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In 1943, while the world’s brightest physicists split atoms for the Manhattan Project, the American psychologist B.F. Skinner led his own secret government project to win World War II. Skinner did not aim to build a new class of larger, more destructive weapons. Rather, he wanted to make...
Cet article fait partie de ma série de l’été spécial hackers. Bonne lecture ! Boston, 1992. Dans un loft miteux du South End qui ressemble plus à un squat qu’à un labo, une bande de hackers bidouille tranquillement. On est dans la cave de la cave du 59 Hamilton Street, à côté du Boston...
Cet article fait partie de ma série de l’été spécial hackers. Bonne lecture ! Vous croyez qu’un agent secret russe du GRU peut oublier d’allumer son VPN comme votre grand-père oublie ses lunettes ? Bah oui, ça peut arriver et c’est exactement comme ça qu’on a chopé...
June had no idea that GPT-5 was coming. The Norwegian student was enjoying a late-night writing session last Thursday when her ChatGPT collaborator started acting strange. “It started forgetting everything, and it wrote really badly,” she says. “It was like a robot.” June, who asked that we use...
This time five years ago, we were in the throes of the covid-19 pandemic. By August 2020, we’d seen school closures, national lockdowns, and widespread panic. That year, the coronavirus was responsible for around 3 million deaths, according to the World Health Organization. Then came the vaccines....
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. The US could really use an affordable electric truck On Monday, Ford announced plans for an affordable electric truck with a 2027 delivery date and...
On Monday, Ford announced plans for an affordable electric truck with a 2027 delivery date and an expected price tag of about $30,000, thanks in part to a new manufacturing process that it says will help cut costs. This could be the shot in the arm that the slowing US EV market needs. Sales are...
Artificial intelligence models that can discover drugs and write code still fail at puzzles a lay person can master in minutes. This phenomenon sits at the heart of the challenge of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Can today’s AI revolution produce models that rival or surpass human...
Cet article fait partie de ma série de l’été spécial hackers. Bonne lecture ! Bon, je sais que quand on parle de l’affaire Kevin Mitnick, y’a toujours deux camps qui s’écharpent. Mais, l’histoire de Tsutomu Shimomura, c’est du grand cinéma. Noël 1994, le...
In 1940, a fresh-faced Ronald Reagan starred as US Secret Service agent Brass Bancroft in Murder in the Air, an action film centered on a fictional “superweapon” that could stop enemy aircraft midflight. A mock newspaper in the movie hails it as the “greatest peace argument ever invented.” The...
Cet article fait partie de ma série de l’été spécial hackers. Bonne lecture ! Bon, vous connaissez sans doute le Flipper Zero, ce petit boîtier orange qui ressemble à un Tamagotchi sous stéroïdes et qui fait flipper Amazon, le Canada et à peu près tous les responsables sécurité de la planète....
Ce serait quoi un monde où les bugs de sécurité se font corriger avant même que les hackers ne les trouvent ? Ce serait plus calme non ? J’écrirais moins sur les failles de sécurité cela dit, mais ça me ferais plus de temps pour chiller dans le hamac. Breeeef, ça va peut-être se produire...