The U.S. Department of Transportation said Thursday it was investigating why passengers on a Delta Air Lines flight had been forced to swelter for hours… Read More »US is investigating why Delta passengers were kept on the plane in extreme heat
Kevin Mitnick, who at the dawn of widespread Internet use in the mid-1990s became the nation’s archetypal computer hacker—obsessive but smart, shy but mischievous, and… Read More »Kevin Mitnick, hacker who escaped authorities, is dead at age 59
AMC is abandoning plans to charge more for movie seats, depending on their location. But higher mid-seat prices at theaters where AMC has been testing… Read More »AMC Theater chain stops charging for better seats
Rock and roll has always had a strong presence in the British music landscape. As one of the most popular genres of all time, rock… Read More »Top UK Alternative Radio Stations – Radio Fidelity
Reddit is publicly extending an olive branch to the moderator community it has been largely outraged over the past few weeks. In a post on… Read More »No excuses, as Reddit is half-heartedly trying to mend ties with moderators
In the election, Sumar and the centre-left PSOE will face the Partido Popular, Spain’s traditional right-wing party, and Vox, a new far-right party whose fiery… Read More »Elections in Spain turn Gig workers against the far right | WIRED
Union workers at Anchor Brewing Company, the oldest craft brewer in the United States, want to buy the 127-year-old company and run it as a… Read More »Anchor Brewery employees want to save their company by buying it
In a cavernous room this week in a one-story building in Santa Clara, California, six-and-a-half-foot tall machines whirred behind white cabinets. The machines formed a… Read More »An AI supercomputer comes to life, powered by giant computer chips
Hanson and I talked about the idea of adding real intelligence to these suggestive machines. Ben Goertzel, a well-known AI researcher and the CEO of… Read More »Don’t ask stupid robots if AI will destroy humanity
The internet is dangerous, so what if you just don’t use it? That’s the somewhat ironic recommendation that Google, one of the world’s largest internet… Read More »Google’s new security pilot program will ban employees’ Internet access
For years, private equity firms have tried to join a special club: managing $1 trillion in assets, a milestone that would put them in the… Read More »Blackstone becomes the first $1 trillion private equity manager
It’s a great time to be a radio enthusiast. The Aether has never been so accessible. Thanks to the advent of the internet and new… Read More »11 Best Smartphone Radio Apps in 2023 (iPhone + Android) – Radio Fidelity
Instead, that tagline says less about what the company does and more about why it does it. Helsing’s job postings are rife with idealism and… Read More »A Battlefield AI Company Says It’s One of the Good Guys | WIRED
Three months before the cryptocurrency market imploded last year, Caroline Ellison, the 27-year-old CEO of crypto hedge fund Alameda Research, was wracked with self-doubt. “I… Read More »Caroline Ellison writes about ex-crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried
China has an answer to the heat waves now affecting much of the Northern Hemisphere: to burn more coal to maintain a stable electricity supply… Read More »China’s addiction to coal is deepening in the heat
