Gabriel Daros / Rest of World: Brazil’s AI-based social security app, launched in 2018, has cut bureaucracy in some cases but wrongly rejected hundreds of vulnerable people over minor errors  —  An algorithmic tool meant to reduce bureaucracy is misfiring on complex cases, and vulnerable Brazilians are paying the price.

A new autonomous vehicle framework would also make it easier for Tesla and other companies to research domestically made self-driving cars that don’t meet all federal safety standards.

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, our hosts explain how to prepare for travel to and from the United States—and how to stay safe.

The Abyss, Deadpool & Wolverine, and Inside Out 2 are just a few of the movies you should be watching on Disney+ this month.

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Facebook will reduce the reach of accounts sharing spammy content and make them ineligible for monetization, after Zuckerberg promised a return to “OG Facebook”  —  Facebook will begin lowering the reach of accounts sharing spammy content and making them ineligible for monetization, Meta announced on Thursday.

Pete Schroeder / Reuters: The US Federal Reserve withdraws guidance requiring banks to seek regulatory approval before engaging in crypto-related activities, joining the FDIC and OCC  —  U.S. banking regulators announced on Thursday they were pulling back several documents that urge banks to show caution when dabbling in cryptocurrency and related activities.

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: US v. Google: a Yahoo executive estimates that a bid for Chrome would cost tens of billions of dollars, and says Yahoo “would be able to pursue it with Apollo”  —  – Company working to ‘revitalize’ its search engine, properties  — Yahoo official testifies at Google’s antitrust remedy trial

Coordinating complicated interactive systems, whether it’s the different modes of transportation in a city or the various components that must work together to make an effective and efficient robot, is an increasingly important subject for software designers to tackle. Now, researchers at MIT have developed an entirely new way of approaching these complex problems, using simple […]

Martina Solano Soto is on a mission to pursue her passion for physics and, ultimately, to solve big problems. Since she was a kid, she has had a lot of questions: Why do animals exist? What are we doing here? Why don’t we know more about the Big Bang? And she has been determined to […]

On March 6, MIT launched its first lunar landing mission since the Apollo era, sending three payloads — the AstroAnt, the RESOURCE 3D camera, and the HUMANS nanowafer — to the moon’s south polar region. The mission was based out of Luna, a mission control space designed by MIT Department of Architecture students and faculty in collaboration with […]

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Instagram’s long-promised video-editing app is out now. Here’s how to use Edits to make Reels, and how the software differs from TikTok’s CapCut.

A WIRED investigation reveals that the US Department of Homeland Security has deployed at least 30 YouTube ads since April 1 to threaten irregular migrants with deportation and a ban on reentry.

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: Framework Laptop 13 review: a matte 3:2 display, AMD’s Ryzen AI CPU is the Laptop 13’s fastest ever, and Copilot+, but some glitchiness and poor battery life  —  With great power comes great responsibility and subpar battery life.  —  At this point, the Framework Laptop 13 is a familiar face, […]

Financial Times: Elon Musk is stepping back from DOGE in May, spending 1-2 days per week on government work, as tariffs, customer anger, and Chinese competition weigh on Tesla  —  Billionaire’s foray into government coincided with increased competition from Chinese rivals  —  In the days following Donald …

Bloomberg: US v. Google: DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg testifies that Chrome is worth “upwards of $50B if it went on the market” based on “back-of-the-envelope” math  —  – DuckDuckGo CEO estimated potential sale price at DOJ hearing  — Justice Department has asked that court order Chrome’s sale

Six MIT faculty members are among the nearly 250 leaders from academia, the arts, industry, public policy, and research elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced April 23. One of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies, the academy is also a leading center for independent policy research. Members contribute to […]

For a robot, the real world is a lot to take in. Making sense of every data point in a scene can take a huge amount of computational effort and time. Using that information to then decide how to best help a human is an even thornier exercise. Now, MIT roboticists have a way to […]

OpenAI just unveiled a new subscription tier called ChatGPT Pro. Users can pay $200 a month for almost unlimited access to ChatGPT’s tools, and an exclusive new AI model.

Thelma, Gladiator, and Kinds of Kindness are just a few of the movies you need to watch on Hulu right now.

Next year, you won’t need to download yet another app to use an EV charger from an unfamiliar brand. Most of the major EV makers and charging networks are on board.

