December 26, 2025

MIT Technology Review’s most popular stories of 2025

It’s been a busy and productive year here at MIT Technology Review. We published magazine issues on power, creativity, innovation, bodies, relationships, and security. We hosted 14 exclusive virtual conversations with our editors and outside experts in our subscriber-only series, Roundtables, and held two events on MIT’s campus. And we published hundreds of articles online,…

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UK competition authority is concerned about the $61B Broadcom-VMware deal

March 22, 2023

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) expressed concern today that the $61 billion Broadcom-VMware deal announced last year could result in more expensive servers for UK businesses. “We are concerned this deal could allow Broadcom to cut out competitors from the supply of hardware components to the server market and lead to less innovation […]

UK competition authority is concerned about the $61B Broadcom-VMware deal by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Beloved hacking veteran Kelly ‘Aloria’ Lum passes away at 41

March 22, 2023

Kelly Lum, better known in hacking circles as Aloria, passed away on Sunday. Aloria was a veteran of the cybersecurity community, especially the one in New York, her home for many years. The Twitter account of the New York City security conference SummerCon announced her death on Monday, prompting a seemingly endless list of people […]

Beloved hacking veteran Kelly ‘Aloria’ Lum passes away at 41 by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai originally published on TechCrunch

These new tools let you see for yourself how biased AI image models are

March 22, 2023
Popular AI image-generating systems notoriously tend to amplify harmful biases and stereotypes. But just how big a problem is it? You can now see for yourself using interactive new online tools. (Spoiler alert: it’s big.) The tools, built by researchers at AI startup Hugging Face and Leipzig University and detailed in a non-peer-reviewed paper, allow…