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Turkey Eyes Legal Steps After Kurdish Militant Group PKK Disbands

After the decision by the Kurdish militant group PKK to disband, Turkey was eyeing Wednesday a raft of legal and technical measures to ensure its full implementation and finally end a four-decade insurgency.

International Business Times

AI firms warned to calculate threat of super intelligence or risk it escaping human control

AI safety campaigner calls for existential threat assessment akin to Oppenheimer’s calculations before first nuclear test

The Guardian - UK

MIT researchers debunk one of the greatest misconceptions in science: Eggs are stronger at the sides after all

FYI, this doesn't actually apply to cracking an egg for breakfast.

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There is a global consensus for AI safety despite Paris Summit backlash, new report finds

A new paper released on Thursday, presenting the findings of a global conference held in Singapore in April, has identified how AI can be made safer.

Euronews

Celtics' Jrue Holiday wins NBA's social justice award, a week after winning sportsmanship award

Jrue Holiday’s commitment to off-court work continues to be noticed and appreciated within the NBA

The Independent UK

‘I missed talking math with people’: why John Urschel left the NFL for MIT

The former Baltimore Ravens guard had a lucrative career in professional football. But he chose to concentrate on his first love in academia

The Guardian - US

Lupe Fiasco on his new art project and looking at rap ‘in a deep academic way’

Rapper turned MIT professor is unveiling a project of ‘en plein air rapping’, which is about outdoors-inspired music

The Guardian - US

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Not all degrees are worthless: These universities give you the highest odds of becoming a multimillionaire

If return-on-investment is a top priority for your college experience, you may want to consider one of these universities, where Gen Z grads can earn over $4 million in accrued earnings—and it's not Harvard.

Fortune

Researchers develop new metamaterials that pave the way to bendy, stretchable computer chips

A team of MIT researchers developed a new fabrication method that allowed to make existing materials strong but stretchy.

Tom’s Hardware

MIT engineers create 'spaghetti' style metamaterial that could enable stretchy computer chips that are almost indestructible

Strong but stretchy, apparently.

PC Gamer

Obama backs Harvard as Yale faculty members support standing up to Trump

Harvard faces funding freeze as Yale faculty asks leadership ‘to resist and legally challenge any unlawful demands’

The Guardian - US

Harvard Sees $2.2 Billion In Funding Frozen After Defying Trump

Elite US university Harvard was hit with a $2.2 billion freeze in federal funding Monday after rejecting a list of sweeping demands that the White House said was intended to crack down on campus anti-Semitism.

International Business Times

New York plane crash claims lives of high-achieving family celebrating a birthday

A private plane that crashed in upstate New York over the weekend was carrying six members of a close-knit family of physicians and distinguished student-athletes

The Independent UK

Karenna Groff, former NCAA woman of year, is killed with her family in upstate New York plane crash

The twin-engine Mitsubishi MU-2B went down shortly after noon on Saturday in a muddy field in Copake, New York, near the Massachusetts line, killing everyone on board, NTSB officials said

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Former MIT Soccer Player Among Seven Killed in Upstate New York Plane Crash

A New York plane crash claimed the life of the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year.

The Independent UK

NCAA woman of the year included in those killed in upstate New York plane crash

The victims included Karenna Groff, who founded openPPE during Covid to create masks for essential workers

Euronews

Climate champion or catastrophe: Can AI ‘offset’ its own, growing emissions?

Data centre electricity demand is predicted will rise to around 945 terawatt hours by 2030, more than the entire electricity consumption of Japan.

The Independent UK

Once-in-century storm tides could strike Bangladesh every decade by 2100, MIT study warns

Storms that swamp vast stretches of country’s coast may become decadal norm or even more frequent

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Co-founder of $12 billion crypto company says Gen Z new hires 'create an absurd amount of chaos' and make him want to pull his hair out—but he's betting on them anyway

Paradigm CEO Matt Huang feels like he’s “running the X-Men Academy”. While other leaders complain about their Gen Z new hires, the crypto chief is going against the grain and promoting them into the C-suite.

LiveScience

MIT invents new way for QPUs to communicate — paving the way for a scalable 'quantum supercomputer'

A new device enables remote entanglement, allowing distant quantum processors to communicate with one another with reduced error rates.

Tom’s Hardware

Open-source tool designed to throttle PC and server performance based on electricity pricing — lightweight CLI will automatically limit clocks during peak hours

ML Engineer Naveen Kulandaivelu built a CLI power management app that automatically throttled his CPU and GPU based on Time of Use pricing.

The Guardian - US

Torpedo bats: a destroyer of worlds or baseball’s long-awaited savior?

The quandary over the Yankees’ new technology is solvable, but first MLB must take it on the chin and usher in a temporary ban

LiveScience

Mathematicians solve vexing 'crowd problem' that explains why public spaces devolve into chaos

Why do some crowds move in an orderly fashion while others devolve into a chaotic jumble? New research led by an MIT mathematician may finally crack the tricky crowd problem.

Windows Central

OpenAI says an excessive dependency on ChatGPT can lead to loneliness and a "loss of confidence" in decision-making

A new study by OpenAI and MIT suggests that dependency on ChatGPT can be problematic, leading to a loss of agency and confidence.

Tom’s Hardware

Some ChatGPT users are addicted and will suffer withdrawal symptoms if cut off, say researchers

Chatbots like ChatGPT can be addictive and those who become dependent can suffer from withdrawal symptoms if disconnected from the service, according to a large scale study undertaken by OpenAI and MIT.

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