On the Death of Tech Idealism (and Rise of the Homeless) in Northern California
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‘Jmail’ is like any other inbox, except this one has Jeffrey Epstein’s emails
The more than 20,000 pages of Jeffrey Epstein emails released earlier this month by the House Oversight Committee have been enough to prompt more investigations into the convicted child sex offender and the people around him, like former Harvard president…
Cryptography group cancels election results after official loses secret key
One of the world’s premier security organizations has canceled the results of its annual leadership election after an official lost an encryption key needed to unlock results stored in a verifiable and privacy-preserving voting system. The International Association of Cryptologic…
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google is pushing back on viral social media posts and articles like this one by Malwarebytes, claiming Google has changed its policy to use your Gmail messages and attachments to train AI models, and the only way to opt out…
Explaining, at some length, Techmeme’s 20 years of consistency
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OpenAI Locks Down San Francisco Offices Following Alleged Threat From Activist
A message on OpenAI’s internal Slack claimed the activist in question had expressed interest in “causing physical harm to OpenAI employees.”
I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it
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Why you don’t want to get tuberculosis on your penis
A man in Ireland earned the unpleasant distinction of developing an exceedingly rare infection on his penis—one that has a puzzling origin, but may be connected to his work with dead animals. According to an article published in ASM Case…
OpenAI is ending API access to fan-favorite GPT-4o model in February 2026
OpenAI has sent out emails notifying API customers that its chatgpt-4o-latest model will be retired from the developer platform in mid-February 2026,. Access to the model is scheduled to end on February 16, 2026, creating a roughly three-month transition period…
Science-centric streaming service Curiosity Stream is an AI-licensing firm now
We all know streaming services’ usual tricks for making more money: get more subscribers, charge those subscribers more money, and sell ads. But science streaming service Curiosity Stream is taking a new route that could reshape how streaming companies, especially…