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Trump Media reports Q2 net sales up 5.5% YoY to $883.3K and a net loss of $20M, and says it accumulated ~$2B in bitcoin and bitcoin-related securities in July (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/trump-truth-social-tmtg-q2-2…

Trump's TMTG Truth Social Q2 Earnings: $20M Loss on $883K in Net Sales
Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social that is majority-owned by President Donald Trump, posted earnings for Q2 2025.

"New Coral Reef Protection Technology to Transform Global Conservation"
#Coral #CoralReef #Environment

New Coral Reef Protection Technology to Transform Global Conservation | Happy Eco News
New coral reef protection technology will transform coral reef protection as an international partnership expands to cover 90% of the world's reefs. Saudi Arabia will direct the International Coral Reef Initiative and implementing advanced coral reef protection technology alongside proven conservation methods to safeguard these vital ocean ecosystems.

Trump Media reports Q2 net sales up 5.5% YoY to $883.3K, a net loss of $20M, vs. a $16.4M net loss in Q2 2024, and $3.1B in cash and investments, up ~800% YoY (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/trump-truth-social-tmtg-q2-2…

Trump's TMTG Truth Social Q2 Earnings: $20M Loss on $883K in Net Sales
Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social that is majority-owned by President Donald Trump, posted earnings for Q2 2025.

NotebookLM video overviews zijn interessant. Benieuwd hoeveel dit kost qua energie....
https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/notebooklm-video-overviews-studio-upgrades/

What’s new in NotebookLM: Video Overviews and an upgraded Studio
NotebookLM launches Video Overviews and upgrades to the Studio panel.

🎨 The current technology is not ready for proper (color) blending
#color

The current technology is not ready for proper blending

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

A US jury finds Tesla partially liable for Autopilot's role in a fatal 2019 crash in Florida, and orders the company to pay $200M in punitive damages (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.c…

Tesla found partially liable for fatal 2019 crash, hit with $243 million in damages
The outcome is a stunning rebuke for Tesla, which for years has fought to absolve itself of responsibility when its technology is involved in a crash.

Deep dependency on a technology lack of agency disagreement with leadership creates anger.
Great observation by @…
This explains so well why after being a macOS developer for 20 years, I can't stand Apple right now.

It’s time to reclaim the word “Luddite”. Interesting report showing that Australians are getting more aware of the risks of AI with more exposure to the technology.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news

F.T.C. Investigates Ad Groups and Watchdogs, Alleging Boycott Collusion - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/technology/ftc-investigation-advertising-boycotts.html

"Google’s new plan to keep its data centers from stressing the grid"
#Google #Technology
https://www.

Google’s new plan to keep its data centers from stressing the grid
AI data centers are set to swamp U.S. power grids. Google’s new utility deals aim to flip the script — shifting workloads to ease strain and speed its…

A reminder that URL's each only count for 23 characters against your post's character limit, regardless of how long it actually is, precisely so that people can see where the link is going and discourage use of link shorteners
https://infosec.exchange/@BleepingComp

Operational Validation of Large-Language-Model Agent Social Simulation: Evidence from Voat v/technology
Aleksandar Toma\v{s}evi\'c, Darja Cvetkovi\'c, Sara Major, Slobodan Maleti\'c, Miroslav An{\dj}elkovi\'c, Ana Vrani\'c, Boris Stupovski, Du\v{s}an Vudragovi\'c, Aleksandar Bogojevi\'c, Marija Mitrovi\'c Dankulov
https://…

Operational Validation of Large-Language-Model Agent Social Simulation: Evidence from Voat v/technology
Large Language Models (LLMs) enable generative social simulations that can capture culturally informed, norm-guided interaction on online social platforms. We build a technology community simulation modeled on Voat, a Reddit-like alt-right news aggregator and discussion platform active from 2014 to 2020. Using the YSocial framework, we seed the simulation with a fixed catalog of technology links sampled from Voat's shared URLs (covering 30+ domains) and calibrate parameters to Voat's v/technolo…

i’m sure U-18s will just give up on music and won’t find creative ways outside the law https://mstdn.social/@DM_Ronin/114942022100067292

ilias :thepiratebay: (@DM_Ronin@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image no more music for U-18s in UK 🙃 #OnlineSafetyAct #OSA #AgeVerification #Spotify #Tech #Technology #Privacy #Censorship #Surveillance

New drone technology in Brazil uses 'electronic nose' to detect wildfires before they start, revolutionizing disaster prevention. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Researchers develop drone with 'electronic nose' to sniff out impending disasters: 'We made several adjustments'
Scientists in Brazil are on a mission to stop wildfires before they start, using wildfire-detection drones with a digital nose.

