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 ...
ZDNet

How Flipboard's new Surf app lets you merge social feeds, YouTube, and RSS to escape the algorithm - finally

Can a new social network make it? Flipboard Surf has a shot. Surf combines social networks with text, video, and audio feeds. Think of Surf as the anti-algorithm, anti-AI-slop social network. I'll ...
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 ...

Universal Music Group: What Bill Ackman's Takeover Means For Investors (Rating Downgrade)

Universal Music Group faces a Pershing Square merger bid and NYSE relisting risk. See why growth and leverage concerns ...
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 ...