The MIT Press has released a comprehensive report that addresses how open access policies shape research and what is needed to maximize their positive impact on the research ecosystem. The report, entitled “Access to Science and Scholarship 2024: Building an Evidence Base to Support the Future of Open Research Policy,” is the outcome of a […]

Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapies can be very effective against some cancers by helping the immune system recognize cancer cells that are masquerading as healthy cells.  T cells are built to recognize specific pathogens or cancer cells, which they identify from the short fragments of proteins presented on their surface. These fragments are often referred […]

Captivated as a child by video games and puzzles, Marzyeh Ghassemi was also fascinated at an early age in health. Luckily, she found a path where she could combine the two interests.  “Although I had considered a career in health care, the pull of computer science and engineering was stronger,” says Ghassemi, an associate professor in […]

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In the Western world, some automated driving features seem to have fallen out of favor. Not true in China—and the reasons why offer a preview of auto industry changes to come.

Removing your phone number and address from the internet can be exceedingly difficult. A multibillion-dollar lawsuit led by an unlikely privacy crusader could soon catalyze change for everyone.

Carolyn Cohn / Reuters: Insurance broker Howden: cyberattacks have cost UK businesses ~£44B in the past five years and 52% of private sector companies have reported at least one attack  —  Cyberattacks have cost British businesses around 44 billion pounds ($55.08 billion) in lost revenue in the past five years …

Eri Sugiura / Financial Times: Airbnb plans to let tenants in nearly 1,500 flats owned by Greystar in London to sublet homes on a part-time basis, expanding on a 2022 Greystar partnership  —  Concept aims to counter criticism that the platform contributes to housing crises in big tourist destinations

Sarah Kessler / New York Times: US coding boot camp graduates are facing a tough job market due to AI coding tools and mass layoffs; CompTIA: developer job listings are down 56% since 2019  —  Coding boot camps once looked like the golden ticket to an economically secure future.  But as that promise fades, what […]

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Aya Wagatsuma / Bloomberg: Shares of Japan’s Fujikura, which specializes in fiber optic cables for data centers, are up 400%+ in 2024 due to the AI boom, leading the Nikkei 225 index  —  – Fujikura has benefited from surging demand for data centers  —  The global boom in AI has turned an obscure 139-year-old Japanese […]

Reporters Without Borders: Investigation: how hack-for-hire Appin tried silencing 15+ outlets since 2022 over articles, newsletters, and podcasts covering Appin’s “ethical hacking”  —  Whether based in the US, Switzerland, France or India, any media outlet investigating the “ethical hacking” of Appin …

David Pan / Bloomberg: A profile of Chris Maurice, the CEO of US stablecoin startup Yellow Card, which operates in 20 African countries and has traded $3B+ worth of crypto in 2024  —  Cryptocurrencies that track the dollar are becoming a popular workaround for companies stymied by currency shortages on the continent.

Augmented reality glasses still have a long way to go, but Snap’s latest Spectacles—which are now available to developers—already have some real-world utility.

The WIRED & Octopus Energy Tech Summit in Berlin was bursting with innovative ideas for reaching net zero and on working together at an ever-greater scale.

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Franz Lidz / New York Times: How researchers used AI in tandem with drones to find 303 previously uncharted Nazca Lines in Peru, almost doubling the number that had been mapped as of 2020  —  With drones and A.I., researchers managed to double the number of mysterious geoglyphs in a matter of months.

Bloomberg: Gamers who prefer playing together are fueling demand for esports hotels across China; research firm Niko Partners says China has more than 21,000 such hotels  —  With bunkbeds, 24/7 tech support and state-of-the-art consoles, China’s 21,000 esports hotels cater to gamers who prefer to play together.

Michel Martin / NPR: Q&A with Eric Schmidt about the DOJ’s proposal for Google to sell Chrome, a new book about AI he co-authored with Craig Mundie and Henry Kissinger, and more  —  The Department of Justice is pushing for Google to spin off its Chrome browser.  In August, a landmark ruling found Google …

IBM has bet big on a modular approach to building quantum computers, and now it has successfully linked two quantum chips together to operate as a single device, a key step towards that goal

This is the first time Russia has used its so-called Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile in combat. The launch also serves as a warning to the West.

