Editorial
The latest Apple event was the most geriatric yet, and I never felt so old
Man, you’re falling apart. Sounds are fading, and what are those noises your heart makes? Don’t wander too far, you’ll get lost. But don’t worry! Apple devices will help you hold yourself together until the inevitable catches up.
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AI is loved for its lack of humanity
Maybe AI doesn’t have feelings, but there are so many feelings around the technology that it’s overwhelming.
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Workers increasingly fear exposure to AI: time for new approach?
Surveys keep showing a rising number of workers worried about the possibility that artificial intelligence will replace them. To some, that’s practically unavoidable but activists and at least some experts say governments need to be more pro-active in protecting labor rights.
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Is the AI bubble bursting? Experts more inclined to call it natural cooling
With most AI projects delivering little to no revenue growth, some experts say cracks are beginning to appear in the AI balloon and are hearing echoes of the dot-com era. Others urge calm and patience.
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Build the unit Cinderelli, lay the tile Cinderelli, use AI Cinderelli
Meet your “heroes:” a new breed of tech CEOs who might be slightly less hardcore than Elon Musk.
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My mind was blown: running a 120B parameter AI model on a budget GPU at home
I’ve tried running plenty of open-source LLMs on my own computer, and anything larger than 32 billion parameters grinds to a halt. Then, some Redditor showed up, claiming you can run OpenAI’s newest 120B parameter model smoothly on a budget 8GB GPU. It sounded like pure fiction – until I tried it myself.
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The birth of the bionic pro
We are confidently embracing artificial intelligence tools – oblivious to how reckless and absurd some of the behaviour might be.
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Why you should keep your kids off the internet as much as possible: Roblox predators, pro-Nazi content, and other online monsters
With the abundance of destructive and harmful content, it’s about time we saw regulatory efforts to address the problem.
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Will AI go rogue now that it can bypass some CAPTCHA tests?
Just like nuclear armageddon, it will very much depend on us humans.
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One thousand and one nightmares of modern tech
I could keep you awake with tech scare stories for a thousand and one nights.
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The grind is dead – Gen Z’s CV is a TikTok feed
From AI interviews to unpaid internships, Gen Z is airing out the brutal job hunt on TikTok – and it’s resonating.
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The week in WTF Tech: productivity hype, VR forest, and Nazi pop gone mainstream
We’re constantly trying to hack the system, find ways to be more productive at work, read more books, and travel to as many cities as possible as soon as possible. Gosh, even our workout sessions are organized using spreadsheets.
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What a $30 billion cloud deal tells us about AI demand
A single line in a regulatory filing revealed Oracle’s $30 billion cloud deal, quietly signaling a shift in how the industry defines scale, ambition, and the future of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure.
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Call center staff say AI creates more problems than it solves
Researchers recently observed a team of call center agents at a regional power grid company in China and interviewed them about their experiences with a newly introduced (artificial intelligence) AI assistant. The study revealed that AI in call centers can create more problems than it solves.
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Authenticity wins in the age of influencers, but do you really have a story to tell?
During my darkest hours, I often contemplate the idea of turning my hobbies into my work so that I could quit the nine-to-five grind.
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Meta’s AI ambitions: hiring revolutionaries into a tech bureaucracy
After poaching staff from OpenAI and elsewhere, Mark Zuckerberg has a new plaything – Meta Superintelligence Labs. The tech giant obviously has loads of cash to do it, but will it succeed?
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AI’s mess: are we cleaning up more than what we’re saving?
If AI is so good, why don’t we work just four days a week? Right now, it seems like we’re sweating more than before just to clean up its mess.
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You’re in the office. Please, behave!
Has your office become a little bit too comfortable? People wearing slippers, bringing dogs, having long lunches together, and maybe even engaging in office romance?
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Emoji replies, ghosting, and the new digital disrespect
Tech has made staying connected easy, and staying polite harder. If you’ve ever been left on read, passive-aggressively “thumbs upped,” or Zoom-muted mid-sentence, you’re not alone.
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Brave, Firefox, or Tor: you can’t trust your browser to protect you from tracking
No browser offers complete protection from fingerprinting. While Firefox, Brave, Tor, or any other browser and tools have their strengths and weaknesses, never have the illusion that you’re untraceable.
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