The company's star ethics researcher highlighted the risks of large language models, which are key to Google's business.

The news for processors and system-on-chip (SoC) products these
days is all about 64-bit cores powering the latest computers and
smartphones, so it's easy to be misled into thinking that all 32-bit
technology is obsolete. That quickly leads to the idea of…

In U.S. Pacific Northwest coho salmon ( Oncorhynchus kisutch ), stormwater exposure annually causes unexplained acute mortality when adult salmon migrate to urban creeks to reproduce. By investigating this phenomenon, we identified a highly toxic quinone…

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Digital technology has been transforming our society and culture. Among other things, it is clearly changing how we read, and in turn how (and why) we write and even think. This threatens to rob us of the capacity for deep reading. And if we lose tha...

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The result highlights a fundamental tension: Either the rules of quantum mechanics don’t always apply, or at least one basic assumption about reality must be wrong.

“Project Management” is an enormous industry. Software, training, certifications and even Masters degrees – everything you can imagine to make us better at managing simple and complex projects. But we keep failing. Over and over again. Is there a solution?…

Why I have stopped working with IPFS and the distributed web

Even though it’s only 26 words long, Section 230 doesn’t say what many think it does. So we’ve decided to take up a few kilobytes of the Internet to explain what, exactly, people are getting wrong

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If you spend a lot of time on Hacker News, it’s easy to get taken by the allure of building a project without a framework.