Technology This 1959 computer plays Boards of Canada's "Olson" Ellsworth Toohey

Science Study shows artificial intelligence use makes you stupid Séamus Bellamy

AI Rebuilding ELIZA, the "Mother of All Chatbots" Rob Beschizza

AI Send the conspiracy theorists in your life to the Debunk Bot Jennifer Sandlin

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AI MIT's AI risk database exposes 700+ ways AI could ruin your life Thom Dunn

Innovation New solar device makes desalinated seawater cheaper than tap water Mark Frauenfelder

mit Mark Rober launches flying graduation cap at MIT commencement Rusty Blazenhoff

education Harvard and MIT are suing over the Trump administration's student immigration ruling Thom Dunn

happy mutants Bunnie Huang's classic "Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen" is now free online Cory Doctorow

Copyfight How to recognize AI snake oil Cory Doctorow

Business MIT Sloan Management Review drops its paywall for 72 hours Cory Doctorow

jeffrey epstein MIT says Jeffrey Epstein gave $800,000, issues statement on MIT Media Lab, Joi Ito, Seth Lloyd Xeni Jardin

politics Open archive of 240,000 hours' worth of talk radio, including 2.8 billion words of machine-transcription Cory Doctorow

scholarship A machine-learning system that guesses whether text was produced by machine-learning systems Cory Doctorow

events To do tonight in San Francisco: commemorating the sixth anniversary of Aaron Swartz's death Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Scratch is hiring an executive director Cory Doctorow

education MIT Media Lab announces this year's Disobedience Prize winners: #MeToo and #MeTooSTEM Cory Doctorow

Business MIT Sloan Management Review suspends its paywall for two days Cory Doctorow

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