This seems bad. We just learned in the past week via @… that ICE agents are searching Flock cameras nationwide, and so did a Texas cop trying to track down a woman who got an out-of-state abortion. Now, without any guardrails against that, a crypto billionaire wants $9m more of these cameras in SF.
There's an ordinance to accept the gift that will…

Computer science programs at Carnegie Mellon and other US universities are rethinking how to incorporate AI into curricula, including a focus on AI literacy (Steve Lohr/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/technology/computer-science-…

How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era?
Universities across the country are scrambling to understand the implications of generative A.I.’s transformation of technology.

Microsoft Backs Up A.I. Spending With $27.2 Billion Quarterly Profit: The company’s results are likely to ease investors’ worries that big investments in artificial intelligence aren’t paying off - NYTimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/technology/mic…

Microsoft Backs Up A.I. Spending With $27.2 Billion Quarterly Profit
The company’s results are likely to ease investors’ worries that big investments in artificial intelligence aren’t paying off.

Hours after Trump's Tax and Spending bill passed the US Senate, the hashtag #MuskWantsToBuildAnAmericaParty
went viral on Weibo -- a Chinese social media platform similar to Musk’s X, receiving more than 37m views.
“If Elon Musk were to found a political party, his tech-driven mindset could inject fresh energy into politics. The potential for change is significant – a…

⛽ Novel method to convert carbon dioxide into methanol, paving the way for green energy solutions
#fuel

Novel method to convert carbon dioxide into methanol, paving the way for green energy solutions
A research team affiliated with UNIST has made a significant breakthrough in sustainable technology through the development of a method to convert carbon dioxide (CO₂) into methanol—a process that could play a vital role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and producing environmentally friendly fuels.

The vocal right-wing critics are largely denying the impact of fossil fuels on emissions, and therefore on the future prospects for humanity, but the net zero lobby is pursuing strategies that are inadequate and simplistic. If we truly want net zero, then the only way forward is down, with far less overall energy use and less complex technology.
Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis

Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
The road towards a viable net-zero world is long and full of obstacles, but all economies need to reduce their carbon footprint

Not only have we made the switch to uv, uv is also the most admired (74%) Stack Overflow tag technology this year: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#2-stack-overflow-tags

How Palantir has benefited since President Trump took office, securing new and expanded government contracts and becoming the S&P's top-performing stock of 2025 (Washington Post)

In Trump’s Washington, Palantir is winning big
From warfighting and tracking deportations to writing State Department cables with AI, the company is benefiting from a new technology-driven cost-cutting ethos.

HyperFusion: Hierarchical Multimodal Ensemble Learning for Social Media Popularity Prediction
Liliang Ye (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China), Yunyao Zhang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China), Yafeng Wu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China), Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia), Junqing Yu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China), Wei Yang (Huazhong University of S…

HyperFusion: Hierarchical Multimodal Ensemble Learning for Social Media Popularity Prediction
Social media popularity prediction plays a crucial role in content optimization, marketing strategies, and user engagement enhancement across digital platforms. However, predicting post popularity remains challenging due to the complex interplay between visual, textual, temporal, and user behavioral factors. This paper presents HyperFusion, a hierarchical multimodal ensemble learning framework for social media popularity prediction. Our approach employs a three-tier fusion architecture that pro…

It’s taking me way longer to set up for my seminar than last time. Like 6 hours longer lol - such is my tinnitus induced sleep deprivation - despite it being a similar simple bunch of machines.
If anyone happens to be in Karlsruhe and wants to come and laugh at me / wants to offer moral support - feel free to join! 😁 This time it’s called ‘Let Sound Be Sound: Technology, Perception, and the Question of Music’. Somehow it’s my third visit to the Akademie. 🤪

Here's an example of a company trying to destroy a product that it only recently acquired.
VMware, the company, was acquired by Broadcom.
VMware products have always been a pain-in-the-ass to operate, partially because of a marketing brain-crash that named everything "vsphere" this and "vsphere" that.
We used only the once free Esxi hypervisor, but we needed several, also at the time free, "vsphere" pieces to manage it.
But Broadcom p…

VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom
“Our management thought it was a bluff…”…

Breaking the mould of Social Mixed Reality -- State-of-the-Art and Glossary
Marta Bie\'nkiewicz, Julia Ayache, Panayiotis Charalambous, Cristina Becchio, Marco Corragio, Bertram Taetz, Francesco De Lellis, Antonio Grotta, Anna Server, Daniel Rammer, Richard Kulpa, Franck Multon, Azucena Garcia-Palacios, Jessica Sutherland, Kathleen Bryson, St\'ephane Donikian, Didier Stricker, Beno\^it Bardy

Breaking the mould of Social Mixed Reality -- State-of-the-Art and Glossary
This article explores a critical gap in Mixed Reality (MR) technology: while advances have been made, MR still struggles to authentically replicate human embodiment and socio-motor interaction. For MR to enable truly meaningful social experiences, it needs to incorporate multi-modal data streams and multi-agent interaction capabilities. To address this challenge, we present a comprehensive glossary covering key topics such as Virtual Characters and Autonomisation, Responsible AI, Ethics by Desi…

"""
Writing has been an instrument for some of the highest expressions of the human spirit: poetry, philosophy, science. But to understand it — why it came into being, how it changed the human experience — we have to first appreciate its crass practicality. It evolved mainly as an instrument of the mundane: the economic, the administrative, the political.
Confusion over this point is understandable. Some scholars have equated the origin of “civilization” with the origin of writing. Laypeople sometimes take this equation to mean that with writing humanity put aside its barbarous past and started behaving in gentlemanly fashion, sipping tea and remembering to say “please.” And indeed, this may be only a mild caricature of what some nineteenth-century scholars actually meant by the equation: writing equals Greece equals Plato; illiteracy equals barbarism equals Attila the Hun.
But, in truth, if you add literacy to Attila the Hun, you don’t get Plato. You get Genghis Khan. During the thirteenth century, he administered what even today is the largest continuous land empire in the history of the world. And he could do so only because he had the requisite means of control: a script that, when carried by his pony express, amounted to the fastest large-scale information-processing technology of his era. One consequence was to give pillaging a scope beyond Attila’s wildest dreams. Information technology, like energy technology or any other technology, can be a tool for good or bad. By itself, it is no guarantor of moral progress or civility.
"""
(Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny)

Please, don't use any #LLM service to generate some report you don't plan to check really carefully yourself in every detail.
I've read one with clearly hallucinated stuff all over it.
It doesn't push your productivity, it really destroys your credibility.
This technology is no productivity miracle, it's an answer simulator.

As part of the US v. Google remedies ruling, a technical committee will be established to help enforce the final judgment, which will last six years (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/technology/google-antitrust-case-ruling.html

What Will Happen to Google After the Antitrust Ruling?
The judge’s decision positions Google to keep its search business running largely without interruption.

Just read this post by @… on an optimistic AGI future, and while it had some interesting and worthwhile ideas, it's also in my opinion dangerously misguided, and plays into the current AGI hype in a harmful way.
https://social.coop/@eloquence/114940607434005478
My criticisms include:
- Current LLM technology has many layers, but the biggest most capable models are all tied to corporate datacenters and require inordinate amounts of every and water use to run. Trying to use these tools to bring about a post-scarcity economy will burn up the planet. We urgently need more-capable but also vastly more efficient AI technologies if we want to use AI for a post-scarcity economy, and we are *not* nearly on the verge of this despite what the big companies pushing LLMs want us to think.
- I can see that permacommons.org claims a small level of expenses on AI equates to low climate impact. However, given current deep subsidies on place by the big companies to attract users, that isn't a great assumption. The fact that their FAQ dodges the question about which AI systems they use isn't a great look.
- These systems are not free in the same way that Wikipedia or open-source software is. To run your own model you need a data harvesting & cleaning operation that costs millions of dollars minimum, and then you need millions of dollars worth of storage & compute to train & host the models. Right now, big corporations are trying to compete for market share by heavily subsidizing these things, but it you go along with that, you become dependent on them, and you'll be screwed when they jack up the price to a profitable level later. I'd love to see open dataset initiatives SBD the like, and there are some of these things, but not enough yet, and many of the initiatives focus on one problem while ignoring others (fine for research but not the basis for a society yet).
- Between the environmental impacts, the horrible labor conditions and undercompensation of data workers who filter the big datasets, and the impacts of both AI scrapers and AI commons pollution, the developers of the most popular & effective LLMs have a lot of answer for. This project only really mentions environmental impacts, which makes me think that they're not serious about ethics, which in turn makes me distrustful of the whole enterprise.
- Their language also ends up encouraging AI use broadly while totally ignoring several entire classes of harm, so they're effectively contributing to AI hype, especially with such casual talk of AGI and robotics as if embodied AGI were just around the corner. To be clear about this point: we are several breakthroughs away from AGI under the most optimistic assumptions, and giving the impression that those will happen soon plays directly into the hands of the Sam Altmans of the world who are trying to make money off the impression of impending huge advances in AI capabilities. Adding to the AI hype is irresponsible.
- I've got a more philosophical criticism that I'll post about separately.
I do think that the idea of using AI & other software tools, possibly along with robotics and funded by many local cooperatives, in order to make businesses obsolete before they can do the same to all workers, is a good one. Get your local library to buy a knitting machine alongside their 3D printer.
Lately I've felt too busy criticizing AI to really sit down and think about what I do want the future to look like, even though I'm a big proponent of positive visions for the future as a force multiplier for criticism, and this article is inspiring to me in that regard, even if the specific project doesn't seem like a good one.

I got myself a ticket to see @… in Berlin soon. Get them while they last.
https://mastodon.social/@publix/114935748880689345

Publix Berlin (@publix@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Join us to see Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, in conversation with Maria Exner and Matthias Spielkamp, to discuss why both perspectives - re-claiming 'digital sovereignty,' without conversations about accountability and control, and the promise of AI as salvation - threaten to send us on the wrong track, and what we must do to bring technology in line with human needs. 🎟️:https://www.publix.de/en/events/meredith-whittaker 📍 25.09.2025, 6:30 pm @Mer__edith…

Microsoft Backs Up A.I. Spending With $27.2 Billion Quarterly Profit: The company’s results are likely to ease investors’ worries that big investments in artificial intelligence aren’t paying off - NYTimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/technology/mic…

Microsoft Backs Up A.I. Spending With $27.2 Billion Quarterly Profit
The company’s results are likely to ease investors’ worries that big investments in artificial intelligence aren’t paying off.

Seaweed-Based Growth Media Could Replace Traditional Cell Culture Media in Cultivated Meat Production https://vegconomist.com/algae-microalgae-seaweed/seaweed-based-growth-media-replace-traditional-cell-…

Seaweed-Based Growth Media Could Replace Traditional Cell Culture Media in Cultivated Meat Production - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
A new research project led by James Cook University (JCU) and the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) is investigating the use of seaweed as a potential

Analysis: porn sites that don't comply with the UK's age verification laws have seen their traffic from UK users grow, while sites complying had declines (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

‘Scan your face’ laws for the web are having unexpected consequences
The new age-verification laws in the United States and United Kingdom have brought some surprising downsides, including soaring traffic to seedy parts of the web.

> "AI" is a fossil fuel technology.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/114760351207463338

"Inside a plan to use AI to amplify doubts about the dangers of pollutants"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Climate

How HP's poor strategic and systematic thinking by HP destroyed WebOS and $1.2 billion, a platform before it's time that deserved better.
https://philmckinney.substack.com/p/i-convinced-hps-board-to-buy-palm
(Fun fact: the lead desig…

I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days
The systematic thinking errors that kill breakthrough technology and the decision framework that prevents these disasters

An analysis of Grok's responses to 41 political questions in May and July shows it shifted to the right on 50% of them, often aligning with Elon Musk's views (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/technology/elon-musk-grok-conserva…

How Elon Musk Is Remaking Grok in His Image
Mr. Musk said he wanted xAI’s chatbot to be “politically neutral.” His actions say otherwise.

One of my books is in here. Probably check for any of your professional (or less professional) writing and sign on:
https://mastodon.social/@Richard_Littler/115105862107138339

I've been in meetings where #ACC "experts" testified "truthpartly" - but not "truthfully" - about chemical hazards - referencing old tests of health impacts (1970s/80s knowledge) while ignoring the mass of robust data developed in the late 90s and 2000s. This is another repeat performance for #ACC

I've been in meetings where #ACC "experts" testified "truthpartly" - but not "truthfully" - about chemical hazards - referencing old tests of health impacts (1970s/80s knowledge) while ignoring the mass of robust data developed in the late 90s and 2000s. This is another repeat performance for #ACC

"Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/deepfakes-denmark-copyright-law-artificial-intelligence

Practical Takeaways from FPF’s Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop
https://fpf.org/blog/practical-takeaways-from-fpfs-privacy-enhancing-technologies-workshop/
@…

Python is also the most desired programming language in the Stack Overflow developer survey, while Rust remains the most admired: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#2-programming-scripting-and-markup-languages

YouTube is rolling out age estimation tech in the US to identify teen users and serve more age-appropriate content, regardless of the birthday given at signup (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/29/yout

YouTube rolls out age-estimation tech to identify US teens and apply additional protections | TechCrunch
YouTube is introducing age-detection technology to identify teens on the platform in the U.S. and apply protections.

A survey of 1,047 US college students on GenAI: 55% use the tech for brainstorming ideas, 18% now question the value of college more than they used to, and more (Colleen Flaherty/Inside Higher Ed)
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students…

Survey: College Students’ Views on AI
Key findings from Inside Higher Ed’s student survey on generative AI show that using the evolving technology hasn’t diminished the value of college in their view, but it could affect their critical thinking skills.

🤙 Sage iPhone for children review: ‘Would it make me want to divorce my parents?’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/16/sage-iphone-for-children-review-teenagers-internet-safe-smartphone

Datadog is joining the S&P 500, replacing Juniper Networks after HPE acquired Juniper, before trading on July 9; DDOG jumps 10% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/02/datadog-stock-jumps-sp-500-index-inclusion.html

Datadog stock jumps 10% on tech company’s inclusion in S&P 500 index
Hewlett Packard Enterprise's closing of its Juniper deal created an opening in the index, which has added several technology companies in recent months.

Recycled rubber tracks reduce maintenance and extend track life for rail operators. Innovative technology tested on Sydney Trains freight line shows promising results. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Recycled rubber tracks underlay slow ballast wear and cut maintenance
Sydney’s recycled rubber track innovation cushions load, protects ballast, and promises millions in maintenance savings.

Google is quite agressive with Gemini CLI , offering 1000 free Gemini 2.5 Pro requests per day for individual users. Essentially trying to push Anthropic and OpenAI away.
https://blog.google/technology/developers/introducing-gemini-cli-open-source-ai-age…

Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent
Free and open source, Gemini CLI brings Gemini directly into developers’ terminals — with unmatched access for individuals.

slashdot_zoo: Slashdot Zoo friend-foe network (2009)
A network of interactions among users on Slashdot (slashdot.org), a technology news website. Users name each other as friends or foe. The friend label increases the scores of post, and the foe label decreases the score.
This network has 79120 nodes and 515397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed

"Google’s emissions up 51% as AI electricity demand derails efforts to go green"
#Google #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Researchers uncover cause of uranium groundwater contamination #environment

Researchers uncover cause of uranium groundwater contamination
A new study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology and led by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health identifies the hidden geological mechanisms behind widespread uranium contamination in Eastern Karnataka, India, where 78% of tested groundwater exceeds safe drinking limits for uranium, and some groundwater uranium contamination reaches levels 75 times the U.S. EPA limit. Uranium exposure can affect the kidneys, bones, and the liver, yet contamin…

"According to the paper, the program will rely on algorithms similar to those "used by insurers have been the subject of several high-profile lawsuits, which have asserted that the technology allowed the companies to swiftly deny large batches of claims and cut patients off from care in rehabilitation facilities."
'AI Death Panels': Trump Pilot Program Seeks to Bring 'Very Worst' For-Profit Insurance Practices to Medicare | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-ai-medicare-program

The US Army awards Palantir a contract worth up to $10B over the next decade, creating a "comprehensive framework for the Army's future software and data needs" (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/…

Palantir gets $10 billion contract from U.S. Army
The software company’s enterprise contract over the next decade cements its central role in warfighting for years to come. 

YouTube mega streamer IShowSpeed's recent visits to Lithuania and China show how countries are focusing on creators' fan bases as a new strategy for soft power (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

An American mega-influencer flew to Lithuania. Then the chaos began.
The streamer IShowSpeed drank pink soup in the Baltics, marveled at cars in China and made friends in Saudi Arabia. Are his tours propaganda, or just good advertising?

"Revolutionary Textile Recycling Technology Transforms Fashion Industry Waste into High-Quality Fibers"
#Fashion #Textiles #Recycling

Revolutionary Textile Recycling Technology Transforms Fashion Industry Waste into High-Quality Fibers | Happy Eco News
Textile recycling technology breakthrough removes dyes and separates fabric blends from old garments, creating high-quality recycled fibers for the first time at an industrial scale.

Trump's focus on coal and hate for renewable energy etc will cost the US dearly, China is already ahead and will improve it's position further with regard to EV's, battery technology etc

A look at Big Tech's AI talent wars with massive compensation packages; sources: Meta told potential hires they would be allotted 30K GPUs for their AI research (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/technol

A.I. Researchers Are Negotiating $250 Million Pay Packages. Just Like NBA Stars.
A.I. technologists are approaching the job market as if they were Steph Curry or LeBron James, seeking advice from their entourages and playing hardball with the highest bidders.

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

Fusion power startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems raises $863M with help from Nvidia, Google, and Bill Gates, advancing clean energy technology. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Nvidia, Google, and Bill Gates help Commonwealth Fusion Systems raise $863M | TechCrunch
Commonwealth Fusion Systems has raised nearly $3 billion to commercialize its fusion power plant. It hopes to send electricity to the grid in the early 2030s.

📡 Affordable, room-temperature maser created using LED technology
#technology

Affordable, room-temperature maser created using LED technology
With the ability to detect and amplify extremely weak electromagnetic signals without adding additional noise, masers have many potential uses, including the production of more sensitive magnetic resonance body scanners, such as those used in airports.

Denmark plans to clamp down on AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to give its citizens rights to their own body, facial features, and voice (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

"Decarbonising British glass: The technology exists, now the Government must catch up"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Glass

Tinder is mandating new users in California verify their profiles using facial recognition technology starting June 30 in a bid to reduce impersonation (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/30/tinder-face-check-safety

Exclusive: Tinder to require Face Check for new users in California
The video selfie feature aims to curb impersonation.

Profiles of OpenAI's heads of research Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki, where they discuss the path toward more capable reasoning models and superalignment (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/3

The two people shaping the future of OpenAI’s research
An exclusive conversation with Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI’s twin heads of research, about the path toward more capable reasoning models—and superalignment.

Oxford-based Ultromics, which has developed the first FDA-cleared, Medicare-reimbursed AI tools for cardiology diagnostics, raised a $55M Series C (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/07/31/ultromics-raises-55m-series-c-to-sca…

Ultromics raises $55M Series C to scale AI-driven heart failure detection
Oxford-based Ultromics, a pioneer in AI-driven cardiology diagnostics solutions, has raised $55 million through its Series C funding round.  Ultromics has developed the first FDA-cleared, Medicare-reimbursed AI technology designed to help clinicians detect Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF) and cardiac amyloidosis, two of the most difficult-to-diagnose forms of heart failure. Built on years of clinical research and analysis of hundreds of thousands of echocardiograms, the …

"‘It’s cheap but it’s not disposable’: why fast tech is a growing waste problem"
#Technology #EWaste

Cambridge, UK-based Paragraf, which makes graphene-based electronics using standard semiconductor processes, raised a $55M Series C to scale its manufacturing (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/08/25/paragraf-closes-55m-series-c-funding-round/…

Paragraf closes $55M Series C funding round
Paragraf, the UK-based company leading the way in mass-producing graphene-based electronics using industry-standard semiconductor processes, has completed a $55 million Series C funding round. The funding will speed up the scaling of Paragraf’s manufacturing capabilities and increase production capacity, paving the way for graphene electronics to enter mass markets.Paragraf’s technology fits smoothly into the existing semiconductor ecosystem, offering customers ready-to-use solutions…

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

xAI will sign the EU AI Code's safety and security chapter but says the code's other requirements hurt innovation and its copyright terms are an overreach (Chandni Shah/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/musks-xai-sign-eus-ai-code-practice-…

Oxide Computer, which provides on-premise cloud computers to businesses, raised a $100M Series B led by Thomas Tull's US Innovative Technology Fund (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cloud-server-startup-oxid…

"Advanced Whale Communication Technology Could Reshape Conservation Efforts"
#Whales #Animals #Conservation

Advanced Whale Communication Technology Could Reshape Conservation Efforts | Happy Eco News
Whale communication technology is advancing rapidly as Project CETI works to translate sperm whale vocalizations in the Caribbean. This technology could transform animal rights law, prevent ship collisions, protect critical habitats, and provide insights into marine ecosystems, while challenging assumptions about the fundamental differences between humans and animals.

Q&A with Stanford researchers on their recent study finding that, since 2022, US employment in the most AI-exposed fields has fallen 13% for entry-level workers (Derek Thompson)
https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-evidence-that-ai-is-destroying

The Evidence That AI Is Destroying Jobs For Young People Just Got Stronger
A big nerd debate with bigger implications for the future of work, technology, and the economy

In a trial over a fatal Autopilot crash, Tesla denied having crash-snapshot data, until a hacker hired by the plaintiffs recovered the data from the vehicle (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/29/…

Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it.
The key evidence was presented last month to a jury, which found the company partially liable for the 2019 crash in Key Largo, Florida.

Hands-on with seven coding agents tasked with building a website: Claude Code performed best, OpenAI's Codex lacked polish, and Replit failed to build the site (Timothy B. Lee/Understanding AI)
https://www.understandingai.org/p/what-i-learned-trying-seven-…

What I learned trying seven coding agents
There's still room for improvement, but don't underestimate this technology.

An interview with Anthropic's Dario Amodei and how his father's passing from an illness, four years before a breakthrough made it 95% curable, shaped his path (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/the-making-of-dario-amodei

The Making Of Dario Amodei
AI’s most outspoken leader found direction in a personal tragedy.

YouTube is rolling out age estimation tech in the US to identify teen users and serve more age-appropriate content, regardless of the birthday given at signup (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/29/yout

YouTube rolls out age estimation tech to identify US teens and apply additional protections | TechCrunch
YouTube is introducing age detection technology to identify teens on the platform in the U.S. and apply prtections.

PitchBook: US VC investment in AI startups rose 33% QoQ to $65B in Q1, up 550% from the quarter prior to ChatGPT's 2022 release (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/technology/ai-spending-openai-amazon-meta.html…

A.I. Frenzy Escalates as OpenAI, Amazon and Meta Supersize Spending
Companies like OpenAI, Amazon and Meta have supersized their spending on artificial intelligence, with no signs of slowing down.

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg and his lieutenants have discussed "de-investing" in Llama in favor of AI models from competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/technology/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai.html

Mark Zuckerberg Ramps Up Meta’s A.I. Spending as Competition Heats Up
Unhappy with his company’s artificial intelligence efforts, Meta’s C.E.O. is on a spending spree as he reconsiders his strategy in the contest to invent a hypothetical “superintelligence.”

European Commission says Meta has proposed limited changes to its pay-or-consent ad model, and Meta faces daily fines if it determines they are not sufficient (Reuters)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Meta will only make limited changes to pay-or-consent model, EU says
Meta Platforms made only limited changes to its pay-or-consent model, and EU regulators cannot confirm compliance with an antitrust order. The European Commission may impose periodic penalties starting June 27, if Meta continues to fail meeting the required standards.

Denmark plans to clamp down on AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to give its citizens rights to their own body, facial features, and voice (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Faculty and students on Chinese campuses are enthusiastically embracing AI, and the level of public excitement for AI in China is far greater vs. the US and UK (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/28/1120747/chinese-uni…

Chinese universities want students to use more AI, not less
Unlike the West, where universities are still agonizing over how students use AI in their work, top universities in China are going all in.

Sources: Pinecone, which provides an AI-compatible vector database, is exploring a sale after receiving takeover interest; Pinecone was valued at $750M in 2023 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/top-funded-ai-database-star…

Top-Funded AI Database Startup Pinecone Considers a Sale
When the artificial intelligence boom began a few years ago, investors flocked to startups that helped businesses transform and store proprietary data in a format AI could understand, known as a vector database. The technology allowed businesses to use a customized AI chatbot to search or ...

