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‘We’re huge JRPG fans’: Purity Ring on how nostalgia for a gaming era inspired their new single
The Canadian electropop duo return with a new track (and forthcoming album) that sounds like a half-forgotten RPG you played in the 00sIf you were around for the electropop zeitgeist of the early 2010s, chances are that Purity Ring feature prominently on your nostalgia playlist. And if you were a young adult at that time, well, there’s also a high chance that you played Japanese role-playing games as a teenager –...
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The Download: flaws in anti-AI protections for art, and an AI regulation vibe shift
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. This tool strips away anti-AI protections from digital art The news: A new technique called LightShed will make it harder for artists to use existing protective tools to stop their work from being…
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Cosy video games are on an unstoppable rise. Will they unleash a darker side?
Non-violent games about cooking, farming or tidying now rival the more traditional video game pursuits of shooting and fighting in popularity. So what will the #cozy genre tackle next?In 2017, a game design thinktank called Project Horseshoe gathered a group of developers together to define the concept of cosiness in video games. Games, of course, have had non-violent elements since the medium was invented. Early life...
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:China’s energy dominance in three charts
China is the dominant force in next-generation energy technologies today. It’s pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into putting renewable sources like wind and solar on its grid, manufacturing millions of electric vehicles, and building out capacity for energy storage, nuclear power, and more. This investment has been transformational for the country’s economy and has…
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:The CEO who never was: how Linda Yaccarino was set up to fail at Elon Musk’s X
Ex-NBC executive was tasked with building an ‘everything app’, but billionaire owner was biggest obstacle in her pathIn May 2023, when Linda Yaccarino, an NBC advertising executive, joined what was then still known as Twitter, she was given a tall order: repair the company’s relationship with advertisers after a chaotic year of being owned by Elon Musk. But just weeks after she became CEO, Musk posted an antisemitic...
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:This tool strips away anti-AI protections from digital art
A new technique called LightShed will make it harder for artists to use existing protective tools to stop their work from being ingested for AI training. It’s the next step in a cat-and-mouse game—across technology, law, and culture—that has been going on between artists and AI proponents for years. Generative AI models that create images…
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Elon Musk Unveils Grok 4 Amid Controversy Over Chatbot’s Antisemitic Posts
In a livestream with xAI colleagues, the billionaire entrepreneur described current AI systems as “primitive” and not for “serious” commercial use.
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:AI-generated child sexual abuse videos surging online, watchdog says
Internet Watch Foundation verified 1,286 AI-made videos in first half of year, mostly in worst category of abuseThe number of videos online of child sexual abuse generated by artificial intelligence has surged as paedophiles have pounced on developments in the technology.The Internet Watch Foundation said AI videos of abuse had “crossed the threshold” of being near-indistinguishable from “real imagery” and had sharply...
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Children limiting own smartphone use to manage mental health, survey finds
Teenagers increasingly taking breaks as they control own use of devices rather than relying on parents to enforce limits, experts sayChildren are increasingly taking breaks from their smartphones to better manage their mental health, personal safety and concentration spans, research has revealed.They are reacting to growing concerns that spending too much time online can be harmful by taking control of their own social...
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:The Cloud Explained (Like I’m 5)
In an ever-evolving world filled with new ideas and innovations, a common term we often hear is the “cloud.”Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:How I Built a Document Classifier in Python Using Transformers and Zero Manual Labeling
With Hugging Face, Scikit-learn, and LangChain, I created a document classification pipeline that labels files without touching a…Continue reading on Python in Plain English »
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:11 Times Python Saved My Sanity in Real Life Projects
Subtitle: Over 4+ years of hands-on Python development, I’ve built plenty of flashy apps and complex AI systems. But the moments when…Continue reading on Python in Plain English »
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:How I Automated My Personal Budgeting with Python: From Receipts to Reports
An end-to-end guide to building a smart, scriptable finance tracker using Python, OCR, Pandas, and Matplotlib.Continue reading on Python in Plain English »
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:I Built a Python Automation Layer That Manages My Dev Life on Autopilot
You don’t need a dozen tools or another subscription—you need Python. Here’s how I built a personal task manager, document engine, and…Continue reading on Python in Plain English »
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Smarter Content, Less Effort: How AI Is Changing the Way We Use CMS Platforms
Content Management Systems, like many areas of technology, have evolved quite a bit from their origins in manually uploading and…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:My Favorite JavaScript Debugging Tricks No One Taught Me
These 8 patterns helped me catch async bugs, logic errors, and DOM issues faster than any linter ever could.Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:How I Automated My Daily Web Tasks Using Vanilla JavaScript (No Extensions, No Frameworks)
From scraping tables and auto-filling forms to auto-saving videos and triggering keyboard macros—here’s how I built a browser automation…Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:How I Built a Real-Time Chat App Using Only Vanilla JavaScript and WebSockets
A deep dive into creating a lightweight, full-featured messaging app without frameworks or dependencies.Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:This Week in Science History
Milestones in science, mathematics, and technology for the week of July 7th-July 13thContinue reading on Science Spectrum »
Published on: July 09, 2025 | Source:Why I Plan to Write
As I drift from one LinkedIn post to another, while taking a pitstop at some catchy reels, prompted alongside with notifications from a…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: July 09, 2025 | Source:Alchip: A Rising Star in AI ASIC design
Alchip Technologies is a rising star in the global application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) market for high-performance…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: July 09, 2025 | Source:I will craft flight resume, cabin crew flight school, logistics, fintech firefighter cv
HELLO POTENTIAL BUYER—Thank you for considering my servicesContinue reading on Medium »
Published on: July 09, 2025 | Source:A New Kind of AI Model Lets Data Owners Take Control
A novel approach from the Allen Institute for AI enables data to be removed from an artificial intelligence model even after it has already been used for training.
