Has Technology Ever Reduced Labor?
Has technology ever reduced labor? The question sounds rhetorical. We carry small computers that answer any factual query in seconds, our laundry tumbles itself clean while we sleep, our cars drive themselves on highways our great-grandparents traveled by mule. Of course technology has reduced labor. The question barely needs asking.
As US lawmakers struggle to pass online safety laws, LA and New Mexico juries take the lead, holding social media companies accountable for harming young users (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/technology/social-media-verdi…
Heute erfuhr ich von dieser Steinway Playback-Technologie, das ist schon sehr geil.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/02/28/1088268/steinway-spirio-concert-pianos-performance-upgrade/
Nice profile of the UK A.I. Security Institute
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/technology/uk-ai-safety-institute.html
As AI tools like Mythos create a "bug-pocalypse", Glassdoor says Q1 cybersecurity job postings rose 11% YoY, and executive search firms are turning away clients (Kate Conger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/technology/ai-cybersecurity-jobs…
A look at the UK's AI Safety Institute, whose researchers probe AI models for safety gaps, as its work becomes a blueprint for other governments' AI policies (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/technol…
Q&A with Terence Tao on AI-generated Erdős solutions, "cheap wins", hybrid human AI contributions, push-of-a-button workflows, new ways of doing math, and more (Matteo Wong/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/02/ai-math-terrance…
The jury in LA's social media trial finds Meta and YouTube harmed a young user via addictive design features and orders them to pay her $3M; Meta will pay 70% (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/technol