Journals

New York Times: How TikTok has influenced US culture and shaped Hollywood, privacy, fashion, shopping, news, music, trends, cooking, mental health, national security, and more  —  Has there ever been an app more American seeming than TikTok, with its messy… Read More »How TikTok has influenced US culture and shaped Hollywood, privacy, fashion, shopping, news, music, trends, cooking, mental health, national security, and more (New York Times)

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: A look at Block-funded Gridless, which operates bitcoin mines in Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia, powered through solar power and wasted energy from a geothermal site  —  WATCH NOW  —  Jack Dorsey backed start-up taps into geothermal,… Read More »A look at Block-funded Gridless, which operates bitcoin mines in Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia, powered through solar power and wasted energy from a geothermal site (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

Thomas Claburn / The Register: Researchers: when given 15 CVE descriptions, GPT-4 autonomously exploited 87% of the vulnerabilities, compared to 0% for every other model tested  —  While some other LLMs appear to flat-out suck  —  AI agents, which combine… Read More »Researchers: when given 15 CVE descriptions, GPT-4 autonomously exploited 87% of the vulnerabilities, compared to 0% for every other model tested (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

Riho Nagao / Nikkei Asia: Nvidia will provide the software for Japan’s ABCI-Q, a hybrid supercomputer that offers quantum computing capability for drug research and other uses  —  U.S. chip designer to provide software for nation’s quantum computing initiative  — … Read More »Nvidia will provide the software for Japan’s ABCI-Q, a hybrid supercomputer that offers quantum computing capability for drug research and other uses (Riho Nagao/Nikkei Asia)

oatmealdome.me: Open-source GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin is not coming to App Store as Apple doesn’t allow JIT recompilers on iOS, possibly due to security considerations  —  Two weeks ago, Apple modified their App Store guidelines to allow retro game… Read More »Open-source GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin is not coming to App Store as Apple doesn’t allow JIT recompilers on iOS, possibly due to security considerations (oatmealdome.me)

Lauren Feiner / The Verge: The House passes a TikTok divestiture bill with a one year sale deadline, as part of a package of Ukraine/Israel aid bills, forcing the Senate to vote on TikTok  —  The House once again passed… Read More »The House passes a TikTok divestiture bill with a one year sale deadline, as part of a package of Ukraine/Israel aid bills, forcing the Senate to vote on TikTok (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

Financial Times: Sources: Biden administration is encouraging US tech groups to seek AI deals in the UAE and brokered Microsoft’s deal with G42, as it seeks an edge over China  —  Biden administration brokers talks between Microsoft, OpenAI Google and… Read More »Sources: Biden administration is encouraging US tech groups to seek AI deals in the UAE and brokered Microsoft’s deal with G42, as it seeks an edge over China (Financial Times)

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: PCs that can run large AI models may drive an enterprise PC replacement cycle, but some CIOs say they’ll wait for the category to mature and prices to come down  —  But CIOs aren’t… Read More »PCs that can run large AI models may drive an enterprise PC replacement cycle, but some CIOs say they’ll wait for the category to mature and prices to come down (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)

Kate Rogers / CNBC: A look at Los Angeles’ Homelessness Prevention pilot program, which uses AI to identify those at risk of becoming homeless, offering aid to keep them housed  —  A woman walks past tents for the homeless lining… Read More »A look at Los Angeles’ Homelessness Prevention pilot program, which uses AI to identify those at risk of becoming homeless, offering aid to keep them housed (Kate Rogers/CNBC)

David Cassel / The New Stack: An interview with Linus Torvalds at the Open Source Summit North America on the XZ Utils exploit, open source development, RISC-V, AI, and more  —  Torvalds retains his lifelong love of open source development… Read More »An interview with Linus Torvalds at the Open Source Summit North America on the XZ Utils exploit, open source development, RISC-V, AI, and more (David Cassel/The New Stack)