The FBI and agencies in the UK, Canada, and others warn that a Chinese hacking campaign targeting US telecoms has expanded to 80 countries and 200 US companies (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

FBI warns Chinese hacking campaign has expanded, reaching 80 countries
An FBI official told The Washington Post that Chinese hackers won deep access to major communication carriers in the U.S. and elsewhere.

A look at Tokyo-based Nittobo, currently the only supplier in the world of the highest-end "T-glass", a material essential for making high-powered AI servers (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Techn

Nvidia and others court niche Japanese supplier to ease AI bottlenecks
Glass cloth maker Nittobo is latest example country's overlooked role in supply chain

Sources: Uber is in talks with Travis Kalanick to help fund his acquisition of Pony.ai's US arm; Pony.ai has permits to operate robo taxis in the US and China (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

Uber in Talks With Travis Kalanick to Fund Self-Driving Car Deal
The ride-hailing company is in talks to help Mr. Kalanick, who was forced out in 2017, purchase an autonomous vehicles start-up as robot taxi service Waymo gains momentum.

Autodesk reports Q2 revenue up 17% to $1.76B, vs. $1.73B est., forecasts Q3 revenue above est., and raises its annual forecasts; ADSK jumps 10% after hours (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/autodesk-raises-annual…

Didi reports Q2 revenue up 10.9% YoY to ~$7.8B, overseas revenue up 28% YoY, and a ~$350M net loss, driven by a one-off ~$740M charge in a shareholder lawsuit (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/didi-posts-q2-los…

The family of a teen who committed suicide sues OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT gave him info about suicide methods and at times deterred him from seeking help (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/technol…

A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.
More people are turning to general-purpose chatbots for emotional support. At first, Adam Raine, 16, used ChatGPT for schoolwork, but then he started discussing plans to end his life.

Daydream, which raised a $50M seed in June 2024 to build a generative AI shopping agent for fashion, launches in beta, with an app expected later this summer (Hilary Milnes/Vogue Business)
https://www.voguebusiness.com/story/techno

Is Daydream’s AI platform the answer to fashion’s discovery problem?
Founder Julie Bornstein raised $50 million last year to create the ultimate AI shopping experience. Today, it launches in beta.

Melania Trump says she hopes to become the First Lady of Technology as she leads the Presidential AI Challenge to inspire children and teachers to embrace AI (Miranda Devine/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/25/opinion/

Exclusive | First lady Melania Trump will head effort to teach next generation about AI
First lady Melania Trump will lead the Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge to inspire children and teachers to embrace AI technology and help accelerate innovation in the field.

Vertical streaming apps charging $20/week are beating Netflix and other SVOD platforms in user growth with their mini-dramas optimized for mobile viewing (Tatum Hunter/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/23/vertical-s…

Spicy and pricey vertical mini-dramas are taking over streaming
Streaming apps that charge $20 a week for absurd, 60-second soap operas are winning audiences that rival Hulu and Paramount+.

How innovations in garden technology, including AI-driven watering systems and robotic mowers, originally built for agriculture, are now reaching home growers (Mark Lane/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8a7831a5-657a-4b26-9929-c593104597e8

The gardens that AI grew
From laser scarecrows and solar-powered weeding robots to trees bred to capture more carbon, high-tech horticulture is in full germination

Sources: TSMC plans to drop Chinese chipmaking equipment, including AMEC's etching tools, from its most advanced 2nm production to avoid potential US backlash (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

TSMC cuts Chinese tools from cutting-edge chip production to avoid US ire
World's top chipmaker shifts 2-nm tool sourcing as American investment accelerates

Inside Amazon's Indiana data center complex: built for Anthropic with plans for ~30 centers, consuming 2.2GW of power and millions of gallons of water per year (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/technology/amazon-ai-data-centers.html

At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.
On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up.

Google DeepMind unveils AlphaGenome, an AI tool to predict the effects of DNA changes on molecular processes, available via an API for non-commercial research (Antonio Regalado/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/25/1…

Google’s new AI will help researchers understand how our genes work
First came AlphaFold. Now comes AlphaGenome for DNA.

Apple overhauls EU App Store to comply with DMA: developers can push offers and alt payments, and the Core Technology Fee will be swapped for tiered commission (Anupriya Datta/Euractiv)
https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news

Pony AI gets a permit to provide fully driverless robotaxi services in Shanghai, making it the only company with permits in all four of China's biggest cities (Pretish M J/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/pony-ai