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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How a Chinese battery...
I’m currently traveling in Turkey, and even though I’m just a few days from starting a vacation and could be spending my time outside petting the...
Peter: Yeah, I know. That is indeed a big question and we get that question a lot nowadays, particularly because of crypto and cryptocurrency and the...
In the months after Vladimir Putin announced the invasion of Ukraine, Russia saw a mass exodus of IT workers. According to government figures, about 100,000 IT...
“Causal reasoning is critical for machine learning,” says Nailong Zhang, a software engineer at Meta. Meta is using causal inference in a machine-learning model that manages...
It has now been over a year since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, with more than 8,300 recorded civilian deaths and counting. The tech workers...
I agree with critics of the letter who say that worrying about future risks distracts us from the very real harms AI is already causing today....
“I think this is going to be pretty much a disaster from a security and privacy perspective,” says Florian Tramèr, an assistant professor of computer science...
When computer science students and faculty at Carnegie Mellon University’s Institute for Software Research returned to campus in the summer of 2020, there was a lot...
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