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Topics Frontiers An MIT SMR initiative exploring how technology is reshaping the practice of management. More in this series Summary: Most digital tools are designed for efficiency, not exploration — and that can stymie innovation. New research shows that standard ... Read More + Listen to “Algorithms Trap Us in the Familiar. Can
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My two cats live a refreshingly low-tech lifestyle. They’ve never experienced a robot litter box, an automated feeder, or a GPS tracker. Noodle and Loaf live blissfully unaware of the technological trappings that surround the rest of my life. Except, that is, for the glowing neon sign that turns
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Australia’s parliament passed the News Bargaining Incentive on Thursday, closing a five-year argument that began when Meta worked out it could avoid paying for news by simply not carrying any. The new law removes that option. Platforms with a significant search or social media service in Australia and more
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Skanska has signed a $1.2bn contract to build four data centres in the southeastern United States, the largest single data centre order the Swedish construction group has announced. The client is an existing customer, and Skanska is not saying who it is. The four buildings will total around 75,
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YouTube is offering some of its largest creators multi-million-dollar packages to keep their work off Netflix, according to reporting first published by Bloomberg. Several agreements are said to be close, and none have been signed. The offers reportedly take three forms: direct financing for a creator’s shows, a share
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The US Department of Justice has stepped into a court fight on the side of Elon Musk’s xAI. It is backing the company’s challenge to a Minnesota law that bans AI “nudification” tools. A federal judge heard arguments on Wednesday and said he would rule soon, according to
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Big Tech is pouring money into local PR campaigns to win support for the data centres it needs. Opposition to the buildings is spreading across the United States. They are holding town halls, dropping tax demands and sponsoring community groups. That is according to a Bloomberg feature and a Wall
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Relativity Networks has raised $22mn and landed a $40mn order from a large cloud provider. The company is pitching a faster kind of fibre for AI data centres. The Orlando-based company announced the funding and the commercial deal on Tuesday, in a press release. The money came in as a
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A people-search tool that promises “private and secure” searches left more than 9 million image files exposed online, including photos of people’s faces. A security researcher found the unprotected database, according to reports by WIRED and Digital Trends. The tool is ClarityCheck, a service that lets someone upload a
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory assembles Voyager 2 in March of 1977. It just got another upgrade, in 2026.Credit: NASA/JPL Earlier this month, NASA successfully completed an update to the Voyager 2 probe that researchers believe could extend its mission lifetime into the 2030s. Now, the same team
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Researchers at Varonis Threat Labs got Copilot to send sensitive information to an external server and poison its persistent memory using a hack they call "CoSnitch." To do it, they continually asked the tool why their requests wouldn't work. After enough pushing, Copilot gave in, revealing
