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One conceptualisation of this new narrative is as a ‘Thrutopia’. This is the middle passage between utopia and dystopia. The hour is too late to avoid reaping the destruction we have sown, but neither is complex human civilisation beyond hope.

Jane (Veitzman) Muschenetz, MBA ’06, writes poetry that bridges the gap between science and art.

There are 35% fewer software developer job listings on Indeed today, than five years ago. Compared to other industries, job listings for software engineers grew much more in 2021-2022, but have declined much faster since. A look into possible reasons for this, and what could come next.

Only through regular injections of human writing can the models improve and the machines stay up to date.

What is the real, long-term cost of adopting a JavaScript framework?

The ability to generate, modify, and iterate on custom tools through simple conversation with AI has effectively bridged the long-standing gap between technical capability and creative vision.

A Blog post by Sasha Luccioni on Hugging Face

Principles and practices to guide climate justice and digital rights campaigners in the responsible use of AI.

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

Joint statement from civil society for the AI Action Summit Signed by over 100 organizations. If you share our concerns and demands that AI systems be made compatible with our planetary boundaries, and are a civil society organization, can you can sign on here. INTRODUCTION We are at a critical threshold in our computational futures. Investment in artificial intelligence (AI) is booming, and its application across society is accelerating at an unprecedented scale.

Teaching about climate change isn’t easy when the last drops of hope for limiting warming to 1.5C evaporate with every US presidential decree. In response, I'm making a quantum leap in how I teach.

Nicolas Paries spoke to us about feeling confident integrating exactly.ai into design proposals, building eco-friendly websites and enabling autonomy for his clients.

Un-breaking our social networks requires fundamentally different architectures than the defaults currently used to build most tools for coordination.

A symbol of wisdom and renewal, the snake is a fitting portent for these transformative times.

The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s

As the climate crisis deepens, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a contested force: some champion its potential to advance renewable energy, materials discovery, and large-scale...

Openvibe's clever app that integrates multiple open social networks, including Bluesky, Mastodon, Nostr, and Threads, just got a boost toward its future

Liang Wenfeng, who founded the firm just two years ago, says his aim is ‘not to lose money, nor to make huge profits’

DeepSeek-R1 is a blockbuster open-source model that is now at the top of the U.S. App Store.

"Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and more lists of links pointing back to itself."

A series of 5 collective imagination gatherings to engage residents in imagining their place as a living person, to help revitalise Kiwaatule from a dense urban area to a green corridor.

Watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole on this government agency's GitHub page.

If we don’t act soon, our online world will continue to be run at the whim of capricious billionaires.

The TikTok ban and Donald Trump's rise to power show how fragile our social media accounts are. We must normalize and invest in decentralized social media.

Wee little union sign I painted in 2022, maybe? This week’s question comes to us anonymously: How do we survive being online? Erika and I bought a radio. For...

Modeled after the human vocal tract, MIT CSAIL’s AI system can generate and understand vocal imitations of everyday sounds. It “sketches up” human-like vocal impressions without training, or ever hearing a human mimic that particular sound.

Inaccurate notices branded with broadcaster’s logo sent to iPhone users but tech firm works on improvements

There are increasing concerns that continued economic growth in high-income countries might not be environmentally sustainable, socially beneficial, or economically achievable. In this Review, we explore the rapidly advancing field of post-growth research, which has evolved in response to these concerns. The central idea of post-growth is to replace the goal of increasing GDP with the goal of improving human wellbeing within planetary boundaries. Key advances discussed in this Review include: the development of ecological macroeconomic models that test policies for managing without growth; understanding and reducing the growth dependencies that tie social welfare to increasing GDP in the current economy; and characterising the policies and provisioning systems that would allow resource use to be reduced while improving human wellbeing.