3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1360+ words) One of Anthropic’s top safety researchers says there is a greater than 10% chance that artificial intelligence could kill every human within the next decade. The extraordinary warning came after a former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher resigned, accusing both companies of…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (1249+ words) This article revisits Lotus 1-2-3: what it introduced, why it mattered, and how its ideas echo in modern spreadsheet tools like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. VisiCalc (late 1970s) is rightly credited with inventing the electronic spreadsheet as a killer app for…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (331+ words) WiFi signals could potentially be used to identify people and map their surroundings without relying on cameras or requiring the person being observed to carry a connected device. Makes me wonder if we will see a ‘Butlerian Jihad’ some day....