January 2024

Turn headwinds into opportunity in 2024

January 22, 2024

Entrepreneurship is all about taking risks. It means innovating without fear of failure, stepping into the unknown, and pursuing ambitious ideas.

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New MIT CSAIL study suggests that AI won’t steal as many jobs expected

January 22, 2024

Will AI automate human jobs, and — if so — which jobs and when? That’s the trio of questions a new research study from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), out this morning, tries to answer. There’s been many attempts to extrapolate out and project how the AI technologies of today, like large […]

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The Download: hope for new long covid treatments, and the future of chiplets

January 22, 2024
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Scientists are finding signals of long covid in blood. They could lead to new treatments. The news: For tens of millions of people, a case of covid is the beginning of a chronic…

Buy or Sell? 3 Air Defense Stocks on the Radar

January 22, 2024
Amid escalating geopolitical unrest worldwide, the defense sector is anticipated to remain buoyed amid substantial investments in advanced technologies in this field. Given this backdrop, let’s analyze defense stocks FTAI…

LoanDepot says 16.6 million customers had ‘sensitive personal’ information stolen in cyberattack

January 22, 2024

About 16.6 million LoanDepot customers had their “sensitive personal” information” stolen in a cyberattack earlier this month, which the loan and mortgage giant has described as ransomware. The loan company said in a filing with federal regulators on Monday that it would notify the affected customers of the data breach. LoanDepot did not say what […]

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Meta to let EU users deny cross-site tracking as Digital Markets Act bites

January 22, 2024

Meta has provided new details of how it plans to respond to incoming competition rules in the European Union that aim to tackle abusive behaviors by Big Tech by enforcing fairer dealing on a handful of the world’s most powerful platforms. The Digital Markets Act (DMA) applies to just six (mostly US) tech giants, including […]

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Three technology trends shaping 2024’s elections

January 22, 2024
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review‘s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. The Iowa caucuses on January 15 officially kicked off the 2024 presidential election. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again—the biggest story of this…