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 […]

Vitamin A deficiency is the world’s leading cause of childhood blindness, and in severe cases, it can be fatal. About one-third of the global population of preschool-aged children suffer from this vitamin deficiency, which is most prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. MIT researchers have now developed a new way to fortify foods with […]

For many of us, the act of breathing comes naturally. Behind the scenes, our diaphragm — the dome-shaped muscle that lies just beneath the ribcage — works like a slow and steady trampoline, pushing down to create a vacuum for the lungs to expand and draw air in, then relaxing as air is pushed out. […]

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A look back at the taxi business illustrates what OpenAI’s newest model might mean for creative work.

Eight strategies to weather the storm and emerge as a better leader.

For years, researchers thought characteristics like weight and education had shared genetic roots. The real answer might lie in how people choose to pair up.

Clever products don’t have to cost the earth. So, for your convenience, WIRED has put our top value picks into one useful spot.

A confluence of factors is leading people in the nation to gravitate toward extremist views.

Jordan Middler / Video Games Chronicle: Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer says Sony opposes the Activision Blizzard acquisition to “protect its dominance” and grows by “making Xbox smaller”  —  THE EXEC CONTINUED  In the latest war of words over its proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard …

André Beganski / Decrypt: Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao acknowledges temporarily suspending accounts over “abnormal” altcoin trading, following a spat with a high-profile crypto trader  —  The company says the observed activity had nothing to do with compromised accounts or leaked API keys.

Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: A look at what went wrong at decentralized lending protocol Maple Finance, as $54M in loans, or 66% of its lending pools, turn bad and what could happen next  —  Maple Finance, the largest unsecured crypto lending platform, is grappling with a debt crisis while gearing up for a major system […]

MIT researchers have identified molecules found in mucus that can block cholera infection by interfering with the genes that cause the microbe to switch into a harmful state. These protective molecules, known as glycans, are a major constituent of mucins, the gel-forming polymers that make up mucus. The MIT team identified a specific type of […]

Keep your phone, tablet, laptop, and other electronics running with these handheld power banks.

With Google’s latest update, content is more accessible, and you’re able to concentrate on the text rather than anything else. Here’s how to get set up.

To sharpen its command over precise maneuvers, the brain uses comparisons between control signals—not the signals themselves.

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Twitter’s Community Notes, the crowd-powered feature to fact check tweets previously known as Birdwatch, starts rolling out to all users globally  —  Twitter has begun rolling out Community Notes to all of its users globally, the company announced on Saturday.

Kit Rees / Bloomberg: The subpar performance of FAANG stocks, which account for more than 10% of the S&P 500 weighting, will be a big drag on the market in the coming years  —  For some investors, this year’s rout in high-flying technology stocks is more than a bear market: It’s the end of an […]

Adam Rawnsley / Rolling Stone: Ex-staffers say Twitter’s mass firing of security staff and growing reliance on automation will help China and other authoritarian regimes in silencing critics  —  Elon’s mass firing of security staff and increased reliance on automation is going to make it easier for tyrants to shout …

Just drag this conveniently inflatable half-doughnut out to the nearest lake.

Eri Sugiura / Financial Times: Sony’s CTO and NEC’s CEO say US chip export controls may temporarily impact China’s ability to procure chips but question the sanctions’ long-term effectiveness  —  Sony and NEC executives say progress may be slowed but China will remain a force in AI and other areas

Cade Metz / New York Times: Experts warn of a “hallucination” problem with ChatGPT and LaMDA, as these chatbots take what they have learned and reshape it without regard for what is true  —  Siri, Google Search, online marketing and your child’s homework will never be the same.  Then there’s the misinformation problem.

Washington Post: A look at some early-adopters using ChatGPT, GPT-3, and other text generator bots to write business emails, find creative inspiration, and more  —  The latest AI sensation, ChatGPT, is easy to talk to, bad at math and often deceptively, confidently wrong.  Some people are finding real-world value in it, anyway.

Plus: Chinese hackers stealing US Covid relief funds, a cyberattack on the Met Opera website, and more.

Plus: Apple expands its repair program in Europe, Google Chrome becomes less of a resource hog, and the FTC objects to Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard.