The Download: recycling wind turbine blades, and safeguarding AI
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 The White House is pressuring AI firms over safeguardingUS vice...
Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel adds Copilot Chat sample app
Microsoft is supplementing its Semantic Kernel SDK for integrating AI large language models (LLM) into applications with an open source Copilot Chat sample app,...
With 288 Arrests, Feds Reveal a Widening Dragnet of Dark-Web Busts
A decade ago, US law enforcement was content to swat down a dark web black market for drugs and send its dealers and buyers...
The Download: Geoffrey Hinton’s AI fears, and decoding our thoughts
Geoffrey Hinton is a pioneer of deep learning who helped develop some of the most important techniques at the heart of modern artificial intelligence....
Deno 1.33 debuts built-in key-value database
With newly published Deno 1.33, the project’s developers are preparing users of the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime for the planned, ambitious Deno 2 release. Part of...
Our Favorite Tech for the Home Garden
When friends of mine sent a video of their little robotic mower bumping along a long flat lawn, I was skeptical. How could a...
Brain scans can translate a person’s thoughts into words
The researchers also showed the participants short Pixar videos that didn’t contain any dialogue, and recorded their brain responses in a separate experiment designed...
GCC 13 compiler collection backs C++ 23, Go 1.18
GNU Compiler Collection 13.1 has been released. Among the many improvements in this major new version of GCC are implementations of C++ 23 features...
How to Choose a Router (2023): Tips, Technical Terms, and Advice
Everyone wants reliable and fast internet, and a good router can help. The trick is to work out how the complicated mess of standards,...
11 Best Retro Game Consoles (2023): Evercade, Polymega, Analogue Pocket, and Controllers
It’s a shame that two of the best retro gaming consoles in recent years, the NES Classic Mini and the SNES Classic Mini, have...
