An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t seem fazed by Apple’s introduction of the Vision Pro. In a companywide meeting with Meta employees today that The Verge watched, the CEO said Apple’s device didn’t present any major breakthroughs in technology that Meta hadn’t “already explored” Read more…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned during a visit to the United Arab Emirates that AI poses an “existential risk” to humanity and suggested the establishment of an international agency, similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), to oversee AI. “We face serious risk. We face existential risk,” said Altman, Read more…
According to a joint investigation from The Wall Street Journal and researchers at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Instagram’s algorithms are actively promoting networks of pedophiles who commission and sell child sexual abuse content on the app. Accounts found by the researchers are advertised using blatant and Read more…
Artificial photosynthesis, inspired by the natural process that enables plants to convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into oxygen and energy, could be crucial for space exploration and colonization. By using semiconductor materials and metallic catalysts, these devices could efficiently produce oxygen and recycle carbon dioxide, reducing reliance on heavy Read more…
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…