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New data shows a rising tide of coders in Bangladesh and Nigeria.

Nearly 90 percent of top news outlets like 'The New York Times' now block AI data collection bots from OpenAI and others. Leading right-wing outlets like NewsMax and Breitbart mostly permit them.

A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call, according to Hong Kong police.

The cheap web is a solarpunk philosophy of web design.

The world's first full-scale timber wind turbine has started turning in Sweden, with a tower built by wood technology company Modvion.

Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology. It’s past time we call it what it is.

The tool, Nightshade, introduces subtle alterations into an image to confuse AI models and "poison" their training data.

Last week, Apple opened pre-orders for the Vision Pro, a $3500 “spatial computer” that is its first real “new” thing since the Apple Watch, and arguably its most notable release since the iPad or iPhone. Ming-Chi Kuo, one of the few truly reliable Apple analysts, estimates that the Vision Pro

Acquisitions, job postings and academic papers suggest tech company is preparing to run AI through its devices

The Internet used to be so simple to use that people collectively coined the term “let me Google that for you” to make fun of people who had the audacity of asking other people questions online. In the future I fear that people will have no other choice but to ask people for information from the Internet, because right now it’s all full of AI dogshit.

It has been a truly bizarre week. We’ve watched three banks die, and then a fourth bank almost died (Credit Suisse) before being scooped up by UBS for the rock-bottom price of $3.2bn. Credit Suisse’s fall from grace is especially remarkable given that it was

Or why tech upgrades are now mostly downgrades

WindCORES operates data centers inside wind turbines located in a wind park in western Germany, which the company says makes the centers almost carbon neutral.

The device is the size of a water bottle and made of copper, aluminium and other parts worth around $10. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Automated wind-energy system brings portable renewables off-grid

What happened after my wife and I removed Wi-Fi from our home

It is the zoomers’ web now.

technology, living post scarcity, and how to find what you want

The web is filled with content designed for Google, not humans.

Duolingo Inc., the maker of language-learning software, is cutting some contractors while using generative artificial intelligence to create more content, the latest sign that companies are shifting some tasks typically handled by workers to AI tools.

Northvolt says new lithium-free sodium-ion battery is cheaper, more sustainable and doesn’t rely on scarce raw materials

Humane’s AI wearable is here — but what is it for?

Latimer, named after African-American inventor Lewis Latimer, is a new platform trying to make generative AI more inclusive.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:      Section 1.  Purpose.  Artificial intelligence (AI) holds extraordinary potential for both promise and peril.  Responsible AI use has the potential to help solve urgent challenges…

Caltech researchers are experimenting with a space-based solar power system that would assemble itself after being launched by rockets.

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Constructed from cement, carbon black, and water, the device holds the potential to offer affordable and scalable energy storage for renewable energy sources. Two of humanity's most ubiquitous historical materials, cement and carbon black (which resembles very fine charcoal), may form the basis for

We must resist normalizing opacity in the design of generative AI systems, says Eryk Salvaggio.