"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

The company, which has a hundred and thirty thousand cameras monitoring the streets of the U.S., frames privacy as a worthwhile trade-off for safety and security, echoing the language of the post-9/11...

Adults who live in walkable neighborhoods are more likely to socialize and have a stronger sense of community, report researchers at the UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human...

YouTube video by Mint

Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...

Most people who know about Greek myth think that Hades is the ruler of the underworld. This is not wrong per se; early Greek poems do describe Hades as “ruler of those beneath the earth.” But, for the...

Expertise with data collection and manipulation has all too often been equated with deep understanding of that area.

Silicon Valley tech billionaire politics: authoritarianism, fascism, plutocracy, weirdness

June 23 2026

Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.

"The best bang for your buck is protected bike lanes... That's how you grow ridership. That's how you diversify ridership."

Meeting No. 45 SECU - Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly being adopted as research assistants, particularly for literature review and reference recommendation, yet little is known about whether they introduce demogra...