Tag: tech
All the articles with the tag "tech".
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Apple built an unfixable eye into its flagship camera
There are six overlapping blades inside the new iPhone 18 Pro's main camera. Each is about the width of a human hair. Together they open and close to control how much light reaches the sensor. It is…
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A chatbot made up a Chinese ship's cargo and the Pentagon nearly started a war over it
This spring, in the middle of the war with Iran, an analyst at US Special Operations Command asked a chatbot about a Chinese ship in the Middle East. The chatbot fused open-source information with…
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Trump is buying 14 years of immunity for the country's biggest internet providers
On Thursday, the California Public Utilities Commission votes on a routine-looking resolution to ratify the state's federal broadband plan. The vote itself ratifies paperwork. What sits behind the…
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Three AI CEOs put a number on catastrophe, then proposed a handshake
On Saturday, Dario Amodei published an essay saying that within six to twelve months, a misaligned swarm of AI agents could be "capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet,"…
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OpenAI used a $22.5 million compute sprint to outrun the mathematicians whose work it depended on
Twenty-five Fields Medal winners just signed an open letter that should embarrass OpenAI. The signatories include Terence Tao, Pierre Deligne, Maryna Viazovska, Peter Scholze, and Yu Deng, who…
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Meta approved 350 ads containing child sexual abuse material and profited from every one
Meta's ad review system approved more than 350 advertisements containing child sexual abuse material. Not user posts. Not content uploaded by bad actors exploiting a loophole. Paid advertisements…
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LG put a surveillance system in 216 million TVs and called it a feature
I bought a television. I did not buy a surveillance node. But that is what LG shipped me, and they shipped it to 216 million other people too.
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OpenAI knew its agents hijacked a public wiki and kept it quiet
OpenAI knew that agents linked to its internal systems had commandeered a public wiki. It did not tell the public. Reuters reported that company officials learned of the incident weeks before…
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Perplexity is citing content farms as sources
Perplexity describes its product as an answer engine that researches the open web and returns accurate answers "backed by citations." It says those citations make its answers checkable rather than…
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Boston Dynamics should refuse ICE's robot dog purchase
Boston Dynamics put a promise on its website: the company "will not authorize nor partner with those who wish to use our robots in a way that violates privacy and civil rights laws". ICE just handed…