The world got a first glimpse into the US government’s far-reaching surveillance of American citizens’ communications — namely, their Verizon telephone calls — 10 years ago this week when Edward Snowden’s initial leaks hit the press. […] In the decade since then, “reformers have made real progress advancing the bipartisan Read more…
Nation-state representatives have taken the first concrete step toward a legally binding treaty to regulate plastic, described as the most important green deal since the 2015 international climate agreement. The banging of a recycled-plastic gavel, on Friday night at Unesco headquarters in Paris, signalled the end of a fraught process, Read more…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed an emergency motion seeking to freeze the assets of Binance’s U.S. platform and repatriate the funds held by its customers, including both fiat currency and cryptocurrencies. The freezing order only applies Binance’s two U.S. holding companies, not to the non-U.S. regulated Read more…
US healthcare chain Carbon Health has implemented an AI tool named Carby, powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 language model, to automatically generate medical records from conversations between physicians and patients. If a patient consents to having their meeting recorded and transcribed, the audio recording is passed to Amazon’s AWS Transcribe Medical Read more…
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have successfully demonstrated the capability of steering power in a microwave beam from a satellite to targets in space, as well as transmitting some of that power to a detector on Earth. The Caltech mission, funded by the Donald Bren Foundation and Read more…
“Ada is the work of an architect, not a computer scientist.” – Jean Icbiah, inventor of Ada, weenie