Elon Musk still needs lawyer approval to tweet about Tesla, says supreme court theguardian.com/technology/202…

The Affordable Connectivity Program—a federal benefit that provides discounts on high-speed internet access to low-income Americans—ends on April 30. Here's what happens next. wired.trib.al/nxZqyjt

The first-ever race between four self-driving cars and a Formula 1 driver just happened in Abu Dhabi tcrn.ch/3JG6xwc

Hoping to make life easier, I tested six AI-powered tools meant to help me write better and work smarter. wired.trib.al/2pXtN6h

Moderating horror and hate on the web may be beyond even AI | John Naughton theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The demise of Twitter: How a ‘utopian vision’ for social media became a ‘toxic mess’ theguardian.com/technology/202…

It is increasingly clear that inflammatory disorders and metabolic conditions can have sizeable effects on mental health.

The fact that this is rarely recognised is symptomatic of large problems in psychiatry econ.st/3JxGjMn 👇

As long as AI systems are trained to reproduce human-generated data (e.g. text) and have no search/planning/reasoning capability, performance will saturate below or around human level.

Furthermore, the amount of trials needed to reach that level will be far larger than the…

‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute theguardian.com/technology/202…

A fifth of American workers have a non-compete clause in their contract, barring them from leaving to join a rival. A new FTC rule may soon void these restrictions econ.st/49XtNjT 👇

Happy birthday to 1995 #ACMTuringAward winner Manuel Blum! He received the award for contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its applications to cryptography and program checking. Blum created CAPTCHA: bit.ly/3PG2MdF

Ohio company to sell a ‘flamethrower-wielding robot dog’ called the Thermonator theguardian.com/technology/202…

Due to recent incidents in which Boeing planes have caught fire, lost a wheel during takeoff, or sprung a hole mid-flight, flying has gotten a bad rep, leaving passengers pondering which seats on a plane are the safest and which are the most dangerous. wired.trib.al/acdM7HF

Searing heat shuts schools for 33 million children bbc.in/3UeG65t

Researchers create first artificial, modifiable cells with programmable DNA interestingengineering.com/innovation/res…

How fraudsters are getting fake articles onto Facebook bbc.in/3Qk0dxU

Japan’s SLIM moon lander has shockingly survived a third lunar night. Its electronics were not designed to survive even one such night, during which the temperature can plunge to -133°C (-208°F) newscientist.com/article/242843…

Eric Schmidt-backed Augment, a GitHub Copilot rival, launches out of stealth with $252M tcrn.ch/3Qka3zT

Voyager 1, launched Sept 5, 1977, is furtherest human artifact from Earth, over 15B miles, 24B kms. Magnificent remote debugging has it back sending understandable data after 6 month outage. Flight Data Subsystem computer, 7400 series TI chips (see image), with 8K 16 bit words of…

En el marco de una nueva entrega de Conversaciones Humanitarias Generadoras de Talento impulsadas por Fundación Cruz Roja Española, nuriaoliver, Cristina Aranda y José María Lasalle, debaten sobre la importancia de promover una #IA ética, responsable y humanista. bit.ly/4aL8lQg