The Netherlands Picked NixOS. France Was Already Using It
When we heard about the Netherlands’ DAWO initiative, a formal mandate to replace outside software across Dutch public institutions with a NixOS-powered platform, we asked
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US charges California man with smuggling $300mn of AI servers to China
US authorities have arrested a California man accused of smuggling more than $300mn of computer servers packed with AI chips to China, the Justice Department said
RBI chief says the next financial crisis may start with a cyberattack
The next financial crisis may not start in a bank at all, India’s central bank governor has warned. Sanjay Malhotra said it could come from
Zelensky asked Trump to block Russia’s Starlink rival, FT reports
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked Tweety McTreason to sanction the Russian and Chinese companies building Russia’s answer to Starlink, the Financial Times reported. He has
AI may cost us our ability to listen, oral historian warns in the Guardian
Much of the worry about AI is that it will erode how well we write. Australian oral historian Shirleene Robinson thinks the bigger loss may
Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94
Milt Windler, one of the four leaders of Mission Control who in 1970 directed the round-the-clock efforts to bring the Apollo 13 astronauts back to
The 2008 economic crisis changed the US’s relationship with energy
One argument that often comes up about climate change is that fossil fuels are good because they powered economic growth that has left most people
Bessent says AI alarmism without solutions is not leadership
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has criticised AI leaders who warn of disaster but offer no fixes. He made the remarks in an interview with Axios published
The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton
This year, members of Seattle Mountain Rescue have been setting off into the wilds of the US Pacific Northwest wearing an unusual piece of kit.
Lyft settles landmark driver misclassification lawsuit for $272.5M
California’s attorney general and three city attorneys announced a $272.5 million settlement with Lyft after allegations that the company “committed wage theft by misclassifying drivers
An A.I. Songwriting Experiment: Humans Against the Machine
Five humans convened for a weekend to create new music from scratch. Could they do better than A.I.? Could you even tell the difference?
Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
Apple says it is changing its macOS privacy settings to stop third-party app developers from misusing them to access message histories. Friday’s announcement comes two
Someone got Doom in an SQL database
“Rendering Doom in a database is obviously a bad idea,” Lukas Vogel writes in a lengthy blog post explaining how exactly he managed to render
Volantis raises $88M for a photonic memory layer built for AI inference
Volantis has raised $88M to build a photonic link between AI compute and memory, using gallium arsenide lasers to avoid constraints in indium phosphide. The