2025-04-13
Jamelle Bouie on Trump’s Tariff Obsession
Jamelle Bouie, writing at The New York Times (gift link): There is a hypothetical president with a hypothetically similar agenda who could answer these questions. This actual president cannot. He...
Fallout and Skyrim show us that talented developers make great games when you leave them alone
Attention is the creativity-killer.
Scientists Revive Organism Found Buried at Bottom of Ocean
A team of researchers in Germany have revived algae cells found buried at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, where they laid dormant for more than 7,000 years. For millenia,...
Why Global Digital Ambitions Will Fail Without Connectivity and Power
The World Bank Global Digital Summit 2025 included many of the same talking points as last year’s UN Summit of the Future. The summit placed heavy emphasis on the desire...
AI is a Dangerous Weapon in the Age of Misinformation
AI is being misused to spread misinformation, create harmful deepfakes, and commit financial fraud. From celebrity hoaxes to bank runs and eCommerce scams, the consequences are alarming. As lawmakers and...
Many Workers Still Feel Unprepared to Navigate AI in the Workplace
45% of Indian companies have already implemented or are piloting GenAI in their HR processes. 93% reporting improved process efficiency and productivity as one of the key benefits. 90% of...
New Tech Is Changing Hiring, Fast
The US job market is experiencing a labor shortage, but there are only 6.8 million job seekers. Businesses are under immense pressure to fill positions quickly, while ensuring they’re finding...
As promising RTS Stormgate nears 1.0, the 'entire narrative structure of the campaign' has been rewritten, says Frost Giant
It'll completely replace the currently available campaign.
Google Is Allegedly Paying Top AI Researchers to Just Sit Around and Not Work for the Competition
Google has one weird trick to hoard its talent from poachers — paying them to not work. As Business Insider reports, some United Kingdom-based employees at Google's DeepMind AI lab...
I am catching up on what happened in season one of The...
I am catching up on what happened in season one of The Last of Us by watching and reading recaps. Season 2 starts tonight on HBO & Max at 9pm...
Thoughts on the Double Impact Project
Published on April 13, 2025 7:07 PM GMTHow it worksYou donate to the Republican or Democratic pool. The pool with the highest amount donates what it has more at the...
Microsoft is finally rolling out its controversial Recall feature that screenshots everything you do (again), but only for select users
Microsoft's recalled Recall feature is un-recalled once again.
Google Is Helping Government Build an AI-Powered Border Surveillance System
Remember the guys who found a way to turn your personal information into cold hard cash? They're now a key part of president Donald Trump's AI-powered border dystopia, according to...
You’re Building the Wrong Startup: Coders Build Supply, Investors Fund Pain
There’s a heartbreak every technical founder goes through.
MRI Scans Causing Nasty Material to Form Inside Body, Scientists Find
Scientists believe they may have found the reason why some people get so sick from the contrast dye injected into the bodies of people before they get magnetic resonance imaging...
The underrated, open world, hoverboard FPS gem of 2024 just got a free update with new guns and islands for its cloud archipelago
Echo Point Nova is a great game worth checking out.
Intro to Multi-Agent Safety
Published on April 13, 2025 5:40 PM GMTWe live in a world where numerous agents, ranging from individuals to organisations, constantly interact. Without the ability to model multi-agent systems, making...
Baby Born to Woman With Transplanted Womb
In Scotland, a woman successfully gave birth to a baby girl after getting a womb transplant from her sister. As the BBC reports, couple Grace and Angus Davidsin welcomed baby...
The Markup and the Curious Case of the Tricky Timeout Bug
At The Markup, we often do investigations focused on user privacy, or the lack thereof. So much so that we built a tool to help everyone do it. One of...
Is Virtual Reality Bad for Your Mental Health?
Virtual reality is growing in popularity, but does this escape from reality harm their mental health? VR can cause disassociation and reality confusion, social isolation, increased anxiety and panic, and...
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