Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis believes progress toward artificial general intelligence (AGI) is moving faster than expected and that society now has only a few years to prepare. He believes AGI could arrive around 2030,…
Optical image of a fully-packaged hybrid integrated erbium-laser based on silicon nitride photonic integrated circuit, providing fiber-laser coherence and previously unachievable frequency tunability. Credit: Andrea Bancora and Yang Liu (EPFL) EPFL researchers have developed a…
The decision not to charge for those satellite services suggests they’re just the thin end of the company’s plans for satellite deployment. It’s possible the company’s ambitions were limited by GlobalStar’s ability to put satellite…
A WIRED investigation this week found that a former Phoenix police officer who owns a company that offers firearms training to Immigration and Customs Enforcement was involved in six shootings, four of which were deadly….
In the wake of attacks on CEOs, a nationwide protest movement targeting data centers, and increasing concerns about AI job replacement, federal intelligence agencies and domestic law enforcement are circulating reports with a new domestic…
After more than 2,000 hours of government-imposed connectivity blackouts, there were signs on Tuesday that Iran’s internet is coming back—at least at very low levels. Iran’s more than 90 million citizens have been without internet…
The European Central Bank (ECB) has summoned major banks to an emergency meeting to warn of new cybersecurity risks linked to advanced AI models, according to the Financial Times. Frank Elderson, vice chair of the…
The Y-zipper a user creates will appear to “shape-shift” in the real world. When unzipped, it can look like a squid with three sprawling tentacles, and when closed up, it becomes a more compact structure….
“Nation state issues are very serious and very real, but criminal actors still make up the vast majority of incidents that organizations deal with and many of those incidents are quite serious,” Hultquist adds. “Zero-day…
A new catalyst developed by University of Birmingham scientists could dramatically lower the temperatures needed for hydrogen production. Credit: Stock Birmingham researchers have developed a new method for producing hydrogen fuel that costs less than…
