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This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI

October 23, 2023
A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it’s scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the resulting model to break in chaotic and unpredictable ways.  The tool, called Nightshade, is intended as a way to fight back against…

The power of green computing

October 23, 2023
When performing radiation therapy treatment, accuracy is key. Typically, the process of targeting cancer-affected areas for treatment is painstakingly done by hand. However, integrating a sustainably optimized AI tool into this process can improve accuracy in targeting cancerous regions, save health care workers time, and consume 20% less power to achieve these improved results. This…

Web Summit confirms Lisbon and Qatar events still on, ex-CEO Paddy Cosgrave has 80% ownership of business

October 23, 2023

Over the weekend, Paddy Cosgrave and Web Summit made the bombshell announcement that Cosgrave would step down from his post as CEO of the technology conference business — a move made to try to close the book on a sea of controversy and high profile conference cancellations that had been pouring on him and his […]

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The Download: teaching girls to build, and fixing government tech

October 23, 2023
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. The nonprofit that lets girls build the world they want to see Emily Pilloton-Lam didn’t grow up in a particularly handy household, but she did spend hours outside building treehouses out of logs…

How to make government technology better

October 23, 2023
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. Last week I published a story about government and technology that I spent the better part of this past year reporting, and I think all of you…

The nonprofit that lets girls build the world they want to see

October 23, 2023
Emily Pilloton-Lam didn’t grow up in a particularly handy household, but she did spend hours and hours outside building treehouses out of logs and sticks: “I was more a spatial and physical thinker,” she says. “And making spaces and changing my environment was one of the earliest ways I began to make sense of the…

Ketamine is easier to prescribe than ever, and the FDA is not happy about it

October 20, 2023
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. A year or so ago, I talked with a man who said ketamine saved his life. He had been depressed, contemplating suicide, and then found a…

The Download: babies in space, and the FDA’s ketamine crackdown

October 20, 2023
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. This startup wants to find out if humans can have babies in space Despite the burgeoning interest in deep space exploration and settlement, prompted in part by billionaires such as Elon Musk and…

This startup wants to find out if humans can have babies in space

October 20, 2023
Egbert Edelbroek was acting as a sperm donor when he first wondered whether it’s possible to have babies in space. Curious about the various ways that donated sperm can be used, Edelbroek, a Dutch entrepreneur, began to speculate on whether in vitro fertilization technology was possible beyond Earth—or could even be improved by the conditions…