Speech recognition does not degrade with speaker age. Voice-agent turn-taking does, by 2-5x. - Kayvan-Zahiri/asr-age-gap

New Orleans is using AI to answer 911 calls instead of human dispatchers. What does this mean for crime and emergency response?

A New Mexico judge ordered the social-media giant to create a new $567 million fund in addition to paying $375 million in previously determined civil penalties.

Over the past 20 years, Talenti has changed from a small, independent brand to a piece of a corporate conglomerate. Has that affected its quality?

Flock Safety’s automatic license plate readers were first sold as upmarket add-ons for gated communities and HOA curtain-twitchers who wanted to keep tabs on what everyone was doing, whether …

Security researchers tracked and eavesdropped on a WIRED reporter using vulnerabilities in a pink plastic smartwatch. It’s just one piece of a deeply insecure supply chain of GPS-enabled gadgets.

The comments may be seen as ironic coming from Dario Amodei, considering Anthropic offers some eye-watering salaries for jobs that typically pay much less.

Reining in federal spending was never going to be so easy.

It is far too easy to create software these days, but what is the difference between a side project and a real product?

This is the data-and-code archive for the preprint "Which state are you converging? A spin audit of sample-based quantum diagonalization benchmarks on iron–sulfur clusters." Sample-based quantum diagonalization (SQD, also called QSCI) selects electronic configurations…

I just received an email about a limited data breach, leaking customer information (no billing info though). Do you guys think Framework is handling this well? The email looked very detailed and transparent to me.

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A new report suggests that all three memory manufacturers — Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron — have collectively sold through their 2027 memory manufacturing capacity to AI companies.

The RWE payout is the latest in a string of deals cancelling wind energy projects, a power source long derided by Trump.

Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperature record.

So, you’re a person who has decided to embark on a creative journey of self-expression — to make art, in other words. First off, this is awesome! The universe needs more people making a…

A report from the Government Accountability Office found that the cost-cutting operation counted savings it didn’t secure and criticized its opaque methodology.

In a troubling sign for the economy, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said that it revised down the prior two months’ jobs by a combined 103,000.

A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.

Last week we released version 0.2 of pgrust. This release was all about performance. It’s 10x faster than the previous version of pgrust. On OLTP benchmarks, pgrust is 30% faster than Postgres, and on Clickbench, Clickhouse’s benchmark for analytical databases…