The New Yorker

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?

For weeks, they’d been having furtive discussions about whether Sam Altman, OpenAI’s C.E.O., and Greg Brockman, his second-in ...

Nigel Alderton interview – the man behind ZX Spectrum classic Chuckie Egg

Chuckie Egg is being remade for mobile phones, and we’ve spoken to the bedroom programming teen protégé that originally made ...
Bored Panda on MSN

34 karma moments that prove the universe has a sense of justice

One woman faked a serious illness to get sympathy from everyone around her. Then she actually got sick. An online community ...
Opinion

The celebrity ritual of Rowling-bashing is reductive, lazy, and doomed to fail

One would think Rowling-bashing had become a redundant activity, one that would make Caesar say ad nauseam, like Marvel sequels, but we still keep getting them every other day. The latest brave ...
The New Yorker

Sam Altman’s Trust Issues at OpenAI | The New Yorker Radio Hour

OpenAI existed for why it needed to exist, there's this constant thread of analogies to the Manhattan Project. So when he ...
The Indianapolis Star

Final Four coaches explain how Indy delivered COVID bubble tournament when country 'needed it'

The 2021 NCAA Tournament was held entirely in Indianapolis due to COVID-19 protocols. Coaches and players recall being isolated in hotels and having limited chances to go outside. Despite the ...
The Daily Telegraph

Sir Tony Hoare, software designer who developed Quicksort, the industry standard for sorting lists

Returning to England in 1960, he joined the computer firm Elliott Brothers, where one of his first tasks was to write an algorithm for a sorting method known as a “shell sort”. The story goes that he ...