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Fear, hope and loathing in Elon Musk’s new city: ‘It’s the wild, wild west and the future’
Starbase in Texas, where the world’s richest man has a rocket-launching facility, was incorporated this week. Mars obsessives are flocking there – but some long-term locals are far from happyAlong a flat coastal highway in south-east Texas, surrounded by wetlands and open plains, the artefacts of a new American oligarchy appear in quick succession. Three towering rockets stand upright on the horizon. A fleet of Tesla...
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I got to sit in-between Gemma & Helly on a flight from Boston to New York
Very enlightening. They were both reintegrated it appears.Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: May 23, 2025 | Source:12 CI/CD Pipeline Strategies That Will Make Your GetX Testing 300% More Reliable
Master CI/CD pipelines for GetX testing in Flutter. 12 proven strategies to automate testing and eliminate deployment bugs.Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: May 23, 2025 | Source:I Asked GPT-5 to Run My Love Life — Now My Boyfriend’s a Spreadsheet, and I’m Behind on Updates
I used to think romance was complicated—mismatched texting cadences, split bills, and the eternal riddle of why anyone needs twenty…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: May 23, 2025 | Source:Fire Breaks Out at a Data Center Leased by Elon Musk’s X
The fire department said a room with batteries contributed to the blaze at a building leased by Elon Musk’s X near Portland, Oregon.
Published on: May 22, 2025 | Source:A United Arab Emirates Lab Announces Frontier AI Projects—and a New Outpost in Silicon Valley
As Donald Trump pens deals in the Middle East, the gulf nation opens a research lab in San Francisco.
Published on: May 22, 2025 | Source:Anthropic’s new hybrid AI model can work on tasks autonomously for hours at a time
Anthropic has announced two new AI models that it claims represent a major step toward making AI agents truly useful. AI agents trained on Claude Opus 4, the company’s most powerful model to date, raise the bar for what such systems are capable of by tackling difficult tasks over extended periods of time and responding…
Published on: May 22, 2025 | Source:Anthropic’s New Model Excels at Reasoning and Planning—and Has the Pokémon Skills to Prove It
When Anthropic's older Claude model played Pokemon Red, it spent “dozens of hours” stuck in one city and had trouble identifying non-player characters. With Claude 4 Opus, the team noticed an improvement in Claude’s long-term memory and planning capabilities.
Published on: May 22, 2025 | Source:AI could account for nearly half of datacentre power usage ‘by end of year’
Analysis comes as energy agency predicts systems will need as much energy by end of decade as Japan uses todayArtificial intelligence systems could account for nearly half of datacentre power consumption by the end of this year, analysis has revealed.The estimates by Alex de Vries-Gao, the founder of the Digiconomist tech sustainability website, came as the International Energy Agency forecast that AI would require...
Published on: May 22, 2025 | Source:Politico’s Newsroom Is Starting a Legal Battle With Management Over AI
Politico has rules about AI in the newsroom. Staffers say those rules have been violated—and they’re gearing up for a fight.
Published on: May 22, 2025 | Source:The Download: the desert data center boom, and how to measure Earth’s elevations
This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The data center boom in the desert In the high desert east of Reno, Nevada, construction crews are flattening the golden foothills of the Virginia Range, laying the foundations of a data center…
Published on: May 22, 2025 | Source:Who’s to Blame When AI Agents Screw Up?
As Google and Microsoft push agentic AI systems, the kinks are still being worked on how agents interact with each other—and intersect with the law.
Published on: May 22, 2025 | Source:Esoteric Programming Languages Are Fun—Until They Kill the Joke
Concocted by sicko programmers, esolangs are the high comedy of the coding world. They test my patience.
Published on: May 22, 2025 | Source:The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin
Interdimensional travel, sex with aliens, communion with God. Anything is possible with just a sprinkle of DMT. Akasha Song’s secret labs made millions of doses—and dollars—until the feds showed up.
Published on: May 22, 2025 | Source:‘Shakespeare would be writing for games today’: Cannes’ first video game Lili is a retelling of Macbeth
Translocating the Scottish play to Iran with help from the RSC, iNK Stories’ version focuses on a Lady Macbeth contending with an oppressive surveillance stateThe Cannes film festival isn’t typically associated with video games, but this year it’s playing host to an unusual collaboration. Lili is a co-production between the New York-based game studio iNK Stories (creator of 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, about a...
Published on: May 22, 2025 | Source:Draining cities dry: the giant tech companies queueing up to build datacentres in drought-hit Latin America
In Brazil, the Chinese social media giant TikTok is said to be the latest company planning a supercomputer warehouse that will use vast amounts of water and energyIt is a warehouse the size of 12 football pitches that promises to create much-needed jobs and development in Caucaia city, north-east Brazil. But it won’t have shelves stocked with products. This vast building will be a datacentre, believed to be earmarked...
