Thoughts and musings of David Greenberg, a polymath
The United Kingdom issued a secret order requiring Apple to create a backdoor for government security officials to access encrypted data, The Washington Post reported today, citing people familiar with…
The Department of Education (DOE) was sued Friday by a California student association demanding an “immediate stop” to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) “unlawfully” digging through student loan…
There are only two licensed professional sports games included in Wikipedia’s “List of video games notable for negative reception.” Do not be fooled, however: WWE 2K20 and eFootball 2022 are…
On Wednesday, a New York-based app developer named Isaac Gemal debuted a new site called WikiTok, where users can vertically swipe through an endless stream of Wikipedia article stubs in…
Health officials in Texas are battling a growing measles outbreak in an area that has some of the state’s lowest vaccination rates and highest non-medical exemptions. On January 30, officials…
The primary contractor for the Space Launch System rocket, Boeing, is preparing for the possibility that NASA cancels the long-running program. On Friday, with less than an hour’s notice, David…
It’s the year 2000 all over again, because I’ve just spent the past week playing The Sims, a game that could have had a resurgent zeitgeist moment if only EA,…
Grants paid by the federal government have two components. One covers the direct costs of performing the research, paying for salaries, equipment, and consumables like chemicals or enzymes. But the…
The US Department of Transportation has ordered states to kill their implementation plans related to the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program, according to a memo obtained by WIRED that was…
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered two malicious machine learning (ML) models on Hugging Face that leveraged an unusual technique of “broken” pickle files to evade detection. “The pickle files extracted from…