Spain has advocated banning encryption for hundreds of millions of people within the European Union, according to a leaked document obtained by WIRED that reveals strong support among EU member states for proposals to scan private messages for illegal content. The document, a European Council survey of member countries’ views Read more…
A dozen poor countries are facing economic instability and even collapse under the weight of hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign loans, much of them from the world’s biggest and most unforgiving government lender, China. An Associated Press analysis of a dozen countries most indebted to China — including Read more…
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being tapped to address the impacts of climate change. From a report: Google’s latest announcement is one example. Countries across Africa, the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, and South and Central America can now use its AI-enabled platform that displays flood forecasts. Starting Monday, governments, aid organizations and Read more…
Meta has built AI models that can recognize and produce speech for more than 1,000 languages — a tenfold increase on what’s currently available. It’s a significant step toward preserving languages that are at risk of disappearing, the company says. Meta is releasing its models to the public via the Read more…
Google Colab hosts free cloud-based “executable documents” that, among other things, let you write and run code in your browser (in dozens of languages, including Python). Over 7 million people, including students, already use Colab, according to a recent post on Google’s blog, “and now it’s getting even better with Read more…
“Formerly fringe beliefs that machines could suddenly surpass human-level intelligence and decide to destroy mankind are gaining traction,” acknowledges the Washington Post. “And some of the most well-respected scientists in the field are speeding up their own timelines for when they think computers could learn to outthink humans and become Read more…
