August 15: $62,991 September 23: $86,456 Bitcoin shot up 37% over the last 39 days, reaching an eight-month high on Monday. “Bitcoin is back”. The token held near $86,000 on Tuesday after a stunning multisession rally… [Fundstrat head of digital assets Sean Farrell told Yahoo Finance on Monday] “I think Read more…
On academic mentoring platform Nova Learning, Computer Science and AI, “once the dominant choice among students… is losing ground fast, while Engineering has nearly doubled its share.” It’s a small survey, but “The steepest proportional decline is in Software & Data Science, the most traditional ‘learn to code’ pathway, which Read more…
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.” — Goethe
Two U.S. missiles hit an elementary school in Iran, killing over 150 people including 123 children on the first day of the Iran War. U.S. officials involved in an unreleased internal Pentagon review who blame a cascade of preventable failures that included an overreliance on an AI tool built by Read more…
Australia is considering barring the use of camera-equipped smart glasses in government workplaces… in what it said could be the first ban of its kind. But meanwhile “more than 70 people who bought, used or were recorded with Meta’s smart glasses have sued the social media giant,” reports the Los Read more…
Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die. — C.S. Lewis
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State ultimately asks the question, “How did we cede control of our democracy to the machines, and can we get it back?” according to the Harvard’s Arts and Sciences site. The new title finds Lepore, who used to teach a course at the Read more…