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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. Why we should thank pigeons for our AI breakthroughs People looking for precursors to artificial intelligence often point to science fiction by...
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...
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. Why Trump’s “golden dome” missile defense idea is another ripped straight from the movies Within a week of his inauguration, President Trump issued...
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....
The propensity for AI systems to make mistakes and for humans to miss those mistakes has been on full display in the US legal system as of late. The follies began when lawyers—including some at prestigious firms—submitted documents citing cases that didn’t exist. Similar mistakes soon spread to...
WinRAR, vous savez, le truc que tout le monde a sur son PC pour décompresser des fichiers et dont personne ou presque ne paye la licence ? Bah il vient de se faire trouer comme jamais. En effet un groupe de hackers russes exploite actuellement une faille zero-day pour installer des backdoors sur...
At long last, OpenAI has released GPT-5. The new system abandons the distinction between OpenAI’s flagship models and its o series of reasoning models, automatically routing user queries to a fast nonreasoning model or a slower reasoning version. It is now available to everyone through the ChatGPT...
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg declared that Meta is aiming to achieve smarter-than-human AI. He seems to have a recipe for achieving that goal, and the first ingredient is human talent: Zuckerberg has reportedly tried to lure top researchers to Meta Superintelligence Labs with nine-figure offers. The...
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. These protocols will help AI agents navigate our messy lives A growing number of companies are launching AI agents that can do things on...
À partir de 1975, Microsoft s’impose comme l’éditeur référence du Basic. Des dizaines de constructeurs l’installent par défaut sur les ordinateurs. Apple conclut un deal de plusieurs années pour sa commercialiser sur l’Apple II. Jusqu’au début des années 80, Microsoft n’a que peu de rivaux, même si...