A little-known surveillance program tracks more than a trillion domestic phone records within the United States each year, according to a letter obtained by WIRED, sent by US senator Ron Wyden to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sunday, challenging the program’s legality. According to the letter, a surveillance program now known as Data Analytical… Continue reading Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records
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Meet Emmett Shear, OpenAI’s ‘Highly Intelligent, Socially Awkward’ Interim CEO
“I’m skeptical. If Twitch serves as a precursor of what’s to come in AI, we can expect a lot of opaque policies and missed opportunities,” argues Joost van Dreunen, a New York University business professor and author of One Up, a book on the global games business. “Twitch has succeeded almost in spite of its… Continue reading Meet Emmett Shear, OpenAI’s ‘Highly Intelligent, Socially Awkward’ Interim CEO
OpenAI Staff Threaten to Quit Unless Board Resigns
OpenAI was in open revolt on Monday with more than 600 employees signing an open letter threatening to leave unless the board resigns and reinstates Sam Altman as CEO, along with cofounder and former president Greg Brockman. Altman was controversially fired by the board on Friday. “The process through which you terminated Sam Altman and… Continue reading OpenAI Staff Threaten to Quit Unless Board Resigns
How OpenAI’s Bizarre Structure Gave 4 People the Power to Fire Sam Altman
Venture capitalists and employees could now get some return on the money or sweat that they invested in the company—but the nonprofit’s board still maintained ultimate say over the for-profit business through several new legal provisions, according to OpenAI. The directors’ primary fiduciary duty remained to uphold its mission of safe development of artificial general… Continue reading How OpenAI’s Bizarre Structure Gave 4 People the Power to Fire Sam Altman
30 Gifts for a Digital Detox (2023): Analog Gift Ideas From WIRED
We’ve all got a friend or family member who isn’t the best texter, isn’t on social media, or isn’t all that thrilled that everything seems to be connected to the internet these days. For the phone-notification-hating, captcha-test-spurning loved one in your life, show them you’re thinking of them this holiday season in a totally analog… Continue reading 30 Gifts for a Digital Detox (2023): Analog Gift Ideas From WIRED
The Real Reason EV Repairs Are So Expensive
“If you’re replacing a damaged battery with a new one, suddenly, once you’ve added in the other costs in terms of labor and hire cars,” says Mark Fry, an engineering manager at Thatcham Research, “it’s just not always economical to repair the car.” A spokesman for the Association for British Insurers adds that there are… Continue reading The Real Reason EV Repairs Are So Expensive
Taiga Orca jet ski: Fast, Furious and Eco-Friendly
That said, launching myself off the thing was more difficult than I expected. The Orca handled sharp corners very well, and as long as you can keep your grip on the handle it’s possible to stay on. I did manage to fall off one time, but it took quite a lot of sharp turns and… Continue reading Taiga Orca jet ski: Fast, Furious and Eco-Friendly
21 Home Depot Black Friday Deals (2023): Tools, Grills
Take a gander at these early Home Depot Black Friday deals and get a lead on the masses who’ll be ready to crowd the digital gates before the Thanksgiving turkey even gets cold. Winter means, for more of us than not, spending a lot more time at home than we’d otherwise choose to spend. Vacations… Continue reading 21 Home Depot Black Friday Deals (2023): Tools, Grills
Who Is Mira Murati, OpenAI’s New Interim CEO?
That might be tricky since you partner so deeply with a big tech company. Do you feel your mission is aligned with Microsoft’s? In the sense that they believe that this is our mission. But that’s not their mission. No, that’s not their mission. But it was important for the investor to actually believe that… Continue reading Who Is Mira Murati, OpenAI’s New Interim CEO?
Nothing Chats First Look: iMessage on Android
Having predominantly used Android phones, I am far too familiar with the stigma of being a “green bubble.” Whenever I message someone with an iPhone, my texts show up in iMessage, the default messaging platform in iOS, but the app switches my messages from the secure but Apple-only iMessage protocol to the dated SMS/MMS protocol.… Continue reading Nothing Chats First Look: iMessage on Android