Chris Stokel-Walker

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Regulators Need AI Expertise. They Can’t Afford It

ChatGPT caught regulators by surprise when it set off a new AI race. As companies have rushed to develop and release ever more powerful models, lawmakers and regulators around the world have...

The Real Problem With the Boeing 737 Max

To adapt an old Oscar Wilde quote: To lose one aircraft may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose two looks like carelessness.So what to make of a third Boeing 737 Max...

TikTok Is Spending $1.3 Billion to Dodge Bans in Europe

When Grant Shapps was appointed as the UK’s defense minister this month, one of the first questions he faced was about his social media use. Shapps, previously energy minister, was one of...

Stack Overflow Didn’t Ask How Bad Its Gender Problem Is This Year

For 15 years, Stack Overflow has been the main hub for discussions of computer programming and development. It’s where users who are facing a tricky conundrum or are hitting a wall in...

Bluesky’s Custom Algorithms Could Be the Future of Social Media

Social media algorithms can do wonderful things. They have the power to make or break careers, amplify political polarization (Facebook, Twitter), make people do dumb stuff for clicks, (YouTube), and supposedly promote Chinese...

Shocking Leaked Tesla Documents Hint at Cybertruck Problems

Cars crashing into bollards, brakes slamming on to avoid imaginary collisions, and more than 2,400 complaints of cars accelerating out of their owner’s control. The 100 gigabytes worth of internal Tesla documents leaked...

Twitter’s Purge of Old Accounts Will Be Pure Chaos

Mariann Hardey’s father died unexpectedly a little over a decade ago. But he lives on through his Twitter account. It only has 42 followers, and it was locked by Hardey’s father so...

Twitter Rival Bluesky Has a Nudes Problem

As people have flocked to Bluesky in recent weeks, the platform has been hit with a problem as old as the internet: nudity. Among those who recently joined the decentralized social network...

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