Jack Sweeney, a junior at the University of Central Florida, says the First Amendment gives him the right to publish publicly available information about the flight paths of private jets owned by the rich and famous—including Taylor Swift.
Swift’s legal team—and many of her fans—say that Sweeney posting the comings and goings of the singer’s private plane on social media is technological stalking.
Sweeney also tracks the private planes ow
Nations around the world are rapidly developing high-energy laser weapons for military missions on land and sea, and in the air and space. Visions of swarms of small, inexpensive drones filling the skies or skimming across the waves are motivating militaries to develop and deploy laser weapons as an alternative to costly and potentially overwhelmed missile-based defenses.
Laser weapons have been a staple of science fiction since long before lasers were even invented. More recently,
There’s a Gordian knot at the heart of the AI boom in healthcare. Artificial (or depending on who you talk to, “augmented”) intelligence is already a solidly established tool in the medical system from X-ray imaging analysis to streamlining hospital billing to how the medicines your doctor might prescribe are discovered in the first place. Yet 69% of Americans staunchly oppose the idea of AI replacing doctors to diagnose disease, according to a new Salesforce survey, whil
The release of the film Oppenheimer, in July 2023, has renewed interest in the enigmatic scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer’s life. While Oppenheimer will always be recognized as the father of the atomic bomb, his early contributions to quantum mechanics form the bedrock of modern quantum chemistry. His work still informs how scientists think about the structure of molecules today.
Early on in the film, preeminent scientific figures of the time, including Nobel laureates Werner
When ChatGPT became available to the public in late 2022, few could guess just how quickly the AI chatbot would change the tech industry. But in the months after ChatGPT came online, nearly every tech giant scrambled to position itself as an AI-first company. Well, everyone but Apple. While Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Amazon spoke about embracing artificial intelligence in 2023, Apple remained relatively quiet.
But Apple is setting a new tone regarding AI in 2024, as evidenced by i
Google has been touting the myriad innovations in the first building wholly designed and built by the web giant, even moving workers in to focus on its highest-profile project: generative artificial intelligence. But, some say they wish the innovations had included decent Wi-Fi.
The “Bay View” building, located on the Alphabet unit’s Mountain View, California, headquarters, has been plagued for months by inoperable or, at best, spotty Wi-Fi, according to six peo
The latest step forward in the development of large language models (LLMs) took place earlier this week, with the release of a new version of Claude, the LLM developed by AI company Anthropic—whose founders left OpenAI in late 2020 over concerns about the company’s pace of development.
But alongside the release of Claude 3, which sets new records in popular tests used to assess the prowess of LLMs, there was a second, more unusual innovation. Two days after Anthropic r
Microsoft is offering an update into the hack it first reported in January—and things aren’t looking good. The tech giant says state-sponsored hackers, backed by Russia, are still trying to access its systems and successfully stole “some of the company’s source code repositories and internal systems.”
The hackers, who call themselves Midnight Blizzard or Nobelium, were also responsible for the SolarWinds attack that compromised the Treasury and Com
The hotel was spacious. It was upscale. It had a karaoke bar. The perfect venue, the CEO of the Chinese hacking company thought, to hold a Lunar New Year banquet currying favor with government officials. There was just one drawback, his top deputy said.“Who goes there?” the deputy wrote. “The girls are so ugly.”So goes the sordid wheeling and dealing that takes place behind the scenes in China’s hacking industry, as revealed in a highly unusual leak last mon
It was a pretty bad week for social media sites across the board. Nearly every big-name social media platform experienced an outage over the last five days (well, except for one, which we’ll get to in a bit).
Perhaps worse than the downtime, though, were the conspiracy theories speculating that these outages were connected to major events in American politics.
First, you had Super Tuesday, the largest grouping of presidential primary elections in the United States i