Published on: May 22, 2025 | Source:Three takeaways about AI’s energy use and climate impacts
This week, we published Power Hungry, a package all about AI and energy. At the center of this package is the most comprehensive look yet at AI’s growing power demand, if I do say so myself. This data-heavy story is the result of over six months of reporting by me and my colleague James O’Donnell…
Published on: May 22, 2025 | Source:A new atomic clock in space could help us measure elevations on Earth
In 2003, engineers from Germany and Switzerland began building a bridge across the Rhine River simultaneously from both sides. Months into construction, they found that the two sides did not meet. The German side hovered 54 centimeters above the Swiss side. The misalignment occurred because the German engineers had measured elevation with a historic level…
Published on: May 22, 2025 | Source:How to Become a Blockchain Engineer in 2025: Step-by-Step Roadmap for a Blockchain Career
The demand for blockchain engineers is skyrocketing as web3 and decentralized technologies reshape industries. If you’re wondering how to…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: May 22, 2025 | Source:The Digital Dance Partner: Why We're All Being Unexpectedly Kind to Our AI
The strange symbiosis forming between humans and machines—and what it reveals about our futureContinue reading on Technology Hits »
Published on: May 22, 2025 | Source:Why I Would Choose Medicine in a World of New Technologies and Careers
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Published on: May 22, 2025 | Source:Roundtables: A New Look at AI’s Energy Use
Recorded on May 21, 2025 Big Tech’s appetite for energy is growing rapidly as adoption of AI accelerates. But just how much energy does even a single AI query use? And what does it mean for the climate? Hear fromMIT Technology Revieweditor in chief Mat Honan, senior climate reporter Casey Crownhart, and AI reporter James…
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:OpenAI buys iPhone architect’s startup for $6.4bn
The untested hardware startup, called io, was founded by Apple design guru Jony IveOpenAI is buying an untested startup for $6.4bn, the ChatGPT maker’s biggest acquisition yet. The hardware startup, called io, was founded by Apple design guru Jony Ive, known best as one of the principal architects of the iPhone. Ive and OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, said in a blog post that their partnership has been two years in the...
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:OpenAI's Big Bet That Jony Ive Can Make AI Hardware Work
Io, a firm Ive and Sam Altman cocreated, will now merge with OpenAI.
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:Jack Dorsey's Block Made an AI Agent to Boost Its Own Productivity
Jack Dorsey’s company went all-in on agents by deploying one capable of building software—and occasionally deleting stuff.
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:Is the Nintendo Switch the best console of its generation – or just the most meaningful to me?
For years, the Switch has been a companion through life’s changes, gaming milestones and a lifeline to fun in chaotic timesThe lifespan of a games console has extended a lot since I was a child. In the 1990s, this kind of technology would be out of date after just a couple of years. There would be some tantalising new machine out before you knew it, everybody competing to be on the cutting edge: the Game Boy and Sega...
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:Fortnite returns to iPhone app store in US, ending exile imposed by Apple
Legal dispute resolved over popular video game ousted from store in 2020 in dispute over commissionThe popular video game Fortnite has returned to the iPhone app store in the US, ending a prolonged exile that was triggered by a legal showdown over the fees that Apple had been collecting for years through a payment system that the tech giant has been forced to change.Fortnite, one of the world’s most popular games,...
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:The Download: Google’s AI mission, and America’s reliance on natural gas
This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. By putting AI into everything, Google wants to make it invisible If you want to know where AI is headed, this year’s Google I/O has you covered. The company’s annual showcase of next-gen…
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:By putting AI into everything, Google wants to make it invisible
If you want to know where AI is headed, this year’s Google I/O has you covered. The company’s annual showcase of next-gen products, which kicked off yesterday, has all of the pomp and pizzazz, the sizzle reels and celebrity walk-ons, that you’d expect from a multimillion-dollar marketing event. But it also shows us just how…
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:The Time Sam Altman Asked for a Countersurveillance Audit of OpenAI
In her new book Empire of AI, journalist Karen Hao chronicles the anxieties around the OpenAI office in its early days.
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:Scattered Spider is focus of NCA inquiry into cyber-attacks against UK retailers
Detectives say English-speaking hacker community a key suspect after M&S, Co-op and Harrods targetedBusiness live – latest updatesA hacker community known as Scattered Spider is a key suspect in a criminal inquiry into cyber-attacks against UK retailers including Marks & Spencer, detectives have said.Scattered Spider, a loose collective of native English-speaking cybercriminals, has been strongly linked with...
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:US chip export controls are a ‘failure’ because they spur Chinese development, Nvidia boss says
Comments from Jensen Huang come as Beijing accuses the US of ‘bullying and protectionism’ US chip exports controls have been a “failure”, the head of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, told a tech forum on Wednesday, as the Chinese government separately slammed US warnings to other countries against using Chinese tech.Successive US administrations have imposed restrictions on the sale of hi-tech AI chips to China, in an effort to...
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:Most AI chatbots easily tricked into giving dangerous responses, study finds
Researchers say threat from ‘jailbroken’ chatbots trained to churn out illegal information is ‘tangible and concerning’Hacked AI-powered chatbots threaten to make dangerous knowledge readily available by churning out illicit information the programs absorb during training, researchers say.The warning comes amid a disturbing trend for chatbots that have been “jailbroken” to circumvent their built-in safety controls. The...
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:‘Every person that clashed with him has left’: the rise, fall and spectacular comeback of Sam Altman
From Elon Musk to his own board, anyone who has come up against the OpenAI CEO has lost. In a gripping new account of the battle for AI supremacy, writer Karen Hao says we should all be wary of the power he now wieldsThe short-lived firing of Sam Altman, the CEO of possibly the world’s most important AI company, was sensational. When he was sacked by OpenAI’s board members, some of them believed the stakes could not...
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:Secure Your Tokens: Ithaca Protocol Airdrop Guide Revealed
Go to the Ithaca Protocol Airdrop page Excited to explore the world of Ithaca Protocol airdrops with DappRadar but unsure where to…Continue reading on Medium »
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