Olivas is very credible on these issues. He was asked by the NASA leadership in late 2023, before the independent review team was formally named, to provide a second set of eyes on the space agency’s heat shield work. He saw all of the investigative data in real time. Although not formally a member, he … Read more
Apple and Google are being dragged into the uproar around X’s AI chatbot that has continued to virtually undress women in images without their consent this week. In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR), Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), and Ed Markey (D-MA) wrote that “X’s … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nick Train has apologised again for his funds’ poor returns, days before a vote on whether to remove him as manager of his investment trust. Train said in a presentation to investors on Friday he … Read more
We’ve got questions, and maybe you’ve got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about “The Rookie,” “Will Trent,” “The Pitt,” and more! 1 | Did you appreciate Cardi B’s blunt honesty in her “RuPaul’s Drag Race“ debut, or like TVLine reader D.B., did you think she was … Read more
So far, US regulators have been quiet about Grok’s outputs, with the Justice Department generally promising to take all forms of CSAM seriously. On Friday, Democratic senators started shifting those tides, demanding that Google and Apple remove X and Grok from app stores until it improves safeguards to block harmful outputs. “There can be no … Read more
Poisoned arrows or darts have long been used by cultures all over the world for hunting or warfare. For example, there are recipes for poisoning projective weapons, and deploying them in battle, in Greek and Roman historical documents, as well as references in Greek mythology and Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Chinese warriors over the ages … Read more
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain, has doubled down on his support of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm, who could be retried on two felony charges sometime this year. In a Friday X post, Buterin warned his followers about privacy from both the public and governments, adding that he had used Tornado Cash to … Read more
Netflix We don’t always watch TV with the hope of learning something, but there are plenty of shows that are as engaging to watch as they are educational. Period pieces dramatizing historical events and figures, both ancient and modern, have had a constant presence on television since … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Why are politicians so useless?” As we start the year, the cry goes up that democratic leaders are either bullies or pygmies. Trust in politicians has slumped below even that of journalists, a new nadir. … Read more
In June 2013, the lens through which US citizens looked at their government was dramatically changed; it was now a PRISM. PRISM was the program that enabled the National Security Agency (NSA), with some help from the FBI, to obtain unthinkable quantities of data from tech giants like Google, Facebook and Microsoft, among others. Despite … Read more