Dystopia / Future Trends

06/11/2024

“A satellite is always coming over an area within a given reasonable amount of time.”…

24/10/2024

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/10/phone-tracking-tool-lets-government-agencies-follow-your-every-move/

Unique IDs assigned to Android and iOS devices threaten your privacy. Who knew?

24/10/2024

https://www.wired.com/story/meet-zachxbt-243-million-crypto-theft/

He just untangled a $243 million bitcoin theft, what may be the biggest-ever crypto heist to target a single victim. And he has never shown his face.

22/06/2024

Some data centers need as much energy as a small city, turning companies that promised a clean energy future into some of the most insatiable guzzlers of power

22/06/2024

There’s now data to back up what freelancers have been saying for months

22/06/2024

The C.E.O. and his team drove Meta’s efforts to capture young users and misled the public about the risks, lawsuits by state attorneys general say.

22/06/2024

Internet Archive fans beg publishers to stop emptying the open library.

22/06/2024

OpenAI's CTO Mira Murati isn't worried about AI's impact on creative professions.

22/06/2024

The 10 candidates include the first ever from Hong Kong and Macao.

26/03/2024

Security researchers used a $169 Flipper Zero device and a Wi-Fi development board to obtain a driver's credentials, break into a Tesla Model 3 and drive away.

26/03/2024

The pods, which are 4-foot-high boxes constructed from wood and steel, made headlines after tech workers praised the spaces.

26/03/2024

Caryn Marjorie created an AI version of herself to combat loneliness. Now she's working hard to stop it from engaging in sexually explicit dialogue.

25/03/2024

Scientists trained an AI system to think before speaking with a technique called QuietSTaR. The inner monologue improved common sense reasoning and doubled math performance.

25/03/2024

Scientists modeled human-like communication skills and the transfer of knowledge between AIs — so they can teach each other to perform tasks without a huge amount of training data.

23/03/2024

Liftoff is scheduled for 7:57 p.m. ET tonight (March 22).

21/03/2024

But will the latest gene therapy suffer the curse of the costliest drug?

21/03/2024

Insilico is part of a wave of companies betting on AI as the "next amazing revolution" in biology

21/03/2024

Her case highlights why we need to enshrine neuro rights in law.