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Tech Explained: What Survives an Internet Shutdown?

Amaldev

The protest in Jantar Mantar, Delhi, ended after Education Minister resigned. But internet shutdowns during the protest, followed by a Govt direction asking GitHub to remove opensource BitChat, concern me as a technologist. Privacy is a fundamental right in India, and personal communication cannot...

Why AI Alignment Might Be Our Most Pointless Exercise

Brian McQuay

We're pouring enormous resources into aligning AI with human values, but a self-improving superintelligence would treat that alignment as one more constraint to optimize away. Here's why I think our long-term control over AGI might be a comforting fiction — and what questions we should be asking...

Briefing

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi switched to raw selfie videos on Instagram to address student protests over exam paper leaks, calling them “extremely painful.” Meta paused its plan to rate-limit Conversation Focus, an accessibility feature, after backlash. Meanwhile, the ICFP programming contest...

Briefing

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The 2026 WebAIM Million report found an average of 56.1 accessibility errors per home page, a 10.1% increase from 2025, with 95.9% of pages failing WCAG 2. At ACM SIGMOD 2024, researchers presented ALP, a lossless floating-point compression algorithm that won the Best Artifact Award. Anthony Green...

How To Be Logical

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Logic is not natural to humans in this system, but it is natural to us and the more we learn to think logically, the less entrapped in this system of things we will be.

Briefing

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Russian state hackers exploited a Zimbra zero-day to steal NATO emails; CISA warned many servers remain vulnerable. Iran-linked threat actors expanded targeting of US industrial control systems. Tesla spent $1 billion on chips and robots, with unproven Optimus and Robotaxi. Sony will end physical...

Commitment Part IV

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“Yes.” Casper says with a smile. “I was dwelling on Pangea and making the most of it, when the Big Man appears suddenly on his long climb up from Hell, set on his plan to tempt man away from God. I can see it now.” Casper tells us, his eye taking on a distant look.

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