How Parler went offline, and how it might come back
Parler, the largely unmoderated social network popular with conservatives, often found fans by lampooning Big Tech. But after the site got knocked off the internet over the weekend, it’s more apparent than...
JFrog devops users freed from Docker Hub image-pull limits
JFrog has partnered with Docker to exempt cloud-based JFrog Devops Platform users from Docker Hub image-pull rate limits.
The first milestone of the arrangement gives developers using the JFrog Artifactory software package management system with...
Amazon fired Chris Smalls. Now the new union leader is one of its biggest...
A year ago, Chris Smalls couldn’t get politicians to return his calls.
But on a muggy morning in late April, two of the biggest names in politics — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria...
He started a covid-19 vaccine company. Then he hosted a superspreader event.
In a blog post published on the afternoon of February 12, Diamandis confirmed that 12 patrons had tested positive.
Less than a week after A360 attendees flew back to their pandemic home bases across the...
China’s Tianwen-1 mission is on its way to Mars
The news: China’s Tianwen-1 mission to Mars successfully lifted off shortly before 1 p.m. local time on Thursday, July 23, Chinese media reported. The mission, which includes a lander, rover, and orbiter, is expected...
The future of commercial space travel is almost here with the latest SpaceX launch
Elon Musk’s SpaceX just launched the first operational crewed flight into orbital space, following up on its successful test flight several months ago and bringing us one step closer to private commercial space travel.
SpaceX’s...
The Download: a bitter campus privacy row, and AI-powered lawyers
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 to adjust to. The department had moved into...
China says it has launched and landed a reusable spacecraft
On September 6, China successfully landed a reusable spacecraft the country had launched into orbit just two days before, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency. “The successful flight marked the country’s important breakthrough...
Who’s going to save us from bad AI?
About damn time. That was the response from AI policy and ethics wonks to news last week that the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the White House’s science and technology advisory agency, had...
Why the EU AI Act was so hard to agree on
The latest round of EU negotiations has introduced a two-tier approach in which foundation models are, at least in part, sorted on the basis of the computational resources they require, Connor explains. In practice,...
