Meta pivots away from news
News sites have seen traffic plummet in recent months due to a lack of referral clicks from Facebook, whose pivot away from hard news has taken a toll on media...
Meta warns employees could be fired for ignoring 3-day-per-week office rule
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta delivered a fresh warning to employees Thursday about their office attendance – cautioning that workers who fall short of a looming three-day-per-week requirement could lose their jobs....
How an Iowa School District Used ChatGPT to Ban Books
For bookworms, reading a headline like “School District Uses ChatGPT to Help Remove Library Books” can be blood boiling. As Vulture put it earlier this week, it creates the sense...
Tech tycoon Bryan Johnson touts ‘penis rejuvenation therapy’
Bryan Johnson, the 45-year-old tech bro known for his obsessive anti-aging regimen, revealed this week that he has “started penis rejuvenation therapy” as part of a $2 million-per-year effort to...
How tech billionaires with property in Hawaii are responding to Maui wildfires
The devastating wildfires that have ravaged Maui have prompted billionaire tech moguls who have bought wide swaths of property in Hawaii to pitch in with charitable donations to help rebuild...
X suspends pro-Hitler account after brands paused ads
At least two major organizations paused advertising on X after their ads appeared on an avowedly pro-Hitler account, according to a report. Gilead Sciences, the California-based pharmaceutical giant, and NCTA...
Pornhub parent MindGeek changing its name under new owners
Pornhub’s shadowy parent company MindGeek said it is changing its name as its new owners seek a “fresh start” for the scandal-ridden smut empire. MindGeek — which has faced scrutiny...
ChatGPT has a ‘significant’ liberal bias, researchers say
OpenAI’s wildly popular ChatGPT artificial-intelligence service has showed a clear bias toward the Democratic Party and other liberal viewpoints, according to a recent study conducted by UK-based researchers. Academics from...
Neural network pruning with combinatorial optimization
Posted by Hussein Hazimeh, Research Scientist, Athena Team, and Riade Benbaki, Graduate Student at MIT Modern neural networks have achieved impressive performance across a variety of applications, such as language,...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX turns profit after two years of losses
SpaceX reportedly managed to turn a profit in the first three months of the year — a welcome change for Elon Musk’s rocket-launching firm which has struggled with losses in...
YouTube, Reddit sued for allegedly enabling mass shooting in Buffalo
Google, YouTube and their parent Alphabet are being sued along with Reddit in a pair of lawsuits for allegedly promoting “extreme and harmful” content that enabled a gunman to kill...
A Letter Prompted Talk of AI Doomsday. Many Who Signed Weren’t Actually AI Doomers
This March, nearly 35,000 AI researchers, technologists, entrepreneurs, and concerned citizens signed an open letter from the nonprofit Future of Life Institute that called for a “pause” on AI development,...
MIT researchers combine deep learning and physics to fix motion-corrupted MRI scans
Compared to other imaging modalities like X-rays or CT scans, MRI scans provide high-quality soft tissue contrast. Unfortunately, MRI is highly sensitive to motion, with even the smallest of movements...
X is finally hiring again — and you can thank 2024 election fears
The social network formerly known as Twitter is hiring again – and you can partly thank fears about the 2024 presidential election. X – which axed 80% of its staff...
How machine learning models can amplify inequities in medical diagnosis and treatment
Prior to receiving a PhD in computer science from MIT in 2017, Marzyeh Ghassemi had already begun to wonder whether the use of AI techniques might enhance the biases that...
