Plasma Physicist Warns That Elon Musk’s Disposable Satellites May Be Damaging the Earth’s Magnetic Field
By The Byte Published on April 17, 2024 The Earth is a ball magnet that we’re surrounding with fast-moving metal trash. Dead satellites and other debris are constantly burning up as they fall out of Earth’s orbit. Conventional wisdom is destroying all that space junk is good, because it keeps orbit […]
Your Brain Waves Are Up for Sale. A New Law Wants to Change That.
By The New York Times Published on April 17, 2024 In a first, a Colorado law extends privacy rights to the neural data increasingly coveted by technology companies. Consumers have grown accustomed to the prospect that their personal data, such as email addresses, social contacts, browsing history and genetic ancestry, are being collected and often […]
House Passes Controversial Spying Bill as Speaker Johnson Overcomes GOP Objections
By THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Published on April 09, 2024 WASHINGTON—The House passed legislation Friday to renew a controversial national-security spying power, as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) overcame a last-minute intervention from former President Donald Trump and a down-to-the wire dispute over Americans’ privacy. The bill extending the foreign surveillance […]
AI seen cutting worker numbers, survey by staffing company Adecco shows
By Reuters Published on April 05, 2024 ZURICH, April 5 (Reuters) – Artificial intelligence will lead to many companies employing fewer people in the next five years, staffing provider Adecco Group (ADEN.S), opens new tab said on Friday, in a new survey highlighting the upheaval AI will bring to the workplace. Some […]
Artificial Intelligence’s ‘Insatiable’ Energy Needs Not Sustainable, Arm CEO Says
By THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Published on April 09, 2024 Sora, OpenAI’s new text-to-video AI model, can create realistic scenes. In an exclusive interview, WSJ’s Joanna Stern sat down with the company’s CTO, Mira Murati, who explained how it works but ducked questions about how the model was trained. Photo illustration: Preston Jessee for The […]
Congress one step closer to reauthorizing controversial federal surveillance tool
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Verdict saying Switzerland violated rights by failing on climate action could ripple across Europe
AP News Published on April 10, 2024 STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Europe’s highest human rights court ruled Tuesday that countries must better protect their people from the consequences of climate change, siding with a group of older Swiss women against their government in a landmark ruling that could have implications across the continent. […]
House, Senate commerce chairs release bipartisan privacy bill
By THE HILL Published on April 07, 2024 Commerce Committee chairs in the House and Senate released a bipartisan bill Sunday evening that aims to protect Americans’ personal data online. Sen.(D-Wash.) and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) unveiled the American Privacy Rights Act Sunday that would set “clear, national data privacy rights and protections for […]
How AI risks creating a ‘black box’ at the heart of US legal system
By THE HILL Published on April 07, 2024 Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an expanding — and often invisible — role in America’s legal system. While AI tools are being used to inform criminal investigations, there is often no way for defendants to challenge their digital accuser or even know what role it played […]