Can red light therapy really help your skin? Here are the benefits certain wavelengths can bring your skin, and which LED face masks (and other LED devices) are worth buying.

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Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: Six months into a deal with OpenAI, Spanish bank BBVA says staff created 2,900+ GPTs and reported productivity gains, but questions ChatGPT’s scalability  —  The bank is evaluating its next steps after seeing early productivity gains from OpenAI’s enterprise tool

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept: A federal court allows a claim by The Intercept that DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story’s title or byline but throws out its claims against Microsoft  —  The Intercept’s lawsuit argues that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act prevents OpenAI from stripping a story’s title or byline.

Financial Times: Similarweb: Bluesky app usage in the US and UK grew ~300% to 3.5M DAUs after Nov. 5; Threads now has 1.5x Bluesky’s DAUs in the US, down from 5x before Nov. 5  —  Social media giant’s Threads app makes changes as smaller competitor to X surges  —  Meta’s Threads is losing ground …

Plus: The worst telecom hack in US history rolls on, iPhones are harder to break into, and more of the week’s top security news.

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Reuters: An investigation finds several women across the US were deceived, drugged, terrorized, and sexually enslaved by sex traffickers to make money from OnlyFans  —  OnlyFans gives women the chance to earn money by making porn.  Sex traffickers also use the platform to abuse and exploit them, say police and prosecutors.

Barbara Booth / CNBC: A look at the disagreements in the US government over setting up a US Cyber Force, as the Pentagon formally asked Congress to reject the proposal in September  —  A recent Chinese cyber-espionage attack inside the nation’s major telecom networks that may have reached as high as the communications …

Rosie Bradbury / PitchBook: Analysis: Sequoia Capital marked up its 2020 flagship US VC fund, which closed at ~$808M in 2022, by 24.6% in the 12 months ended in June 2024, with no exits  —  Sequoia Capital, one of the world’s largest venture firms, marked up its 2020 flagship US venture fund by 24.6% in […]

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The 2024 elections were a high-water mark for naming and shaming threat actors from foreign governments. There’s still work to be done, though, on how to attribute disinformation campaigns most effectively.

Zack Abrams / The Block: Polymarket blocks users in France from placing trades, as the country’s gaming regulator investigates the platform’s compliance with local gambling laws  —  – Prediction marketplace Polymarket has restricted users in France from accessing its platform, according to a message shown when trying to access the site from the country.

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Palo Alto Networks says it has observed exploitation of two zero-days in its PAN-OS firewall OS; researchers say hackers have compromised 2,000+ firewalls  —  Malicious hackers have compromised potentially thousands of organizations by exploiting two new zero-day vulnerabilities found …

Wall Street Journal: Elon Musk, as Trump’s efficiency czar, is singling out ordinary federal staffers, including some with climate-related jobs, on X and unleashing his fans on them  —  As Trump efficiency czar, the billionaire is targeting employees by name on X—sparking pushback  —  Unlimited access across all platforms and devices.

When deciding whether to let people await trial at home or in jail, US judges can use a risk score algorithm. But it often makes harsher recommendations than humans do

There is no evidence that advertisers use covert recordings of conversations to target people with adverts, an accusation widely denied by the industry, and yet this belief persists

As the global conversation around assisted and automated vehicles (AVs) evolves, the MIT Advanced Vehicle Technology (AVT) Consortium continues to lead cutting-edge research aimed at understanding how drivers interact with emerging vehicle technologies.  Since its launch in 2015, the AVT Consortium — a global academic-industry collaboration on developing a data-driven understanding of how drivers respond […]

MIT is co-leading an effort to enable the development of two new large-scale renewable energy projects in regions with carbon-intensive electrical grids: Big Elm Solar in Bell County, Texas, came online this year, and the Bowman Wind Project in Bowman County, North Dakota, is expected to be operational in 2026. Together, they will add a […]

White House science advisor Arati Prabhakar expressed confidence in U.S. science and technology capacities during a talk on Wednesday about major issues the country must tackle. “Let me start with the purpose of science and technology and innovation, which is to open possibilities so that we can achieve our great aspirations,” said Prabhakar, who is […]

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