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Check out our file conversion API – convert 100s of formats with just a few lines of code. In a special series Zamzar take a look at some of the people who have helped shape technology and made it… Read More Jason Scott
AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. Training a model to believe it might be a moral patient, as Anthropic’s constitution does, makes the alignment and containment challenge far harder.
Languages can be so different from each other—but there are a few words nearly all languages have in common! Can you guess which ones?
The Anthropic Economics Team models the effects of AI on the economy of 2030.
If the economy's single pillar goes down, Trump's presidency will be seen as a disaster.
The fediverse is dealing with a huge wave of Twitter people bringing toxic ideas with them.
We're working with charities to help the homeless and customers with no fixed address open an HSBC bank account.
So where might we be headed instead?
More thoughts on supply chain and package managers.
My sister’s stalker, who had used Instagram and Bumble to work out where she lived and start stalking her in real life, was recently…
Facebook’s reorganization into Meta is the ultimate bet on the power of founder control.
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
How close are we to building the hosts?
Last month, Google announced that its Nest Secure would be updated to work with Google Assistant software. The problem? Google never told users its product had a microphone to begin with. Simple oversight or invasion of privacy? We break it down.
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
Evergreen privacy guides, threat modeling, encryption, practical tutorials.
Reflections on eighteen months of electric bike ownership
How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web more energy efficient? From data centres to transmission networks to the devices that we hold in our …
HarperCollins have announced that a new Tolkien publication, The Fall of Númenor, will be published on 10th November 2022. Edited by well-known Tolkien expert Brian Sibley, the book collects together J.R.R. Tolkien's writings of the…
Remote work is sold as a win for workers. But it also makes you easier to outsource, reduces your job to a metric, and can stall your career growth.
Our system is set up to create mutual antagonism between members of the working class. Meanwhile, faceless corporate executives remain shielded like mob bosses.
BY DANE KENNEDY The George Washington University faculty and staff ain’t got no culture. Or worse, we’ve got a negative culture. This was the verdict of the Disney Institute, which the president of…
