Collaborate Disseminate
Microsoft Research has published a paper in Nature detailing Project Silica, a working demonstration that uses femtosecond lasers to etch data into small slabs of glass at a density of over a Gigabit per cubic millimeter and a maximum capacity of 4.84 … Continue reading Microsoft’s New 10,000-Year Data Storage Medium: Glass
A new essay in Works in Progress Magazine argues that Europe’s failure to produce a Tesla or a Waymo stems not from insufficient research spending or high taxes — problems California shares in abundance — but from labor laws that make it devastatingl… Continue reading Europe’s Labor Laws Are Strangling Its Ability To Innovate, New Analysis Argues
Bafta has brought in “human achievement” as a guiding principle for its annual awards as the film and television industry grapples with the rapid adoption of AI tools in many parts of production. From a report: In an interview with the FT, Bafta chair … Continue reading Bafta To Reward ‘Human Creativity’ as Film and TV Grapples With AI
AI security firm Irregular has found that passwords generated by major large language models — Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini — appear complex but follow predictable patterns that make them crackable in hours, even on decades-old hardware. When researche… Continue reading LLM-Generated Passwords Look Strong but Crack in Hours, Researchers Find
Despite the popular notion that the modern economy runs around the clock, a new NBER working paper analyzing fifty years of U.S. labor data from 1973 to 2023 finds that Americans have been steadily and consistently moving away from evening and night wo… Continue reading A Half-Century of US Labor Data Shows Steady Retreat From Evening and Night Work
A new study [PDF] from Ramp’s economics lab has found that businesses are steadily replacing freelance workers hired through platforms like Upwork and Fiverr with AI tools from OpenAI and Anthropic, and the substitution is happening at a fraction of th… Continue reading New Study Tracks How Businesses Quietly Replaced Freelancers With AI Tools
Accenture has reportedly started tracking staff use of its AI tools and will take this into consideration when deciding on top promotions, as the consulting company tries to increase uptake of the technology by its workforce. From a report: The company… Continue reading Accenture Links Staff Promotions To Use of AI Tools
Workplace grievances that once fit in a single email are now ballooning into 30-page documents stuffed with irrelevant historical detail, made-up legal precedents, and citations to laws from the wrong country — and UK employment lawyers say generative… Continue reading HR Teams Are Drowning in Slop Grievances
Phison CEO Pua Khein-Seng, whose company is one of the leading makers of controller chips for SSDs and other flash memory devices, admitted in a televised interview that the ongoing global RAM shortage could force companies to cut back their product li… Continue reading The RAM Crunch Could Kill Products and Even Entire Companies, Memory Exec Admits
An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon has officially dethroned Walmart as the biggest global company by revenue, a milestone attesting to the massive scale the e-commerce and cloud-computing giant has achieved since its humble beginnings in 1994 … Continue reading Amazon Dethrones Walmart as World’s Biggest Company by Sales