Published on: July 09, 2025 | Source:Linda Yaccarino Tried to Tame X. Now She’s Out as CEO
Yaccarino announced Wednesday she’s stepping down, and it’s not clear if the platform’s owner, Elon Musk, plans to announce a successor.
Published on: July 09, 2025 | Source:UK government’s deal with Google ‘dangerously naive’, say campaigners
Company to provide free technology and ‘upskill’ civil servants but concerns raised over UK data being held on US serversGoogle has agreed a sweeping deal with the UK government to provide free technology to the public sector from the NHS to local councils– a move campaigners have called “dangerously naive”.The US company will be asked to “upskill” tens of thousands of civil servants in technology, including in using...
Published on: July 09, 2025 | Source:Linda Yaccarino stepping down as CEO of Elon Musk’s X
Yaccarino announces she is leaving company after two years as chief executive officerThe CEO of X, Elon Musk’s social network, announced on Wednesday she would resign.“After two incredible years, I’ve decided to step down as CEO of ,” Linda Yaccarino wrote. Continue reading...
Published on: July 09, 2025 | Source:Nvidia becomes first company to reach $4tn in market value
Ongoing surge in demand for AI technology fueled stratospheric rise of chipmaker’s value Chipmaker Nvidia became the first public company in history to scale a $4tn market value on Wednesday as its stock price continues a years-long stratospheric rise.Shares of the top chip designer rose roughly 2.4% to $164, benefiting from the ongoing surge in demand for artificial intelligence technologies. Nvidia’s chips and...
Published on: July 09, 2025 | Source:The game developers striving to offer authenticity and inclusion in the face of AI
At the Develop conference in Brighton this week, talk turns from cancelled deals and job cuts to replicating real human experiences and telling stories about diverse charactersFor anyone looking to gauge the mood of the UK games industry in 2025, there has been only one place to hang out this week: the bar of the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel in Brighton. It’s in this building that the annual Develop conference has been...
Published on: July 09, 2025 | Source:The Download: a conversation with Karen Hao, and how did life begin?
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. Inside OpenAI’s empire: A conversation with Karen Hao In a wide-ranging Roundtables conversation for MIT Technology Review subscribers, journalist and author Karen Hao recently spoke about her new book, Empire of AI: Dreams…
Published on: July 09, 2025 | Source:‘I was nervous to ask for your socials’: why missed connection posts are making a comeback
The popular Craigslist tradition is seeing a revival from Reddit and TikTok users, hoping a chance encounter turns into moreLayla Rivera was at work when her boyfriend texted: someone on Reddit was looking for her.In the comments of a post on the subreddit r/warpedtour, attendees of the punk rock and emo music festival searched for their missed connections – ephemeral friends or hookups they met onsite and would like...
Published on: July 09, 2025 | Source:‘People Are Going to Die’: A Malnutrition Crisis Looms in the Wake of USAID Cuts
Warehouses in the US are full of foods that fight malnutrition, while kids go hungry in places like South Sudan.
Published on: July 09, 2025 | Source:Inside OpenAI’s empire: A conversation with Karen Hao
In a wide-ranging Roundtables conversation for MIT Technology Review subscribers, AI journalist and author Karen Hao spoke about her new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. She talked with executive editor Niall Firth about how she first covered the company in 2020 while on staff at MIT Technology Review, and…
Published on: July 09, 2025 | Source:Why the AI moratorium’s defeat may signal a new political era
The “Big, Beautiful Bill” that President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4 was chock full of controversial policies—Medicaid work requirements, increased funding for ICE, and an end to tax credits for clean energy and vehicles, to name just a few. But one highly contested provision was missing. Just days earlier, during a late-night…
Published on: July 09, 2025 | Source:Sony WH-1000XM6 review: raising the bar for noise-cancelling headphones
Upgraded Bluetooth cans fold up, fit well, have long battery life, sound great and reduce more noise than rivalsSony’s latest top-of-the-range Bluetooth headphones seek to reclaim the throne for the best noise cancellers money can buy with changes inside and out.The Sony 1000X series has long featured some of the best noise cancelling you can buy and has been locked in a battle with rival Bose for the top spot....
Published on: July 09, 2025 | Source:Futurist Adam Dorr on how robots will take our jobs: ‘We don’t have long to get ready – it’s going to be tumultuous’
Researcher says tech could replace nearly all human labour within 20 years and societies urgently need to prepareIf Adam Dorr is correct, robots and artificial intelligence will dominate the global economy within a generation and put virtually the entire human race out of a job. The social scientist doubles up as a futurist and has a stark vision of the scale, speed and unstoppability of a technological transformation...
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