Radical DSA honcho behind Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s rise is … a mime

No words! One of the Democratic Socialists of America’s top leaders and architects of Mayor Mamdani’s rise to power is a mime ...
Ars Technica

Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029, far sooner than previously thought

Google is dramatically shortening its readiness deadline for the arrival of Q Day, the point at which existing quantum computers can break public-key cryptography algorithms that secure decades’ worth ...

Cachee Achieves 28.9-Nanosecond Cache Reads – Verified as Fastest Full-Featured Cache Engine Ever Benchmarked

At 100 billion lookups/year, a server tied to Elasticache would spend more than 390 days of time in wasted cache time.

Integrative experiment design reveals hidden patterns in decades-old social science research

Research from MIT Sloan School of Management has demonstrated a new way of designing social science experiments that can ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

So what is that, er, Trusted News Integrity Trust Project all about? A guide to the (many, similarly named) new efforts fighting for journalism

People’s trust in media is terrible: bad. Attempts to fix that: good. Now, what the heck are they? Facing the fallout from the presidential election, the rise of fake news, and the stark challenges of ...
BBC

Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise after evidence outrage drove engagement, say whistleblowers

Social media giants made decisions which allowed more harmful content on people's feeds, after internal research into their algorithms showed how outrage fuelled engagement, whistleblowers told the ...
The New York Times

Is Taste the One Thing A.I. Can’t Replace?

Anxious tech workers in Silicon Valley are trying to cultivate a quality they say ChatGPT can’t provide. Credit...By Erik Carter Supported by By Joseph Bernstein “I don’t think I could teach someone ...