Topline Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, a 39-year-old fashion designer and former “Project Runway” contestant, was fatally shot as an innocent bystander during a “No Kings” protest, according to local police, as Ah Loo is likely the only fatality at thousands of demonstrations against President Donald Trump carried out across the U.S. on Saturday. Protestors in…
Sandia National Laboratories has joined a new partnership aimed at helping the United States regain its leadership in semiconductor manufacturing. While the U.S. was considered a powerhouse in chip production in the 1990s, fabricating more than 35% of the world’s semiconductors, that share has since dropped to 12%. Today, the U.S. manufactures none of the…
In today’s software-driven economy, every organization, regardless of industry, is a software company. And increasingly, every software company is an open-source company. With open-source components (OSS) now comprising up to 80% of modern codebase, the software supply chain has emerged as one of the most significant and most vulnerable frontiers in cybersecurity. Unfortunately, adversaries have…
Errors tend to crop up in AI-generated content Paul Taylor/Getty Images AI chatbots from tech companies such as OpenAI and Google have been getting so-called reasoning upgrades over the past months – ideally to make them better at giving us answers we can trust, but recent testing suggests they are sometimes doing worse than previous…
Reinforcement learning is a decades-old way of having a computer learn to do something through experimentation combined with positive or negative feedback. It came to the fore last decade when Google DeepMind showed it could produce algorithms capable of superhuman strategy and gameplay. More recently, AI engineers have used the technique to get large language…
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In the 1980s Robert Solow, an economist, remarked that you could see the computer age everywhere except the productivity statistics. Today it could be said that the revolution in military affairs, playing out in the skies, trenches and seas of Ukraine, is visible everywhere except the European defence industry. America boasts three defence-tech “unicorns”, private…
Adrienne Murray Technology Reporter Reporting fromLongyearbyen, Norway Getty Images Norway’s Longyearbyen is the world’s northernmost town High above the Arctic Circle, the archipelago of Svalbard lies halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. Frozen, mountainous, and remote, it’s home to hundreds of polar bears and a couple of sparse settlements. One of those is…
Esme Stallard Climate and Science Reporter BBC Listen to Esme read this article Donald Trump’s return to the White House is a “major blow to global climate action”. So said Christiana Figueres, the former UN climate chief, after he was elected in November. Since taking office, Trump has withdrawn the US from what is considered…
Today’s NYT Strands hints and answers Credit: New York Times Looking for Thursday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here: ForbesToday’s NYT Strands Puzzle: Hints, Spangram And Answers For Thursday, June 12thBy Erik Kain Check your calendars, oh my Strandistas, because it’s a day for bad luck and mischief. Friday the 13th…
