in response to government demands only in the country whose government demanded censorship