Victoria Song / The Verge: Oura rolls out Symptom Radar, a feature that tries to detect early signs of sickness using biometrics like heart rate variability, to Oura Ring Gen 3 and 4  —  At the height of the covid-19 pandemic, many wearable companies rushed to see if their devices could detect early signs of […]

Greg Otto / CyberScoop: US intelligence reports: online terrorist network 764 is using techniques normally used for financial crimes, such as SIM swapping, to commit child sextortion  —  The child sextortion group 764 and the global collective of loosely associated groups known as “The Com” are using tools …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: US SEC filing: xAI raised $6B, bringing its total raised to $12B; it was reportedly aiming for a $50B valuation  —  xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, has raised $6 billion, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday.  —  Investors gave a minimum of $77,593 …

A US ban on exporting high-end chips used for AI development to China doesn’t seem to have affected Tencent, as researchers have found signs of the tech giant using the chips well after the ban was put in place

People struggling with their mental health are more likely to browse negative content online, and in turn, that negative content makes their symptoms worse, according to a series of studies by researchers at MIT. The group behind the research has developed a web plug-in tool to help those looking to protect their mental health make […]

Until very recently, Mariano Salcedo, a fourth-year MIT electronic engineering and computer science student majoring in artificial intelligence and decision-making, was planning to apply for a master’s program in computer science at MIT. Then he saw the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building, which opened this fall for a selection of classes. “Now, instead […]

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Inspired by her own experienced of abuse, Nighat Dad fights for women’s social and digital rights in Pakistan and beyond.

They’ve racked up millions of views on Instagram, but these products aren’t coming to a store near you.

Jordyn Holman / New York Times: A look at the logistics network of Amazon, Walmart and Target for same-day or next-day delivery; Walmart says it now offers same-day to 86% of US households  —  Retailers like Amazon, Walmart and Target have figured out that if they get you your online order today, you will probably […]

Reuters: Meta plans to invest $10B to build a data center in Louisiana, in what would be its largest data center in the world, and expects work to start in December  —  Facebook-parent Meta (META.O) said on Wednesday it plans to invest $10 billion to set up an AI data center in Louisiana …

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg: Sources: AT&T, JPMorgan, and Dunkin’ pull ads from Twitch after a controversial group of livestreamers alleged that Twitch is promoting antisemitic content  —  – Exiled contributors mount campaign that includes edited clips  — Their targets are pro-Palestinian streamer and Twitch staffers

A robotic wheeled rat that was trained with AI learned how to play and fight with real rodents – and could one day offer companionship to lab rats

Car design is an iterative and proprietary process. Carmakers can spend several years on the design phase for a car, tweaking 3D forms in simulations before building out the most promising designs for physical testing. The details and specs of these tests, including the aerodynamics of a given car design, are typically not made public. […]

The ChatGPT maker is the latest AI giant to reveal it’s working with the defense industry, following similar announcements by Meta and Anthropic.

Researchers hacked several robots infused with large language models, getting them to behave dangerously—and pointing to a bigger problem ahead.

The mobile device security firm iVerify has been offering a tool since May that makes spyware scanning accessible to anyone—and it’s already turning up victims.

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Amazon is rolling out a Buy with AWS button that software companies can add to their websites as a way for customers with AWS accounts to pay for services  —  In 2022, Amazon introduced the Buy with Prime button, allowing premium subscribers to make purchases using their Amazon account even when […]

Simon Willison / Simon Willison’s Weblog: First impressions of Amazon Nova LLMs: they are competitive with Google Gemini, among the cheapest available, and may position Amazon as a top model provider  —  Amazon released three new Large Language Models yesterday at their AWS re:Invent conference.  The new model family is called Amazon Nova …

Financial Times: xAI plans to expand its Colossus supercomputer tenfold to incorporate more than 1M GPUs; work has already begun to increase the size of its facility in Memphis  —  Facility in Memphis expected to incorporate more than 1mn GPUs as billionaire’s xAI aims to catch up with rivals

In a unique demonstration of brain implants that incorporate living cells, the devices were able to connect with the brains of live mice

The latest weather forecasting AI model from Google DeepMind can beat the leading providers more than 97 per cent of the time, and it is quicker and cheaper to run

A bird-inspired robot called RAVEN can walk, hop and jump into flight, an ability that could help people develop fixed-wing drones that can take off and land anywhere