1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (168+ words) Countries such as Britain, Australia, and China are implementing strict regulations or bans on social media use for children, citing concerns that social media addiction is contributing to mental health issues. A writer at the New York Times shared her…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (498+ words) Nearly four years after OpenAI’s ChatGPT first launched, one in six people worldwide is now using generative AI tools, according to Microsoft’s 2025 AI Diffusion report. That includes 28 percent of the U.S. working-age population. But there is one area where…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (532+ words) While open-source architecture might be beneficial in academia, it’s also potentially providing Beijing a one-way ticket to semiconductor independence. RISC-V, the most significant open-source architecture, was first developed at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2010 and is open for anyone…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (887+ words) What do you get when you combine Big Tech, a Bill Clinton fixer, Davos, the architect of the Hunter Biden laptop disinfo, and “Artificial Intelligence”? The biggest heist in world history. A forced income transfer worth trillions of dollars, siphoned…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1407+ words) It’s not that I can’t see that happening. I do believe in chaos theory, though. I’m a little like Jeff Goldblum’s character in the Jurassic Park movies — I’m the guy who says, “Yeah, you think that’s how it’s going to…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago   (501+ words) AI rhetoric swings between utopia and apocalypse. The likeliest outcome, though, may be far less spectacular: AI will give us exactly what we want, turning us into pampered infants living emptier lives, for whom effort itself becomes a kind of…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago   (360+ words) Now an Australian company has developed a computer that uses live human neurons instead of chips. They took some neurons, made them play Pong first, and then had them play Doom. No surprise there: the scientists concluded that they played…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (334+ words) This year’s meeting of liberal elites in Davos, Switzerland, was supposed to be banal. Instead, they ended up talking about Greenland. Meanwhile, the scheduled slate of speeches continued, including such boring titles as “Governments as Economic Super Actors,” “How Robust…...

8+ mon, 5+ hour ago   (134+ words) Brooklyn hipsters have grown tired of unreliable gadgets and are now obsessed with the Web Revival, a movement born in opposition to algorithms, standardized functional design, and the “dead internet” teeming with bots and AI, where it seems increasingly difficult…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago   (304+ words) It’s Evacuation Day, when the British ran away, Please, dear Master, give us holiday! A portion of lower Manhattan’s Bowling Green was renamed Evacuation Day Plaza back in 2016, but otherwise the holiday has been largely forgotten, and more’s the pity,…...