Staff Writer
Miles Cate
Miles Cate covers technology, politics, and business, though he remains suspicious of any politician who can't explain a network switch. His first computer was a TRS-80 he rebuilt from parts salvaged from his college radio station. He is currently waging a multi-year, largely epistolary feud with the IEEE over its refusal to classify a hotdog as a universal serial bus device.
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Technology & Innovation
Anthropic's Job Destruction Detector Reclassified as Job Destruction Accelerator
Scientists at Anthropic have recalibrated their AI job destruction detector to actively accelerate workforce reductions after initial data showed...
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Technology & Innovation
Google Scientists Revisit Classic Innovation, Find Pixel 10a Stallion Too Literal
Google engineers tasked with refining the Pixel 10a's 'Stallion' performance mode discovered the chipset had been physically reconfigured to emulate horse...
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Artificial Intelligence
Hong Kong Officials Deploy AI to Detect Metaphorical Threats to Rule of Law
Hong Kong authorities have commissioned a custom AI system named 'Haibo' to scan legal documents for figurative language that may undermine the rule of law.
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Science & Research
Scientists Revisit Classic Innovation After Watching Two Hours Of Ray-Ban Meta Footage
A team of data scientists at Stanford University has published a paper reassessing fundamental assumptions about human vision after reviewing extensive...
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Finance & Banking
Federal Reserve Reclassifies Patent Filings as Currency After Misreading 'Innovation' Label
A routine review by Federal Reserve economists has triggered a systemic reclassification of intellectual property as collateralized debt obligations due to a...
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Technology
Federal Regulators Revisit Ethernet Cabling Before AI Policy Vote
A pivotal interagency committee has delayed its artificial intelligence governance framework to address unresolved questions regarding local area network...