Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? (www.newyorker.com)
As it’s currently imagined, the technology promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative possible?
ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Meet the people who have already lost their jobs to AI.
The Quest for a 'Simple' Smartwatch - Pixel Refresh (www.pixelrefresh.com)
I don't need apps, or advanced health tracking — just the basics. When smartwatches miss 3 key criteria for Ben.
Happy 50th birthday, Ethernet | APNIC Blog (blog.apnic.net)
Why has Ethernet endured as a ubiquitous data framing protocol over all these years?
Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff (www.theverge.com)
The company has been affected by the downturn in ad markets.
Alphabet, Bharti Airtel to bridge India's digital divide with frickin' laser beams (www.theregister.com)
Dr Evil would be proud
What do you think is the future of Elon's Neuralink, now that they started experimenting on humans? (kbin.social)
It seems a bit surreal that he got approved personally.
Blue Origin returns to form with a successful rocket launch after being grounded for over a year (www.engadget.com)
Blue Origin’s 24th mission is officially a success. The New Shepard rocket took off as planned this morning and the booster and crew capsule safely separated mid-flight and landed back on this great blue marble we call Earth.
Fighting viruses with viruses? ‘Gene drive’ offers new strategy to beat infections (www.science.org)
If your immune system or drugs can’t stop a viral infection, why not pit a virus against itself? That’s the provocative idea several labs are pursuing. They are studying whether deliberately introducing engineered viruses into people infected with their natural relatives can “drive” a foreign gene into those viruses that...
Ilya Sutskever’s Team at OpenAI Built Tools to Control a Superhuman AI (gizmodo.com)
OpenAI Chief Scientist’s status remains unclear, but his “Superalignment” team put out a groundbreaking paper on the path to AGI.
Google will update Maps to prevent authorities from accessing location history data (www.theverge.com)
Google’s latest update to Maps protects users’ locations from law enforcement.
U.S. and China race to shield secrets from quantum computers (www.reuters.com)
Quantum computing could shred the encryption that guards digital information. Great powers are sprinting to master this technology to crack their adversaries’ codes.
Intel’s Core Ultra CPUs are here — and they all come with silicon dedicated to AI (www.theverge.com)
Intel has finally revealed the details on the Core Ultra 9.
Threads launches for nearly half a billion more users in Europe (www.theverge.com)
Months after its launch in over 100 other countries.
iOS 17.2 arrives with new Journal app and spatial video capture support (www.theverge.com)
Get updating.
Quantum computer performs error-resistant operations with logical qubits (arstechnica.com)
QuEra gets ready for error correction, runs operations with over 40 logical qubits.
Google launches Gemini, the AI model it hopes will take down GPT-4 (www.theverge.com)
Google let OpenAI take the lead in the AI race — now, it’s mounting a comeback.
Where are all the robot trucks? (www.theverge.com)
The promised wave of autonomous big rigs never materialized. But 2024 could prove to be a pivotal year for the technology.
1960s chatbot ELIZA beat OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 in a recent Turing test study (arstechnica.com)
AI chatbot deception paper suggests that some bots (and people) aren't very persuasive.
Japan debuts six-story experimental fusion reactor (gizmodo.com)
The reactor, a forerunner for the vast ITER experiment in France, has the potential to hasten the race for cleaner energy.
Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers (www.engadget.com)
YouTube's dramatic content gatekeeping decisions of late have a long history behind them, and there's an equally long history of these defenses being bypassed.
Exclusive: OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster -sources (www.reuters.com)
Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers sent the board of directors a letter warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Before Altman’s Ouster, OpenAI’s Board Was Divided and Feuding (www.nytimes.com)
Sam Altman confronted a member over a research paper that discussed the company, while directors disagreed for months about who should fill board vacancies....
Pesky heat shield issue threatens to delay NASA's first crewed Moon journey in decades (gizmodo.com)
The Orion capsule's heat shield suffered some unexpected damage at the conclusion of the Artemis 1 mission.
Breaking: Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI (www.theverge.com)
Uno reverse.
